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A Guide to United States Apparel and Household Textiles Compliance Requirements

April 21, 2016

Author(s)

Karen Reczek, Lisa M. Benson

This guide addresses apparel, including children's apparel, and household textiles. It does not include other textiles, such as sleeping bags, tents, sporting...

Best Practices for Privileged User PIV Authentication

April 21, 2016

Author(s)

Hildegard Ferraiolo, David Cooper, Andrew R. Regenscheid, Karen Scarfone, Murugiah P. Souppaya

The Cybersecurity Strategy and Implementation Plan (CSIP), published by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on October 30, 2015, requires that federal...

Field Sampling Procedures for Fuel and Motor Oil Quality Testing, A Handbook for Use by Fuel and Oil Quality Regulatory Officials

April 20, 2016

Author(s)

Linda D. Crown, David A. Sefcik, Lisa Warfield, Kenneth S. Butcher

Fuel and motor oil quality programs are implemented to provide an official presence in the marketplace to verify that sellers of engine fuels and motor oils...

Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative 2014/2015 Hydrocarbon Intercalibration Experiment: Description and Results for SRM 2779 Gulf of Mexico Crude Oil and Candidate SRM 2777 Weathered Gulf of Mexico Crude Oil

April 20, 2016

Author(s)

Jacolin A. Murray, Lane C. Sander, Stephen A. Wise, Christopher M. Reddy

Following an open meeting entitled, Hydrocarbon Chemistry QA/QC, at the 2014 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill and Ecosystem Science Conference in Mobile, Alabama, the...

OAGi/NIST Workshop on Open Cloud Architecture for Smart Manufacturing

April 20, 2016

Author(s)

Nenad Ivezic, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Yan Lu, Yunsu Lee, Jaehun Lee, Albert W. Jones, Simon P. Frechette

This report summarizes the results from the OAGi/NIST Workshop on Open Cloud Architecture for Smart Manufacturing, which was held at the National Institute of...

Public Safety Analytics R&D Roadmap

April 19, 2016

Author(s)

Tracy A. McElvaney, Ryan Felts, Marc Leh

The public safety community is in a period of great transition. Over the next 20 years, technology advancements will increase accessibility of data/video...

Temperature-Dependent Material Modeling for Structural Steels: Formulation and Application

April 15, 2016

Author(s)

Mina S. Seif, William E. Luecke, Lisa Y. Choe, Joseph A. Main, Joseph D. McColskey, Chao Zhang, Jonathan M. Weigand, John L. Gross, Fahim Sadek

This report presents the formulation and application of a newly developed temperature-dependent material model for structural steels. First it presents a model...

Methods for characterizing a radiation detector for specifying radiation fields during testing against standards for homeland security applications

April 15, 2016

Author(s)

Anne L. Sallaska, Leticia Pibida, Ronaldo Minniti, C M. O'Brien

A wide variability exists among commercial radiation detection instruments used to measure exposure rate or ambient dose equivalent rate. These instruments are...

New NIST Security Standard Can Protect Credit Cards, Health Information

April 14, 2016

Author(s)

Morris J. Dworkin, Larry Feldman, Gregory A. Witte

This bulletin summarizes the information presented in NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-38G, "Recommendation for Block Cipher Modes of Operation: Methods for...

JPEG 2000 CODEC Certification Guidance for 1000 ppi Fingerprint Friction Ridge Imagery

April 13, 2016

Author(s)

John M. Libert, Shahram Orandi, Michael D. Garris, Frederick R. Byers, John D. Grantham

The document describes the procedure by which applications of JPEG 2000 CODECs will be evaluated with respect to conformance to the NIST guidance for...

PIV Card Application and Middleware Interface Test Guidelines (SP 800-73-4 compliance)

April 13, 2016

Author(s)

David Cooper, Hildegard Ferraiolo, Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Jason Mohler

NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-73 contains the technical specifications to interface with the smart card to retrieve and use the Personal Identity...

Phase Analysis of Portland Cements by Combined Quantitative X-Ray Powder Diffraction and Scanning Electron Microscopy

April 11, 2016

Author(s)

Paul E. Stutzman, Pan Feng, Jeffrey W. Bullard

X-ray powder diffraction (XRD) has been used for several decades to identify and measure the mass fractions of various crystalline phases in portland cement...

Supplementary information for a round robin study of additively manufactured nickel alloy (IN625) tension specimens

April 5, 2016

Author(s)

Christopher U. Brown, Gregor Jacob, Mark R. Stoudt, Antonio M. Possolo, Shawn P. Moylan, M A. Donmez

FIELD SAMPLING PROCEDURES FOR FUEL AND MOTOR OIL QUALITY TESTING : A HANDBOOK FOR USE BY FUEL AND OIL QUALITY REGULATORY OFFICIALS:

April 1, 2016

Author(s)

Kenneth Butcher, Linda Crown, David Sefcik, Lisa Warfield, Carol Hockert

Critical Assessment of Lifeline System Performance: Understanding Societal Needs in Disaster Recovery:

April 1, 2016

Author(s)

Applied Technology Council

PIV Card Application and Middleware Interface Test Guidelines (SP 800-73-4 compliance):

April 1, 2016

Author(s)

David A. Cooper, Hildegard Ferraiolo, Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Jason Mohler

Baseline Tailor User Guide:

April 1, 2016

Author(s)

Joshua Lubell

OAGi/NIST Workshop on Open Cloud Architecture for Smart Manufacturing:

April 1, 2016

Author(s)

Nenad Ivezic, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Yan Lu, Yunsu Lee, Jaehun Lee, Albert Jones, Simon Frechette

Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative 2014/2015 Hydrocarbon Intercalibration Experiment: Description and Results for SRM 2779 Gulf of Mexico Crude Oil and Candidate SRM 2777 Weathered Gulf of Mexico Crude Oil:

April 1, 2016

Author(s)

Jacolin Anne A. Murray, Lane C. C. Sander, Stephen A. Wise, Christopher M. Reddy

STEP File Analyzer User's Guide (Version 3):

April 1, 2016

Author(s)

Robert Lipman

Report on Post-Quantum Cryptography:

April 1, 2016

Author(s)

Lily Chen, Stephen Jordan, Yi-Kai Liu, Dustin Moody, Rene Peralta, Ray Perlner, Daniel Smith-Tone

Supplementary information for a round robin study of additively manufactured nickel alloy (IN625) tension specimens:

April 1, 2016

Author(s)

Christopher U. Brown, Gregor Jacob, Mark R. Stoudt, Antonio M. Possolo, Shawn P. Moylan, M. Alkan A. Donmez

Guidelines for the Creation of Interoperable Software Identification (SWID) Tags:

April 1, 2016

Author(s)

David Waltermire, Brant A. Cheikes, Larry Feldman, Greg Witte

Measuring the Usability and Security of Permuted Passwords on Mobile Platforms:

April 1, 2016

Author(s)

Kristen K. Greene, John Kelsey, Joshua M. Franklin

NIST Cryptographic Standards and Guidelines Development Process

March 31, 2016

Author(s)

Andrew R. Regenscheid

This document describes the principles, processes and procedures that drive cryptographic standards and guidelines development efforts at the National Institute...

NIST Weather Station for Photovoltaic and Building System Research

March 29, 2016

Author(s)

Matthew Boyd

A weather station has been constructed on the Gaithersburg, Maryland campus of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as part of a research...

Recommendation for Block Cipher Modes of Operation: Methods for Format-Preserving Encryption

March 29, 2016

Author(s)

Morris Dworkin

This Recommendation specifies two methods, called FF1 and FF3, for format-preserving encryption. Both of these methods are modes of operation for an underlying...

"Measurement and Marketing: Considerations When Determining the Method of Sale for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) and Compressed Natural Gas (CNG)

March 24, 2016

Author(s)

Juana S. Williams

This article was developed by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) and originally titled Measurement and...

SATE V Ockham Sound Analysis Criteria

March 22, 2016

Author(s)

Paul E. Black, Athos Ribeiro

Static analyzers examine the source or executable code of programs to find problems. Many static analyzers use some heuristics or approximations to handle...

Updates to the NIST SCAP Validation Program and Associated Test Requirements

March 15, 2016

Author(s)

Melanie Cook, Larry Feldman, Gregory A. Witte

This bulletin summarizes the information presented in NISTIR 7511, Rev. 4, "Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) Version 1.2 Validation Program Test...

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