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NIST Releases Federal Laboratory Technology Transfer Report for Fiscal Year 2012

March 17, 2015

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released the Federal Laboratory Technology Transfer, Fiscal Year 2012, Summary Report to the...

NIST 2015 SBIR Grants to Fund Research in Manufacturing, Clean Energy, Cybersecurity and Bioscience

March 11, 2015

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is offering to fund research projects that address...

NIST Awards $26 Million to Support Manufacturing in 10 States

February 24, 2015

GAITHERSBURG, Md.—The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced the award of new cooperative agreements...

NIST Announces Pilot Grants Competition to Improve Security and Privacy of Online Identity Verification Systems

February 12, 2015

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is launching a competition for a fourth round of grants to pilot online identity verification systems...

Vendors Sought to Develop Model System to Monitor Security of Energy Industry Networked Control Systems

February 10, 2015

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) is seeking collaborators on an effort to help energy companies improve the security of the networked...

NIST Advisory Committee Welcomes New Member

February 5, 2015

Michael Garvey, president and CEO of M-7 Technologies, an engineering, manufacturing and research organization, has joined the primary advisory committee for...

President's FY 2016 Budget Request for NIST Seeks a Safer, More Secure and Smart Tech Future

February 3, 2015

The U.S. Department of Commerce today released details of the President's budget request for fiscal year 2016 for the National Institute of Standards and...

NIST Announces New Center to Support Florida Manufacturers

January 30, 2015

The Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP), a program of the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...

NIST Forensic Science Standards Committees to Hold First Public Meetings in February 2015

January 27, 2015

The Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC), which coordinates the development of standards and guidelines for the forensic science community under...

NIST Requests Round Two Comments on its Cryptographic Standards Process

January 23, 2015

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking comments on a revised draft document that details the principles and processes it will...

Symposium to Focus on Future of Voting Systems

January 21, 2015

The Election Assistance Commission (EAC) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are sponsoring a two-day symposium to explore emerging...

President Obama Announces New Manufacturing Innovation Hub in Knoxville, Tennessee

January 9, 2015

A Knoxville-area based consortium of 122 companies, nonprofits, universities and research laboratories is partnering with the Department of Energy to create a...

Cybersecurity Center Invites Feedback on Securing Medical Devices

December 22, 2014

Hospitals are increasingly using networked technology to improve the accuracy and efficiency of medical care by connecting medical devices to a central system...

NIST Announces Initial Members of Forensic Science Digital Evidence Subcommittee

December 22, 2014

Digital evidence plays a growing role in a wide variety of crimes as cell phones, computers, GPS and other digital devices carry increasing amounts of...

Defining Operational Excellence One Person at a Time

December 12, 2014

When you're striving for excellence, it helps to have an example. It's much easier to work hard on something when you've seen others succeed despite obstacles...

Secretary of Commerce Pritzker at the 2014 NIST awards ceremony

National Institute of Standards and Technology Presents 2014 Awards to Outstanding Employees

December 10, 2014

GAITHERSBURG, Md.—Today, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recognized current and former employees for their efforts to push the...

NIST Awards $2.5 Million in Grants to MEP Centers for Pilot Business-to-Business Networks

December 2, 2014

The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded $2.5 million in grants to 10 Hollings Manufacturing Extension...

HyTrust Executive Joins NIST Advisory Committee

November 4, 2014

Hemma Prafullchandra, chief technology officer and senior vice president of products at HyTrust, has been named to the National Institute of Standards and...

UMD and NIST Announce the Creation of the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science

October 31, 2014

The University of Maryland (UMD) and the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today the creation of the...

402 Members Named to Forensic Science Standards Organization

October 29, 2014

The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today the final appointments to the Organization for Scientific...

James Olthoff Named Director of NIST's Physical Measurement Laboratory

October 15, 2014

James Olthoff, a 27-year veteran of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has been named director of the agency's Physical Measurement...

NIST Awards Contract to MITRE to Support Cybersecurity Center of Excellence

September 24, 2014

The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded a contract to operate its first Federally Funded Research and...

Three Pilot Projects Receive Grants to Improve Online Security and Privacy

September 17, 2014

The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced nearly $3 million in grants that will support projects...

NIST Announces FY 2014 Small Business Innovation Research Awards

September 15, 2014

The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded more than $2.2 million in Phase I and Phase II Small...

Engineer Rick Ayers makes sure commercial forensics tools for cell phones conform to required specifications by testing them on a number of phone models.

New Forensic Subcommittee on Digital Evidence Added to Organization of Scientific Area Committees

September 8, 2014

Digital evidence, one of the fastest growing areas of forensic science, will now have its own subcommittee in the National Institute of Standards and Technology...

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