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The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded a renewal of a $20 million cooperative agreement to Colorado
NIST's Public Safety Communications Research division (PSCR) awarded three applicants the Public Safety Innovation Accelerator Program: Mission Critical Voice
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have for the first time created and imaged a novel pair of quantum
Applications are now open for the 2020 National Cohort of the Association for Women in Science’s (AWIS’) award-winning STEM to Market (S2M) Accelerator program
Criminals sometimes damage their mobile phones in an attempt to destroy evidence. They might smash, shoot, submerge or cook their phones, but forensics experts
Forget ice cube trays … we have microscopic molds for any shape we want. Scientists at NIST can now pour a polymer liquid into a template to make exact shapes —
Each year, the NIST Applied Economics Office assembles a report that examines public data on US manufacturing. The most recent report identified that US
It might seem that estimating manufacturing industry costs (e.g., total machinery maintenance costs for all manufacturers) would be easy and have a great deal
In a general sense, an informative reference indicates how one document relates to another document. The National Cybersecurity Online Informative References
The Baldrige Performance Excellence Program is offering a limited number of seats in its 2020 examiner training course for a fee through its Baldrige Examiner
What are the top strategic and competitiveness challenges you are facing in your organization or sector (or seeing in the organizations you work with)? What are
Since 2000, an average of 72,000 wildfires per year have cleared seven million acres of land in the United States. 2015 was the largest wildfire year in
Identify NIST Intellectual Property A foundational step in the NIST intellectual property (IP) strategy is to identify the IP developed from NIST’s research and
Cost examinations often run into the challenge of data uncertainty, where variables in the calculation (e.g., price of gasoline) will fluctuate over the study
What are you made of? With a new measurement technique from NIST’s Young Jong Lee, scientists can answer that question on the cellular level with 100 times more
As microservices-based applications are increasingly adopted within large enterprises and cloud-based environments, there is a need for a dedicated, scalable
Our data-driven society has a tricky balancing act to perform: building innovative products and services that use personal data while still protecting people’s
The Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC) for Forensic Science's Geological Materials Subcommittee, in collaboration with the University of Kentucky
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) plans to begin modernizing the Interagency Edison System (iEdison) by using feedback and insights from
Meet Greta Babakhanova, a postdoctoral researcher here at NIST with boundless drive and a passion for reducing human suffering. It’s an ambitious goal that, for
Traditional identity management has typically involved the storing of user credentials (e.g., passwords) by organizations and third parties, which often results
GAITHERSBURG, Md. — As part of its efforts to improve the transfer of federally funded technologies from lab to market, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s
Federal agencies, under the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (FISMA) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) circulars and memoranda