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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2006. Basic Research in Information Science and Technology for Air Force Needs. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11529.
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Acronyms


ACC

Air Combat Command

AFOSR

Air Force Office of Scientific Research

AFRL

Air Force Research Laboratory

AFRL/IF

AFRL Information Directorate

AFRL/NM

AFOSR Mathematics and Space Sciences Directorate

AJ

antijamming


BAA

broad agency announcement


C4ISR

command, control, computing, communications, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance


DARPA

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

DEPSCoR

DOD Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research

DMT

distributed mission training

DOD

Department of Defense

DoS

denial of service

DREE

distributed research and experimentation environment


EAI

enterprise application integration

EII

enterprise information integration

ETL

extract, transform, and load


GIG

Global Information Grid

GPS

Global Positioning System

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2006. Basic Research in Information Science and Technology for Air Force Needs. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11529.
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HBCU/MI

Historically Black Colleges and Universities or Minority Institutions

HCI

human-computer interface

HPCMO

High Performance Computing Modernization Office

HSI

human-system interactions


IO

information operations

IS&T

information science and technology

ISR

intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance

IT

information technology


JBI

Joint Battlespace Infosphere


LPD

low probability of detection

LPI

low probability of intercept


MAC

Media Access Control

MAV

micro air vehicle

MIMO

multiple input, multiple output

MoBIES

Model-Based Integration of Embedded Software

MPEG-7

Moving Picture Coding Experts Group standard No. 7

MURI

multidisciplinary university research initiative


NRC

National Research Council


PERT

Program Evaluation and Review Technique

PRET

Partnership for Research Excellence and Transition


R&D

research and development

RPC

remote procedure call


S&T

science and technology

SOA

service-oriented architecture

SOAP

Simple Object Access Protocol

STTR

Small Business Technology Transfer


TCP

Transport Control Protocol


UAV

unmanned air vehicle

URI

university research initiative

UWB

ultrawideband


XML

extensible markup language

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2006. Basic Research in Information Science and Technology for Air Force Needs. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11529.
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The U.S. Air Force is developing new force capabilities appropriate to an emerging array of threats. It is clear that advances in information science and technology (IS&T) are essential for most of these new capabilities. As a consequence, the Air Force is finding it necessary to refocus its IS&T basic research program to provide stronger support for reaching these goals. To assist this effort, the AFOSR asked the NRC for a study to create a vision and plan for the IS&T-related programs within the Office’s Mathematics and Space Science Directorate. This report provides an assessment of basic research needs for Air Force systems and communications, software, information management and integration, and human interactions with IS&T systems. The report also offers a set of priorities for basic IS&T research, and an analysis of funding mechanisms its support.

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