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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…

Credit: iStock/Khanchit Khirisutchalual This blog is the second in a four-part series on the beginner’s guide to Industrial Artificial Intelligence applications.Understanding the inner workings of your Industrial Artificial Intelligence (IAI) system is crucial if you want it to add measurable value to your manufacturing operations. In this blog, we will dig into one important aspect of every AI — the inputs, a.k.a. your data. Including the right type and the right amount of data is key to success when it comes to AI. To understand the full potential of an IAI system, it’s important to look at what data, assumptions, rules, and…

Understanding mDL credential formatsStandards in the VDC EcosystemIn our first blog post in this series, we highlighted that VDCs can represent a wide range of credentials, from a driver’s license to a diploma to proof of age. The ability to use VDCs in a wide variety of use cases is a major reason why many are looking at the VDC ecosystem as technology that can change how we present identity and attributes (both in person and online). While credential variety is a good thing, interoperability requires a common set of standards and protocols for issuing, using, and verifying VDCs. The next…

Close-up of a superconducting sensor board containing multiple transition edge sensors (top row of squares), which detect energy released by individual radioactive decay events. Credit: M. Carlson/NIST Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a new and faster method for detecting and measuring the radioactivity of minuscule amounts of radioactive material. The innovative technique, known as cryogenic decay energy spectrometry (DES), could have far-reaching impacts, from improving cancer treatments to ensuring the safety of nuclear waste cleanup.The NIST team has published its results in Metrologia.The key to this novel technique is a transition-edge sensor (TES),…