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NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)

What does the pixel measure?

January 11, 2023

Author(s)

David W. Flater

The pixel is often used as a unit of measurement in information technology. Unfortunately, there is not a simple, consistently-applicable answer to what it is a...

Twenty-Fifth Annual Report on Federal Agency Use of Voluntary Consensus Standards and Conformity Assessment

January 10, 2023

Author(s)

Nathalie Rioux

Annually since 1997, the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) provides a report to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) summarizing federal agency use of...

Satellite Ground Segment: Applying the Cybersecurity Framework to Satellite Command and Control

December 30, 2022

Author(s)

Joseph Brule, Theresa Suloway, Suzanne Lightman

Space operations are increasingly important to the national and economic security of the United States. Commercial space's contribution to the critical...

Cannabis Quality Assurance Program: Exercise 2 Toxic Elements Final Report

December 15, 2022

Author(s)

Chuck Barber, Colleen E. Bryan Sallee, Carolyn Burdette, Shaun Kotoski, Melissa M. Phillips, Walter Brent Wilson, Laura Wood

In 2020, NIST launched CannaQAP to improve the comparability of the analytical measurements of cannabis and cannabis-derived products in forensic and cannabis...

Health Assessment Measurements Quality Assurance Program: Exercise 7 Final Report

December 5, 2022

Author(s)

Chuck Barber, Carolyn Burdette, Hugh Hayes, Monique Johnson, Shaun Kotoski, Jacolin Murray, Melissa M. Phillips, Kate Rimmer, Andrea Yarberry, Laura J. Wood

The Health Assessment Measurements Quality Assurance Program (HAMQAP) was launched in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of...

Making Semantic Structures Explicit: Developing and Evaluating Tools and Techniques to Support Understanding of Large Cybersecurity Corpora

December 1, 2022

Author(s)

Ira Monarch, Jacob Collard, Sangjin Shin, Eswaran Subrahmanian, Talapady N. Bhat, Ram Sriram

This report describes the adaptation, composition and use of natural language processing, machine learning and other computational tools to help make implicit...

On the Feasibility of COVID-19 Proximity Detection Using Bluetooth Low Energy Signals

November 29, 2022

Author(s)

Nader Moayeri, Chang Li, Lu Shi

The COrona VIrus Disease – 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a profound effect on the entire world. With the onset of the pandemic in 2020, also started various...

Cannabis Laboratory Quality Assurance Program: Exercise 2 Moisture Final Report

November 29, 2022

Author(s)

Chuck Barber, Colleen E. Bryan Sallee, Carolyn Burdette, Shaun Kotoski, Melissa M. Phillips, Walter Brent Wilson, Laura Wood

In 2020, NIST launched Cannabis Laboratory Quality Assurance Program (CannaQAP) to improve the comparability of the analytical measurements of cannabis and...

Voices of First Responders: How to Facilitate Adoption and Usage of Communication Technology - An Integrated Analysis of Qualitative and Quantitative Findings

November 28, 2022

Author(s)

Yee-Yin Choong, Kerrianne Buchanan, Shanee Dawkins, Sandra Spickard Prettyman

The Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network (NPSBN) is being developed to provide a dedicated network for the use of first responders during incident...

Digital Investigation Techniques: A NIST Scientific Foundation Review

November 21, 2022

Author(s)

James R. Lyle, Barbara Guttman, John Butler, Kelly Sauerwein, Christina Reed, Corrine Lloyd

This document is an assessment of the scientific foundations of digital forensics. We examined descriptions of digital investigation techniques from peer...

Voices of First Responders -- Nationwide Public Safety Communication Survey Findings: Statistical Analysis Results Phase 2, Volume 4

November 21, 2022

Author(s)

Adam L. Pintar, Kerrianne Buchanan, Yee-Yin Choong

Public safety is in the midst of a major transition in the communication technology that they use due to the ongoing development and deployment of the...

Using Business Impact Analysis to Inform Risk Prioritization and Response

November 17, 2022

Author(s)

Stephen Quinn, Nahla Ivy, Julie Chua, Matthew Barrett, Greg Witte, Larry Feldman, Daniel Topper, Robert Gardner

While business impact analysis (BIA) has historically been used to determine availability requirements for business continuity, the process can be extended to...

Measuring the Common Vulnerability Scoring System Base Score Equation

November 15, 2022

Author(s)

Peter Mell, Jonathan Spring, Dave Dugal, Srividya Ananthakrishna, Francesco Casotto, Troy Fridley, Christopher Ganas, Arkadeep Kundu, Phillip Nordwall, Vijayamurugan Pushpanathan, Daniel Sommerfeld, Matt Tesauro, Christopher Turner

This work evaluates the validity of the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Version 3 ''base score'' equation in capturing the expert opinion of its...

Workshop Report: Standards and Performance Metrics for On-Road Autonomous Vehicles

October 27, 2022

Author(s)

Craig I. Schlenoff, Suzanne Lightman, Vinh Nguyen, Prem Rachakonda, Tao Zhang, Omar Aboul-Enein, Nicholas Barbosa, C Cameron Miller, Daniel Sawyer, Ann Virts

On-road autonomous vehicles are expected to significantly influence key aspects of everyday life. However, these complex systems can pose a safety risk in the...

Bounding the Structure Separation Distance: A Modeling Study in Support of the Structure Separation Experiments Project

October 20, 2022

Author(s)

Kuldeep Prasad, Alexander Maranghides

The primary objective of the Structure Separation Experiment project is to assess structure-to-structure fire spread for structures located in the Wildland...

CSAFE Bitemark Thinkshop Report

October 11, 2022

Author(s)

NFN CSAFE, Kelly Sauerwein

This is supplemental information to NISTIR 8352 Bitemark Analysis: A NIST Scientific Foundation Review. NIST asked the Center for Statistics and Applications in...

Standards and Guidelines in Forensic Odontology

October 11, 2022

Author(s)

Karen Reczek

This report provides supplemental information to NISTIR 8352 Bitemark Analysis: A NIST Scientific Foundation Review. Standards and guidelines from the American...

Bitemark Analysis Reference List

October 11, 2022

Author(s)

Kelly Sauerwein

This report provides supplemental information to NISTIR 8352 Bitemark Analysis: A NIST Scientific Foundation Review. Publicly available resources relating to...

Summary of Published Criticisms of Bitemark Foundations and Responses by Forensic Odontologists

October 11, 2022

Author(s)

John Butler

This report provides supplemental information to NISTIR 8352 Bitemark Analysis: A NIST Scientific Foundation Review. This report summarizes the concerns raised...

Panel Summary Report: Risk Management & Industrial Artificial Intelligence, INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2021 (Virtual)

September 30, 2022

Author(s)

Mehdi Dadfarnia, Michael Sharp

Risk management is an important topic in any domain. With the growing acceptance and adoption of Industrial Artificial Intelligence (IAI), both the academic and...

Status Report on the Third Round of the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Process

September 29, 2022

Author(s)

Gorjan Alagic, Daniel Apon, David Cooper, Quynh Dang, Thinh Dang, John M. Kelsey, Jacob Lichtinger, Yi-Kai Liu, Carl A. Miller, Dustin Moody, Rene Peralta, Ray Perlner, Angela Robinson, Daniel Smith-Tone

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is in the process of selecting public-key cryptographic algorithms through a public, competition-like process...

Ongoing Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) Part 9a: Face Recognition Verification Accuracy on Distinguishing Twins

September 22, 2022

Author(s)

Kayee Hanaoka, Mei Lee Ngan, Patrick J. Grother, Austin Hom

NIST Micronutrients Measurement Quality Assurance Program: Performance History of the Fat-Soluble Vitamin-Related Studies

September 21, 2022

Author(s)

David L. Duewer, Jeanice "Brown Thomas ", Margaret Kline, Willie May, Katherine E. Sharpless

From 1984 to 2017, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Micronutrients Measurement Quality Assurance Program (MMQAP) coordinated 79 "Round...

Profile of the IoT Core Baseline for Consumer IoT Products

September 20, 2022

Author(s)

Katerina N. Megas, Michael Fagan, Jeffrey Marron, Paul Watrobski, Barbara Bell Cuthill

This publication documents the consumer profile of NIST's Internet of Things (IoT) core baseline and identifies cybersecurity capabilities commonly needed for...

Workshop Summary Report for "Building on the NIST Foundations: Next Steps in IoT Cybersecurity"

September 20, 2022

Author(s)

Katerina N. Megas, Michael Fagan, Barbara Bell Cuthill, Brad Hoehn, David Lemire, Rebecca Herold

This report summarizes the feedback received on the work of the NIST Cybersecurity for the Internet of Things (IoT) program on IoT product cybersecurity...

Staging Cybersecurity Risks for Enterprise Risk Management and Governance Oversight

September 14, 2022

Author(s)

Stephen Quinn, Nahla Ivy, Greg Witte, Matthew Barrett, Robert Gardner

This document is the third in a series that supplements NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR) 8286, Integrating Cybersecurity and Enterprise Risk Management...

Digital Evidence Preservation: Considerations for Evidence Handlers

September 8, 2022

Author(s)

Barbara Guttman, Douglas R. White, Shannan Williams, Tracy Walraven

The preservation of digital evidence (DE) presents unique problems beyond traditional evidence preservation. This document addresses considerations related to...

Advanced Communications Technologies Standards

August 29, 2022

Author(s)

Chris Greer, Robert B. Bohn, Tao Zhang

This report of the Advanced Communications Technologies Working Group of the Interagency Committee on Standards Policy (ICSP) provides an overview of Federal...

Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) Part 4A: MORPH - Utility of 1:N Face Recognition Algorithms for Morph Detection

July 29, 2022

Author(s)

Mei Lee Ngan, Patrick J. Grother, Kayee Hanaoka

This report is a part of a series of studies on the topic of face morphing, its relevance and implications as a vulnerability to automated face recognition, and...

Security Guidance for First Responder Mobile and Wearable Devices

July 20, 2022

Author(s)

Gema Howell, Kevin Gerard Brady, Don Harriss, Scott Ledgerwood

Public safety officials utilizing the forthcoming public safety broadband networks will have access to devices, such as mobile devices, tablets and wearables...

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