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A new online tool, the Operational Design Domain Element Quantification Prototype, was developed and made available for use by Virginia Tech Transportation...
JILA physicists have measured Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity, or more specifically, the effect called time dilation, at the smallest scale ever...
On January 12, 2022, NIST presented the Department of Commerce Bronze Medal to Keith Stouffer, Timothy Zimmerman, CheeYee Tang, Michael Pease, and Jeffrey...
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This mite of a sensor just showed its forensic might. Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory used the NIST sensors shown here to demonstrate a highly...
The NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-140x series supports Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) Publication 140-3, Security Requirements for...
NIST has published NISTIR 8286B, Prioritizing Cybersecurity Risk for Enterprise Risk Management. This report builds on the risk strategy and risk identification...
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have significantly improved the ability of a type of optical...
NIST’s focal mission is to promote U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology in ways that...
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The President’s Executive Order (EO) on “ Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity (14028)” issued on May 12, 2021, charges multiple agencies – including NIST– with...
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have revived and improved a once-reliable technique to identify and count defects in...
The NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) is pleased to announce the release of NIST SP 1800-32, Securing Distributed Energy Resources: An...
The Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration, with the support of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), recently released the report...
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At its 2021 meeting, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences held a panel on Testing and Evaluating Industrial AI and Risk Management...
At its 2021 Conference, the Prognostics and Health Management Society held a panel on Qualifying Data and Data Use Assuring Data Capability for Intelligent...
Industry is increasingly using artificial intelligence to aid analysis and decision-making. It is also recognizing the need to evaluate these tools with respect...
The NICE Community Coordinating Council is pleased to announce the formation of five new Project Teams that will execute upon items contained in the...
NIST has released Draft NISTIR 8286C, Staging Cybersecurity Risks for Enterprise Risk Management and Governance Oversight, for public comment. This report...
Three NIST reference materials of ginseng in different forms support ginseng supplement manufacturers’ analysis of the authenticity and purity of their products...
NIST has released Special Publication (SP) 800-53A Revision 5, Assessing Security and Privacy Controls in Information Systems and Organizations. Updated to...