C
Acronyms and Abbreviations
ACTS
Advanced Communications Technology Satellite
ANSI
American National Standards Institute
API
Application programming interface
ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASOP
Affordable Systems Optimization Process
ATM
Asynchronous transfer mode; Automated teller machine
C4I
Command, control, communications, computing, and intelligence
CAD
Computer-aided design
CAPS
Center for the Analysis and Prediction of Storms
CFD
Computational fluid dynamics
CIC
Committee on Information and Communications
CINCPAC
Commander in Chief, Pacific Command
CORBA
Common Object Request Broker Architecture
CSTB
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board
CT
Computerized tomography
DARPA
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DOD
Department of Defense
ECG
Electrocardiogram
EDI
Electronic data interchange
ERLink
Emergency Response Link
FCC
Federal Communications Commission
FEMA
Federal Emergency Management Agency
FTP
File Transfer Protocol
GETS
Government Emergency Telecommunications Service
GII
Global information infrastructure
GIS
Geographic information system
GPS
Global positioning system
HF
High frequency
HPCCI
High Performance Computing and Communications Initiative
HPF
High Performance Fortran
HTML
HyperText Markup Language
HTTP
HyperText Transfer Protocol
IETF
Internet Engineering Task Force
IP
Internet Protocol
I-WAY
Information Wide-Area Year
JTF
Joint task force
JWID
Joint Warrior Interoperability Demonstration
LAN
Local area network
MAD
Multidisciplinary analysis and design
MBONE
Multicast Backbone
MIME
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension
MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MLP
Multilevel precedence
MPI
Message passing interface
MRI
Magnetic resonance imaging
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NCS
National Communications System
NEXRAD
Next Generation Weather Radar
NII
National information infrastructure
NI/USR
National Institute for Urban Search and Rescue
NOAA
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NSF
National Science Foundation
OLE
Object Linking and Embedding
PC
Personal computer
PDES/STEP
Product Data Exchange using the Standard for the Exchange of Product model data
PIN
Personal identification number
R&D
Research and development
RFC
Request for Comments (Internet)
SITA
Société Internationale de Télécommunications Aéronautiques
SQL
Structured Query Language
TCP
Transmission Control Protocol
TSIMMIS
The Stanford-IBM Manager of Multiple Information Sources
UAV
Unmanned aerial vehicle
URL
Uniform Resource Locator
URN
Uniform Resource Name
VHF
Very high frequency
VRML
Virtual Reality Modeling Language
VSAT
Very small aperture terminal
WAIS
Wide Area Information Service
WWW
World Wide Web