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Lee Yu, Colleen Bryan Sallee, Korina Menking-Hoggatt, Debra Ellisor, James Fort, Jennifer Hoguet, Jenna Klingsick, Amanda Moors, Jennifer Ness, James Yen, Naudia Gray, Richard Pappas
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Standard Reference Material® (SRM®) 3223 Inorganic Constituents in Cigarette Tobacco Filler is...
Due diligence research is the investigative process of researching all available, pertinent information about a given supplier or product so that informed...
Edward Sisco, Monica Joshi Kumar, Caitlin Berry, David Newton, Sarah Shuda
Driven by the proliferation of synthetic opioids and novel psychoactive substances (NPS), the rapidly evolving illicit drug crisis requires a highly coordinated...
Richard Rouil, Nada Golmie, Miller Higgins, Ashlee Walker
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Communications Technology Laboratory (CTL) developed the 6G Communications Roadmap (the roadmap) to...
Jeremy Licata, Rebecca McWhite, Laura Calloway, Meghan Anderson, Julie Snyder, Dylan Gilbert, Jeremy Miller
The system security plan, system privacy plan, and cybersecurity supply chain risk management plan are collectively referred to as system plans. They describe...
This study uses the Economic Decision Guide Software (EDGe$) Online Tool to evaluate a use case involving three potential drought resilience strategies in...
Jan Konijnenburg, Loren Minnich, David Sefcik, Nathanael Heckert
In the last several years, the sale and use of cannabis products have been legalized in multiple States in the U.S. With this legalization comes the legal...
CheeYee Tang, Jeffrey Marron, Stephanie Saravia, Philip Fenimore, Bob Stea, Chalessa White, John Wiltberger
The Water and Wastewater Systems (WWS) sector plays an important role in our national critical infrastructure in supplying clean water to our communities and...
Elizabeth Benham, Kristen Dill, Tanna Nguyen, Angie Tehrani, Lloyd Bekele
Transform your K-12 classroom or home kitchen into a hands-on culinary laboratory by swapping volume cups for a digital scale. Explore this metric recipe series...
Toby Maysey, Michael Powell, Jake Steel, Stephanie Sarvia
Operational Technology (OT) backups are vital for recovery from reliability or cyber incidents. Effective backup management in an OT environment involves...
Dragos Prisaca, Stephen Quinn, Jack Vander Pol, Daniel Harris
The Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) is a suite of specifications that standardize the format and nomenclature by which software flaw and security...
The Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) is a multi-purpose framework of component specifications that support automated configuration, vulnerability...
Edward Sisco, Monica Joshi Kumar, Sarah Shuda, Matthew Staymates
With a street drug supply that contains increasingly potent compounds, those involved with the interdiction, analysis, and remediation of these samples continue...
Throughout Fiscal Year 2025 (FY 2025) — from October 1, 2024, through September 30, 2025 — the NIST Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) Cybersecurity and...
The melt flow rate of Standard Reference Material (SRM) 1474c, a linear polyethylene (narrow MWD ethylene-hexene copolymer) resin, was determined to be 5.04 g...
The protection of Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) resident in nonfederal systems and organizations is of paramount importance to federal agencies and...
The protection of controlled unclassified information (CUI) resident in nonfederal systems and organizations is of paramount importance to federal agencies and...
A security configuration checklist is a document that contains instructions, procedures, or machine-readable and executable content to configure an IT product...
Yang Guo, Jeremy Licata, Jeff Neel, Gary Key, James Waterman, Ian Lee, Catherine Hinton, David Shrader, Andrew Prout, Albert Reuther, Ted Bohrer, Katsutoshi Ishisoko, Kyle Earley, Aron Warren, Tony DeNardo, Ian Czarnezki, Erik Deumens
High-performance computing (HPC) systems provide fundamental computing infrastructure for large-scale and complex simulations, big data analysis, and the...
Periodic stability testing is conducted on a Standard Reference Material (SRM) to determine whether the current measured value is consistent with the SRM...
Fractography is a powerful but underutilized tool for the analysis of fractured glasses and ceramics. It may be applied to fractures in the laboratory or for...
Thermal conductivity measurements at and near room temperature are presented as the basis for certified values of thermal conductivity for SRM 1453a, Expanded...
TREC 2025 is the thirty-fourth edition of the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC). The main goal of TREC is to create the evaluation infrastructure required for...
Stephen Quinn, Daniel Eliot, Michael Prebil, Greg Witte, Matthew Smith
This Quick-Start Guide (QSG) draws on concepts and practices from enterprise risk management, cybersecurity risk management, and workforce management to help...
This document provides Domain Name System (DNS) deployment guidelines to secure the DNS protocol and infrastructure, mitigate misuse or misconfiguration, and...
Modern enterprise IT systems rely on a family of application programming interfaces (APIs) for integration to support organizational business processes. Hence...