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NIST operates in two primary Campuslocations, **Gaithersburg, Maryland,** and **Boulder, Colorado**.

NIST also has a remote location in **Rockville, Maryland** that is the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) that brings together experts from industry, government, and academia to address the real-world needs of securing complex IT systems and protecting the nation’s critical infrastructure.

NIST jointly operates research organizations in four additional locations explicitly established to promote cross-disciplinary collaborations that accelerate research results. See more about our other locations below.

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Open 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (ET)9700 Great Seneca Hwy, Rockville, MD 20850

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JILA, in Boulder, Colorado, is a world-class physics research institute jointly operated by NIST and the University of Colorado at Boulder.
	Hollings Marine Laboratory, in Charleston, South Carolina, a national center for coastal ocean science, in which NIST is one of five federal, state and university partners.
	The Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) (formerly CARB), in Rockville, Maryland, is an interdisciplinary partnership in cutting-edge biotechnology between NIST and the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute.
	The Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), in College Park, Maryland, is a new institute for advancing quantum physics research that is jointly operated with the University of Maryland.Physical security for those locations is not provided by NIST.

    
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