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NIST Awards Nearly $4 Million to 19 Small Businesses for Technology Development

September 13, 2019

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded a total of nearly $4 million in grants

JILA’s Novel Atomic Clock Design Offers ‘Tweezer’ Control

September 12, 2019

JILA physicists have demonstrated a novel atomic clock design that combines near-continuous operation with strong signals and high stability, features not

Get Involved in National Cybersecurity Career Awareness Week

September 12, 2019

Get Involved in National Cybersecurity Career Awareness Week National Cybersecurity Career Awareness Week, brought to you by the National Initiative for

2019 NICE Conference Agenda Is Now Available

September 11, 2019

2019 NICE Conference & Expo November 18 - 20, 2019 Sheraton Phoenix Downtown, Phoenix, AZ We are excited to share with you this year's agenda! Click the image

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Sniffing Out Corpses and Other Signs of Trouble

September 10, 2019

Science stinks. So thought Megan Harries as she measured drops of putrescine and cadaverine — the chemicals that give decomposing corpses their distinctive

New Appointments Finalized for Baldrige Judges' Panel and Overseers Board

September 9, 2019

Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross recently appointed four new members to the Judges’ Panel and two new members to the Board of Overseers of the Malcolm Baldrige

Preliminary Draft of the NIST Privacy Framework

September 9, 2019

NIST seeks comments on the Preliminary Draft of the NIST Privacy Framework: A Tool for Improving Privacy through Enterprise Risk Management (“Preliminary Draft”

NIST Awards $250,000 in Emergency Funding to the MEP Center in Ohio to Support Impacted Manufacturers

September 9, 2019

The Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP), part of the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has

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NIST Requests Comments on Draft Privacy Framework

September 9, 2019

Protecting our privacy while keeping the digital wheels of society turning may feel mutually exclusive at times, but a new tool from the National Institute of

OSAC Adds Two Disaster Victim Identification Standards to the Registry

September 6, 2019

The Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science (OSAC) i s excited to announce two Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) documents have been

OSAC Standards Bulletin, September 2019

September 5, 2019

This Bulletin provides an update on forensic science standards moving through the development process at Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs), and those

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NIST Team Shows Atoms Can Receive Common Communications Signals

September 5, 2019

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a new type of sensor that uses atoms to receive commonly used

Cyber Resiliency Engineering: Final Public Draft of NIST SP 800-160 Volume 2 Available for Comment

September 4, 2019

The goal of the NIST Systems Security Engineering initiative is to address security, safety, and resiliency issues from a stakeholder requirements and

Brighter Future for LEDs: NIST Introduces New Lamp Calibration Lab

September 3, 2019

Question: How many measurement scientists does it take to screw in an LED lightbulb? Answer: For researchers at the National Institute of Standards and

Lightweight Cryptography (LWC) Standardization: Round 2 Candidates Announced

August 30, 2019

NIST would like to announce the 32 candidates that will be moving on to the 2nd round of the NIST LWC Standardization Process. The second-round candidates of

Guidelines for the Selection, Configuration, and Use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) Implementations: NIST SP 800-52 Rev. 2

August 29, 2019

Given the nature of interconnected networks and the use of the internet to share information, the protection of sensitive data can become difficult if proper