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A Guide to United States Furniture Compliance Requirements

June 28, 2016

Author(s)

Karen Reczek, lisa benson

This guide addresses childrens furniture, upholstered furniture and other types of furniture. This document does NOT address mattresses or other home...

A Guide to United States Footwear Compliance Requirements

June 28, 2016

Author(s)

Karen Reczek, Lisa M. Benson

Identifying And Categorizing Data Types for Public Safety Mobile Applications Workshop Report

June 1, 2016

Author(s)

Michael A. Ogata

The Association of Public-Safety Communications (APCO), in cooperation with FirstNet and the Department of Commerce held a half-day workshop on June 2, 2015...

End-to-End Quality Information Framework (QIF) Technology Survey

May 9, 2016

Author(s)

John L. Michaloski, Thomas D. Hedberg, Hui-Min Huang, Thomas R. Kramer

The goal of this paper is to understand how quality information characterizing the manufactured parts can be reported in a XML standardized format. The Quality...

Feasibility Studies for Technologies to Effectively Scrub Soot from Small-Scale Fire Experiments

May 5, 2016

Author(s)

Anthony P. Hamins, Thomas G. Cleary, Matthew F. Bundy

Elimination of particulate from fire exhaust streams is a common issue for fire labs. Two series of fire experiments were conducted in the National Fire...

Applied and Computational Mathematics Division: Summary of Activities for Fiscal Year 2015

May 3, 2016

Author(s)

Ronald F. Boisvert

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

Report on Post-Quantum Cryptography

April 28, 2016

Author(s)

Lidong Chen, Stephen P. Jordan, Yi-Kai Liu, Dustin Moody, Rene C. Peralta, Ray A. Perlner, Daniel C. Smith-Tone

In recent years, there has been a substantial amount of research on quantum computers - machines that exploit quantum mechanical phenomena to solve mathematical...

STEP File Analyzer User's Guide (Version 3)

April 27, 2016

Author(s)

Robert R. Lipman

This guide describes how to use the STEP File Analyzer, a software tool that analyzes and generates a spreadsheet from a STEP (STandard for the Exchange of...

Baseline Tailor User Guide

April 25, 2016

Author(s)

Joshua Lubell

This guide describes how to use Baseline Tailor, a software tool for navigating the United States Government's Cybersecurity Framework and for tailoring the...

Measuring the Usability and Security of Permuted Passwords on Mobile Platforms

April 25, 2016

Author(s)

Kristen K. Greene, John M. Kelsey, Joshua M. Franklin

Password entry on mobile devices significantly impacts both usability and security, but there is a lack of usable security research in this area, specifically...

Guidelines for the Creation of Interoperable Software Identification (SWID) Tags

April 22, 2016

Author(s)

David A. Waltermire, Brant Cheikes, Larry Feldman, Gregory A. Witte

This report provides an overview of the capabilities and usage of software identification (SWID) tags as part of a comprehensive software lifecycle. As...

A Guide to United States Apparel and Household Textiles Compliance Requirements

April 21, 2016

Author(s)

Karen Reczek, Lisa M. Benson

This guide addresses apparel, including childrens apparel, and household textiles. It does not include other textiles, such as sleeping bags, tents, sporting...

OAGi/NIST Workshop on Open Cloud Architecture for Smart Manufacturing

April 20, 2016

Author(s)

Nenad Ivezic, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Yan Lu, Yunsu Lee, Jaehun Lee, Albert W. Jones, Simon P. Frechette

This report summarizes the results from the OAGi/NIST Workshop on Open Cloud Architecture for Smart Manufacturing, which was held at the National Institute of...

Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative 2014/2015 Hydrocarbon Intercalibration Experiment: Description and Results for SRM 2779 Gulf of Mexico Crude Oil and Candidate SRM 2777 Weathered Gulf of Mexico Crude Oil

April 20, 2016

Author(s)

Jacolin A. Murray, Lane C. Sander, Stephen A. Wise, Christopher M. Reddy

Following an open meeting entitled, Hydrocarbon Chemistry QA/QC, at the 2014 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill and Ecosystem Science Conference in Mobile, Alabama, the...

Supplementary information for a round robin study of additively manufactured nickel alloy (IN625) tension specimens

April 5, 2016

Author(s)

Christopher U. Brown, Gregor Jacob, Mark R. Stoudt, Antonio M. Possolo, Shawn P. Moylan, M A. Donmez

NIST Cryptographic Standards and Guidelines Development Process

March 31, 2016

Author(s)

Andrew R. Regenscheid

This document describes the principles, processes and procedures that drive cryptographic standards and guidelines development efforts at the National Institute...

SATE V Ockham Sound Analysis Criteria

March 22, 2016

Author(s)

Paul E. Black, Athos Ribeiro

Static analyzers examine the source or executable code of programs to find problems. Many static analyzers use some heuristics or approximations to handle...

End-to-end Demonstration of the Quality Information Framework (QIF) Standard at the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) 2014

March 15, 2016

Author(s)

Hui-Min Huang, John L. Michaloski, Daniel Campbell, Robert Stone, Thomas Kramer, Curtis Brown, Robert Brown, Gavrai Tatarliev, William Sobel, Lyle Fischer

The "Silos of Quality" in manufacturing can be described as the proliferation of customized quality languages for different stages of production. This quality...

NSTIC Pilots: Catalyzing the Identity Ecosystem [including updates as of 09-20-2015]

March 15, 2016

Author(s)

Katerina N. Megas, Philip Lam, Ellen M. Nadeau, Colin Soutar

Pilots are an integral part of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC), issued by the White House in 2011 to encourage enhanced...

Tattoo Recognition Technology - Best Practices (Tatt-BP): Guidelines for Tattoo Image Collection

February 25, 2016

Author(s)

Mei L. Ngan, George W. Quinn, Patrick J. Grother

This document, along with a supplementary poster and a set of instructional slides, provides best practice guidelines for the collection of good quality tattoo...

Optimization of Registration Performance Metrics

February 25, 2016

Author(s)

Marek Franaszek, Geraldine Cheok

Perception systems are a very important component of automation and robotics. These systems localize objects in its local coordinate frame and the data has to...

Current Standards Landscape for Smart Manufacturing Systems

February 23, 2016

Author(s)

Yan Lu, Katherine C. Morris, Simon P. Frechette

The future of manufacturing lies in being able to optimize the use of resources to produce high quality product and adapt quickly to changing conditions. From...

The New Frontiers in Computational Modeling of Material Structures

February 23, 2016

Author(s)

Vijay Srinivasan, Jarek Rossignac, Vadim Shapiro, William Regli

We are witnessing the emergence of a new paradigm in the modeling of material structures. It stems from the digitization of manufacturing and is fueled by...

2014 NIST Assessment of Phasor Measurement Unit Performance

February 9, 2016

Author(s)

Allen R. Goldstein

The first synchrophasor standard was published in 1995. The standard was revised in 2001, 2005, 2011, and 2014 with evolving performance requirements. In 2012...

Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) Version 1.2 Validation Program Test Requirements

January 28, 2016

Author(s)

Melanie Cook, Stephen D. Quinn, David A. Waltermire, Dragos Prisaca

This report defines the requirements and associated test procedures necessary for products or modules to achieve one or more Security Content Automation...

Derived Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Credentials (DPC) Proof of Concept Research

January 20, 2016

Author(s)

Michael J. Bartock, Jeffrey A. Cichonski, Murugiah P. Souppaya, Paul Fox, Mike Miller, Ryan Holley, Karen Scarfone

This report documents proof of concept research for Derived Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Credentials. Smart card-based PIV Cards cannot be readily used...

A Rational Foundation for Software Metrology

January 20, 2016

Author(s)

David W. Flater, Paul E. Black, Elizabeth N. Fong, Raghu N. Kacker, Vadim Okun, Stephen S. Wood, David R. Kuhn

Much software research and practice involves ostensible measurements of software, yet little progress has been made on an SI-like metrological foundation for...

Calibration and Measurement Procedures for a High Magnification Thermal Camera

January 8, 2016

Author(s)

Brandon M. Lane, Eric P. Whitenton

Infrared thermography is a relatively mature measurement science, however systematic evaluation of measurement uncertainty for multi-point measurement (an...

A metamodel for optimization problems

January 8, 2016

Author(s)

Ibrahim Assouroko, Peter O. Denno

In mathematics, computer science, and operations research, mathematical optimization is the process of finding best feasible values (oftentimes maxima or minima...

Benchmarking Robot Force Control Capabilities: Experimental Results

January 7, 2016

Author(s)

Joseph A. Falco, Jeremy A. Marvel, Richard J. Norcross, Karl Van Wyk

Metrics and test methods are needed to characterize the control capabilities of robots with both intrinsic and extrinsic force sensing. The availability of...

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