AH

Attack Helicopter

AKA

Also Known As

ARS

Audit Reporting Service

ASAP

As Soon As Possible

BLOB

Binary Large Object

BOSS

Big Organization’s Suite of Services

BPD

Business Process Description

BPDD

Business Process Description Document

CASE

Computer-Aided System Engineering

CCNA

Cisco Certified Network Associate

CENTCOM

Central Command (DoD; includes Iraq and Afghanistan)

CM

Change Management

CM

Change Manager

CM

Configuration Management

CM

Configuration Manager

CMM

Capability Maturity Model

CMMI

Capability Maturity Model Integration

CONOPS

Concept of Operations

COPE

Common Operating Platform Environment

COTS

Commercial Off the Shelf

CR

Change Request

CRUD

Change, Read, Update, Delete

DBA

Database Administrator

DFD

Data Flow Diagram

DoD

Department of Defense

DOS

Denial of Service

DPI

Dots Per Inch

DR

Discrepancy Report

DSP

Defense Standardization Program

DTV

Digital Television

DVD

Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc

EIT

Electronic and Information Technology

EMP

Electromagnetic Pulse

EPF

Eclipse Process Framework

ERD

Entity Relationship Diagram

ESB

Enterprise Service Bus

FBI

Federal Bureau of Investigation

FRD

Functional Requirements Document

FYI

For Your Information

GOTS

Government Off the Shelf

GSFC

Goddard Space Flight Center

HCI

Human Computer Interface

HF

Human Factors

HFE

Human Factors Engineering

HIPAA

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

HQ

Headquarters

HR

Human Resources

HTML

HyperText Markup Language

HUD

Housing and Urban Development

ICD

Interface Control Document

IED

Improvised Explosive Device

IEEE

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

INCOSE

International Council on Systems Engineering

INVEST

Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Small, Testable

IRS

Internal Revenue System

ISO

International Organization for Standardization

IT

Information Technology

JAD

Joint Application Development

KeV

Kilo-electron Volts

KISS

Keep It Simple, Stupid

LAN

Local Area Network

LCD

Liquid Crystal Display

LED

Light Emitting Diode

LSI

Latent Semantic Indexing

MAN

Metropolitan Area Network

MeV

Mega-electron Volts

MIL-STD

Military Standard

MRAP

Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected

MS

Microsoft

MTBF

Mean Time Between Failures

MTBM

Mean Time Between Maintenance

MTTM

Mean Time to Maintain

MTTR

Mean Time to Repair

NARA

National Archives and Records Administration

NASA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NBC

Nuclear, Biological, Chemical

NIH

National Institute of Health

NLP

Natural Language Processing

O&M

Operations and Maintenance

OMG

Object Management Group (not Oh My God)

OOP

Object-Oriented Programming

OPF

Open Process Framework

OS

Operating System

OSI

Open System Interconnection

PR

Problem Report

RAD

Rapid Application Development

RAM

Random Access Memory

RAM

Reliability, Availability, Maintainability

RE

Requirements Engineering

RE

Reverse Engineering

REM

Roentgen Equivalent in Man

REST

Representational State Transfer

RFC

Requests for Change

RFP

Request for Proposals

RM

Requirements Management

RM

Requirements Manager

RMA

Records Management Application

RMA

Reliability, Maintainability, Availability

RUP

Rational Unified Process

RVTM

Requirements Verification Traceability Matrix

SA

System Administrator

SAN

Storage Area Network

SDM

System Development Methodology

SE

Systems Engineer

SE

Systems Engineering

SME

Subject-Matter Expert

SO

Security Officer

SOA

Service Oriented Architecture

SQL

Structured Query Language

SRD

Software Requirements Document

SRD

System Requirements Document

SRS

System Requirements Specifications

SSN

Social Security Number

SysML

Systems Modeling Language

TBD

To Be Determined

TBR

To Be Reviewed

TES

Theme, Epics, Stories

TPF

Transaction Processing Facility

TTY

Teletypewriter

UI

User Interface

UML®

Unified Modeling Language™

USB

Universal Serial Bus

User ID

User Identification

User ID

User Identifier

WAN

Wide Area Network

XLC

eXpedited Life Cycle

XML

Extensible Markup Language

XP

eXtreme Programming