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Two popular brochures highlighting National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) planning guides to help communities to strengthen their resilience are...
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Is your organization already using the Baldrige Excellence Framework (including the Criteria for Performance Excellence) to guide improvement efforts and...
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Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their collaborators have taken a new step forward in the quest to build quantum...
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have come up with a way to link a group of atoms’ quantum mechanical properties among...
Paul Black, of ITL’s Software and Systems Division, published an article in the Journal of Cyber Security and Information Systems(link is external) on the...
Members of ITL’s Software and Systems Division published an article in the Journal of Cyber Security and Information Systems(link is external) that discusses...
Members of ITL’s Software and Systems Division published an article in the Journal of Cyber Security and Information Systems(link is external) that discusses...
Congratulations to The Norman Invasion for winning the Future of Public Safety Technology Prize Challenge. This Challenge focused on the development of a...
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Employing techniques developed for quantum information processing with trapped ions, we demonstrate a sensitive technique for measuring the amplitude of the...
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Yet that element plays a vital role in...
Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new way to investigate the high-performance fibers used in modern body...