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Projects/Programs

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National Software Reference Library

Ongoing
The National Software Reference Library (NSRL) is designed to collect software from various sources and incorporate file profiles computed from this software into a Reference Data Set (RDS) of information. The RDS can be used by law enforcement, government, and industry organizations to review files

Neighborhood Area Communication Network

Completed
The smart grid is comprised of many networks (domains) with various boundaries that have to be interconnected to provide end-to-end services. The challenge is to design network architectures that can meet the interoperability requirements for inter-domain and intra-domain communications, as

Network Modeling for Public Safety Communications

Ongoing
Advances in broadband wireless technologies developed by standard developing organizations (SDOs) such as 3GPP and IEEE 802 offer unprecedented capabilities that have the potential to improve the effectiveness of first responders. Our efforts are aimed at evaluating how well emerging solutions meet

Neuromorphic Device Measurements

Ongoing
One type of device that is emerging as an attractive artificial synapse is the resistive switch, or memristor. These devices, which usually consist of a thin layer of oxide between two electrodes, have conductivity that depends on their history of applied voltage, and thus have highly nonlinear

Next Generation Fingerprint Technologies

Ongoing
Contactless Fingerprint Capture This project is conducting research in support of emerging non-contact fingerprint acquisition devices. Issues being addressed include: data format standards, best practices, development of methods for certification testing, and assessment of interoperability with

NIST Automated Vehicles Program

Ongoing
Measurement science and standards are needed to support the safe and predictable operation of future automated vehicles (AVs), which have great potential to significantly impact our daily lives and improve the competitiveness of our economy. A FY22 NIST Strategic and Emerging Research Initiatives

NIST Cloud Computing Forensic Science

Ongoing
Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider

NIST Cloud Computing Program - NCCP

Ongoing
Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction

NIST Evaluation of Latent Fingerprint Technologies (ELFT)

Ongoing
Evaluation of Latent Friction Ridge Technology As of May 2020, NIST is relaunching its latent fingerprint technology research and broadening it to all types of friction ridges, including palms. The new evaluation picks up and greatly enhances the concept of operations described in ELFT-EFS

NIST/SEMATECH Engineering Statistics Handbook

Ongoing
Description: The project began with a request from SEMATECH, a consortium of major U.S. semiconductor manufacturers, to update the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) Handbook 91, Experimental Statistics. Handbook 91, written by Mary Natrella of the NBS Statistical Engineering Lab, was a best-selling

NRC Postdoctoral Associate Program

Ongoing
Description: The Statistical Engineering Division (SED), within the Information Technology Laboratory, serves primarily as a research and consulting group working with the NIST scientific staff. Members of the Division engage in research in the areas of statistical graphics, reliability, linear

Numerical Reproducibility

Ongoing
The Information Systems group in ITL is developing a program in numerical reproducibility, which has been funded through several projects. Issues with numerical reproducibility are becoming increasingly significant, for several reasons Increased use of parallel computing has caused order of

Ontologies and Interoperability in Evolutionary Comparative Analysis

Completed
Intended impact Nearly all scientists who regularly use online resources on genes, proteins and genomes make use of comparative data to advance biomedical research. For instance, researchers often make useful inferences by comparing human genes (as well as proteins, reactions, interactions, pathways

Ontology for Mapping Platform Configuration in Security Properties

Ongoing
The output of this project will improve the trust in the most vulnerable (weakest) element participating in a trusted cyber transaction. Additionally, the extensible ontology will enable establishment of assurance measures for new types of online transactions as they emerge.

OOF

Ongoing
The OOF project is a software development project designed to make advanced computational modeling capabilities available to materials science researchers who are not themselves computational experts. Researchers bring domain expertise from materials science to assist in building high-quality finite

Operational Technology Security

Ongoing
Operational technology (OT) encompasses a broad range of programmable systems or devices that interact with the physical environment (or manage devices that interact with the physical environment). These systems/devices detect or cause a direct change through the monitoring and/or control of devices

Physics and Hardware for Intelligence

Ongoing
Our work in this area can be separated into two categories: conceptual and experimental. Please read our publications linked below for more information. Experimental: Our latest generation of synaptic circuits are described in a 2024 paper published in APL Machine Learning. These circuits are our

Point and Shoot Face Recognition Challenge (PaSC)

Completed
Inexpensive "point-and-shoot" camera technology combined with social network technology motivates the general population to use face recognition technology. Users expect a lot; they want to snap pictures, shoot videos, upload, and have their friends, family and acquaintances more-or-less

Post-Quantum Cryptography

Ongoing
In recent years, there has been a substantial amount of research on quantum computers – machines that exploit quantum mechanical phenomena to solve mathematical problems that are difficult or intractable for conventional computers. If large-scale quantum computers are ever built, they will be able

Proprietary Fingerprint Template Evaluations (PFT) Overview

Ongoing
The National Institute of Standards and Technology's Proprietary Fingerprint Template (PFT) program is an ongoing biometric technology evaluation program measuring the performance of fingerprint template generation and one-to-one verification software using vendor proprietary fingerprint templates

Proximity Detection for Electronic Contact Tracing

Completed
We are developing performance metrics for not just ranging, but also for detecting close contacts, which in the context of COVID-19 is the situation where two people are less than six feet apart with no obstacles between them. Obviously, the duration of a close contact is important, as it affects

Quality Assessment of Cryogenic Electron Microscopy Images

Ongoing
Manufacturing a vaccine based on packaging mRNA in lipid nanoparticles requires a full characterization of concentrations and distributions of mRNA and LNPs, as well as all manufacturing conditions. Such experiments generate hundreds of terabytes (TBs) of images and pose challenges on trusted

Quantum Optical Networks

Ongoing
The program's technical research areas are: Architecture research for Quantum Optical Networks and integration with classical networks Management (label, identify, track) and Control Plane (signal and route optical paths) Software Stacks Performance monitoring for end-to-end Quality of Entanglement