Analytical Chemistry

Atomic and Molecular Physics

Biometrics

Biotechnology

Chemical and Crystal Structure

Chemical Kinetics

Chemistry

Communications

Construction

Environmental Data

Fire

Fluids

International Trade

Law Enforcement

Materials Properties

Mathematical Databases, Software and Tools

Optical Character Recognition

Physics

Product Design

Surface Data

Text and Video Retrieval

Thermophysical and Thermochemical

Law Enforcement

NIST has long applied science and technology to the needs of the criminal justice community, including law enforcement, corrections, forensic science, and the fire service. NIST collaborates with national law enforcement technology centers, the forensic community and all segments of the criminal justice community.

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For example, NIST Special Database 28 - National Software Reference Library is a collaboration of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Defense Computer Forensics Laboratory (DCFL), the U.S. Customs Service, software vendors, and state and local law enforcement organizations. This is an example of the application of technology to investigate crimes involving computers, such as child pornography, racketeering, cyber-attacks, illegal gambling, Internet fraud and software piracy.

The codes in the list below have the following meanings:

NIST 8-Bit Gray Scale Images of Fingerprint Image Groups, PC, DG
NIST Mated Fingerprint Card Pairs, PC, DG
NIST Supplemental Fingerprint Card Data, PC, DG
NIST Mated Fingerprint Card Pairs II, PC, DG
NIST Fingerprint Minutiae from Latent Matching Tenprint Images, PC, DG
Facial Recognition Technology Database (FERET), PC, DG

NIST Plain and Rolled Images from Paired Fingerprint Cards, PC, DG
NIST Dual Resolution Images from Paired Fingerprint Cards, PC, DG
NIST Mugshot Identification Database, PC, DG
NIST National Software Reference Library, PC, DG
Computer Forensics Tool Testing (CFTT) Project Web Site