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Traditional data and operations management across organizations and on the web can involve inefficient transaction reconciliation between siloed databases...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
NEW NICE WORKING GROUPS The NICE Community Coordinating Council (previously NICE Working Group) is pleased to announce new working groups that align with the...
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...
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...
Nations around the world are adding cyberwarfare to their arsenal, employing highly skilled teams to launch attacks against other countries. These adversaries...
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...
New and updated supplemental materials for NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-53, Revision 5, Security and Privacy Controls for Information Systems and...
Welcome Dr. Andrew Maizel and Mr. Mike Heck to the Flammability Reduction Group within the Fire Research Division (FRD) as Professional Research Experience...
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...
The Bayh-Dole Act, passed in 1980, laid the groundwork for requiring increased reporting from the recipients of federal research and development funds. However...
Organizations frequently share information through various information exchange channels based on mission and business needs. In order to protect the...
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...
Hypothetical scenario: A car hurtles toward a tree and swerves to avoid it when the passenger door meets timber and deforms around it. As the driver, you don't...
Investigating colors in the wind — NIST researchers expand beyond a current spectroscopy technique for measuring greenhouse gases to now detect volatile organic...