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For more than three decades, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has calibrated the wavelengths of lasers used in industry, academia, and
To help shoppers everywhere get the best value for their money, the NIST Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) convened a unit price working group comprised of
103.5 pounds (47 kilograms) – that’s the average amount of textile waste each American produced in 2018. Things like clothing, footwear, sheets, towels, and
Scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are developing a mass balance to measure miniscule amounts of liquid with much higher
At the 50 th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society ( IECON 2024 ), Dr. Richard (Rick) Candell presented a collaborative effort between
NIST Industrial Wireless Systems Research Lead Dr. Richard (Rick) Candell participated in the kick-off meeting for the ASTM F45.04 System Communication and
On October 28, 2024, NIST Leader Dr. David Wollman, Deputy Division Chief of NIST’s Smart Connected Systems Division, participated in an invited panel session
In October 2024, NIST Researcher Rosemary Astheimer presented at the 2024 Women in Manufacturing Summit in Boston, Massachusetts. The Summit, attended by over 2
During its current revision, the Baldrige Excellence Framework®, the core document of the Baldrige Program, is undergoing revolutionary change—being reorganized
NIST researchers released a publication, NIST Internal Report (IR) 8534 " Feature Description for Assessing Autonomous Vehicle Performance ," which introduces a
DYK: The Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) is the oldest office at NIST? NIST OWM’s principal mandate to “ fix the standard of weights and measures” is
On 27-28 August 2024, NIST’s Smart Connected Systems Division hosted a workshop at the George H. W. Bush School of Government and Public Service in Washington D
The Smart Connected Systems Division (SCSD) has published the final version of a long-range strategic plan for the NIST Smart Cities Infrastructure program and
On Thursday Sept 26, 2024, NIST held its first Automated Vehicle (AV) Research Day as an internal celebration of NIST research in automated driving. The morning
The third Series-5 release of SRD31 is now commercially available and provides users with processing information for more than 200 material systems not
The NIST Industrial Wireless Systems team held an industry meeting on September 12, 2024, to facilitate discussions on “Advanced Technologies and Use Cases for
NIST Industrial Wireless Systems team member Mohamed Kashef (Hany) presented on real-time and mission-critical wireless systems in an invited panel session at
On 10 September 2024, NIST leaders Dr. David Wollman, Deputy Chief of NIST’s Smart Connected System Division, and Dr. Thomas Roth, Leader of NIST’s IoT Devices
If you ask NIST physicist Cassie Stoffer what she finds most exciting about science, it’s seeing what she learned in a textbook have real-world applications
Planning for the 2025 MBE & QIF Summit at MxD in Chicago on April 15-17, 2025, is underway. NIST and the Digital Metrology Standards Consortium will organize