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US and International Standardization News and Activities — October 22, 2026 In this issue: Preliminary work items Selected new preliminary work items No U.S...
Key Practices for Incident Readiness and Response in Super Intelligence Training and Evaluation Today, NIST’s Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for...
The Department of Commerce’s CHIPS Program Office has agreed with GlobalFoundries to amend its existing award and reallocate up to $955 million in incentives...
As the nation’s lead agency for measurement science and standards, NIST is uniquely positioned to bridge the distance between fundamental discovery and...
The NIST Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) has been working with the International Organization of Legal Metrology (OIML) on developing digitalized...
The National Marine Mammal Tissue Bank is a collection of more than 80,000 different marine mammal tissue samples, including seals, whales, sea otters and even...
NIST researchers have developed a reference material for H5N1 avian influenza or bird flu. Manufacturers in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries can use...
SRM 3223 Inorganic Constituents in Cigarette Tobacco Filler was created to help manufacturers and importers meet the federal requirement for reporting harmful...
To support national disease surveillance, NIST provides tools that verify the accuracy of diagnostic tests for both manufacturers and labs. Reference Material...
Eleuthero is a plant whose stem and roots have been used in traditional medicine across Asia for centuries. It is a popular herbal supplement packed with...
NIST supports the nation's advanced manufacturing sector with tools that assure users and manufacturers of 3D‑printed products that their fabrication methods...
The Department of Commerce’s CHIPS Research & Development Office today announced the signing of a definitive agreement with I-Pulse for a $250 million award...
The Department of Commerce’s CHIPS Research & Development Office today announced the signing of a definitive agreement with SandboxAQ for a $500 million award...
The Department of Commerce’s CHIPS Program Office announced the signing of a letter of intent to provide up to $50 million in direct funding to Coherent Corp....
NIST’s Standards Coordination Office Curricula Development Cooperative Agreement Program (SCOCD CAP) is seeking applications to develop and incorporate...
The Z-Axis Test Facility, developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) Division, is...
The American Sportfishing Association indicates that US recreational and sport fishing is a $230.5 billion industry that supports 1.1 million jobs nationwide...
Domestic sludge is the muck collected at wastewater treatment plants. It can contain all kinds of contaminants, from antibiotics and pesticides to oils and...
CAISI's Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the General Services Administration will support AI evaluation at the stage of federal procurement for USAi, a...
NIST AI 800-4 organizes key findings from practitioner workshops and a systematic literature review to identify current practices and challenges in post...
According to the Office of the US Surgeon General, approximately one in five deaths annually is related to smoking. Additionally, the economic impact of smoking...
NIST AI 800-3 argues that the statistical validity of LLM evaluations benefits from evaluators explicitly adopting a model for analyzing evaluation results and...