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D&M - Development and Maintenance

D/C - Down Converter

D/L - Downlink

D3 - 50GB Data tape cartridge from StorageTek

DA - Document Administrator

DAAC - Distributed Active Archive Center

DACA - Days After Contract Award

DAE - Data Acquisition Element

DAF - Data Acquisition Facility

DAG - Database Administrator Guide

DAM - Data Acquisition Manager

DAP - Data Acquisition Plan or Data Acquisition Planner

DART - Data Access Restriction Tool

DAS - Data and Applications Support

DAT - Data Access Tool

DB - Database or Data Block

dB - Decibel

dB/K - Decibel per Degree Kelvin

DBA - Database Administrator

DBCI - Database Configuration Item

DBDD - Database Design Description or Database Description Document

dB-Hz - Decibel-Hertz

dBi - Decibel above isotropic

DBI - Database Interface

DBMS - Database Management System

dBW - Decibel Relative to 1 Watt

DC - Direct Current

DC&P - Data Capture and Processing Facility

DCAA - Defense Contract Audit Agency

DCCB - DHF Configuration Control Board or Development Configuration Control Board

DCN - Document Control Number or Document Change Notice

DCO - DMS Capture Order

DCPF - Data Capture & Processing Facility

DCR - Document Change Request

DCRS - Data Collection and Routing Subsystem

DCRSf - Data Collection and Routing Subsystem file router

DCRSi - Data Collection and Routing Subsystem interval router or Digital Cassette Recorder System Incremental

DCS - Data Capture System or Data Characterization Subsystem

DCT - Digital Cassette Tape

DDD - Displacement Damage Dose

DDI - DCS Data Ingest

DDL - Database Definition Language

DDRC - DPAS Design Reference Case

DDS - DCS Database Server

DDT - DPAS Test Team

DE - Definitive Ephemeris

DEF - Definitive Ephemeris Product

Delta-I - Delta-inclination

DEM - Digital Elevation Model

DEPEPH - Definitive Ephemeris Product

DES - Station Description Message or DAAC Emergency System

DET - Escape Detection

DEU - Digital Electronic Unit

DEV - Development

DFCB - Data Format Control Book

DFD - Data Flow Diagram

DFP - DMS Format and Package

DG - Digital Globe

DGC - DMS Generate Custom GCPs

DHCP - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DHF - Data Handling Facility

DHN - Data Handling Node

DIAT - Daily Image Annotation Tape

DID - Data Item Description or DMS Ingest L0R Data

DIR - Direction

DIRT - Data Interception by Remote Transmission

DIS - Data Information System, Data Instrumentation System

DiTL - Day in The Life

DLT - Digital Linear Tape

DM - Data Management or Document Management or Data Manager

DMA - Direct Memory Access

DMF - Data Migration Facility

DML - Data Manipulation Language

DMP - Document Management Plan

DMR - Detailed Mission Requirements

DMS - Data Management Subsystem or Degrees, Minutes, Seconds

DMSP - Defense Meteorological Satellite Program

DMU - Data Migration Utility

DMZ - Demilitarized Zone

DN - Descending Node or Digital Number

DNS - Domain Name Server

DOC - Department of Commerce

DoD - Department of Defense

DOI - Department of Interior

DOORS - Dynamic Object-Oriented Requirements System

DOP - Dilution of Precision

DOQ - Digital Orthophoto Quadrangle

DORRAN - Distributed Ordering, Research, Reporting, and Accounting Network

DoS - Denial of Service

DOS - Department of State

DOY - Day-of-Year

DP - Data Processing

DPA - Destructive Physical Analysis

DPAS - Data Processing and Archive System

DPASRD - DPAS Requirements Document

DPR - DMS Process ROLO Report

DPS - Data Processing Subsystem

DQA - Data Quality Analyst

DQV - Data Quality Validation

DR - Delivery Record or Discrepancy Report or Disaster Recovery

DRAC - Dell Remote Access Controller

DRB - Discrepancy Review Board

DRC - Data Requirements List

DRE - DMS Retrieve Elevation

DRFP - Draft Request for Proposal

DRM - DMS Resource Manager

DRP - Disaster Recovery Plan

DRTS - Data Reporting and Tracking Subsystem

DSI - DMS Subsetter Interface

DSL - Days-Since-Launch

DSN - Deep Space Network

DSS - Data Staging System or DPAS Subsetter

DST - Data Support Team

DSW - DMS Setup Work Order

DTED - Digital Terrain Elevation Data

DTG - Day Time Group

DTO - Data Transfer Object

DTR - Document Transfer Request

DTS - Development and Training Simulations

DUI - Data Manager User Interface

DUNS - Data Universal Numbering System

DV - Data Validation

DV&E - Data Validation & Exchange

DVD - Digital Versatile Disc

DVD-R - Digital Versatile Disc – Read Only

DXL - DMS L0 and L1 Products