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NIST Pubs

Codes for the identification of federal and federally-assisted organizations:

April 1, 2018

Author(s)

Hildegard Ferraiolo

Recommendation for key-derivation methods in key-establishment schemes:

April 1, 2018

Author(s)

Elaine Barker, Lily Chen, Richard Davis

Recommendation for pair-wise key-establishment schemes using discrete logarithm cryptography:

April 1, 2018

Author(s)

Elaine Barker, Lily Chen, Allen Roginsky, Apostol Vassilev, Richard Davis

Technical review of NIST's free standard reference data products:

April 1, 2018

Author(s)

Debra L Kaiser, Robert J Hanisch

Report on the NISTDHSFDA workshop: standards for pathogen detection for biosurveillance and clinical applications August 14-15, 2017:

April 1, 2018

Author(s)

Scott Jackson, Nancy J Lin, Jason Kralj

Energy price indices and discount factors for life-cycle cost analysis - 2018 annual supplement to NIST Handbook 135:

April 1, 2018

Author(s)

Priya D Lavappa, Joshua D Kneifel

New software for the statistical analysis and qualification of NIST charpy verification specimen lots.:

April 1, 2018

Author(s)

Enrico Lucon

IREX IX part one, performance of iris recognition algorithms:

April 1, 2018

Author(s)

George W Quinn, Patrick Grother, James Matey

Applied and computational mathematics division summary of activities for fiscal year 2017:

April 1, 2018

Author(s)

Ronald F Boisvert

NIST time and frequency bulletin - April:

April 1, 2018

Author(s)

Kathryn Stephenson

Criticality analysis process model: prioritizing systems and components:

April 1, 2018

Author(s)

Celia Paulsen, Jon Boyens, Nadya Bartol, Kris Winkler

Security content automation protocol (SCAP) version 1.3 validation program test requirements:

April 1, 2018

Author(s)

Melanie Cook, Stephen Quinn, David Waltermire, Dragos Prisaca

The Influence of Spreading Metal Powders with Different Particle Size Distributions on the Powder Bed Density in Laser-Based Powder Bed Fusion Processes

March 28, 2018

Author(s)

Gregor Jacob, Christopher U. Brown, Alkan Donmez

In laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) processes the powder size characteristics, like particle shape, particle size (PS), and particle size distribution (PSD), and

Safeguards for Securing Virtualized Servers

March 27, 2018

Author(s)

Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Larry Feldman, Gregory A. Witte

This bulletin summarizes the information found in NIST SP 800-125A: Security Recommendations for Hypervisor Deployment on Servers, which provides technical

Systems Security Engineering: Considerations for a Multidisciplinary Approach in the Engineering of Trustworthy Secure Systems [including updates as of 3-21-2018]

March 21, 2018

Author(s)

Ronald S. Ross, Michael McEvilley, Janet C. Oren

With the continuing frequency, intensity, and adverse consequences of cyber-attacks, disruptions, hazards, and other threats to federal, state, and local

NIST Customer Demographics: Collaborative Research and Development Agreements

March 20, 2018

Author(s)

Nicole K. Gingrich, Isaac S. Patterson

This economic analysis brief summarizes the efforts and results of the data collection and analysis of NIST's CRADA partner information. Summary statistics for

Improving Automated Insertion Applications by Restoring Rigid-Body Condition in Point-Based Registration

March 19, 2018

Author(s)

Geraldine S. Cheok, Marek Franaszek, Karl Van Wyk, Jeremy A. Marvel

Accurate knowledge of an object's location is essential in automated robotic applications such as machine tending, pick-and-place operations, and part assembly

The Influence of Walls, Corners and Enclosures on Fire Plumes

March 19, 2018

Author(s)

Kevin B. McGrattan, Michael J. Selepak, Edward J. Hnetkovsky

This report documents two series of compartment fire experiments in which a natural gas burner is positioned in a corner, or against a wall, or inside a steel

Certification of Standard Reference Material® 2372a Human DNA Quantitation Standard

March 19, 2018

Author(s)

Erica L. Romsos, Margaret C. Kline, Natalia Farkas, David L. Duewer, Blaza Toman

Standard Reference Material (SRM) 2372a is intended for use in the value assignment of human genomic deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) forensic quantitation materials

Fog Computing Conceptual Model

March 14, 2018

Author(s)

Michaela Iorga, Larry Feldman, Robert Barton, Michael J. Martin, Nedim S. Goren, Charif Mahmoudi

Managing the data generated by Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and actuators is one of the biggest challenges faced when deploying an IoT system. Traditional

A Soot Deposition Gauge for Fire Measurements

March 12, 2018

Author(s)

Amy E. Mensch, Thomas G. Cleary

The goal of this exploratory project is to demonstrate the feasibility of a conductometric measurement to determine the time-resolved soot deposition on

Workshop Report: Research Roadmap for Reducing the Fire Hazard of Materials in the Future

March 8, 2018

Author(s)

Rick D. Davis, Mauro Zammarano, Nathan D. Marsh

NIST hosted workshop, Future Needs for Reducing the Fire Hazard of Materials, provided an opportunity for worlds experts to come together to discuss the