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Federal Investments in IoT Infrastructure Offer 10-20x Return, NIST Study Finds

September 2, 2025

The Internet of Things is transforming our daily lives, affecting industry, academia and government, with significant economic, social and national security

NIST Awards Over $1.8 Million to Small Businesses Advancing AI, Semiconductors, Additive Manufacturing and More

August 18, 2025

The winning projects were competitively selected following a call for innovative proposals that address technical needs related to NIST’s research areas.

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New Report Highlights Economic Value of Neutron Science to U.S. Industry

September 5, 2024

Research using neutron beams provides an economic return far larger than the cost of building and operating neutron facilities, according to an economic impact

NIST Awards Over $1.2 Million to Small Businesses to Advance Cybersecurity, Biopharmaceuticals, Semiconductors and More

May 15, 2024

The awards will fund research and development of new products relating to cybersecurity, quantum computing, health care, semiconductor manufacturing and other

Innovative NIST Research Enhances Cybersecurity

February 28, 2024

Artificial Intelligence is an omnipresent and indispensable feature of contemporary daily life. “AI” is a foundational element of our critical infrastructure

Graduate Business School Students Evaluate Commercialization of Groundbreaking Federal Technologies

February 22, 2024

In technology transfer, standing still is tantamount to falling behind. The field of federal technology transfer progresses because it teems with fresh and

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NIST Awards Nearly $3 Million to Small Businesses to Advance Semiconductor Manufacturing, Drug Development and More

December 19, 2023

The grants will go to 15 small businesses in nine states under NIST's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program.

NIST Releases for Public Comment Draft Guidance on March-In Rights

December 7, 2023

The draft guidance will help agencies work through a range of policy considerations relevant to a potential march-in decision, including price.

The FLEX Program is Tech Transfer Training in Action

October 10, 2023

Technology transfer is not a theoretical exercise. It is a real-world topic, dealing with the application of federal scientific and engineering research to real

NIST Researchers Develop a Breakthrough COVID-19 Detection Technology

October 2, 2023

“Only connect” is the most famous line in the British novelist E. M. Forster’s writings. Forster was urging the readers of his book Howard’s End to make

Bayh-Dole Update Webinar is a Resounding Success

August 23, 2023

The field of technology transfer is vibrant and fast-moving, and the Bayh-Dole Act regulations shaping federal tech transfer respond and adapt to changing

New NIST Licensing Opportunity Teems with Potential Applications

July 5, 2023

Max Planck, one of the Twentieth Century’s most eminent physicists, observed, "An experiment is a question that science poses to Nature, and a measurement is

Three new NIST X-ray technology patents are prime licensing opportunities

June 7, 2023

David Gerrold, a prolific American author, and screenwriter, summarizes the progress of the last 120 years when he observes, “In the 20th century, we had a

Introducing the Groundbreaking Gateless P-N Junction Metrolog

May 23, 2023

“What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done,” according to Silicon Valley thinker and entrepreneur Tim O’Reilly

A new small-scale measurement invention ready for licensing

May 9, 2023

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is the United States’ premier standards and measurements laboratory. NIST’s numerous varied and wide

NIST’s SBIR Program Could be for You

April 26, 2023

Fascination with technological innovation is built into America’s DNA. Today’s legions of U.S. scientific and engineering researchers are directly connected to

The FedTech Startup Studio’s Real-World Approach Advances Technology Transfer

March 22, 2023

Technology Transfer is an intensely dynamic field, and the process of moving federal scientific and technological research from the lab to the marketplace teems

NIST receives a top Tech Transfer honor

February 21, 2023

NIST has received the prestigious Interagency Partnership Award for Technology Transfer from the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC), our nation’s premier

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND, A NEW SHOWCASE OF NIST INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES IS COMING SOON

January 24, 2023

Just three months ago, NIST’s Technology Partnerships Office (TPO) hosted a virtual program that brought together scientific and technological business

New Changes to iEdison Utilization Reporting Coming in 2023

December 15, 2022

The Bayh-Dole Act allows agencies to ask for periodic reports on the utilization or attempts at obtaining the utilization of subject inventions. Utilization

Licensing Opportunities for NIST Technologies

November 18, 2022

New technologies are always invented in the labs at NIST every year. The researchers dedicate their time to discovering these new solutions to problems and

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Finding a NIST Researcher Has Never Been Easier

November 2, 2022

The Technology Partnerships Office (TPO) is always looking for new ways to engage the research and technology communities, as well as ways to further promote an

Pioneering the Future of Semiconductor Measurement Techniques

October 18, 2022

Today, CD-SAXS (critical dimension small angle X-ray scattering) is an industry-wide measurement technique for next-generation semiconductor fabrication

Showcasing Innovative NIST Technologies

October 4, 2022

The Technology Partnerships Office (TPO) recently hosted the NIST Innovative Technologies Showcase. It was a virtual event to highlight cutting-edge

NIST Awards Funding to Small Businesses to Advance Technologies for COVID Response, Manufacturing, Medical Diagnostics and More

September 20, 2022

NIST has awarded more than $7 million in funding to 23 U.S. small businesses in 14 states.

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