# National Institute of Standards and Technology **Domain:** Austin Research / Institutions **Doc Type:** Research entity **Source basis:** Supplied research cluster with linked references; see the [[wiki/Austin Research Evidence Map|evidence map]] for verification scope. **National Institute of Standards and Technology** is the federal measurement and standards institution named as an [[wiki/IARPA Odin|IARPA Odin]] testing and evaluation partner. It occupies the assurance side of the biometric program: performance claims need controlled tests and defined conditions. The comparison with [[wiki/PECOS|PECOS]] concerns the importance of evaluation, while biometric error rates and physical-model VVUQ measure different things. The official Odin page is the source for this specific program role. It provides an independently identifiable edge in the larger Austin research map. ## Connected entries [[wiki/IARPA Odin|IARPA Odin]] · [[wiki/Biometric Presentation Attack Detection|Biometric Presentation Attack Detection]] · [[wiki/Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity|Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity]] ## Sources and corpus context - [[research/The Austin Executable Loop|The Austin Executable Loop — master document]] - [[research/Oden Institute - Machine Learning, Medicine, and Terrorism|Oden Institute - Machine Learning, Medicine, and Terrorism]] - [[research/ODIN - Observe, Detect, Identify, Neutralize|ODIN - Observe, Detect, Identify, Neutralize]] - [IARPA Odin Program](https://www.iarpa.gov/research-programs/odin) **Cluster:** [[wiki/Austin Executable Loop|Austin Executable Loop]] · [[wiki/Austin Research Evidence Map|Austin Research Evidence Map]]