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NIST Pubs

Getting Started with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework: A Quick Start Guide

August 6, 2021

Author(s)

Amy Mahn, Daniel Topper, Stephen Quinn, Jeffrey Marron

This document intends to provide direction and guidance to those organizations – in any sector or community – seeking to improve cybersecurity risk management...

Attribute-based Access Control for Microservices-based Applications Using a Service Mesh

August 6, 2021

Author(s)

Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Zack Butcher, Aradhna Chetal

Deployment architecture in cloud-native applications now consists of loosely coupled components, called microservices, with all application services provided...

Method Assessment for Non-Targeted Analyses (MANTA) Program: Interlaboratory Study 1 Results

July 30, 2021

Author(s)

Benjamin Place, Kate Rimmer

Non-targeted analysis is the determination of the chemical composition of a complex mixture without a priori knowledge regarding the identities or quantities of...

Seismic Behavior and Design of Deep, Slender Wide-Flange Structural Steel Beam-Columns

July 28, 2021

Author(s)

Piyachai Chansuk, Gulen Ozkula, Chia-Ming Uang, John Harris

Twenty-one W24 hot-rolled columns of ASTM A992 steel with five different sections were tested in Phase 1 of this research program to investigate the effects of...

Cannabis Quality Assurance Program: Exercise 1 Final Report

July 27, 2021

Author(s)

MARYAM ABDUL-RAHMAN, Melissa M. Phillips, Walter Brent Wilson

NIST launched a CannaQAP in 2020 to improve the comparability of the analytical measurements in forensic and Cannabis (hemp and marijuana) testing laboratories...

Review of the Advanced Encryption Standard

July 23, 2021

Author(s)

Nicky Mouha, Morris Dworkin

The field of cryptography continues to advance at a very rapid pace, leading to new insights that may impact the security properties of cryptographic algorithms...

NVLAP Federal Warfare System(s)

July 21, 2021

Author(s)

Bradley Moore, John Matyjas, Raymond Tierney, Jesse Angle, Jeannine Abiva, Jeff Hanes, David Dobosh, John Avera

NIST Handbook 150-872 presents the technical requirements and guidance for the accreditation of laboratories under the National Voluntary Laboratory...

Managing the Security of Information Exchanges

July 20, 2021

Author(s)

Kelley L. Dempsey, Victoria Yan Pillitteri, Andrew Regenscheid

An organization often has mission and business-based needs to exchange (share) information with one or more other internal or external organizations via various...

Status Report on the Second Round of the NIST Lightweight Cryptography Standardization Process

July 20, 2021

Author(s)

Meltem Sonmez Turan, Kerry McKay, Donghoon Chang, Cagdas Calik, Lawrence E. Bassham, Jinkeon Kang, John M. Kelsey

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is in the process of selecting one or more authenticated encryption and hashing schemes suitable for...

Standard Errors and Significance Testing in Data Analysis for Testing Classifiers

July 19, 2021

Author(s)

Jin Chu Wu, Raghu N. Kacker

The one-classifier and two-classifier significance testing for evaluation and comparison of classifiers are conducted to investigate the statistical...

Atomic Model Structure of the NIST Monoclonal Antibody (NISTmAb) Reference Material

July 15, 2021

Author(s)

Christina Bergonzo, David Travis Gallagher

As monoclonal antibodies have become a vital resource in medicine, knowledge of their complex molecular structures has increased in importance. Thousands of...

NIST-FEMA Post-Earthquake Functional Recovery Workshop Report

July 15, 2021

Author(s)

Leslie Abrahams, Lisa Van Pay, Siamak Sattar, Katherine Johnson, Steven McCabe

NIST Contribution to the ASTM E08.07.06 Round Robin on Determining the Master Curve Reference Temperature, T0,X, at Elevated Loading Rates (ILS #1547)

July 15, 2021

Author(s)

Enrico Lucon

The ASTM Interlaboratory Study (ILS) #1547 (Determining T0,X at Elevated Loading Rates) was launched in 2019 under the leadership of MPA Stuttgart (Germany)...

Aerial LTE Demonstration Report

July 14, 2021

Author(s)

Maxwell Maurice, Sam Ray

In this paper, we investigate a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network mounted on an airborne small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS) to provide broadband connectivity...

Manufacturing USA Institute Evaluation: Renewal Process and Performance Standards

July 13, 2021

Author(s)

Robert G. Rudnitsky, Kelley Rogers

The Manufacturing USA Program's 2019 reauthorization allows the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to renew Manufacturing USA institute...

Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) Part 7: Identification for Paperless Travel and Immigration

July 13, 2021

Author(s)

Patrick J. Grother, Austin Hom, Mei Lee Ngan, Kayee Hanaoka

One-to-many biometric search systems are discussed in their role of positive and negative identification - the former refers to the expectation that person in a...

NIST Fingerprint Image Quality 2

July 13, 2021

Author(s)

Elham Tabassi, Martin Olsen, Oliver Bausinger, Christoph Busch, Andrew Figlarz, Gregory Fiumara, Olaf Henniger, Johannes Merkle, Timo Ruhland, Christopher Schiel, Michael Schwaiger

NIST Fingerprint Image Quality (NFIQ 2) is open source software that links image quality of optical and ink 500 pixel per inch fingerprints to operational...

Manufacturing USA Institute Evaluation: Renewal Process and Performance Standards

July 9, 2021

Author(s)

Kelley Rogers, Robert G. Rudnitsky

The Manufacturing USA Program's 2019 reauthorization allows the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to renew Manufacturing USA institute...

Model of Operational Control of Discrete Event Logistics Systems (DELS)

July 8, 2021

Author(s)

Timothy A. Sprock, Conrad Bock

Operations management systems manage flows of work, resources, and information through production and logistics systems, ensuring the correct and efficient...

New International Formulation for the Viscosity of Heavy Water

July 8, 2021

Author(s)

Marc J. Assael, S.A. Monogenidou, Marcia L. Huber, Richard A. Perkins, Jan V. Sengers

The International Association for the Properties of Water and Steam (IAPWS) has recently adopted a new formulation for the thermodynamic properties of heavy...

Accessing Inclusivity of Women at NIST: A Comprehensive Examination of HR Data, In-Depth Interviews and Survey Data

July 6, 2021

Author(s)

Mary Frances Theofanos, Sandra Spickard Prettyman

In the fall of 2019, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) funded three studies to better understand equity and inclusivity. This report is...

NVLAP Energy Efficient Lighting Products

July 6, 2021

Author(s)

Timothy Rasinski, C Cameron Miller

NIST Handbook 150-1, NVLAP Energy Efficient Lighting Products, presents the technical requirements and guidance for the accreditation of laboratories under the...

User Guide for NIST Media Forensic Challenge (MFC) Datasets

July 6, 2021

Author(s)

Haiying Guan, Andrew Delgado, Yooyoung Lee, Amy Yates, Daniel Zhou, Timothée N. Kheyrkhah, Jonathan G. Fiscus

NIST released a set of Media Forensic Challenge (MFC) datasets developed in DARPA MediFor (Media Forensics) project to the public in the past 5 years. More than...

Forecasting the Evolution of North Atlantic Hurricanes: A Deep Learning Approach

June 30, 2021

Author(s)

Rikhi Bose, Adam L. Pintar, Emil Simiu

Accurate prediction of storm evolution from genesis onwards may be of great importance considering that billions of dollars worth of property damage and...

NVLAP Cryptographic and Security Testing

June 30, 2021

Author(s)

Bradley Moore, Beverly Trapnell, James F. Fox, Carolyn French

NIST Handbook 150-17 presents the technical requirements and guidance for the accreditation of laboratories under the National Voluntary Laboratory...

Optical Power Scale Realization by Laser Calorimeter after 45 Years of Operation

June 28, 2021

Author(s)

Matthew Spidell, Anna Vaskuri

To calibrate laser power and energy meters, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) uses several detector-based realizations of the scale for...

Mission Critical Voice Start-of-Word Correction for Access Delay Measurement System

June 24, 2021

Author(s)

William Magrogan, Jaden Pieper, Zainab Soetan

NIST's Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) division previously developed an access time measurement method for push-to-talk (PTT) communications...

Velocity and Temperature Structure of Medium-Scale Pool Fires

June 22, 2021

Author(s)

Kunhyuk Sung, Ryan Falkenstein-Smith, Anthony Hamins

A series of measurements was conducted using a bidirectional probe to characterize the upward speed in the plumes of medium-scale pool fires burning a variety...

Mapping employee networks through the NIST Interactions Survey

June 21, 2021

Author(s)

Laura Espinal, Camila Young, Justyna Zwolak

As we begin to adopt approaches to help the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) become a more inclusive organization, we need a way to...

On Computing Elastic Shape Distances between Curves in d-dimensional Space

June 21, 2021

Author(s)

Javier Bernal, James F. Lawrence, Gunay Dogan, Robert Hagwood

The computation of the elastic registration of two simple curves in higher dimensions and therefore of the elastic shape distance between them has been...

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