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Credit: R. Wilson/NIST In an emergency, knowing exactly where a first responder is can mean the difference between life and death. When a firefighter in a burning building fails to check in, how does the commander know where to look for them?Public safety agencies face daily challenges in finding first responders inside large buildings. Yet there are no reliable methods for tracking first responders in these types of environments.So NIST has partnered with Indiana University’s RedLab to develop technologies to address this problem. The goal of the First Responder Smart Tracking (FRST) Challenge is to create prototype devices that track…

José Pires, founder and CEO of Global Excellence & Innovation, has helped large and small organizations across multiple industries to transform their leadership in order to achieve better results. Based on his decades of experience guiding organizations toward performance excellence, innovation, and collaborative leadership, the Baldrige Program invited Pires to deliver a keynote presentation on Monday, March 31, during the 36th Quest for Excellence® Conference, which will showcase the latest Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award® recipients.“I learned early in my career that innovation is not just about ideas—it’s about execution,” Pires shared recently. “When I first joined Sony, my boss,…

Credit: iStock/SolStock In recent years, reshoring — the process of bringing manufacturing back to the U.S. — has gained momentum. Companies are reevaluating their offshore supply chains, driven by rising costs, geopolitical risks, and supply chain disruptions. For smaller manufacturers, this shift also presents a unique opportunity to position themselves as key players in the rebuilding of domestic supply chains. The information in this blog introduces key insights and strategies which we explore in our latest white paper, How U.S. Manufacturers Can Take Advantage of Reshoring. Topics in the white paper include:Making the Decision to ReshoreDeciding to bring production back home…

Credit: NIST Grab your party hats – it’s Data Privacy Week!Data Privacy Week is a global initiative led by the National Cybersecurity Alliance to spread awareness about online privacy and empower individuals and businesses to respect privacy, safeguard data, and enable trust. In celebration of this week, the NIST Privacy Engineering Program is reflecting on recent work and looking ahead to what’s coming in the new year.Throughout 2026, we plan to continue collaborating with our privacy stakeholder community to develop and advance privacy risk management guidelines to help organizations of all sizes. Below is a sneak peek of what we…

Credit: Lane Sander According to the Office of the US Surgeon General, approximately one in five deaths annually is related to smoking. Additionally, the economic impact of smoking costs the US an estimated $600 billion (2018) in healthcare costs and lost productivity due to illness and premature death. To track human exposures to smoke and other chemicals, CDC has been measuring bioindicators of smoking in the US population for 25 years. Using NIST’s urine materials that provide trusted measurements of nicotine and other smoking metabolites, trends in smoking, vaping, and exposure to secondhand and thirdhand smoke can be identified and…

NIST scientists Stephan Schlamminger (left) and Vincent Lee examine the torsion balance they used to measure the gravitational constant, big G, a decade-long undertaking.  Credit: R. Eskalis/NIST The time had come to open the envelope, but Stephan Schlamminger, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), wasn’t sure he wanted to know the secret number that lay inside.For the past 10 years, Schlamminger had spent most of his working hours trying to measure a single quantity, known as the universal gravitational constant, which determines the strength of gravity everywhere in the universe. The secret number would allow…

Credit: Tolmachov Vision/Shutterstock From blood tests to mammograms, doctors need reliable measurements to make informed decisions about their patients’ health and deliver safe treatments. That’s why NIST serves as an important partner to health professionals and their patients nationwide. This blog post highlights just a few ways in which our measurement science is critical in medicine.Accurate DiagnosticsBlood work and urine tests help doctors evaluate a variety of health concerns. But imagine going to one doctor for testing and getting one result, then going to another and getting a wholly different one.In the U.S., that is rarely an issue anymore, thanks in large…

An emerald symbolizes a 20th anniversary. The gem is said to represent unity, prosperity, authority, growth, and well-being—characteristics that could also represent the Alliance for Performance Excellence, a key partner of the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program (BPEP) and the value that this collaborative network of state and regional, Baldrige-based award programs bring to U.S. organizations.By public law, BPEP was tasked with improving the quality, performance, and long-term success of businesses and other organizations through recognizing national role models and fostering the adoption of proven best practices. One of the ways the program does this is by producing and sharing the…

Credit: iStock/Bet_Noire The U.S. manufacturing industry is evolving at a rapid pace, driven by new technologies, smarter supply chains, and an increasingly dynamic workforce. In 2025 small manufacturers will face a mix of opportunities and challenges as they navigate these changes. To stay competitive, small and medium-sized manufacturers (SMMs) will need to integrate cutting-edge technologies that were once only a realty for larger enterprises and train their workforce on how to use these technologies. Here’s a breakdown of our key predictions for 2025 and what manufacturers can expect.Reshoring and Stronger Domestic Supply ChainsThe COVID-19 pandemic and global disruptions have made…

Celebrate this milestone with us! Email us at csf [at] nist.gov (csf[at]nist[dot]gov) or tag @NISTcyber on X telling us what your favorite CSF 2.0 resource is (or how your organization has benefitted from implementing the CSF 2.0). Today marks two years since the publication of the Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0! Published in 2024, the CSF 2.0 included the addition of a Govern Function, increased emphasis on cybersecurity supply chain risk management, updated categories and subcategories to address current threat and technology shifts, and expansion into a suite of resources designed to make the CSF 2.0 easier to