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The laboratory accreditation program for Ionizing Radiation Dosimetry was established in 1984 in response to a request from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). The purpose of the NVLAP...

The National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP), a partnership between the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Security Agency (NSA), has established a...

The NIST Handbook 150 publication series sets forth the procedures, requirements, and guidance for the accreditation of testing and calibration laboratories by the National Voluntary Laboratory...

Any laboratory (including commercial, manufacturer, university, or federal, state, or local government laboratory) that designs, prepares, characterizes, certifies, and distributes spectrophotometric...

This manual is a users manual for the NIST DMIS Test Suite, version 2.2.1. The test suite is intended to serve two purposes: to help users and vendors use version 5.2 of DMIS (the Dimensional...

Manufacturing systems consist of many activities. Each of these activities may include one or more software and hardware systems. In order to make these software and hardware systems interoperable,...

The NIST Software Assurance Metrics And Tool Evaluation (SAMATE) project conducted the second Static Analysis Tool Exposition (SATE) in 2009 to advance research in static analysis tools that find...

Facial recognition algorithms from seven commercial providers, and three universities, were tested on one laboratory dataset and two operational face recognition datasets, one comprised of visa...

Whole-building airflow and contaminant transport modeling has a potentially important role in the development of contaminant sampling strategies in response to the airborne release of chemical or...

In large-scale distributed systems, the interactions of many independent components may lead to emergent global behaviors with unforeseen, often detrimental, outcomes. The increasing importance of...

The Common Configuration Scoring System (CCSS) is a set of measures of the severity of software security configuration issues. CCSS is derived from CVSS, which was developed to measure the severity...

The Quantitative Tools for Condition Assessment of Aging Infrastructure workshop was held May 4-5, 2010, to prioritize measurement and standards needs relative to inspection, maintenance, repair, and...

This is the first reported use of Layer-by-Layer (LBL) assembly to fabricate thin film coatings on polyurethane foam, of incorporating carbon nanofibers (CNF) into LBL fabricated coatings, and of...

A retrofit study was conducted in an unoccupied manufactured house to investigate the impacts of airtightening on ventilation rates and energy consumption. This report describes the retrofits and the...

Representatives from manufacturers, academic research laboratories, the federal government and other organizations met on November 3rd and 4th, 2009 in Gaithersburg, Maryland to discuss the drivers...

The research presented here is the first report of fabricating multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) based thin coatings on polyurethane foam (PUF) using Layer-by-layer (LbL) assembly, and using...

A new shaker system was designed to allow direct primary calibration of accelerometers using both reciprocity and interferometer techniques over the frequency range 40 Hz to 10,000 Hz. The system...

The time that it takes an occupant population to reach safety when descending a stairwell during building evacuations is typically described by measureable engineering variables such as stairwell...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have a long history in color and appearance, with many important contributions to our present understanding of color measurements. Interest...

The invariant torus of a coupled system of Van der Pol oscillators is approximated using bicubic B-splines. The paper considers the case of strong nonlinear coupling.Author: Department of...

Evacuation calculations are increasingly becoming a part of performance-based analyses to assess the level of life safety provided in buildings. In some cases, engineers are using back-ofthe-...

Simulations of hazardous material releases attempt to model and evaluate the dispersion of various kinds of materials including chemical, biological, nuclear, and radiological agents into the...

Strategies are developed that make use of signals from smoke and heat alarms to deduce conditions in a room for both flaming and smoldering fires. The issue addressed is to determine how to provide...

Incident management models and simulations may be used to support analysis, planning, and training needs pertaining to terrorist attacks, national security events, natural and man-made disasters...

Disassembly process is an essential activity in the mid and end of a product's service life cycle. Maintenance is a mid product life activity, which involves disassembly, cleaning, repair, replace,...

NIST Handbook 150-17 augments NIST Handbook 150, NVLAP Procedures and General Requirements, by gathering the technical requirements of the Laboratory Accreditation Program (LAP) for conformance...

This document has been prepared by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and describes research in support military and overseas voting for the Election Assistance Commission and...

The performance standard for ballistic-resistant body armor published by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), NIJ Standard-0101.06, recommends estimating the perforation performance of body armor...

Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources (CIKR) models and simulations may be used to understand infrastructure systems, their interdependencies, their vulnerabilities, and the impact of the...

The success of biometric applications is particularly dependent on the interoperability of biometric systems. Deploying these systems requires a comprehensive portfolio of biometric standards...