NIST Cooperative Agreement with University of Maryland Supports Research on 21st Century Smart Systems

For Immediate Release: October 11, 2011
Contact: Mark Bello
301-975-3776

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded today a $1 million cooperative agreement to the University of Maryland at College Park (UMD). Researchers at UMD’s Institute for Systems Research will help NIST as it develops and deploys standards, test methods and measurement tools to support consistently reliable performance of new smart systems.
The new technologies, known as cyber-physical systems (CPS), are networked physical, computer and biological technologies.

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