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Hurricane Ian Research Study Volume 1: Hurricane Ian Data Synthesis Workshop Report

February 17, 2026

Author(s)

James LaDue, Daniel Cox, Marc Levitan, Mershad Amini, Sebastião Figueira

This report documents the results of the Hurricane Ian Data Synthesis Workshop, held on June 6, 2023, at the American Society of Civil Engineers headquarters in...

Expanding the AI Evaluation Toolbox with Statistical Models

February 17, 2026

Author(s)

Andrew Keller, Kweku Kwegyir-Aggrey, Ryan Steed, Anita Rao, Julia Sharp, Amanda Bergman

Benchmarks are widely used to evaluate and compare the performance of artificial intelligence systems. However, some approaches to computing benchmark metrics...

2025 NIST Summary of U.S. Legal Metrology Activities

February 17, 2026

Author(s)

Loren Minnich, Gloria Lee, John McGuire, Jan Konijnenburg, Isabel Baucom, Juana Williams, Katrice Lippa, David Sefcik

The NIST Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) presents its second issue of the 2024 NIST Annual Summary of U.S. Legal Metrology Activities report. This report...

Application of Artificial Intelligence in Supply Chain Management – Opportunities and Challenges, a Workshop Report

February 9, 2026

Author(s)

Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Perawit Charoenwut, Yen Mai

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has progressed significantly and impacted various aspects of our daily life. With its strength in prediction, AI is considered a...

Software-based 5G Industrial Wireless Private Networks: Challenges and Opportunities for Mission-Critical and Time-Sensitive Applications

February 4, 2026

Author(s)

Jing Geng, Karl Montgomery, Mohamed Hany, Richard Candell

There is a growing interest in the industrial wireless community to utilize wireless communications for industrial applications. Among different wireless...

Validating LLM-Generated Data Grounded in Technical Documents: An Application in Community Planning

February 3, 2026

Author(s)

Juan Fung, Daniel Kofi Stephens, Alden Dima, Michael Majurski

This report presents a novel approach to generating synthetic variations of technical community planning documents using Large Language Models (LLMs). We...

Alternative Fundamental Equation of State for Fluid Carbon Dioxide

February 2, 2026

Author(s)

Eric Lemmon, Allan Harvey, Robert Hellmann

We present a new fundamental equation of state for fluid carbon dioxide, which is an alternative to the current reference formulation published by Span and...

Bridging the Gap between Standards on Random Number Generation: Comparison of SP 800-90 Series and AIS 20/31

January 29, 2026

Author(s)

Elaine Barker, John Kelsey, Kerry McKay, Johannes Mittmann, Matthias Peter, Werner Schindler, Meltem Sonmez Turan

This report studies the cryptographic random number generation standards and guidelines written by BSI and NIST, namely AIS 20/31 and SP 800-90 Series. The aim...

The National Marine Mammal Tissue Bank Specimen Inventory Report

January 29, 2026

Author(s)

Jennifer Ness, Debra Ellisor, Jennifer Hoguet, Amanda Moors, Amanda Capuano, Rebecca Pugh

This report provides a brief background of the National Marine Mammal Tissue Bank (NMMTB), information on the composition of the collection, policies for...

Photopolymer Additive Manufacturing 2023 Workshop Report: Charting the Future of Photopolymer Additive Manufacturing

January 28, 2026

Author(s)

Callie Higgins, Jason Killgore

The 2023 Photopolymer Additive Manufacturing Alliance (PAMA) Workshop convened experts from academia, industry, and government to explore the state-of-the-art...

Generative modeling of additive manufacturing lack-of-fusion defects using three-dimensional adversarial network

January 23, 2026

Author(s)

Mahmudul Hoque, Felix Kim

This paper presents a three-dimensional generative adversarial network (3D-GAN) framework to generate synthetic pore structures representative of lack-of-fusion...

NIST First Call for Multi-Party Threshold Schemes

January 20, 2026

Author(s)

Luis Teixeira D'Aguiar Norton Brandao, Rene Peralta

This document calls for public submissions of multi-party threshold schemes, and other related crypto-systems, to support the United States National Institute...

Certification of Standard Reference Material® 1568c Rice Flour

January 15, 2026

Author(s)

Laura Wood, Charles Barber, Colleen Bryan Sallee, Monique Johnson, Shaun Kotoski, Stephen Long, Tomohiro Narukawa, Rick Paul, Nicholas Sharp, John Sieber, Maria Isabel Vega Martinez, James Yen, Lee Yu

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) SRM 1568c Rice Flour has value assignments for over 30 analytes, including arsenic species. This...

Certification of Standard Reference Material 2921a

January 12, 2026

Author(s)

David Bunk, David Newton

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Standard Reference Material® (SRM®) 2921a Human Cardiac Troponin Complex delivers a certified value...

Twenty-Eighth Annual Report on Federal Agency Use of Voluntary Consensus Standards and Conformity Assessment

January 8, 2026

Author(s)

Karen Reczek

In FY 2024, of the 23 federal agencies that reported, four federal agencies added a combined total of six government unique standards (GUS) in lieu of voluntary...

Certification of Standard Reference Material® 2890a Water in 1-Octanol

January 8, 2026

Author(s)

Brian Lang, Jacolin Murray, Adam Pintar

Standard Reference Material (SRM) 2890a Water in 1-Octanol is intended for use in validating methods and calibrating instruments for the measurement of trace...

CBRS Sharing Ecosystem Assessment (SEA) Sensor Data Manual

January 8, 2026

Author(s)

Aric Sanders, Anthony Romaniello, Daniel Kuester, Todd Schumann, Adam Wunderlich

The purpose of the National Advanced Spectrum and Communications Test Network (NASCTN) Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) Sharing Ecosystem Assessment (SEA...

Database of Diffusion MRI Brain Scans at 64 mT and 3 T

January 8, 2026

Author(s)

Andrew Dienstfrey, Zydrunas Gimbutas, Joe Chalfoun, Adele Peskin, Kalina Jordanova, Kathryn Keenan, Stephen Ogier

Low-field magnetic resonance imaging offers the promise to significantly increase access to in vivo soft tissue imaging. The technology is both portable and low...

NIST SP260 - Assignment of Fluorescence Intensity to Calibration Microspheres and Nanospheres for Flow Cytometry

January 7, 2026

Author(s)

Paul DeRose, Linhua Tian, Ningchun Xu, Lili Wang

The latest protocols are described for the NIST assignment of fluorescence intensity to calibration spheres or beads, which are used primarily for the accurate...

NIST Handbook 44: Specifications, Tolerances and Other Technical Requirements for Weighing and Measuring Devices (2026 Ed.)

January 5, 2026

Author(s)

Loren Minnich, Gloria Lee, Juana Williams, Isabel Baucom, Jan Konijnenburg, John McGuire, Katrice Lippa

NIST Handbook 44 includes specifications, tolerances, and other technical requirements for weighing and measuring devices. These requirements are intended to...

NIST Time and Frequency Bulletin: November 2022 update

January 1, 2026

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...

NIST Handbook 130: Uniform Laws and Regulations in the Areas of Legal Metrology and Fuel Quality (2026 Ed.)

December 29, 2025

Author(s)

John McGuire, David Sefcik, Loren Minnich, Isabel Baucom, Katrice Lippa

NIST Handbook 130 includes a compilation of model laws and regulations and related interpretations and guidelines designed to encourage uniformity in the...

NIST Handbook 133: Checking the Net Contents of Packaged Goods (2026 Ed.)

December 29, 2025

Author(s)

John McGuire, David Sefcik, Loren Minnich, Elizabeth Benham, Isabel Baucom, Katrice Lippa

This handbook has been prepared as a procedural guide for the compliance testing of net content statements on packaged goods. Compliance testing of packaged...

Considerations for Achieving Crypto Agility: Strategies and Practices

December 19, 2025

Author(s)

Elaine Barker, Lidong Chen, David Cooper, Dustin Moody, Andrew Regenscheid, Murugiah Souppaya, William Newhouse, Russell Housley, Sean Turner, William Barker, Karen Kent

Cryptographic (crypto) agility refers to the capabilities needed to replace and adapt cryptographic algorithms in protocols, applications, software, hardware...

Survey on Smart Home Users' Security and Privacy Perceptions and Actions: A Device Category Perspective

December 19, 2025

Author(s)

Julie Haney, Yasemin Acar, Anna Li, Faith Haney

Although smart home adoption in the United States (U.S.) is growing, smart home users may harbor security and privacy concerns or uncertainty about how to best...

Staging Cybersecurity Risks for Enterprise Risk Management and Governance Oversight

December 18, 2025

Author(s)

Stephen Quinn, Nahla Ivy, Matthew Barrett, Robert Gardner, Matthew Smith, Greg Witte

This document is the third in a series that supplements NIST Interagency Report (IR) 8286, Integrating Cybersecurity and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM). This...

An Improved Robotic Workcell for Operational Technology (OT) Research

December 18, 2025

Author(s)

Timothy Zimmerman, Michael Pease, Michael Dawson

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has constructed a discrete manufacturing workcell to support its operational technology (OT) and...

Integrating Cybersecurity and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)

December 18, 2025

Author(s)

Stephen Quinn, Julie Anne Chua, Nahla Ivy, Robert Gardner, Karen Scarfone, Matthew Smith, Greg Witte

The increasing frequency, creativity, and severity of cybersecurity attacks means that all enterprises should ensure that cybersecurity risk is receiving...

Identifying and Estimating Cybersecurity Risk for Enterprise Risk Management

December 17, 2025

Author(s)

Stephen Quinn, Nahla Ivy, Matthew Barrett, Larry Feldman, Greg Witte, Robert Gardner

This document supplements NIST Interagency Report (IR) 8286, Integrating Cybersecurity and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), by providing additional detail...

Mitigating Cybersecurity and Privacy Risks in Telehealth Smart Home Integration

December 17, 2025

Author(s)

Ronald Pulivarti, Kevin Littlefield, Sue Wang, Bronwyn Patrick, Ryan Williams

In-patient service demands have increased during a time when patients have experienced reduced access to hospital care. Hospital-at-Home (HaH) solutions provide...

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