Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Initialisms

B
billion

B-1B
B-1B Bomber Aircraft

B-2
B-2 Bomber Aircraft

B-ISDN
Broadband ISDN

BAA
Broad Agency Announcement

BAA
broad area announcement or broad agency announcement

BABX
Private Automatic Branch Exchange

BAC
Budgeted Cost at Completion

BAFO
Best And Final offer

BALUN
Balanced/Unbalanced

BAN
Battlespace Area Network

BAR
Broad Area Review

BASC
Bus Architectures Standards Committee

BASIC
Beginners' All-pupose Symbolic Instructions Code

BAT
Battlemap Analysis Tool

BAU
Business As Usual

BB
Brass Board

BBE
Background Block Error

BBER
Background Block Error Ratio

BBN
Bolt, Beranek, and Newman

BBS
Bulletin Board System

BCA
Benefit/Cost Analysis

BCA
Board of Contract Appeals

BCAC
Boeing Commercial Airplane Company

BCC
Base Communication Center

BCC
Blind Carbon Copy

BCC
Block Check Count

BCD
Binary Coded Decimal

BCE
baseline computing environment

BCE
Baseline Cost Estimate

BCIXS
Battlecube Information Exchange System

BCNF
Boyce-Codd Normal Form

BCO
Base Central Office

BCP
Bridge Control Protocol

BCR
Benefits Cost Ratio

BCS
British Computer Society

BCS-F
Battle Control System Fixed

BCWP
budgeted cost of work performed

BCWS
budgeted cost of work scheduled

Bde
Brigade

BDHI
Bearing, Distance Heading Indicator

BDS
Battlefield Distributed Simulation

BEA
Budget Estimate Agreement

BECOM
Behavioral Electronic Component Model

Bellcore
Bell Communications Research

BER
basic encoding rules

BER
basic encoding rules of ASN.1

BER
bit error rate

BER
Budget Execution Review

BERT
Bit Error Rate Test

BES
Budget Estimate Submission

BES
Budget Execution System

BF
Battle Force

BFC2
Battle Force Command and Control

BG
Battle Group

BGP
Border Gateway Protocol

BH
Busy Hour

BIN
BINary

BIND
Berkeley Internet Name Domain

BIOS
Basic Input Output System

BISrCaCuO
Bismuth Strontium Calcium Copper Oxide

BISYNC
Binary Synchronous Communications

BIT
binary digit

BIT
Built-In Test

BITE
Built-In Test Equipment

BITS
Base Information Transfer System

BIU
Baseband Interface Unit

BIU
Basic Information Unit

BLADES
Base-Level AUTODIN DDN Exchange System

BLII
Base Level Information Infrastructure

BLSM
Base-Level Systems Modernization

BLSS
Base Level Self-Sufficiency

BLU
Basic Link Unit

BM
battle management

BMA
Boeing Military Airplanes

BMAC
Boeing Military Airplane Company

BMC3
battle management command, control and communications

BMD
Ballistic Missile Defense

BMDO
Ballistic Missile Defense Organization

BMH
Base Message Host

BMO
Battle Management Organization

BMS
Broadcast Message Server

BMWS
battle management workstation

Bn
Battalion

BNCC
Base Network Control Center

BNF
Backus Normal form

BNF
Backus-Naur form

BOA
Basic Ordering Agreement

BOC
Bell Operating Company

Bof
birds of a feather

BOG
breakout group

BOM
Beginning of Message

BOS
Base Operating Support

BOSN
Battle Oceanographic Surveillance Network

BOT
Basic Operator Trainer

BOV
Board of Visitors

BP
Block Parity

BPA
Blanket Purchasing Agreement

BPEL
Business Process Execution Language

BPG
Baseline Process Guide

BPI
bits per inch

BPM
Business Process Management

BPNNG
Back Propagation Neural Network Generator

BPR
Business Process Reengineering

BPS
bits per second

Bps
bytes per second

BPSK
Binary Phase-Shift Keying

BRAC
Base Realignment and Closure

BRI
Basic Rate Interface (ISDN)

BRICKBAT
Top Priority Program

BRL
Ballistic Research Laboratories

BRM
Business Process Redesign Methodology

BSAM
Basic Software Acquisition Management course

BSC
binary symmetric channel

BSCS
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

BSCW
Basic Support for Collaborative Work

BSD
Berkeley Standard Distribution

BSI
British Standards Institute

BSL
backend specification language

BSO
Budget Submitting Office

BSP
byte stream protocol

BSS
Budget and Business Services

BSWE
Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering

BTG
Broadband Transmit Group

BTI
Balanced Technology Initiative

BTL
Bell Telephone Laboratories

BTU
British Thermal Unit

BTW
by the way

BY
budget year

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