( Condensed from the NIST Engineering Statistics handbook: Section 5. 7.

* Measurements Recast Usual View of Elusive Force from NIST

* A chapter from a " NIST / SEMATECH Handbook on Engineering Statistics " at NIST

* Box-Behnken designs from a " NIST / SEMATECH Handbook on Engineering Statistics "

In 2004, NIST researchers presented evidence that an isotropic non-crystalline metallic phase ( dubbed " q-glass ") could be grown from the melt.

About 1, 800 NIST associates ( guest researchers and engineers from American companies and foreign nations ) complement the staff.

Effective October 1, 2010, NIST was realigned by reducing the number of NIST laboratory units from ten to six.

Light from the NIST SURF III Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility

NIST is currently developing government-wide identification card standards for federal employees and contractors to prevent unauthorized persons from gaining access to government buildings and computer systems.

Since 1989, the director of NIST has been a Schedule-C Presidential appointee and is confirmed by the United States Senate, and since that year the average tenure of NIST directors has fallen from 11 years to 2 years in duration.

Ward, and F. Scire from the NIST, relied on field emission.

Unless otherwise noted, the data comes from the U. S. National Bureau of Standards ( now NIST ).

The SP3D protocol specification was published by NIST, but designed by the Secure Data Network System project of the National Security Agency ( NSA ), IPsec AH is derived in part from previous IETF standards work for authentication of the Simple Network Management Protocol ( SNMP ).

The Orange Book originated from Computer Security work including the Ware Report, done by the National Security Agency and the National Bureau of Standards ( the NBS eventually became NIST ) in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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.

" However, rather than simply publishing a successor, NIST asked for input from interested parties on how the successor should be chosen.

Interest from the open cryptographic community was immediately intense, and NIST received a great many submissions during the three month comment period.

NIST held two conferences to discuss the submissions ( AES1, August 1998 and AES2, March 1999 ), and in August 1999 they announced that they were narrowing the field from fifteen to five: MARS, RC6, Rijndael, Serpent, and Twofish.

In 2010 a study of the National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ) based on data compiled from the National Vulnerability Database ( NVD ) Firefox was listed as the 5th most vulnerable desktop software.

By 1923, NIST radio station WWV had begun broadcasting standard carrier signals to the public on frequencies ranging from 75 to 2000 kHz.

* FiPy: A Finite Volume PDE Solver Using Python from NIST.

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

NIST requires at least 128 bits of random salt and a NIST-approved cryptographic function, such as the SHA series or AES ( MD5 is not approved ).

The National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ), wrote in a 2009 survey: " There are viable alternatives for both public key encryption and signatures that are not vulnerable to Shor ’ s Algorithm ” and “ Of the various lattice based cryptographic schemes that have been developed, the NTRU family of cryptographic algorithms appears to be the most practical ... smallest key size ... highest performance.

Fortezza is an information security system that implements NIST / NSA cryptographic algorithms.

NIST maintains validation lists for all of its cryptographic standards testing programs ( past and present ).

The Secure Hash Algorithm is one of a number of cryptographic hash functions published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ) as a U. S. Federal Information Processing Standard ( FIPS ):

The National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ) issues the 140 Publication Series to coordinate the requirements and standards for cryptographic modules which include both hardware and software components for use by departments and agencies of the United States federal government.

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 Advanced Encryption Standard ( AES ) is a specification for the encryption of electronic data established by the U. S. National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ) in 2002.

In 2003 the U. S. National Institute for Standards and Technology, NIST, proposed that 80-bit keys should be phased out by 2015.

* Recommendation for Key Management — Part 1: general, NIST Special Publication 800-57.

* NIST Computational Chemistry Comparison and Benchmark DataBase-Contains a database of thousands of computational and experimental results for hundreds of systems

In 1972, after concluding a study on the US government's computer security needs, the US standards body NBS ( National Bureau of Standards ) — now named NIST ( National Institute of Standards and Technology ) — identified a need for a government-wide standard for encrypting unclassified, sensitive information.

On 19 May 2005, FIPS 46-3 was officially withdrawn, but NIST has approved Triple DES through the year 2030 for sensitive government information.

In 2008, NIST eliminated several other FIPS code standards, including those for countries ( FIPS 10-4 ), U. S. states ( FIPS 5-2 ), and counties ( FIPS 6-4 ).

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ) notes that: " The international nautical mile of 1 852 meters ( 6 076. 115 49 ... feet ) was adopted effective July 1, 1954, for use in the United States.

This position is endorsed by other standards organizations including the IEEE, the International Committee for Weights and Measures ( CIPM ) and the U. S. National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ), but the binary prefixes have seen limited acceptance.

By the end of 2007, standards and government authorities including IEC, IEEE, EU, and NIST proposed standards for binary prefixes and requiring the use of megabyte to strictly denote 1000 < sup > 2 </ sup > bytes and mebibyte to denote 1024 < sup > 2 </ sup > bytes.

A letter is often appended to the psi unit to indicate the measurement's zero reference ; psia for absolute, psig for gauge, psid for differential, although this practice is discouraged by the NIST.

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.

NIST had an operating budget for fiscal year 2007 ( October 1, 2006-September 30, 2007 ) of about $ 843. 3 million.

NIST publishes the Handbook 44 that provides the " Specifications, tolerances, and other technical requirements for weighing and measuring devices ".

* NIST Center for Neutron Research ( NCNR )

NIST also operates a neutron science user facility: the NIST Center for Neutron Research ( NCNR ).

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.

Three researchers at NIST have been awarded Nobel Prizes for their work in Physics: William D. Phillips in 1997, Eric A. Cornell in 2001, John L. Hall in 2005, which is the largest number for any US government laboratory.