NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)

Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) Near-Real Time RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) Security

September 24, 2026

Author(s)

Scott Rose, Oliver Borchert, Simeon Wuthier, Douglas Montgomery

Radio Access Networks (RANs) are used to connect mobile network customer devices to the core network and the internet. Open RAN (ORAN) is an effort to have a...

Protecting Tokens and Assertions from Forgery, Theft, and Misuse: Implementation Recommendations for Agencies and Cloud Service Providers

September 15, 2026

Author(s)

Ryan Galluzzo, Andrew Regenscheid, Stephanie Nelson

This report provides implementation guidance to help federal agencies and cloud service providers (CSPs) protect tokens and assertions from forgery, theft, and...

Supply Chain Traceability Principles: A Manufacturing Meta-Framework

September 9, 2026

Author(s)

Michael Pease, Evan Wallace, Harvey Reed, Robert Martin, Vivian L Martin, Steve Granata

Manufacturing supply chains are vital to national security and economic resilience. As these networks become increasingly complex, tracing products back to...

Workshop on Rolling Next-Generation Secure Hardware Into Standards

September 1, 2026

Author(s)

Sanjay Rekhi, Nedim Goren, Yang Guo

The Sustainable Hardware Security (SUSHI@NIST) Workshop on January 26, 2026, convened stakeholders from industry, academia, and government to identify...

Workshop Report on Technologies and Use Cases for Smart Standards

August 10, 2026

Author(s)

Jacob Collard, Spencer Breiner, Eswaran Subrahmanian

This document reports the activities of a workshop held at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) on March 19–20, 2026 on the topic of...

Transit Cybersecurity Framework Community Profile

August 5, 2026

Author(s)

CheeYee Tang, Alex Alshtein, Eileen Division, Matt Hardison, Emma Holt, Christina Sames, Hillary Tran

The transit Cybersecurity Framework Community Profile is a Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) Community Profile developed to support United States-based transit...

Workshop Summary Report for "Cyber AI Profile" Hybrid Workshop #1

August 3, 2026

Author(s)

Katerina Megas, Julie Nethery Snyder, Bronwyn Patrick

This report summarizes the discussion at the April 2025 "Cyber AI Profile Workshop" in which NIST sought feedback toward the development of a NIST Cybersecurity...

Workshop Summary Report for "Cyber AI Profile" Hybrid Workshop

August 3, 2026

Author(s)

Katerina Megas, Barbara Cuthill, Christina Sames, Julie Snyder

This report summarizes the discussion at the January 2026 "Cyber AI Profile Workshop", which focused on the NIST IR 8596 Preliminary Draft of the NIST...

Digital Twins Workshops Summary Report

July 21, 2026

Author(s)

Simon Frechette, Guodong Shao, Michael Pease

This report summarizes the outcomes of a three-part NIST workshop series on digital twins for manufacturing. The workshops convened experts from industry...

RADmapper: An Interoperable Mapping Specification

July 15, 2026

Author(s)

Peter Denno

This report describes a data mapping language, RADmapper, designed to provide an interoperable exchange form for expressing the intent of typical mapping and...

Applied and Computational Mathematics Division Summary of Activities for Fiscal Year 2025

June 29, 2026

Author(s)

Ronald Boisvert, Andrew Dienstfrey

This report summarizes recent technical work of the Applied and Computational Mathematics Division of the Information Technology Laboratory at the National...

Workshop Summary Report for "Cybersecurity for IoT Workshop: Future Directions"

June 17, 2026

Author(s)

Michael Fagan, Jeffrey Marron, Barbara Cuthill

This report summarizes the presentations and feedback received by the NIST Cybersecurity for the Internet of Things (IoT) Program at the hybrid workshop on...

NIST IR 8374r1 Ransomware Risk Management: A Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 Community Profile

June 11, 2026

Author(s)

William Fisher, Murugiah Souppaya, William Barker, Karen Kent

Ransomware is a type of malicious attack where attackers encrypt an organization's data and demand payment to restore access. Attackers may also steal an...

Quasistatic Crack Formation in Multiphase Materials Driven by Internal Phases Expansion Mechanisms: Application to Cement-Based Materials

May 19, 2026

Author(s)

Osamah Dehwah, Edward Garboczi, Nicos Martys, Stephanie Watson

Internal crack formation and propagation are often found in concrete undergoing expansion of some internal phase or phases, driven by deterioration mechanisms...

Status Report on the Second Round of the Additional Digital Signature Schemes for the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Process

May 14, 2026

Author(s)

Dustin Moody, Gorjan Alagic, Maxime Bros, Pierre Ciadoux, Quynh Dang, Thinh Dang, John Kelsey, Jacob Lichtinger, Yi-Kai Liu, Carl Miller, Rene Peralta, Ray Perlner, Angela Robinson, Hamilton Silberg, Daniel Smith-Tone, Noah Waller

NIST is in the process of evaluating public-key digital signature algorithms for potential standardization to protect sensitive information into the foreseeable...

Twenty-First Annual Report on Federal Agency Use of Voluntary Consensus Standards and Conformity Assessment Activities

May 7, 2026

Author(s)

Nathalie Rioux

The FY 2017 summary, prepared by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), compiles the reports provided by 24 participating agencies listed in...

Foundational Cybersecurity Activities for IoT Product Manufacturers

April 20, 2026

Author(s)

Michael Fagan, Katerina Megas, Barbara Cuthill, Jeffrey Marron, Brad Hoehn

Internet of Things (IoT) products often lack product cybersecurity capabilities their customers—organizations and individuals—can use to help mitigate their...

NIST Time and Frequency Bulletin: February 2026 (No. 818)

March 20, 2026

Author(s)

Kelsey Rodriguez

Experimental Setup for the Comfort Evaluation in Automated Vehicle: Design and Implementation Framework

March 9, 2026

Author(s)

Wenqi Guo, Sanchit Kedia, Thomas Roth, Zeid Kootbally, Ninad Harishchandrakar, Edward Griffor, Hadhoum Hajjaj

This technical report outlines the design and implementation of a structured experimental framework to evaluate passenger comfort during braking in automated...

NISTIR 7082: Proficiency Testing Policy and Plan for State Weights and Measures Laboratories (2026 Ed.)

February 24, 2026

Author(s)

Micheal Hicks, Elizabeth Koncki, Tobias Herman, Isabel Baucom, Katrice Lippa

This publication provides the policies and plans for the Proficiency Testing (PT) Program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Office of...

NIST Time and Frequency Bulletin: January 2026 (No. 817)

February 5, 2026

Author(s)

Kelsey Rodriguez

The Time and Frequency Bulletin provides information on performance of time scales and a variety of broadcasts (and related information) to users of the NIST...

Alternative Fundamental Equation of State for Fluid Carbon Dioxide

February 2, 2026

Author(s)

Eric Lemmon, Allan Harvey, Robert Hellmann

We present a new fundamental equation of state for fluid carbon dioxide, which is an alternative to the current reference formulation published by Span and...

Bridging the Gap between Standards on Random Number Generation: Comparison of SP 800-90 Series and AIS 20/31

January 29, 2026

Author(s)

Elaine Barker, John Kelsey, Kerry McKay, Johannes Mittmann, Matthias Peter, Werner Schindler, Meltem Sonmez Turan

This report studies the cryptographic random number generation standards and guidelines written by BSI and NIST, namely AIS 20/31 and SP 800-90 Series. The aim...

The National Marine Mammal Tissue Bank Specimen Inventory Report

January 29, 2026

Author(s)

Jennifer Ness, Debra Ellisor, Jennifer Hoguet, Amanda Moors, Amanda Capuano, Rebecca Pugh

This report provides a brief background of the National Marine Mammal Tissue Bank (NMMTB), information on the composition of the collection, policies for...

NIST First Call for Multi-Party Threshold Schemes

January 20, 2026

Author(s)

Luis Teixeira D'Aguiar Norton Brandao, Rene Peralta

This document calls for public submissions of multi-party threshold schemes, and other related crypto-systems, to support the United States National Institute...

Database of Diffusion MRI Brain Scans at 64 mT and 3 T

January 8, 2026

Author(s)

Andrew Dienstfrey, Zydrunas Gimbutas, Joe Chalfoun, Adele Peskin, Kalina Jordanova, Kathryn Keenan, Stephen Ogier

Low-field magnetic resonance imaging offers the promise to significantly increase access to in vivo soft tissue imaging. The technology is both portable and low...

Twenty-Eighth Annual Report on Federal Agency Use of Voluntary Consensus Standards and Conformity Assessment

January 8, 2026

Author(s)

Karen Reczek

In FY 2024, of the 23 federal agencies that reported, four federal agencies added a combined total of six government unique standards (GUS) in lieu of voluntary...

NIST Time and Frequency Bulletin: November 2022 update

January 1, 2026

Author(s)

Kelsey Rodriguez

The Time and Frequency Bulletin provides information on performance of time scales and a variety of broadcasts (and related information) to users of the NIST...

An Improved Robotic Workcell for Operational Technology (OT) Research

December 18, 2025

Author(s)

Timothy Zimmerman, Michael Pease, Michael Dawson

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has constructed a discrete manufacturing workcell to support its operational technology (OT) and...

Staging Cybersecurity Risks for Enterprise Risk Management and Governance Oversight

December 18, 2025

Author(s)

Stephen Quinn, Nahla Ivy, Matthew Barrett, Robert Gardner, Matthew Smith, Greg Witte

This document is the third in a series that supplements NIST Interagency Report (IR) 8286, Integrating Cybersecurity and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM). This...