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Ultimate Navigation Chip

University of California - Irvine This project develops a Chip-Scale Personal Navigation System to localize emergency responders, assets...

First Responder Location and Mapping Services

TRX Systems Public safety personnel often work indoors, underground, and in other areas where GPS is denied or inaccurate. To obtain clear...

Hyper-Reality Helmet for Mapping and Visualizing Public Safety Data

Carnegie Mellon University The team designed a hyper-reality helmet to provide on-demand information on a heads-up display for first...

JILA’s 3-D Quantum Gas Atomic Clock Offers New Dimensions in Measurement

October 5, 2017

JILA physicists have created an entirely new design for an atomic clock, in which strontium atoms are packed into a tiny three-dimensional (3-D) cube at 1,000

PSIAP 2017 - Resilient Systems

Public Safety services and mission critical systems must be available and function properly in situations of poor network connectivity due...

PSIAP 2017 - Public Safety Analytics

Over the next decade, as public safety’s use of mobile broadband technologies increases, first responders will gain unprecedented access to...

PSIAP 2017 - Location-Based Services

Emergency responders have a compelling need to understand the physical environment in which they are working: Where are public safety...

PSIAP 2017 - Public Safety Mission Critical Voice

Ever increasing operational demands on first responders, along with new technological opportunities and capabilities, are driving PSOs to...

PSIAP User Interface

The NIST Public Safety Innovation Accelerator Program – User Interface (PSIAP-UI FY18) NOFO awardees will accelerate research, development...

ACMD Seminar: Embedded functions in combinatorial testing: Progress in automating test design

George Sherwood Founder and CEO of Testcover.com Wednesday, October 11, 2017, 15:00 - 16:00 Building 101, Lecture Room D Gaithersburg...

ACMD Seminar: Uncertainty Quantification and Inversion of Large Models

Prof. Tony O'Hagan Emeritus Professor of Statistics, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Sheffield Tuesday, October...

Real-Time Video Analytics for Situation Awareness

Frequently, when a critical public safety event occurs, various aspects of the event are captured in video from multiple perspectives and...

Situational Awareness for Emergencies through Network-Enabled Technologies (SafeT-Net)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Safe-T-Net will develop new localization algorithms for low-cost devices that can obtain localization...

An Infrastructure-Free Localization System for Firefighters

Carnegie Mellon University The team is developing a rapidly deployable infrastructure-free localization system to track first-responders...

IBM and NIST Launch Cooperative Effort to Develop Applications for Advanced Physics Research

March 15, 1995

SOMERS, N.Y.—IBM and the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Physics Laboratory today announced a three-year cooperative research and development

NIST’s Quick Test May Speed Antibiotic Treatment and Combat Drug Resistance

September 22, 2017

BOULDER, Colo.—Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a potential new tactic for rapidly determining whether

Resilient Systems

First responders often operate under dangerous and life-threatening circumstances. The Resilient Systems portfolio ensures their technology...

Security

Security, including cybersecurity, is an area which will affect every aspect of public safety communications. PSCR aims to develop and...

Analytics

The Analytics portfolio supports research around algorithms, datasets, and open-source tools that can be leveraged by public safety...

Location-Based Services

The Location-Based Services (LBS) portfolio focuses on the fields of indoor mapping, tracking, and navigation for the public safety...

Mission Critical Voice

The Mission Critical Voice (MCV) portfolio concentrates on four areas of communications for first responders: direct mode, mission critical...

User Interface/User Experience

The User Interface/User Experience (UI/UX) portfolio strives for first responders to have tools designed around their specific context...

2017 Future of Public Safety Technology 100k Video Series

This challenge aimed to inspire Americans everywhere in the development of public safety communications technology of tomorrow with a video...

New Year to Arrive Late Again This Year: Leap Second to be Added on Dec. 31

December 13, 1995

As it has many times before, the new year will get off to a late start when it is delayed for exactly one second to allow the world's atomic clocks to be

NIST Boulder Microfab Lab Goes 'Nano'

September 12, 2017

The world-class clean room in the NIST Boulder Microfabrication Facility (BMF) has just gotten a bit more crowded – in a good way. Staff members have recently

1997 APS Fellow - Eric Cornell

For pioneering research that led to the first observation of Bose-Einstein condensation in an atomic gas, an observation that has opened a

1998 APS Fellow - Richard Kautz

For experimental and theoretical investigations of Josephson junctions, particularly the nonlinear dynamics of phase locking and chaos

2004 APS Fellow - Robert Schwall

For contributions to superconducting materials and applied superconductivity.

2006 APS Fellow - Dietrich Leibfried

For seminal contributions to the field of Quantum Information Processing using trapped ions including the demonstration of high fidelity

2008 APS Fellow - Scott Diddams

For major contributions to the development of optical frequency comb technology, and particularly for pioneering demonstrations of frequency