Conformance testing

News and Updates

IEEE 1451.0 - 2024 Standard Published Under Leadership of NIST Researchers

July 1, 2024

NIST researchers Eugene Song and Kang Lee chaired and led the development of the IEEE 1451.0 TM-2024 Standard for a Smart Transducer Interface for Sensors and

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NIST Helps Facilitate First-Ever Spectrum Sharing Between Military and Commercial Wireless Users

March 22, 2018

For the past three years, an important broker has had its eyes on a prime piece of property that it wants to allocate to multiple tenants to ensure maximum use

Updated NIST Software Uses Combination Testing to Catch Bugs Fast and Easy

November 9, 2010

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have released an updated version of a computer system testing tool that can cut costs

Projects and Programs

Digital Thread for Manufacturing

Ongoing

Purpose and Goals This project will provide research advances in product-definition standardization, conformance testing, and cybersecurity of data assets. Digital thread standards capabilities and infrastructure - Smart connected manufacturing requires the effective communication of the product

Software Performance Project

Completed

The mission of the Software Performance project is to strengthen the scientific foundations of software performance measurement ("metrology for IT"). Its goals are: Application: Replace unreliable common practices with rigorously-studied methods grounded in design of experiments Research: Solve

Cybersecurity for Smart Grid Systems

Completed

Objective: To develop the measurement science needed to advance the development and standardization of cybersecurity, including privacy, policies, measures, procedures, and resiliency, in the smart electric grid. What is the new technical idea? As a result of deployment of new smart grid

National Checklist Program

Ongoing

For more information regarding the National Checklist Program, please visit the Computer Security Resource Center (CSRC).

Publications

An Abstract Model for Digital Forensic Tools - A Foundation for Systematic Error Mitigation Analysis

March 15, 2024

Author(s)

Chris Hargreaves, Alexander Nelson, Eoghan Casey

As automation within digital forensic tools becomes more advanced there is a need for a systematic approach to ensure the validity, reliability, and

CMVP Approved Security Functions

July 25, 2023

Author(s)

Alexander Calis

The approved security functions listed in this publication replace the ones listed in International Organization for Standardization/International

CMVP Approved Sensitive Security Parameter Generation and Establishment Methods

July 25, 2023

Author(s)

Alexander Calis

The approved sensitive security parameter generation and establishment methods listed in this publication replace the ones listed in International Organization

Discovery of digital forensic dataset characteristics with CASE-Corpora

February 13, 2023

Author(s)

Alexander Nelson, Eoghan Casey

The digital forensics community has generated training and reference data over the course of decades. However, significant challenges persist today in the usage