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Data Collection Instrument: Risk Preference in Community Resilience Planning

February 18, 2026
Author(s)
Christina Gore, Jennifer Helgeson, Caitlin Grady, Ireland Crowther, Rithika Dulam, Tasnim Ibn Faiz, Kenneth Harrison
This Data Collection Instrument (DCI) publication outlines the development and application of a survey to study the differences between risk preferences of an individual making choices at the individual and community levels. Individuals and communities

Functional Recovery Performance Targets Workshop Report

September 30, 2025
Author(s)
Lucy Arendt, Katherine Johnson, Siamak Sattar, Michael Valley, Divya Chandrasekhar, Laurie Johnson, Ryan Kersting
Held in October 2024, the Workshop on Functional Recovery Performance Targets was hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and managed by the Applied Technology Council (ATC-169). The workshop convened 48 interdisciplinary

Community Resilience Systems Modeling: Research Overview

September 25, 2025
Author(s)
Kenneth Harrison, Tasnim Faiz, William Hughes
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) manages the Community Resilience Program (CRP), which assists communities and other interested and affected parties on developing solutions for resilience and recovery at the nexus of buildings and

Community Resilience Economic Decision Guide and Tool: Research Overview 2025

July 7, 2025
Author(s)
Christina Gore, Jennifer Helgeson
Community resilience planning often requires quantifying and understanding the trade-offs that communities make between the benefits and costs of different potential resilience actions. The Economic Decision Guide (EDG) walks communities through the steps

Selecting longitudinal community outcomes for resilience indicator validation

May 13, 2025
Author(s)
Donghwan Gu, Maria Dillard, Michael Gerst, Jarrod Loerzel
Assessing community resilience is a long-sought goal in multiple fields of study and practice. Community resilience frameworks have been designed to estimate the level of resilience through varying sets of cross-sectional indicators. However, community

Time transfer performance of Broadcast Positioning System (BPS)

January 28, 2025
Author(s)
Tariq Mondal, Jeffrey Sherman, David Howe
The Global Positioning System (GPS) is the most prevalent Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) that provides Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT). GNSS vulnerability is well-known, and the search continues to find another independent system that can

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 advanced by NIST's Engineering Laboratory. A current update on the status of functional recovery

Measuring Post-Disaster Accessibility to Essential Goods and Services: Proximity, Availability, Adequacy, and Acceptability Dimensions

October 21, 2024
Author(s)
Amin Enderami, Elaina Sutley, Jennifer Helgeson, Leonardo Duenas-Osorio, Maria Watson, John van de Lindt
Rapid restoration of access to essential goods and services has long been regarded as paramount for community recovery. Yet, there remains ambiguity in how access should be defined, measured, or operationalized. Defining accessibility as the ability to use

A Review of Community Resilience Indicators Using a Systems Measurement Framework

August 5, 2024
Author(s)
Michael Gerst, Maria Dillard, Emily Walpole, Jarrod Loerzel
As natural disasters have increased in frequency and magnitude, there has been an increasing need to understand what underlying factors are likely to lead to faster recovery and more resilient communities. One way of addressing this need has been to

Report on High Energy Arcing Fault Experiments - International Experimental Results from Bus Duct and Switchgear Enclosures

July 1, 2024
Author(s)
Gabriel Taylor, Anthony D. Putorti Jr., Scott Bareham, Christopher U. Brown, Wai Cheong Tam, Michael Heck, Lucy Fox, Stephen Fink, Michael Selepak, Edward Hnetkovsky, Nicholas Melly, Kenneth Hamburger, Kenneth Miller
This report documents an experimental program designed to collect data and information to evaluate the performance of models developed to estimate the electrical high energy arcing fault (HEAF) hazard. This report covers full-scale laboratory experiments
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