National Institute of Standards and Technology Press Releases

• Published on December 19, 2023 - 12:00 GMT

  

  NIST Calls for Information to Support Safe, Secure and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence

  Credit: everything possible/Shutterstock GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) that will assist in the implementations of its responsibilities …

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• Published on December 19, 2023 - 12:00 GMT

  

  NIST Awards Nearly $3 Million to Small Businesses to Advance Semiconductor Manufacturing, Drug Development and More

  This colorized micrograph reveals thinner (yellow) and thicker (blue) regions of a 100% polyester fabric used in face masks. The NIST SBIR program supports research at small businesses such as developing a method to measure the effectiveness of face masks …

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• Published on December 19, 2023 - 12:00 GMT

  

  A Scientific Christmas Tale

  Credit: NIST ’Twas the night before Christmas; NIST staff had gone home. Our director was left to reflect all alone. She thought about NIST and the breadth of its work, from AI to fire to even the quark. Our impact, she knew, was broad and widespread, and …

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• Published on December 14, 2023 - 12:00 GMT

  

  The METIS Data Exchange Ecosystem Seeks Your Input

  NIST and CHIPS request comments on the draft of Special Publication 1000-2 ipd, Building a Metrology Exchange to Innovate in Semiconductors (METIS). This publication presents the vision for ensuring that the direct results of federally funded scientific …

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• Published on December 13, 2023 - 12:00 GMT

  

  Standing Up for Scientific Integrity: A Q&A With Writer-Director José Ricardo García on the New Film ‘The AD-X2 Controversy’

  José Ricardo García directs actors (from left to right) Evan Casey (playing Allen Astin), Joel Snyder (playing Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks) and Adam Cooley (playing Ritchie). Credit: NIST In the 1940s, a battery additive called AD-X2 hit the …

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• Published on December 11, 2023 - 12:00 GMT

  

  NIST Offers Draft Guidance on Evaluating a Privacy Protection Technique for the AI Era

  Evaluating any claim to differential protection requires examining every component of the differential privacy pyramid. Its top level contains the most direct measures of privacy guarantees, including epsilon, which is a numerical value of how strong the …

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• Published on December 11, 2023 - 12:00 GMT

  

  Biden-Harris Administration and BAE Systems, Inc., Announce CHIPS Preliminary Terms to Support Critical U.S. National Security ...

  Today, the Biden-Harris Administration announced that the U.S. Department of Commerce and BAE Systems Electronic Systems, a business unit of BAE Systems, Inc., have signed a non-binding preliminary memorandum of terms (PMT) to provide approximately $35 …

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• Published on December 7, 2023 - 12:00 GMT

  

  NIST Releases for Public Comment Draft Guidance on March-In Rights

  GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released for public comment its Draft Interagency Guidance Framework for Considering the Exercise of March-In Rights, a tool to help agencies …

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• Published on December 7, 2023 - 12:00 GMT

  

  NIST Develops Human Urine Standard for More Accurate Diagnosis of Kidney Disease

  NIST bioanalytical chemist Ashley Beasley Green leads the urine albumin standardization program and developed the standard reference material (SRM) for albumin in human urine. The SRM will improve the accuracy of measurements for diagnosing and managing …

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• Published on December 6, 2023 - 12:00 GMT

  

  Spotlight: Near-Perfect Mirror Surfaces for Reflecting Mid-Infrared Light Better

  Credit: NIST Mirror, mirror in the chamber, how can we get light to reflect from you better? At NIST, we have researchers using mirrors to reflect light in an enclosed chamber with a gas sample. Our team can determine how much of a particular gas exists in …

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• Published on December 6, 2023 - 12:00 GMT

  

  NIST Releases easyEXPRESS – its First Official Visual Studio Code Extension

  Credit: CTL In October 2023, NIST researchers released a preview version of easyEXPRESS, a tool to help EXPRESS-based standard developers. This release also marks an important milestone for NIST as its first official Visual Studio Code extension, available …

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• Published on December 6, 2023 - 12:00 GMT

  

  Fellowship and Fearlessness: Carrying On the Legacy of Rear Admiral Grace Hopper

  In a time when computers were used by experts, Grace Hopper worked on computer languages that could operate using words, making them more accessible. Credit: Lynn Gilbert/National Portrait Gallery As NIST technology researchers, we are inspired by Rear …

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• Published on December 5, 2023 - 16:21 GMT

  

  What's in Store for NIST's Small Business Program in 2024?

  Daniel Eliot, Lead for Small Business Engagement, Applied Cybersecurity Division, NIST

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• Published on December 4, 2023 - 12:00 GMT

  

  In National Climate Assessment, NIST Offers New Insights on Community Resilience and Adaptation

  Extreme climate events, such as a flood, can have a devastating compound effect on communities already struggling to adapt to a changing climate. Credit: Marc Bruxelle/Shutterstock A major weather event such as a hurricane or wildfire can have lasting, …

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• Published on December 1, 2023 - 12:00 GMT

  

  GCTC Smart City Projects Presented at Smart Cities Conference and Workshop

  Credit: CTL On November 28, 2023, the NIST Global Community Technology Challenge (GCTC) presented three smart city projects on a panel at the Smart Cities Connect conference in Washington, D.C. The cities’ projects were representative of city efforts to …

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• Published on December 1, 2023 - 12:00 GMT

  

  NIST Researcher Presents on Use of SimPROCESD Software to Model Manufacturing Production and Maintenance

  Credit: CTL At the 2023 INFORMS Annual Meeting, NIST researcher Mehdi Dadfarnia presented research findings based on use of NIST-developed SimPROCESD software, which can model and simulate manufacturing configurations and maintenance policies for …

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• Published on December 1, 2023 - 12:00 GMT

  

  Working With Workspace Words: NIST Helps Compose Technical Language Processing Tutorial at PHM 23

  Credit: CTL NIST helped to foster awareness, debate, and education at the Technical Language Processing (TLP) Tutorial of the 15th Annual Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) Society in Utah. This event resulted from the collaborative …

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• Published on December 1, 2023 - 12:00 GMT

  

  NIST Supports Composite Materials Standards Harmonization

  Credit: CTL CTL’s Smart Connected Manufacturing Systems Group and the Longterm Archiving and Retrieval (LOTAR) Consortium have supported multi-year efforts to harmonize composite material standards. ASME Y14.37 enables engineering practices for the …

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• Published on December 1, 2023 - 12:00 GMT

  

  NIST Industrial Wireless Systems Team Participates in ASTM F45 Committee Panel Discussion

  Credit: CTL NIST’s Rick Candell and Mohamed Hany were invited to participate in the ASTM F45.04 Robotics, Automation, and Autonomous Systems panel discussion on Communication and Interoperability on November 1, 2023. Rick Candell fielded questions …

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• Published on November 29, 2023 - 12:00 GMT

  

  I’m Using Measurement Science to Test Antibodies and Protect Us From Viruses

  NIST researcher Jerilyn Izac harvests cells from a culture in her lab. Credit: R. Wilson/NIST Researchers are working to stay ahead of future pandemics, even while COVID-19 is still with us. Imagine if, for a future dangerous virus, we could quickly and …

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