4K A horizontal screen resolution of around 4000 pixels
ACTS The set of acquisition principles introduced in this document, Acquisition Competency Target for Software
AEGIS The Aegis Combat System is an American integrated naval weapons system, integrated by Lockheed Martin
AI Artificial Intelligence
AO Authorizing Official
API Application Programming Interface
AR Augmented Reality
ARM Formerly an acronym for Advanced RISC Machines a processor architecture
ASICS Application-specific integrated circuit
ASML The Dutch company Advanced Semiconductor Materials International
ATO Authority to Operate
AWK A domain-specific language designed for text processing and typically used as a data extraction and reporting tool, available on Linux
AWS Amazon Web Services
C2I Command, control and intelligence
C3PO A robot from the Star Wars franchise
CAGR Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR)
CATMS Correspondence and Task Management System; Software tool for documentation coordination, https://www.esd.whs.mil/CMD/CATMS/
CCA Collaborative combat aircraft - USAF uncrewed vehicle concept
CD Continuous Delivery (as in CI/CD pipeline) or Compact Disc (as in CD-ROM)
CFR Code of Fereal Regulations, available at https://www.ecfr.gov/
CI Continuous Integration (as in CI/CD pipeline)
CIO Chief Information Officer
CISA Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency
CNAP Cloud Native Access Point
CNCF Cloud Native Computing Foundation, https://www.cncf.io/
COBOL Common Business Oriented Language- A Programming Language
COCO Contractor Owned and Contractor Operated
CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture, https://www.corba.org/
CPU Central Processing Unit
CSP Cloud Service Provider
CUDA Compute Unified Device Architecture: A parallel computing platform from Nvidia
CUI Controlled Unclassified Information
CVE Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures, a database of publicly disclosed information security issues - https://cve.mitre.org
DAF The United States Department of the Air Force
DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DD818 Form 818, "DoD Issuances Coordination Response", https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/forms/dd/dd0818.docx
DDIL Denied, degraded, intermittent, or limited communications
DFARS Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement
DIB Defense Industrial Base
DMI Digital Modernization Initiative
DNS Domain Name Service
DOD Department of Defense
DODI Department of Defense Instruction
DOE Department of Energy
DSB Defense Science Board
EA Enterprise Architecture
ERP Enterprise Resource Planning
EXCOM Executive Committee
FAQ Frequently Asked Questions
FAR Federal Acquisition Regulations
FAUST Future Autonomous Underwater Submarine Tracker
FFRDC Federally-Funded Research and Development Cor- poration
FPGA Field Programmable Gate Array
FY18, 21, 23 Fiscal Year 2018, 2021, 2023
GAO Government Accountability Office
GOCO Government Owned, Contractor Operated
GOFO General Officer/Flag Officer
GPR General Purpose Rights
GPU Graphics Processor Unit
GS15 Grade of Employment, https://www.federalpay.org/ gs/2022/GS-15
GSMA Global System for Mobile Communications, originally Groupe Spécial Mobile Association
HIL Hardware-in-the-loop simulation
HIPAA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
HRMS Human Resources Management System
HQE Highly Qualified Expert
IBM The International Business Machines Corporation
IDE Integrated development environment
IRAD Independent Research and Development
ISR Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance
JEDI Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) Cloud solicitation
JSON JavaScript Object Notation, json.org JWCC Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability KEV Key exploited vulnerability
LCS Littoral Combat System
LMS Learning management system
LVC Live, virtual, and constructive simulation environment MFA, Multi-factor authentication
MIL-STD Military Standard
ML Machine Learning
MOCAS Mechanization of Contract Administration Services MQ-9 An uncrewed aircraft known as the Reaper
MTTR Mean time to recovery
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NDAA National Defense Authorization Act
NIPR Non-classified Internet Protocol (IP) Router Network (NIPRNet)
NIWC Naval Information Warfare Command OCONUS Outside the Continental United States OMB Office of Management and Budget OODA Observe–orient–decide–act
OPIR Overhead Persistent Infrared satellite OPM Office of Personnel Management OSD Office of the Secretary of Defense OTA Other Transactions Agreement
PDF Portable Document Format
PDP Policy Decision Point
PEO Program Executive Officer
PEP Policy Enforcement Point
PHP PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, a scripting language PII Personally identifiable information
PLM Product Lifecycle Management
PM Program Manager
POND Period of Non-Disruption
PPA Program, Project, and Activity
PPBE Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution - budgeting process
R2D2 A robot from the Star Wars franchise
REST Representational state transfer - an architectural style
RF Radiofrequency
RFP Request for Proposals
ROM Rough order of Magnitude or Read-Only Memory (as in CD-ROM)
SAF Secretary of the Air Force SATCOM Satellite Communications
SBOM Software Bill of Materials
SDLC Software Development Life Cycle SISO Senior information security officer SLA Service-level agreement
SLI Service level indicator, that measures progress against an SLO
SLO Service level objective, a metric within an SLA SM-6 Standard Missile 6
SOA A Service-oriented architecture
SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol
SOC System on a chip
SRE System Reliability Engineers
SWAP Software Acquisition and Practices -a study by the De- fense Innovation Board. Also Size, Weight, and Power
TB Terabyte, a unite of data size
TTP Tactics, techniques, and procedures
UAV Unmanned aerial vehicle
UI User Interface
UML Unified Modeling Language
URL Uniform Resource Locator - a web address URN Uniform Resource Name
US United States of America
UX User experience
VPN Virtual private network
VR Virtual Reality
WHS Washington Headquarters Services
WWI World War I
XKCD A comic, https://xkcd.com/
ZT Zero Trust