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Research funder · United States

National Institute of Standards and Technology

Measurement standards laboratory in the United States

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Grants since 2016
2 953
Awarded, last 5 years (where amounts are published)
$44.4B
Funded works, last 5 years
6 641
Funded works, all time
39.5k

Grants

2020–2021 · grant · SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, BUSINESS AND/OR EDUCATION OUTREACH

NANOELECTRONIC IMAGING, INC. (NEI) IS DEVELOPING TECHNIQUES FOR MAPPING SIGNALS IN THE TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPE (TEM) THAT ARE NORMALLY INACCESSIBLE. IN THIS PHASE I SBIR PROJECT, NEI WILL BUILD ON PRELIMINARY RESULTS TO DEVELOP A QUANTITATIVE, TEM-BASED TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING TECHNIQUE WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR ATOMIC RESOLUTION IN ALL THREE SPATIAL DIMENSIONS. THIS PRECISION WOULD BE AKIN TO AN AFM-IN-TEM. THE TECHNIQUE IS BASED ON SCANNING TEM ELECTRON BEAM-INDUCED CURRENT (STEM EBIC) IMAGI

$100k

2020–2021 · grant · SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, BUSINESS AND/OR EDUCATION OUTREACH

THIS WORK WILL DEVELOP A REAL-TIME WILDFIRE FORECAST SYSTEM THAT AUTOMATICALLY DETECTS AND FORECASTS THE SPREAD OF EVERY FIRE IN THE CONTINENTAL US AND UPDATES EACH FORECAST IN REAL-TIME AS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION BECOMES AVAILABLE. FIRE FORECAST DATA, WHICH ARE GENERATED IN THE CLOUD USING HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING RESOURCES, ARE TRANSFERRED TO A WEB SERVER HOSTING A MOBILE-FRIENDLY WEB MAP THAT FACILITATES VISUALIZATIONBY STAKEHOLDERS SUCH AS FIRST RESPONDERS AND GOVERNMENT ENTITIES. SUBSCRIBE

$100k

2020–2021 · grant · SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, BUSINESS AND/OR EDUCATION OUTREACH

THE PROPOSED INNOVATION WILL USE A MODEL-BASED APPROACH TO STREAMLINE UNDERSTANDING AND APPLICATION OF STANDARDS. NIST STANDARDS ADDRESSING CYBERSECURITY, PRESENTED IN THE FORM OF DOCUMENTS, SPREADSHEETS, AND DATABASE TOOLS, PROVIDE THOUSANDS OF COMPLIMENTARY AND OVERLAPPING ITEMS FOR USERS TO TRACK. SIGNIFICANT EFFORT IS EXPENDED UNDERSTANDING THE STANDARDS BEFORE ATTENTION CAN BE FOCUSED ON THE SYSTEM OF INTEREST. MODEL-BASED REPRESENTATIONS OF BOTH THE STANDARDS AND CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS IN

$100k

2020–2021 · grant · SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, BUSINESS AND/OR EDUCATION OUTREACH

IN ORDER FOR MANUFACTURERS TO ADOPT DATA-DRIVEN DECISION MAKING, THEY MUST TAP INTO UNSTRUCTURED DATA THAT SITS UNUSED. THE PROCESS OF ANNOTATION AND KNOWLEDGE EXTRACTION FROM UNSTRUCTURED TEXT DATA IS A TIME CONSUMING AND CHALLENGING BOTTLENECK TO ADOPTING MACHINE LEARNING AT SCALE.  THIS PHASE I SBIR PROPOSES IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ENHANCED CLOUD-BASED PLATFORM ENABLING MAINTENANCE AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONAL USERS TO TAG AND EXTRACT KNOWLEDGE FROM LARGE VOLUMES OF UNSTRUCTURED TEXT DATA MORE EFFIC

$99.7k

2020–2025 · grant · MEASUREMENT AND ENGINEERING RESEARCH AND STANDARDS

THE PURPOSE OF THIS FUNDING OPPORTUNITY IS TO SECURE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF FORMAL PRIVACY METHODS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO DIFFERENTIAL PRIVACY, FOR SAMPLE SURVEYS. SCOPE OF WORK: 1. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF FORMAL PRIVACY MECHANISMS FOR THE SAMPLE SURVEYS. THE GOAL IS TO DEVELOP A FEASIBLE APPROACH TO PRODUCING FORMALLY PRIVATE VERSIONS OF COMMON SURVEY DATA PRODUCTS, SUCH AS CROSS-TABULATIONS AND MICRODATA. SAMPLE SURVEYS HAVE FEATURES THAT COMPLICATE THE APPLICATION OF FORMAL

$3.7M