NIST Pubs

Towards Adversary-Resilient Interference Management in O-RAN: Requirements and Gap Analysis

January 27, 2025

Author(s)

Sneihil Gopal, Wesley Garey, Richard Rouil, Sridhar Kowdley

The Open Radio Access Network (RAN) (O-RAN) Alliance seeks to establish a more open, intelligent, and flexible Radio Access Network (RAN) architecture for...

Communicating Forensic Findings: Current Practices and Future Directions Workshop Proceedings

January 24, 2025

Author(s)

Sandra Koch

This report supplements NIST IR 8510 Communicating Forensic Findings: A NIST Scientific Foundation Review (Koch et al., 2024). This document summarizes the...

Dietary Supplement Laboratory Quality Assurance Program: Exercise 2 Final Report

January 24, 2025

Author(s)

Hugh Hayes, Jenna Klingsick, Colleen Bryan Sallee, Sanem Hosbas Coskun

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Dietary Supplement Laboratory Quality Assurance Program (DSQAP) was launched in 2007 in part as a...

ICSSC Biennial Progress Report for 2024: Report on Progress Towards Implementation of Executive Order 13717: Establishing a Federal Earthquake Risk Management Standard - Reporting Period: February 2, 2022 to February 1, 2024

January 23, 2025

Author(s)

John Harris, Steven McCabe

Executive Order (EO) 13717: Establishing a Federal Earthquake Risk Management Standard establishes minimum seismic requirements for new and existing buildings...

Additive Construction – The Path to Standardization II: Workshop Report

January 16, 2025

Author(s)

Shawn Platt

The "Additive Construction – The Path to Standardization II" workshop, hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and U.S. Army...

NIST Handbook 133: Checking the Net Contents of Packaged Goods (2025 Ed.)

January 10, 2025

Author(s)

John McGuire, David Sefcik, Loren Minnich, 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...

NIST Handbook 44: Specifications, Tolerances, and Other Technical Requirements for Weighing and Measuring Devices (2025 Ed.)

January 10, 2025

Author(s)

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

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

2024 NIST Summary of U.S. Legal Metrology Activities

January 10, 2025

Author(s)

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

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...

NIST Handbook 130: Uniform Laws and Regulations in the Areas of Legal Metrology and Fuel Quality (2025 Ed.)

January 10, 2025

Author(s)

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

This 2025 edition includes amendments made through the Committee on Laws and Regulations of the NCWM with technical guidance from the Office of Weights and...

The NIST 20 MW Calorimetry Measurement System – Exhaust Flow Characterization and Calibration

January 8, 2025

Author(s)

Rodney Bryant, Artur A. Chernovsky

Accurate flow measurements at the exhaust systems of large fire test facilities are critical for achieving accurate measurements of heat release rate. A...

Cross-disciplinary Expert Perspectives of Sustainability and Resilience Planning

January 7, 2025

Author(s)

Jennifer Helgeson, Katherine Xue

Using "Off-the-Shelf" AISI 4340 Steel for the Production of NIST Reference Charpy Specimens

January 7, 2025

Author(s)

Enrico Lucon, Allen Eckhardt, Raymond Santoyo

We investigated the suitability of using readily available ("off-the-shelf"), as opposite to made-to-order, AISI 4340 steel for the production of NIST reference...

Metadata Modeling for Manufacturing Enterprise Integration

January 6, 2025

Author(s)

Yan Lu, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, James Jim Wilson, Michael Figura, Josh Ki, David Noller

The continuous digitalization and digital transformation are expanding enterprise information exchange scenarios that span product data, process data sets, and...

Infographic on Post-Earthquake Functional Recovery Performance

January 3, 2025

Author(s)

Katherine Johnson, Siamak Sattar, Dustin Cook, Sandesh Aher

This research brief provides a research summary and research advancement details for the functional recovery post-earthquake performance objective being...

Linnik Point Spread Functions, Time-Reversed Logarithmic Diffusion Equations, and Blind Deconvolution of Electron Microscope Imagery

January 2, 2025

Author(s)

Alfred Carasso, Andras Vladar

Abstract. A non-iterative direct blind deconvolution procedure, previously used successfully to sharpen Hubble Space Telescope imagery, is now found useful in...

NIST Scientific Integrity Program: Annual Report

December 26, 2024

Author(s)

Anne Andrews, Justyna Zwolak

This report summarizes the findings of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Scientific Integrity Program assessment of the program for Fiscal Year...

Cybersecurity for Smart Inverters: Guidelines for Residential and Light Commercial Solar Energy Systems

December 20, 2024

Author(s)

Jeffrey Marron, Donald Faatz, Daniel Rebori-Carretero, Johnathan Wiltberger, Jim McCarthy, Nic Urlaub

This report provides practical cybersecurity guidance for small-scale solar inverter implementations that are typically used in homes and small businesses...

Workshop on Compositional Structures in Systems Engineering and Design

December 20, 2024

Author(s)

Spencer Breiner, Eswaran Subrahmanian, Joseph Moeller, Priyaa Varshinee Srinivasan

The focus of this workshop is to foster the development of applications of category theory to systems engineering and design. We are interested in bringing...

Food Nutrition and Safety Measurements Quality Assurance Program: Exercise 3 Final Report

December 19, 2024

Author(s)

Melissa Phillips, Colleen Bryan Sallee, Benjamin Place, Jacolin Murray, Alix Rodowa

The Food Nutrition and Safety Measurements Quality Assurance Program (FNSQAP) was launched in 2021. FNSQAP was established to assist laboratories in the...

DNA Mixture Interpretation: A NIST Scientific Foundation Review

December 18, 2024

Author(s)

John Butler, Hariharan Iyer, Richard Press, Melissa Taylor, Peter Vallone, Sheila Willis

Improvements in DNA testing methods have allowed forensic scientists to reduce the quantity of DNA required for profiling an individual. Today, DNA profiles can...

History of DNA Mixture Interpretation: Supplemental Document to DNA Mixture Interpretation: A NIST Scientific Foundation Review

December 18, 2024

Author(s)

John Butler

This report provides supplemental information to NISTIR 8351 DNA Mixture Interpretation: A NIST Scientific Foundation Review and summarizes the history of DNA...

Summarized Information from Publicly Accessible Validation Studies, Proficiency Test Results, and Interlaboratory Data: Supplemental Document to DNA Mixture Interpretation: A NIST Scientific Foundation Review

December 18, 2024

Author(s)

John Butler

This report provides supplemental information to NISTIR 8351 DNA Mixture Interpretation: A NIST Scientific Foundation Review and summarizes information from...

Thermal Exposure of Objects Near Burning Electrical Enclosures

December 16, 2024

Author(s)

Kevin McGrattan, Isaac Leventon

This report documents a series of fire experiments performed within steel electrical enclosures and on open "ladder back" cable trays. The first objective is to...

An Analysis of Aerosol Dynamics with Diffusion-Limited Growth in a Batch Reactor

December 16, 2024

Author(s)

Jiann Yang, Thomas Cleary, George Mulholland

A set of approximate first-order ordinary differential equations was derived from the general dynamic equation (GDE) to study the aerosol dynamics with...

Data assimilation in 2D nonlinear coupled sound and heat flow, using a stabilized explicit finite difference scheme marched backward in time

December 13, 2024

Author(s)

Alfred Carasso

This paper considers the ill-posed data assimilation problem associated with hyper- bolic/parabolic systems describing 2D coupled sound and heat flow. Given...

Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Textiles Present in Firefighter Gloves, Hoods, and Wildland Gear

December 13, 2024

Author(s)

Andre Thompson, Andrew Maizel, Meghanne Tighe, Samuel Escobar Veras, Alix Rodowa, Bruce Benner, Audrey Tombaugh, Jessica Reiner, Michelle Donnelly, Ryan Falkenstein-Smith, John Kucklick, Catherine Rimmer, Rick Davis

Firefighter turnout gear has been found to contain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and is a potential source of PFAS exposure to firefighters...

Determination of Certified Values and Uncertainties for SRM 2942a, Relative Intensity Correction Standard for Fluorescence Spectroscopy: Ultraviolet Emission

December 13, 2024

Author(s)

Paul C. DeRose

NIST conference papers fiscal year 2024

December 12, 2024

Author(s)

Kathryn Miller, Myriam Dilawari, Julie Jew

This Special Publication represents the work of researchers at professional conferences, as reported by NIST employees in Fiscal Year 2024 (October 1, 2023...

CCQM_Retrospectoscope Reference Manual: A detailed reference to the CCQM_Retrospectoscope, a suite of graphical tools for the meta-analysis of measurement results from CCQM studies

December 12, 2024

Author(s)

David L. Duewer, Christina Cecelski, Michael Nelson

This document is a detailed reference manual for the 1-September-2024 version of the CCQM_Retrospectoscope system. The CCQM_Retrospectoscope combines a...

CCQM_Retrospectoscope Quick Start: A beginner's guide to a data analysis system for visualizing results from CCQM studies

December 12, 2024

Author(s)

David L. Duewer, Michael Nelson, Christina Cecelski

This revised and updated "Quick Start" guide is intended to introduce potential users to the 1 Sep 2024 version of the CCQM_Retrospectoscope system. The CCQM...