Calendars, like other standards, exist so we can all agree on the date, time, distance and more. Credit: Schira/Shutterstock The length of a meter, the mass of a kilogram and the day of the year are all standards in the background of our daily lives. …
Credit: NIST 34th Annual FISSEA Conference May 14-15, 2024 National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence 9700 Great Seneca Hwy, Rockville, MD Registration is open! View the agenda and register here: https://www.nist.gov/news-events/events/34th-annual-fissea- …
Artificial Intelligence is an omnipresent and indispensable feature of contemporary daily life. “AI” is a foundational element of our critical infrastructure. It plays a vital role in the fields of medicine and healthcare, financial networks, military and …
Credit: Florida International University Registration is now open for the 2024 NICE Conference and Expo in Dallas, Texas, taking place from June 3 to 5, 2024! Secure early bird rates from February 27 to March 19, 2024. This year's theme, " …
More roads lead to NIST’s updated cybersecurity framework, which now features quick-start guides aimed at specific audiences, success stories outlining other organizations’ implementations, and a searchable catalog of informative references that allows …
Glenn BellGAITHERSBURG, Md. — Glenn Bell, a structural engineer at the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Election to the academy, one of the highest …
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When testing a new medicine, researchers must do more than assess how well that drug works. They also have to determine whether the medicine has some negative, unintended consequences. To do that now, scientists have a couple of choices in pre-clinical …
In technology transfer, standing still is tantamount to falling behind. The field of federal technology transfer progresses because it teems with fresh and creative approaches to introduce the results of government-funded scientific research to the …
#ICYMI - Monthly Meeting Recap Credit: NICE In case you missed it, the minutes from the January 23, 2024, NICE Community Coordinating Council meeting have been published. The meeting included speakers from SkillsFWD, the National Institute for …
Media Contact: Madeline Broas, madeline.broas [at] chips.gov (madeline[dot]broas[at]chips[dot]gov). Today, the Biden-Harris Administration announced that the U.S. Department of Commerce and GlobalFoundries (GF) have signed a non-binding preliminary …
The U.S. Department of Commerce has made growing and sustaining the semiconductor workforce a priority for both the $39 billion CHIPS incentives program to jumpstart domestic semiconductor manufacturing and the $11 billion CHIPS R&D program. Building …
Credit: Sergei Drozd/Shutterstock GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has entered a two-year cooperative research agreement with the nonprofit Engineering Biology Research Consortium ( …
Credit: Natasha Hanacek The NIST-led Rapid Microbial Testing Methods (RMTM) Consortium launched in 2020 to develop standards and measurement-based solutions to advance the use of RMTMs in advanced therapy products. NIST is hosting the 4th annual workshop …
Scientists widely use the technique of mass spectroscopy to identify unknown molecules, including the forever chemicals known as PFAS. Credit: S. Singha/Shutterstock Stain-resistant clothing, fast-food wrappers, extreme weather gear such as certain jackets …
Credit: 3rdtimeluckystudio/Shutterstock If we train artificial intelligence (AI) systems on biased data, they can in turn make biased judgments that affect hiring decisions, loan applications and welfare benefits — to name just a few real-world …
Samuel Márquez Gonzalez’s research may help increase the efficiency of solar cells — devices that convert sunlight into electricity and are used in solar panels. Credit: NIST When I was a child, I loved video games. I used to spend hours playing them on my …
GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today a renewed Baldrige Performance Excellence Award Program, focused on identifying and recognizing organizations that are role models …
Today, NIST published the final version of Special Publication (SP) 800-66r2 (Revision 2), Implementing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule: A Cybersecurity Resource Guide. This publication, revised in …
Researchers observed the new phases in superconductor interactions, which could help build more robust superconductors. Credit: JILA/Steven Burrows Superconductivity makes physics seem like magic. At cold temperatures, superconducting materials allow …
