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The 2025 MBE Summit was hosted at MxD headquarters in Chicago, IL, April 15 - 18. NIST's Rosemary Astheimer organized technical content in conjunction with the
Since its formation at NIST in 2014, the Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) has evolved to become a collaborative platform for cities, communities, industry
NIST researcher Rick Candell delivered a keynote presentation at the plenary session of the Avnu Alliance Plugfest in Malaga, Spain on April 8, 2025. The Avnu
On 16 April 2025, NIST researcher Michael Dunaway and colleagues organized and led a workshop on “Whole Community Preparedness for Smart, Connected Cities” at
This reference material is intended to be used as quality assurance/quality control material for laboratory metabolomic measurements. Products of metabolism act
Electrolytes are essential biomarkers for skeletal and cellular health. Abnormal levels of electrolytes may either be the cause or the consequence of various
“To survive and win…we must leverage ingenuity and technology to develop comprehensive solutions” -U. S. Army CBRN capability development update, 2024 CBRN
“Air Power alone does not guarantee America’s security, but I believe it best exploits the nation’s greatest asset – our technical skill” -Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg
For several years, NIST’s Industrial Wireless Systems Project Leader Rick Candell and his team have led the working group developing the draft IEEE 3388
On February 5, 2025, NIST researchers presented the results of their highly successful Innovation in Measurement Science (IMS) project, “The World’s Best IIoT
The NIST Industrial Wireless System team has published a new dataset titled "Electromagnetic Interference Measurements from Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG) Arc Welding
A new Reference Material (RM) has been developed for the temperature and enthalpy calibration of differential scanning calorimeters (DSCs). The addition of this
The 2025 MBE & QIF Summit event is returning to MxD (Manufacturing x Digital) headquarters in Chicago, IL, April 15 - 17, 2025. The 2025 event will bring the
Without realizing it, metrology and its associated standards and services play a big role in our daily lives. We buy groceries that are weighed or measured
The NIST Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) is pleased to announce the schedule for the 2025 Info Hours series. An Info Hour is a one-hour session that
Every five years, NIST OWM gears up to host a Combined Regional Measurement Assurance Program (C-RMAP) training event with a state host with all six RMAP
NIST Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) and the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) are currently conducting an interlaboratory mass comparison as part of a
In October 2024, NIST OWM completed a pilot test of a “blended” course on Retail Motor-Fuel Dispensers (RMFDs) thanks in large part, to Paul Floyd, Director of
In October 2024, the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP) released a revised version of NIST Handbook 150-2 , which represents the
One of OWM's main responsibilities is to harmonize international and national documentary standards with those used by the U.S. weights and measures community
To bolster the nation’s preparedness for a pandemic, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a synthetic, nonhazardous genetic