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Making elections secure means protecting against ever-evolving threats to information technology — which scans in-person and mail-in ballots, supports voter
The latest exercise in NIST's Health Assessment Measurements Quality Assurance Program ( HAMQAP) is open for registration. HAMQAP, a collaboration with the
More than 150 years ago, the Sun blasted Earth with a massive cloud of hot charged particles. This plasma blob generated a magnetic storm on Earth that caused
NIST’s Applied Economic Office released a “ Guide for Environmentally Sustainable Investment Analysis” based on ASTM E3200. This guide presents techniques for
The secret to building superconducting quantum computers with massive processing power may be an ordinary telecommunications technology — optical fiber
In a significant advance toward the future redefinition of the international unit of time, the second, a research team led by the National Institute of
Some of the most dangerous fires are the ones you don’t see coming. That goes not only for fires in buildings but for those kilometers off the ground, aboard
In order to facilitate the development of applications and middleware that support the Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Card, the National Institute of
The Technology Maturation Accelerator Program (TMAP) was begun at NIST in 2019 to provide a platform for NIST scientists and engineers to help propel their lab
Many organizations now support their employees' use of personal mobile devices to remotely perform work-related activities. This increasingly common practice
Twenty-three middle-school girls from the St. Vrain Valley School District in Longmont, Colorado, have logged on to their school tablets and laptops for a
The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) has released draft supplemental content to the Workforce Framework for Cybersecurity (NICE Framework)
Call for Comments: Please send comments on draft NISTIR 8355 and the draft List of Competencies to NICEFramework [at] nist.gov (NICEFramework[at]nist[dot]gov) no later than 11:59pm. ET on May 3
Network-layer onboarding of an Internet of Things (IoT) device is the provisioning of network credentials to that device. The current lack of trusted IoT device
The NIST Flammability Reduction Group (FRG) recently contributed to the production of a Special Issue on Furniture Flammability in the Fire and Materials
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a dramatically improved laser-based instrument that measures the
The road so far — NIST postdoctoral associate Kate Kapalo followed an unconventional path into research for public safety, but the experiences fuel her projects
Researchers have come up with a better way to test which fabrics work best for masks that are meant to slow the spread of COVID-19. By testing those fabrics
Every single day, across the agencies within the U.S. government, there are many federal researchers working on up-and-coming technologies and are pushing the
First responders are seeing a significant increase in the amount and types of data available to them while responding to emergencies. To maximize the value of
You’re going at the speed limit down a two-lane road when a car barrels out of a driveway on your right. You slam on the brakes, and within a fraction of a
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new, interactive spreadsheet that will help the U.S. military
NOTE: The NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) reactor remains shut down, and all measurements confirm that the public and environment have remained safe