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Full-Scale House Fire Experiment for InterFIRE VR, May 6, 1998. Report of Test.

April 10, 2000
Author(s)
Anthony D. Putorti Jr., Jay A. McElroy
A public/private partnership involving multiple federal agencies and private industry was assembled to develop a comprehensive fire investigation training tool. The partnership consisted of the following federal agencies: the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and

NIST, States, Companies, and Universities: Partners in Economic Growth

October 1, 1998
Author(s)
Robert E. Hebner
New kinds of partnerships between the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), States, Companies, and Universities are essential to preserve and stimulate economic growth at a time when only economies that stimulate technological innovation

U.S. Government Activities to Protect the Information Infrastructure

April 28, 1997
Author(s)
Dennis D. Steinauer, Shirley M. Radack, Stuart W. Katzke
This paper is a survey of recent activities of the legislative and executive branches of the U.S. Government (and of some joint activities of government and industry) that involve the security of the evolving information infrastructure. Over the past few

Measurement and Certification in Information Technology

October 7, 1999
Author(s)
D Wallace
Achieving software certification may seem an unreasonable goal. When it comes to determining whether a software product is dependable, safe, and effective, consumers of many types of software are largely on their own. Yet, today's methods provide many

Personal Identity Verification (PIV) of Federal Employees and Contractors

January 24, 2022
Author(s)
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Hildegard Ferraiolo, Andrew Regenscheid, Salvatore Francomacaro, David Cooper, Ketan Mehta, Annie W. Sokol, David Temoshok, Gregory Fiumara, Justin Richer, James L. Fenton, Johnathan Gloster, nabil anwer
FIPS 201 establishes a standard for a Personal Identity Verification (PIV) system (Standard) that meets the control and security objectives of Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 (HSPD-12). It is based on secure and reliable forms of identity

Realization of a Quantum Random Walk With Ultracold Atoms

February 1, 2004
Author(s)
D Ciampini, M B. d'Arcy, J M. Grossman, Kristian Helmerson, Paul D. Lett, William D. Phillips, A Vaziri, S L. Rolston
… conditions for p/2-Bragg pulses, coupling atoms between zero-recoil and two-recoil momentum states, with each pulse …

Service Mesh Proxy Models for Cloud-Native Applications

October 16, 2024
Author(s)
Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Zack Butcher, James Callaghan
The service mesh has become the de facto application services infrastructure for cloud-native applications. It enables the various runtime functions of an application through proxies that form the data plane of the service mesh. Depending on the

2023 NIST Summary of U.S. Legal Metrology Activities

November 20, 2023
Author(s)
Lisa Warfield, Katrice Lippa, Jan Konijnenburg, Loren Minnich, Gloria Diane Lee, Juana Williams, John McGuire
The NIST Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) presents its second issue of the 2023 NIST Annual Summary of U.S. Legal Metrology Activities report. This report includes a summary of changes made to NIST Handbook 44 (2023) Specifications, Tolerances and

Overview of TREC 2021

May 6, 2022
Author(s)
Ian Soboroff
TREC 2021 is the thirtieth edition of the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC). The main goal of TREC is to create the evaluation infrastructure required for large-scale testing of retrieval technology. This includes research on best methods for evaluation as

Guide Brief 4A: Example for Determining Anticipated Performance

September 30, 2016
Author(s)
Community Resilience Program NIST
This Guide Brief provides an example of how to determine the anticipated performance of water and wastewater systems subjected to an earthquake and tsunami event. The methodology used for this can be applied to all infrastructure systems. The example

The NIST Traceable Reference Material Program for Gas Standards

February 26, 2015
Author(s)
William D. Dorko, Michael E. Kelley, Franklin R. Guenther
A program is described by which the concentration of commercially produced gas mixtures may be related to gaseous primary standards or measurement systems maintained by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The gaseous mixtures

Certification of SRM 2492: Bingham Paste Mixture for Rheological Measurements

June 7, 2012
Author(s)
Chiara F. Ferraris, Paul E. Stutzman, William F. Guthrie
Rheological measurements are often performed using a rotational rheometer. In this type of rheometer, the tested fluid is sheared between two surfaces, one of which is rotating [1]. Usually, the angular velocity is imposed and the response of the material
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