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NIST and Forest Service Create Hazard Scale for Wildland FiresExposure ratings can map a community’s varying risks from embers and fire
Fri, 12/07/2012 - 11:42
Two federal agencies have teamed to create the first-ever system for linking accurate assessments of risk from wildland fires to improved building codes, standards, and practices that will help communities better resist the threat.
The proposed… Registration Open for Design Review of National Manufacturing Innovation NetworkJan. 16, 2013, at the Davidson Center for Space Exploration in Alabama
Tue, 12/04/2012 - 14:25
The first public workshop devoted to reviewing and refining the suggested design for a new National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI), an initiative proposed by President Obama, will be held Jan. 16, 2013, at the Davidson Center for Space… NIST Releases Annual Report on Federal Technology TransferBreakthroughs in government labs are valuable assests for private industry
Wed, 11/28/2012 - 10:21
With new treatments for disease, test suites that safeguard computers, and even expertise to rescue miners trapped thousands of feet underground, federal laboratories have a wealth of technologies and know-how that can give U.S. companies a… Baldrige Program Seeks ExaminersExaminer Application available online and will be open until Jan. 10, 2013.
Tue, 11/27/2012 - 12:08
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- It’s been said that the one of the most prestigious qualifications a professional can have is to say that he or she was part of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Board of Examiners. To say you served as a… Four Organizations Honored With the 2012 Baldrige National Quality AwardSilver anniversary group features winners in four different sectors
Wed, 11/14/2012 - 12:05
Acting U.S. Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank has named four organizations as recipients of the 2012 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation’s highest honor for performance excellence through innovation, improvement, and visionary… Princeton/NIST Collaboration Puts Wheels on the Quantum BusCulminating five years of research, an experiment that brings quantum processors closer to reality
Wed, 11/07/2012 - 13:30
In yet another step toward the realization of a practical quantum computer, scientists working at Princeton and the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) have shown how a major hurdle in transferring information from one quantum bit, or qubit, to another… Letitia Baldrige, Sister of Malcolm Baldrige, Dead at 86She was instrumental in helping create the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program named after her brother
Wed, 10/31/2012 - 12:48
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Letitia Baldrige, sister of Malcolm Baldrige, died Mon., October 29, 2012, at the age of 86. In announcing her passing, her son Malcolm Hollensteiner told the Foundation for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award,… New Method Measures Movements of Tiny DevicesEvery step accounted for, with surprising results
Wed, 10/17/2012 - 12:06
Here’s a question for makers of minuscule moving machines—the kind being eyed for nanomanufacturing and assembly as well as other uses: Do you know where your micro- and nanorobots really are? Care to bet?
A team of researchers at the National… New Reference Material Helps Get Lead Out of Paints for Children’s ProductsSRM 2569 can be used to check lead levels against industry regulations
Wed, 10/17/2012 - 11:16
To help manufacturers adhere to new regulations intended to reduce the risk of lead poisoning in children, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed standard test samples of lead paint films of the sort… Home Sweet Lab NIST has prototyped a computerized house that generates as much energy as it uses
Fri, 09/14/2012 - 13:56
During a recent ribbon-cutting ceremony, the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) unveiled a new laboratory designed to demonstrate that a typical suburban home for a family of four can generate as much…
