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Also see Glossary of Communications, Computer, Data, and Information Security Terms

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3NF	Third Normal Form
A
ABC	Activity-Based Costing
ABM	Activity-Based Management
ACL	Access Control List
ADD	Architectural Design Document
ADP	Automated Data Processing
AES	Advanced Encryption Standard
AFCEA	Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association
AI	Artificial Intelligence
AMPS	Advanced Mobile Phone Service
ANSI	American National Standards Institute
API	Application Program Interface
ARB	Architecture Review Board
ARNET	Acquisition Reform Network
ARPA	Advanced Research Projects Agency
ASCII	American Standard Code for Information Interchange
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B
B2B	Business to Business
B2G	Business to Government
BA	Budget Authority
BAA	Business Area Analysis
BLOB	Binary Large Object
BLSM	Base-level System Modernization
BOD	Board of Directors
BOM	Bill of Materials
BPO	Blanket Purchase Order
BPR	Business Process Reengineering
BRM	Business Reference Model
BSD	Business Systems Design
BY	Budget Year
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C
CEA	Certified Enterprise Architect
C&A	Certification and Accreditation
C/S	Client Server
C3I	Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence
C4ISR	Command, Control, Communications, Computer, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Architecture Framework
CAD	Computer Aided Design
CADM	C4ISR Architecture Data Model
CAI	Computer-Assisted Instruction
CASE	Computer Aided Systems Engineering; Computer Aided Software Engineering
CBA	Cost-Benefit Analysis
CBSE	Component-Based Software Engineering
CBT	Computer-Based Training
CCA	Clinger-Cohen Act
CCB	Change Control Board; Configuration Control Board
CCIA	Computer & Communications Industry Association
CCITT	Comite Consultatif International Telegraphique et Telephonique
CCR	Configuration Change Request
CDR	Critical Design Review
CDRL	Contract Data Requirements List
CDSA	Intel’s Common Data Security Architecture
CFO Act	Chief Financial Officers Act
CFR	Code of Federal Regulation
CGI	Common Gateway Interface
CGM	Computer Graphics Metafile
CIC	Capital Investment Council
CICG	Critical Infrastructure Coordination Group
CIF	Capital Investment Fund
CIO	Chief Information Officer
CIP	Capital Investment Plan
CIP	Critical Information Protection
CKO	Chief Knowledge Officer
CLIN	Contract Line Item Number
CM	Configuration Management; Change Management
CMA	Certificate Management Authority
CMIP	Configuration Management Integration Plan
CMM®	SEI’s Capability Maturity Model® for software development
CMMI	SEI’s Capability Maturity Model Integration
CMP	Configuration Management Plan
CMSS	Configuration Management Support System
CMWG	Configuration Management Working Group
CO	Contracting Officer
COE	Common Operating Environment
COM	Component Object Model
COM+	Extended Component Object Model
CONOPS	Concept of Operations
CORBAâ	Common Object Request Broker Architecture
CORBAâ/COM	Common Object Request Broker Architecture/Component Object Model
CORBAMedä	Common Object Request Broker Architecture/Medical
CORBASecä	Common Object Request Broker Security
COSNaming	Common Object Service Naming
COTS	Commercial Off-the-Shelf
COTR	Contracting Officer's Technical Representative
CP	Certificate Policy
CPI	Continuous Process Improvement
CPIC	Capital Planning and Investment Control
CPM	Critical Path Method
CRUD	Create, Read, Update, Delete
CSF	Critical Success Factor
CSO	Chief Security Officer
CSOR	Computer Security Objects Registry
CSS	Cascading Style Sheet
CSU/DSU	Channel Service Unit/Data [or Digital] Service Unit
CURE	COTS Usage Risk Evaluation
CV	Cost Variance
CWBS	Contractor Work Breakdown Structure
CWM	Common Warehouse Metamodel - OMG
CY	Current Year
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D
DB	Database
DBA	DB Administrator
DBDD	Database Design Document
DBMS	Database Management System
DCAA	Defense Contract Audit Agency
DCAM	Distributed Component Architecture Model
DCE	Distributed Computing Environment
DCMA	Defense Contract Management Agency
DCOM	Distributed Component Object Model
DD/DS	Defense Data Dictionary System
DDL	Data Definition Language
DEIS	Defense Enterprise Integration Service
DES	Triple Data Encryption Standard
DFARS	Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement
DHCP	Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DIA	Defense Intelligence Agency
DID	Data Item Description
DII	Defense Information Infrastructure
DII COE	Defense Information Infrastructure Common Operating Environment
DISA	Data Interchange Standards Association; Defense Information Systems Agency
DISN	Defense Information Systems Network
DITSCAP	DoD Information Technology Security Certification and Accreditation Process
DLA	Defense Logistics Agency
DLL	Dynamic Link Library
DM	Data Management
DME	Development, Modernization, & Enhancement
DMS	Diminished Manufacturing Source
DNP	Distributed Network Protocol
DNS	Domain Name Service; Distributed Network Supervisor
DODAF	DOD Architecture Framework
DOM	Document Object Model
DoS, DOS	Department of State; Disk Operating System
DTC	Design-To-Cost
DTF	Domain Task Force
DVD-ROM	Originally Digital Video Disk, subsequently Digital Versatile Disk, now consensus is the term stands for itself and not for anything else
DW	Data Warehouse
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E
EA	Enterprise Architecture
EAI	Enterprise Application Integration
EBCDIC	Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
e-Biz	Electronic Business
EC	Electronic Commerce; European Community
EC/EDI	Electronic Commerce/ Electronic Data Interchange
ECP	Engineering Change Proposal
EDI	Electronic Data Interchange
EDR	Environmental Data Registry
EDW	Enterprise Data Warehouse
e-Gov	Electronic Government
EIEITC	Enterprise Interoperability and Emerging IT Initiatives Committee.
EIS	Executive Information System
Enterprise	Enterprise represents an organization in total, including all subordinate entities, encompassing corporations, small businesses, non-profit institutions, government bodies, as well as other kinds of organizations.
ERD	Entity Relationship Diagram
ERP	Enterprise Resource Planning
ESP	Evolutionary Spiral Process; Enterprise Solution Provider; Encapsulating Security Payload
EVA	Earned Value Analysis
EVM	Earned Value Management
EVMS	Earned Value Management System
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F
FAIR	Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act
FAM-A	Functional Area Model – Activity
FAM-D	Functional Area Model – Data
FAM-O	Functional Area Model – Object
FAR	Federal Acquisition Regulation
FASA	Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act
FAWG	Federal Architecture Working Group
FB	Functional Baseline
FBCA	Federal Bridge Certification Authority
FDR	Functional Requirements Document
FEA	Federal Enterprise Architecture
FEA PMO	Federal Enterprise Architecture Prgrm Mgt Office
FEAC	Federal Enterprise Architecture Certification
FEAC Institute	Federated Enterprise Architecture Certification Institute
FEAF	Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework
FFRDC	Federally Funded Research and Development Center
FGDC	Federal Geographic Data Committee
FIPS	Federal Information Processing Standard
FISRA	Federal Information Security Act
FPI	Functional Process Improvement
FPKI	Federal Public Key Infrastructure
FPKIPA	Federal Public Key Infrastructure Policy Authority
Framework	Illustration of an overall architecture framework, used as a guide for assisting governments as they create architectures for their organizations.  The Universal Framework known is the Zachman FW.  It is not a methodology.
FRS	Functional Requirements Specification
FTE	Full Time Equivalent
FTP	File Transfer Protocol
FURN	Framework User Role Name
FY	Fiscal Year—Federal is October 1 through September 30
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G
G&A	General and Administrative
G2B	Government to Business
G2G	Government to Government
GAO	Government Accountability Office
GAO	General Accounting Office
GCSS	Global Combat Support System
GFE	Government Furnished Equipment
GIG	Global Information Grid (DOD-OSD)
GIS	Generic Interface System
GISRA	Government Information Security Act
GMRA	Government Management Reform Act
GNIE	Global Network Information Enterprise
GOSIP	Government Open System Interconnection Protocol
GOTS	Government Off-the-Shelf
GPEA	Government Paperwork Elimination Act
GPRA	Government Performance and Results Act
GRM	Government Reference Model
GRM WG	Government Reference Modeling Work Group
GSA	General Services Administration
GSM	Global System for Mobile Communications
GUI	Graphical User Interface
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H
HCI	Human-Computer Interaction; Hardware Configuration Item
HDF	Hierarchical Data Format
HLI	High Level Interface
HTML	Hypertext Markup Language.
HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol
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I
IA	Information Assurance
IADEG	Interagency Data Exchange Group—for standards setting
IC	Intellectual Capital; Integrated Circuit
ICAM	Integrated Computer-Aided Manufacturing
I-CASE	Integrated Computer Aided Software Engineering
ICD	Interface Control Document
ICOM	Inputs, Controls, Outputs, and Mechanisms
ICSA	International Computer Security Association
ICWG	Interface Control Working Group
IDBS	Interoperability Database System
IDEA	Interagency Data Exchange Application
IDEF	Integrated Computer-Aided Manufacturing (ICAM) Definition Language
IDEF0	A hierarchical function/activity modeling technique
IDEF1x	A logical data modeling technique
IDEF3	A sequential process modeling technique
IE	Information Engineering
IEM	Information Exchange Matrix
IER	Information Exchange Requirement
IIDD	Information Interchange Design Document
IM	Information Management
IMA	Interactive Media Association
IMMP	Integrated Master Management Plan
IMRB	Internet Management Review Board
IMS	Information Management System
INMS	Integrated Network Management System
IOR	Internet Object References
IP	Internet Protocol
IPT	Integrated Product Team
IRB	Investment Review Board; Institutional Review Board
IRM	Information Resource Management
ISO	International Standards Organization; International Organization for Standardization
ISO 12083:1994	Electronic manuscript preparation and markup
ISO 23950:1998	Information retrieval (Z39.50) Application service definition and protocol specification
ISO 2709:1996	Format for information exchange
ISO 8459-2:1992	Bibliographic data element directory Part 2: Acquisitions applications
ISO 8459-3:1994	Bibliographic data element directory Part 3: Information retrieval applications
ISO 8777:1993	Commands for interactive text searching
ISP	Information Strategy Plan; Internet Service Provider
ISSA	Interservice Support Agreement; Information Systems Security Association
ISSO	Information System Security Officer
IT	Information Technology
ITAB	IT Advisory Board
ITIM	IT Investment Management
ITMRA	Information Technology Management Reform (Clinger-Cohen) Act
ITP	Information Technology Plan; Integrated Test Plan
IV&V	Independent Verification and Validation.
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J
JAD	Joint Applications Development—IE discipline to collect/record requirements
JTA	Joint Technical Architecture
JVM	Java Virtual Machine
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K
KB	Knowledgebase
KB/SQL	Knowledge-Based Standard Query Language
KBMS	Knowledgebase Management System
KDP	Key Decision Point
KM	Knowledge Management
KPA	Key Practice Area; Key Process Area
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LCC	Life Cycle Cost
LCM	Life Cycle Management
LOB	Line of Business
LOINC	Logical Observations, Identifiers, Names and Codes
LOM	Logical Object Model
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M
MDA	Model Driven Architecture
MDRIC	Metadata Registry Implementers Coalition
MILNET	Military Network
MIL-STD	Military Standard
MIME	Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions
MIP	Managed Internet Protocol
MIPR	Military Interdepartmental Purchase Request
MIS	Management Information System
MOF	Meta Object Facility - OMG's adopted technology for defining metamodels
MOTS	Modified Off-the-Shelf
MOU	Memorandum of Understanding
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NIST	National Institute of Standards and Technology.
NIPRNet	Non Secure Internet Protocol Router Network
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O
O&M	Operations and Maintenance.
O&S	Operation and Support
OA	Operational Analysis
OAG	Open Applications Group, Inc.
OASD	Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense
ODB	Object Database
ODBC	Open Database Connectivity; Open Dual Bus Configuration
ODBMS	Object Database Management System
ODC	Other Direct Charges; Other Direct Costs
ODP	Open Distributed Processing
ODS	Operational Data Store
OEM	Original Equipment Manufacturer
OGP	Office of Governmentwide Policy
OI	Operating Instructions
OID	Object Interaction Diagram
OIG	Office of the Inspector General
OLAP	Online Analytical Processing
OLE	Object Linking and Embedding
OLTP	Online Transaction Processing
OMA	OMG’s Object Management Architecture
OMB	Office of Management and Budget
OMG	Object Management Group
OO	Object Oriented
OOA	Object-oriented Analysis
OOAD	Object-oriented Analysis and Design
OOD	Object-oriented Design
OOP	Object-oriented Programming
OOPS	Object-oriented Programming System
OOSE	Object-oriented Software Engineering
OP	Obsolete Parts
OPM	Office of Personnel Management
ORB	Object Request Brokerä
ORDBMS	Object-Relational Database Management Systems
ORM	Order Message
OSD	Office of the Secretary of Defense
OSE	Open Systems Environment
OSI	Open Systems Interconnection Standard
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P
PAR	Performance & Accountability Report
PART	Program Assessment Rating Tool
PDF	Portable Data File
PfM	Portfolio Management
PIA	Privacy Impact Assessment
PIR	Post-implementation Review
PM	Performance Measure; Program Manager; Project Manager
PMA	Policy Management Authority; President’s Management Agenda
PMO	Program Management Office
PMP	Program Management Plan.
PMR	Program Management Review
PPM	Process Performance Measures
PPTP	Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
PR	Peer Review; Purchase Request
PRA	Paperwork Reduction Act
PRAG	Performance Risk Assessment Group [Defense Logistics Agency]
PRM	Performance Reference Model
PY	Prior Year
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Q
QA	Quality Assurance
QC	Quality Control
QMB	Quality Management Board
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R
RACS	Reference Architecture and Common Services
RIM	Reference Information Model
RM	Risk Management; Requirements Management
RM/CM WG	Requirements Management/Configuration Management Working Group
RM/CMB	Requirements Management/Configuration Management Board
RME	Replacement, Modernization, & Enhancement (unofficial acronym)
RMP	Risk Management Plan
RMWG	Requirements Management Working Group
ROI	Return on Investment; Return on Innovation
ROM	Read-only Memory
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S
SHADE	Shared Data Environment
SIPRNet	Secure Internet Protocol Router Network
SLC	System Life Cycle
SORN	System of Records Notice
SRM	Service Component Reference Model
SS	Steady State
SV	Schedule Variance
SW	Software
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T
TAFIM	Technical Architecture Framework for Information Management
TBQ	Taxonomy-Based Questionnaire
TEAF	Treasury Enterprise Architecture Framework.
TISAF	Treasury Information Systems Architecture Framework.
TRM	Technical Reference Model
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U
UML	Unified Modeling Language
UMLS	Unified Medical Language System
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V
VRML	Virtual Reality Modeling Language
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W
W3	World Wide Web
W3C	World Wide Web Consortium
WBS	Work Breakdown Structure
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X
XLL	Extensible Linking Language
XMI	Extensible Markup Interface; Extensible Metadata Interchange
XML	Extensible Markup Language
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