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The Baldrige Performance Excellence Program is seeking qualified candidates for the 2019 Baldrige Executive Fellows Program, a one-year, nationally ranked...
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have used common electronics to build a laser that pulses 100 times more often than...
The squeeze is here, and the crunch is coming. Soon. Explosive demand for high-speed wireless communication is placing growing pressure on the limited frequency...
On September 20th Vincent Hu published new version of Access Control Policy Tool (ACPT), ACPT allows a user to compose, verify, test, and generate access...
It looks more like a long water main pipe than a microscope, but a new custom-built instrument at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...
The Fall 2018 NICE eNewsletter has been published to provide subscribers information on academic, industry, and government developments related to the National...
To help organizations address the cybersecurity and privacy threats against Internet of Things (IoT) devices, the National Institute of Standards and Technology...
When crime lab chemists handle evidence that contains illegal drugs, trace amounts of those drugs are inevitably released into the laboratory environment. When...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology and Troy University in Troy, Alabama have entered a cooperative agreement that will fund a center for...
INNOVATIONS IN CYBERSECURITY EDUCATION, TRAINING, AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT NICE Conference and Expo November 6-7, 2018 Hyatt Regency Miami Miami, Florida The...
As more communities take action to improve their overall resilience to natural, technological, and human-caused hazards, there is a growing recognition that...
When a sea turtle turns up dead on the beach, it often makes the news, especially if the death appears to result from plastic debris in the turtle’s stomach...
NIST has published Draft NISTIR 8225, Scientific Foundation Reviews. This publication describes NIST’s approach to conducting scientific foundation reviews...
Hardware/server virtualization is now integral to the infrastructure of data centers used for cloud computing services and enterprise computing. However, the...
Know that sickening feeling when you exit the grocery store and find your car has been banged up by a runaway shopping cart? It may one day be just a bad memory...
The 15th annual National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM) will highlight cybersecurity user awareness among consumers, students/academia and business...
GAITHERSBURG, Md.—The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a study that estimates a $250 billion...
At forensic science labs, analysts literally weigh the evidence. They also measure it in other ways. They use microscopes, DNA profiling kits, chemical...
9/18/2018—Draft NISTIR 8222 has been temporarily withdrawn to synchronize with other pending documents on this topic, and to ensure time for stakeholders to...
Lasers play roles in many manufacturing processes, from welding car parts to crafting engine components with 3D printers.* To control these tasks, manufacturers...
NIST has released Draft NIST Internal Report (NISTIR) 8222, Internet of Things (IoT) Trust Concerns, which identifies seventeen technical trust-related issues...
Advancing Methods In Differential Privacy
The top three winners of PSCR's first data challenge, Advancing Methods in Differential Privacy, have been selected...
This Bulletin provides an update on forensic science standards that are moving through the development process at Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs), and...
One of the largest software libraries in the world just grew larger. The National Software Reference Library (NSRL), which archives copies of the world’s most...