NIST Pubs

Community Risk Ratings for the FireCARES System

October 15, 2018

Author(s):

Stanley W. Gilbert

The FireCARES project is a web-based tool intended to help fire departments effectively match resources to community risk. Among other things that includes...

Dietary Supplement Laboratory Quality Assurance Program: Exercise N Final Report

October 15, 2018

Author(s):

Charles A. Barber, Melissa M. Phillips, Laura J. Wood, Catherine A. Rimmer, Steven J. Christopher

The NIST Dietary Supplement Laboratory Quality Assurance Program (DSQAP) was established in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office...

Characterization of Residential Distributed Energy Resource Potential to Provide Ancillary Services

October 10, 2018

Author(s):

David G. Holmberg, Farhad Omar

This report reviews a set of electric grid ancillary services and analyzes the technical potential for residential devices to provide those services. A set of...

Calibration Fluids and Calibration Equations: How Choices May Affect the Results of Density Measurements Made with U-Tube Densimeters

October 09, 2018

Author(s):

Stephanie L. Outcalt

Data on the calibration fluids water and toluene individually, and the combination of those two sets of data, were correlated with two different equations (...

Global City Teams Challenge 2018 Kickoff and IES-City Framework Workshop: Smart and Secure Cities and Communities Challenge

October 04, 2018

Author(s):

Sokwoo Rhee, Martin J. Burns

NIST and DHS S&T co-host the GCTC Smart and Secure Cities and Communities Challenge (SC3) program. The objective is to encourage participating teams to...

Implementation of the NIST Community Resilience Planning Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems

October 04, 2018

Author(s):

Maria K. Dillard, Jennifer F. Helgeson, Stephen A. Cauffman

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published the Community Resilience Planning Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems (NIST SP...

Blockchain Technology Overview

October 03, 2018

Author(s):

Dylan J. Yaga, Peter M. Mell, Nik Roby, Karen Scarfone

Blockchains are tamper evident and tamper resistant digital ledgers implemented in a distributed fashion (i.e., without a central repository) and usually...

Programmers Guide to the BACnet Communications DLL

October 01, 2018

Author(s):

Michael A. Galler

The BACnet standard defines a communication protocol for information exchange between components of a distributed building automation and control system. The...

ABC's of Conformity Assessment

September 30, 2018

Author(s):

Lisa J. Carnahan, Amy L. Phelps

The Standards Coordination Office periodically publishes information related to standards and conformity assessment as a service to producers and users of such...

Conformity Assessment Considerations for Federal Agencies

September 30, 2018

Author(s):

Lisa J. Carnahan, Amy L. Phelps

The Standards Coordination Office periodically publishes information related to standards and conformity assessment as a service. This document provides those...

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