Abbreviations and Acronyms

This is the consolidated list of special terms and abbreviations used across the IT Planning and Management Guides

ACF	Administration for Children and Families, an HHS Agency
ADO	ActiveX Data Objects
AIS	Automated Information System
AHRQ	Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, an HHS Agency
ANSI	American National Standards Institute
AOA	Administration on Aging, an HHS Agency
APD	Advanced Planning Document
API	Application Program Interface
ASP	Application Service Provider
A-TARS	Agency Technical Architecture Reference Set
ATA	Agency Technical Architecture
ATSDR	Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, an HHS Agency
CCB	Change Control Board
CD	Compact Disk
CDC	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an HHS Agency
CD-RW	Compact Disk - ReWritable
CIO	Chief Information Officer
CICS	Customer Information Control System
CM	Configuration Management
CMP	Contractor Management Plan
CMS	Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, an HHS Agency
COBOL	Common Business Oriented Language
COM	Component Object Model
CORBA	Common Object Request Broker Architecture
COTS	commercial-off-the-shelf
CPU	Central Processing Unit
CSE	Child Support Enforcement
DASD	Direct Access Storage Device
DBMS	Database Management System
DOM	Document Object Model
DNS	Domain Name System
DSL	Digital Subscriber Line
DTD	Document Type Definition
DVD	Digital Versatile Disk
DVD+RW	DVD-Rewriteable
EAI	Enterprise Application Integration
EBT	Electronic Benefit Transfer
EJB	Enterprise JavaBean
EoS	Estimate of the Situation
FAMIS	Family Assistance Management Information System
FAR	Federal Acquisition Regulation
FDA	Food and Drug Administration, an HHS Agency
FFP	Federal Financial Participation
GQM	Goal, Question, Metric approach to measurement
HHS	Department of Health and Human Services
HRSA	Health Resources and Services Administration, an HHS Agency
HS	Human Services
HTML	HyperText Markup Language
IHS	Indian Health Service, an HHS Agency
IDE	Integrated Development Environment
IDEF0	Integrated Computer-Aided Manufacturing (ICAM) DEFinition for function modeling
IDEF1X	Integrated Computer-Aided Manufacturing (ICAM) DEFinition for data modeling
IDL	Interface Definition Language
IEEE	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IEP	IT Evolution Plan
IETF	Internet Engineering Task Force
IPv6	Internet Protocol Version 6
IS	information system
ISO/IEC	International Organization for Standardization
ISP	Internet Service Provider
IT	Information Technology
IV&V	independent verification and validation
J2EE	Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition
LAN	Local Area Network
MOU	Memorandum of Understanding
MPEG	Motion Picture Experts Group
MP3	MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3
NHSITRC	National Human Services Information Technology Resource Center
NIH	National Institutes of Health, an HHS Agency
NIST	National Institute of Standards and Technology
OLAP	On-Line Analytical Processing
OMA	Object Management Architecture
OMG	Object management Group
OS	The Secretary of Health and Human Services, an HHS Agency
OSI	Open Systems Interconnection
PAPD	Planning Advanced Planning Document
PBX	Private Branch Exchange
PC	personal computer
PDA	Personal Digital Assistant
PEP	Plan for the IT Evolution Plan
PROWRA	Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act
PSC	Program Support Center, an HHS Agency
QA	quality assurance
QFD	quality function deployment
RAID	Redundant Array of Independent Disks
RFI	Request for Information
RFP	Request for Proposal
ROI	Return on Investment
RMP	Risk Management Plan
SACWIS	State Automated Child Welfare Information System
SAE GOA	Society of Automotive Engineers Generic Open Architecture
SAMHSA	Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, an HHS Agency
SAX	Simple API for XML
SLOC	source lines of code
SOAP	Simple Object Access Protocol
SOW	Statement of Work
SQL	Structured Query Language
TAFIM	Technical Architecture Framework for Information Management
TANF	Temporary Aid to Needy Families
TRM	Technical Reference Model
UML	Unified Modeling Language
UPS	Uninterruptible Power Supply
USB	Universal Serial Bus
VBA	Visual Basic for Applications
VPN	Virtual Private Network
WAN	Wide Area Network
WBS	Work Breakdown Structure
Win32	Windows 32-bit interface
WRIT	Welfare Reform Information Technology
W3C	World Wide Web Consortium
XML	Extensible Markup Language
Y2K	Year 2000 Date Problem

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