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Imagine hiking in a forest with a friend. As the sun begins to set, the path to the trailhead becomes difficult to see, and the landscape’s topography has...
NIST is launching its fifth prize competition to continue advancing UAS technology for first responder search and rescue operations, with a total prize purse of...
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed chip-scale devices for simultaneously manipulating the color, focus...
GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced the winners of the final phase of the...
In January 2023, eight NIST PSCR staff members received a Gold Medal Award at the 74th annual Department of Commerce (DOC) Honor Awards Program. This is the...
In two new studies, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have greatly improved the efficiency and power output of a series...
This blog is a repost from the First Responder Network Authority, originally published on March 2, 2023. One of the biggest training challenges for first...
In February 2023, NIST’s Allison Barnard Feeney addressed several standards for capturing product manufacturing information in a presentation to the Secure Data...
Measurement science and standards are needed to support the safe and predictable operation of future automated vehicles (AVs). These vehicles have great...
NIST and University of Maryland researchers developed approaches for determining suitable investments for improving the robustness of complex systems, which are...
NIST researchers developed an artificial intelligence protocol that can configure a test chamber to replicate the spatial characteristics of measured mmWave...
NIST researchers Eugene Song and Kang Lee participated in the IEEE P2681 working group, which led to the development of a technical report, PES-TR102, MV Smart...
In January 2023, the American Council for Technology-Industry Advisory Council conducted its Blockchain Use Case Summit. NIST researcher Michael Pease presented...
International collaborators, including NIST, seeking to connect several 5G testbeds across the world, held a technical workshop at the University of Arizona in...
NIST conducted the Named Data Networking (NDN) Community Meeting 2023 in Gaithersburg, MD at its National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence and online, on 2-3...
Imagine a limited visibility scenario: smoke fills the air, making it difficult to see more than a few feet in front of you. The roar of the flames is deafening...
"The next pandemic is not a matter of if, but when," states the recently released, NIST Internal Report NIST IR 8437 On the Feasibility of COVID-19 Proximity...
When industry makes a product, all involved use information which digitally flows across the process to enable fast and accurate production. Information needs...
NIST’s Global Community Technology Challenge (GCTC) leader, Michael Dunaway, gave the keynote presentation at MITRE's Smart City Summit, in January 2023...
Previously, NIST researchers developed a model for predicting the minimum investment needed to achieve the optimum cybersecurity for large networks. Basically...
Many see millimeter-wave (mmWave) bands as having potential to provide machine-to-machine communications advancing industrial wireless systems. Compared to...
Researchers from Emerson Automation, Spearix Technologies, and NIST's Industrial Wireless Systems team recently assessed wireless factors – or "aggressors" –...
The O-RAN Alliance develops hardware and software specifications that allow manufacturers and network operators to mix and match products from different vendors...
Quantum physicist Krister Shalm has a few spots in his laboratory for motivated undergrads. Do you know any STEM-centric college students who might be...