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Special Publication (NIST SP)

NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0: Small Business Quick-Start Guide (Portuguese translation)

September 26, 2024

Author(s)

Daniel Eliot

A Technical Framework to Map Functional Recovery Performance Objectives to Prescriptive Seismic Design Provisions for Buildings

September 19, 2024

Author(s)

Dustin Cook, Siamak Sattar

Designing buildings for improved functional recovery represents a major shift in the current design paradigm. Given the novelty of the functional recovery...

Systematic Review of Embodied Carbon Assessment and Reduction in Building Life Cycles

September 18, 2024

Author(s)

Yating Zhang, Siamak Sattar, Dustin Cook, Katherine Johnson, Juan Fung

The building and construction sector is the largest carbon emitter, accounting for more than one-third of annual global emissions. The emissions can be divided...

Certification of Standard Reference Material® 2232a: Indium for DSC Temperature and Enthalpy Calibration

September 13, 2024

Author(s)

Tara Fortin, Tobias Herman, Amanda Koepke, Jolene Splett

A new Standard Reference Material® (SRM®), designated SRM 2232a, has been certified for the temperature and enthalpy calibration of differential scanning...

Development of Reference Material 8103: Adamantane for Subambient DSC Temperature and Enthalpy Calibration

September 13, 2024

Author(s)

Tara Fortin, Amanda Koepke, Jolene Splett

A new Reference Material (RM), designated RM 8013, has been developed for the temperature and enthalpy calibration of differential scanning calorimeters (DSCs)...

Building a Cybersecurity and Privacy Learning Program

September 12, 2024

Author(s)

Marian Merritt, SUSAN HANSCHE, BRENDA ELLIS, Julie Nethery Snyder, KEVIN SANCHEZ-CHERRY, DONALD WALDEN

This publication provides guidance for federal agencies and organizations to develop and manage a life cycle approach to building a Cybersecurity and Privacy...

Methods for elicitation of risk preferences and perceptions: An examination of individual and group risk preferences

September 12, 2024

Author(s)

Rithika Dulam, Christina Gore, Jennifer Helgeson

Risk fundamentally influences strategic planning, investment management, and policy formulation across businesses, governments, and communities. Accurately...

Strategic Opportunities to Advance Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward Through Research and Standards

September 4, 2024

Author(s)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

This report was developed with input from stakeholders in forensic science, including experts in the field and across the criminal justice community, and...

The Lumberton, North Carolina Flood of 2016, Wave 5: A Community Impact and Recovery-Focused Technical Investigation Following Successive Flood Events

September 4, 2024

Author(s)

Michelle Meyer, Leonardo Duenas-Osorio, Maria Dillard, Elaina Sutley, John van de Lindt

Drug Detection, Analysis, and Monitoring Workshop Report

August 30, 2024

Author(s)

Edward Sisco

This report is a summary of a workshop convened to capture the analytical and data challenges inherent to the detection, identification, and monitoring of...

Value Assignment of Standard Reference Material® 1849b Infant/Adult Nutritional Formula I

August 26, 2024

Author(s)

Melissa M. Phillips, Bruce Scruggs, Elena Wood, Lee L. Yu, James H. Yen, Charles Barber, John Sieber, Laura Wood

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Standard Reference Material® (SRM®) 1849b Infant/Adult Nutritional Formula I delivers certified or non...

Beyond the Bottom Line: Nonmarket Stated and Revealed Preference Methods for Community Resilience and Adaptation Planning

August 21, 2024

Author(s)

Jennifer Helgeson, Christina Gore

This report details the importance of nonmarket valuation techniques for community resilience planning. Community resilience planning decisions involve making...

Driving U.S. Innovation in Materials and Manufacturing using AI and Autonomous Labs

August 14, 2024

Author(s)

Howie Joress, Zachary Trautt, Austin McDannald, Brian DeCost, A. Gilad Kusne, Francesca Tavazza

With the goal of advancing US competitiveness and excellence in the materials and manufacturing industries, we present our vision for the National Center for...

NIST Special Publication 376, Metric Ruler

August 8, 2024

Author(s)

Elizabeth Benham, Kristen Dill

NIST SP 376, Metric Ruler is an educational tool designed to teach the International System of Units (SI) length measurements. The design includes approximate...

Contactless Fingerprint Capture and Data Interchange Best Practice Recommendation Revision 1

August 5, 2024

Author(s)

Shahram Orandi, Craig I. Watson, Jennifer Stathakis, John M. Libert, Gregory Fiumara, John Grantham

While contactless fingerprint capture devices stand to provide for many benefits, images from this nascent technology are sufficiently different than...

A Review of Community Resilience Indicators Using a Systems Measurement Framework

August 5, 2024

Author(s)

Michael Gerst, Maria Dillard, Emily Walpole, Jarrod Loerzel

As natural disasters have increased in frequency and magnitude, there has been an increasing need to understand what underlying factors are likely to lead to...

Metric Conversion Card

August 2, 2024

Author(s)

Elizabeth Benham, Kristen Dill

NIST SP 365, Metric Conversion Card is a laminated wallet size card includes an 8 cm and 80 mm ruler with approximate unit conversion factors between common...

NIST Cloud Computing Forensic Reference Architecture

July 30, 2024

Author(s)

Martin Herman, Michaela Iorga, Ahsen Michael Salim, Robert H. Jackson, Mark R. Hurst, Ross A. Leo, Anand Kumar Mishra, Nancy M. Landreville, Yien Wang

This document summarizes the research performed by the NIST Cloud Computing Forensic Science Working Group and presents the NIST Cloud Computing Forensic...

Bugs Framework (BF): Formalizing Cybersecurity Weaknesses and Vulnerabilities

July 30, 2024

Author(s)

Irena Bojanova

The Bugs Framework (BF) is a classification of security bugs and related faults, featuring a formal language for unambiguous specification of security...

Secure Software Development Practices for Generative AI and Dual-Use Foundation Models: An SSDF Community Profile

July 26, 2024

Author(s)

Harold Booth, Murugiah Souppaya, Apostol Vassilev, Michael Ogata, Martin Stanley, Karen Scarfone

This document augments the secure software development practices and tasks defined in Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF) version 1.1 by adding...

NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF) Small Enterprise Quick Start Guide

July 23, 2024

Author(s)

Daniel Eliot

For organizations of all sizes, managing risk (including information security and privacy risk), is critical for organizational resilience. This guide is...

Interfaces for Personal Identity Verification Part 1 – PIV Card Application Namespace, Data Model, and Representation

July 15, 2024

Author(s)

Hildegard Ferraiolo, Ketan Mehta, Salvatore Francomacaro, Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Sarbari Gupta

FIPS 201 defines the requirements and characteristics of government-wide interoperable identity credentials for use in applications that provide access to...

Cryptographic Algorithms and Key Sizes for Personal Identity Verification

July 15, 2024

Author(s)

Hildegard Ferraiolo, Andrew Regenscheid

Federal Information Processing Standard 201-3 (FIPS 201-3) defines the requirements for Personal Identity Verification (PIV) life cycle activities, including...

Interfaces for Personal Identity Verification Part 2 – PIV Card Application Card Command Interface

July 15, 2024

Author(s)

Hildegard Ferraiolo, Ketan Mehta, Salvatore Francomacaro, Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Sarbari Gupta

FIPS 201 defines the requirements and characteristics of government-wide interoperable identity credentials for use in applications that provide access to...

Interfaces for Personal Identity Verification Part 3 – PIV Client Application Programming Interface

July 15, 2024

Author(s)

Hildegard Ferraiolo, Ketan Mehta, Salvatore Francomacaro, Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Sarbari Gupta

FIPS 201 defines the requirements and characteristics of government-wide interoperable identity credentials for use in applications that provide access to...

Global Community Technology Challenge (GCTC) Strategic Plan 2024-2026

June 28, 2024

Author(s)

Michael Dunaway, Thomas Roth, Edward Griffor, David A. Wollman

This document provides a strategy and a project plan for the Global Community Technology Challenge, a federal smart cities program led by the Smart Connected...

NIST Conference Papers Fiscal Year 2023

June 24, 2024

Author(s)

Kathryn Miller, Julie Jew, Myriam S. Dilawari

This Special Publication represents the work of researchers at professional conferences, as reported by NIST employees in Fiscal Year 2023 (October 1, 2022...

Certification of Standard Reference Material® 1955a Homocysteine in Frozen Human Serum

June 21, 2024

Author(s)

Carolyn Burdette, Elena Wood, Jerome Mulloor, Michael Nelson, Blaza Toman, Aaron Urbas

Standard Reference Material (SRM) 1955a Homocysteine in Frozen Human Serum is intended for use in validating homocysteine measurement procedures used by in...

Characterization of Reference Material 8210: Hemp Plant

June 20, 2024

Author(s)

Colleen E. Bryan Sallee, Walter Brent Wilson, Charles Barber, Monique Johnson, Jenna Klingsick, Jerome Mulloor, Blaza Toman, Elena Wood, Laura Wood, Andrea Yarberry

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Reference Material (RM) 8210 Hemp Plant delivers non certified values for cannabinoids and toxic...

Reference Measurement Procedure for the Absolute Quantification of Albumin in Urine Using Isotope Dilution-Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry (ID-LC-MS/MS)

May 21, 2024

Author(s)

Ashley Beasley Green, N. Alan Heckert

Urinary excretion of albumin is a major diagnostic and prognostic marker of kidney disease; therefore, accurate measurement of urine albumin is essential to...

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