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Handbook (NIST HB)

NIST Handbook 44: Specifications, Tolerances and Other Technical Requirements for Weighing and Measuring Devices (2026 Ed.)

January 5, 2026

Author(s)

Loren Minnich, Gloria Lee, Juana Williams, Isabel Baucom, Jan Konijnenburg, John McGuire, Katrice Lippa

NIST Handbook 44 includes specifications, tolerances, and other technical requirements for weighing and measuring devices. These requirements are intended to...

NIST Handbook 130: Uniform Laws and Regulations in the Areas of Legal Metrology and Fuel Quality (2026 Ed.)

December 29, 2025

Author(s)

John McGuire, David Sefcik, Loren Minnich, Isabel Baucom, Katrice Lippa

NIST Handbook 130 includes a compilation of model laws and regulations and related interpretations and guidelines designed to encourage uniformity in the...

NIST Handbook 133: Checking the Net Contents of Packaged Goods (2026 Ed.)

December 29, 2025

Author(s)

John McGuire, David Sefcik, Loren Minnich, Elizabeth Benham, Isabel Baucom, Katrice Lippa

This handbook has been prepared as a procedural guide for the compliance testing of net content statements on packaged goods. Compliance testing of packaged...

NIST Handbook HB-150-3 2025 Edition

July 31, 2025

Author(s)

Derek Ho, Shelby Williamson, Hazel Richmond

NIST Handbook 150-3 presents the technical requirements and guidance for the accreditation of laboratories under the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation...

NIST Handbook 133: Checking the Net Contents of Packaged Goods (2025 Ed.)

January 10, 2025

Author(s)

John McGuire, David Sefcik, Loren Minnich, Isabel Baucom, Katrice Lippa

This handbook has been prepared as a procedural guide for the compliance testing of net content statements on packaged goods. Compliance testing of packaged...

NIST Handbook 130: Uniform Laws and Regulations in the Areas of Legal Metrology and Fuel Quality (2025 Ed.)

January 10, 2025

Author(s)

John McGuire, David Sefcik, Loren Minnich, Isabel Baucom, Katrice Lippa

This 2025 edition includes amendments made through the Committee on Laws and Regulations of the NCWM with technical guidance from the Office of Weights and...

NIST Handbook 44: Specifications, Tolerances, and Other Technical Requirements for Weighing and Measuring Devices (2025 Ed.)

January 10, 2025

Author(s)

Juana Williams, Loren Minnich, Gloria Lee, Jan Konijnenburg, Isabel Baucom, Katrice Lippa

NIST Handbook 44 includes specifications, tolerances, and other technical requirements for weighing and measuring devices. These requirements are intended to...

National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP) Fasteners and Metals

March 7, 2024

Author(s)

Janneth Marcelo, Titilayo Shodiya

NIST Handbook 150-18 presents the technical requirements and guidance for the accreditation of testing laboratories under the National Voluntary Laboratory...

NIST Handbook 130: Uniform Laws and Regulations in the Areas of Legal Metrology and Fuel Quality (2024-1 Ed.)

March 5, 2024

Author(s)

John McGuire, David Sefcik, Lisa Warfield, Yvonne Branden, Katrice Lippa

NIST Handbook 130 includes a compilation of model laws and regulations and related interpretations and guidelines designed to encourage uniformity in adoption...

NIST Handbook 130: Uniform Laws and Regulations in the Areas of Legal Metrology and Fuel Quality (2024 Ed.)

December 18, 2023

Author(s)

Lisa Warfield, John McGuire, Katrice Lippa

NIST Handbook 130 includes a compilation of model laws and regulations and related interpretations and guidelines designed to encourage uniformity in adoption...

NIST Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) Recognition Program Handbook, 7th Edition

December 11, 2023

Author(s)

Micheal Hicks, Georgia L. Harris, Katrice Lippa, Isabel Chavez Baucom, Elizabeth Koncki

Handbook 143 provides the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) performance standards and formalized...

NIST Handbook 44: Specifications, Tolerances, and Other Technical Requirements for Weighing and Measuring Devices (2024 Ed.)

November 15, 2023

Author(s)

Juana Williams, Loren Minnich, Jan Konijnenburg, Gloria Lee, Isabel Baucom, Katrice Lippa

NIST Handbook 44 is adopted by many state, local, and some federal weights and measures authorities to apply to commercial weighing and measuring equipment and...

NIST Handbook 130: Uniform Laws and Regulations in the Areas of Legal Metrology and Fuel Quality (2023 Ed.)

February 13, 2023

Author(s)

Tina Butcher, David Sefcik, Lisa Warfield, Shelby Bowers, Katrice Lippa

NIST Handbook 130 includes a compilation of model laws and regulations and related interpretations and guidelines designed to encourage uniformity in adoption...

NIST Handbook 133: Checking the Net Contents of Packaged Goods (2023 Ed.)

February 13, 2023

Author(s)

Tina Butcher, David Sefcik, Lisa Warfield, Elizabeth Benham, Shelby Bowers, Katrice Lippa

This handbook has been prepared as a procedural guide for the compliance testing of net content statements on packaged goods. Compliance testing of packaged...

NIST Handbook 44: Specifications, Tolerances, and Other Technical Requirements for Weighing and Measuring Devices (2023 Ed.)

January 30, 2023

Author(s)

Tina Butcher, Richard A. Harshman, Gloria Lee, Juana Williams, Jan Konijnenburg, Lisa Warfield, Katrice Lippa, Shelby Bowers, Elizabeth Benham

NIST Handbook 44 includes specifications, tolerances, and other technical requirements for weighing and measuring devices. These requirements are intended to...

National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP) Cryptographic and Security Testing

September 13, 2022

Author(s)

Bradley Moore, James F. Fox, Beverly Trapnell, Carolyn French

NIST Handbook 150-17 presents the technical requirements and guidance for the accreditation of laboratories under the National Voluntary Laboratory...

LIFE CYCLE COSTING MANUAL for the Federal Energy Management Program

May 18, 2022

Author(s)

Joshua D. Kneifel, David Webb

National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP) Homeland Security Applications: Radiation Detection Instruments

April 27, 2022

Author(s)

Bradley Moore, Leticia Pibida

NIST Handbook 150-23 presents the technical requirements and guidance for the accreditation of laboratories under the National Voluntary Laboratory...

LIFE CYCLE COSTING MANUAL for the Federal Energy Management Program

April 13, 2022

Author(s)

Joshua D. Kneifel, David Webb

NIST Handbook 105-2: Specifications and Tolerances for Reference Standard and Field Standard Weights and Measures (2021 Ed.)

January 4, 2022

Author(s)

Georgia L. Harris, Micheal Hicks

Handbook 105-2 is part of the Handbook 105-series of specifications and tolerances identified in NIST Handbooks 44, 130, and 133 for use as field standards in...

NVLAP Law Enforcement and Corrections Equipment

December 15, 2021

Author(s)

Timothy Rasinski, Jeffrey Horlick

NIST Handbook 150-24, NVLAP Law Enforcement and Corrections Equipment, presents the technical requirements and guidance for the accreditation of laboratories...

NIST Handbook 130: Uniform Laws and Regulations in the Areas of Legal Metrology and Fuel Quality (2022 Ed.)

December 10, 2021

Author(s)

Shelby Bowers, David Sefcik, Lisa Warfield

NVLAP Health Information Technology Testing

November 30, 2021

Author(s)

Bradley Moore, Asara Clark

NIST Handbook 150-31 presents the technical requirements and guidance for the accreditation of laboratories under the National Voluntary Laboratory...

NIST Handbook 44: Specifications, Tolerances, and Other Technical Requirements for Weighing and Measuring Devices (2022 Ed.)

November 29, 2021

Author(s)

Tina Butcher, Gloria Lee, Richard A. Harshman, Lisa Warfield, Shelby Bowers

NIST Handbook 44 was first published in 1949, having been preceded by similar handbooks of various designations and in several forms, beginning in 1918. NIST...

National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP) Voting System Testing

October 19, 2021

Author(s)

Bradley Moore, John Wack

NIST Handbook 150-22 presents the technical requirements and guidance for the accreditation of laboratories under the National Voluntary Laboratory...

NVLAP Federal Warfare System(s)

July 21, 2021

Author(s)

Bradley Moore, John Matyjas, Raymond Tierney, Jesse Angle, Jeannine Abiva, Jeff Hanes, David Dobosh, John Avera

NIST Handbook 150-872 presents the technical requirements and guidance for the accreditation of laboratories under the National Voluntary Laboratory...

NVLAP Energy Efficient Lighting Products

July 6, 2021

Author(s)

Timothy Rasinski, C Cameron Miller

NIST Handbook 150-1, NVLAP Energy Efficient Lighting Products, presents the technical requirements and guidance for the accreditation of laboratories under the...

NVLAP Cryptographic and Security Testing

June 30, 2021

Author(s)

Bradley Moore, Beverly Trapnell, James F. Fox, Carolyn French

NIST Handbook 150-17 presents the technical requirements and guidance for the accreditation of laboratories under the National Voluntary Laboratory...

NIST Handbook 44: Specifications, Tolerances, and Other Technical Requirements for Weighing and Measuring Devices (2021 Ed.)

May 3, 2021

Author(s)

Yvonne Branden

NIST Handbook 44 was first published in 1949, having been preceded by similar handbooks of various designations and in several forms, beginning in 1918. NIST...

National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program: Ionizing Radiation Dosimetry

November 17, 2020

Author(s)

Derek L. Ho

NIST Handbook 150-4, NVLAP Ionizing Radiation Dosimetry, presents the technical requirements and guidance for the accreditation of laboratories under the NVLAP...

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