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NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)

ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2011 Requirements and Conformance Test Assertions

September 16, 2011

Author(s)

Christofer J. McGinnis, Dylan J. Yaga, Fernando L. Podio

The current version of the ANSI/NIST-ITL standard "Data Format for the Interchange of Fingerprint, Facial & Other Biometric Information" is specified in two...

Information System Security Best Practices for UOCAVA-Supporting Systems

September 15, 2011

Author(s)

Andrew Regenscheid, Geoff Beier, Santosh Chokhani, Paul Hoffman, Jim Knoke, Scott Shorter

IT systems used to support UOCAVA voting face a variety of threats. If IT systems are not selected, configured and managed using security practices commensurate...

Security Best Practices for the Electronic Transmission of Election Materials for UOCAVA Voters

September 15, 2011

Author(s)

Andrew R. Regenscheid, Geoff Beier

This document outlines the basic process for the distribution of election material including registration material and blank ballots to UOCAVA voters. It...

Report on VAMAS Round Robin of ISO 13067: Microbeam AnalysisElectron Backscatter DiffractionMeasurement of Average Grain Size

September 14, 2011

Author(s)

Adam A. Creuziger, Mark D. Vaudin

The authors recently participated in a round robin evaluation of a new ISO document draft, ISO 13067: Microbeam analysis Electron backscatter diffraction ...

Defining AFIS Latent Print "Lights-Out"

September 8, 2011

Author(s)

Stephen Meagher, Vladimir N. Dvornychenko

The term "lights-out" for AFIS ten-print fingerprint operations has been around for many years and is generally understood to mean "no human intervention is...

Energy Price Indices and Discount Factors for Life-Cycle Cost Analysis - 2011

September 8, 2011

Author(s)

Amy S. Rushing, Joshua D. Kneifel, Barbara C. Lippiatt

This is the 2011 edition of energy price indices and discount factors for performing life-cycle cost analyses of energy and water conservation and renewable...

Modeling and Simulation of Healthcare Systems for Homeland Security Applications

September 1, 2011

Author(s)

Charles R. McLean, Yung-Tsun Lee, Sanjay Jain, Charles W. Hutchings

The purpose of this document is to provide a foundation for establishing a modeling and simulation technical interest group whose focus is information exchange...

Modeling and Simulation of Critical Infrastructure Systems for Homeland Security Applications

September 1, 2011

Author(s)

Charles R. McLean, Yung-Tsun Lee, Sanjay Jain, Charles W. Hutchings

The purpose of this document is to provide a foundation for establishing a modeling and simulation technical interest group whose focus is information exchange...

Modeling and Simulation of Incident Management for Homeland Security Applications

September 1, 2011

Author(s)

Charles R. McLean, Yung-Tsun Lee, Sanjay Jain, Charles W. Hutchings

The purpose of this document is to provide: 1) a compendium of information pertaining to incident management modeling and simulation, and 2) a foundation for...

Modeling and Simulation of Hazardous Material Releases for Homeland Security Applications

September 1, 2011

Author(s)

Charles R. McLean, Yung-Tsun Lee, Sanjay Jain, Charles W. Hutchings

The purpose of this document is to provide: 1) a compendium of information pertaining to the modeling and simulation of hazardous material releases, and 2) a...

Trust-Based Multi-Agent Filtering for Increased Smart Grid Security

August 22, 2011

Author(s)

Ion Matei, John S. Baras, Vijay Srinivasan

We address the problem of state estimation of the power system for the Smart Grid.We assume that the monitoring of the electrical grid is done by a network of...

Common Platform Enumeration: Naming Specification Version 2.3

August 19, 2011

Author(s)

Brant Cheikes, David A. Waltermire, Karen Scarfone

This report defines the Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) Naming version 2.3 specification. The CPE Naming specification is a part of a stack of CPE...

Common Platform Enumeration: Name Matching Specification Version 2.3

August 19, 2011

Author(s)

Mary Parmelee, Harold Booth, David A. Waltermire, Karen Scarfone

This report defines the Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) Name Matching version 2.3 specification. The CPE Name Matching specification is part of a stack of CPE...

Common Platform Enumeration: Applicability Language Specification Version 2.3

August 19, 2011

Author(s)

David A. Waltermire, Paul R. Cichonski, Karen Scarfone

This report defines the Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) Applicability Language version 2.3 specification. The CPE Applicability Language specification is part...

Common Platform Enumeration: Dictionary Specification Version 2.3

August 19, 2011

Author(s)

Paul R. Cichonski, David A. Waltermire, Karen Scarfone

This report defines the Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) Dictionary version 2.3 specification. The CPE Dictionary Specification is a part of a stack of CPE...

Metallurgical Investigations Into Corrosion Damage in Homes Constructed with Problem Drywall

August 17, 2011

Author(s)

Richard E. Ricker, David J. Pitchure, Maureen E. Williams, Sandra W. Claggett

The U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission, Sandia National Laboratory (SNL), and NIST collaborated in an investigation into the effects of "problem drywall"...

Exposure and Fire Hazard Assessment of Nanoparticles in Fire Safe Consumer Products: Interagency Agreement Final Report

August 4, 2011

Author(s)

Rick D. Davis, Yeon S. Kim, Richard H. Harris Jr., Marc R. Nyden, Nasir M. Uddin, Treye Thomas

An innovative technology was evaluated to generate fire and health safe soft furnishings. Nanoparticle-based thin coatings on a polyurethane foam and nonwoven...

Trace Detection and Quantitation of Hydrogen Peroxide Permeation through Polymer Barriers

August 1, 2011

Author(s)

Tara M. Lovestead, Thomas J. Bruno

In this paper, a novel apparatus and fluorescence detection method for measuring the permeation of H 2O 2 through polymer barriers (i.e., plastic bottles, caps...

Security Risk Analysis of Enterprise Networks Using Probabilistic Attack Graphs

August 1, 2011

Author(s)

Anoop Singhal, Xinming Ou

Today's information systems face sophisticated attackers who combine multiple vulnerabilities to penetrate networks with devastating impact. The overall...

NIST Special Databse 32 - Multiple Encounter Dataset II (MEDS-II)

July 21, 2011

Author(s)

Andrew P. Founds, Nick Orlans, Whiddon Genevieve, Craig I. Watson

This document and associated dataset is an update to the Multiple Encounter Dataset I (MEDS-I), originally published by the National Institute of Standards and...

Conservation Law Based Cross-Layer Optimization of a Wireless Network for Diverse Rate/Delay Requirements

July 11, 2011

Author(s)

Vladimir V. Marbukh

Conventional approach to cross-layer network optimization assumes elastic users adjusting their bandwidth requirements in response to the resource congestion...

MBE Standardization and Validation

July 6, 2011

Author(s)

Joshua Lubell, Nathan W. Hartman, Doug Cheney

3D Model-Based Engineering (MBE) is an approach to product design, manufacturing, and support where a digital three-dimensional representation of the product...

Access Control for SAR Systems

July 1, 2011

Author(s)

Stephen Quirolgico, Chung Tong Hu, Tom T. Karygiannis

The Access Control for SAR Systems (ACSS) project focused on developing a prototype privilege management system used to express and enforce policies for...

Conformance Test Architecture and Test Suite for ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2007

June 22, 2011

Author(s)

Fernando L. Podio, Dylan J. Yaga, Christofer J. McGinnis

The Computer Security Division of NIST/ITL supports the development of biometric conformance testing methodology standards and other conformity assessment...

Specification for the Asset Reporting Format 1.1

June 21, 2011

Author(s)

David A. Waltermire, Adam Halbardier, Mark Johnson

This specification describes the Asset Reporting Format (ARF), a data model for expressing the transport format of information about assets and the...

Specification for Asset Identification 1.1

June 17, 2011

Author(s)

David A. Waltermire, John Wunder, Adam Halbardier

Asset identification plays an important role in an organization‟s ability to quickly correlate different sets of information about assets. This specification...

Mathematical Modeling of Wildland-Urban Interface Fires

June 1, 2011

Author(s)

Randall J. McDermott, Ronald Rehm

This paper presents a simple model to demonstrate the effect on grass-fire propagation of the winds induced by structural fires in a Wildland-Urban Interface...

Computer Security Division 2010 Annual Report

May 31, 2011

Author(s)

Patrick D. O'Reilly

This annual report covers the work conducted within the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Computer Security Division during Fiscal Year 2010. It...

Effects of JPEG 2000 Image Compression on 1000ppi Fingerprint Imagery

May 26, 2011

Author(s)

Shahram Orandi, John M. Libert, John Grantham, Kenneth Ko, Stephen S. Wood, Jin Chu Wu

This paper presents the findings of a study conducted to measure the impact of JPEG 2000 compression on fingerprint imagery at various levels of compression...

Robust Iris Recognition Baseline for the Grand Challenge

May 17, 2011

Author(s)

Yooyoung Lee, Ross J. Micheals, James J. Filliben, P J. Phillips

Due to its distinctiveness, the human iris is a popular biometric feature used to identity a person with high accuracy. The Grand Challenge in iris...

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