Special Publication (NIST SP)

Challenges, Strategies and Opportunities for Measuring Carbon Nanotubes within a Polymer Composites by X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

March 14, 2015

Author(s)

Justin M. Gorham, Jeremiah W. Woodcock, Keana C. Scott

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

The NIST Traceable Reference Material Program for Gas Standards

February 26, 2015

Author(s)

William D. Dorko, Michael E. Kelley, Franklin R. Guenther

A program is described by which the concentration of commercially produced gas mixtures may be related to gaseous primary standards or measurement systems...

Infrared Optical Properties of Materials

February 24, 2015

Author(s)

Simon G. Kaplan, Leonard Hanssen, Raju V. Datla

This document describes the Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrophotometry (FTIS) Facility at the Sensor Science Division (SSD) of the National Institute of...

Vetting the Security of Mobile Applications

January 26, 2015

Author(s)

Stephen Quirolgico, Jeffrey M. Voas, Tom T. Karygiannis, Christoph Michael, Karen Scarfone

The purpose of this document is to help organizations (1) understand the process for vetting the security of mobile applications, (2) plan for the...

Preparation of silver nanoparticle loaded cotton threads to facilitate measurement development for textile applications

January 26, 2015

Author(s)

Justin Gorham, Karen Murphy, Jingyu Liu, Dimitri Tselenchuk, Gheorghe Stan, Thao M. Nguyen, Richard D. Holbrook, Michael Winchester, Robert F. Cook, Robert MacCuspie, Vincent Hackley

FOREWORD This NIST special publication (SP) is one in a series of NIST SPs that address research needs articulated in the National Nanotechnology Initiative...

Recommendation for Key Management Part 3: Application-Specific Key Management Guidance

January 22, 2015

Author(s)

Elaine B. Barker, Quynh H. Dang

Special Publication 800-57 provides cryptographic key management guidance. It consists of three parts. Part 1 provides general guidance and best practices for...

Security and Privacy Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations [including updates as of 1/22/2015]

January 22, 2015

Author(s)

Ronald S. Ross

[Rev. 4 was superseded by Rev. 5 on 9/23/2020; Rev. 4 will be withdrawn one year from that date, on 9/23/2019] This publication provides a catalog of security...

The Structure of Optimal and Near Optimal Target Sets in Consensus Models

December 19, 2014

Author(s)

Fern Y. Hunt

We consider the problem of identifying a subset of nodes in a network that will enable the fastest spread of information in a decentralized environment. In a...

Guidelines for Derived Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Credentials

December 19, 2014

Author(s)

Hildegard Ferraiolo, David Cooper, Salvatore Francomacaro, Andrew Regenscheid, Jason Mohler, Sarbari Gupta, William E. Burr

This recommendation provides technical guidelines for the implementation of standards-based, secure, reliable, interoperable PKI-based identity credentials that...

Impact of More Precise Construction Data on Estimated Savings from Energy Standard Adoption for Commercial Buildings

December 19, 2014

Author(s)

Joshua Kneifel, David Butry

The Applied Economics Office (AEO) of the Engineering Laboratory (EL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed the Building...

Impact of More Precise Electricity Price Data on Estimated Energy Costs from Energy Standard Adoption for Buildings

December 19, 2014

Author(s)

Joshua D. Kneifel, David T. Butry

Energy efficiency requirements in current building energy codes vary across states, and many states have not yet adopted the latest editions of ASHRAE Standard...

NIST SP 1181 - Unit Pricing Guide - A Best Practice Approach to Unit Pricing (2015 Ed.)

December 17, 2014

Author(s)

David Sefcik

This guide has been developed to provide retailers with information about the best practice requirements for the unit pricing of pre-packaged commodities. The...

Guidelines for Media Sanitization

December 17, 2014

Author(s)

Richard L. Kissel, Andrew Regenscheid, Matthew Scholl, Kevin Stine

Media sanitization refers to a process that renders access to target data on the media infeasible for a given level of effort. This guide will assist...

Assessing Security and Privacy Controls in Federal Information Systems and Organizations: Building Effective Assessment Plans

December 10, 2014

Author(s)

Ronald S. Ross

[Superseded by SP 800-53A Rev. 5 (January 2022): https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=933932] This publication provides a set of procedures...

Costs and Cost Effectiveness of Additive Manufacturing

December 4, 2014

Author(s)

Douglas Thomas, Stanley Gilbert

The use of additive manufacturing has increased significantly in previous years. Additive manufacturing is used by multiple industry subsectors, including motor...

US Government Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap Volume I: High-Priority Requirements to Further USG Agency Cloud Computing Adoption; and Volume II: Useful Information for Cloud Adopters

October 21, 2014

Author(s)

Robert B. Bohn

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), consistent with its mission, has a technology leadership role in support of United States Government...

NIST Framework and Roadmap for Smart Grid Interoperability Standards, Release 3.0

October 1, 2014

Author(s)

Chris Greer, David A. Wollman, Dean Prochaska, Paul A. Boynton, Jeffrey A. Mazer, Cuong Nguyen, Gerald FitzPatrick, Thomas L. Nelson, Galen H. Koepke, Allen R. Hefner Jr., Victoria Yan Pillitteri, Tanya L. Brewer, Nada T. Golmie, David H. Su, Allan C. Eustis, David Holmberg, Steven T. Bushby

Section 1305 of the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007 (Pub. L. 110-140) directs NIST ‘‘to coordinate the development of a framework that...

Recommendation for Pair-Wise Key-Establishment Schemes Using Integer Factorization Cryptography

October 1, 2014

Author(s)

Elaine B. Barker, Lidong Chen, Dustin Moody

This Recommendation specifies key-establishment schemes using integer factorization cryptography, based on ANS X9.44, Key-establishment using Integer...

Computer Security Division 2013 Annual Report

September 4, 2014

Author(s)

Patrick O'Reilly, Greg Witte, Chris Johnson, Doug Rike

Title III of the E-Government Act of 2002, entitled the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) of 2002, requires NIST to prepare an annual public...

BIOS Protection Guidelines for Servers

August 28, 2014

Author(s)

Andrew Regenscheid

Modern computers rely on fundamental system firmware, commonly known as the Basic Input/Output System (BIOS), to facilitate the hardware initialization process...

Smart Firefighting Workshop Summary Report

August 6, 2014

Author(s)

Anthony P. Hamins, Nelson P. Bryner, Albert W. Jones, Galen H. Koepke, casey grant, Anand Raghunathan

This report summarizes the results of the Smart Firefighting Workshop held March 24 and 25, 2014, in Arlington, Virginia and sponsored by the National Institute...

Approximate Matching: Definition and Terminology

July 2, 2014

Author(s)

Frank Breitinger, Barbara Guttman, Michael McCarrin, Vassil Roussev, Douglas R. White

This document provides a definition of and terminology for approximate matching. Approximate matching is a promising technology designed to identify...

Life-Cycle Cost Comparison of the NIST Net Zero Energy Residential Test Facility to a Maryland Code-Compliant Design

June 11, 2014

Author(s)

Joshua Kneifel

Guide for Applying the Risk Management Framework to Federal Information Systems: A Security Life Cycle Approach

June 10, 2014

Author(s)

Ron Ross

This publication provides guidelines for applying the Risk Management Framework (RMF) to federal information systems. The six-step RMF includes security...

The ABCs of Using Standard Reference Materials in the Analysis of Foods and Dietary Supplements: A Practical Guide

June 2, 2014

Author(s)

Katherine Sharpless, David Duewer, Katrice Lippa, Andrew L. Rukhin

Although ‘nutraceuticals' and ‘functional foods' seem to be ill-defined terms, both are often used to indicate a food that contains compounds providing benefits...

Report of the 97th National Conference on Weights and Measures (2012)

May 30, 2014

Author(s)

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

The 97th Annual Meeting of the National Conference on Weights and Measures (NCWM) was held July 15 through 19, 2012, at the Holiday Inn by the Bay, Portland...

Virtual Cement and Concrete Testing Laboratory: Version 9.5 User Guide

May 29, 2014

Author(s)

Jeffrey W. Bullard

This document serves as the users guide for the Virtual Cement and Concrete Testing Laboratory (VCCTL) software, version 9.5. Using the VCCTL software, a user...

Guidelines on Mobile Device Forensics

May 15, 2014

Author(s)

Richard Ayers, Sam Brothers, Wayne Jansen

Mobile device forensics is the science of recovering digital evidence from a mobile device under forensically sound conditions using accepted methods. Mobile...

Verification and Validation of Commonly Used Empirical Correlations for Fire Scenarios

April 28, 2014

Author(s)

Kristopher J. Overholt

This document was created as part of a fire model verification and validation study conducted by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the Electric...

Guidelines for the Selection, Configuration, and Use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) Implementations

April 28, 2014

Author(s)

William T. Polk, Kerry A. McKay, Santosh Chokhani

Transport Layer Security (TLS) provides mechanisms to protect sensitive data during electronic dissemination across the Internet. This Special Publication...