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NIST has developed many environmentally relevant Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) over the years, including whale blubber, fish and mussel tissues, human...
In March 2024, NIST’s Rosemary Astheimer presented efforts to capture and leverage Product Manufacturing Information (PMI) in ISO 10303, referred to as STEP...
NIST's Industrial Wireless Systems team’s paper, titled “An Analytical Evaluation for Software-based TSN in Industrial Wi-Fi Networks,” was accepted to the 7 th...
NIST's Industrial Wireless Systems team’s paper, titled “On the Impact of TIG Welding Interference on Industrial Wi-Fi Networks: Modeling of Empirical Data and...
Devices that capture the brilliant light from millions of quantum dots, including chip-scale lasers and optical amplifiers, have made the transition from...
What city infrastructure could be used or developed to support automated vehicles (AVs) is a recent topic of discussion in the AV research community. NIST...
In January 2024, NIST researchers Allison Barnard Feeney and Rosemary Astheimer worked with Ben Urick (nVariate) and Thomas Thurman (TRThurman Consulting) to...
The IEEE draft standard, P3388 , titled “Standard for the Performance Assessment of Industrial Wireless Systems,” has been submitted for IEEE Standards...
On February 28-29, 2024, the NIST Automated Vehicles team , representing multiple NIST laboratories, visited the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI)...
NIST’s Systems Analysis Integration (SAI) project was invited to present its research to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Systems Engineering Solutions...
NIST published Physical Component Libraries for SysPhS Modeling and Simulation in Manufacturing , a NIST interagency report (NIST IR 8490) by Charlie Manion...
When testing a new medicine, researchers must do more than assess how well that drug works. They also have to determine whether the medicine has some negative...
The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) have recently approved the formation of a new...
There are dedicated, enthusiastic people in this world who have made a cause (and hobby) out of saying, “I heard that.” NIST is keenly aware. We’re talking...
Stable isotope analysis is an important interdisciplinary tool used by numerous fields such as nuclear and homeland security, forensics, medicine and...
The Global Community Technology Challenge (GCTC) is a U.S. smart cities and communities program led by the Smart Connected Systems Division of the National...
When it comes to crime scene investigation, a lot needs to happen behind the scenes so that judges and juries can trust the validity of evidence presented at...
The funding supports curricula development to integrate content on documentary standards and standardization processes into courses, modules, seminars and...
In the recently published Research Handbook on AI and Communications , NIST researcher Dr. Edward Griffor, with academic collaborators, describes the importance...
In October 2023, NIST researchers released a preview version of easyEXPRESS, a tool to help EXPRESS-based standard developers. This release also marks an...
CTL’s Smart Connected Manufacturing Systems Group and the Longterm Archiving and Retrieval (LOTAR) Consortium have supported multi-year efforts to harmonize...
On November 28, 2023, the NIST Global Community Technology Challenge ( GCTC) presented three smart city projects on a panel at the Smart Cities Connect...