JTA APPENDIX A - ACRONYMS


DATE REVISED: 22 AUGUST 1996


APPENDIX A - ACRONYMS


AAL           ATM Adaptation Layer                                         



ABOR          Abort                                                        



ACP           Allied Communication Publication                             



AES           Application Environment Specification                        



AH            Authentication Header                                        



ALE           Automated Link Establishment                                 



ALSP          Aggregate Level Simulation Protocol                          



ANSI          American National Standards Institute                        



API           Application Programming Interface                            



ARIDPCM       Adaptive Recursive Interpolated Differential Pulse Code      

              Modulation                                                   



ARP           Address Resolution Protocol                                  



ASD           Assistant Secretary of Defense                               



ATA           Army Technical Architecture                                  



ATIS          Alliance for Telecommunication Industry Solutions            



ATM           Asynchronous Transfer Mode                                   



AUTODIN       Automatic Digital Network                                    







BER           Bit Error Rate                                               



BGP           Border Gateway Protocol                                      



BOOTP         Bootstrap Protocol                                           



bps           Bits Per Second                                              



BRI           Basic Rate Interface                                         



BUFR          Binary Universal Format for Representation                   







C/S/A         CINCs/Services/Agencies                                      



C2            Command and Control                                          



C2CDM         Command and Control Core Data Model                          



C3I           Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence           



C4I           Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and             

              Intelligence                                                 



C4ISR         Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence,   

              Surveillance, and Reconnaissance                             



CADRG         Compressed Arc Digitized Raster Graphics                     



CAE           Common Application Environment                               



CALS          Continuous Acquisition and Life Cycle Support                



CASE          Computer Automated Software Engineering                      



CBS           Commission for Basic Systems                                 



CC            Common Criteria for Information Technology Security          

              Evaluation                                                   



CCB           Change Control Board                                         



CCITT         International Telegraph & Telephone Consultative Committee   

              (now ITU)                                                    



CDE           Common Desktop Environment                                   



CDENext       Next Version of CDE                                          



CDMA          Code Division Multiple Access                                



CFS           Center for Standards                                         



CG            Commanding General                                           



CGI           Computer Graphics Interface                                  



CGM           Computer Graphics Metafile                                   



CIB           Controlled Image Base                                        



CIDE          Communication Information Data Exchange                      



CINC          Commander In Chief                                           



CIO           Central Imagery Office                                       



CIPSO         Common Internet Protocol Security Options                    



CJCSI         Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruction            



CJCSM         Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Memo                   



CM            Configuration Management                                     



CMMS          Conceptual Models of the Mission Space                       



CNR           Combat Net Radio                                             



COE           Common Operating Environment                                 



CONUS         Continental United States                                    



CORBA         Common Object Request Broker Architecture                    



COSE          Common Open Software Environment                             



COTS          Commercial Off-the-Shelf                                     



CRM           Computer Resources Management                                



CSMA/CD       Carrier Sense Multiple Access / Collision Detection          



CTCPEC        Canadian Trusted Computer Product Evaluation Criteria        







DAA           Designated Approving Authority                               



DAMA          Demand Assigned Multiple Access                              



DBDB          Digital Bathymetric Database                                 



DBMS          Database Management System                                   



DCA           Defense Communications Agency (now DISA)                     



DCAC          Defense Communications Agency Circular (now DISA)            



DCE           Distributed Computing Environment                            



DDDS          Defense Data Dictionary System                               



DDM           DoD Data Model                                               



DDRS          Defense Data Repository System                               



DEF           Data Exchange Format                                         



DGSA          DoD Goal Security Architecture                               



DHCP          Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol                          



DIA           Defense Intelligence Agency                                  



DIGEST        Digital Geographic Information Exchange Standard             



DII           Defense Information Infrastructure                           



DIS           Distributed Interactive Simulation                           



DIS           Draft International Standard                                 



DISA          Defense Information Systems Agency                           



DISN          Defense Information Systems Network                          



DLWG          Data Link Working Group                                      



DMA           Defense Mapping Agency                                       



DMAL          Defense Mapping Agency List                                  



DMS           Defense Message System                                       



DMTD          Digital Message Transfer Device                              



DNC           Digital Nautical Chart                                       



DNS           Domain Name System                                           



DoD           Department of Defense                                        



DoDD          DoD Directive                                                



DoDISS        DoD Index of Specifications and Standards                    



DoDSSP        DoD Single Stock Point                                       



DPPDB         Digital Point Positioning Data Base                          



DSIC          Defense Standards Improvement Council                        



DSN           Defense Switched Network                                     



DSP           Defense Standardization Program                              



DTED          Digital Terrain Elevation Data                               



DTOP          Digital Topographic Data                                     







EEI           External Environment Interface                               



EHF           Extremely High Frequency                                     



EIA           Electronics Industries Association                           



E-MAIL        Electronic Mail                                              



ESP           Encapsulating Security Payload                               







FAQ           Frequently Asked Questions                                   



FDDI          Fiber Distributed Data Interface                             



FDMA          Frequency Division Multiple Access                           



FED-STD       Federal Telecommunication Standard                           



FIPS          Federal Information Processing Standards                     



FPLMTS        Future Public Land Mobile Telecommunications Systems         



FTP           File Transfer Protocol                                       







GCCS          Global Command and Control System                            



GCSS          Global Combat Support System                                 



GIF           Graphics Interchange Format                                  



GIS           Geographic Information System                                



GKS           Graphical Kernel System                                      



GOTS          Government Off-the-Shelf                                     



GPS           Global Positioning System                                    



GRIB          Gridded Binary                                               



GSS           Generic Security Service                                     



GUI           Graphical User Interface                                     







HCI           Human-Computer Interface                                     



HF            High Frequency                                               



HITL          Human-in-the-Loop                                            



HLA           High Level Architecture                                      



HTML          Hypertext Markup Language                                    



HTTP          Hypertext Transfer Protocol                                  







I&RTS         Integrated and Runtime Specification                         



IAB           Internet Architecture Board                                  



ICCCM         Inter-Client Communications Convention Manual                



ICMP          Internet Control Message Protocol                            



IDEF          Integrated (Computer-Aided Manufacturing) Definition         



IDEF1X        Integrated Definition for Information Modeling               



IDEF0         Integrated Definition for Function Modeling                  



IDUP          Independent Data Unit Protection                             



IEC           International Electrotechnical Commission                    



IEEE          Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers             



IER           Information Exchange Requirements                            



IESG          Internet Engineering Steering Group                          



IETF          Internet Engineering Task Force                              



IF            Intermediate Frequency                                       



IGMP          Internet Group Management Protocol                           



IMETS         Integrated Meteorological System                             



IP            Internet Protocol                                            



IPCP          Internet Protocol Control Protocol                           



IPv4          IP Next Generation/Version 4                                 



IPv6          IP Next Generation/Version 6                                 



IS            Information System                                           



ISDN          Integrated Services Digital Network                          



ISO           International Organization for Standardization               



ISP           International Standardized Profile                           



ISP           ISDN Security Program                                        



ISS           Intelligence Systems Secretariat                             



ITSEC         European Information Technology Security Evaluation          

              Criteria                                                     



ITSG          Information Technology Standards Guidance                    



ITU           International Telecommunications Union (formerly called      

              CCITT)                                                       



ITU-T         International Telecommunications Union - Telecommunications  

              Standardization Sector                                       







JCSA          Joint C4ISR System Architecture                              



JFIF          JPEG File Interchange Format                                 



JIEO          Joint Interoperability & Engineering Organization            



JPEG          Joint Photographic Expert Group                              



JTA           Joint Technical Architecture                                 



JTA WG        Joint Technical Architecture Working Group                   



JTDLMP        Joint Tactical Data Link Management Plan                     



JTIDS         Joint Tactical Information Distribution System               







kbps          Kilobits Per Second                                          



kHz           Kilohertz                                                    



KMP           Key Management Protocol                                      







LAN           Local Area Network                                           



LCP           Link Control Protocol                                        



LDR           Low Data Rate                                                



LOS           Line-of-Sight                                                



LWD           Littoral Warfare Data                                        







M&S           Modeling and Simulation                                      



MAGTF         Marine Air Ground Task Force                                 



MAN           Metropolitan-Area Network                                    



MAU           Medium-Access Unit                                           



Mbits/s       Megabits per second                                          



MC&G          Mapping, Charting and Geodesy                                



MCCDC         Marine Corps Combat Development Command                      



MDR           Medium Data Rate                                             



MHP           Mobile Host Protocol                                         



Mhz           Megahertz                                                    



MIB           Management Information Base                                  



MIDB          Management Information Database                              



MIDS          Multi-functional Information Distribution System             



MIL-HDBK      Military Handbook                                            



MILSATCOM     Military Satellite Communications                            



MIL-STD       Military Standard                                            



MISSI         Multilevel Information Systems Security Initiative           



MOSPF         Multicast Open Shortest Path First                           



MPEG          Motion Pictures Expert Group                                 



MSMP          Modeling and Simulation Master Plan                          



MSP           Message Security Protocol                                    







NATO          North Atlantic Treaty Organization                           



NCSC          National Computer Security Center (see NSA)                  



NIST          National Institute of Standards and Technology               



NITFS         National Imagery Transmission Format Standard                



NSA           National Security Agency                                     



NTIS          National Technical Information Service                       



NTP           Network Time Protocol                                        







ODBC          Open Data Base Connectivity                                  



ODMG          Object Data Management Group                                 



OLE           Object Linking Embedding                                     



OMA           Object Management Architecture                               



OMG           Object Management Group                                      



OODBMS        Object-Oriented Database Management System                   



OOM           Object-Oriented Methods                                      



OOT           Object Oriented Technology                                   



OSD           Office of the Secretary of Defense                           



OSF           Open Software Foundation                                     



OSI           Open Systems Interconnection                                 



OSPF          Open Shortest Path First                                     







PCAT          PC Access Tool                                               



PCMCIA        Personal Computer Memory Card International Association      



PCS           Personal Communications Services                             



PDU           Protocol Data Units                                          



PHIGS         Programmers Hierarchical Interactive Graphics Systems        



PM            Program Manager                                              



PN-NI         Private Network-Network Interface                            



POC           Point of Contact                                             



POSIX         Portable Operating System for Information Exchange           



PPP           Point-to-Point Protocol                                      



PPS           Precise Position Service                                     



PRI           Primary Rate Interface                                       



PSK           Phase Shift Keying                                           



PSM           Persistent Stored Modules                                    



PST           Prestructured Technology                                     



PSTN          Public Switched Telephone Networks                           







RDBMS         Relational Database Management System                        



RF            Radio Frequency                                              



RFC           Request for Comments                                         



RFP           Requests for Proposals                                       



RPC           Remote Procedure Call                                        



RPF           Raster Product Format                                        



RTI           Run Time Infrastructure                                      







SAMP          Security Association Management Protocol                     



SATCOM        Satellite Communications                                     



SCC           Standards Coordinating Committee                             



SDN           Secure Data Network                                          



SDNS          Secure Data Network System                                   



SEDRIS        Synthetic Environment and Data Representation Interchange    

              Specification                                                



SGML          Standard Generalized Markup Language                         



SHF           Super High Frequency                                         



SIDR          Secure Intelligence Data Repository                          



SILS          Standard for Interoperable LAN Security                      



SNMP          Simple Network Management Protocol                           



SNMPv1        Structure of Management Information                          



SONET         Synchronous Optical Network                                  



SOW           Statements of Work                                           



SSL           Secure Socket Layer                                          



STANAG        Standardization Agreement                                    



STD           Standard                                                     



STOU          Store Unique                                                 



STS           Synchronous Transport Signal                                 



SUS           Single UNIX Specification                                    







TACO2         Tactical Communications Protocol 2                           



TADIL         Tactical Digital Information Link                            



TAFIM         Technical Architecture Framework for Information Management  



TAWDS         Tactical Automated Weather Distribution System               



TCP           Transmission Control Protocol                                



TCSEC         Trusted Computer Security Evaluation Criteria                



TDL           Tactical Data Link                                           



TDMA          Time Division Multiple Access                                



TELNET        Telecommunications Network                                   



TFTP          Trivial File Transfer Protocol                               



TIA           Telecommunications Industry Association                      



TIDP          Technical Interface Design Plan                              



TIS           Technical Interface Specification                            



TOS           Type-of-Service                                              



TP0           Transport Protocol Class 0                                   



TRC           Technical Reference Code                                     



TRM           Technical Reference Model                                    



TSIG          Trusted Systems Interoperability Group                       



TSIX(RE)      Trusted Security Information Exchange for Restricted         

              Environments                                                 







UCS           Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set                 



UDP           User Datagram Protocol                                       



UHF           Ultra High Frequency                                         



UI            User Interface                                               



UNI           User-Network Interface                                       



URL           Uniform Resource Locator                                     



USD(A&T)      Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology    



USIS          United States Imagery System                                 



USMC          U.S. Marine Corps                                            



USMTF         United States Message Text Format                            



UVMap         Urban Vector Map                                             







VHF           Very High Frequency                                          



VITD          Vector Product Interim Terrain Data                          



VMap          Vector Map                                                   



VMap AD       VMap Aeronautical Data                                       



VMF           Variable Message Format                                      



VPF           Vector Product Format                                        



VTC           Video Teleconferencing                                       







WGS           World Geodetic System                                        



WMO           World Meteorological Organization                            



WNDP          Worldwide Numbering and Dialing Plan                         



WVS+          World Vector Shoreline Plus                                  



WWW           World Wide Web                                               






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