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Associate Director for Laboratory Programs

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Unusual Suspects

March 16, 2018

NIST contributes to public safety with materials that increase the confidence of first responders to detect biothreats in the field. NIST’s Material Measurement

Comparison of Future Realizations of the Kilogram - Final Report

March 15, 2018

The Pilot Study — read 2016 article details — was completed in late 2016 and the Final Report was published on the BIPM website (PDF) in June of 2017. The main

Model Behavior

March 15, 2018

NIST is helping additive manufacturing, often referred to as 3D printing, mature from a potentially disruptive technology into a widespread industrial

Federal Information Systems Security Association Educator of the Year

March 14, 2018

Congratulations to Mr. Michael Petock, U.S. Department of State, for being awarded the Federal Information Systems Security Educator’s Association (FISSEA)

First Light at NIST’s Spectroscopy Soft and Tender NSLS-II Beamlines

March 14, 2018

February 17, 2018 marked the culmination of ten years of planning and construction for NIST’s NSLS-II Spectroscopy Beamline Suite, with first light at the Soft

OSAC Releases an Online Lexicon for the Forensic Sciences

March 13, 2018

The forensic sciences encompass dozens of disciplines, each with its own history and vocabulary. As a result, a word might mean one thing to forensic

Movable Silicon ‘Lenses’ Enable Neutrons to See New Range of Details Inside Objects

March 12, 2018

You can’t see well without lenses that can focus, whether those lenses are in your eye or the microscope you peer through. An innovative new way to focus beams

Inaugural Women in Federal IT and Cybersecurity Event

March 8, 2018

In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Federal CIO Council Workforce Committee is pleased to host its first-ever Women in Federal IT and Cybersecurity

A graph with vertical lines showing the mass spectrum of fentanyl

Free Software Can Help Spot New Forms of Fentanyl and Other Illegal Drugs

March 7, 2018

Fentanyl, the synthetic drug that is driving a nationwide overdose epidemic, is not only a killer. It’s also a shape shifter. Illicit chemists are constantly

Updates to the Cyber Defense Knowledge Unit Mapping Guide

March 6, 2018

The National CyberWatch Center has recently updated their Guide for Mapping Courses to Knowledge Units. The guide, now in version 2, provides detailed

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JILA Team Invents New Way to ‘See’ the Quantum World

March 5, 2018

JILA scientists have invented a new imaging technique that produces rapid, precise measurements of quantum behavior in an atomic clock in the form of near

2018 Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute Technical Meeting (ESSCI 2018)

March 4, 2018

The NIST Flammability Reduction group traveled to State College (Pennsylvania State University) for the 2018 Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute

NEW Mission Critical Voice Publication!

March 1, 2018

Author(s) Jesse M. Frey, Jaden K. Pieper, Silas T. Thompson Abstract Mouth-to-Ear (M2E) latency describes the time it takes speech input in a voice

Making Smokestack Emissions Tests Better, Faster, Cheaper

February 27, 2018

Smokestacks at coal-fired power plants have sensors that continuously monitor their emissions by measuring the flow of gases such as carbon dioxide, mercury

NIST Sharpens the 'Charpy' Test to Make a More Precise Impact on Industrial Materials

February 26, 2018

A decade before an iceberg shattered the hull plates of the Titanic and half a century before a plague of brittle fractures started sinking Liberty ships during

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R&D Summit Report Published!

February 26, 2018

It is with great pleasure that the Highly Mobile Deployed Networks (HMDN) team is announcing the publication of the October Working Group R&D summit report

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) recently released the HL7 Version 2.6 Implementation Guide: Vital Records Birth and Fetal Death Reporting, Release 1 STU Release 2 - US Realm

February 23, 2018

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) recently released the HL7 Version 2.6 Implementation Guide

NIST Releases Evaluation of Cloud Computing Services Based on NIST SP 800-145 (NIST SP 500-322)

February 23, 2018

NIST releases Evaluation of Cloud Computing Services Based on NIST SP 800-145 (NIST SP 500-322), a report that provides clarification for (1) qualifying a given

New Guidelines for Cybersecurity Curricula

February 22, 2018

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS)have announced the publication of Curriculum Guidelines for Post

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CHO and Tell

February 22, 2018

Although few people realize it, modern medicine relies heavily on the ovarian cells of Chinese hamsters, not as a direct cure, but rather as a way to engineer

Asia Robertson of NIST’s Fabrication Technology Office makes final adjustments on an encasement.

NIST Expertise Helps Protect Historical Documents at the National Museum of African American History and Culture

February 21, 2018

This month, two seminal documents in American history—the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment to the Constitution— went on display at the

NIST Releases, for Public Comment, The Final Draft of Assessing Security Requirements for Controlled Unclassified Information (NIST SP 800-171A)

February 20, 2018

NIST released, for public comment, the final draft of Assessing Security Requirements for Controlled Unclassified Information (NIST SP 800-171A), a publication

New Standard Aims to Ensure Accurate Fares in Both Ride-Hailing Technology and Traditional Taxi Services

February 15, 2018

To calculate a fare, ride-hailing apps rely on mobile devices for determining the vehicle’s movements and travel time, and to access the company’s proprietary

NIST Releases National Checklist Program for IT Products – Guidelines for Checklist Users and Developers (NIST SP 800-70 Revision 4)

February 15, 2018

NIST releases National Checklist Program for IT Products – Guidelines for Checklist Users and Developers (NIST SP 800-70 Revision 4), a report that explains how

Draft NIST Interagency Report (NISTIR) 8200, Interagency Report on Status of International Cybersecurity Standardization for the Internet of Things (IoT) Released for Comment

February 14, 2018

The Interagency International Cybersecurity Standardization Working Group (IICS WG), which was established in December 2015 by the National Security Council's

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Nanotechnology
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