In January 2023, eight NIST PSCR staff members received a Gold Medal Award at the 74th annual Department of Commerce (DOC) Honor Awards Program. This is the highest honorary award granted by the Secretary of Commerce, Gina M. Raimondo, and is defined by distinguished performance characterized by extraordinary, notable, or prestigious contributions that impact the mission of the Department. The awardees include John Beltz, Don Harris, Wyatt Suess, Roger Blalock, Lisa Soucy, Scott Ledgerwood, Ellen Ryan, and Jonathan Cook. This team was recognized for developing and deploying a Public Safety Communications Lab Network that has enabled innovative research and influenced commercial products.
What is the Lab Network?
While the DOC is dedicated to protecting America’s security and economic growth, creating a reliable, responsive, and thoughtful mechanism for testing and measuring public safety communications was a challenge. Therefore, an interdisciplinary NIST team pioneered the design and implementation of a state-of-the-art, secure communications Lab Network that could be deployed for research and innovation across NIST, the DOC, other agencies, and the scientific community worldwide. The Lab Network was conceptualized in 2015 and then implemented between the years of 2016 and 2018. It serves as the backbone for research across NIST communications technology projects along with non-NIST departments and outside agencies, such as th ..
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