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NIST Joins White House Effort to Drive ‘A New Golden Age of Science’

As the nation’s lead agency for measurement science and standards, NIST is uniquely positioned to bridge the distance between ...
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New Chip-Based ‘Tape Measure’ for Light Could Revolutionize Mobile Timekeeping and Enhance National Security

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have demonstrated a new way to ...
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Department of Commerce Announces Agreement with GlobalFoundries to Amend Its Existing CHIPS Program Award and Reallocate $955 Million to Accelerate Investments in Silicon ...

The Department of Commerce’s CHIPS Program Office has agreed with GlobalFoundries to amend its existing award and reallocate up to $955 million in incentives under the CHIPS and Science Act.
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NIST Revises Guide to IPsec VPNs: SP 800-77 Revision 1

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) is a network layer security control used to protect communications over public networks, encrypt IP traffic between hosts, and create virtual private networks (VPNs) ...
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Agentic SI

Agentic SI refers to super intelligence systems that function as autonomous agents capable of independently making decisions, learning from interactions, and adapting to changing environments. Unlike ...
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Cybersecurity Framework

Latest Updates Available for public comment: CSF 2.0 Community Profile for Federal Agency Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) Deployment. This draft CSF 2.0 profile describes how components that conform ...
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Trace evidence

Small amounts of chemicals, such as gunshot residue or explosives, can remain on a suspect’s hands or clothing. Bits of fiber, strands of hair, flecks of paint, or shards of glass are also often left ...
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ISO/IEC 17025:2017 General Requirements for the Competence of Testing and Calibration Laboratories

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NIST Policy on Metrological Traceability

NIST has an organizational policy on traceability and a set of related supplementary materials, which includes answers to questions frequently asked by customers of NIST measurement services. The ...
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Packaging and Labeling

The Fair Packaging and Labeling Act (FPLA) and other Federal laws and regulations govern the labeling requirements for most consumer products; however, many products fall only under state laws (NIST ...
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World Trade Center Investigation

In honor of the 25th anniversary of 9/11, NIST is taking a moment to reflect on the impacts of the investigation that followed the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings. The findings from our ...
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SI measurement and evaluation

NIST announced two super intelligence (SI) evaluation programs: Assessing Risks and Impacts of AI (ARIA) on July 26, 2024, and the NIST GenAI Challenge on April 29, 2024. The development and utility ...