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Special Publication (NIST SP)

Digital Identity Guidelines: Enrollment and Identity Proofing Requirements

June 22, 2017

Author(s)

Paul A. Grassi, James L. Fenton, Naomi Lefkovitz, Jamie M. Danker, Yee-Yin Choong, Kristen Greene, Mary Theofanos

These guidelines provide technical requirements for federal agencies implementing digital identity services and are not intended to constrain the development or...

Digital Identity Guidelines: Federation and Assertions

June 22, 2017

Author(s)

Paul A. Grassi, Ellen M. Nadeau, Justin P. Richer, Sarah K. Squire, James L. Fenton, Naomi Lefkovitz, Jamie M. Danker, Yee-Yin Choong, Kristen Greene

This document and its companion documents, SP 800-63, SP 800-63A, and SP 800-63B, provide technical and procedural guidelines to agencies for the implementation...

An Introduction to Information Security

June 22, 2017

Author(s)

Michael Nieles, Kelley L. Dempsey, Victoria Y. Pillitteri

Organizations rely heavily on the use of information technology (IT) products and services to run their day-to-day activities. Ensuring the security of these...

Preparation of a Set of Total RNA Benchmarking Samples for Performance Assessment of Genome-scale Differential Gene Expression

June 15, 2017

Author(s)

Lindsay Harris, Patrick S. Pine, Sarah A. Munro, Marc L. Salit

Global City Teams Challenge 2016 Update

June 12, 2017

Author(s)

Sokwoo Rhee, Martin Burns, Cuong Nguyen

Challenges and approaches for particle size analysis on micrographs of nanoparticles loaded onto textile surfaces

May 31, 2017

Author(s)

Samuel J. Underwood, Justin Gorham

This NIST Special Publication (SP) is one in a series of NIST SPs that address research needs articulated in the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI)...

Guide to Bluetooth Security

May 8, 2017

Author(s)

John Padgette, John Bahr, Mayank Batra, Marcel Holtmann, Rhonda Smithbey, Lidong Chen, Karen Scarfone

Bluetooth wireless technology is an open standard for short-range radio frequency communication used primarily to establish wireless personal area networks...

Guide Brief 7 - Defining Communities

May 1, 2017

Author(s)

Community Resilience Program NIST

Guide Brief 8 - Overcoming Myths about Community Resilience Planning

May 1, 2017

Author(s)

Community Resilience Program NIST

Guide Brief 9 - Summarizing Goals and Objectives using Performance Goal Tables

May 1, 2017

Author(s)

Community Resilience Program NIST

Guide Brief 10 - Linking Social Dimensions and Building Clusters

May 1, 2017

Author(s)

Community Resilience Program NIST

Guide Brief 11 - Determining Building Cluster Performance Goals

May 1, 2017

Author(s)

Community Resilience Program NIST

Guide Brief 12 Short-Term Implementation Tasks

May 1, 2017

Author(s)

Community Resilience Program NIST

This Guide Brief offers suggestions for short-term implementation tasks, as well as short-term activities, that support continual engagement during the overall...

2014 CODATA RECOMMENDED VALUES OF THE FUNDAMENTAL CONSTANTS OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY

April 12, 2017

Author(s)

Peter Mohr, David Newell, Barry N. Taylor

Wallet card of 2014 CODATA RECOMMENDED VALUES OF THE FUNDAMENTAL CONSTANTS OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY, NIST SP-959 (Apr 2017)

Moving With Metric (draft title--metric system cube)

Author(s)

P A. Wolf

This information cube promotes the International System of Units (SI), or the metric system.The SI is the dominant system of measurement units worldwide...

Risk Assessment of Brucellosis for tissues processed and archived at the Marine Environmental Specimen Bank

March 6, 2017

Author(s)

Jennifer M. Ness, Amanda J. Moors, Rebecca S. Pugh

Report of the 100th National Conference on Weights and Measures, July 19-12, 2015, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

March 2, 2017

Author(s)

Tina G. Butcher, Linda D. Crown, Richard A. Harshman, David Sefcik, Lisa Warfield

The 100th Annual Meeting of the National of the National Conference on Weights and Measures (NCWM) was held July 19-23, 2015, at the Sheraton Philadelphia...

A Technical Guide for Smokeview Version 5

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Glenn P. Forney

Smokeview is a software tool designed to visualize numerical calculations generated by the NIST Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS), a computational fluid dynamics...

BFRL Publications, 2001. Volume 1 and Volume 2

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Star R. Burgess, Kathleen C. Whisner, Glenn P. Forney, Paul A. Reneke

Welcome to BFRL Publications, 2001. These two CD-ROMs contain publications produced by BFRL staff, publications resulting from contracts or grants with BFRL and...

In Situ Burning of Oil Spills: Resource Collection

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

William Walton

The Minerals Management Service (MMS), U.S. Department of Interior, is designated as the lead agency for in situ burn research in the Oil Pollution Research and...

The Zone Fire Model JET 2.0A Model that Predicts the Activation of Heat, Smoke and Gas Alarms in the Ceiling Jet in the Presence of a Smoke Layer

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

William D. Davis

The zone model JET 2.0 is a two-zone, single compartment computer model designed to predict the maximum plume centerline and ceiling jet temperature, velocity...

Preface to the Cumulative Proceedings of the First 14 Halon Options Technical Working Conferences

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Richard Gann, Star R. Burgess, Kathleen C. Whisner, Paul A. Reneke

As a result of the 1987 Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer and the 1990 U.S. Clean Air Act, there began a movement toward phaseout of...

Wind and Seismic Effects--Proceedings of the 36th Joint Panel Meeting

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Stephen A. Cauffman

Smokeview (Version 5) - A Tool for Visualizing Fire Dynamics Simulation Data, Volume I: User's Guide

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Glenn P. Forney

Smokeview is a software tool designed to visualize numerical calculations generated by the NIST Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS), a computational fluid dynamics...

Wind and Seismic Effects - Proceedings of the 38th Joint Panel Meeting

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Stephen A. Cauffman

This publication is the Proceedings of the 38th Joint Meeting of the U.S.-Japan Panel on Wind and Seismic Effects. The meeting was held at the National...

Analysis Procedures for Progressive Collaspe of Buildings

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Hai S. Lew

Fire Endurance Testing of Floor Systems Effects of Scale and Restraint

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

John L. Gross

Three standard fire resistance tests (ASTM E 119) were conducted on a composite floor system to study the effects of 1) test restraint conditions, and 2) scale...

Timing Challenges in the Smart Grid

January 19, 2017

Author(s)

YaShian Li-Baboud, Cuong T. Nguyen, Marc A. Weiss, Dhananjay Anand, Allen R. Goldstein, Jason Allnutt, Bob Noseworthy, Ravi Subramaniam

Correct time and timing is one of the foundational elements in enabling the communication and orchestration of technologies for accurate and optimal wide area...

Carbon Dioxide Biogenic vs Anthropogenic Sectoral Contribution for the Indianapolis Flux Experiment (INFLUX)

January 5, 2017

Author(s)

Israel Lopez Coto, Kuldeep R. Prasad, James R. Whetstone

The Indianapolis Flux Experiment (INFLUX) aims to use a top-down inversion methodology to quantify sources of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions over an urban...

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Forensic Science Error Management

December 27, 2016

Author(s)

John M. Butler

A total of 432 registered participants from 11 countries contributed to a successful first-ever international symposium devoted exclusively to the topic of...

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