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The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) is pleased to announce the release of Special Publication 800-181, the NICE Cybersecurity Workforce...
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ASTM International’s committee on sustainability ( E60) has developed a new guide that will help companies set reasonable, realistic operational objectives for...
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Nobel laureate David Wineland announced today that he plans to leave the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) this fall and has accepted a...
The Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science (OSAC) has approved the Standard Test Method for Forensic Comparison of Glass Using Micro X...
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Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross recently reappointed Rulon Stacey to another one-year term as chair of the Baldrige Program’s Board of Overseers. He also...
The co-chairs of the Congressional Cybersecurity Caucus hosted a roundtable event on Building a Better Cybersecurity Workforce on Tuesday, July 18, 2017. The...
In collaboration with the Tennessee Technological University (TTU), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published a study addressing...
The MGI [Materials Genome Initiative] is going to change the way materials science is done. In the next 10-to-20 years, we’ll be doing materials discovery and...
On July 13, 2017, Davina Pruitt-Mentle provided a briefing to the Northern Virginia Regional Commission on NIST’s efforts with the National Initiative for...
One of the persistent challenges in 21 st century metrology is the need to measure ever-more-detailed properties of ever-smaller things, from microchip features...
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The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education, led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), is seeking Information, ideas, and views...
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Using a state-of-the-art device for measuring mass, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made their most precise...
The Community College Cybersecurity Summit held at Prince George’s Community College in Maryland was supported by the National Initiative for Cybersecurity...
By measuring the random jiggling motion of electrons in a resistor, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have contributed to...
The Summer 2017 NICE eNewsletter has been published to provide subscribers information on academic, industry, and government developments related to NICE...
The Government Matters TV show that aired on NewsChannel 8 featured NICE Director, Rodney Petersen, who spoke about the National Initiative for Cybersecurity...
Marian Merritt, the NICE Lead for Industry Engagement, recently spoke on a panel at the California Cyber Innovation Challenge, a regional Cyber Patriot...
Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado Boulder have demonstrated a new mobile, ground-based...
The Community Resilience Group has engaged with organizations representing community officials to raise awareness about the value of NIST’s resilience guides...