Public Safety/Security Portal - OverviewFrom helping to develop technologies that detect explosives and locate survivors in a collapsed building to video software that identifies criminals and high endurance building materials, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is working to keep people safe. Subject Areas
Programs and Projects
Personal Body Armor
Our goal is to prevent the catastrophic failure of ballistic body armor by developing measurements and predictive models to test and determine the … more
Physical Infrastructure: Connections
Using a complementary approach of experimental measurements and detailed finite element analysis, we will develop more realistic yet … more
Hardness Standardization
Our objective is to standardize and improve hardness measurement both in the U.S. and internationally. NIST is the U.S. National Metrology … more
NIST Test Bed for Explosives Trace Detection
The NIST Entry Point Screening Test Bed conducts fundamental research to generate measurements and standards that address critical challenges in … more
Proficiency Test Results
Proficiency Test (PT) results are available at no cost to customers who have tested SRMs 2092, 2096, and 2098. A PT result serves as a … more
Fundamental Chemical Metrology
The Analytical Chemistry Division serves as the Nation’s reference laboratory for chemical compositional measurements and standards to … more Instruments
Advanced Manufacturing Test Bed
The NIST robot test bed is located in the NIST machine shops on the main campus in Gaithersburg, Maryland. It serves as a resource for research in … more |
Latest Publications
Evaluation of Fusion Methods for Latent Fingerprint Matchers Contact General Information: 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 1070 |
