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NIST Standard Reference Material (SRM) 3655 helps biopharmaceutical manufacturers perform measurements of glycan molecules in their protein drug products...
In June 2022, NIST's Conrad Bock proposed upgrades for the Systems Modeling Language ( SysML 2) to the standards development organization, Object Management...
Four reference materials from NIST will help the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Customs and Border Protection agencies assess whether imported salmon and...
A new NIST Standard Reference Material supports the accurate measurement of the amount of a common but potentially dangerous virus in patients. Most of us have...
The Technology Partnerships Office (TPO) staff attended the Federal Laboratory Consortium’s (FLC) annual meeting at the end of June. Each year, this national...
Advances in the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence are part of a new industrial revolution to make manufacturing faster, better, and cheaper. These...
On May 31, 2022, NIST's Rick Candell gave the keynote address to IEEE's workshop on Performance Assessment of Industrial Wireless Systems. The workshop was...
With the increasing use of distributed energy resources (DER) – solar, wind, and more – to generate power, organizations have developed standards for their...
NIST's Smart Grid Group leader, Avi Gopstein, was featured on Smart Grid Today's podcast, released May 12, 2022. Ideally, said Gopstein, the smart grid's many...
SEPA's Interoperability Profiles Task Force, led by NIST’s Cuong Nguyen, published its Interoperability Profile for Electric Vehicle Fleet Managed Charging...
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have designed and built an optical device that could set a new standard for measuring...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) plans to launch the new iEdison system on Tuesday, August 9, 2022. For two and half years, NIST has...
Each year, NIST researchers discover new inventions. An invention includes any novel, non-obvious, or useful process, machine, composition of matter, or...
Researchers from NIST have developed hazelnut and almond flour reference materials that will help ensure accurate and consistent results for industry test kits.
NIST is made up of several major research programs, each of which focuses on specific technical areas, pursuing the latest in research and developing new...
In the early 2000’s, Abhishek Motayed found his way to the NIST campus as a contractor, working in what became the Material Measurement Laboratory (MML). Within...
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has revolutionized medical diagnostics and research by providing a non-invasive way to investigate internal tissue structures...
Each year, federal agencies across the U.S. government budget a portion of funds for intramural and extramural research and development (R&D). The intramural...
NIST has released its public draft of NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-82r3, Guide to Operational Technology (OT) Security. This is the third revision of NIST...