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NIST seeks feedback on Draft NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-53B, Control Baselines for Information Systems and Organizations. SP 800-53B provides three...
There is a smart grid messaging framework known as an Open Field Message Bus (OpenFMB); it describes a publish-and-subscribe model of communication for smart...
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For NIST federal researchers, pursuing their work in the labs is only part of the overall research and development goal at NIST. Scientists and engineers work...
Now that so many of us are covering our faces to help reduce the spread of COVID-19, how well do face recognition algorithms identify people wearing masks? The...
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The Summer 2020 NICE eNewsletter has been published to provide subscribers information on academic, industry, and government developments related to the...
John “Randy” Shields, a physical scientist in the Flammability Reduction Group of EL’s Fire Research Division, died suddenly of a heart attack on June 27, 2020...
The race to protect sensitive electronic information against the threat of quantum computers has entered the home stretch. After spending more than three years...
It has been almost a year and a half since the second round of the NIST PQC Standardization Process began. After careful consideration, NIST would like to...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has launched a program to help laboratories accurately measure key chemical compounds in marijuana...
While awaiting full access to their labs due to COVID-19 restrictions, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have taken this...
Storage infrastructure—along with compute (encompassing OS and host hardware) and network infrastructures—is one of the three fundamental pillars of Information...
Cybersecurity professionals remain in high demand by employers across the United States and in virtually every industry, according to new data published this...
The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) has released a draft revision to NIST Special Publication 800-181, the Workforce Framework for...
The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) has released Draft NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-181 Revision 1, Workforce Framework for...
Jack Lewis is the Lead Virtual Reality (VR) developer at NIST's Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) division. At PSCR, Lewis oversees the development...
The U.S Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) has made one cooperative agreement...
All enterprises should ensure cybersecurity risk gets the appropriate attention within their enterprise risk management (ERM) programs, which address all types...
GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded a total of $50 million in emergency...
NIST has published NISTIR 8214A, NIST Roadmap Toward Criteria for Threshold Schemes for Cryptographic Primitives, which presents a structured approach for...
Now available on our website, the 2020 Baldrige Case Study: LifeBridge Organ and Tissue Sharing (LOTS), Year 2 demonstrates how the Baldrige Criteria (part of...
A new publication by cryptography experts at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) proposes the direction the technical agency will take to...
It images single atoms. It maps atomic-scale hills and valleys on metal and insulating surfaces. And it records the flow of current across atom-thin materials...
GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded $3.4 million in grants to support high...