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NIST Request Comments on Its Big Data Framework Development

April 6, 2015

As part of a major collaborative effort to develop a standard framework to make it easier for scientists to use "Big Data" sets in their work, the National...

NIST Calls for Final Comments on Guide to Protecting Sensitive Information on Nonfederal Systems

April 3, 2015

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is requesting comments on the second and final draft of a guidance document for federal agencies on...

Baldrige Program Tops in Leadership Development for Two Straight Years

April 2, 2015

For the second year in a row, the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program (BPEP) has received the first place award in the government and military category of...

NIST Invites Comments on Challenges in Protecting Consumer Data

April 2, 2015

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) invites the public to comment on a report from the Feb. 12, 2015, Executive Technical Workshop on...

NIST Advisory Committee 2014 Report Released

April 1, 2015

The primary external advisory committee for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released its annual report to Congress today, expressing...

Mind the Gap: Nanoscale Speed Bump Could Regulate Plasmons for High-Speed Data Flow

April 1, 2015

The name sounds like something Marvin the Martian might have built, but the "nanomechanical plasmonic phase modulator" is not a doomsday device. Developed by a...

Federal Funding Opportunity Solicits Projects That Support Online Privacy

March 31, 2015

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is soliciting applications for funding pilot privacy-enhancing technologies that embrace and advance...

David Wilson of Morgan State University Joins NIST Advisory Committee

March 30, 2015

David Wilson has joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology (VCAT), the agency's primary private...

Precocious GEM: Shape-Shifting Sensor Can Report Conditions from Deep in the Body

March 27, 2015

Scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have devised and demonstrated a new...

New Publications Scope Future Research, Detail Design and Operation of NIST's Net-Zero Energy House

March 27, 2015

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently interviewed engineers, architects, builders and other experts for ideas on research to pursue...

Spotlight on Commerce: Donna F. Dodson, Associate Director and Chief Cyber Security Advisor and Director, National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, ITL, NIST

March 27, 2015

Each workday, I get up at 4 a.m. to make the drive from Gettysburg, Pa., to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Md., or...

telecommunications tower, view from below

NIST, NTIA, DOD Agree to Facilitate Testing and Evaluation of Wireless Spectrum-Sharing Methods

March 25, 2015

The Department of Commerce (DOC) and Department of Defense (DOD) have signed a memorandum of agreement that establishes a new collaborative framework to...

Getting a Critical Edge on Plutonium Identification

March 23, 2015

A collaboration between NIST scientists and colleagues at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has resulted in a new kind of sensor that can be used to...

NIST International Symposium Seeks Improved Quality in Forensics

March 20, 2015

For decades, research programs at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made significant contributions to forensic science...

Lack of Effective Timing Signals Could Hamper 'Internet of Things' Development

March 19, 2015

Our fast-approaching future of driverless cars and "smart" electrical grids will depend on billions of linked devices making decisions and communicating with...

Making U.S. Manufacturing Stronger

March 19, 2015

In a guest post on The Commerce Blog, NIST's Associate Director for Innovation and Industry Services Phillip Singerman discusses a new Federal Funding...

NIST's MRI Measurement Tools to Help Diagnose Veterans' Traumatic Brain Injuries

March 17, 2015

More than 300,000 U.S. veterans have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury (TBI) in recent years, a legacy of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. But these...

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 Names Two to Earthquake Advisory Board

March 16, 2015

A public health expert and a sociologist have been appointed by Willie May, acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and acting director...

A NIST project manager and guest researcher discuss innovative optical methods for characterizing biological materials.

Lab to Market: When One Plus One Equals Three

March 13, 2015

Guest blog post by Paul R. Zielinski, MS, MBA, Director, Technology Partnerships Office, National Institute of Standards and Technology & Chair, Federal...

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...

Mapping Microscopic Surfaces Could Help Solve Crimes

March 10, 2015

Topographic maps that display surface features like mountains, valleys and coast lines, have long helped people navigate great distances. Forensic science...

NIST Gets New Angle on X-Ray Measurements

March 9, 2015

Criminal justice, cosmology and computer manufacturing may not look to have much in common, but these and many other disparate fields all depend on sensitive...

Novel Neutron Detector Makes Scintillating Debut

March 9, 2015

A team of researchers has successfully demonstrated a new design concept for a neutron detector that does not rely – as nearly all current models do – on a...

Double Vision: New NIST Technique Can See Nanoscale 'Tree' and Microscale 'Forest' Simultaneously

March 3, 2015

A close-up view of an individual tree won't tell you much about what's going on in the forest, or even what's going on in the tree's upper branches. The same...

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