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Richard L. Steiner, Michael P. Farrell, Shannon Edwards, Thomas L. Nelson, Joni Ford, Sumaiyah Sarwat
Household and industrial electrical energy measurements are advancing into a Smart Grid stage, using solid-state watthour meters with communication capability...
This publication provides guidelines for evaluating data from advanced mass calibrations and for establishing measurement assurance programs in precision mass...
Richard A. Rouil, Chunmei Liu, Antonio Izquierdo Manzanares
There is a need to establish well-defined, public safety scenarios for the evaluation of current and future communication technologies for first responders. The...
Lawrence D. Nadel, Mary T. Laamanen, Michael D. Garris, Craig S. Russell
This document updates and replaces NISTIR 8161. This revised recommendation continues to focus on storing metadata to support video analytics. At the FBI's...
Shanee T. Dawkins, Yee-Yin Choong, Mary F. Theofanos, Kristen Greene, Susanne M. Furman, Michelle P. Steves, Sandra S. Prettyman
The public safety community has a unique opportunity to improve communication technology for incident response with the creation of the national public safety...
Cylindrical tensile specimens were designed and prepared for in situ mechanical testing using X- ray computed tomography (XCT). Powder bed fusion-based metal...
Jason E. Boehm, Heather Evans, Ajitkumar Jillavenkatesa, Maria Nadal, Mark A. Przybocki, Paul Witherell, Rebecca A. Zangmeister
The 2018 National Institute of Standards and Technology Environmental Scan provide an analysis of the external factors that can influence NIST and the...
To support NOAA's Marine Mammal Health and Stranding program, NIST Charleston was requested to investigate the feasibility of measuring polycyclic aromatic...
Luis T. A. N. Brandao, Nicky W. Mouha, Apostol T. Vassilev
The Computer Security Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology is interested in promoting the security of implementations of cryptographic...
Jeanice M. Brown Thomas, David L. Duewer, Margaret C. Kline, William A. MacCrehan, Robert Paule, Reenie Parris, Willie May, Robert Schaffer
From 1984 to 2017, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and its precursor the National Burearu of Standards (NBS) coordinated what became...
Gorjan Alagic, Jacob M. Alperin-Sheriff, Daniel Apon, David Cooper, Quynh H. Dang, Carl Miller, Dustin Moody, Rene Peralta, Ray Perlner, Angela Robinson, Daniel Smith-Tone, Yi-Kai Liu
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is in the process of selecting one or more public-key cryptographic algorithms through a public competition...
Julie Haney, Mary Theofanos, Yasemin Acar, Sandra Spickard Prettyman
Cryptography is an essential component of modern computing. Unfortunately, implementing cryptography correctly is a non-trivial undertaking. Past research...
Kelley L. Dempsey, Nedim S. Goren, Paul Eavy, George Moore
The NISTIR 8011 volumes focus on each individual information security capability, adding tangible detail to the more general overview given in NISTIR 8011...
In this report, we present network measurement of an ISA100.11a industrial wireless network operating with existing WiFi interference. The IEEE802.15.4-based...
The Interagency International Cybersecurity Standardization Working Group (IICS WG) was established in December 2015 by the National Security Council's Cyber...
This report documents performance of face recognition algorithms applied to the one-to-many identification of faces appearing in portrait images. The primary...
Chuck Barber, Bruce A. Benner Jr., Jeanice M. Brown Thomas, Carolyn Burdette, Johanna Camara, Stephen E. Long, Jacolin Murray, Melissa M. Phillips, Benjamin Place, Kate Rimmer, Laura J. Wood, Susan Tai, Siva K. Chinthalapati, Lee L. Yu
The NIST Health Assessment Measurements Quality Assurance Program (HAMQAP) was launched in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of...
NIST performed a large scale empirical evaluation of tattoo recognition algorithms. The test leveraged large operational datasets comprised of tattoo images...
The document provides both an overview and technical details of test scenarios that are designed by our group. Those test scenarios can be used to verify the...
Chuck Barber, Melissa M. Phillips, Laura J. Wood, Kate Rimmer, Steven J. Christopher
The NIST Dietary Supplement Laboratory Quality Assurance Program (DSQAP) was established in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of...
Maria K. Dillard, Jennifer F. Helgeson, Stephen A. Cauffman
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published the Community Resilience Planning Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems (NIST SP...
Blockchains are tamper evident and tamper resistant digital ledgers implemented in a distributed fashion (i.e., without a central repository) and usually...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published the Community Resilience Planning Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems (NIST SP...
Chuck Barber, Melissa M. Phillips, Kate Rimmer, Laura J. Wood, Steven J. Christopher
The NIST Dietary Supplement Laboratory Quality Assurance Program (DSQAP) was established in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of...
We describe models for the viscosity, thermal conductivity, and surface tension for selected fluids implemented in version 10.0 of the NIST computer program...
Yee-Yin Choong, Shanee T. Dawkins, Susanne M. Furman, Kristen Greene, Sandra S. Prettyman, Mary F. Theofanos
The public safety community is in the process of transitioning from the use of land mobile radios to a technology ecosystem including a variety of broadband...