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A

A-6 - Air Force Director of Communications

A - alarm

A-Law - A-law is the companding standard used in the analog-to-digital conversion process (and vice-versa) in PCM systems, European telephone networks.

A&MD - air and missile defense

A/B-Bit - Signaling - A procedure used in most T1 transmission facilities in which one bit stolen from every sixth and twelfth frame of the 24 time slots is used to carry dial and control information. The control bit in the first six frames is called the A-bit, and the control bit in the second six frames is the B-bit.

A/D - analog-to-digital

A/G - air to ground

A/L - administrative/logistics

A2C2S - Army Aviator (Airborne) command and control system

aa - device address

AA - auto answer

AAA - assign alternate area

AAA - assign alternate routing

AAB - all-to-all broadcast

AABNCP - advance airborne command post

AACA - Army airlift clearance authority

AACG - arrival airfield control group

AACOMS - Army area communications system

AACS - asynchronous address communications systems

AADC - Area Air Defense Commander

AADCOM - Army Air Defense Command

AADEOS - advanced air defense electro optical sensor (system)

AADPS - algorithmic architecture data processing subsystem

AADSACS - Army air defense Surveillance and control system

AAE - Army acquisition executive

AAE - automatic adaptive equalization

AAFIP - Automated air facilities information file

AAGS - Army air-ground system

AAIC - active addressing integrated circuits

AAIRS - airport/air carrier information reporting system

AAL - assign affiliation lists

AAL - account access layer

AAL - assign affiliation lists

AAL - (ATM adaptation layer) - The standards layer that allows multiple applications to have data converted to and from ATM cells. A protocol that translates higher layer services into the size and format of ATM cells.

AAL-5 - (ATM adaptation layer type 5) - AAL functions in support of variable bit rate, delay-tolerant connection-oriented data traffic requiring minimal sequencing or error detection support.

AALCD - active addressing liquid crystal display

AALPS - automated airload planning system

AAMA - area airspace management authority

AAMDC - Army Air Missile Defense Command

AAMMS - Army automated multi-media system

AAMPS - automated aircraft mission planning system

AAMT - Army ACTS mobile terminal

AAP - automatic asset placement

AAPPES - Army automation planning, programming, and evaluation system

AAR - after action review

AAR - air-to-air receive

AAR - automatic adaptive (alternative) routing

AARS - advanced airborne (aerial) radar system

AARS - advanced airborne radiac system

AAS - advanced automation system (FAA)

AAS - all-to-all scatter

AASC - Army area signal center

AASP - ASCII asynchronous support package

AASR - advanced airborne surveillance radar

AAT - automatic analog test

AAT - average access time

AATR - air-to-air transmit/receive

AAU - analog applique unit

AAVS - aerospace audiovisual system

AAWC - anti-air warfare commander (Navy)

AAWCS - anti-air warfare combat system

AAWWS - airborne adverse weather weapons system

AB - Ada based

AB - address bus

AB - answer back

ABC - activity based costing

ABC - analog backup computer

ABC - automatic bar code

ABC - (Absolute Bus Cycle) - Unit of interface relative to the start of the TBus frame. Contrast with relative bus cycle (RBC).

ABCC - airborne battlefield command and control center

ABCC - airborne communications center

ABCS - Army battle command system

ABCS - Army Battlefield Control System

ABD - assign bypass and duplication

ABD - Ada based document

ABD - assign bypass and duplication transfer

ABDDD - Ada based development design document

ABDT - answer back-day and time

ABFC - advanced base functional component system

ABI - application binary interface

ABI - Ada binding interface

ABIC - Army battlefield interface concept

ABIS - advanced battlespace information system

ABIT - airborne information transmission system (USAF)

ABIT - automatic built-in test

ABL - assign blacklist deletion

ABM - asynchronous balanced mode

ABM - air battle manager

ABMOC - air battle management operation center

ABN - airborne

ABNCC - airborne command and control

ABNCP - airborne command post

ABNOC - ABN operations center

ABPDD - Ada based product design document

ABR - assign bypass reception

ABR - airborne relay

ABR - available bit rate

ABR - assign bypass reception

ABS - advanced battle simulations

ABSM - answer back service message

ABT - assign bulk transfer

ac - alternating current

AC - area code

AC - armament computer

AC2MP - Army command & control master plan

ACA - acquisition capability assessment

ACA - air control authority

ACA - Australian Communications Authority

ACA - automatic circuit assurance

ACA - automatic conference arranger

ACACS - Army command and area communications system

ACALS - Army computer aided logistics system

ACARS - aircraft communications addressing and reporting system (FAA)

ACAS - Army commissary automated system

ACC - area control center

ACC - accumulator

ACC - air combat command (Air Force)

ACC - air control center

ACC - BLACKER access controller

ACC - Army Communications Command

ACC - automated carrier control

ACCAT - advanced command and control architectural testbed

ACCF - Area communications control facility

ACCIS - Army command and control information system

ACCN - Army command and control network

ACCOR - Army COMSEC central office of record

ACCS - air command and control system (NATO)

ACCS - Army command and control system

ACCSA - Allied Communications and Computer Security Agency (NATO)

ACCSDP - Army C&C development plan

ACD - automatic (automated) call distribution (distributor)

ACDI - asynchronous communications device interface

ACDS - advanced combat direction System

ACE - air combat element

ACE - adaptive communications element (USAF)

ACE - airborne (adaptive) command element (USAF)

ACE - air combat element (NATO)

ACE - automated commercial environment (Customs)

ACE - aviation combat element (USMC)

ACEC - Ada compiler evaluation capability

ACERT - Army computer emergency response team

ACES - automated communications engineering software

ACES - access certificates for electronic services

ACES - air combat engagement simulator

ACES - automated command and control evaluation system

ACES - automated communications engineering software

ACES - automated computer examination system (FBI)

ACF - access control facility (field)

ACF - access coordination fee

ACF - advanced communications function

ACI - adjacent channel interference

ACI - assign call inhibit

ACIC - Aeronautical Chart and Information Center

ACID - adaptive COMSEC interface device

ACID - all-service combat identification demonstration

ACIM - airborne communications interface module

ACIND - air customer information needs database

ACINT - acoustic intelligence

ACIPS - acoustic intelligence processing system

ACIS - American committee for interoperable systems

ACIS - Army command information system

ACIS - Automated combat information system

ACK - acknowledgement flag, TCP header

ACK - (Acknowledgment) - Control code or designation for a positive acknowledgment; sent from a receiver to the transmitter to indicate that a transmission or sequence of transmissions has been received correctly.

ACL - access control list

ACLDB - Army central logistics data Bank

ACLI - Ada command language interpretation

ACM - Association for Computing Machinery

ACME - Adaptive Collection management environment

ACMES - automated communications security management and engineering system

ACMES - Automated COMSEC Management and Engineering System

ACMS - application control management system

ACO - airspace control order

ACO - Army cryptologic operations

ACOC - area communications operations center

ACOE - Army common operating environment

ACOMMS - air communications squadron

ACP - Allied Communications Publication

ACP - ancillary control program

ACP - air campaign planning tool

ACP - automated command post

ACP - assign common-pool compressed dial list

ACPI - advanced configuration and power interface

ACPU - auxiliary computer power unit

ACQW - asymmetric coupled quantum well

ACR - access control register

ACR - alternate carrier routing (NCS)

ACR - assign channel reassignment

ACR - armored cavalry regiment

ACRC - alternate control reporting center

ACS - AUTODIN Switching Center

ACS - access control system

ACS - adaptive control system

ACS - aerial common sensor

ACS - afloat correlation system

ACS - automated commercial system (Customs)

ACSA - Allied Communications Security Agency

ACSIM - assistant chief of staff for information management

ACSO - assistant corps Signal officer

ACSU - advanced channel service unit

ACT - annual change traffic

ACTA - AmericaÕs Carriers Telecommunication Association

ACTD - advanced concept technology demonstration

ACTFAST - advanced concepts and technology rrequency agile solid state tuner

Action - Menu - The Operator Interface Action Menu contains the actions that can be performed. Each action is typically associated with a list of objects (Object Menu) on which the action is performed.

ACTO - Army Communicative Technology Office

ACTS - advanced communications technology satellite

ACTS - advanced communications technologies and services (Europe) (was RACE)

ACU - antenna control unit

ACU - auto call (calling) unit

ACUS - Area Common User System

ACVC - Ada compiler validation capability (capacity)

ACWAR - agile continuous wave acquisition radar

ADA - air defense artillery

ADA - airborne data automation

ADACS - air defense artillery control system

ADAMS - allied deployment and movement system

ADANS - airlift deployment analysis system

ADAPT - architectures design, analysis and planning tool

ADAR - air defense radar

ADARS - advanced defense avionics response strategy (USAF)

ADARS - adaptive antenna receive system

ADAS - airborne data automation system

ADATS - Army development and acquisition of threat simulators

ADB - assign data base transfer

ADC - adaptive data compression

ADC - analog to digital converter

ADC - asynchronous data communications

ADC - automatic data controller

ADCC - air defense control center

ADCCP - advanced data communications control procedures

ADCEO - Assistant Division Communications-Electronics Office

ADCP - air defense communications platform (USMC)

ADCS - advanced defense communications satellite

ADCS - air defense control system

ADCS - automated document conversion system

ADDISS - advanced deployable digital imagery support system

ADDM - asynchronous digital data modem

Address - Digital information (a combination of bits) that identifies the location of a terminal, peripheral device, a node, or any other unit or component in a network. Used mainly for routing purposes; in telephony the number entered by the caller that identifies the party called.

Address - Packet - The address packet is a call setup-signaling packet that carries the call setup information. It is transmitted in accordance with the standards in CCITT Signaling System Number 7. The Call Controller task at each node sets up call resources based on information in the address packet.

Address - Signals - Signals used to convey call destination information, such as telephone station code, central office code, and area code. Some forms of address signals are call pulses (for example, dial or multifrequency pulses).

ADDS - air deployable delivery system (Navy)

ADDS - Army data distribution (dictionary) system

ADE - Army data encyclopedia

ADE - advanced development environment

ADE - assign digit editing lists

ADE - Assign Digit Editing List Command

ADEIE - associated digital error improvement equipment

ADEPT - acquisition of desktop extended processing technology (USPS)

ADEWS - air defense electronic warfare system

ADF - application dependent format

ADF - automatic direction finder

ADF - automatic document feed

ADGE - air defense ground environment

ADH - automatic data handling

ADI - Air Defense Interface

ADIMSS - Automated DSN Integrated Management Support System

ADIMSS - Automated DSN Integrated Management Support System

ADIMSS - Advanced DSN Integrated Management Support System

ADIS - automated distributed intelligence system

ADIZ - air defense identification sone

adj - adjacent

ADL - Ada design language

ADL - address data latch

ADL - advanced distributed learning

ADL - automatic data link

ADLAT - adaptive lattice filter

ADM - advanced development model

ADM - automatic display mode

ADM - Admin

ADMAPS - automated document management and publishing system

ADMD - administrative management domain [X.400]

admin - administrative

ADMP - Army digitization master plan

ADMS - automated digital multiplexing system

ADN - area distribution node

ADN - automatic digital network

ADNET - anti-drug network

ADNS - Automatic Data Networking System

ADNX - Adaptive Digital Network Exchange

ADO - Army digitization office

ADOCU - air defense orderwire control unit

ADP - automated data processing

ADP - atmospheric downstream plasma etching

ADPCM - (Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation) - ADPCM takes advantage of the high statistical correlation between consecutive voice samples to create a variable (or adaptive) quantizing scale.

ADPE - automated data processing equipment

ADPR - automated data processing resources

ADPSSO - automatic data processing special security officer

ADR - automatic data relay

ADRG - advanced research center

ADRG - automatic digital raster graphics

ADRG - ARC-Digitized Raster Graphics (ARC is a term used to designate linear features on a digital map.)

ADRS - address

ADS - Ada development system

ADS - advanced digital switch

ADS - advanced display system (Navy)

ADS - advanced distributed simulations

ADS - air data system

ADS - application development system

ADS-B - automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast

ADSI - air defense system integrator

ADSIA - Allied Data Systems Interoperability Agency

ADSIM - air defense simulation

ADSL - asymmetric DSL

ADSL - asynchronous (asymmetrical) digital subscriber line (loop)

ADSO - assistant division signal office/officer

ADSS - Army decision support system

ADST - advanced distributed simulation technology (Army)

ADT - assign digital transmission group

ADT - automatic digital tester

ADT - abstract data type

ADTOC - air defense tactical operations center

ADTP - advanced technology demonstration plan

ADU - automatic dialing unit

ADU - assign PS dialup

ADUA - administrative directory user agent

ADX - automatic data exchange

ADX - assign digit translation

AE - attenuation equalizer

AEA - airborne electronic attack (Navy)

AEA - American Electronics Association

AEELS - automatic ELINT emitter location system

AEF - Air Expeditionary Force

AEGADS - Army Electronic Generation and Distribution System

AEHF - advanced extremely high frequency (satellite)

AEI - Assign Equipment In/Out-of-Service Command

AEJ - Apache escort jammer

AEP - application environment profile

AES - advanced encryption standard

AESA - active electronically scanned array

AESOP - airborne electro-optical special operations payload

AEW - airborne early warning

AEW - Air Expeditionary Wing

AEWIC - Army Electronic Warfare and Intelligence Committee

AF - Air Force

AF - audio frequency

AFA - audio frequency amplifier

AFAITC - Armed Forces Air Intelligence Training Center

AFAMS - Air Force Agency for Modeling and Simulation

AFATDS - Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System

AFB - Air Force Base

AFC - automatic frequency control

AFC - area frequency coordinator

AFC - automatic font change

AFC - automatic frequency control

AFC2S - Air Force command and control systems

AFCA - Air Force Communications Agency (Formerly AFCC)

AFCERT - Air Force computer emergency response team

AFCH - Air Force Component Headquarters

AFCSC - Air Force Cryptologic Support Center

AFD - assign fixed-directory routing

AFDIGS - Air Force digital graphics system

AFDIS - air force dial in system

AFECO - Air Force Electronic Combat Office

AFEKMS - Air Force electronic key management system

AFEWES - Air Force electronic warfare environment simulator

AFFIRM - Association for Federal Information Resources Management

AFFOR - Air Force forces

AFIAA - Air Force Intelligence Analysis Agency

AFID - anti-fratricide identification device

AFII - Association for Font Information Interchange

AFIN - Air Force information network

AFIN - Air Force intelligence

AFINTNET - Air Force intelligence network

AFIPS - Air Force information publishing service

AFIS - automated fingerprinting identification system (FBI)

AFIWC - Air Force Information Warfare Center

AFLANT - Air Forces Atlantic

AFMIC - Armed Forces medical intelligence center

AFMSS - Air Force mission support system

AFNOC - Air Force network operations center

AFOC - Air Force Operations Center

AFORMS - Air Force Operations Resource Management System

AFPCA - Air Force Pentagon Communications Agency

AFR - assign and display frequency for network reporting

AFRTS - armed forces radio and television service

AFSAT - Air Force satellite

AFSATCOM - Air Force satellite communications

AFSC - Air Force specialty code

AFSOB - Air Force special operations base

AFSOC - Air Force Special Operations Command

AFSOF - Air Force Special Operations Forces

AFSPC - Air Force Space Command

AFSS - automated flight service station

AFT - automatic fund transfer

AFTN - aeronautical fixed telecommunications network

AFTS - audio frequency tone shift

AFWIS - Air Force WWMCCS information system

AG - applications generator

AGC - assign gateway and commercial office routing

AGC - (Automatic Gain Control) - Parameter implemented for the LDCELP module that provides the ability to automatically adjust the power level of a received signal. The power level of a received signal is automatically adjusted from a marginal or unacceptable value to one that is more suitable for voice or FAX applications.

AGCCS - Army global command and control system

Aggregate - Group - The approach used on the PRC, PRC INTL, and TMCP voice modules to group contiguous DS0 ports for clear-channel signaling (that is, the bandwidths for the ports are grouped together).

AGMS - automated gateway management system

AGMS - automated gateway management system

AGMS - automated gateway management system

AGP - advanced graphics port

AGS - airborne ground surveillance (NATO)

AHCFMS - Army health care financial management system

AHFEWS - Army high frequency electronic warfare system

AHIMA - American Health Information Management Association

AHP - analytical hierarchy process

AHPCRC - Army high performance computer research center

AI - analog input

AI - artificial intelligence

AIA - Air Intelligence Agency

AIA - Army information architecture

AIAC - ACCS implementation advisory committee (NATO)

AIC - Atlantic Intelligence Command

AIC - Advanced integrated circuit

AIC - air intercept control

AIC - Army intelligence center

AIC - Army interoperability center

AIC - audio intercommunications center

AICS - advanced interior communications system

AIDC - automated intrusion detection capability

AIDTS - Army inflight data transmission system

AIE - Ada integrated environment

AIF - audio interchange format

AIG - address indicator groups

AIG - Address Indicating Group

AII - Army information infrastructure

AIIM - Association for information and image management

AIIP - Association of Independent Information Producers

AIL - assign interswitch link initialization

AIM - advanced infosec module

AIMA - Army information & mission area

AIMC - Army Information Management Committee

AIMP - Army intelligence and electronic warfare master plan

AIMS - advanced information management system

AIMS - automated intrusion monitoring system

AIMTB - artificial intelligence module test bed

AIN - Army Information Network

AIN - advanced intelligent network

AIN - Army interoperability network

AINC - Army Interoperability Network Center

AIOD - automatic identified outward dialing

AIPC - automated information processing center

AIPS - Army information processing standards

Air - Plenums - Air plenums are used to take air in and to exhaust it.

AIRCOMTERM - air communications terminal

AIRES - advanced imagery requirements exploitation system

AIRK - area interswitch rekeying key

AIRMS - advanced infrared measuring system

AIRTERM - airborne terminal

AIRV - area interswitch rekey variable