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NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)

NIST First Call for Multi-Party Threshold Schemes

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

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

Integrating Cybersecurity and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)

Author(s)
Stephen Quinn, Julie Anne Chua, Nahla Ivy, Robert Gardner, Karen Scarfone, Matthew Smith, Greg Witte
The increasing frequency, creativity, and severity of cybersecurity attacks means that all enterprises should ensure that cybersecurity risk is receiving

Validation in Forensic Science: Guiding Principles for the Collection and Use of Validation Data

Author(s)
Henry Swofford, Steven Lund, Barbara Guttman, Erica Romsos, Johannes Soons, Melissa Taylor, Hariharan Iyer, Peter Vallone, John Jones, Vincent Desiderio, John Butler, Sandra Koch, Robert Thompson, Gregory Fiumara, Edward Sisco, Kelly Sauerwein, Allison Getz, Robert Ramotowski
This document provides guidance to the forensic science community on method validation. Building on the definition of validation in ISO/IEC 17025, it explores

Safeguarding International Science: Research Security Framework

Author(s)
Gregory Strouse, Claire Saundry, Timothy Wood, Philip Bennett, Mary Bedner, Jeremy Schultz
The U.S. science and research ecosystem retains its leadership by actively engaging with the global community through the conduct of mutually beneficial

Environmental Measurements: A Needs Assessment

Author(s)
Julia Marrs, David Allen, Gerald Fraser
A summary is provided of the presentations, discussion, and findings from a two-and-a-half-day workshop on environmental measurements focusing on needs for new

Report on the May 2025 NIST Measurement Week: Realization of an OSAC draft Interim Performance Assessment for Terrestrial Laser Scanners Used by Law Enforcement Agencies

Author(s)
Balasubramanian Muralikrishnan, Katharine Shilling, Mary Gregg, Vincent Lee, Jason Keller, Erin Casey, Eugene Liscio, Bryon O'Neil, Mike Russ, Toby Terpstra
This report describes a terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) testing event, the NIST Measurement Week, held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

Single-photon Sources and Detectors Dictionary

Author(s)
Joshua Bienfang, Thomas Gerrits, Paulina Kuo, Alan Migdall, Sergey Polyakov, Oliver Slattery
The intention of this dictionary is to define relevant terms and metrics used in the characterization of single-photon detectors and sources with the goal to

Priming Additively Manufactured Cobalt-free Maraging Steels for Improved Properties via Changes to As-Built Microstructure

Author(s)
Alec Saville, Jake Benzing, Fan Zhang, Joseph Aroh, Jordan Weaver, Russell Evans, Nicholas Derimow, Samantha Webster, Nikolas Hrabe, Cassidy Allen, Newell Moser, May Martin, Jason Holm, Christin Aumayr, Tilman Seifert, Michael Hirtler
Supply chain challenges and health concerns have spurred the development of new Co-free, Cr-containing maraging steels with several new alloys already

Requirements for Cryptographic Accordions

Author(s)
Yu Long Chen, Michael Davidson, Morris Dworkin, John Kelsey, Yu Sasaki, Meltem Sonmez Turan, Alyssa Thompson, Nicky Mouha, Donghoon Chang
This report introduces the cryptographic accordion as a tweakable, variable-input-length strong pseudorandom permutation (VIL-SPRP) that is constructed from an
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