Technology & Engineering - General

The report explains the accident involving Aviation Charter Inc., which crashed while the flight crew was attempting to execute the VOR approach to runway 27 at Eveleth-Virginia Municipal Airport, Eveleth, Minnisota, on October 25th 2002.Author: National Transportation Safety BoardISBN-10: 1514671697ISBN-13: 9781514671696Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing...

This report explains the accident involving Air Tahoma, Inc., flight 185, a Convair 580, N586P, that crashed about 1 mile south of Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, Covington, Kentucky, while on approach to runway 36R. Safety issues discussed in this report focus on flight crew...

This report explains the accident involving Flying Boat, Inc. (doing business as Chalk's Ocean Airways) Flight 101, a Grumman Turbo Mallard (G-73T) amphibious airplane, which crashed into a shipping channel adjacent to the Port of Miami, Florida, shortly after takeoff from the Miami Seaplane...

The Computer Forensics Tool Testing (CFTT) program is a joint project of the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST's) Office of Law Enforcement Standards (OLES) and Information Technology Laboratory (ITL)....

Mine impact burial models such as IMPACT25, IMPACT28, and IMPACT35 have been used in the MIW community in an attempt to calculate the percentage of impact burial for sea mines. Until recently the models have been deterministic, using parameters such as sediment type, air...

The Navy's proposed FY2015 budget requests $1,219.3 million for continued research and development work on the Ohio replacement program (ORP), a program to design and build a new class of 12 ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) to replace the Navy's current force of 14 Ohio-class...

This publication provides an introduction to generation of value engineering proposals for professional engineers, architects and construction managers.Author: J. Paul GuyerISBN-10: 1507893485ISBN-13: 9781507893487Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/08/2015Pages: 28Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.06d

The Maritime Administration (MARAD) has a three-pronged mission. MARAD programs advance: (1) economic growth and recovery by providing job-producing businesses with efficient transportation options to reach their suppliers and customers, (2) marine transportation that is sensitive to environmental impacts on communities, and (3) a...

Several major United States retailers have suffered large-scale thefts of payment card information as the result of intrusions against point-of-sale systems (smart cash registers). Point-of-sale attacks present a growing threat and can constitute a homeland-security problem due to a trans-national cyber crime element. This...

"Welcome to 2050--what the real 2050 could be like. This book is about what life will be like when "cyber" is prolific, self-aware, and in full control of large scale industry, service, and transportation. There will be fascinating changes in how humans live and...

When Hans J. Ornig realized that he didn't understand the newest technologies and how they were disrupting the world, he quit his job so he could study the problem. At the time, he did not appreciate how sciences like nanotechnology, biochemistry, genomics, synthetic biology,...

Information systems are critical to the health, economy, and security of the nation. To support agency missions, the federal government plans to spend at least $82 billion on information technology (IT) investments in fiscal year 2014. However, as we have previously reported, prior IT...

Information technology should enable government to better serve the American people. However, according to OMB, despite spending more than $600 billion on IT over the past decade, the federal government has achieved little of the productivity improvements that private industry has realized from IT....

In 1990, we first designated DOE program and contract management as an area at high risk of fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement. In January 2009, to recognize the progress made at DOE's Office of Science, we narrowed the focus of the high-risk designation to...

DHS and TSA share responsibility for the research, development, and deployment of passenger checkpoint screening technologies. The Aviation and Transportation Security Act established TSA as the federal agency with primary responsibility for securing the nation's civil aviation system, which includes the screening of all...

Information technology should enable government to better serve the American people. However, according to OMB, despite spending more than $600 billion on IT over the past decade, the federal government has achieved little of the productivity improvements that private industry has realized from IT.Author:...

The President's fiscal year 2014 budget request included plans for the federal government to spend over $82 billion on IT. The stated goal of the President's IT budget request is to support making federal agencies more efficient and effective for the American people; it...

The Computer Forensics Tool Testing (CFTT) program is a joint project of the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), the research and development organization of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), and the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST's) Office of Law Enforcement Standards...

Version 1.0 (V1.0) of NIST Interagency Report (NISTIR) 7628, Guidelines for Smart Grid Cyber Security, is the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel-Cyber Security Working Group's (SGIP-CSWG's) report for individuals and organizations who will be addressing cyber security for Smart Grid systems. This includes, for example,...

This publication describes cryptographic methods that are approved for "key wrapping," i.e., the protection of the confidentiality and integrity of cryptographic keys. In addition to describing existing methods, this publication specifies two new, deterministic authenticated-encryption modes of operation of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)...

The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) program is a biometrically-enhanced identification system primarily situated at border points of entry such as airports and seaports. The US-VISIT program's goal is to advance the security of the...

Computer-interpretable representations of system structure and behavior are at the center of designing today's complex systems. Engineers create and review such representations using graphical modeling languages that support specification, analysis, design, verification and validation of systems that include hardware, software, data, personnel, procedures, and...

This guide describes how to use the STEP File Analyzer, a software tool that generates a spreadsheet from a STEP (ISO 10303 - informally known as the STandard for Exchange of Product model data) [1,2,3] file. The spreadsheets simplify inspecting information from the STEP...

This publication provides an introduction to value engineering.Author: J. Paul GuyerISBN-10: 1500699934ISBN-13: 9781500699932Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/31/2014Pages: 28Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.06d

This publication provides an introduction to marketing of value engineering proposals.Author: J. Paul GuyerISBN-10: 1500700053ISBN-13: 9781500700058Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/31/2014Pages: 26Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.19lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.05d

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), through its Evidence-Based Practice Centers (EPCs), sponsors the development of evidence reports and technology assessments to assist public- and private-sector organizations in their efforts to improve the quality of health care in the United States. The...

This guide is the second of two guides available to help your company participate fully in the SmartWay Transport Partnership as a Multi-modal Carrier Partner. The first guide, the Multi-modal Carrier Tool "Quick Start Guide," provides a basic walk-through of the process of identifying,...

This Research Report is part of the National Institute of Justice's (NIJ's) Reducing Gun Violence publication series. Each report in the series de- scribes the implementation and effects of an individual, NIJ-funded, local-level pro- gram designed to reduce firearm-related violence in a particular U.S....

This document is a supplemental safety evaluation report (SSER) for the license renewal application for Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station (VYNPS) as filed by Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. and Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee, LLC. (Entergy or the applicant). By letter dated January 25, 2006,...

This document is a supplemental safety evaluation report (SSER) on the application for license renewal for the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant (BFN), as filed by Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA or the applicant). By letter dated December 31, 2003, TVA submitted its application to the...

This safety evaluation report (SER) documents the technical review of the R.E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant (Ginna) license renewal application (LRA) by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff (staff). By letter dated July 30, 2002, Rochester Gas & Electric Corporation (RG&E or the applicant)...

This Climate Change Science Program Synthesis and Assessment Product addresses current capabilities to integrate observations of the climate system into a consistent description of past and current conditions through the method of reanalysis. In addition, the Product assesses present capabilities to attribute causes for...

The climate record for the past 100,000 years clearly indicates that the climate system has undergone periodic--and often extreme--shifts, sometimes in as little as a decade or less. The causes of abrupt climate changes have not been clearly established, but the triggering of events...

Section 208 of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-438) defines an "abnormal occurrence" (AO) as an unscheduled incident or event that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) determines to be significant from the standpoint of public health or safety. The Federal...

This recommendation provides technical guidelines for Federal agencies implementing electronic authentication and is not intended to constrain the development or use of standards outside of this purpose. The recommendation covers remote authentication of users (such as employees, contractors, or private individuals) interacting with government...

Technology is available to reduce diesel vehicle and engine emissions in a cost-effective way. The ability to use diesel emission reductions for state implementation plan (SIP) and conformity purposes gives states and localities additional incentive to implement diesel retrofit projects. Diesel retrofit technologies reduce...

Analysis of the uncertainty associated with parameters used by a numerical model, and with predictions that depend on those parameters, is fundamental to the use of modeling in support of decisionmaking. Unfortunately, predictive uncer- tainty analysis with regard to models can be very computa-...

Establishing the time when a digital signature was generated is often a critical consideration. A signed message that includes the (purported) signing time provides no assurance that the private key was used to sign the message at that time unless the accuracy of the...

Advance Topics in Engineering Research and Applications is a collection of research articles and case studies.Author: Gurudatt Kulkarni,Rupali Shelke,Mohammed a. Al-AminISBN-10: 1497506719ISBN-13: 9781497506718Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 36Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.24lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.07d

Due to the exhaustion of IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4) address space, and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) mandate that U.S. federal agencies begin to use the IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) protocol, NIST undertook the development of a guide to help...

The Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) promotes the U.S. economy and public welfare by providing technical leadership for the nation's measurement and standards infrastructure. ITL develops tests, test methods, reference data, proof of concept implementations, and...

The Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) is a suite of specifications that standardize the format and nomenclature by which security software products communicate security content, particularly software flaw and security configuration information1. SCAP is a multi-purpose protocol that supports automated configuration, vulnerability, and patch...

WiMAX technology is a wireless metropolitan area network (WMAN) communications technology that is largely based on the wireless interface defined in the IEEE 802.16 standard. The industry trade association, the WiMAX Forum, coined the WiMAX trademark and defines the precise content and scope of...

Software implementation errors are one of the most significant contributors to information system security vulnerabilities, making software testing an essential part of system assurance.Author: U. S. Department of CommerceISBN-10: 1496009436ISBN-13: 9781496009432Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/04/2014Pages: 82Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x...

This document has been developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in furtherance of its statutory responsibilities under the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) of 2002, Public Law 107-347.Author: U. S. Department of CommerceISBN-10: 1496009371ISBN-13: 9781496009371Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage:...

In the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002, Public Law 107-252, the Election Assistance Commission is mandated to submit a report on human factors, usability, and accessibility to Congress. Specifically, "...the Commission, in consultation with the Director of the National Institute of Standards...

Time-domain analyses of wind effects on high-rise structures have been made possible in recent years by advances in wind pressure measurement and computer technology. Time domain solutions not only provide full phase information on structural responses to wind but can also account naturally for...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is supporting use of the Dimensional Measuring Interface Standard (DMIS) language. One form of this support is providing the NIST DMIS Test Suite (NDTS), which has been developed in the Intelligent Systems Division (ISD) of NIST.Author:...

As different wireless technologies are launched to enable user mobility and provide pervasive network and service accessibility, security has been a prominent requirement for the U.S. Federal Government in such access environments. Access authentication and the establishment of keys that protect wireless traffic are...

The NIST SAMATE project conducted the first Static Analysis Tool Exposition (SATE) in 2008 to advance research in static analysis tools that find security defects in source code. The main goals of SATE were to enable empirical research based on large test sets and...