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PSCR Leadership

Dereck Orr Dereck Orr is the Division Chief for the Public Safety Communications Research Division at NIST’s Communication Technology...

NIST Atomic Clocks Now Keep Time Well Enough to Improve Models of Earth

November 28, 2018

Experimental atomic clocks at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have achieved three new performance records, now ticking precisely

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NIST Simulations Suggest Graphene Can Stretch to Be a Tunable Ion Filter

November 26, 2018

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have conducted simulations suggesting that graphene, in addition to its many other

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Historic Vote Ties Kilogram and Other Units to Natural Constants

November 16, 2018

Versailles, France—A convocation of delegates representing 60 countries voted today in Versailles to implement the most significant change to the International

New Wireless Networks Division Publication!

November 16, 2018

New documentprovides both an overview and technical details of test scenarios for checking the protocol implementation of the 3rd Generation Partnership Project

MML Launches National Search for Division Chief

October 25, 2018

The Material Measurement Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) anticipates the need for a Division Chief of its Applied

2019 Norman F. Ramsey Prize - Jun Ye

Ye’s award, which recognizes his work in both precision measurement and quantum control, highlights the increasingly important connections

OFPM Architectural Design Review Board

In the Summer of 2018, the OFPM Architectural Design Review Board (ADRB) was created to provide a process for project review and in direct...

MML Staff Leads ASTM Standard Revision

October 16, 2018

MML Project Leader Enrico Lucon, from the Applied Chemicals and Materials Division, led an ASTM Task Group in the development of an Annex to ASTM E1820

Westeam

The Unlinkable Data Challenge Honorable Mention - $5,000 Real solutions from the statistical community for differentially private and high...

DPSyn

The Unlinkable Data Challenge Runner-Up - $10,000 Prize Generate a synthetic dataset that approximates many randomly-chosen...

2019 Public Safety Broadband Stakeholder Meeting

2019 Public Safety Broadband Stakeholder Meeting July 9-11, 2019 - Chicago, IL The 2019 Public Safety Broadband Stakeholder Meeting was held...

ACMD Seminar: Optimal Quantum Sensing

Alexey Gorshkov Quantum Measurement Division, PML, NIST and Fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute and of the Joint Center for Quantum...

ACMD Seminar: IoT-LPWAN testing project for security and trust in networks of sensors

Sebastian Barillaro National Institute for Industrial Technology, INTI ACMD and CSD, ITl, NIST Tuesday, October 23, 15:00 - 16:00...

ACMD Seminar: The importance of mitochondrial fission and fusion in a beating heart cell

Adarsh Kumbhari University of Sydney, Australia Thursday, October 18, 15:00 - 16:00 Building 101 Lecture Room B Gaithersburg...

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New NIST Method Measures 3D Polymer Processing Precisely

October 9, 2018

Recipes for three-dimensional (3D) printing, or additive manufacturing, of parts have required as much guesswork as science. Until now. Resins and other

Joint Department of Commerce Technology Transfer Seminar

Wed, Oct 17 2018, 1:30 - 2:30pm EDT

Map 901: Building Rich Interior Hazard Maps for First Responders

City of Memphis Indoor mapping is the next big frontier for the geospatial field. Lack of adequate indoor maps is a well-documented public...

Creating a Catalog of Point Clouds for Public Buildings in Enfield, Connecticut

Enfield Fire Department This project involves collecting and cataloguing indoor point cloud and image data for a number of buildings in...

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PSCR Awards Over $750K for PSIAP Point Cloud City

October 1, 2018

PSCR awarded three applicants to the Public Safety Innovation Accelerator Program Point Cloud City funding opportunity totaling over $750,000. The City of

NIST Launches Consortium to Support Development of Quantum Industry

September 28, 2018

GAITHERSBURG, Md.—The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has signed a cooperative research and development

Uncrunching the Frequency Spectrum

September 26, 2018

The squeeze is here, and the crunch is coming. Soon. Explosive demand for high-speed wireless communication is placing growing pressure on the limited frequency

Creating Pseudocapacitive Materials for High Rate Energy Storage - Bruce Dunn

Tue, Oct 9 2018, 4:00 - 5:00pm EDT

NREL/MINES/NIST Materials Science Distinguished Lecture Series Bruce Dunn - Department of Materials Science and

2018 Differential Privacy Synthetic Data Challenge

Challenge Details The Differential Privacy Synthetic Data Challenge tasked participants with creating new methods, or improving existing...

Introducing the ‘Smart Mirror’

September 17, 2018

Lasers play roles in many manufacturing processes, from welding car parts to crafting engine components with 3D printers.* To control these tasks, manufacturers

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NIST’s Antenna Evaluation Method Could Help Boost 5G Network Capacity and Cut Costs

December 10, 2018

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a method for evaluating and selecting optimal antenna designs for future

NIST’s Electro-Optic Laser Pulses 100 Times Faster Than Usual Ultrafast Light

September 27, 2018

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have used common electronics to build a laser that pulses 100 times more often than

Standards and Intellectual Property Rights - What NIST Staff Need to Know

Wed, Sep 5 2018, 1:00 - 11:59pm EDT

Workshop Announcement Thursday, September 20, 2018 Gaithersburg, Portrait Room - 1:00-4:00 pm EDT Boulder (Video

MML Staff Teaches Foundations of Cryocoolers

June 18, 2018 - August 28, 2018

Ray Radebaugh, Fellow Emeritus in MML’s Applied Chemicals and Materials Division, recently presented two short courses on the fundamentals and latest advances

ACMD Seminar: Virtual Reality Toolsmithing for Science

David Laidlaw Professor, Computer Science, Brown University Friday, September 7, 15:00 - 16:00 Building 101 Lecture Room D Gaithersburg...