NIST works closely with federal agencies to improve their understanding and implementation of FISMA to protect their information and information systems and publishes standards and guidelines which provide the foundation for strong information security programs at agencies.

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

NIST replaced these codes with the more permanent GNIS Feature ID, maintained by the U. S. Board on Geographic Names.

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 ).

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

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.

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.

* NIST Scientific and Technical Data

A derived work is for example the National Institute for Standards and Technology ( NIST ) publication NIST Technical Note 1297 " Guidelines for Evaluating and Expressing the Uncertainty of NIST Measurement Results " and the Eurachem / Citac publication " Quantifying Uncertainty in Analytical Measurement " ( available at the Eurachem homepage ).

* National Conference on Weights and Measures, NIST Handbook 44, Specifications, Tolerances, And Other Technical Requirements for Weighing and Measuring Devices, 2003

" NIST Technical Note 1668, July 2010.

The EAC's Technical Guidelines Development Committee, with technical support from NIST are tasked with developing an initial set of recommendations for each VVSG iteration.

* Guidelines for Evaluating and Expressing the Uncertainty of NIST Measurement Results ; appendix D

* Guidelines for Evaluating and Expressing the Uncertainty of NIST Measurement Results

According to the Guidelines for Evaluating and Expressing the Uncertainty of NIST Measurement Results, the following conditions need to be fulfilled in the establishment of repeatability:

* Guidelines for Evaluating and Expressing the Uncertainty of NIST Measurement Results ; appendix D

* NIST Special Publication 800-88, Guidelines for Media Sanitization, September 2006

* National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ), which contributed Concept / Development Testing

* NIST: Modes Development

* NIST: Modes Development

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.

Each edition is developed through cooperation of the Committee on Specifications and Tolerances of the NCWM and the Weights and Measures Division ( WMD ) of the NIST.

The Committee membership consists of the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ); 14 members appointed jointly by the EAC and the Director of NIST from the Standards Board, the Board of Advisors, the Architectural and Transportation Barrier, and the Access Board, a representative of American National Standards Institute ( ANSI ), a representative of the IEEE, two representatives of the NASED, and other individuals with technical and scientific expertise relating to voting systems and voting equipment.

Other U. S. federal government agencies based in the county include the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ), Nuclear Regulatory Commission ( NRC ), U. S. Department of Energy ( DOE ), the National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ), the National Naval Medical Center ( NNMC ), U. S. Consumer Product Safety Commission ( CPSC ) and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency ( NGA ).

* NIST PKI Program — in which the National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ) is attempting to develop a public key infrastructure

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.

* In the US, the National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ) National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program ( NVLAP ) accredits Common Criteria Testing Laboratories ( CCTL )

With this program the National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ) will recommend labs for accreditation through its National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program ( NVLAP ).