This report describes Rhode Island’s role, potential, opportunities, and vision for Maritime Innovation within the Southern New England Defense and Dual Use Ecosystem.
Category: Standards Compliance
Meet Polaris: Our New Chapter
Polaris is a nonprofit dedicated to driving business growth, innovation, and job creation in Rhode Island. It is a new organization created to unify its services under a single, accessible name that signifies its role as a trusted advisor and community partner.
Polaris Announces Rebrand to Strengthen Support for Rhode Island Manufacturers and Tech Companies
Polaris is a nonprofit dedicated to driving business growth, innovation, and job creation in Rhode Island. It is a new organization created to unify its services under a single, accessible name that signifies its role as a trusted advisor and community partner.
Disaster Preparedness: How Measurement Science Can Help Your Community
Disasters are low-probability but high-cost events, and that better measurement science — from valuing co-benefits to quantifying risk preferences — can make tough preparedness decisions more data-driven and easier for officials and residents to understand.
Rhode Island’s Economic Growth is Tied to the Ocean
Polaris is a nonprofit dedicated to driving business growth, innovation, and job creation in Rhode Island. It is a new organization created to unify its services under a single, accessible name that signifies its role as a trusted advisor and community partner.
What Must Change for Artificial Intelligence to Pay Off?
AI success is now an operating-model issue, not a technology issue, and calls for leaders to start with the work itself: mapping where rules versus judgment are needed, identifying high-impact failure points and treating AI as a teammate to onboard, not software to install.
How Standards and Testing Will Help Keep Self-Driving Vehicles Moving Safely on the Road
All aspects of human driving — instinctive decisions, driver collaborations and interacting with road infrastructure — must be replicated for automated driving. Many experts believe humans still have an edge over today’s technologies, but technology is rapidly improving. Industry, government and other partners are working toward replicating these aspects of human driving for automated vehicles (AVs) and building a supporting infrastructure.
NIST Engineers Design 5 New Ways to Connect Concrete Pieces for More Resilient Buildings
NIST engineers have introduced five new ways to connect precast concrete components that significantly enhance building resilience.
How Do Recycling Facilities Sort Different Kinds of Plastic?
When scientists need even more details about the composition of a plastic, they can use lab techniques that involve dissolving the plastic in a solvent, sometimes while heating. After dissolving a sample, the scientist might examine it using a technique called size exclusion chromatography, which takes advantage of the fact that smaller molecules move more slowly than bigger ones through a column or tube packed with porous beads.
Pawtucket Manufacturer’s Forum Provides Lively Conversation and Insights
On Tuesday, December 9, 2025, various manufacturers gathered at the Cooley Group’s Pawtucket headquarters for a stimulating conversation on the current state of Rhode Island manufacturing.