Face professionals, your world just changed.
I and countless others have spent the last several years referring to the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Face Recognition Vendor Test, or FRVT. I guess some people have spent almost a quarter century referring to FRVT, because the term has been in use since 1999.
Starting now, you’re not supposed to use the FRVT acronym any more.
Face Technology Evaluations – FRTE/FATE
To bring clarity to our testing scope and goals, what was formerly known as FRVT has been rebranded and split into FRTE (Face Recognition Technology Evaluation) and FATE (Face Analysis Technology Evaluation). Tracks that involve the processing and analysis of images will run under the FATE activity, and tracks that pertain to identity verification will run under FRTE. All existing participation and submission procedures remain unchanged.
From https://www.nist.gov/programs-projects/face-technology-evaluations-frtefate
So, for example, the former “FRVT 1:1” and “FRVT 1:N” are now named “FRTE 1:1” and “FRTE 1:N,” respectively. At least at present, the old links https://pages.nist.gov/frvt/html/frvt11.html and https://pages.nist.gov/frvt/html/frvt1N.html still work.
The change actually makes sense, since tasks such as age estimation and presentation attack detection (liveness detection) do not directly relate to the identification of individuals.
Us old folks just have to get used to the change.
I just hope that the new “FATE” acronym doesn’t mean that some algorithms are destined to perform better than others.
Bredemarket 
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