Appendix E
Acronyms and Abbreviations
AASHTO—
American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
ACI—
American Concrete Institute
ACM—
Association for Computing Machinery
ACR—
absolute cryogenic radiometer
ACSL—
Advanced Chemical Sciences Laboratory
ADL—
architecture description language
AEC—
architecture-engineering-construction
AES—
Auger electron spectroscopy; Advanced Encryption Standard
AFM—
atomic force microscopy
AFM/FFT—
Advanced Fire Measurements and Fire Fighting Technologies
ALOFT—
a large outdoor fire plume trajectory
AML—
Advanced Measurement Laboratory
AMO—
atomic, molecular, and optical
ANSI—
American National Standards Institute
API—
application programming interfaces
APS—
American Physical Society; advanced proton source; astrophysical and planetary sciences
ARTI—
Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Technology Institute
ASHRAE—
American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-conditioning Engineers
ASTM—
American Society for Testing and Materials
ATF—
(Bureau of) Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
ATM—
asynchronous transfer mode
ATP—
Advanced Technology Program
BACnet—
Building Automation and Control Network
BEC—
Bose-Einstein condensate
BEES—
Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability
BFRL—
Building and Fire Research Laboratory
BIPM—
Bureau International des Poids et Mésures
BMCD—
Biological Macromolecule Crystallization Database
CAD—
computer-aided design
CAM—
computer-aided manufacturing
CBS—
Cybernetic Building Systems
CCD—
charge-coupled device
CD—
critical dimension
CHRNS—
Center for High Resolution Neutron Scattering
CIKS—
computer-integrated knowledge systems
CIP—
critical infrastructure protection
CIRMS—
Council on Ionizing Radiation Measurements and Standards
CIS(2)—
CIMSteel Standard (American Institute for Steel Construction)
CISPR—
International Special Committee on Radio Interference
CMM—
coordinate measuring machine
CMOS—
complementary metal oxide semiconductor
CONSiAT—
Construction Integration and Automation Technologies
CRADA—
Cooperative Research and Development Agreement
CRDS—
cavity ring-down spectrometry
CRT—
cathode ray tube
CSTL—
Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory
CTCMS—
Center for Theoretical and Computational Materials Science
CU—
University of Colorado
CVD—
chemical vapor deposition
DARPA—
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DASE—
digital TV application software environment
DOE—
Department of Energy
DLMF—
Digital Library of Mathematical Functions
DMD—
differential mode delay
DNA—
deoxyribonucleic acid
DRS—
diffuse reflectance spectrometer
DUV—
deep ultraviolet
DVD—
digital versatile disc
EBIT—
electron beam ion trap
EBSD—
electron backscatter diffraction
EDIF—
electronic design interchange format
EEEL—
Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory
EFWE—
Earthquake, Fire, and Wind Engineering
EMC—
electromagnetic compatibility; Enhanced Machine Controller
EMI—
electromagnetic interference
ENDF—
Evaluated Nuclear Data File
EPA—
Environmental Protection Agency
EPR—
electron paramagnetic resonance
EUV—
extreme ultraviolet
FARCAL—
Facility for Advanced Radiometric Calibrations
FASCAL—
Facility for Automatic Spectroradiometric Calibrations
FBG—
fiber Bragg grating
FBI—
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FCC—
Federal Communications Commission
FDD—
fault detection and diagnostics
FDS—
Fire Dynamics Simulator
FE/DE—
fire emulator/detector evaluator
FEMA—
Federal Emergency Management Agency
FIATECH—
Fully Integrated and Automated Technologies
FRA—
Federal Railroad Administration
FRP—
fiber-reinforced polymer
FSM—
Fire Safe Materials
FTIR—
Fourier transform infrared
FTMW—
Fourier transform microwave
FTS—
Fourier transform spectrometer
GaAs—
gallium arsenide
GAMS—
Guide to Available Mathematical Software
GC—
gas chromatography
GC/MS—
gas chromatography/mass spectrometry
GenCAM—
Generic Computer-Aided Manufacturing
GMR—
giant magnetoresistance
GPS—
Global Positioning System
HACR—
high-accuracy cryogenic radiometer
HCN—
hydrogen cyanide
HFBR—
high-flux beam reactor
HFBS—
high-flux backscattering spectrometer
HFIR—
high-flux isotope reactor
HHI—
Healthy Homes Initiative
HP-ICP-OES—
high-performance inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometry
HST—
Hubble Space Telescope
HUD—
Department of Housing and Urban Development
HVAC—
heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning
HVAC/R—
heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, and refrigeration
IAEA—
International Atomic Energy Agency
IAI—
International Alliance for Interoperability
IC—
integrated circuit
ICP—
inductively coupled plasma
IEC—
International Electrotechnical Commission
IEEE—
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IETF—
Internet Engineering Task Force
IFCs—
industry foundation classes
IFS—
Industrial Fire Simulation System
IGBT—
insulated gate bipolar transistor
IMPI—
interoperable message passing interface
IMS—
instructional management systems
IP—
Internetwork Protocol
IPC—
Institute of Interconnecting and Packaging Electronic Circuits
IPsec—
Internetwork Protocol Security
IR—
infrared; information retrieval
ISSC—
Information System to Support Calibrations
ISO—
International Organization for Standardization
IT—
information technology
ITL—
Information Technology Laboratory
ITRS—
International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors
ITSPT—
Information Technology Services Planning Team
IUPAC—
International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry
JamPack—
Java matrix package
JEDEC—
Joint Electron Device Engineering Council
JVEDI—
Java virtual environment device interface
LANL—
Los Alamos National Laboratory
LANs—
local area networks
LBIR—
low background IR
LC—
liquid chromatography
LEDs—
light-emitting diodes
LISA—
laser interferometer space antenna
LMDS—
Local Multipoint Distribution Service
LTE—
Lagrangian thermal element
MALDI—
matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization
MANETs—
mobile ad hoc networks
MARITECH—
Marine Technology
MBC—
medium background chamber
MBE—
molecular beam epitaxy
MEL—
Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory
MEMS—
microelectromechanical systems
MERLiN—
modeling evaluation and research of lightwave networks
MOIST—
moisture flow analysis software program
MMIC—
monolithic microwave integrated circuit
MMS—
Minerals Management Service
MRA—
mutual recognition agreement
MRAM—
magnetic random access memory
MS—
mass spectrometry
MSB—
Metrology for Sustainable Buildings
MSEL—
Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory
MSL—
Measurement and Standards Laboratories
MST—
microstructure technology
NAMT—
National Advanced Manufacturing Testbed
NCNR—
NIST Center for Neutron Research
NFG—
nonfederal government (agencies)
NIF—
National Ignition Facility (DOE)
NIH—
National Institutes of Health
NIST—
National Institute of Standards and Technology
NISTAR—
NIST advanced radiometer
NMI—
national measurement institute
NMR—
nuclear magnetic resonance
NOAA—
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NORAMET—
North American Metrology Organization
NRC—
National Research Council
NSE—
neutron spin echo
NSF—
National Science Foundation
NSOM—
near-field scanning optical microscopy
NTRM—
NIST Traceable Reference Material
N-WEST—
National Wireless Electronic Systems Testbed
OA—
other agency
OAE—
Office of Applied Economics
OASIS—
Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
OATS—
open-area test site
OIDA—
Optoelectronics Industry Development Association
OLES—
Office of Law Enforcement Standards
OOF—
object-oriented finite-element (analysis system)
OOMMF—
object-oriented micromagnetic framework
OptSim—
optical communication systems simulator
OSEP—
Optical Science and Engineering Program
PATH—
Partnership for Advancing Technologies in Housing
PDB—
Protein Data Bank
PDM—
product data management
PHAML—
Parallel Hierarchical Adaptive Multilevel project
PHPCT—
Partnership for High-Performance Concrete Technologies
PKI—
public key infrastructure
PL—
Physics Laboratory
PLTMG—
piecewise linear triangle multigrid
PMD—
polarization mode dispersion
PSSH—
Performance Standards Systems for Housing
PVD—
physical vapor deposition
QPD—
Quantum Physics Division
RBAC—
role-based access control
RCS—
radar cross section; real-time control systems
REFLEAK—
refrigerant mixture leakage behavior
REFPROP—
refrigerant properties database
RF—
radio frequency
RIF—
reduction in force
RNA—
ribonucleic acid
RTP—
rapid thermal processing
SAM—
self-assembling monolayer
SANS—
small-angle neutron scattering
SCM—
scanning capacitance microscopy
SCS—
Standards and Codes Services
SEM—
scanning electron microscope
SEMATECH—
Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology Consortium
SEMPA—
scanning electron microscopy for polarization analysis
SET—
single electron tunneling
SFG—
sum-frequency generation
SHMOKE—
second harmonic magneto-optic Kerr effect
SI—
International System of Units
SIA—
Semiconductor Industry Association
SIM—
Sistemo Interamericano Metrologia
SIMS—
secondary ion mass spectrometry
SIRCUS—
spectral irradiance and radiance calibration with uniform sources
SLPM—
Service Life Prediction of Materials
SNS—
spallation neutron source
sparseBLAS—
basic linear algebra subprograms for sparse matrices
SPINS—
spin-polarized inelastic neutron scattering
SRC—
Semiconductor Research Corporation
SRD—
Standard Reference Database
SRM—
Standard Reference Material
STARR—
spectral trifunction automated reference reflectometer
STEP—
standard(s) for the exchange of product model data
STM—
scanning tunneling microscope
STR—
short tandem repeat
STRS—
Scientific and Technical Research and Services
SUPERTRAP—
NIST4 database on thermophysical properties of hydrocarbon mixtures
SURF—
Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility
TIDES—
translingual information detection, extraction, and summarization
TOF—
time of flight
TREC—
Text Retrieval Conference
TXR—
thermal-infrared transfer radiometer
UCN—
ultracold neutron
UHV—
ultrahigh vacuum
ULSI—
ultralarge-scale integration
USCG—
U.S. Coast Guard
USFA—
U.S. Fire Administration (FEMA)
USNRC—
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
UTC—
coordinated universal time
UV—
ultraviolet
UV/VIS/NIR—
ultraviolet/visible/near infrared
VA—
(Department of) Veterans Affairs
VCBT—
virtual cybernetic building testbed
VHDL—
very high speed integrated circuit hardware description language
VRML—
virtual reality modeling language
VUV—
vacuum ultraviolet
WDM—
wavelength division multiplexing
WD XRF—
wavelength dispersive x-ray fluorescence
XCALIBIR—
X-ray Optics Calibration Interferometer
XML—
extensible markup language
3G—
third generation