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Consortium Names NIST’s May Top Lab Director, Honors Indoor Air Quality Researchers
Release Date: 03/17/2016

The Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC) has named Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and National … more

Amping Antimicrobial Discovery with Automation
Release Date: 03/16/2016

The antimicrobial arsenal that we count on to save millions of lives each year is alarmingly thin—and these microbes are rapidly evolving … more

NIST Creates Fundamentally Accurate Quantum Thermometer
Release Date: 03/15/2016

Better thermometers might be possible as a result of a discovery at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where physicists … more

Conferences and Events
GCTC Tech Jam and IoT Enabled Smart City Framework Workshop
March 22-25, 2016

GCTC Tech Jam 2016 The Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) Tech Jam will take place on the NIST campus in Gaithersburg, MD on March 22-23, 2016. … more

NIST Exhibits at the 2016 International Wireless Communications Expo
March 23-24, 2016

IWCE is the authoritative annual event for communications technology in the working world. Over 7,500 technology buyers from a diverse group of … more

Remarkable Virtuality at Ford--Realistic and extremely efficient product design
March 25, 2016

Being immersed in a potential reality is highly beneficial, especially while communicating with a global and cross-functional team in real time. … more