NIST Pubs

Trusted Cloud: Security Practice Guide for VMware Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Environments

April 20, 2022

Author(s)

Murugiah Souppaya, Michael Bartock, Karen Scarfone, Donna Dodson, Daniel Carroll, Gina Scinta, Hemma Prafullchandra, Harmeet Singh, Raghuram Yeluri, Tim Shea, Carlos Phoenix, Robert Masten, Paul Massis, Jason Malnar, Michael Dalton, Anthony Dukes, Brenda Swarts, Rajeev Ghandi, Laura Storey, Rocky Weber, Jeff Haskins

A cloud workload is an abstraction of the actual instance of a functional application that is virtualized or containerized to include compute, storage, and...

Applied and Computational Mathematics Division: Summary of Activities for Fiscal Year 2021

April 18, 2022

Author(s)

Ronald F. Boisvert

This report summarizes recent technical work of the Applied and Computational Sciences Division of the Information Technology Laboratory at the National...

Correlating mechanical abrasion with power input

April 13, 2022

Author(s)

Keana C. K. Scott, Joana Sipe, Mark Wiesner, Nathan Bossa

LIFE CYCLE COSTING MANUAL for the Federal Energy Management Program

April 13, 2022

Author(s)

Joshua D. Kneifel, David Webb

Certification of Standard Reference Material® 3655 Glycans in Solution (Frozen)

April 12, 2022

Author(s)

Mark Lowenthal, Blaza Toman, Brian Lang, Karen W. Phinney

Standard Reference Material (SRM) 3655 is intended primarily for use as a calibration standard for the measurement of enzymatically released N-linked glycans...

A Roadmap for LIMS at NIST Material Measurement Laboratory

April 11, 2022

Author(s)

Gretchen Greene, Jared Ragland, Zachary Trautt, June W. Lau, Raymond Plante, Joshua Taillon, Adam Abel Creuziger, Chandler A. Becker, Joe Bennett, Niksa Blonder, Lisa Borsuk, Carelyn E. Campbell, Adam Friss, Lucas Hale, Michael Halter, Robert Hanisch, Gary R. Hardin, Lyle E. Levine, Samantha Maragh, Sierra Miller, Chris Muzny, Marcus William Newrock, John Perkins, Anne L. Plant, Bruce D. Ravel, David J. Ross, John Henry J. Scott, Christopher Szakal, Alessandro Tona, Peter Vallone

Instrumentation generates data faster and in higher quantity than ever before, and interlaboratory research is in historic demand domestically and...

NIST Conference Papers Fiscal Year 2019: Engineering Laboratory

April 8, 2022

Author(s)

Kathryn Miller

NIST is committed to the idea that results of federally funded research are a valuable national resource and a strategic asset. To the extent feasible and...

NIST Conference Papers Fiscal Year 2019: Communications Technology Laboratory

April 8, 2022

Author(s)

Kathryn Miller

NIST is committed to the idea that results of federally funded research are a valuable national resource and a strategic asset. To the extent feasible and...

NIST Conference Papers Fiscal Year 2019: Information Technology Laboratory, Material Measurement Laboratory, & Physical Measurement Laboratory

April 8, 2022

Author(s)

Kathryn Miller

NIST is committed to the idea that results of federally funded research are a valuable national resource and a strategic asset. To the extent feasible and...

Blockchain and Related Technologies to Support Manufacturing Supply Chain Traceability

April 7, 2022

Author(s)

Keith A. Stouffer, Joshua Lubell, Michael Pease, Evan K. Wallace

As supply chains become more complex and the origins of products become harder to discern, efforts are emerging that improve traceability of goods by exchanging...

Guide to Enterprise Patch Management Planning: Preventive Maintenance for Technology

April 6, 2022

Author(s)

Murugiah Souppaya, Karen Scarfone

Enterprise patch management is the process of identifying, prioritizing, acquiring, installing, and verifying the installation of patches, updates, and upgrades...

Improving Enterprise Patching for General IT Systems: Utilizing Existing Tools and Performing Processes in Better Ways

April 6, 2022

Author(s)

Murugiah Souppaya, Alper Kerman, Karen Scarfone, Kevin Stine, Brian E. Johnson, Chris Peloquin, Vanessa Ruffin, Tyler Diamond, Mark Simos, Sean Sweeney

Despite widespread recognition that patching is effective and attackers regularly exploit unpatched software, many organizations do not adequately patch. There...

Performance Measurement of a Mobile Manipulator-on-a-Cart and Coordinate Registration Methods for Manufacturing Applications

April 6, 2022

Author(s)

Omar Aboul-Enein, Roger V. Bostelman, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud, Mili Shah

Mobile manipulators, which consist of a robotic manipulator arm on a vehicular base, enable more flexible and dynamic workflows in manufacturing processes by...

Augmented Reality (AR) Usability Evaluation Framework: The Case of Public Safety Communications Research

April 5, 2022

Author(s)

Yee-Yin Choong, Kurtis Goad, Kevin C. Mangold

Augmented Reality (AR) is an enhanced version of reality created by the use of technology to overlay digital information on an image of something being viewed...

Research on Estimating Peak Water Demands and Measuring Pressure Losses in Premise Plumbing Systems

April 1, 2022

Author(s)

Steven Buchberger, Tao Li, Toritseju Omaghomi, Gary Klein, William M. Healy

A protocol is described for conducting a survey to monitor instantaneous peak water use in non-residential buildings using a new wireless sensor network...

Development of a Flashover Prediction Model for Compartment Fires Using Support Vector Regression

April 1, 2022

Author(s)

Wai Cheong Tam, Jun Wang, Richard D. Peacock, Paul A. Reneke, Eugene Yujun Fu, Thomas Cleary

This report provides additional technical details to an article entitled P-Flash – A Machine Learning-based Model for Flashover Prediction using Recovered...

Economic Analysis of ASCE 7-22 Tornado Load Requirements

March 30, 2022

Author(s)

Joshua D. Kneifel, Marc Levitan, Blake Haney, Benchmark Harris, Thomas Smith, David Butry, Patrick Crawford, Nicholas de Toledo, Douglas Thomas

Disinfection of Respirators with Ultraviolet Radiation

March 25, 2022

Author(s)

Dianne L. Poster, Matthew Hardwick, C Cameron Miller, Michael A. Riley, W. W. Shanaka I. Rodrigo, Andras E. Vladar, John D. Wright, Christopher D. Zangmeister, Clarence Zarobila, Jeremy Starkweather, John Wynne, Jason Yilzarde

Data for interpreting virus inactivation on N95 face filtering respirators (FFRs) by ultraviolet (UV) radiation are important in developing UV strategies for...

Federal Cybersecurity Awareness Programs A Mixed Methods Research Study

March 25, 2022

Author(s)

Julie Haney, Jody Jacobs, Susanne M. Furman

Prior industry surveys and research studies have revealed that organizational security awareness programs may face a number of challenges, including lack of...

Approaches and Challenges of Federal Cybersecurity Awareness Programs

March 25, 2022

Author(s)

Julie Haney, Jody Jacobs, Susanne M. Furman

Organizational security awareness programs may experience a number of challenges, including lack of resources, difficulty measuring the impact of the program...

The Federal Cybersecurity Awareness Workforce: Professional Backgrounds, Knowledge, Skills, and Development Activities

March 25, 2022

Author(s)

Julie Haney, Jody Jacobs, Susanne M. Furman

Organizational security awareness programs may experience a number of challenges, including lack of funding and staff with the appropriate knowledge and skills...

Indoor Carbon Dioxide Metric Analysis Tool

March 25, 2022

Author(s)

Andrew K. Persily, Brian Polidoro

Indoor carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations have been used for decades to evaluate indoor air quality (IAQ) and ventilation, and more recently in discussions of...

Gauging Difficulty of Image Segmentation

March 25, 2022

Author(s)

Marek Franaszek

Image segmentation is the first step in a complex process of object recognition. This report presents a method to gauge the difficulty of segmentation by...

Spreadsheet-Based Software for the Analysis of Unloading Compliance Fracture Toughness Tests in Accordance with ASTM E1820

March 25, 2022

Author(s)

Enrico Lucon

NIST has developed a user-friendly spreadsheet-based software for the analysis of elastic-plastic fracture toughness tests conducted according to ASTM E1820-20b...

Mixture Models for Refrigerants R-1234yf/134a, R-1234yf/1234ze(E), and R-134a/1234ze(E) and Interim Models for R-125/1234yf, R-1234ze(E)/227ea, and R-1234yf/152a

March 18, 2022

Author(s)

Ian Bell

In this work, new thermodynamic models for refrigerant mixtures are provided for the binary pairs R-1234yf/134a, R-1234yf/1234ze(E), and R-134a/1234ze(E) based...

Certification of Standard Reference Material 3289 Multivitamin Tablets

March 18, 2022

Author(s)

Hugh Hayes, Jerome Mulloor, Michael Nelson, Kate Rimmer, Lee L. Yu, James H. Yen

Standard Reference Material® (SRM®) 3289 Multivitamin Tablets was developed as part of a collaborative effort between the National Institute for Standards and...

NIST Time and Frequency Bulletin

March 17, 2022

Author(s)

Kelsey Rodriguez

The Time and Frequency Bulletin provides information on performance of time scales and a variety of broadcasts (and related information) to users of the NIST...

Protecting Information and System Integrity in Industrial Control System Environments: Cybersecurity for the Manufacturing Sector

March 16, 2022

Author(s)

Michael Powell, Michael Pease, Keith A. Stouffer, CheeYee Tang, Timothy Zimmerman, Chelsea Dean, Kangmin Zheng, John Hoyt, Mary Raguso, Joseph Brule, Aslam Sherule, Matthew Zopf

Today's manufacturing organizations rely on industrial control systems (ICS) to conduct their operations. Increasingly, ICS are facing more frequent...

Assessing Enhanced Security Requirements for Controlled Unclassified Information

March 15, 2022

Author(s)

Ronald S. Ross, Victoria Yan Pillitteri, Kelley L. Dempsey

The protection of Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) in nonfederal systems and organizations is important to federal agencies and can directly impact the...

Towards a Standard for Identifying and Managing Bias in Artificial Intelligence

March 15, 2022

Author(s)

Reva Schwartz, Apostol Vassilev, Kristen K. Greene, Lori Perine, Andrew Burt, Patrick Hall

As individuals and communities interact in and with an environment that is increasingly virtual they are often vulnerable to the commodification of their...