APPENDIX B:
ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS
ACC Air Combat Command
AEF Aerospace Expeditionary Force
AFASI Air Force All Systems Inventory
AFB Air Force Base
AFCA Air Force Communications Agency
AFCERT Air Force Computer Emergency Response Team
AFCERTS Air Force Certified Software Changes
AFCIC Air Force Communications and Information Center
AFED Air Force Evaluation Database
AFMC Air Force Materiel Command
AFY2KO Air Force Y2K Office
AMC Air Materiel Command
AWACS Airborne Warning and Control System
BIOS Basic Integrated Operating System
CCRP Continuously Computed Release Point
C2IPS Command and Control Information Processing System
CDA Central Design Activity
CETL Communications Environment Test Laboratory
CINC Commander in Chief
CIO Chief Information Officer
CIP Critical infrastructure protection
CKO Chief Knowledge Officer
CMOS Cargo Movement Operation System
COMS Communications squadron
CONUS Continental United States
COOP Continuity of operations plan
COTS Commercial off-the-shelf
DISA Defense Information Systems Agency
DMS Defense Messaging System (a DOD-led initiative to establish secure e-mail throughout the department)
DTS Defense Travel System
ESC Electronic Systems Center
FAR Federal Acquisition Requirements
FIPS Federal Information Processing Standards
Fusion Center Operated by SSG, it monitors information relevant to information warfare attacks and other systems crises
GAO General Accounting Office (now the Government Accountability Office)
GATES Global Air Transportation Execution System
ICT Information and communications technology
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IMPAC International Merchant Purchase Authorization Card
IT Information technology
IWD Information Warfare Defense
JACAL An interactive, symbolic mathematics program
MAJCOMs Major commands
MSG Material Systems Group
NCC Network Control Center
NRC National Research Council
OCONUS Outside the continental United States
OPTN Operationalizing and Professionalizing the Network
ORM Operational risk management
PACAF Pacific Command
PDD Presidential Decision Directive
PMO Program Management Office
POC Point of contact
SA System administrator
SBSS Standard Base Supply System
SC community Systems and computing units
SPO System Program Office
SSG Standard Systems Group
TDY Temporary Duty
USFJ U.S. joint services in Japan
USTRANSCOM U.S. Transportation Command
