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Appears in 8 stories · Last updated Nov 10, 2026
Must issue screening standards and certify the software suppliers use
Any U.S. scientist who takes federal money and orders synthetic DNA will soon have to buy it from a supplier the government has vetted. The National Policy for Nucleic Acid Synthesis Screening, released on 5 November, ends a voluntary system that has governed the industry since 2010.
Updated 2 days ago
Publishes the control catalog FedRAMP assessments are built on
Nozomi Networks' Vantage for Government appeared on the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Marketplace as a certified cloud service on November 5, 2026. The company announced it four days later, on November 9.
Publisher of FIPS 186-2, which standardized the curves
The seed numbers behind NIST's elliptic curves came from the C library's lrand48 random number generator, seeded with Unix timestamps from 1997 and 1998. The long-running tip that they were hashes of a humorous phrase was wrong.
Updated Nov 1
As of October 2026: Funding agency issuing the award
The federal government committed $10 million to the University of Washington in September to build a secure, on-campus AI computing platform. The NIST award funds the Husky Secure Computing Data & Infrastructure Project, which started October 1.
Updated Oct 6
As of September 2026: Provided X-ray imaging expertise
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE turned Herculaneum's papyrus library into brittle black lumps. Physical attempts to unroll the scrolls have destroyed many of them since they were found in 1752. Researchers have now shown a way to read the rest without opening them: lead in the ink.
Updated Sep 26
As of September 2026: Hosted the replication experiment at its Gaithersburg, Maryland campus
Stephan Schlamminger spent a decade measuring gravity's most stubborn constant without seeing his own answer. A colleague scrambled the data and sealed the key in an envelope, guarding against bias. When Schlamminger finally opened it in July 2024, his result disagreed with the leading value from France.
Updated Sep 20
As of September 2026: Funder of the construction award
The federal government has committed $69.3 million to the University of Louisville to build a biomedical research facility. The Center for Bioscience, a 66,000-square-foot building next to the Speed School of Engineering on the Belknap campus, is designed for designing, prototyping, and testing medical technologies.
Updated Sep 9
As of May 2026: Leadership in transition pending Senate floor vote on nominee Arvind Raman; MEP program under threat from Lutnick funding freeze; managing AI centers expansion amid CHIPS Act renegotiation
In early 2026, America's AI manufacturing strategy is fracturing. The Trump White House released a National AI Legislative Framework on March 20, 2026, asking Congress to preempt all state AI laws. California, Colorado, and New York have pledged to keep enforcing their own rules and are preparing court challenges.
Updated May 18
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