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Projects/Programs

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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

Prototyping Platforms for Emerging Technologies

Ongoing
Emerging technologies aim to overcome traditional memory limitations with higher density, lower power consumption, faster read/write speeds, better endurance, and lower cost [2]. Many new candidate memory elements are analog or stochastic, requiring new testing infrastructure, and the context of

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

Real-time Image Intensity Transformation for Surgical Displays

Ongoing
The goal of the project is to develop multiple approaches to fusing dim fluorescent and vivid bright-field images such that surgery-relevant anatomical features are easily perceived. Our approach is based on transforming image intensities in fluorescent surgical microscopy images and blending them

Reliable, High Performance Industrial Wireless Systems: Wi-Fi and TSN

Ongoing
Through collaboration with industry and academia, we will continue to develop model architectures for high-priority industrial use cases that include mobile robotic and collaborative platforms. We will continue to select use cases based on industry input and our independent research. In this project

Reliable, High Performance Wireless Systems for Factory Automation

Completed
With the emergence of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Smart Manufacturing Systems provide a vision of future manufacturing that incorporate highly dynamic physical systems, robust and responsive communications systems, and computing paradigms to maximize efficiency, enable mobility

Reproducibility of Imaging Analyses Applied to Nucleus Image Quantification

Ongoing
The goal of our effort is to improve reproducibility of image-based measurements and quantify the measurement uncertainty while leveraging all cutting-edge AI/ML approaches to image-based drug discoveries. In our work, we selected measurements derived from fluorescently-labeled nucleus images over

Research Data Framework (RDaF)

Ongoing
What is the Research Data Framework? A map of the research data space: who, what, where, why, when? A dynamic guide for the various stakeholders in research data to understand best practices for research data management and dissemination A resource for understanding costs, benefits, and risks

Robust Inter-Domain Routing

Ongoing
Today’s global Internet is comprised of roughly 1,000,000 distinct destination routes interconnected by 60,000 enterprise and Internet Service Provider (ISP) networks. The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the “glue” that enables the modern Internet, by exchanging reachability information about each

Safety-Related Usability Framework

Ongoing
NIST, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) are collaborating on a multi-year research program aimed at building a principled framework for measuring the usability of health IT systems. The ultimate

SCOUT

Ongoing
SCOUT (Scalable Object Understanding Technology) is a software system that finds all objects of interest in an entire microscope slide and provides various quality assurance metrics. It is designed to detect objects of size ~100 2 pixels in very large (~ 100K x 50K pixels) 10x magnification

Security Content Automation Protocol

Ongoing
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Security - Health Information Technology

Ongoing
Specifically in the area of health IT, NIST researchers are: Leveraging security automation principles and specifications to develop baseline security configuration checklists and toolkits to aid organizations in implementing the HIPAA Security Rule standards and implementation specifications

Security for Internet Systems and IETF

Ongoing
Our work will significantly improve the state of security metrology, improving the quantification of operational and technical security and increasing the ability to perform science for information security based on sound, consistent measures. This will initially impact all Federal agencies, and

SED Consulting Program

Ongoing
Description: Specific SED contributions include: Leadership in the establishment of a high standard of statistical practice within NIST via interactions with technical staff, publications, workshops, and seminars. Design and analysis of experiments, and evaluation of measurement uncertainties for

Short Courses

Ongoing
Staff members of the Statistical Engineering Division regularly offer short courses on uncertainty analysis, design of experiments, and other topics in statistical metrology at NIST, at conferences open to the public, and at other government agencies. Prospective attendees of short courses at NIST