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Update: The comment period for your feedback on the second public draft of NIST IR 8259 has been extended through December 10, 2025.Over the past few months, NIST has been revising and updating Foundational Activities for IoT Product Manufacturers (NIST IR 8259 Revision 1 Initial Public Draft), which describes recommended pre-market and post-market activities for manufacturers to develop products that meet their customers’ cybersecurity needs and expectations. Thank you so much for the thoughtful comments and feedback throughout this process; 400+ participants across industry, consumer organizations, academia, federal agencies, and researchers shared feedback in both the December 2024 and March…

Credit: iStock/Sean Anthony Eddy As a manufacturer, you sometimes face technical challenges beyond the scope of your in-house expertise or experience. It is important to focus on finding the right partners and advisors to help you navigate these obstacles and remain competitive.The Mississippi Polymer Institute (MPI), based in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, is one of those resources. MPI is a regional office of the Mississippi Manufacturers Association Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MMA-MEP, Mississippi MEP), which is part of the MEP National NetworkTM. MPI is a non-profit industrial outreach organization housed at the University of Southern Mississippi (as its fight song goes: “Southern Miss…

NIST researcher Jim Cline displays the X-ray diffraction SRM while standing in front of the goniometer used to certify it. Credit: B. Gutierrez/NIST Measurement, in its most basic form, is about comparing the thing you want to measure with a reference. To measure the length of a table, you compare it to a tape measure. To measure flour for a birthday cake, you compare it to a measuring cup. Better references mean better measurements.If you’re baking a cake, it doesn’t matter much if your measuring cup is a little off, but sometimes millions of dollars or even people’s lives depend…

100% satisfaction guaranteed. A simple statement. Easy to understand. But….My story begins with Hurricane Milton, one of two tragic hurricanes to hit the west coast of Florida this year. Milton went right over Sarasota, where I live part of the year. It was a devastating storm; tree and plant debris still remain on the sides of many roads. Big root balls are still upended and not yet cleared, despite massive clean-up efforts. According to the municipal government, as of mid-December, 445,766 tons of debris had been removed. Fortunately for my wife and me, we were in Maryland at the time and…

Credit: Andrei Armiagov/Shutterstock The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published a report identifying strategies for developing a more efficient, sustainable and resilient U.S. metals processing infrastructure, where metals are used and reused more efficiently throughout the economy. The report highlights key challenges that must be addressed to achieve this goal, including a lack of robust standards for recycled content and supply chain vulnerabilities for critical materials.Metals processing covers the entire material life cycle, including mining, alloy design, manufacturing, reuse and recycling. Making metals processing more sustainable and resilient against supply chain disruptions and resource scarcity is key…

Rodney Petersen has served as the Director of NICE at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) for the past eleven years where his focus has been on advancing cybersecurity education and workforce development. He will be retiring from federal government service at the end of the 2025 calendar year. Prior to his role at NIST, he has worked in various technology policy and leadership roles with EDUCAUSE and the University of Maryland.The NICE program, led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the U.S. Department of Commerce, has its origins in the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity…

Credit: iStock/Pornpimone Audkamkong Traditional approaches to supply chain management, which often emphasize cost-per-unit, no longer provide the flexibility manufacturers need to create the innovative solutions necessary for achieving long-term success. In today’s highly competitive manufacturing environment, optimizing supplier relationships requires more than just negotiating the lowest price: It’s essential to move beyond transactional vendor relationships and focus on building strategic partnerships. Imagine transforming your supply chain into a dynamic network where collaboration, continuous improvement, and shared innovation unlock new value for your business. This shift will lead to more resilient, cost-effective, and agile operations. Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) is the key…

On July 28– 30, 2026, the Annual Particle Production for Safeguards meeting will be held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). This event will bring together material producers and safeguards metrology experts from the U.S. and international institutions to discuss recent developments in reference particle production and particle metrology related to environmental sample collections for nuclear safeguards.Attendees will have the opportunity to hear technical updates and share knowledge and best practices. This meeting will build on the success of meetings in prior years which resulted in strong cross-institutional collaborations that have sped the acceleration of innovation in…

The 2010 flooding in Tennessee introduced Christina Gore to the concept of community resilience — the way a community responds to a disaster and builds its ability to recover from future disasters. Credit: KennStilger47/Shutterstock Growing up, I saw the effects of natural disasters on the communities I lived in.In 2005, several new classmates arrived at my school near Atlanta because Hurricane Katrina had displaced them from their homes in New Orleans.Just a few years later, I was living in Nashville, Tennessee, when the 2010 floods hit. Nashville got more than 13 inches of rain over two days. It was a…

Ron Norris, Tuesday Morning Keynote Speaker, 36th Baldrige Quest for Excellence® Conference With the right approach, artificial intelligence “isn’t just a tool.” It can be “a real-time decision-making partner”—one that “empowers the workforce, making knowledge more accessible while ensuring that organizations have faster and smarter operations,” according to Ron Norris, director of innovation at Georgia-Pacific, LLC. (Retired).At the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program’s 36th Quest for Excellence® Conference next month, Norris will share insights for organizational leaders about how to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) to overcome some of their key challenges.Following is the full exchange I had recently with Norris about his planned…