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NIST Pubs

IREX IV: Part 2 Compression Profiles for Iris Image Compression

January 23, 2014

Author(s)

George Quinn, Patrick Grother, Mei Ngan, Nick Rymer

The IREX IV evaluation builds upon IREX III as a performance test of one-to-many iris recognition. This report is the second part of the IREX IV evaluation...

Guide to Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) Definition and Considerations

January 16, 2014

Author(s)

Chung Tong Hu, David F. Ferraiolo, David R. Kuhn, Adam Schnitzer, Kenneth Sandlin, Robert Miller, Karen Scarfone

This document provides Federal agencies with a definition of attribute based access control (ABAC). ABAC is a logical access control methodology where...

Security and Privacy Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations [including updates as of 1/15/2014]

January 15, 2014

Author(s)

Ronald S. Ross

[Superseded by NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 4(April 2013 w/ updates through 1/22/15): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=917904] This...

Liquid Flow Meter Calibrations with the 0.1 L/s and 2.5 L/s Piston Provers

January 15, 2014

Author(s)

Jodie G. Pope, John D. Wright, Aaron N. Johnson, Christopher J. Crowley

This document provides a description of the 2.5 L/s and 0.1 L/s liquid flow calibration standards operated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology...

Ambulance Design Survey 2011: A Summary Report

January 15, 2014

Author(s)

Yung-Tsun T. Lee, Deogratias Kibira, Allison Barnard Feeney, Jennifer L. Marshall

Current ambulance designs are ergonomically inefficient and often times unsafe for practical treatment response to medical emergencies. Thus, the patient...

Technical Guidance for Archiving and Configuration Management of Homeland Security Simulation Applications

January 15, 2014

Author(s)

Charles R. McLean, Sanjay Jain, Yung-Tsun Lee, Charles W. Hutchings

This document provides general guidance that is designed to help the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Program Managers and other executives inside and...

A Profile of the Key Management Framework for the Federal Government

January 9, 2014

Author(s)

Elaine B. Barker

The Computer Security Division within ITL has recently provided a draft of Special Publication (SP) 800-152, A Profile for U. S. Federal Cryptographic Key...