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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently interviewed engineers, architects, builders and other experts for ideas on research to pursue...
Each workday, I get up at 4 a.m. to make the drive from Gettysburg, Pa., to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Md., or...
The Department of Commerce (DOC) and Department of Defense (DOD) have signed a memorandum of agreement that establishes a new collaborative framework to...
Xiaoyu Alan Zheng and Ted Vorburger of PML's Semiconductor and Dimensional Metrology Division were appointed to the Organization of Scientific Area Committees'...
A collaboration between NIST scientists and colleagues at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has resulted in a new kind of sensor that can be used to...
The future of forensic science was on display at last month's American Academy of Forensic Sciences annual meeting in Orlando, Fla.
Several NIST researchers...
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In a guest post on The Commerce Blog, NIST's Associate Director for Innovation and Industry Services Phillip Singerman discusses a new Federal Funding...
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released the Federal Laboratory Technology Transfer, Fiscal Year 2012, Summary Report to the...
A public health expert and a sociologist have been appointed by Willie May, acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and acting director...
Authors: Richard A. Rouil; Antonio Izquierdo Manzanares; Camillo A. Gentile; David W. Griffith; Nada T. Golmie Abstract: The legislation included in the middle...
Guest blog post by Paul R. Zielinski, MS, MBA, Director, Technology Partnerships Office, National Institute of Standards and Technology & Chair, Federal...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is offering to fund research projects that address...
TechHire Initiative: Creating Pathways to Better, High-Paying Tech Jobs and Meeting Urgent Employer Demand Across the U.S. On March 10, 2015, President Obama...
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A team of researchers has successfully demonstrated a new design concept for a neutron detector that does not rely – as nearly all current models do – on a...
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Newly released data highlight benefits throughout the country of the network of state and local Baldrige-based programs called the Alliance for Performance...
Researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the University of Maryland, and Sandia National Laboratories, have for the...
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a new silver nanoparticle reference material to support researchers studying potential...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is offering financial support for the development of undergraduate and graduate-level curricula that...
Those who missed presentations of forensic science standards development priorities at the first public meetings of the Organization of Scientific Area...