DATE REVISED: 22 AUGUST 1996
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