NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)

Development and Validation of Small Punch Testing at NIST

April 16, 2020

Author(s)

Enrico Lucon, Jake T. Benzing, Nikolas W. Hrabe

Small Punch (SP) testing is a methodology that uses tiny disks (generally 8 mm in diameter and 0.5 mm thick) to estimate mechanical properties of metallic...

NIST Instrumented Charpy Analysis Software (NICAS) - User's Manual

April 15, 2020

Author(s)

Damian S. Lauria, Enrico Lucon

The NIST Instrumented Charpy Analysis Software (NICAS) is a standalone LabVIEW program that can be used to analyze instrumented impact tests in accordance with...

Energy Price Indices and Discount Factors for Life-Cycle Cost Analysis - 2020 Annual Supplement to NIST Handbook 135

April 9, 2020

Author(s)

Priya Lavappa, Joshua D. Kneifel

Improving 3D Vision-Robot Registration for Assembly Tasks

April 3, 2020

Author(s)

Marek Franaszek, Geraldine S. Cheok, Karl Van Wyk, Jeremy A. Marvel

Quality registration between the coordinate frames of a perception system and a robot is important for the efficient operation of autonomous systems in vision...

NIST 2019 Interlaboratory Study to Determine Starch Content in Corn Grain Biomass Intermediates

March 26, 2020

Author(s)

Jacolin A. Murray

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is currently developing reference materials (RMs) to support the corn-to-ethanol industry. Two candidate RMs...

A Summary of Industrial Verification, Validation, and Uncertainty Quantification Procedures in Computational Fluid Dynamics

March 24, 2020

Author(s)

DongHun Yeo

Within a variety of CFD applications, their maturity levels can be significantly varied, depending upon e.g., modeling approach and progress of application...

Strategic Roadmap for Interoperable Public Safety Analytics

March 24, 2020

Author(s)

Diane E. Ridgeway

Since 9/11, the Department of Homeland Security has provided over $16 billion dollars in grant assistance to secure cities and non-profit organizations against...

Voices of First Responders – Examining Public Safety Communication from the Perspective of 9-1-1 Call Takers and Dispatchers: Findings from User-Centered Interviews, Phase 1, Volume 4

March 24, 2020

Author(s)

Michelle P. Steves, Mary Theofanos, Yee-Yin Choong, Shanee Dawkins, Susanne M. Furman, Kristen K. Greene, Sandra Spickard Prettyman

With the newly created Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network (NPSBN), the public safety community has a unique opportunity to review and improve...

Interoperability of Web Computational Plugins for Large Microscopy Image Analyses

March 20, 2020

Author(s)

Peter Bajcsy

This NIST internal report provides a summary of the workshop on Interoperability of Web Computational Plugins for Large Microscopy Image Analyses. The workshop...

Voices of First RespondersNationwide Public Safety Communication Survey Methodology: Development, Dissemination, and Demographics, Phase 2, Volume 1

March 20, 2020

Author(s)

Kristen Greene, Shanee T. Dawkins, Sandra S. Prettyman, Pamela J. Konkol, Mary F. Theofanos, Kevin C. Mangold, Susanne M. Furman, Michelle P. Steves

With the newly created Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network (NPSBN), the public safety community is in the process of supplementing the use of land mobile...

NIST Time and Frequency Bulletin

March 20, 2020

Author(s)

Kelsey A. 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...

Approaches for Federal Agencies to Use the Cybersecurity Framework

March 19, 2020

Author(s)

Jeffrey A. Marron, Victoria Y. Pillitteri, Jon M. Boyens, Stephen D. Quinn, Gregory A. Witte, Larry Feldman

Quantities and Units for Software Product Measurements

March 10, 2020

Author(s)

David W. Flater

International Organization for Standardization (ISO)/International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 80000, the International System of Quantities, collects and...

Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) Part 4: MORPH - Performance of Automated Face Morph Detection

March 6, 2020

Author(s)

Mei L. Ngan, Patrick J. Grother, Kayee K. Hanaoka, Jason M. Kuo

The FRVT MORPH test provides ongoing independent testing of prototype face morphing attack detection (MAD) technologies. The evaluation is designed to obtain...

SCAP Composer User Guide

February 28, 2020

Author(s)

Joshua Lubell

SCAP Composer is a software application for creating Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) source data stream collections from Extensible Markup Language...

A Roadmap for Successful Regional Alliances and Multistakeholder Partnerships to Build the Cybersecurity Workforce

February 20, 2020

Author(s)

Danielle R. Santos, Sanjay Goel, John Costanzo, Debbie Sagen, Patty Buddelmeyer

In September 2016, the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education, led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the U.S. Department of...

Forensic Handwriting Examination and Human Factors: Improving the Practice Through a Systems Approach

February 17, 2020

Author(s)

Melissa Taylor, Carolyne Bird, Brett Bishop, Ted Burkes, Michael P. Caligiuri, Bryan Found, Wesley P. Grose, Lauren R. Logan, Kenneth E. Melson, Mara L. Merlino, Larry S. Miller, Linton Mohammed, Jonathan Morris, John Paul Osborn, Nikola Osborne, Brent Ostrum, Christopher P. Saunders, Scott A. Shappell, H. David Sheets, Sargur N. Srihari, Reinoud D. Stoel, Thomas W. Vastrick, Heather E. Waltke, Emily J. Will

For some 6,000 years, humans have made an indelible mark on history through the loops, strokes, and other characters that constitute the written form of...

Verifying executability of SysML behavior models using Satisfiability Modulo Theory solvers

February 14, 2020

Author(s)

Raphael Barbau, Conrad E. Bock

This report presents an approach to verifying executability of system behavior models by treating them as logical constraint problems solved using...

Health Assessment Measurements Quality Assurance Program: Exercise 3 Final Report

February 13, 2020

Author(s)

Charles A. Barber, Carolyn Q. Burdette, Melissa M. Phillips, Catherine A. Rimmer, Laura J. Wood, Lee L. Yu, Shaun P. Kotoski

HAMQAP was launched in collaboration with the NIH ODS in 2017. HAMQAP was established to enable laboratories to improve the accuracy of measurements in samples...

Framework and Roadmap for Smart Grid Interoperability Standards Regional Roundtables Summary Report

January 30, 2020

Author(s)

Cuong T. Nguyen, Avi M. Gopstein, Danielle S. Byrnett, Kerry Worthington, Christopher Villarreal

From September to November 2018, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) partnered with the National Association of Regulatory Utility...

Dolphins In Human Care Sampling Protocol and Sample Entry Assistant (SEA) for Tissue Archival and Analyte Analysis

January 21, 2020

Author(s)

Colleen E. Bryan Sallee, Jared M. Ragland

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Pacific Marine Mammal Health Assessments (PMMHA) were initiated in 2010 as an expansion of NIST marine...

Face Recognition Vendor Test Part 3: Demographic Effects

December 19, 2019

Author(s)

Patrick Grother, Mei Ngan, Kayee Hanaoka

Measurement of Airborne Emissions from Extinguished Cigarettes: Final Report

December 16, 2019

Author(s)

Dustin G. Poppendieck

Three series of experiments were conducted in this study. First, studies were performed to the determine the relative distributions of the target chemicals in...

Voices of First Responders - Examining Public Safety Communication from the Rural Perspective

November 25, 2019

Author(s)

Kristen K. Greene, Shanee Dawkins, Mary Theofanos, Michelle P. Steves, Susanne M. Furman, Yee-Yin Choong, Sandra S. Prettyman

With the newly created Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network (NPSBN), the public safety community has a unique opportunity to review and improve...

Mission Critical Voice Quality of Experience Access Time Measurement Methods

October 15, 2019

Author(s)

Jaden K. Pieper, Jesse M. Frey, Chelsea J. Greene, Zainab O. Soetan, Silas T. Thompson, Donald A. Bradshaw, Steven Voran

Access time generally describes the time associated with the establishment of a talk path upon user request to speak and has been identified as a key component...

Status Report on the First Round of the NIST Lightweight Cryptography Standardization Process

October 7, 2019

Author(s)

Meltem Sonmez Turan, Kerry A. McKay, Cagdas Calik, Dong Hoon Chang, Lawrence E. Bassham

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is in the process of selecting one or more authenticated encryption and hashing schemes suitable for...

Formal Methods for Statistical Software

October 4, 2019

Author(s)

Paul E. Black

"Statistical software" encompasses several distinct classes of software. This report explains what formal methods, tools, and approaches may be able to increase...

NIST Fatty Acid Quality Assurance Program 2017 Final Report

October 1, 2019

Author(s)

Bruce A. Benner Jr., Jacolin A. Murray

At the request of the National Institutes of Healths (NIHs) Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) and in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and...

Cybersecurity Framework Manufacturing Profile Low Impact Level Example Implementations Guide: Volume 3 - Discrete-based Manufacturing System Use Case

September 30, 2019

Author(s)

Keith A. Stouffer, Timothy Zimmerman, CheeYee Tang, Michael Pease, Jeffrey Cichonski, Neeraj Shah, Wesley Downard

This guide provides example proof-of-concept solutions demonstrating how available open-source and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products could be implemented...

Cybersecurity Framework Manufacturing Profile Low Impact Level Example Implementations Guide: Volume 2 - Process-based Manufacturing System Use Case

September 30, 2019

Author(s)

Keith A. Stouffer, Timothy Zimmerman, CheeYee Tang, Michael Pease, Jeffrey Cichonski, Neeraj Shah, Wesley Downard

This guide provides example proof-of-concept solutions demonstrating how available open-source and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products could be implemented...