# Digital Technology Measurements

**Agency:** Commerce  
**Account:** Scientific and Technical Research and Services 1/  
**Source document:** National Institute of Standards and Technology · p. 15  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/commerce/digital-technology-measurements  

> **Trust:** parsed from the agency Congressional Justification. Approximate, **not summable**, verify at the cited page.

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2026 | enacted | 135.2 |
| FY2027 | request | 128.1 |

## Commerce discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $7.00B, FY2026 $11.90B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## 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.


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Commerce › National Institute of Standards and Technology › Scientific and Technical Research and Services 1/ › Digital Technology Measurements


*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. government. Civilian line dollars are parsed from agency Congressional Justifications and are approximate.*