- 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.
