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Currently, we are reviewing the following publication</div> </div> </div> </article> </div> <div> <article role="article" about="/news-events/news/2023/01/applying-cybersecurity-framework-satellite-command-and-control-nist" typeof="schema:Article" class="nist-teaser"> <div class="nist-teaser__content-wrapper"> <header> <h3 class="nist-teaser__title"><a href="/web/20230130210939/https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2023/01/applying-cybersecurity-framework-satellite-command-and-control-nist"><span property="schema:name">Applying the Cybersecurity Framework to Satellite Command and Control: NIST Interagency Report (IR) 8401</span> </a></h3> <div class="nist-teaser__date"> <div class="daterange"><time datetime="2023-01-03T12:00:00Z">January 3, 2023</time> </div> </div> </header> <div class="nist-teaser__content"> <div property="schema:text" class="text-with-summary">NIST recognizes the importance of the infrastructure that provides positioning, timing, and navigation (PNT) information to the scientific knowledge, economy</div> </div> </div> </article> </div> <footer> <div class="link-list"><a href="/web/20230130210939/https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news-updates/org/5641">View All News and Updates</a></div> </footer> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--dynamic-content-list-ou paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="nist-block "> <h2 class="nist-block__title"> <div class="string">Events</div> </h2> <div class="viewsreference"><div class="views-element-container"><div class="js-view-dom-id-343dfd58f498b6e56cf58cb78940adf685e48b97c2acfee497419eb9e9d1c2e6"> <div> <article role="article" about="/news-events/events/2023/01/2022-language-recognition-evaluation-lre-workshop" class="nist-teaser"> <div class="nist-teaser__content-wrapper"> <header> <h3 class="nist-teaser__title"><a href="/web/20230130210939/https://www.nist.gov/news-events/events/2023/01/2022-language-recognition-evaluation-lre-workshop"><span>2022 Language Recognition Evaluation (LRE) Workshop</span> </a></h3> <div class="nist-teaser__date"> <div class="smartdate">Tue, Jan 31 2023, 7:00am - 1:30pm EST</div> </div> </header> <div class="nist-teaser__content"> <div class="text-with-summary">The Language Recognition Evaluation (LRE) is an ongoing series of evaluations conducted by NIST since 1996. LRE is a</div> </div> </div> </article> </div> <div> <article role="article" about="/news-events/events/2023/02/introduction-draft-sp-800-157-rev-1-derived-piv-credentials-and-sp-800" class="nist-teaser"> <div class="nist-teaser__content-wrapper"> <header> <h3 class="nist-teaser__title"><a href="/web/20230130210939/https://www.nist.gov/news-events/events/2023/02/introduction-draft-sp-800-157-rev-1-derived-piv-credentials-and-sp-800"><span>An Introduction to Draft SP 800-157 Rev 1, Derived PIV Credentials and SP 800-217, PIV Federation</span> </a></h3> <div class="nist-teaser__date"> <div class="smartdate">Wed, Feb 1 2023, 8:00 - 10:30am EST</div> </div> </header> <div class="nist-teaser__content"> <div class="text-with-summary">A virtual workshop on February 1, 2023 will introduce the initial public drafts of two NIST Special Publications (SPs)</div> </div> </div> </article> </div> <div> <article role="article" about="/news-events/events/2023/02/tac2022" class="nist-teaser"> <div class="nist-teaser__content-wrapper"> <header> <h3 class="nist-teaser__title"><a href="/web/20230130210939/https://www.nist.gov/news-events/events/2023/02/tac2022"><span>TAC2022</span> </a></h3> <div class="nist-teaser__date"> <div class="smartdate">Fri, Feb 3 2023</div> </div> </header> <div class="nist-teaser__content"> <div class="text-with-summary">The Text Analysis Conference (TAC) is an annual community evaluation workshop for natural language processing tasks</div> </div> </div> </article> </div> <div> <article role="article" about="/news-events/events/2023/02/journey-nist-cybersecurity-framework-csf-20-person-working-sessions" class="nist-teaser"> <div class="nist-teaser__image"> <div class="entity-reference"> <a href="/web/20230130210939/https://www.nist.gov/news-events/events/2023/02/journey-nist-cybersecurity-framework-csf-20-person-working-sessions" hreflang="en"><img src="/web/20230130210939im_/https://www.nist.gov/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/2023/01/13/Picture1.png?itok=wTGtjHDy" width="100" height="75" alt="Journey to CSF 2.0 Working Sessions" loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image"/> </a> </div> </div> <div class="nist-teaser__content-wrapper"> <header> <h3 class="nist-teaser__title"><a href="/web/20230130210939/https://www.nist.gov/news-events/events/2023/02/journey-nist-cybersecurity-framework-csf-20-person-working-sessions"><span>Journey to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0 | In-Person Working Sessions</span> </a></h3> <div class="nist-teaser__date"> <div class="smartdate">Wed, Feb 22 - Thu, Feb 23 2023</div> </div> </header> <div class="nist-teaser__content"> <div class="text-with-summary">The collaborative process to update the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF), toward CSF 2.0, continues! 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