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Consortium Names NIST's May Top Lab Director, Honors Indoor Air Quality Researchers

March 17, 2016

The Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC) has named Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and National Institute of...

It Just Gets Better: NIST Net-Zero House Quadruples Energy Surplus in Second Year

March 2, 2016

Tweaking ventilation and temperature control systems, along with a mild winter, helped the experimental net-zero-energy house at the National Institute of...

NIST Report: Science-Based Data Collection Key to Better Wildland Fire Defense

February 24, 2016

A new report by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) describes how researchers analyzed a major 2011 Texas wildland fire using a rigorous...

Renovating Spaces and Preserving Places with Lasers

February 10, 2016

When you want to preserve a place or enhance a space, sometimes the best approach is to take a laser to it. Not a cosmetic surgeon's scalpel, or a sci-fi...

NIST Launches International Competition to Make Robots More Agile

January 20, 2016

Manufacturers, robot suppliers and researchers, here's your chance to get in on the ground floor of an upcoming international competition intended to help make...

Evaluating Investments in Community Resilience: New Guide Explains How

January 4, 2016

Communities weighing choices for capital improvement projects intended to improve their resilience to severe weather, wildfires, earthquakes, or other types of...

Harris Named to NCST Advisory Committee; NIST Seeks Additional Members

December 8, 2015

James R. Harris, president, J.R. Harris and Co. (Denver, Colo.), has been appointed by Willie E. May, under secretary of commerce for standards and technology...

First Code Improvements Adopted Based on NIST Joplin Tornado Study

December 7, 2015

Protecting schools and their associated high-occupancy buildings from the most violent tornadoes is the goal of the first approved building code changes based...

Small Business Have a Role in Community Resilience

November 24, 2015

Guest blog post by Stephen A. Cauffman, Manager, NIST Community Resilience Program Keep the doors open, equipment running and orders coming in. That's what...

Four Agencies Join with NIST to Co-Sponsor New Community Resilience Panel

November 13, 2015

Four federal agencies have joined with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to sponsor a new independent panel devoted to reducing barriers...

NIST Study of Colorado Wildfire Shows Actions Can Change Outcomes

November 9, 2015

GAITHERSBURG, Md.—A new study of Colorado's devastating 2012 Waldo Canyon wildfire demonstrates that prompt and effective action can significantly change the...

Hazards Shouldn't Lead to Disasters: NIST Releases New Community Resilience Planning Guide

October 29, 2015

WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today issued the Community Resilience Planning Guide for...

NIST Releases Draft Framework to Help 'Cyber Physical Systems' Developers

September 18, 2015

Unmanned vehicles, "intelligent" buildings, your cell phone, the fitness bracelet on your wrist—all of these are cyber-physical systems (CPS). Today the...

Updating State Energy Codes for New Homes Would Deliver Significant National Savings

September 1, 2015

If every state in the nation adopted up-to-date residential building energy efficiency codes—only 10 states have done so—the energy savings realized over a...

Photo of damage to a road caused by a 2007 flood in Minnesota

NIST Seeks Members for New Panel to Help Communities Become More Resilient

September 1, 2015

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) seeks members for a new Community Resilience Panel, part of the institute's effort to reduce the heavy...

What's the Prognosis? New Research Roadmap Aims for Fault-Free Manufacturing Processes

August 26, 2015

In today's increasingly complex manufacturing operations, Murphy's Law is only an unexpected hiccup away—anything from a data error to an errant vibration to a...

Photo of the NIST net-zero energy house under construction

At NIST Net-Zero Energy House, Energy Efficiency, Clean Air Are Compatible Goals

August 24, 2015

You can breathe easy in the net-zero energy house at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). After 15 months of monitoring, researchers...

George B. Huff Jr. (left) and Steve Poupos

NIST Taps Experts in Business Continuity, Network Disaster Recovery for Community Resilience Efforts

June 30, 2015

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has named experts in business continuity planning and the post-disaster recovery of telecommunication...

Research Roadmap Traces the Path to 'Smart' Fire Fighting

June 18, 2015

When responding to the more than 1.2 million blazes reported annually, the nation's firefighters usually start with a dangerous disadvantage: They often lack...

NIST Releases Update of Industrial Control Systems Security Guide

June 5, 2015

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued the second revision to its Guide to Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Security. It includes...

Get Ahold of This: NIST to Demonstrate Tests of Grasping by Robot Hands

May 19, 2015

The act of grasping and shaking hands is a defining human ritual, with the grip intimating traits of each person involved. But what about our android...

Standard Knowledge for Robots

May 19, 2015

What do you know? There is now a world standard for capturing and conveying the knowledge that robots possess—or, to get philosophical about it, an ontology for...

NIST Aims for Tool to Help Manufacturers Select Wireless Network That's Right for Them

May 14, 2015

Going wireless is appealing to a growing number of manufacturers. Using wireless sensor networks to monitor and control equipment and processes eliminates the...

Go Figure: What Is the Most Efficient Design for New Single-Family Home?

May 6, 2015

What is the optimal energy efficiency design for a new single-family house? Two economists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) took a...

NIST Contributes to IEC White Paper on Wireless Sensor Networks, IOT

May 6, 2015

A new white paper by an international team surveys the role of wireless sensor networks in the evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT). The report catalogs...

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