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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

Credit: ©Shutterstock As part of the JARVIS workshop series, the 7th Artificial Intelligence for Materials Science (AIMS) is a workshop aimed at getting together experts from industry, academia, and government to facilitate highly technical dialogue on the intersection of AI and materials science. Some of the key research areas for materials AI that will be discussed at the meeting are: developing well-curated and diverse datasets, choosing effective representations for materials, inverse materials design, integrating autonomous experiments and theory, challenges and advantages of self-driving laboratories, merging physics-based models with AI models, and choosing appropriate algorithms/workflows. Lastly, uncertainty quantification in AI-based predictions…

NIST physicist Laura Sinclair works to link an atomic clock on Mount Blue Sky to a location outside Boulder, Colorado, as part of an experiment to test whether clocks tick faster in lower gravity. Credit: G. Asakawa/University of Colorado You’ve probably heard that time is relative. It sounds like a banal cliche, akin to “time flies when you’re having fun.”But it’s no mere cliche: Time really is relative. Though it’s not noticeable in daily life, time passes slightly more slowly when you’re moving versus when you’re standing still. It also moves slightly more slowly when you’re at sea level than…

“Every organization has countless opportunities for improvement, but only a few points—what we call constraints or bottlenecks—govern the pace and performance of the entire system,” said Rami Goldratt, who gave the closing keynote presentation at the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program’s 36th Quest for Excellence® Conference last week. “When we identify these points and enable smooth flow through them,” he continued, “we not only accelerate throughput but also unlock significant gains in quality, innovation, and competitive advantage.”Goldratt helps organizations achieve such gains through implementations of Theory of Constraints (TOC)—the body of knowledge that his father, Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt, developed and introduced in…