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GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced its fiscal year 2021 Small Business
Oil and water may not mix, but adding the right nanoparticles to the recipe can convert these two immiscible fluids into an exotic gel with uses ranging from
Look out dark matter, here come the detectives. This NIST amplifier, which measures tiny electrical currents, has boosted the search for the mysterious dark
The Communication Technology Laboratory was pleased to take part in the CO-LABS panel discussion with U.S. Representative Joe Neguse (CO CD-2) to hear from
Kate Kapalo is the Lead User Experience Researcher at NIST’s Public Safety Communications Research Division. Dr. Kapalo’s expertise lies at the intersection of
In response to community requests, NIST will be holding a virtual meeting for its Gaithersburg, Md., campus neighbors to discuss the February 3, 2021, alert at
The start of the new year in the Technology Partnerships Office (TPO) brings with it innovative ideas and projects pushing the TPO and NIST mission forward. One
Traditional data and operations management across organizations and on the web can involve inefficient transaction reconciliation between siloed databases
On a brisk November morning in 2018, a fire sparked in a remote stretch of canyon in Butte County, California, a region nestled against the western slopes of
NEW NICE WORKING GROUPS The NICE Community Coordinating Council (previously NICE Working Group) is pleased to announce new working groups that align with the
NIST announces the release of Draft NISTIR 8344, Ontology for Authentication, for public comment. This draft document is the result of an effort to define
The research reactor on NIST’s Gaithersburg, Maryland, campus is shut down and in a safe state. It will remain in shutdown status until the cause of the
At approximately 9:15 a.m. EST, Feb. 3, 2021, staff at the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) responded to an
Nations around the world are adding cyberwarfare to their arsenal, employing highly skilled teams to launch attacks against other countries. These adversaries
Also see NIST Offers Tools to Help Defend Against State-Sponsored Hackers NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-172 provides federal agencies with a set of enhanced
NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has posted for comment a Preliminary Draft—the first of three volumes of an upcoming practice guide
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) coordinated with the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) and the earthquake engineering
NIST’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) team is taking advantage of insights from a member of the 2021 class of Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF), now deployed
For the last century, seismic building codes and practices have primarily focused on saving lives by reducing the likelihood of significant damage or structural
NEW NICE FRAMEWORK USERS GROUP In November 2020, NICE released a revision to the Workforce Framework for Cybersecurity (NICE Framework). The revision updates
Deployment architecture in cloud-native applications now consists of loosely coupled components (microservices), with all application services provided through
We’ve all come to rely on the navigation apps on our mobile devices to steer our daily itineraries. Within seconds of typing our destination into a blinking
If you plan to travel internationally, you will need to get tested no more than 3 days before you travel by air into the United States (US) and show your
The Bayh-Dole Act, passed in 1980, laid the groundwork for requiring increased reporting from the recipients of federal research and development funds. However