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In March, 2014, NIST completed its investigation of the 2011 Joplin tornado and issued a final report ( Final Report, NIST Technical Investigation of the May 22
The methodologies contained within ASCE/SEI 41 are currently the standard-of-practice for performance-based seismic design in the U.S. This project intends to
Despite their promise to enable high-throughput science and discovery, microfluidic devices have not yet been broadly adopted. An important missing element in
Using high-performance inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (HP‑ICP-OES), relative expanded uncertainties on the order of 0.2 % can be
The Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) is defined as the location where structures and communities meet or intermingle with undeveloped wildland. In the U.S., over
The fundamental measures (IMS) project is producing vast amounts of data. This project will visualize the three classes of computer models of networks - micro
This program is directed towards characterizing the refractive index and its wavelength dependence at diffraction-limited uncertainty, of optical materials of
The Indianapolis urban testbed began in 2010 as the Indianapolis Flux Experiment, or INFLUX. INFLUX was designed to verify top-down methods for estimating
Industrial Artificial Intelligence (IAI), or Artificial Intelligence applied to industry applications, is defined by its requirement to fulfill an explicit need
This project pursues enhanced x-ray image acquisition and analysis methods that are applicable to, for example, security and medical applications of x-ray
The Industrial Wireless Testbed for Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) is a collaborative research effort with Intel Laboratories, dedicated to exploring the
Information access is the dominant use case in today's Internet with more than 90% of Internet traffic being content distribution, mainly due to video streaming
In January 1988, the Congress enacted the Computer Security Act of 1987 ( Public Law 100-235). A provision of that law called for the establishment of the
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) requires all test facilities to have their blackbodies calibrated at the NIST Low Background Infrared (LBIR) facility. The
Accurate measurements of the optical properties of materials in the infrared spectral range play an increasingly important role in the aerospace and defense
Manufacturing systems need to transform towards a new service-oriented architecture to benefit from new smart manufacturing technologies such as IIoT, AI, and
The IIEDM project seeks to aid the growth of the electronics and semiconductor industries by technical support in two key efforts. First, the project provides
We develop first-principles-based methods for prediction of atomic arrangements and properties in advanced materials and develop tools for the prediction and
The ability to deposit small amounts of material in a highly controllable and precise fashion is important for creating test materials for trace detection
Compile and evaluate phase equilibrium data for NIST Standard Reference Database 31 (Phase Equilibria Diagrams); disseminate the data in a readily accessible
The overarching goal of this project is to develop and disseminate measurement tools to improve the accuracy and reliability of chemical measurements related to
With the rise of artificial intelligence and its insatiable demand for low-energy, high performance computing, research is accelerating into novel nanodevices
New materials are essential for future energy independence, environmental sustainability, and next-generation manufacturing. The Materials Genome Initiative
NIST invites participants to an Interlaboratory Testing Program to evaluate the suitability and utility of the genomic DNA test materials to serve as reference