Digital Technology Measurements

What this funds

NIST is accelerating the development and deployment of digital technologies, such as next-generation communication technologies and information systems that are reliable, usable, interoperable, and secure. Secure, reliable, high-speed wireless communications are critical to the economic and national competitiveness of the United States. Integrated communications and networking technologies dramatically change how consumers, manufacturers, and governments provide and consume information, transact business, and provide and use essential services, shops, and more. The societal demand for connectivity, especially for faster and smarter networks, will continue to require significant advancements in communications technologies. NIST is a central player in the Nation's efforts to modernize the U.S. public safety communications infrastructure and is currently the U.S. government's leader in fundamental and applied research, standards, and government-academia-industry coordination for advanced communications technologies. NIST strengthens trust in information technology and metrology -- the foundations that underpin the digital economy -- through resilient cybersecurity, privacy protection, interoperability, and usability. NIST carries out fundamental and applied research, develops measurement standards, and creates evaluation tools to accurately assess the capabilities and limitations of critical technologies--so that systems, organizations, and users can depend on them with greater confidence. NIST also develops cybersecurity and privacy standards, guidelines, best practices, and other resources to meet the needs of U.S. industry, federal agencies, and the general public. Work in cybersecurity and privacy ranges from longer- term research that anticipates advances in technologies to information that can immediately be put into practice to help organizations address their most pressing challenges. NIST also carries out specific cybersecurity and privacy assignments defined by federal statutes, executive orders, and policies.

Extracted from National Institute of Standards and Technology, p. 15. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.

Contracts funded by this line

2 linked contracts. These are obligations — lifetime awarded money — and they are not comparable to the request above and are never added to it. No total is shown: an award linked to several lines is counted in full on each, so the sum would not be a fact.

Confidence mix · 2 medium

Linked contracts are a floor, not a census. Coverage is bounded by how distinctively a program is named and, for performer links, to RDT&E and Procurement — O&M and military construction publish no performers. Budget figures are FY2027 request dollars; contract figures are obligations. The two measure different things and must never be summed together.

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