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NIST and Intel researchers were awarded best paper at the 19 th IEEE International Conference on Factory Communications Systems (WFCS 2023), in April 2023. The...
In late April 2023, NIST’s Smart Connected Systems Division Chief, Abdella Battou, described the connectivity needed for the quantum network testbed to the...
In late April 2023, Big Data and Cognitive Computing Journal awarded the 2021 Best Paper to 6G Cognitive Information Theory: A Mailbox Perspective, which was...
NIST will hold a virtual workshop on Standards and Performance Metrics for On-Road Automated Vehicles (AV), September 5-8, 2023. Free registration and schedule...
On May 1, 2023, NIST researchers published a paper titled: “ Nb/a-Si/Nb Josephson junctions for high-density superconducting circuits” by David Olaya, John...
Today, optical networks use lasers to transmit messages. By comparison, future quantum optical networks will use much shorter bursts, with entangled photons...
In May 2021, NIST's Crypto Publication Review Board initiated a review process for the following two publications: NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-38A...
We’re building the tools to trap ions and watch them glow (or not). The art-deco-esque device shown here is a combined trap for ions (charged atoms) and...
CALL FOR PROPOSALS NOW OPEN! DESIGNING K12 LEARNING EXPERIENCES TO BUILD A DIVERSE AND SKILLED CYBERSECURITY WORKFORCE The NICE K12 Cybersecurity Education...
The National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL) has announced the selection of 44 college freshman and sophomores to...
Fascination with technological innovation is built into America’s DNA. Today’s legions of U.S. scientific and engineering researchers are directly connected to...
Most applications on the internet are run by centralized service providers that are a single point of failure: if the provider crashes or is malicious, users...
NIST to Finalize Special Publication (SP) 800-66 Revision 2 and Collaborate on Resources for Small, Regulated Entities For the past 18+ months NIST, in...
The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has released a preliminary draft of NIST Special Publication (SP) 1800-39A, Implementing Data...
NIST is updating the Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) which is widely used to help organizations better understand, manage, reduce, and communicate cybersecurity...
The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has published for comment Preliminary Draft NIST SP 1800-38A, Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography...
Sustainability is easier said than done. NIST industrial engineer Nehika Mathur learned this lesson with an eye-opening experience that spurred an early-career...
In April 2023, 17 executives began a year-long leadership development journey in the prestigious Baldrige Executive Fellows Program, the only leadership...
Imagine hiking in a forest with a friend. As the sun begins to set, the path to the trailhead becomes difficult to see, and the landscape’s topography has...
NIST is launching its fifth prize competition to continue advancing UAS technology for first responder search and rescue operations, with a total prize purse of...
The initial public draft of NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-207A, A Zero Trust Architecture Model for Access Control in Cloud-Native Applications in Multi...
CALL FOR COMMENTS In our continuing effort to improve the Workforce Framework for Cybersecurity (NICE Framework) as a fundamental reference resource, the...
A groundbreaking new image taken by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) in Chile reveals the most detailed map ever taken of the distribution of dark matter...
NIST Interagency Report (IR) 8427, Discussion on the Full Entropy Assumption of the SP 800-90 Series, is now available. This report supports the NIST Special...