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Wind-Driven Fire Spread to a Structure from Fences and Mulch

December 12, 2022

Author(s)

Kathryn Butler, Erik L. Johnsson, Alexander Maranghides, Shonali Nazare, Marco G. Fernandez, Rachel McIntyre, William Saar, Mariusz Zarzecki, Wei Tang, Eric Auth, Michael Pryor, Colin McLaughlin

A series of field experiments was conducted to examine the effects on fire spread toward a structure for combustible fences and mulch under conditions that may...

Supply Chain Assurance: Validating the Integrity of Computing Devices

December 9, 2022

Author(s)

Nakia R. Grayson, Murugiah Souppaya, Andrew Regenscheid, Tim Polk, Christopher Brown, Karen Scarfone, Chelsea Deane

Product integrity and the ability to distinguish trustworthy products is a critical foundation of C-SCRM. Authoritative information regarding the provenance and...

Mixture Model for Refrigerant Pairs R-32/1234yf, R-32/1234ze(E), R-1234ze(E)/227ea, R-1234yf/152a, and R-125/1234yf

December 6, 2022

Author(s)

Ian Bell

In this work thermodynamic models based upon the corresponding states framework with departure terms are developed for the refrigerant pairs R-32/1234yf, R-32...

Health Assessment Measurements Quality Assurance Program: Exercise 7 Final Report

December 5, 2022

Author(s)

Chuck Barber, Carolyn Burdette, Hugh Hayes, Monique Johnson, Shaun Kotoski, Jacolin Murray, Melissa M. Phillips, Kate Rimmer, Andrea Yarberry, Laura J. Wood

The Health Assessment Measurements Quality Assurance Program (HAMQAP) was launched in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of...

Making Semantic Structures Explicit: Developing and Evaluating Tools and Techniques to Support Understanding of Large Cybersecurity Corpora

December 1, 2022

Author(s)

Ira Monarch, Jacob Collard, Sangjin Shin, Eswaran Subrahmanian, Talapady N. Bhat, Ram Sriram

This report describes the adaptation, composition and use of natural language processing, machine learning and other computational tools to help make implicit...

Cannabis Laboratory Quality Assurance Program: Exercise 2 Moisture Final Report

November 29, 2022

Author(s)

Chuck Barber, Colleen E. Bryan Sallee, Carolyn Burdette, Shaun Kotoski, Melissa M. Phillips, Walter Brent Wilson, Laura Wood

In 2020, NIST launched Cannabis Laboratory Quality Assurance Program (CannaQAP) to improve the comparability of the analytical measurements of cannabis and...

On the Feasibility of COVID-19 Proximity Detection Using Bluetooth Low Energy Signals

November 29, 2022

Author(s)

Nader Moayeri, Chang Li, Lu Shi

The COrona VIrus Disease – 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a profound effect on the entire world. With the onset of the pandemic in 2020, also started various...

Voices of First Responders: How to Facilitate Adoption and Usage of Communication Technology - An Integrated Analysis of Qualitative and Quantitative Findings

November 28, 2022

Author(s)

Yee-Yin Choong, Kerrianne Buchanan, Shanee Dawkins, Sandra Spickard Prettyman

The Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network (NPSBN) is being developed to provide a dedicated network for the use of first responders during incident...

Digital Investigation Techniques: A NIST Scientific Foundation Review

November 21, 2022

Author(s)

James R. Lyle, Barbara Guttman, John Butler, Kelly Sauerwein, Christina Reed, Corrine Lloyd

This document is an assessment of the scientific foundations of digital forensics. We examined descriptions of digital investigation techniques from peer...

Voices of First Responders -- Nationwide Public Safety Communication Survey Findings: Statistical Analysis Results Phase 2, Volume 4

November 21, 2022

Author(s)

Adam L. Pintar, Kerrianne Buchanan, Yee-Yin Choong

Public safety is in the midst of a major transition in the communication technology that they use due to the ongoing development and deployment of the...

Guide to a Secure Enterprise Network Landscape

November 17, 2022

Author(s)

Ramaswamy Chandramouli

Access to multiple cloud services, the geographic spread of enterprise Information Technology (IT) resources (including multiple data centers), and the...

Using Business Impact Analysis to Inform Risk Prioritization and Response

November 17, 2022

Author(s)

Stephen Quinn, Nahla Ivy, Julie Chua, Matthew Barrett, Greg Witte, Larry Feldman, Daniel Topper, Robert Gardner

While business impact analysis (BIA) has historically been used to determine availability requirements for business continuity, the process can be extended to...

A Fundamental Equation of State for the Calculation of Thermodynamic Properties of n-Octane

November 16, 2022

Author(s)

Robin Beckmüller, Roland Span, Eric W. Lemmon, Monika Thol

An empirical equation of state in terms of the Helmholtz energy is presented for n-octane. It is valid from the triple point temperature Ttp = 216.37 K to Tmax...

Engineering Trustworthy Secure Systems

November 16, 2022

Author(s)

Ronald S. Ross, Mark Winstead, Michael McEvilley

This publication describes a basis for establishing principles, concepts, activities, and tasks for engineering trustworthy secure systems. Such principles...

Measuring the Common Vulnerability Scoring System Base Score Equation

November 15, 2022

Author(s)

Peter Mell, Jonathan Spring, Dave Dugal, Srividya Ananthakrishna, Francesco Casotto, Troy Fridley, Christopher Ganas, Arkadeep Kundu, Phillip Nordwall, Vijayamurugan Pushpanathan, Daniel Sommerfeld, Matt Tesauro, Christopher Turner

This work evaluates the validity of the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Version 3 ''base score'' equation in capturing the expert opinion of its...

Efficiency Improvements in U.S. Manufacturing: Return on Investment for Small and Medium Establishments

November 10, 2022

Author(s)

Douglas Thomas

Manufacturers and manufacturing research organizations make investments to advance efficiency and competitiveness. Understanding the return for previously made...

Cybersecurity Framework Profile for Hybrid Satellite Networks (HSN): Final Annotated Outline

November 3, 2022

Author(s)

James McCarthy, Joseph Brule, Dan Mamula, Karri Meldorf

The objective of this Cybersecurity Profile is to identify an approach to assess the cybersecurity posture of Hybrid Satellite Networks (HSN) that provide...

Workshop Report: Standards and Performance Metrics for On-Road Autonomous Vehicles

October 27, 2022

Author(s)

Craig I. Schlenoff, Suzanne Lightman, Vinh Nguyen, Prem Rachakonda, Tao Zhang, Omar Aboul-Enein, Nicholas Barbosa, C Cameron Miller, Daniel Sawyer, Ann Virts

On-road autonomous vehicles are expected to significantly influence key aspects of everyday life. However, these complex systems can pose a safety risk in the...

Stabilograms: Testbed Stability in a Pilot Experiment for Cellular Communication Anomaly Detection

October 26, 2022

Author(s)

Michael Frey, Mary Gregg, Jason Coder, Azizollah Kord, Melissa Midzor, Anna Otterstetter, Jeanne Quimby, Alec Weiss

The National Institute of Standards and Technology's Communications Technology Laboratory conducted a cellular communication system pilot experiment in the...

Cost-Effective Environmental Sustainability: A Focus on the Circular Economy

October 24, 2022

Author(s)

Douglas Thomas

Currently, global economies are using resources and contaminating resources faster than they can be regenerated. This resource depletion strains the economy and...

Annual Report on U.S. Manufacturing Industry Statistics: 2022

October 20, 2022

Author(s)

Douglas Thomas

This report provides a statistical review of the U.S. manufacturing industry. There are three aspects of U.S. manufacturing that are considered: (1) how the U.S...

Bounding the Structure Separation Distance: A Modeling Study in Support of the Structure Separation Experiments Project

October 20, 2022

Author(s)

Kuldeep Prasad, Alexander Maranghides

The primary objective of the Structure Separation Experiment project is to assess structure-to-structure fire spread for structures located in the Wildland...

Comparison of Two Approaches for Managing Building Flexibility Using Energy Market Prices

October 19, 2022

Author(s)

David Holmberg, Farhad Omar, Thomas Roth

Transactive energy promises to support customer distributed energy resources (DER) integration into the electric grid, better accessing DER flexibility to...

Manufacturing USA Highlights Report 2022

October 19, 2022

Author(s)

Zahraha Brunner

Manufacturing USA® is a network of public-private partnerships united to secure U.S. global leadership in advanced manufacturing through large scale...

2022 NCWM-NIST National Survey on 20 lb LPG (Propane) Cylinders

October 19, 2022

Author(s)

David Sefcik, Katrice Lippa, N. Alan Heckert, Stephen Benjamin, Ivan Hankins, Don Onwiler

The National Conference on Weights and Measures (NCWM) in partnership and cooperation with the NIST Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) and the Weights and...

Radio Spectrum Occupancy Measurements Amid COVID-19 Telework and Telehealth

October 14, 2022

Author(s)

Dan Kuester, Xifeng Lu, Dazhen Gu, Azizollah Kord, Jake Rezac, Katie Carson, Marla L. Dowell, Elizabeth Eyeson, Ari Feldman, Keith Forsyth, Vu Le, John Marts, Mike McNulty, Kyle Neubarth, Andre Rosete, Matthew Ryan, Maija Teraslina

During the COVID-19 pandemic, NIST began a targeted campaign of measurements of averaged power and occupancy rate in the radio spectrum. The purpose was to...

CSAFE Bitemark Thinkshop Report

October 11, 2022

Author(s)

NFN CSAFE, Kelly Sauerwein

This is supplemental information to NISTIR 8352 Bitemark Analysis: A NIST Scientific Foundation Review. NIST asked the Center for Statistics and Applications in...

Bitemark Analysis Reference List

October 11, 2022

Author(s)

Kelly Sauerwein

This report provides supplemental information to NISTIR 8352 Bitemark Analysis: A NIST Scientific Foundation Review. Publicly available resources relating to...

Summary of Published Criticisms of Bitemark Foundations and Responses by Forensic Odontologists

October 11, 2022

Author(s)

John Butler

This report provides supplemental information to NISTIR 8352 Bitemark Analysis: A NIST Scientific Foundation Review. This report summarizes the concerns raised...

Standards and Guidelines in Forensic Odontology

October 11, 2022

Author(s)

Karen Reczek

This report provides supplemental information to NISTIR 8352 Bitemark Analysis: A NIST Scientific Foundation Review. Standards and guidelines from the American...

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