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The Office of Law Enforcement Standards (OLES) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) helps law enforcement and criminal justice agencies...
Hans P. Mumm, Maynard S. Dewey, Jeffrey S. Nico, Alan K. Thompson, A Garcia, J F. Wilkerson, S J. Freedman, B K. Fujikawa, T E. Chupp, R L. Cooper, C A. Trull, Fred E. Wietfeldt, G L. Jones
Michael A. Lombardi, Andrew N. Novick, John P. Lowe, Matthew J. Deutch, Gerald Nelson, Douglas D. Sutton, William C. Yates, D. W. Hanson
This document serves as a recommended practice guide intended to benefit WWVB radio controlled clock (RCC) manufacturers and consumers. It recommends key...
This document represents the fiscal year 2004 production of the programs comprising the Semiconductor Electronics Division. Program goals, customer needs...
The NIST Optoelectronics Division provides measurement technology, standards, and traceability for the optoelectronics industry. This document describes the...
The Electromagnetics Division is a critical national resource for a wide range of customers. U.S. industry is the primary customer both for the division's...
People face a variety of hazards in built environments. The emergency management field has developed various approaches applicable to building emergencies, and...
Understanding how strategies that protect building occupants can best be selected and effectively deployed is a critical task for a research agenda that tackles...
Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) refers to the transmission of speech across data-style networks. This form of transmission is conceptually superior to...
Joan Hash, N Bartol, H Rollins, W Robinson, J Abeles, S Batdorff
Traditionally, information technology (IT) security and capital planning and investment control (CPIC) processes have been performed independently by security...
P J. Disimile, J R. Tucker, B Croswell, John M. Davis
The current work is presented as part of an effort to develop a spray transport model that would be used within the computational fire code currently under...
Results are presented for a series of fire-suppression tests conducted in a full-scale nacelle along with the results of pretest predictions carried out using...
Phase Doppler Anemometry (PDA) is a widely used measurement technique capable of non-intrusively measuring a droplet diameter and up to three components of its...
The current paper introduces a facility to be used for the investigation of fire suppressant transport and pool fire extinction in an environment similar to an...
CF3I has been considered to be a candidate replacement of CF3Br used in aircraft for fuel inerting and for fire fighting. In this study, the chemical effects of...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology hosted a two-day workshop focusing on needed research on occupant behavior and movement during building...
Stacy S. Vander-Pol, Rebecca S. Pugh, Paul R. Becker
The purpose of the work resulting in this report was to compare literature values of contaminant concentrations in the 39 species of Arctic seabirds that live...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides standard time and frequency information through three radio broadcast stations that are...
Charles R. McLean, Yung-Tsun Lee, Guodong Shao, Frank H. Riddick
This paper presents an information model that provides neutral data interfaces for integrating machine shop software applications with simulation. The model is...