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Models for the Economics of Resilience

April 15, 2016
Author(s)
Stanley W. Gilbert, Bilal Ayyub
Estimating the economic burden of disasters requires appropriate models that account for key characteristics and decision making needs. Natural disasters in 2011 resulted in $366 billion in direct damages and 29,782 fatalities worldwide. Average annual

Economics of Community Disaster Resilience Workshop Proceedings

March 1, 2016
Author(s)
Bilal Ayyub, Robert E. Chapman, Gearald Galloway, Richard Wright
This report documents the effort launched by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop, organize, and convene a workshop on the economics of community disaster resilience to promote the use of economics for system sustainment and

Firebrand Production from Building Components Fitted with Siding Treatments

February 1, 2016
Author(s)
Samuel L. Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki
Firebrand production from real-scale building components under well-controlled laboratory conditions was investigated. Re-entrant corner assemblies were ignited and during the combustion process, firebrands were collected to determine the size/mass

COMPUTATIONAL ENVIRONMENT FOR MODELING AND ENHANCING COMMUNITY RESILIENCE: INTRODUCING THE CENTER FOR RISK-BASED COMMUNITY RESILIENCE PLANNING

December 10, 2015
Author(s)
John W. van de Lindt, Bruce Ellingwood, Therese P. McAllister, Gardoni Paolo, Daniel Cox, Harvey Cutler, Walter G. Peacock
The resilience of a community is defined as its ability to prepare for, withstand, recover from and adapt to the effects of natural or human-caused disasters, and depends on the performance of the built environment and on supporting social, economic and

Characterizing the thermal effects of High Energy Arc Faults

November 30, 2015
Author(s)
Anthony D. Putorti Jr., Nicholas Melly, Scott Bareham, Joseph E. Praydis
International and domestic operating experience involving High Energy Arc Faults (HEAF) in Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) electrical power systems have demonstrated the potential to cause extensive damage to electrical components and distribution systems along

SIMULATION-BASED DESIGN CONCEPT EVALUATION FOR AMBULANCE PATIENT COMPARTMENTS

July 14, 2015
Author(s)
Deogratias Kibira, Yung-Tsun T. Lee, Jennifer L. Marshall, Allison Barnard Feeney, Larry Avery, Allie Jacobs
To address the inadequacy of existing standards regarding interior layout design, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the National Institute for

Authentication Considerations for Public Safety Mobile Networks

May 14, 2015
Author(s)
Nelson Hastings, Joshua M. Franklin, Larry Feldman, Greg Witte
This bulletin summarizes the information presented in NISTIR 8014, Considerations for Identity Management in Public Safety Mobile Networks, written by Nelson Hastings and Joshua Franklin. The publication analyzes approaches to identity management for

Community Resilience of the Built Environment

April 22, 2015
Author(s)
Therese P. McAllister
Buildings, facilities, and infrastructure systems play a key role in the life of a community by supporting housing, business, government, industry, and other vital services. The concept of disaster resilience addresses the way that communities prepare for

Considerations for Identity Management in Public Safety Networks

March 30, 2015
Author(s)
Nelson Hastings, Joshua M. Franklin
This document analyzes approaches to identity management for public safety networks in an effort to assist individuals developing technical and policy requirements for public safety use. These considerations are scoped into the context of their

Public Safety Mobile Application Security Requirements Workshop Summary

January 22, 2015
Author(s)
Michael Ogata, Barbara Guttman, Nelson Hastings
This document captures the input received from the half-day workshop titled "Public Safety Mobile Application Security Requirements" organized by the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International, in cooperation with FirstNet

The Second National Ballistics Imaging Comparison (NBIC-2)

January 5, 2015
Author(s)
Theodore V. Vorburger, James H. Yen, Jun-Feng Song, Robert M. Thompson, Thomas Brian Renegar, Xiaoyu Alan Zheng, D Ott, Martin G. Ols
In response to the guidelines issued by the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors/Laboratory Accreditation Board (ASCLD/LAB-International) to establish traceability and quality assurance in U.S. crime laboratories, NIST and the ATF initiated a

Hardening Structures to Resist Wildland-Urban (WUI) Fire Exposures

November 14, 2014
Author(s)
Samuel L. Manzello
Wildfires that spread into communities, referred to as Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fires, have destroyed communities throughout the world. In the USA, over 46 million homes in 70,000 communities are at risk of WUI fires [1-2]. Historically, fire safety

Release of NIST Interagency Report 7946, CVSS Implementation Guidance

July 10, 2014
Author(s)
Harold Booth, Joshua M. Franklin, Larry Feldman, Greg Witte
The Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) is an open standard designed to convey severity and risk of information system vulnerabilities. CVSS was commissioned by the National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) in support of the global

Community Resilience: The Role of the Built Environment

June 27, 2014
Author(s)
Therese P. McAllister
Buildings and infrastructure systems play a key role in communities by supporting social needs and institutions, including housing, business, government, industry, and other vital services. The concept of community resilience addresses the way that

Standoff passive video imaging at 350 GHz with 251 superconducting detectors

June 20, 2014
Author(s)
Daniel T. Becker, James A. Beall, Hsiao-Mei Cho, Gene C. Hilton, Nicholas G. Paulter Jr., Carl D. Reintsema, Robert E. Schwall, Cale Gentry, Ilya Smirnov, Peter Ade, W D. Duncan, Mark Halpern, Carole Tucker
Millimeter wavelength radiation holds promise for detection of security threats at a distance, including suicide bomb belts and maritime threats in poor weather. The high sensitivity of superconducting Transition Edge Sensor (TES) detectors makes them
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