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 NIST Awards Contract to Sustain Fast Track Development of Smart Grid Standards
 Ytterbium Gains Ground in Quest for Next-Generation Atomic Clocks
 Novel Temperature Calibration Improves NIST Microhotplate Technology
 Multi-Laboratory Study Sizes Up Nanoparticle Sizing
 NIST Demonstrates Sustained Quantum Computation Processing
 NIST Releases Final Version of New Cybersecurity Recommendations for Government
 First Report from New Nuclear Energy Standards Group Released
 NIST Releases Final Version of New Cybersecurity Recommendations for Government
 NIST Awards $55.5 Million in Grants for New University Research Facilities
 Commerce Secretary Locke Announces Selection of 2009-2010 Commerce Science and Technology Fellows
 DOC/NIST Invites Vendors to Participate an Industry Day/Business Fair
 NIST, DOD, Intelligence Agencies Join Forces to Secure U.S. Cyber Infrastructure
 NIST Seeks Proposals for $20 Million Recovery Act Program
 Commerce Department to Work with ICANN and VeriSign to Enhance the Security and Stability of the Internet’s Domain Name and Addressing System
 NIST Physicists Demonstrate Quantum Entanglement in Mechanical System
 NIST’s LIDAR May Offer Peerless Precision in Remote Measurements
 NIST Develops Powerful Method of Suppressing Errors in Many Types of Quantum Computers
 NIST Announces Smart Grid Workshop
 NIST Announces Three-Phase Plan for Smart Grid Standards, Paving Way for More Efficient, Reliable Electricity
 TIP Announces Three Additional Conferences to Discuss 2009 Competition
 NIST Issues Open and Transparent Methods for Testing Electronic Voting Systems
 2009 Technology R&D Competition to Address Civil Infrastructure, Manufacturing
 NIST: Magnetism Governs Properties of Iron-Based Superconductors
 NIST to Receive $610 Million Through Recovery Act
 2008 Baldrige National Quality Awards Announced
 NIST Seeks Small Business Vendors for Facility-Related Projects
 NIST Technology Innovation Program Announces New R&D Projects to Develop Infrastructure Monitoring and Inspection Technologies
 Electronic Methods Potentially Secure for Sending Blank Ballots Overseas; Serious Issues Remain for Receiving Votes
 NIST Seeks White Papers on Critical National Needs
 Seventy-One Staff Members Earn Departmental Bronze and Other NIST Awards
 NIST Awards $24 Million in Grants For New Research Facilities Dedicated to Quantum Measurement, Marine Ecology
 NIST Releases Final WTC 7 Investigation Report
 42 Employees Earn DOC Awards
 NCI and NIST Propose Online Community To Speed Up Development of Nanotech Standards
 Blue Ribbon Commission Issues Findings on NIST Safety
 Media Advisory: American Chemical Society to Honor NIST Role in 1931 Discovery of Heavy Hydrogen
 Reminder: Turn Your Clocks Back on Sunday, November 2
 Safer Buildings Are Goal of New Code Changes Based on Recommendations from NIST World Trade Center Investigation
 JILA Scientists create first dense gas of ultracold 'polar' molecules
 Information Update: NIST Takes Additional Steps to Strengthen Safety at Its Boulder Laboratory
 NIST Seeks Suggestions for Future R&D Funding Areas
 NIST and Partners Identify Tiny Gold Clusters as Top-Notch Catalysts
 WTC 7 Technical Briefing on Aug. 26, 2008
 NIST to Release Report and Recommendations from Investigation of World Trade Center Building 7
 NIST Commits to Action for Strengthening Safety--NIST Responds to Investigative Report, City of Boulder Regarding Safety Improvements
 NIST Extends Proposal Deadline for Construction Grant Program
 Reports from Five Radiation Safety and Health Experts on the June 9 Plutonium Incident
 No Significant Health Risks Expected from Plutonium Exposures
 New Program to Fund Monitoring, Inspection Technologies for Public Infrastructure
 NIST Response to NRC Confirmatory Action Letter
 Information Update: June 27, 2008--Medical Tests Indicate Internal Contamination Due to June 9 Plutonium Incident
 June 24, 2008 Update--Plutonium Discharge into Sink Below Federal and State Limits
 June 17, 2008 Update--NIST Finds Radiation Contamination in Lab Sink
 Low-Level Plutonium Sample Involved in NIST-Boulder Lab Incident
 NIST’s Novel ‘Noise Thermometry’ May Help Redefine International Unit of Temperature
 Research Measures Movement of Nanomaterials in Simple Model Food Chain
 Record-setting Laser May Aid Searches for Earthlike Planets
 New Midwestern Research Center Announced For Nanoelectronics Research Initiative
 A Sub-femtosecond Stop Watch for ‘Photon Finish’ Races
 Copolymers Block Out New Approaches to Microelectronics at NIST
 Nanomaterials Show Unexpected Strength Under Stress
 Joint Research: Probing the Mysteries of a Surprisingly Tough Hydrogel
 New NIST Detector Can ‘See’ Single Neutrons Over Broad Range
 All Done With Mirrors: NIST Microscope Tracks Nanoparticles in 3-D
 Stunt Doubles: Ultracold Atoms Could Replicate the Electron ‘Jitterbug’
 NIST Seeks Public Comment on New Technology Innovation Program Regulations
 NIST Nobel Laureate Explains “Science of Cold” to 800 Middle School Students
 Voting Standards Guidance Sent to Election Commission
 NIST Votes for U.S. ‘Approval with Comments’ on Office Open XML Standard to Meet International Voting Deadline
 America COMPETES Act Brings Immediate Changes to NIST
 NIST, UMBI To Expand Cooperation in Bioresearch
 Speed Bumps Less Important Than Potholes for Graphene
 JILA Measurements Recast Usual View of Elusive Force
 NIST Wants Comments on Draft ‘Hash’ Requirements
 Two Vote Testing Labs Proposed for Accreditation
 NIST and the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002
 Questions and Answers About NIST Evaluation of Laboratories that Test Voting Systems

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