Adam Pintar, Statistical Engineering Division, Received a Group Gold Medal Award
For technical innovations to develop new maps of U.S. extreme wind speeds, used for the design of structures. The underpinning analysis was the first to realistically account for risk consistency, multiple storm types, and regional variation of wind climate. The team also worked to ensure that the new maps were incorporated in the American Society of Civil Engineers' national standard for the design of buildings and other structures for wind loads. This greatly improved the science basis of the standard, enabling safe and more economical designs for buildings and infrastructure.
Dennis Leber and James Filliben, Statistical Engineering Division, Received a Group Bronze Medal Award
For exceptional leadership in founding the ASTM Committee F45 on driverless automatic guided industrial vehicles, and for providing the technical basis of the committee’s first four performance standards for automatic/automated/autonomous unmanned ground vehicles (A-UGVs). A-UGVs are used to automate delivery of parts, tools, supplies, and other materials in applications such as manufacturing, warehousing, and medical delivery. A-UGV capabilities have been evolving rapidly, but there were no standard methods for describing or assessing A-UGV performance and capabilities. The team's outstanding efforts have enabled significant progress in addressing these gaps in just two years.
Peter Mell, Computer Security Division, Received a Bronze Medal Award
For technical advances in computer-network defense methods used in government and industrial systems. His insight and creativity led to vastly improved algorithms used in the field of intrusion detection and access control. Specifically, he (a) developed an improved network scan-detection algorithm that the U.S. Army Research Laboratory has deployed in an operational network; (b) conducted a novel analysis of network anomaly-detection leading to a new understanding of intrusion detection; and (c) developed improved algorithms for scalable access control. This work has provided both practical (fielded) advances in network intrusion detection, and advances in the science of network defense.
Blaza Toman, Statistical Engineering Division, Received a Group Bronze Medal Award
For the development of rigorous analytical methods and data-evaluation processes for the determination of chemical purity, and for transfer of this technology to the private sector for the development of a new class of primary Standard Reference Materials. Knowledge of chemical purity is essential for accurate amount-of-substance measurements and for establishing the metrological traceability of these results to the International System of Units (SI). The team’s processes are applicable to a range of NIST’s measurement services, with applications that extend from healthcare delivery to forensic purity assessment of seized drugs.
Ya-Shian Li-Baboud, Software and Systems Divisions, Received a Group 2018 Edward Bennett Rosa Award
For outstanding leadership and technical excellence in initiating and developing performance test methods that have been adopted as international standards for 3D imaging systems used in a wide range of critical applications. The team identified the need for measurements and standards for a burgeoning new sensing technology, convened the stakeholders, and formed a new ASTM standards committee. The team's rigorous experiments, analyses, and crafting of test methods and artifacts provided the technical foundations for the first-ever standards that measure key performance aspects of 3D imaging systems, guiding system improvements and enabling users to compare different systems and reduce adoption risks.
Patricia Toth, Computer Security Division, Received a 2018 George A. Uriano Award
For outstanding contributions to the MEP National Network to assist U.S. manufacturers in implementing critical cybersecurity protections. In November 2017, she published NIST Handbook 162, the “NIST MEP Cybersecurity Self-Assessment Handbook” to help U.S. manufacturers assess their implementation of NIST SP 800-171 security requirements in response to Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) cybersecurity requirements. Between November 2017 and April 2018, NIST Handbook 162 was downloaded from the NIST webpages nearly 15,000 times, and Toth has trained manufacturing specialists in its usage in most of the 51 MEP Centers around the nation. Her leadership is creating a vital cybersecurity assistance practice for MEP Centers nationwide.
Michael Donahue and Donald Porter, Applied and Computational Mathematics Division, Received the 2018 Jacob Rabinow Applied Research Award
For their initiative to improve the state of the art in nanomagnetic modeling, the computational simulation of magnetic phenomena at the nanoscale, within the research community. They have very carefully engineered a software tool that is usable, flexible, adaptable, and extensible. It is now the most widely used nanomagnetics modeling system in the world. More than 2,500 journal articles (11 in Science and Nature) and 18 U.S. patent applications reference use of their system, attesting to the magnitude of its impact on U.S. innovation.
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