The pound provided by the United Kingdom agreed with the United States mint pound, which remained the national standard according to Barbrow and Judson ( the NIST virtual museum claims the UK pound replaced the mint pound ).

Official policies about the use of these prefixes vary slightly between the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures ( BIPM ) and the American National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ); and some of the policies of both bodies are at variance with everyday practice.

The most used standards are those of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry ( IUPAC ) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ), although these are not universally accepted standards.

All of these lists are updated as new modules / implementations receive validation certificates from NIST and CSE.

Some these tokens are also made to support the NIST standard for Personal Identity Verification ( PIV ).

NIST also established a research and development program to provide the technical basis for improved building and fire codes, standards, and practices, and a dissemination and technical assistance program to engage leaders of the construction and building community in implementing proposed changes to practices, standards, and codes.

The codes were assigned by NIST and each uniquely identified a state, the District of Columbia, or an outlying area of the U. S ..

The curves over with pseudo-Mersenne p are recommended by NIST.

In 1992, the US Department of Defense along with the National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ), cosponsored the Text Retrieval Conference ( TREC ) as part of the TIPSTER text program.

The NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology vulnerabilities database, US-CERT, rates traditional mainframes such as IBM zSeries, Unisys Dorado and Unisys Libra as among the most secure with vulnerabilities in the low single digits as compared with thousands for Windows, Linux and Unix.

In addition, NIST partners with 1, 400 manufacturing specialists and staff at nearly 350 affiliated centers around the country.

As part of its mission, NIST supplies industry, academia, government, and other users with over 1, 300 Standard Reference Materials ( SRMs ).

NIST works in conjunction with the Technical Guidelines Development Committee of the Election Assistance Commission to develop the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines for voting machines and other election technology.

New versions of PGP applications use both OpenPGP and the S / MIME, allowing communications with any user of a NIST specified standard.

For instance, the NIST advises that "… to avoid confusion, prefix symbols ( and prefixes ) are not used with the time-related unit symbols ( names ) min ( minute ), h ( hour ), d ( day ); nor with the angle-related symbols ( names ) ° ( degree ), ′ ( minute ), and ″ ( second ).

The BIPM ’ s position on the use of SI prefixes with units of time larger than the second is the same as that of the NIST but their position with regard to angles differs: they state " However astronomers use milliarcsecond, which they denote mas, and microarcsecond, µas, which they use as units for measuring very small angles.

NIST states ; " Prefix symbols may be used with the unit symbol ° C and prefixes may be used with the unit name ' degree Celsius '.

Manufacturers can provide calibration services so that new meters may be purchased with a certificate of calibration indicating the meter has been adjusted to standards traceable to, for example, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ), or other national standards organization.

However, ANS X9. 52 specifies directly, and NIST SP 800-67 specifies via SP 800-38A that some modes shall only be used with certain constraints on them that do not necessarily apply to general specifications of those modes.

NIST 800-57 recommends lengths of 2048 ( or 3072 ) for keys with security lifetimes extending beyond 2010 ( or 2030 ), using correspondingly longer N. FIPS 186-3 specifies L and N length pairs of ( 1024, 160 ), ( 2048, 224 ), ( 2048, 256 ), and ( 3072, 256 ).

NIST won praises from the cryptographic community for the openness and care with which they ran the standards process.

The cryptographic community recognized the need for dedicated integrity assurances and NIST responded with HMAC, CMAC, and GMAC.

As defined by NIST, " Traceability of measurement requires the establishment of an unbroken chain of comparisons to stated references each with a stated uncertainty.

A National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ) investigation of the fire, using computer simulations with FDS and a mock-up of the stage area and dance floor, concluded that a fire sprinkler system would have contained the fire long enough to give everyone time to get out safely.

* NIST simulations of the fire: without sprinklers ; with sprinklers

** Christopher Monroe and David Wineland at NIST ( Boulder, Colorado ) experimentally realize the first quantum logic gate – the C-NOT gate – with trapped ions, according to Cirac and Zoller's proposal.

Also, the International Organization for Standardization ( ISO ), the United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) and National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ) each have more than one definition of standard reference conditions in their various standards and regulations.

The United States National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ) specifically recommends against security through obscurity in more than one document.

A 2010 report prepared for NIST by the Research Triangle Institute analyzed the economic value of RBAC for enterprises, and estimated benefits per employee from reduced employee downtime, more efficient provisioning, and more efficient access control policy administration.

The Advanced Encryption Standard ( AES ), the block cipher ratified as a standard by National Institute of Standards and Technology of the United States ( NIST ), was chosen using a process markedly more open and transparent than its predecessor, the aging Data Encryption Standard ( DES ).

FEMA's early investigation was revised by a later, more detailed investigation conducted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ), which also consulted outside engineering entities.

Security programs overseen by NIST and CSE focus on working with government and industry to establish more secure systems and networks by developing, managing and promoting security assessment tools, techniques, services, and supporting programs for testing, evaluation and validation ; and addresses such areas as: development and maintenance of security metrics, security evaluation criteria and evaluation methodologies, tests and test methods ; security-specific criteria for laboratory accreditation ; guidance on the use of evaluated and tested products ; research to address assurance methods and system-wide security and assessment methodologies ; security protocol validation activities ; and appropriate coordination with assessment-related activities of voluntary industry standards bodies and other assessment regimes.

See the NIST reference below for more detailed information on tolerances for each grade and block size.

The more popular options were submitted to the National Institute of Standards and Technology or NIST for the Advanced Encryption Standard ( AES ) competition.

In 1991 the National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ) received support from the U. S. Department of Defense, Office of Corporate Information Management ( DoD / CIM ), to develop one or more Federal Information Processing Standard ( FIPS ) for modeling techniques.

Based on his proposal he was offered a permanent position at JILA / NIST in Boulder.

In response to the NIST decision, the Census Bureau is in the process of transitioning over to the GNIS Feature ID, which will be completed after the 2010 Census.

A good reference is maintained by NIST.

If using the Brix table ( the current version of which is maintained by NIST and can be found on their website ) he reports in ° Bx.

The IDEF0 standard, Federal Information Processing Standards Publication 183 ( FIPS 183 ), and the IDEF1x standard ( FIPS 184 ) are maintained by the National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ).

The most rigorous standard is one maintained by a standards organization such as NIST in the United States, or the ISO in European countries.