Acronym List
- A&T - Acquisition and Technology
- ACAT - Acquisition Category
- ACTD - Advanced Concepts Technology Demonstration
- ADCAP - Advanced Capability
- AFNSEP - Air Force National Security
Emergency Preparedness Office
- AMC - Army Materiel Command
- AMSMP - Army Modeling and Simulation
Management Program
- AMSWG - Acquisition Modeling and Simulation
Working Group
- AOTR - Assessment of Operational Test
Readiness
- AQP-TF - Acquisition and Technology Programs
Task Force
- AS - Assessments and Support
- ASD - Assistant Secretary of Defense
- ASUW – Anti-Surface Warfare
- ASW – Anti-Submarine Warfare
- AT&L - Acquisition, Technology and
Logistics
- ATWCS - Advanced TLAM Weapon Control
System
- BDRP - Biological Defense Research Program
- BPCh - Best Practices Clearinghouse
- C2 - Command and Control
- C4I - Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence
- CAM - Chemical Agent Monitor
- CBDCOM - Chemical Biological Defense Command
- CCS - Combat Control System
- CD - Concept Decision
- CLM - Continuous Learning Module
- CMMI - Capability Maturity Model Integration
- COTS - Commercial-off-the-shelf
- DAB - Defense Acquisition Board
- DAE - Defense Acquisition Executive
- DAES - Defense Acquisition Executive Summary
- DAG - Defense Acquisition Guidebook
- DAPS - Defense Acquisition Program Support
- DAWIA - Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement
Act
- DAU - Defense Acquisition University
- DCMA - Defense Contracts Management Agency
- DIA - Defense Intelligence Agency
- DoD - Department of Defense
- DoDRDB - Department of Defense Resources
Database
- DoE - Department of Energy
- DoMS - Director of Military Support
- DSB - Defense Science Board
- DSOC - Defense Safety Oversight Committee
- DSWA - Defense Special Weapons Agency
- DT - Developmental Test
- DTE - Developmental Test and Evaluation
- DTEPI - Defense Test and Evaluation Professional
Institute
- DTTSG - Defense Test and Training Steering
Group
- DUSD - Deputy Under Secretary of Defense
- ED - Enterprise Development
- EMD - Engineering Manufacturing and Development
- EOD - Explosive Ordnance Disposal
- EPA - Environmental Protection Agency
- EVM - Earned Value Management
- EW - Electronic Warfare
- FAR - Federal Acquisition Regulations
- FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation
- FCO - Federal Coordinating Officer
- FIPS - Federal Information Processing Standards
- FIPT - Functional Integrated Process Team
- FEMA - Federal Emergency Management Agency
- FoS - Family of Systems
- FY - Fiscal Year
- GCCS - Global Command and Control system
- GCSS - Global Combat Support System
- GIG - Global Information Grid (formerly DII)
- GOTS - Government-off-the-shelf
- GSA - General Services Administration
- HQDA - Headquarters Department of the Army
- IA - Information Assurance
- IC - Intelligence Community
- IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers, Inc.
- INCOSE - International Council on Systems
Engineering
- INFOSEC - Information Security
- IPT - Integrated Product Teams
- ITAB - Information Technology Acquisition
Board
- ITEA - International Test and Evaluation
Association
- ITW/AA - Integrated Tactical Warning and
Attack Assessment
- I-TRAP - Interagency Terrorism Response Awareness
Program
- JCIDS - Joint Capabilities Integration and
Development System
- JITC - Joint Interoperability Test Command
- JMCIS - Joint Maritime Command and Info System
- JMET - Joint Mission Environment Test
- JNMS - Joint Network Management System
- JOA - Joint Operational Architecture
- JTA - Joint Technical Architecture
- JTE - Joint Test and Evaluation
- JTF - Joint Task Force
- KPP - Key Performance Parameters
- M&S - Modeling and Simulation
- MARS - Mobile Analytical Response System
- MDAP - Major Defense Acquisition Programs
- MNS - Mission Needs Statement
- MOSA - Modular Open Systems Applications
- MSCA - Military Support to Civilian Authorities
- NBC - Nuclear Biological Chemical
- NC&B - Nuclear, Chemical & Biological
- NCO - Non Commissioned Officer
- NCS - National Communications System
- NDIA - National Defense Industrial Association
- NMRI - Naval Medical Research Institute
- OPEVAL - Operational Evaluation
- ORD - Operational Requirements Documents
- OSSE - Operational Safety, Suitability and
Effectiveness
- OT - Operational Test
- PDD - Presidential Decision Directive
- PEO - Program Executive Office
- PM - Program Manager
- PSR - Program Support Review
- PQM - Production, Quality and Manufacturing
- RAM - Reliability, Availability and Maintainability
- SA - System Assurance
- SAWG - System Assurance Working Group
- SE - Systems Engineering
- SDD - System Design and Development
- SEI - Software Engineering Institute
- SECARMY - Secretary of the Army
- SEP - Systems Engineering Plan
- SISAIG - Software Intensive Systems Acquisition
Improvement Group
- SoS - System of Systems
- SPRDE - Systems Planning, Research, Development,
and Engineering
- SSA - Software Engineering and System Assurance
- SSCI - Systems and Software Consortium inc
- SSE - Systems and Software Engineering
- SSTC - Systems and Software Technology Conference
- SW - Software
- SWWG - Software Working Group
- SwE - Software Engineering
- T&E - Test and Evaluation
- TECHEVAL - Technical Evaluation
- TEMP - Test and Evaluation Master Plan
- TRMC - Test Resource Management Center
- USACE - United States Army Corps of Engineers
- USAMRICD - United States Army Medical Research Institute for Chemical
Defense
- USAMRIID - United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious
Disease
- USD(AT&L) - Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology
and Logistics
- WMD - Weapons of Mass Destruction