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AAL
ATM Adaption Layer
AC
Alternating Current
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.
ACM
Advanced Cryptographic Module
ACSE
Access Control Service Element
ACUS
Area Common User System
ADP
Account Distribution Profiles
AEHF
Advanced Extremely High Frequency
AES
Advanced Encryption Standard
AIM
Advanced INFOSEC Machine
AIMS
Air Traffic Control Radar System (ATCRBS), Identification Friend or Foe (IFF), Mark XII/XIIA, Systems
AIU
Aircraft Interface Unit
ALC
Accounting Legend Code
AMF
Airborne, Maritime, Fixed
ANSI
American National Standards Institute
AOC
Air Operations Center (Air Force), a U.S. Government program
AP/LPI
Antijam/Low Probability of Intercept
ARP
Address Resolution Protocol
AS SIP
Assured Services SIP
ASIC
Application Specific Integrated Circuit
ATDNET
Advanced Technologies Demonstration Network
ATM
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
AUI
Attachment Unit Interface
AVE
Aerospace Vehicle Equipment
AVNS
Active Firefly Vector Set
AVS
Active Vector Set
AWACS
Airborne Warning and Control System
AWIS
Air Warrior Intercom System
BACN
Battlefield Airborne Communication Node
BDI
Black Digital Interface
BFVS
Benign FIREFLEY Vector Set
BIS
Battlefield Airborne Communication Node (BACN) IFDL Subsystem (BIS)
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
BNC
Bayonet Neill-Concelman
BPP
Black Pre-Processor
BPS
Bits Per Second
C&A
Certification & Authority
CA
Command Authority
CAC
Common Access Card
CAT
Computer Adaptive Test
CAW
Certification Authority Workstation
CBR
Constant Bit Rate
CBT
Computer Based Training
CBWFQ
Class-based weighted fair queueing
CCEB
Combined Communications Electronic Board
CCI
Controlled Cryptographic Item
CD
Compact Disc
CDMA
Code Division Multiple Access
CDS
Cross Domain Solutions
CE
Consumer Electronics
CEA
Cryptographic Equipment Application
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.
CI
Capability Increments
CIK
Cryptographic Ignition Key
CIK FLT
Crypto Ignition Key Fault
CISSP
Certified Information Systems Security Professionals
CISSP®
Certified Information Systems Security Professional
CIT
Combined Interrogator Transponder
CKG
Combat Key Generator
CKL
Compromised Key List
CL
Circuit Location
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.
CLP
Cell Loss Priority
CM (6000 or 5000)
Configuration Manager
CMCC
Comsec Control Center
CMI
Cryptographic Modernization Initiative
CMMI
Capability Maturity Model-Integrated
CNS
Central Services Node
COIs
Communities of Interest
COM
Computer Operations Manual
COMSEC
Communications Security
Connector
Data Communication Equipment Connector
CONOPS
Concept of Operations
Cont.
Continued
CONUS
Continental United States
COTS
Commercial Off-The-Shelf
CPSG
Cryptologic Systems Group
CRC
Cyclic Redundancy Check
CRI
Controller Remote Interface
CRL
Certificate Revocation List
CSA
Canadian Standards Association
CSC192
Cell Security Card with OC-192 line card interface
CSC48
Cell Security Card with embedded OC-48 optics
CSCLC
Cell Security Card with FR3 line card interface
CSL
Core Security Library
CSLA
Communications Security Logistics Agency
CSM
COMSEC Module
CSMA/CD
Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection
CSS
Central Security Services
CT
Cipher Text
CTC
COMSEC TRANSEC Computer
CU
Crypto Unit
CXP
Common Transponders
DAA
Designated Approving Authority
DAC
Discretionary Access Control
DAR
Data-at-Rest
DAS
Direct Attached Storage
DB
Database
DB-9
Data Bus with 9 pins
DC
Direct Current
DCID
Director of Central Intelligence Directive
DDoS
Distributed Denial of Service
DECC
Defense Enterprise Computing Center
DEG
Degrees
DF
Don't Fragment
DHCP
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DHCPV6
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DHS
Department of Homeland Security
DI
Digital Interrogator
DIA
U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency
DIN
Data Identification Number
DISA
U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency
DISA NCES
Defense Information Systems Agency Net-Centric Enterprise Services, a U.S. Government program
DIT
Data-in-Transit
DMR
Digital Modular Radio
DOC
Delivery Client Node
DoD
Department of Defense
DoS
Denial of Service
DS
Digital Signal
DSCP
Differentiated Services Code Point
DSN
Defense Switch Network
DTD
Data Transfer Device
DTE
Data Terminal Equipment
DTU
Desktop Unit
DWDM
Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing
ECP
Engineering Change Proposal
ECU
End Cryptographic Unit
EDM
Engineering Development Model
EEPROM
Electrically-Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
EFF
Enhanced FIREFLY
EIA
Electronic Industries Alliance
EK
Exclusion Key
EKMS
Electronic Key Management System
EKMS CF
Electronic Key Management System Central Facility
EKR
Electronic Key Request
EME
Embedded Media Encryptor
EMI
Electro-magnetic Interference
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.
ENET
Ethernet
EPLRS
Enhanced Position Location Reporting System
eSATA
External Serial ATA
ESD
ElectroStatic Discharge
ESP
Encapsulating Security Payload
EV-DO
Evolution-Data Optimized
F3
Form, fit, and function
FAB-T
Family of Beyond Line of Sight Terminal
FAC2T
Family of Advanced Core Cryptographic Technologies
FC
Fibre Channel
FCS
Future Combat System
FDDI
Fiber Distributed Data Interface
FF
FIREFLY
FF TEK
FIREFLY Traditional Encryption Key
FF VS
FIREFLY Vector Set
FFVVPI/VCI
Firefly Vector, Virtual Path Identifier, Virtual Channel Identifier
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
FOUO
For Official Use Only
FPGA
Field Programmable Gate Array
FPL
Fixed Packet Length
FR3
FASTLANE Release 3
FR3.11
FASTLANE Release 3.11
FR3.2
FASTLANE Release 3.2
FRP
Full Rate Production
FTR
Field Tamper Recovery
G.H.O.S.T.
General Dynamics High Assurance Open Scalable Technologies
Gb/s or Gbps
Gigabit per second
GBSI
Global Broadcast System Interface
GCIC
Global Cyberspace Integration Center
GDS
Generic Discovery Server
GE
Gigabit Ethernet
GEM
General Dynamics Encryptor Manager
GEO
Geosynchronous Earth Orbit
GFC
Generic Flow Control
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.
GMT
Greenwich Mean Time
GOE
Ground Operating Equipment
GPS
Global Positioning System
GRE
Genetic Routing Encapsalation
GSA
General Services Administration
GSM
Global System for Mobile Communications
GSN
Government Serial Number
GUI
Graphical User Interface
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