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  • Natural Language
  • Expert Systems
• Misc
• Societies and Journals
• Research Organizations
• NonUS Universities
• Logistics
• Manufacturing
• Sun Microsystems Computer Corp, abbrevs, products, ...
• non-DoD US Government
• General Military Terms
• (Defense) Advanced Research Projects Agency
• National Security Agency
• DoD organizations, programs and other terms, not related to specific service
• US Air Force
• US Army
• US Marine Corps
• US Navy
• US Military Weapon Systems

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What Is.com

Security

BASIS: Binary Authentication Signatures Integrity Standard

SMI: Security Management Infrastructure

PKI: Public Key Infrastructure/Initiative

VDB: Vulnerability Data Base

TSF: Trusted Security Function

TOE: Target of Evaluation

PROVID: policy violation

SANS: System Administration, Networking and Security (SANS Institute, sponsor of various conferences)

BSM: Basic Security Moddule (product of Sun Microsystems)

CGM: Content Generation Module (component of ManTrap from Recourse Technologies, Inc)

COPS: Computer Oracle and Password System, by Dan Farmer at Purdue (circa 1991?)

IDS: Intrusion Detection System

RTID: Real-Time Intrusion Detection

ISS: Internet Security Scanner (computer program that begat the company)

ISS: Internet Security Systems (company)

RAID: Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (workshop series, began in 1998)

IDWG: IETF Intrusion Detection Working Group (formed 1998)

AAFID: Autonomous Agents For Intrusion Detection (research system at Purdue University; pronounced "aphid")

SNMS: Shadow Network Management System (research system at DSO National Labs, Singapore)

NSA Glossary of Terms Used in Security and Intrusion Detection

Hacker vs Cracker

• TAKING A CRACK AT THE FUSS OVER HACK By Blair Shewchuk, CBC News Online
• Discussion on SlashDot

Business Terms

BAFO: best and final offer

CAS: cost accounting standards

ECP: engineering change proposal

EOL: end of life, transition

IAW: in accordance with

IDIQ: indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (often used with T&M contracts ("Time and Materials"))

IFB: invitation for bid

ITQ: invitation to quote

IV&V: independent verification and validation

LOE: level of effort

NLT: not later than

NTE: not-to-exceed

POC: point of contact

RFE: request for enhancement

RFI: request for information

RFP: request for proposal

RFQ: request for quote

ROI: return on investment

ROM: rough order of magnitude

SOW: statement of work

TBD: to be determined

TBS: to be specified

OEM: original equipment manufacturer

T&M: Time and Materials

IP: Intellectual Property

IPR: Intellectual Property Rights

SKU: Stock Keeping Unit

Commercial Organizations and Products

Sematech: Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology Institute -- consortium of US chip makers -- design and production of new chips. Funding $1billion

CCA: Computer Corporation of America

BBN: Bolt, Beranek and Newman

SAIC: Science Applications International Corp.

ANSI: American National Standards Institute

COS: Corporation for Open Systems

LOI: Letter of Intent

MOA: Memorandum of Agreement

MOU: Memorandum of Understanding

SRD: System Requirements Document

MRD: Marketing Requirements Document

COB: Close of Business

Communications Products, especially Computer Communications

EIGRP: Enhanced Internet Gateway Routing Protocol

ISP: Internet Service Provider

NAT: Network Address Translation

SPAN: Switched Port ANalyzer (protocol)

RMON: Remote MONitoring (protocol)

RMON2: Remote MONitoring (protocol), version 2

MPM: Message Processing Module

OSI: Open System Inteconnection

GOSIP: Government (USA) Open System Inteconnection Profile

MAP: Manufacturing Automation Protocols

TOP: Technical and Office Protocols (Products)

DSL: Digital Subscriber Line

ADSL: Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

ISDN: Integrated Services Digital Network (aka "I Still Don't Need it")

HDLC: High-level Data Link Control

CSMA/CD: Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection

802.3: IEEE CSMA/CD (eg Ethernet)

802.4: IEEE Token Bus

802.5: IEEE Token Ring

TCP: Transmission Control Protocol

IP: Internet Protocol

ARP: Address Resolution Protocol

UDP: User Datagram Protocol

UTC: Universal Time Coordinated

ICMP: Internet Control Message Protocol

VPN: Virtual Private Network

DDN: Defense Data Network

ARIN: American Registry of Internet Numbers

ISO: International Standards Organization

CCITT: Consulting Committee International of Telephone and Telegraph

CCITT: Comite' Consultatif International de Telephone et Telegraph

FTAM: File Transfer, Access and Management

CASE: Common Application Service Elements

CCR: Commitment, Concurrency and Recovery (Procedures)

LAN: Local Area Network

WAN: Wide Area Network

SWAN: Sun's Wide Area Network

ATM: Asynchronous Transfer Mode

PBX: Private Branch Exchange

X.25: CCITT packet network

X.75: CCITT Internetworking between X.25 networks

X.200: CCITT mail

ENE: Enterprise Network Event (June 1988?)--demo of MAP/TOP/ISO connectivity

T1: 1.544Mbits/sec

WAIS: Wide Area Information Service

OSN: Open Systems Network

FARNET: Federation of American Research Networks

NAP: Network Access Points (NSFNET)

RA: Routing Authority (NSFNET)

RNP: Regional Network Provider (NSFNET)

ISP: Internet Service Provider

ANS: Advanced Networking Services

FIX: Federal Information Exchange

DUA: Directory User Agent (X.500)

DSA: Directory System Agent (X.500)

FTP: File Transfer Protocol (TCP/IP)

PNNI: Private Network-Network Interface

SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (TCP/IP)

SNMP: Simple Network Management Protocol (TCP/IP)

WWW: World Wide Web (typically accessed through Mosaic)

WAIS: Wide Area Information System

X.400: The CCITT and ISO standard for electronic mail. Widely used in Europe.

X.500: hierarchical (e-mail) directory protocol (part of ISO's OSI)

DAP: Directory Access Protocol (X.500)

LDAP: Lightweight DAP (Directory Access Protocol) (X.500)

NII: National Information Infrastructure

ACL: Access Control List: List of services available, and accepted hosts

AUP: Acceptable Use Policy

BBS: Bulletin Board System

BIND: Berkeley Internet Name Daemon (for Domain Name Service)

BGP: Border Gateway Protocol

CNI: Coalition for Networked Information

DNS: Domain Name Service

FQDN: Fully Qualified Domain Name

EFF: Electronic Frontier Foundation

FDDI: Fiber Distributed Data Interface

FNC: Federal Networking Council

HIPPI: High Performance Parallel Interface

IAB: Internet Architecture Board

IETF: Internet Engineering Task Force

IGP: Interior Gateway Protocol

IRC: Internet Relay Chat

LLC: Logical Link Control

MIB: Management Information Base (esp SNMP)

MTU: Maximum Transmission Unit

NFS: Network File System

NTP: Network Time Protocol

OSPF: Open Shortest Path First (protocol)

PING: Packet INternet Groper

PPP: Point-to-Point Protocol

PSN: Packet Switch Node

RTT: Round-Trip Time

SLIP: Serial Line IP

SNA: Systems Network Architecture

YP: Yellow Pages

SNS: Secure Network Server (US DoD only?)

RADIUS: Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (from IETF Working Group)

RSVP: Resource ReSerVation Protocol

LEO: Low Earth Orbit (satellite)

QoS: Quality of Service

Computers, misc

DMZ: DeMilitarized Zone (firewall analogy from military)

CLOS: Common Lisp Object System

NeWS: Network Extensible Window System (Sun, obsolete)

DTD: Document Type Definition (SGML, HTML, XML)

SGML: Standard Generalized Markup Language

HTML: HyperText Markup Language

XML: Extensible Markup Language

CASE: Computer Aided Software Engineering

CORBA: Common Object Request Broker Architecture

COSE: Common Open Software Environment (Sun+HP+...)

CDE: Common Desktop Environment (Sun+...)

PCTE: Portable Common Tool Environment (ECMA)

ECMA: European Computer Manufacturers' Association

OLIS: On-Line Information System

PDL: Program Design Language

BSD: Berkeley Standard Distribution (of UNIX)

FDDI: Fiber Distributed Data Interface (potential optical fiber LAN standard)

VLSI: Very Large Scale Integration

VLIW: Very Long Instruction Word

RISC: Reduced Instruction Set Computing

WYSIWYG: What You See Is What You Get

WIMP: Windows, Icons, Menus, and Pointers (user interface)

VMEbus: Virtual Machine Eurocard bus

ABI: Applications Binary Interface (Sun, Unix)

SQL: Structured Query Language (DBMS)

UIMS: User Interface Management System

ICCCM: Inter-Client Communications Conventions Manual (X11)

SEI: Software Engineering Institute (at CMU)

GUI: Graphical User Interface

API: Application Programming/Programmer Interface

GigaLIPS: SICS, Manchester University (UK), Argonne National Labs + Imperial College (London), MCC, ICOT, ECRC

ICOT: Institute for New Generation Computer Technology (Japan)

Motif: OSF X window system toolkit

TAC: Terminal Access Controller (ARPAnet)

MIDI: Musical Instrument Digital Interface

SCSI: Small Computer System(?) Interface

CBT: Computer-Based Training

RAM: Random Access Memory

DRAM: Dynamic RAM (Random Access Memory), sometimes "dRAM"

SRAM: Static RAM (Random Access Memory)

ECC: Error Correcting Code (usually ECC memory, as opposed to parity Memory)

PMEG: Page Map Entry Group (basic unit of hardware page table cache)

COTS: Commercial Off The Shelf (eg hardware, software) (primarily govt usage)

ADP: automated data processing

ASIC: Application-Specific Integrated Circuit

BSC: binary synchronous communication

CAD: computer-aided design

CADD: computer-aided drafting and design

CAD/A: computer-aided design/analysis

CAE: computer-aided engineering

CAGD: computer-aided graphic design

CALS: computer-aided logistics support

CAM: computer-aided manufacturing

CAP: computer-aided publishing

CASE: computer-aided software engineering

CIM: computer integrated manufacturing

CIM: Corporate Information Management

CISC: complex instruction set computer

CM: configuration management

CMOS: complementary metal oxide semiconductor

CPU: Central Processing Unit

DES: Data Encryption Standard

DID: Data Item Description

DMA: Direct Memory Access

DTE: Data Terminal Equipment

EDA: Electronic Design Automation

EMI: Electromagnetic Interference

FPA: floating point accelerator

GPIB: general purpose instrument bus (official name: IEEE 488)

HOL: high order language

IC: integrated circuit

IGES: Initial Graphics Exchange Specification

ISDN: Integrated Services Digital Network

ISO: International Standards Organization

JCL: job control language (IBM)

LAN: local area network

MIPS: million instructions per second

MIS: management information system

MMU: memory management unit

MTBF: mean time between failures

MTTR: mean time to repair

MSDOS: Microsoft's disk operating system for personal computers (i80x86)

OA: office automation

PAL: programmable array logic

PC: personal computer or printed circuit

PCDOS: personal computer disk operating system (see also MSDOS)

PCMCIA: personal computer memory card international association

PDES: Product Definition Exchange Specification

PEX: PHIGS Extension to X11

PHIGS: Programmer's Hierarchical Interactive Graphics Standard

POSIX: Portable Operating System Interface

PROM: programmable read-only memory

RISC: reduced instruction set computer

RJE: remote job entry (IBM-ish term)

RPC: remote procedure call

SCSI: small computer systems interface

SLAN: Secure Local Area Network

SMD: Storage Module Drive (disk interface for large disks on servers circa 1980-1990)

SNA: Systems Network Architecture (IBM term)

SVID: System V (five) Interface Definition

SVR4: System V (five) Release 4

TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol/Internetwork Protocol

TOP: Technical and Office Protocol

VHSIC: Very High Speed Integrated Circuit

WAIS: Wide Area Information Server

WAN: wide area network

RFC: request for comment

DCE: Distributed Computing Environment (from OSF)

DME: Distributed Management Environment (from OSF)

DOE: Distributed Objects Everywhere (Sun, HP,...)

OMG: Object Management Group

GKS: Graphical Kernel System

OSF: Open System (Software?) Foundation (Apollo, Bull, DEC, H-P, IBM, Nixdorf, Siemens)

OSF/1: Operating System from OSF

POST: Power-On Self-Test

CERT: Computer Emergency Response Team

FIRST: Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams

CSIRT: Computer Security and Incident Response Team

QBE: Query By Example

GNU: Gnu's Not Unix

HTML: Hyper Text Markup Language (World Wide Web + ...)

URL: Uniform Resource Locator (World Wide Web)

HTTP: HyperText Transfer Protocol (World Wide Web)

WWW: World Wide Web

W3: World Wide Web

EBL: Explanation Based Learning

KIF: Knowlege Interchange Format

KQML: Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language

SKTP: Simple Knowledge Transfer Protocol (supports KQML)

HCI: Human Computer Interface (see also CHI)

ANSII: American Standard Code for Information Interchange

CRC: Cyclic Redundancy Check

DEK: Data Encryption Key

MAGIC: Multidimensional Applications Gigabit Internet Consortium (ARPA funded)

MSSA: Multi-Service Storage Architecture

GIF: Graphics Interchange Format

JPEG: Joint Photographic Experts Group - defines compression techniques ("JPEG" is a commonly used alias for file format JFIF)

JFIF: JPEG File Interchange Format

MPEG: "Motion picture" version of JPEG

TIFF: Tag Image File Format (popular on Macintosh and NeXT), often uses CCITT Group 3 and Group 4 compression (also used in FAX) and JPEG compression

XBM: X BitMap

XPM: X PixMap

XWD: X Window Dump

PICT: often used on Macintosh

BMP: MS Windows Bitmap

TGA: aka Targa (bitmap file format)

PBM: Portable Bitmap (part of X distribution)

PPM: Portable PixMap (part of X distribution)

PGM: Portable GrayMap (part of X distribution)

MAPI: Mail API

TAPI: Telephony API

ODC: Open Database Connectivity API

OLE: Object Linking and Embedding (Microsoft)

SATAN: Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks (by Dan Farmer and Wietse Venema)

COPS: Computer Oracle and Password System (by Dan Farmer)

PKI: Public Key Infrastructure

MAS: Multi-Agent System

MIME: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

FEC: Forward Error Recovery (networking, esp multicast)

ARQ: Automatic Repeat Request (networking, esp multicast)

IS: Information System

RTC: Real-Time Clock

I18N: Internationalization (18 = char count between "I" and "N")

E-mail messages

BOF: Birds of a Feather (interest group)

BTW: By The Way

FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions (eg FAQ files)

FYI: For Your Information

HTH: hope this helps

IMHO: In My Humble Opinion

IMO: In My Opinion

IMNSHO: In My Not-So-Humble Opinion

TIA: Thanks In Advance

TTFN: TaTa For Now

European Organizations

EU: European Union

EEC: (obsolete, now the EU) European Economic Community ("Common Market")

ESPRIT: European Strategic Program on Research and Information Technology (EEC)

RSRE: Radio Signal Research Establishment (Malvern, England)

???: Admiralty Research Establishment (Portsmouth, England)

NDRE: Norwegian Defense Research Establishment

NTA: Norwegian Telecommunications Agency

NTARE: Norwegian Telecommunications Agency Research Establishment

SICS: Swedish Institute for Computer Science

Artificial Intelligence

Natural Language

HMM: Hidden Markov Model (common speech recognition approach)

MRD: Machine Readable Dictionary

LDOCE: Longman's Dictionary of Contemporary English

CED: Collins English Dictionary

DCG: Definite Clause Grammar

Expert Systems

KEE: Knowledge Engineering Environment (Intellicorp)

KES: Knowledge Engineering System (Software A&E, Arlington, VA)

TIMM: The Intelligent Machine Model (Gen Research, Santa Barbara, CA)

S1: (Teknowledge)

M1: (Teknowledge)

ART: Automated Reasoning Tool (Inference Corp)

Misc

CONUS: CONtinental United States (usually excludes Alaska -> CONtinguous)

NIH: "Not Invented Here"

TLA: Three Letter Acronym (self-referential)

ROM: Rough Order of Magnitude (more precise than a WAG)

WAG: Wild-Ass Guess (less precise than a ROM)

SWAG: Silly Wild-Ass Guess (WAG)

RSI: Repetitive Stress Injury

CTS: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Societies and Journals

IJCAI: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

NCAI: The National Conference on Artificial Intelligence

ACL: Association for Computational Linguistics

ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

CACM: Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (flagship publication)

AAAI: American Association for Artificial Intelligence

SIGART: ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence

SIGGRAPH: Special Interest Group on Graphics

IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronic Enginee

CHI: Computer Human Interface (conference) (see also HCI)

JAIR: Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research

Research Organizations

UMIACS: University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies

INRIA: Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique

ETRI: Electronic & Telecommunications Research Institute, South Korea

CERN: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva Switzerland

NCSA: National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois

CMU: Carnegie-Mellon University

MIT: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

NonUS Universities

KAIST: Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Logistics

NSM: National Stock Number

NDC: National Drug Code

Manufacturing

ATE: automated test equipment

JIT: Just In Time (procurement of supplies)

MPS: Master Production Scheduling

MRP: Material Requirements Planning

MRP: Material Resource Planning (MRP II)

WIP: Work In Progress

CAD: Computer Aided Design

CAM: Computer Aided Manufacturing??

CIM: Computer Integrated Manufacturing?? (preferred/successor to CAD/CAM)

DDM: Data Driven Manufacturing (DEC project)

DICE: DARPA Concurrent Engineering Program

TIME: Tandem Integrated Manfacturing Environment

CALS: Computer-aided Acquisition and Logistics Support (AirForce pgm)

PDES: Product Data Exchange Specification

RAMP: Rapid Acquisition of Manufactured Parts (US Navy pgm)

ECO: Engineering Change Order

ROM: Rough Order of Magnitude (Mgmt/Financial)

WAM: Wild-Ass Guess (Mgmt/Financial)

QA: Quality Assurance

Sun Microsystems Computer Corp, abbrevs, products, ...

ACM: Area Channel Manager (USFO field-based)

AEC: architectural, engineering, and construction

AFO: Americas Field Operations (part of AIS)

AIS: Americas Information Services (Sun IR)

ALM: asynchronous line multiplexer (HW product: terminal multiplexor)

ASED/M: Area Systems Engineering Director/Manager (USFO field-based)

ATMD/M: Area Tactical Marketing Director/Manager (USFO field-based)

AVP: Area Vice President (USFO field-based)

BIT: built-in test

CGI: computer graphics interface (obsolete SW product - between SunCORE and GKS)

CLIN: contract line item number

CSCI: computer software configuration item

DSO: days sales outstanding

EU: enduser (customer type)

FCA: functional configuration audit

FCS: first customer shipment

FFP: firm fixed price

FRU: field replaceable unit

GB: graphics buffer

GP: graphics processor

IR: internetwork router (SW product)

ISV: Independent Software Vendor

JLE: Japanese Language Environment (for SunOS)

LTD: live test demo

MT: material transfer

NAAFO: North American & Australian Field Ops (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand)

ND: network disk (obsolete: NFS predecessor)

NeWS: Network extensible Window System (SW product)

NFS: network file system (protocol; part of SunOS)

NRE: non-recurring engineering

OCL: object code license (new licensing term to replace RTU)

OPCOM: Operation Commitment (NAAFO enduser customers doing Solaris Migration)

OSS: Online Support Services

RDF: Reseller Developer Funds (US Channels term)

RONABIT: return on net assets before interest and taxes

RTU: Right To Use (licensing term)

SCP: SunLink Communications Processor (board)

SE: Systems Engineer

SMCC: Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation

SMI: Sun Microsystems, Inc.

SPARC: Scalable Processor ARChitecture

SPM: Sales Program Manager (USFO field-based)

SPOC: Sun Product Order Checker (part of SalesDesk)

SPR: Sales Program Representative (USFO field-based)

SR: Sales Representative

SS: SunSoft

SS: SPARCstation, SPARCserver

STE: Sun Technology Enterprises

SunSITE: Sun Software, Information, & Technology Exchange

SX: SunExpress

USFO: United States Field Operations (part of NAAFO)

VAR: Value-Added Reseller

VEU: Volume End User

WBS: Work Breakdown Structure

WWFO: World-Wide Field Operations (part of SMCC)

XDR: eXternal Data Representation (RPC protocol)

XIL: X11 Imaging Language (software product) (extensions to the X11 protocol for imaging)

non-DoD US Government

NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NSF: National Science Foundation

NBS: National Bureau of Standards - now National Institute of Standards and Technology

NCSC: National Computer Security Center (Bethesda, MD) (NSA)

NIST: National Institute of Standards and Technology (formerly National Bureau of Standards)

SETD: System Engineering and Technical Direction ("lead" contractor, see also SETA)

SETA: ??System Engineering and Technical Administration ("lead" contractor, see also SETD)

FCCSET: Federal Coordinating Council on Science, Engineering and Technology (pronounced "Fix It")

FRICC: Federal Research Internet Coordinating Committee

GAO: General Accounting Office

OSTP: Office of Science and Technology Policy

FAR: Federal Acquisition Regulation

FIPS: Federal Information Processing Standards

GFE: Government Furnished Equipment

GSA: Government Services Administration

NIH: National Institutes of Health (note that Institutes is plural)

TIIAP: Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance Program of NTIA (conceived as part of NII)

NTIA: National Telecommunications and Information Administration (part of NII)

FEMA: Federal Emergency Management Agency

FOIA: Freedom of Information Act

NCIC: National Crime Information Computer (FBI)

FBI: Federal Bureau of Investigation (US)

HBCU: Historically Black Colleges and Universities (typically "HBCU and MI")

MI: Minority Institutions (typically "HBCU and MI")

General Military Terms

LOS: Line of Sight

ELOS: Extended LOS

BLOS: Beyond LOS

OOTW: Operations Other Than War

CINC: commander-in-chief

AFCEA: Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association

(Defense) Advanced Research Projects Agency

DARPA: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (sometimes simply ARPA)

ARPA: Advanced Research Projects Agency (variant on DARPA)

TRP: Technology Reinvestment Project (ARPA)

RAU: Readiness, Affordability, Useability

IFD: Integrated Feasibility Demonstration

ISD: Information Superiority Demonstration

TVS: Text, Video, Speech (also "TVs")

STOW: Synthetic (alt. Simulated) Theater of War (related to ModSAF)

TIE: Technical Integrator Experiment

BIT: Broadband Information Technology (in ARPA/ITO)

Bitway: BIT (Broadband Information Technology) network (ARPA/ITO)

DMIF: Dynamic Multiuser Information Fusion

MEII: Minimum Essential Information Infrastructure

IS: Information Survivability

ASAP: Agent Standards Architecture Protocol (ISO, Ray Emami)

BADD: Battlefield Awareness and Data Dissemination

National Security Agency

NSA: National Security Agency

NSA: Never Say Anything

NSA: No Such Agency

UCA: Unified Cryptologic Architecture

SPOCK: Security Proof of Concept Keystone

DoD organizations, programs and other terms, not related to specific service

DoD: Department of Defense (US)

DOD: Department of Defense (US)

OSD: Office of the Secretary of Defense

ASD: Assistant Secretary of Defense

ASDC3I: ASD for C3I

JCS: Joint Chiefs of Staff

JPO: Joint Program Office

JTF: Joint Task Force

ATD: Advanced Technology Demonstration

DISA: Defense Information Systems Agency

DIA: Defense Intelligence Agency

6.1: Basic Research

6.2: Exploratory Development

6.3: Advanced Development

DCA: Defense Communications Agency

OAT: Office of Advanced Technology (DCA)

C4S: Center for Command, Control, and Communications Systems (DCA)

JDL: Joint Defense Laboratory (at RADC)

JDL: Joint Directors of Laboratories (RADC/NOSC/CECOM)

JDL C3: Joint Directors of Laboratories C3

CIA: Central Intelligence Agency

NSA: National Security Agency / No Such Agency / Never Say Anything

IDA: Institute for Defense Analyses

NRO: National Reconnaissance Office

NSC: National Security Council

DODIIS: Dept of Defense Intelligence Information System

DoDISS: Department of Defense Index of Specifications and Standards

C2: Command and Control

C3: Command, Control and Communications

C3I: Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence

C3I: Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence

C3 SA: C3 System Architecture (DARPA)

ALBM: AirLand Battle Management (DARPA program)

ALV: Autonomous Land Vehicle (DARPA program)

STARS: Software Technology for Adaptable, Reliable Systems

DDN: Defense Data Network

DSInet: Defense Simulation Internet

JTF: Joint Task Force (ATD at ARPA/SISTO)

TD: Total Distribution (ATD at ARPA/ASTO)

JWID: Joint Warrior Interoperability Demo (ATD at Rome Lab)

MISSI: Multilevel Information System Security Initiative

DMS: Defense Message System

SAF: Semi-Automated Forces (training involving simulation) aka SAFORS

SAFORS: Semi-Automated Forces (training involving simulation) aka SAF

ModSAF: Modular SAF (Semi-Automated Forces)

IFOR: Intelligent Forces (ARPA)

CCSIL: Command & Control Simulation Interface Language (pronounced "cecil")

CFOR: Command FORces (simulation)

DIS: Distributed Interactive Simulation

AAAI: Accelerated Acquisition Architecture Initiative

A3I: Accelerated Acquisition Architecture Initiative

WWMCCS: World Wide Military Command and Control System

GCCS: Global Command and Control System

LES: Leading Edge Services

RIDGE: Rapid Integrated Database Generation Experiments

RTV: Rapid Terrain Visualization

ACTD: Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration

OODA: Observe, Orient, Decide, Act (C2 loop)

COE: Common Operating Environment (DISA)

NIMA: National Imagery and Mapping Agency

GII: Geospatial Information Infrastructure

IPT: Integrated Product Team (NIMA) (see also GIIPT)

GII: Geospatial Information Integrated Product Team (NIMA)

GDF: Geospatial Development Facility (NIMA)

MIPR: Military Interdepartmental Purchase Request

DDO: Deputy Director for Operations (NSA and others)

AIPASG: Advanced Information Processing and Analysis Steering Group

DII: Defense Information Infrastructure

ISR: Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance

US Air Force

AFIWC: Air Force Information Warfare Center, Kelly Air Force Base, San Antonio, TX

RADC: Rome Air Development Center

AFWAL: Air Force Wright Aeronautical Laboratories (Wright-Patterson, Dayton OH) renamed WRDC in 1988

WRDC: Wright Research and Development Center (formerly AFWAL)

IISS: Integrated Information Support System (project) (also I2S2)

I2S2: Integrated Information Support System (project) (also IISS)

IDBM: Integrated Database Management (project)

DAPRO: Data Automation PROcessor (project)

GMAP: Generic/Geometric Modeling APplication (program)

PDDI: Product Definition Data Interchange (project)

RFC: Retirement For Cause

IBIS: Integrated Blade Inspection System (GMAP demo)

FIMS: Framework for Integrated Manufacturing System

DAS: Data Administration Syste

EDM: Enterprise (corporation-wide) Data Model

IDS: ???? (AFWAL)

EIS: ???? (AFWAL)

TMIS: ???? (AFWAL)

EDCARS: ???? (AFWAL)

ATOS: ???? (AFWAL)

RDB: ???? (AFWAL)

SC&D: ???? (AFWAL)

DDMIS: ???? (AFWAL)

HUD: Head Up Display

WSO: Weapon Systems Officer (former GIB - Guy in the Back)

GIB: Guy in the Back (now WSO - Weapon Systems Officer)

US Army