NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)

Identifying and Estimating Cybersecurity Risk for Enterprise Risk Management

November 12, 2021

Author(s)

Kevin Stine, Stephen Quinn, Nahla Ivy, Matthew Barrett, Greg Witte, Larry Feldman, Robert Gardner

This document supplements NIST Interagency or Internal Report 8286, Integrating Cybersecurity and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), by providing additional...

Voices of First Responders—Nationwide Public Safety Communication Survey Findings: Day to Day Technology, Phase 2, Volume 3

October 15, 2021

Author(s)

Shanee Dawkins, Kerrianne Buchanan, Sandra Spickard Prettyman

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

Low-GWP Alternative Refrigerant Blends for HFC-134a: Interim Report

October 13, 2021

Author(s)

Piotr A. Domanski, Mark O. McLinden, Valeri I. Babushok, Ian Bell, Tara Fortin, Michael Hegetschweiler, Mark A. Kedzierski, Dennis Kim, Lingnan Lin, Gregory T. Linteris, Stephanie L. Outcalt, Richard A. Perkins, Aaron Rowane, Harrison M. Skye

This project addresses the objectives of the Statement of Need number WPSON-17-20 "No/Low Global Warming Potential Alternatives to Ozone Depleting Refrigerants...

Quantifying Particle Clustering in Discontinuously Reinforced Metal Matrix Composites

October 12, 2021

Author(s)

J J. Williams, N Chawla, Richard J. Fields

Reinforcement particle clustering significantly influences the mechanical behavior of metal matrix composites. We have employed clustering analysis techniques...

Fifth Annual Report on Federal Agency Use of Voluntary Consensus Standards

October 12, 2021

Author(s)

K L. McIntyre, M B. Moore

Document is the Annual Report on Federal Agency Use of Voluntary Consensus Standards required to be submitted by NIST the office of Management Budget (OMB)...

Reinforcing Interactions Between the ATP and State Technology Programs. Volume II: Case Studies of State and Federal Support to High-Tech Start-Up Companies

October 12, 2021

Author(s)

M P. Feldman, M R. Kelley, J Schaff, G Farkas

This report describes the evolution of four companies and illustrates the various roles that state governments may play in the early stages of a high-tech start...

Manufacture of Al/SiC Metal Matrix Composites by the Press and Sinter Route

October 12, 2021

Author(s)

G T. Campbell, R Raman, Richard J. Fields

Aluminum based Metal Matrix Composites (MMC's) are being considered for many different high volume applications. The most common manufacturing rout for aluminum...

Satellite Instrument Calibration for Measuring Global Climate Change

October 12, 2021

Author(s)

G Ohring, B Wielicki, R Spencer, W Emery, Raju V. Datla

Measuring the small changes associated with long-term global climate change from space is a daunting task. The satellite instruments must be capable of...

Database Tools for Modeling Emissions and Control of Air Pollutants From Consumer Products, Cooking, and Combustion

October 12, 2021

Author(s)

Cynthia H. Reed, Brian Polidoro

In order to estimate building contaminant concentration levels and associated occupant exposures, indoor air quality (IAQ) model users require data related to...

Sixth Annual Report on Federal Agency Use of Voluntary Consensus Standards

October 12, 2021

Author(s)

K L. McIntyre, M B. Moore

Document is the Annual Report on Federal Agency Use of Voluntary Consensus Standards required to be submitted by NIST the office of Management Budget (OMB)...

Spaceborne Optoelectronic Sensors and Their Radiometric Calibration Terms and Definitions Part 1. Calibration Techniques

October 12, 2021

Author(s)

A Prokhorov, Raju V. Datla, Vitaly P. Zakharenkov, Oleg M. Mikhaylov, V Privalsky, Thomas W. Humpherys, Victor Sapritsky, Albert C. Parr, Lev K. Issaev

Seventh Annual Report of Federal Agency Use of Voluntary Consensus Standards and Conformity Assessment

October 12, 2021

Author(s)

K L. McIntyre, M B. Moore

Document is the Annual Report of Federal Agency Use of Voluntary Consensus Standards and Conformity Assessment required to be submitted by NIST to the Office of...

Automated Image Processing Tools for High Throughput Measurements of Polymer Coatings; Initial Report on Software to Quantify Features

October 12, 2021

Author(s)

Isabel M. Beichl, J B. Bernstein, Alamgir Karim

We have developed a series of Matlab programs to analyze photographs of polymer dewetting. This internal report provides details of how the program works, what...

Learning to Recognize Distributional Functions

October 12, 2021

Author(s)

J E. Devaney, L Hunter, James J. Filliben

This paper introduces a novel methodology that enables recognition of distributional functions without doing a fit of the data to the distribution. This...

Certification of the Relative Molecular Mass and the Intrinsic Viscosity of SRM 2887, a Polyethylene of Narrow Molecular Mass Distribution

October 12, 2021

Author(s)

J R. Maurey, William R. Blair, Carl R. Schultesiz

The certification of a polyethylene standard reference material, SRM 2887, is described. The Mw of SRM 2887 by light scattering was determined to be 196.4x10+3...

Measuring and Assessing the Consequences of Technology and Innovation for Affordability of Housing: Proceedings of the NIST-PATH Workshop

October 12, 2021

Author(s)

W I. Whiddon, D B. Hattis, C J. Leng

On June 4-5, 2003, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing (PATH), a program of the U...

Energy-Based Design Approach for Seismic Design: Energy Spectra

October 12, 2021

Author(s)

P Khashaee, B Mohraz, Fahim H. Sadek, Hai S. Lew, John L. Gross

Among the approaches that the Structural Engineers Association of California has recommended for performance based seismic design is the energy approach. In...

Standard Reference Photometer for the Assay of Ozone in Calibration Atmospheres

October 12, 2021

Author(s)

R J. Paur, A M. Bass, James E. Norris, T J. Buckley

A photometric instrument for the assay of ozone from 0 ppbv to 1000 ppbv in calibration atmospheres as been designed, constructed, and evaluated. The absorption...

Wireless Ad-hoc Network for Trades Tracking

October 12, 2021

Author(s)

D P. Starin, William C. Stone

The NIST Construction Metrology and Automation Group (CMAG), at the suggestion of various members of the CII FIATECH consortium, investigated the possibility of...

Interlaboratory Results: Candidate Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF) Reference Materials

October 12, 2021

Author(s)

Jessica Reiner, Benjamin Place

Guidelines on Minimum Standards for Developer Verification of Software

October 6, 2021

Author(s)

Paul E. Black, Vadim Okun, Barbara Guttman

Executive Order (EO) 14028, Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity, 12 May 2021, directs the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to recommend...

Open Media Forensics Challenge (OpenMFC) 2020-2021: Past, Present, and Future

September 29, 2021

Author(s)

Haiying Guan, Yooyoung Lee, Lukas Diduch, Jesse Zhang, Ilia Ghorbanian Bajgiran, Timothee Kheyrkhah, Peter Fontana, Jonathan G. Fiscus

This document describes the online leaderboard public evaluation program, Open Media Forensics Challenge (OpenMFC) 2021-2022. In the report, first, the...

Four Principles of Explainable Artificial Intelligence

September 29, 2021

Author(s)

P. Jonathon Phillips, Carina Hahn, Peter Fontana, Amy Yates, Kristen K. Greene, David A. Broniatowski, Mark A. Przybocki

Sensitivity to X-Ray Computed Tomography Instrument Geometry Errors as a Function of Rotation Stage Position, Detector Position, and Detector Size

September 28, 2021

Author(s)

Bala Muralikrishnan, Prashanth Jaganmohan, Meghan Shilling, Ed Morse

In two prior National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Journal of Research publications (Parts I and II) [1,2], we presented test procedures to...

Evaluating the Impact of Contactless Fingerprint Imagery Spatial Loss on Matcher Performance

September 23, 2021

Author(s)

Shahram Orandi, John M. Libert, Bruce Bandini, Kenneth Ko, John Grantham, Brian J. Cochran, Craig I. Watson

Observations in previous studies have shown that contactless capture devices may be prone to capturing superfluous data (e.g., fingernail or finger background)...

Health Assessment Measurements Quality Assurance Program: Exercise 6 Final Report

September 20, 2021

Author(s)

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

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

Machine Learning for Access Control Policy Verification

September 16, 2021

Author(s)

Vincent C. Hu

Access control policy verification ensures that there are no faults within the policy that leak or block access privileges. As a software test, access control...

Summary Report for the Virtual Workshop Addressing Public Comment on NIST Cybersecurity for IoT Guidance

September 9, 2021

Author(s)

Michael Fagan, Katerina N. Megas, David Lemire

This report summarizes the feedback received on the work of the NIST Cybersecurity for IoT program on device cybersecurity at a virtual workshop conducted April...

IoT Non-Technical Supporting Capability Core Baseline

August 25, 2021

Author(s)

Michael Fagan, Katerina N. Megas, Jeffrey Marron, Kevin Gerard Brady, Barbara Bell Cuthill, Rebecca Herold

Non-technical supporting capabilities are actions a manufacturer or third-party organization performs in support of the cybersecurity of an IoT device. This...

Approaches for Federal Agencies to Use the Cybersecurity Framework

August 17, 2021

Author(s)

Jeffrey Marron, Victoria Yan Pillitteri, Jon M. Boyens, Stephen Quinn, Gregory Witte

The document highlights examples for implementing the Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (known as the Cybersecurity Framework) in a...