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Twenty-One Receive High Honors from Commerce Department for Work at NIST

September 25, 2002

Commerce Secretary Don Evans has honored 21 local employees of the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) with Gold and...

NIST Issues Guidelines to Protect First Responders Exposed to Chemical, Biological, Radiological or Nuclear Agents

September 19, 2002

A new report issued today by the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is the first comprehensive set of basic procedures...

Commerce's NIST Details Federal Investigation of World Trade Center Collapse

August 21, 2002

More information on the investigation is available at http://wtc.nist.gov. The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today...

OSTP Report Assesses Status of NIST Neutron Center, Other U.S. Facilities

June 27, 2002

A new report issued by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy finds that neutron probes are becoming increasingly indispensable research tools...

Neumann Receives Computer System Security Award

June 18, 2002

One of the country's pioneering figures in computer security was honored in a special ceremony at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and...

Design Proposed for Large-Scale Quantum Computer

June 12, 2002

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Michigan have taken a significant...

NIST to Postpone April 22 Meeting in New York on World Trade Center Investigation

April 15, 2002

The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is postponing a public meeting scheduled for April 22, 2002, in New York City to...

Memorandum of Understanding between the Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration (FIMA) of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

March 29, 2002

I. BACKGROUND Every year, millions of Americans face disaster, and its terrifying consequences. Natural perils of extreme winds, fires, earthquakes, floods...

NIST, FEMA Strengthen Disaster Response and Research Capabilities

March 29, 2002

The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) today announced the signing...

Commerce Secretary Don Evans Releases Recommendations to Improve the Advanced Technology Program (ATP)

February 4, 2002

Commerce Secretary Don Evans announced today the release of The Advanced Technology Program: Reform with a Purpose, a report that presents six recommendations...

Commerce Secretary Announces New Standard for Global Information Security

December 4, 2001

Commerce Secretary Announces New Standard for Global Information Security (News Release) AES Questions and Answers Oct 2, 2000, News Release on Selection of AES...

Bement Confirmed by Senate As 12th NIST Director

November 30, 2001

The U.S. Senate today confirmed Arden L. Bement Jr. as director of the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology. The position of...

Twenty-Nine Receive High Honors from Commerce Department for Work at NIST

November 9, 2001

Commerce Secretary Don Evans has presented 23 employees of the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology and six former employees...

NIST and ITA Launch New Online Service to Give U.S. Companies 'Heads Up' on Export Regulations

October 11, 2001

Two U.S. Department of Commerce agencies, the National Institute of Standards and Technology and International Trade Administration, today launched Export Alert...

Press conference: Cornell and Wieman Answer Questions about the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics

October 9, 2001

The following text is a transcript of a press conference hosted by JILA on October 9, 2001. Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman of JILA answered questions from...

NIST Launches New Information Technology Security Effort

October 2, 2001

The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today awarded $5 million total in funding for nine research grants that will...

Implosion and explosion of a Bose-Einstein condensate "Bosenova"

March 12, 2001

In a Bose-Einstein condensate, virtually all the atoms in the ultra-cold gas fall into the lowest-energy quantum mechanical state. Spread out in space, they...

Decay of a dark soliton into vortex rings in a Bose-Einstein condensate

March 12, 2001

Vortices are fundamental excitations of gases and liquids. Well-known examples include tornados, whirlpools, and smoke rings. The main characteristic of...

National Institute of Standards and Technology Gears Up to Celebrate Centennial

February 15, 2001

What do gas pumps, truck scales, blood-cholesterol tests, DNA chips, industrial lasers, satellite antennas, aircraft altimeters and bullet-proof vests have in...

ATP Introduces Process Improvements to Streamline 2001 Competition for Innovative Industrial R&D

January 2, 2001

A new, streamlined proposal submission and review procedure marks the 2001 Advanced Technology Program (ATP) competition announced today by the National...

NIST Director Kammer to Retire at Year's End

December 15, 2000

Ray Kammer, director of the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology since 1997, announced today that he will be retiring from the...

Collins Receives Rosa Award for Outstanding Standards Achievements

November 30, 2000

The National Institute of Standards and Technology, an agency of the Commerce Department's Technology Administration, has presented its 2000 Edward Bennett Rosa...

NIST Presents Jacob Rabinow Applied Research Award to Fuller, Roosen and Langer

November 30, 2000

Edwin R. Fuller, Jr., Andrew R. Roosen, and Stephen A. Langer, have received the 2000 Jacob Rabinow Applied Research Award from the National Institute of...

Local Residents Honored with NIST Crittenden Award

November 30, 2000

Seven Maryland employees of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, an agency of the Commerce Department's Technology Administration, have been...

40 Local Residents Earn NIST Bronze Medal Awards

November 30, 2000

For contributions ranging from creating a national assistance program on electronic business for smaller manufacturers to helping settle a 15-year international...

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