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Throughout history, many innovative ideas have been realized and brought to life within federal laboratories across the country. From this, it was discovered...
Search, seek and define — NIST postdoctoral researcher Kathy Peter is on a mission to uncover chemical compounds that fall into the category of PFAS (per- and...
The Technology Partnerships Office (TPO) at NIST attended and hosted three webinars at this year’s CyberWeek festival, which virtually brought together the...
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One of the primary goals of the Technology Partnerships Office (TPO) is to help transfer technologies from the NIST labs to the market to benefit the public and...
NIST is made up of a wide array of professionals from many different backgrounds, from science and engineering to communications, information technology, and...
The Organization of Scientific Area Committees ( OSAC) for Forensic Science has updated its structure and improved several processes. These changes will enable...
The Technology Partnerships Office (TPO) at NIST plays many roles in the overall support of the federal technology transfer (T2) mission, which involves...
I had a great discussion with a NIST researcher about federal researchers and their experience with collaborating on their innovations to push their projects...
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The Federal Labs Consortium (FLC) was formally chartered by the Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986 in order to develop a community of technology transfer...
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Engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a flexible, portable measurement system to support design and repeatable...
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has launched a program to help laboratories accurately measure key chemical compounds in marijuana...
The NIST-Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Program (N-STEP) was founded, through a partnership between NIST and TEDCO, for the purpose of providing...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has updated its database of chemical fingerprints, called mass spectra, that are used to identify...
Many serious diseases, including autism, schizophrenia and numerous cardiac disorders, are believed to result from mutation of an individual’s DNA. But some...
Please note the application deadline for this year’s Standards Services Curricula Development Cooperative Agreement Program has been extended from June 15 to...
by John Bittman, Interagency Policy Specialist I never expected the knowledge, skills, or abilities I gained as an airborne infantryman to be very transferrable...
The Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC) for Forensic Science has placed two new standards covering the interpretation of DNA evidence on its...
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The month of May not only signifies the end of Spring, but also highlights the beginnings of new ideas and creations since it has been nationally recognized as...
The University of Edinburgh (UE) and Heriot-Watt (HW) University, in collaboration with six other regional colleges and universities, at least five municipal...
Technology Transfer (T2) involves the movement of scientific discoveries and innovative technical knowledge from the federal laboratories to the private sector...