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Suggested Citation:"Appendix E: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2000. An Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Measurement and Standards Laboratories: Fiscal Year 2000. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9979.
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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

Suggested Citation:"Appendix E: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2000. An Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Measurement and Standards Laboratories: Fiscal Year 2000. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9979.
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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

Suggested Citation:"Appendix E: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2000. An Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Measurement and Standards Laboratories: Fiscal Year 2000. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9979.
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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

Suggested Citation:"Appendix E: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2000. An Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Measurement and Standards Laboratories: Fiscal Year 2000. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9979.
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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

Suggested Citation:"Appendix E: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2000. An Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Measurement and Standards Laboratories: Fiscal Year 2000. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9979.
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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

Suggested Citation:"Appendix E: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2000. An Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Measurement and Standards Laboratories: Fiscal Year 2000. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9979.
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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

Suggested Citation:"Appendix E: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2000. An Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Measurement and Standards Laboratories: Fiscal Year 2000. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9979.
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