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NIST is pleased to announce the release of OSCAL 1.0.0 Milestone 3. This is the third official milestone pre-release of OSCAL and marks the last pre-release...
Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have demonstrated a potentially new...
Many serious diseases, including autism, schizophrenia and numerous cardiac disorders, are believed to result from mutation of an individual’s DNA. But some...
The maintenance of machinery in the manufacturing industry consists of three primary approaches: reactive, preventive, and predictive. Reactive maintenance is...
Please note the application deadline for this year’s Standards Services Curricula Development Cooperative Agreement Program has been extended from June 15 to...
The Technology Partnerships Office at NIST presents the “Annual Report on Technology Transfer: Approach and Plans, Fiscal Year 2019 Activities and Achievements...
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built an online tool that could help decrease the concentration of aerosols...
To help labs characterize the toughness of steel, a new software package allows analysis of instrumented Charpy tests, or Charpy tests augmented with strain...
Impact in 3 … 2 … 1 … Meet Marcos Reyes-Martinez, a NIST researcher working to build new materials that could protect fragile items in transit, spacecraft...
NIST has issued a Call for Comments on the four-volume set of Digital Identity Guideline documents, including: Special Publication (SP) 800-63-3 Digital...
NIST announces the publication of NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-133 Revision 2, Recommendation for Cryptographic Key Generation , which discusses the...
by John Bittman, Interagency Policy Specialist I never expected the knowledge, skills, or abilities I gained as an airborne infantryman to be very transferrable...
Digital forensics experts often extract data from computers and mobile phones that may contain evidence of a crime. Now, researchers at the National Institute...
Some cybersecurity best practices and guidance for Internet of Things (IoT) device manufacturers are now available from NIST’s Cybersecurity for IoT Program...
Particles, big or small: NIST’s Elijah Petersen is ready to investigate them all. Walk through the phases of his professional journey in chemical toxicity...
As microservices-based applications are increasingly deployed within large enterprises and cloud-based environments, dedicated and scalable infrastructure is...
Cybercrime puts America’s competitive edge and economic future at risk; however, there is some debate as to the extent that this activity is impacting economic...
The Public Safety Broadband Stakeholder Meeting is an annual event that connects representatives from public safety, federal agencies, industry, and academia to...
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a mathematical formula that, computer simulations suggest, could help 5G...
NIST's National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) is initiating the development of practices to ease the migration from the current set of public-key...
GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mojdeh...
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have used state-of-the-art atomic clocks, advanced light detectors, and a measurement...
Federal agencies are directed to implement a program to continuously monitor their organizational information security status. NIST Special Publication (SP) 800...