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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in partnership with the Department of Defense (DOD), the Intelligence Community (IC), and the
GAITHERSBURG, Md. – The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced that it is establishing a financial
WASHINGTON —The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and National Institute of Standards and
BOULDER, Colo.—Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated entanglement—a phenomenon peculiar to the atomic-scale
For the materials research community, all roads will lead to the Gaithersburg, Md., headquarters of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Electronic memory chips may soon gain the ability to bend and twist as a result of work by engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST
By combining the best of two different distance measurement approaches with a super-accurate technology called an optical frequency comb, researchers at the
Information exchange processes developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will be at the center of the effort to design and build
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has delivered to the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) a draft revision to the 2005 federal
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced that it will award up to $35 million in grants and cooperative agreements for
GAITHERSBURG, Md. – The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today delivered to the Election Assistance Commission (EAC)
GAITHERSBURG, Md. – The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced the availability of approximately $120
In its first decade of work, a research effort at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop novel and improved "combinatorial"
Chip manufacturers beware: There's a newfound flaw in our understanding of transistor noise, a phenomenon affecting the electronic on-off switch that makes
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Office for Interoperability and Compatibility (OIC) recently announced that it has recognized the first eight
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is establishing a testing program to assure that the U.S. government purchases new computers and
While today's law enforcement officers don't wear utility belts full of crimefighting gadgets like Batman, they do rely on a variety of state-of-the-art
A working definition for cloud computing—a new computer technique with potential for achieving significant cost savings and information technology agility—has
Applying innovative measurement techniques, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has received Congressional approval on its spending plan for the American Recovery and Reinvestment
On May 18, 2009, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced significant progress that will help expedite development of a
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will host a second major Smart Grid workshop, May 19-20, in
GAITHERSBURG, Md. – The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has received Congressional approval on its recovery
Jun Ye, a NIST Fellow working at JILA, a joint institute of NIST and the University of Colorado at Boulder, has received the 2009 European Frequency and Time