Information technology laboratory itl grant program

All applications submitted to the ITL Grant Program must be in accordance with the program objectives listed below. The contact person for the ITL Grant Program, who may be contacted for clarification of program objectives, is Melissa Banner and she may be reached at or by e-mail at melissa.

Artificial Intelligence Program: NIST contributes to the research, standards, and data required to realize the promise of AI as an enabler of American innovation across private and public sectors.

To achieve trustworthy AI systems, stakeholders need to develop and subsequently ensure understanding and use of the building blocks for trustworthy AI systems and the associated measurement, standards, and tools to implement those building blocks when developing, using, and testing AI systems.

NIST plans and carries out its AI work in close collaboration with the private and public sectors, often serving as a convener. Specific topics of interest include foundational research on examining and measuring various aspects and technical requirements of AI trustworthiness, including the accuracy, reliability, security, safety, privacy, bias, and explainability of AI systems.

ANTD develops knowledge about networks to understand their complexity and inform their future design. It seeks to discover and understand common principles and fundamental structures underlying networks and their behaviors. ANTD studies the processes underlying networks evolution and the paradigms for network engineering to enhance their trustworthiness, reliability, security, and robustness.

Applied and Computational Mathematics Division ACMD nurtures trust in metrology and scientific computing through the development and application of advanced mathematical and computational techniques and tools.

Applied Cybersecurity Division ACD implements practical cybersecurity and privacy through outreach and effective application of standards and best practices necessary for the U. ACD establishes cybersecurity standards and guidelines in an open, transparent, and collaborative way; provides cybersecurity testing and measurement from developing test suits and methods to validating cryptographic modules ; and conducts research in applied cybersecurity.

Computer Security Division CSD develops cybersecurity standards, guidelines, tests, and metrics to protect federal information systems. Information Access Division IAD supports technologies used to access complex information relating to human action, behavior or characteristics. Through collaborations with industry, academia, and the federal government, IAD enables the advancement of these technologies for commercial usage.

IAD provides standards and measurements to accelerate this evolution. Software and Systems Division SSD works with industry, academia and other government agencies to accelerate the development and adoption of correct, reliable and testable software. The U. Department of Commerce seeks qualified nominations for a new Internet of Things Advisory Board to advise the recently established Internet of Things.

Protecting system resources against. Industry Impacts. Border security, crime investigations, background checks and access control all rely on certain organizations being able to seamlessly exchange biometric data. Companies in every industry need software that their employees and customers can easily learn to use without error, but for years there was no way for them to. Infusion pumps were once standalone instruments that interacted only with the patient or medical provider.

With technological improvements designed to enhance. Mathematical modeling provides information that is difficult to obtain from experimentation alone and can, therefore, save scientists and engineers time and. For development and dissemination of the first detailed cybersecurity guidelines specifically for protecting small and medium-sized manufacturers.