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Accreditation
The formal declaration by a Designated Approving Authority (DAA) that a system is approved to operate in a particular security mode using a prescribed set of safeguards.
AES
Advanced Encryption Standard
AIM
Advanced INFOSEC Module
AOC
Air Operations Center (Air Force), a U.S. Government program
BM System (Battle Management System)
This program coordinates surveillance, detection, tracking, classification, engagement, and kill assessment functions and optimizes land-based, sea-based, and airborne sensors and commits the best land-, sea-, and air-based weapon systems.
BMC2
Battle Management Command and Control (Air Force), a U.S. Government program
CAC
Common Access Card
Certification
The comprehensive evaluation of the technical and non-technical security features of a system and other safeguards, made in support of the accreditation process, to establish the extent to which a particular design and implementation meets a set of specified security requirements.
CISSP
Certified Information Systems Security Professionals
Classifications
The United States Government uses four primary classifications to secure important information. These classifications are ranging from most secure to least: Top Secret, Secret, Confidential and Unclassified.
COMSEC
Communications security - Measures and controls taken to deny unauthorized persons information derived from telecommunications and ensure the authenticity of such telecommunications. Communications security includes cryptosecurity, transmission security, emission security, traffic-flow security. and physical security of COMSEC equipment.
CSS
Central Security Services
CT
Cipher Text
DAA
Designated Approving Authority
DHCP
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DISA NCES
Defense Information Systems Agency Net-Centric Enterprise Services, a U.S. Government program
DoD
Department of Defense
EKMS
Electronic Key Management Systems
Encryptor (Voice)
A device that works by first digitizing the conversation at the phone and then applying a cryptographic technique to the bit-stream. To decrypt, the correct encryption method and key must be used.
EPLRS
Enhanced Position Location Reporting System
FCS
Combat Systems (Army), a U.S. Government program
FI
Foreign Interoperability
FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard)
"Under the Information Technology Management Reform Act (Public Law 104-106), the Secretary of Commerce approves standards and guidelines that are developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for Federal computer systems. These standards and guidelines are issued by NIST as Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) for use government-wide. NIST develops FIPS when there are compelling Federal government requirements such as for security and interoperability and there are no acceptable industry standards or solutions." (Source: http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/geninfo.htm#nist)
FNBDT
Future Narrow Band Digital Terminal
GIG
Global Information Grid
GIG-ES
(Global Information Grid Enterprise Services): GIG Enterprise Services (GES) describes the aggregate of all services offered on the GIG [i.e. all community of interest (COI) services offered on the GIG, plus all the standard Core Enterprise Services (CES) that are available, to all users (human and machine)].
Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM)
A leading worldwide telecommunications technology that operates in more than 200 countries - with more than one billion subscribers around the globe. As the predominant cellular network for most of the world it's also the fastest growing cellular technology in the US. There are two major GSM service providers in the US, Cingular/AT&T Wireless and T-Mobile.

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Security, like correctness, is not an add-on feature. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum

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