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      **Latest Updates**

25 January 2024

ARIAC 2024 Kickoff Virtual Meeting

NIST is happy to announce the kickoff meeting for the Agile Robotics for Industrial Automation Competition(ARIAC) 2024. The kickoff meeting will take place on Wednesday, 31 January 2024, at 11:00 am Eastern time (1600 UTC).

The Agenda will be finalized by next Monday, but is tentatively:

Times listed as Eastern US Time (UTC TIME)

11:00 am - 11:10 am (1600 - 1610) - Introductions and Agenda

11:10 am - 11:30 am (1610 - 1630) - Background of NIST, Robotic Agility, and ARIAC

11:30 am - 12:30 pm (1630 - 1730) - Approaches of past ARIAC Teams

12:30 pm -   1:15 pm (1730 - 1815) - Updates to ARIAC 2024 & Demonstration

1:15 pm -   2:00 pm (1815 - 1900) - Open time for Questions and Answers with ARIAC Devs



To make sure to stay up to date with info as it comes out for ARIAC 2024, and to participate, please register at:https://bit.ly/ariac2024



*Connection Info for the Kickoff Virtual Meeting:*

Join the Microsoft Teams Meeting on your computer, mobile app or room device:

Click here to join the meeting

Meeting ID: 274 172 891 64

Passcode: BHxgCo

For more information about ARIAC, please check outhttps://www.nist.gov/ariac



25 August 2023

ARIAC 2023 Results

The Results for the Finals of ARIAC 2023 are finally ready to be announced!

Thank you to the four teams that completed the finals this year!

Team Reaper (Peng Zeng, Chunhe Song,Guangxi Wan, Haoran Liu,Haojie Chen,Ruikai Liu ,Yunpeng He, Qingwei Dong, Xiaoting Dong, Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, NCS Lab, Intelligent Manufacturing System Group) - 1st Place
	Team Runaround Robotics (Pramuditha Aravinda and Nishantha Randunu, https://www.runaroundrobotics.com) - 2nd Place ($10,000 prize)
	Team LAHNT (Isaac Saito) - 3rd Place ($5,000 prize)
	Team UTA Robotic Vision Lab (Minh Tram, William Beksi, University of Texas at Arlington, http://rvl.uta.edu) - 4th Place ($2,500 prize)The scoring was performed based on a combination of performance, efficiency, and cost metrics across the trials, in addition to the results from a panel of three Judges.

Congratulations to all the participating teams on their innovative solutions to the problems posed by the ARIAC2023 Competition.

Thank you all for your patience and support for the competition and we wish you good luck in future years as well!

If you would like to make sure you hear the latest information about the ARIAC 2023 Workshop as we announce it, please sign up at https://bit.ly/ariac2023.



22 May 2023

Release 1.5. and Finals Schedule

Attention Potential ARIAC Competitors,

Release Version 1.5 has been released on GitHub and here is an update to the schedule for the finals:

The final iteration of the Qualifiers Submissions will be run and feedback given via log files in your submission folder on Google Drive on Tuesday, 23 May 2023, so if you want to be included on that, make sure to submit your updated yaml file (see https://ariac.readthedocs.io/en/latest/automated_evaluation/automated_evaluation_overview.html for details) tonight.

For the Finals Submissions, in order to be considered for the finals you must have your correctly formatted files submitted into your submission folder by 8am Eastern (1200 UTC) on Monday 05 June 2023. If you would like to have a check (not scoring, just a check of 'Does my code compile or cause errors loading in the final Docker') then submit your scripts by Friday 26 May 2023 and send an email requesting a smoke test to ariac [at] nist.gov(subject: Smoke%20Test)(ariac[at]nist[dot]gov)

As a reminder, this year only, you do not need to participate in the qualifying round to be eligible for the finals, but it will help you to see how your system performs.  If you are interested in joining the competition after the qualifying round is over, please send an email to anthony.downs [at] nist.gov(anthony[dot]downs[at]nist[dot]gov) for further instructions.

Thank you all for your patience and support for the competition and we wish you good luck!

If you would like to register to make sure you hear the latest information about ARIAC 2023 as we announce it, please sign up at https://bit.ly/ariac2023.



11 May 2023

Automated Evaluation update to Release 1.4

Attention Potential ARIAC Competitors,

There is an update to Release 1.4 coming out shortly (if it is not already up on Github)

Please take a look specifically at the Automated Evaluations page ( https://ariac.readthedocs.io/en/latest/automated_evaluation/automated_evaluation_overview.html ) as these details have changed.

Please update your team's .yaml file in your google drive by Monday, 15 May 2023 at COB Eastern Time to be part of the qualifying round.

As a reminder, this year only, you do not need to participate in the qualifying round to be eligible for the finals, but it will help you to see how your system performs.  If you are interested in joining the competition after the qualifying round is over, please send an email to anthony.downs [at] nist.gov(anthony[dot]downs[at]nist[dot]gov) for further instructions.

We will send out an update to the schedule of deadlines via email, website, and https://ariac.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started/events.html next week.

If you have issues with the Release 1.4 Automated Evaluation, post them on the discussion page: https://github.com/usnistgov/ARIAC/discussions/242

Thank you all for your patience and support for the competition and we wish you good luck!



If you would like to register to make sure you hear the latest information about ARIAC 2023 as we announce it, please sign up at https://bit.ly/ariac2023.



01 May 2023

Update to the schedule for Qualifiers and Finals

Attention Potential ARIAC Competitors,

Some additional updates on the schedule and process for the Qualifiers and Finals:

* The Submission window for the Qualifiers is extended through this weekend (May 7, 2023)

* We are trying our best to keep the schedule for the Finals the same as previously published.



If your team is planning to submit for the Finals after the Qualifiers window has passed, please send an email directly to anthony.downs [at] nist.gov(anthony[dot]downs[at]nist[dot]gov) to get the updated instructions for this process.



If you would like to register to make sure you hear the latest information about ARIAC 2023 as we announce it, please sign up at https://bit.ly/ariac2023.



11 April 2023

Update to the schedule for Qualifiers

Attention Potential ARIAC Competitors,

Some quick updates on the schedule and process for the Qualifiers:

* We will have the Docker Instructions published by next Monday, 17 April.

* The deadline for submitting a package for the qualifiers smoke test and be guaranteed a response will by Friday, 21 April.

* We will get results back out regarding smoke tests by 25 April.

* The Deadline for Submitting for Qualifiers will remain Friday, 28 April.



If your team is planning to submit for the Qualifiers, please send an email with your desired Team Name and who (email addresses) you would like to have access to submit files into the folder for your submissions by Wednesday, 19 April to anthony.downs [at] nist.gov(anthony[dot]downs[at]nist[dot]gov)



If you would like to register to make sure you hear the latest information about ARIAC 2023 as we announce it, please sign up at https://bit.ly/ariac2023.



04 April 2023

Release 1.1, Tutorials, and our next ARIAC 2023 Office Hours

Attention Potential ARIAC Competitors,

The latest Release for ARIAC (Release 1.1 is out now, with the Human Challenge activated and more tutorials available in the documentation. For a full list of what has changed and to get to the documentation, please see the Github Repository at https://www.github.com/usnistgov/ARIAC/

Our Next Office Hours Session will be this Thursday (06 April) at 9 am Eastern Daylight Time (1300 UTC) for approximately 1 hour



Come and talk with the NIST Team and potentially get some answers to your questions.

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If you would like to register to make sure you hear the latest information about ARIAC 2023 as we announce it, please sign up at https://bit.ly/ariac2023.



15 March 2023

Our next ARIAC 2023 Office Hours

Attention Potential ARIAC Competitors,

Our Second Office Hours Session will be this Friday (17 March) at 10 am Eastern Daylight Time (1400 UTC) for approximately 1 hour



In future weeks, we will continue to adjust the time of this to better allow for more participation from other time zones.



Come and talk with the NIST Team and potentially get some answers to your questions.

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If you would like to register to make sure you hear the latest information about ARIAC 2023 as we announce it, please sign up at https://bit.ly/ariac2023.



08 March 2023

Announcing ARIAC 2023 Office Hours

Attention Potential ARIAC Competitors,

NIST is starting this year to hold Office Hours for ARIAC 2023.

Our first session will be this Friday (10 March) at 1 pm Eastern Standard Time (1800 UTC) for approximately 1 hour



In future weeks, we will try to adjust the time of this to better allow for more participation from other time zones.



Come and talk with the NIST Team and potentially get some answers to your questions.

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01 March 2023

ARIAC 2023 Competition Release (v1.0)

Attention Potential ARIAC Competitors,

Version 1.0 is now released on GitHub
You can find it at https://github.com/usnistgov/ARIAC
Good luck and we cannot wait to see your solutions this year!

If you would like to register to make sure you hear the latest information about ARIAC 2023 as we announce it, please sign up at https://bit.ly/ariac2023.



24 February 2023

ARIAC 2023 Competition Release (v1.0) delayed

Hello potential ARIAC Competitors!

The competition (v1.0) release of the ARIAC 2023 competition is being delayed to March 1, 2023 in order to make sure that all of the documentation is fully ready when we push this release out. We will send out an additional post on https://www.nist.gov/ariac and send out emails via the ARIAC2023 mailing list when the Release happens next week.

The schedule is now as follows:

Date
			MilestoneMonday, 23 January 2023
			"Beta" Software and Documentation ReleaseWednesday, 01 March 2023
			"Competition" (1.0) Software and Documentation ReleaseFriday, 24 March 2023
			Docker Instructions for CompetitorsMonday, 10 April 2023
			Qualifier Smoke Test BeginsMonday, 17 April 2023
			Qualifiers BeginFriday, 28 April 2023
			Qualifiers Submission DeadlineMon, 1 May - Fri, 5 May 2023
			Qualifiers Evaluation WeekMonday, 15 May 2023
			Finals Smoke Test BeginsMonday, 22 May 2023
			Finals BeginFriday, 26 May 2023
			Finals Submission DeadlineTuesday, 30 May 2023
			Finals EvaluationIf you would like to register to make sure you hear the latest information about ARIAC 2023 as we announce it, please sign up at https://bit.ly/ariac2023.



24 January 2023

ARIAC 2023 Beta Release

Hello potential ARIAC Competitors!

The beta release of the ARIAC 2023 competition is now up at https://github.com/usnistgov/ariac

If you would like to register to make sure you hear the latest information about ARIAC 2023 as we announce it, please sign up at https://bit.ly/ariac2023.



20 January 2023

ARIAC 2023 Schedule

An update on the schedule for ARIAC 2023

Our original plan of having the Beta Release of the Software and Documentation for today has to be pushed back to Monday, so the schedule is as follows:

Date
			MilestoneMonday, 23 January 2023
			"Beta" Software and Documentation ReleaseFriday, 24 February 2023
			"Competition" (1.0) Software and Documentation ReleaseFriday, 24 March 2023
			Docker Instructions for CompetitorsMonday, 10 April 2023
			Qualifier Smoke Test BeginsMonday, 17 April 2023
			Qualifiers BeginFriday, 28 April 2023
			Qualifiers Submission DeadlineMon, 1 May - Fri, 5 May 2023
			Qualifiers Evaluation WeekMonday, 15 May 2023
			Finals Smoke Test BeginsMonday, 22 May 2023
			Finals BeginFriday, 26 May 2023
			Finals Submission DeadlineTuesday, 30 May 2023
			Finals EvaluationWe apologize for the delay, but look forward to seeing your work and helping us find and fix any bugs starting next week!



If you would like to register to make sure you hear the latest information about ARIAC 2023 as we announce it, please sign up at https://bit.ly/ariac2023.



13 January 2023

ARIAC 2023 Launch Telecon Success and Recordings available

Thank you to all who took the time to attend the ARIAC 2023 Launch Telecon and helped make it a success!

We have the whole thing recorded and the presentations available if there are folks who are interested in seeing it who weren't able to attend in real-time.

If you would like access to the Google Drive with these files, please send an email to anthony.downs [at] nist.gov(anthony[dot]downs[at]nist[dot]gov) with the email that you want the Google Drive folder shared with.



If you would like to register to make sure you hear the latest information about ARIAC 2023 as we announce it, please sign up at https://bit.ly/ariac2023.



09 January 2023

ARIAC 2023 Launch Telecon

We are happy to announce the date for the ARIAC 2023 Launch Telecon and some initial information about the competition for 2023:

Date: Friday, 13 January 2023
Time: 11:30 am - 1:30 pm Eastern US Time (1630-1830 UTC)

Come join us for a rundown of new details and changes for ARIAC 2023

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19 December 2022

ARIAC 2023 Announcement

We are happy to announce the date for the ARIAC 2023 Launch Telecon and some initial information about the competition for 2023:

Date: Friday, 13 January 2023
Time: TBA

Come join us in January for a rundown of new details and changes for ARIAC 2023

If you would like to register to make sure you hear the latest information about ARIAC 2023 as we announce it, please sign up at https://bit.ly/ariac2023.

02 November 2022

ARIAC 2022 Workshop

We are happy to announce the date and a preliminary Agenda for the ARIAC 2022 Workshop:

Date: Monday, 07 November 2022
Time: 11:00 am - 2:00 pm (Eastern US Time)  1600 - 1900 UTC



Final Workshop Schedule (All times are Eastern US Time UTC - 5 hours)
	Time
			Speaker
			Presentation11:00 - 11:05
			Anthony Downs
			Introduction & Agenda11:05 - 11:20
			Craig Schlenoff / Anthony Downs
			NIST / ARIAC Overview11:20 - 11:35
			Zeid Kootbally
			ARIAC Environment11:35 - 11:45
			Anthony Downs & Angelo Ferrando
			ARIAC Metrics11:45 - 11:50
			Coffee / Bio Break11:50 - 12:05
			Team UTA RVL
			Team UTA RVL Approach12:05 - 12:20
			Team Runaround
			Team Runaround Approach12:20 - 12:30
			Team FER
			Team FER Approach12:30 - 12:35
			Coffee / Bio Break12:35 - 12:55
			Daniel Spencer
			IEEE Standards Group Work - Robot Agility Matrix12:55 - 13:15
			Justin Kinney
			Industry Representative - ROS-I13:15 - 13:35
			Addisu Taddese
			Industry Representative - Open Source Robots - Gazebo13:35 - 14:00
			NIST
			Open Discussion, Lessons Learned, & the Future of ARIACThis will be an online held through WebEx. The connection details are below.

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07 July 2022

ARIAC 2022 Results

We are happy to announce the results of the 2022 ARIAC Competition:

Team Reaper, Peng Zeng, Guangxi Wan, Tong Zhang, Haoran Liu, Yongchao Feng, Yunpeng He, Qingwei Dong, Xiaoting Dong, Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, NCS Lab, Intelligent Manufacturing System Group (1st Place)
	Team Sirius, (2nd Place, $10,000 prize)
	Team UTA Robotic Vision Lab, Minh Tram and William Beksi, University of Texas at Arlington, http://rvl.uta.edu (3rd Place, $5,000 prize)
	Team Runaround Robotics, Pramuditha Aravinda and Nishantha Randunu, https://www.runaroundrobotics.com (4th Place, $2,500 prize)
	Team Italian Job, Gerardo Puga, Ekumen, https://www.ekumenlabs.com/ (5th Place)
	Team FER (6th Place)The scoring was performed based on a combination of performance, efficiency and cost metrics across the trials, in addition to the results from a panel of three Judges.

Congratulations to all the participating teams on their innovative solutions to the problems posed by the ARIAC 2022 Competition.

20 March 2022

The ARIAC 2022 Software has been released!

The ARIAC Software is releasing tonight! Visit https://github.com/usnistgov/ariac for all the details and to be able to download the software and start building your competitors!

To register and make sure you receive notification for the future details as well as signing up to potentially participate in ARIAC 2022, go to https://bit.ly/ariac2022

15 March 2022

The ARIAC 2022 Software will release this weekend

Hello ARIAC 2022 Folks!
  We apologize for the delay in releasing the software for this year’s competition. We have been working to squash some bugs in the updated assembly task, and have been trying to get those worked out so that everything is working for all of you to build your competitors. However, we have been running into a number of issues that have made this take longer than expected.

The software will be released this weekend (although it may not be 100% finalized in regards to assembly) so that all of you can start your work on this year’s competition. Thank you all for your patience as we have been getting this ready for you all!

When the release happens this weekend, we will send an update through our website (https://nist.gov/ariac), as well as an email to the ARIAC 2022 list and update the github site (https://github.com/usnistgov/ariac)

To register and make sure you receive notification for the future details as well as signing up to potentially participate in ARIAC 2022, go to https://bit.ly/ariac2022

09 February 2022

The ARIAC 2022 Launch Telecon Recordings and Presentation Available

Thank you to all who were able to make it out to the Launch Telecon last week. We had over 30 participants throughout the session.

We were able to record the presentations and have the slides from Zeid's talk on the ARAC 2022 Environment.  If you would like access to the google folder where they are located, please send an email to: anthony.downs [at] nist.gov(anthony[dot]downs[at]nist[dot]gov)

To register and make sure you receive notification for the future details as well as signing up to potentially participate in ARIAC 2022, go to https://bit.ly/ariac2022

24 January 2022

The ARIAC 2022 Launch Telecon Agenda!

The NIST Team is working on ARIAC 2022 and our Launch Telecon will be taking place on Wednesday 02 February 2022 starting at 11:30 am EST (1630 UTC). Connection details are as follows:

Wednesday, February 2, 2022   11:30 AM  |  (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)  |  2 hrs https://nist-secure.webex.com/nist-secure/j.php?MTID=mea7b1db83010599f6...
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Meeting number (access code): 2760 365 5543 
Meeting password: EymgKYM?266

The Agenda will cover Background on NIST and the ARIAC Competition, Changes for this year's Competition, a Demonstration of the Environment, Where to Find the Latest ARIAC Info, and time for Q&A.

The Competition this year will be taking place in a very similar environment as last year, but with some changes. We'll be adding in a human element as well as tweaking some of the sensors. For full details, please make sure to come to the Launch Telecon.

To register and make sure you receive notification for the future details as well as signing up to potentially participate in ARIAC 2022, go to https://bit.ly/ariac2022

14 January 2022

The ARIAC 2022 Launch Telecon is coming soon!

The NIST Team is working on ARIAC 2022 and our Launch Telecon will be taking place on Wednesday 02 February 2022 starting at 11:30 am EST (1630 UTC). Connection details will be emailed out and posted here next week.

The Competition this year will be taking place in a very similar environment as last year, but with some changes. We'll be adding in a human element as well as tweaking some of the sensors. For full details, please make sure to come to the Launch Telecon.

To register and make sure you receive notification for the future details as well as signing up to potentially participate in ARIAC 2022, go to https://bit.ly/ariac2022

01 December 2021

ARIAC 2022 Planning is Under Way!

The registration portal for ARIAC 2022 is open and our planning is fully under way.  We'll be announcing the challenges later this month and details for the Launch Telecon will be posted here in January. To register and make sure you receive notification for the future details as well as signing up to potentially participate in ARIAC 2022, go to https://bit.ly/ariac2022

01 NOVEMBER 2021

ARIAC 2021 Workshop Recordings

The recordings and presentations for the ARIAC 2021 Workshop are available upon request.  Pease contact Anthony Downs <anthony.downs [at] nist.gov(anthony[dot]downs[at]nist[dot]gov)> Subject: ARIAC 2021 Workshop Recordings to get access to the files.  Thanks to everyone who was involved!

29 September 2021

ARIAC 2021 Workshop

We are happy to announce the date and a preliminary Agenda for the ARIAC 2021 Workshop:

Date: Tuesday, 05 October 2021
Time: 11:00 am - 3:00 pm (Eastern US Time)  1500 - 1900 UTC



Final Workshop Schedule (All times are Eastern US Time UTC - 4 hours)
	Time
			Speaker
			Presentation11:00 - 11:05
			Anthony Downs
			Introduction & Agenda11:05 - 11:20
			Anthony Downs
			ARIAC Overview11:20 - 11:40
			Zeid Kootbally
			ARIAC Environment11:40 - 12:00
			Anthony Downs & Angelo Ferrando
			ARIAC Metrics12:00 - 12:15
			Coffee / Bio Break12:15 - 12:30
			Team Reaper
			Team Reaper Approach12:30 - 12:45
			Team Italian Job
			Team Italian Job Approach12:45 - 13:00
			Team Boston University
			Team Boston University Approach13:00 - 13:15
			Team UTA RVL
			Team UTA RVL Approach13:15 - 13:30
			Coffee / Bio Break13:30 - 13:50
			Geza Szabo
			IEEE Standards Group Work13:50 - 14:10
			Matthew Robinson
			Industry Representative - SwRI / ROS-I14:10 - 14:30
			Louise Poubel
			Industry Representative - OSRF Gazebo & Ignition14:30 - 15:00
			NIST
			Open Discussion, Lessons Learned, & the Future of ARIACThis will be an online held through WebEx. The connection details are below.

**Join from the meeting link**https://nist-secure.webex.com/nist-secure/j.php?MTID=m8fbdd8e09963f1acb91edbc2ba85bc21

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15 September 2021

ARIAC 2021 Workshop

We are happy to announce the date and a preliminary Agenda for the ARIAC 2021 Workshop:

Date: Tuesday, 05 October 2021
Time: 11:00 am - 3:00 pm (Eastern US Time)  1500 - 1900 UTC

Preliminary Schedule:
First Session (approximately an hour): Introductions and presentations by the participating teams
Short Break
Second Session (approximately an hour): Presentations from judges and/or representatives from Industry
Short Break
Third Session (approximately an hour): Presentations by the NIST Team and Future of the Competition

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07 July 2021

ARIAC 2021 Results

We are happy to announce the results of the 2021 ARIAC Competition:

Team Reaper, Peng Zeng, Guangxi Wan, Qingwei Dong, Tong Zhang, Xiaoting Dong, Yunpeng He, Yongchao Feng, Shenyang Institute of Automation,Chinese Academy of Sciences, NCS Lab, Intelligent Manufacturing System Group (Link coming soon: http://ncs.sia.cn/Article/ShowArticle.asp?ArticleID=219 ) (1st Place)
	Team TheItalianJob, Gerardo Puga, Ekumen, https://www.ekumenlabs.com/ (2nd Place)
	Team Sirius, (3rd Place, $10,000 prize)
	Team Boston University ECE, Matthew Boyd, Tom Panenko, Forest Song, Eshed Ohn-Bar, Boston University Electrical & Computer Engineering Department (4th Place, $5,000 prize)
	Team UTA Robotic Vision Lab, Minh Tram and William Beksi, University of Texas at Arlington, http://rvl.uta.edu (5th Place, $2,500 prize)
	Team DRC Chargers, Rohith Venkataramanan , Arya Sasikumar, Iniyan Sasikumar, Sasikumar Allidurai, Dublin Robotics Cub www.dublinroboticsclub.com (6th Place)The scoring was performed based on a combination of performance, efficiency and cost metrics across the trials, in addition to the results from a panel of three Judges.

Congratulations to all the participating teams on their innovative solutions to the problems posed by the ARIAC 2021 Competition.

04 February 2021

Thank you to everyone who was able to attend our ARIAC 2021 Launch Telecon!

This Friday (05 February 2021) is the release date for the Software and the Specifications over on https://github.com/usnistgov/ARIAC/tree/ariac2021

As a reminder, any questions can be sent in to ariac [at] nist.gov(ariac[at]nist[dot]gov) and if you want to register to be able to compete this year and to receive our emails about the competition, go to bit.ly/ariac2021

We look forward to seeing the interesting solutions that teams come up with for this year's competition!

13 January 2021

ARIAC 2021 is getting closer! See below for details on the Launch Telecon!

This year's competition will be a Prize competition again with the same prize levels as previous years:

1st Place: $10,000
	2nd Place: $5,000
	3rd Place: $2,500As the time of the Launch Telecon gets nearer, we will release the Specifications for ARIAC 2021 on the GitHub site for ARIAC, which can be found at https://github.com/usnistgov/ARIAC/tree/master

We will be holding the Launch Telecon on 03 February 2021 at 1:30 pm Eastern Time (US & Canada) (UTC-05:00)

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