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NIST Handbook 130: Uniform Laws and Regulations in the Areas of Legal Metrology and Fuel Quality (2024 Ed.)

December 18, 2023

Author(s)

Lisa Warfield, John McGuire, Katrice Lippa

NIST Handbook 130 includes a compilation of model laws and regulations and related interpretations and guidelines designed to encourage uniformity in adoption...

Advancements in Computational Wind Engineering Workshop Report

December 13, 2023

Author(s)

Donald Scott, Jennifer Goupil, Melissa Burton, Catherine Gorle, Ahsan Kareem, Ted Stathopoulos, Bradley Young

In September 2022, the Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers commenced a project under National Institute of Standards and...

Intelligent Flexible Manufacturing Cell

December 11, 2023

Author(s)

Ethan Hollingsworth, Eric Holterman, Allison Barnard Feeney

Designed around Industry 4.0 based digital technology, flexible manufacturing cells are envisioned to comprise a variety of machines capable of peer-to-peer...

NIST Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) Recognition Program Handbook, 7th Edition

December 11, 2023

Author(s)

Micheal Hicks, Georgia L. Harris, Katrice Lippa, Isabel Chavez Baucom, Elizabeth Koncki

Handbook 143 provides the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) performance standards and formalized...

Automation Support for Control Assessments – Project Update and Vision

December 6, 2023

Author(s)

Eduardo Takamura, Jeremy Licata, Victoria Yan Pillitteri

In 2017, NIST published a methodology for supporting the automation of SP 800-53 control assessments in the form of IR 8011. IR 8011 is a multi-volume series...

Heats of Combustion and Related Properties of Pure Substances

December 5, 2023

Author(s)

Donald Burgess, Anthony Hamins

In this work, we compiled and evaluated various properties pertaining to the heats of combustion of about 420 compounds of physical, chemical, and engineering...

Semiconductors and Microelectronics Standards, Report of the Semiconductors and Microelectronics Working Group

December 5, 2023

Author(s)

Jason Kahn, Chris Greer

This report of the Semiconductors and Microelectronics Working Group of the Interagency Committee on Standards Policy (ICSP) provides an overview of Federal...

Usability and Accessibility of Electronic Pollbooks, Part 2: A Usability Test Protocol

December 4, 2023

Author(s)

Whitney Quesenbery, Lynn Baumeister, Shanee Dawkins

This document is the second part of a series of documents on the usability of electronic pollbooks. It contains a procedure for how e-pollbooks might be...

Usability and Accessibility of Electronic Pollbooks, Part 1: Usability in the Polling Place

December 1, 2023

Author(s)

Whitney Quesenbery, Lynn Baumeister, Shanee Dawkins

This publication is a report on the exploration of the use of electronic pollbooks (e-pollbooks) in elections. The scope of this report is on usability and...

Powder Spreading Testbed for Studying the Powder Spreading Process in Powder Bed Fusion Machines

November 29, 2023

Author(s)

Justin Whiting, Eric Whitenton, Aniruddha Das, Vipin Tondare, Jason Fox, Michael McGlauflin, Alkan Donmez, Shawn P. Moylan

The spreading of powder is an integral part of powder bed fusion-based additive manufacturing technologies; however, due to the complex nature and the number of...

Training Poll Workers for Accessible Voting: Supporting voters with disabilities at the polling place

November 20, 2023

Author(s)

Sarah Blahovec, Whitney Quesenbery, Sharon J. Laskowski

Accessible voting systems are a key feature in polling places that enable voters with disabilities to vote privately and independently. The Help America Vote...

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...

Enterprise Impact of Information & Communications Technology Risk

November 17, 2023

Author(s)

Stephen Quinn, Nahla Ivy, Matthew Barrett, Larry Feldman, Daniel Topper, Greg Witte, Karen Scarfone, Robert Gardner, Julie Chua

All enterprises should ensure that information and communications technology (ICT) risk receives appropriate attention within their enterprise risk management...

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Risk Outcomes

November 17, 2023

Author(s)

Stephen Quinn, Nahla Ivy, Karen Scarfone, Matthew Barrett, Larry Feldman, Daniel Topper, Greg Witte, Robert Gardner, Julie Chua

The increasing frequency, creativity, and severity of technology attacks means that all enterprises should ensure that information and communications technology...

Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP) Security Policy Requirements

November 17, 2023

Author(s)

David Hawes, Alexander Calis, Roy Crombie

NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-140Br1 is to be used in conjunction with ISO/IEC 19790 Annex B and ISO/IEC 24759 Section 6.14. This Special Publication...

NIST Phish Scale User Guide

November 15, 2023

Author(s)

Shanee Dawkins, Jody Jacobs

The phishing cyber threat exploits vulnerabilities in the U.S. and around the world across private and public sectors. Embedded phishing awareness training...

NextG Communications Research and Development Gaps Report

November 15, 2023

Author(s)

Nada T. Golmie, Marc Leh, Miller Higgins

NIST Handbook 44: Specifications, Tolerances, and Other Technical Requirements for Weighing and Measuring Devices (2024 Ed.)

November 15, 2023

Author(s)

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

NIST Handbook 44 is adopted by many state, local, and some federal weights and measures authorities to apply to commercial weighing and measuring equipment and...

New NIST Acquisition System for Reading Charpy Machine Encoders

November 13, 2023

Author(s)

Enrico Lucon, John S. Quintavalle, Damian Lauria

A new acquisition system was developed at NIST for reading angle values from the digital encoders of the three Charpy reference machines in Boulder, Colorado...

Partial Elastic Shape Registration of 3D Surfaces using Dynamic Programming

November 3, 2023

Author(s)

Javier Bernal, James F. Lawrence

The computation of the elastic shape registration of two simple surfaces in 3−dimensional space and therefore of the elastic shape distance between them has...

Annual Report on the U.S. Manufacturing Economy: 2023

November 2, 2023

Author(s)

Douglas Thomas

This report provides a statistical review of the U.S. manufacturing industry. There are three aspects of U.S. manufacturing that are considered: (1) how the U.S...

A Practical Computational Fluid Dynamics Approach for Structural Engineering: Simulation of Approach Flow with Reduced Blockage Ratios

November 2, 2023

Author(s)

Yunjae Hwang, DongHun Yeo

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations for structural wind engineering applications require a fully developed boundary layer approach flow with...

NIST SI Units Card Deck

November 1, 2023

Author(s)

Dinelka Jagoda, Elizabeth Benham

Welcome to the SI Units Card Deck! This interactive educational activity offers a fun way for students to enhance their understanding of the International...

Dietary Supplement Laboratory Quality Assurance Program: Exercise 1 Final Report

November 1, 2023

Author(s)

Carolyn Burdette, Hugh Hayes, Jenna Klingsick, Colleen E. Bryan Sallee, Charles Barber, Steven J. Christopher, Lee L. Yu

The DSQAP was launched, in collaboration with the NIH ODS, in 2007. The program was established to enable laboratories to improve the accuracy of measurements...

Economic Decision Guide Software (EDGe$) with Loss Amplification and Risk Aversion: Wildfire Urban Interface (WUI) Case Studies

November 1, 2023

Author(s)

Sherief Elsibaie, Bilal Ayyub, Jennifer Helgeson, Christina Gore, David Butry

This report demonstrates by examples and case study as a proof of concept the use of loss amplification and risk aversion in benefit cost analysis (BCA) for...

Analysis of a Steel Gravity Frame with Composite Floor System Subjected to Compartment Fire (Test #2)

October 23, 2023

Author(s)

Mohammed Morovat, Joseph Main, Jonathan Weigand, Malcolm Ammons, Fahim H. Sadek, Long Phan

This report describes the development and validation of a computational modeling approach for steel gravity frames with composite floor systems subjected to...

Certification of Standard Reference Material® 2386 Avocado Powder

October 18, 2023

Author(s)

Melissa M. Phillips, Laura Wood, Joseph Browning, George Caceres, Grace Hahm, Mahboubeh Hanaee, Abigail Lee, Karen Murphy, Rabia Oflaz, Rick L. Paul, Benjamin Place, Jeanice "Brown Thomas ", James H. Yen

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently released SRM 2386 Avocado Powder which has value assignment for over 70 analytes. This...

Cybersecurity Framework Profile for Electric Vehicle Extreme Fast Charging Infrastructure

October 16, 2023

Author(s)

Nakia R. Grayson, Jim McCarthy, Joseph Brule, alan Dinerman, John Dombrowski, Michael Thompson, Hillary Tran, Anne Townsend

This document is the Cybersecurity Framework Profile (Profile) developed for the Electric Vehicle Extreme Fast Charging (EV/XFC) ecosystem and the subsidiary...

Vulnerability Test Suite Generator (VTSG) Version 3

October 13, 2023

Author(s)

Paul E. Black, William Mentzer, Elizabeth Fong, Bertrand Stivalet

The Vulnerability Test Suite Generator (VTSG) Version 3 can create vast numbers of synthetic programs with and without specific flaws or vulnerabilities. Such...

Physical Component Libraries for SysPhS Modeling and Simulation in Manufacturing

October 10, 2023

Author(s)

Charles Manion, Conrad Bock, Raphael Barbau

Computer-interpretable representations of system structure and behavior are at the center of developing today's complex systems. Systems engineers create and...

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