Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Initialisms

ASN (FM&C)
ASN for Financial Management & Comptroller

F&PM
Financial and Project Management

F/PMR
Financial/Program Management Review

FAA
Federal Aviation Administration

FAA
Fund Administering Activity

FAA-iCMM
Federal Aviation Administration Integrated Capability Maturity Model

FACNET
Federal Acquisition Computer Network

FADC3
Forward Area Defense Command, Control, and Communications

FAQ
frequently asked questions

FAR
Federal Acquisition Regulations

FAR
Federal Aviation Regulations

FARA
Federal Acquisition Reform Act

FARNET
Federation of American Research Networks

FASA
Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act

FASD
Factory Automation Systems Division

FASE
Forum for Academic Software Engineering

FASE
Fundamental Approaches of Software Engineering

FASP
Functional Area Strategic Plan

FAST
Flexible Ada Simulation Tool

FAT
factory acceptance test

FAT
file allocation table

FATDS
Field Artillery Tactical Data System

FATDS
Field Artillery Technical Data System

FAU
Florida Atlantic University

FAX
Facsimile

FBCB2
Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below

FBCB2
Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below

FBI
Federal Bureau of Investigation

FBS
Fleet Broadcast System

FBS
Frequency Based Scheduler

FCA
functional configuration audit

FCC
Federal Communications Commission

FCC
fire control computer, Federal Communications Commission

FCCSET
Federal Coordinating Council on Science, Engineering, and Technology

FCDSSA
Fleet Combat Direction Systems Support Agency

FCFS
First Come First Served

FCI
functional configuration identification

FCIC
Federal Computer Investigations Committee

FCR
Federal Contracts Report

FCS
Faceted Classification Schema

FCS
Future Combat Systems

FCT
Foreign Comparative Testing

FD
Failure Definition

FD
functional description

FDAS
Flight Dynamics Analysis System

FDD
Floppy Disk Drive

FDDI
fiber distributed data interface

FDIU
Fill Device Interface Unit

FDM
formal development methodology

FDM
Frequency Division Multiplex

FDMA
Frequency Division Multiple Access

FDMC
Fiscal Director of the Marine Corps

FDW
Faculty Development Workshop

FEA
Functional Economic Analysis

FEAST
Feedback, Evolution, and Software Technology

FEC
Forward Error Correction

FED-STD
Federal Standard

FedCIRC
Federal Computer Incident Response Center

FEDMAN
Federal Software Maintenance Group

FEMA
Federal Emergency Management Agency

FEP
Front End Processor

FET
Field Effect Transistor

FEWS
follow-on early warning system

FEXT
Far End Cross Talk

FFA
Function Point Analysis

FFP
Firm Fixed Price

FFPIF
Firm-Fixed Price plus Incentive Fee

FFRDC
federally funded research and development center

FFT
fast fourier transform

FGIPC
Force High Level Terminal

FHD
Function Hierarchy Diagram

FHLP
Federation of Government Information Processing Councils

FIAT
field acceptance test

FIFO
first in, first out

FIP
Federal Information Processing

FIPCS
Financial Information Processing Center

FIPS
Federal Information Processing Standards

FIRMR
Federal Information Resources Management Regulations

FIRST
Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams

FISSEA
Federal Information Systems Security Educators Association

FIT
Fault Isolation Tree

FIT
Florida Institute e of Technology

FIX
Federal Information Exchange

FLC
Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer

FLETC
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center

FLIP
Fast Local Internet Service

FLIR
forward-looking infrared radar

FLOP
Floating Point Operation

FLOPS
Fleet Broadcast

FLOPS
floating point operations per second

FLS
Fleet Logistics Services

FLTCINC
Fleet CINC

FLTSATCOM
Fleet Satellite Communications

FM
Financial Management

FM
Frequency Modulation

FM
Functional Manager

FMB
Financial Management Board

FMB
Financial Management Budget

FMECA
Failure Modes and Effects and Criticality Analysis

FMF
Fleet Marine Forces

FMO
Financial Management Officer

FMPS
FLIR (forward-looking infrared radar) Mission Payload Subsystems

FMS
Financial Management Service

FMS
flexible manufacturing systems

FMS
foreign military sales

FMS/C4I
Forces Modeling and Simulation

FMSO
Fleet Materiel Support Office

FOC
Full Operational Capability

FOCI
Foreign Owned, Controlled or Influenced

FOCP
Fiber Optic Cable Plant

FODA
feature-oriented domain analysis

FODMS
Fiber Optic Data Multiplexing System

FOI
Fault Detection Isolation

FOI
Freedom of Information

FOIA
Freedom of Information (FOI) Act

FOIU
Fiber Optic Interface Unit

FOM
federation object model

FOMS
Framework Object Management Services

FORSCOM
United States Army Forces Command

FORTRAN
formula translator

FORTS
Force Operations, Rehearsal and Test Support

FOT
Fiber Optic Topology

FOT&E
Follow-On Operational Test and Evaluation

FOT&E
Functional Operational Test & Evaluation

FOTC
Fiber Optic Tow Cable

FOTC
Force OTH-T Tract Coordinator

FOUO
for official use only

FPA
function point analysis

FP
Feature Point

FP
Function Point

FPGA
Field Programmable Gate Array

FPI
Functional Process Improvement

FPIF
Fixed-Price-Incentive-Fee

FPM
Fast Page Mode

FPP
floating point processsor

FPR
Federal Procurement Regulation

FPU
Floating Point Unit

FQR
formal qualification review

FQR
Functional Qualification Review

FQT
Formal Qualification Test

FQT
Functional Qualification Test

FRD
Function Requirements Document

FRIB
Frequency Response/Input Bias

FRICC
Federal Research Internet Coordinating Committee

FRS
Functional Requirement/s Specification

FSATS
Fire Support Automated Test System

FSATS
Fire Supported Automated Test Set

FSC
Facilities Steering Committee

FSC
Federal Supply Category

FSC
Federal Systems Company

FSCV
Future Scout Combat Vehicle

FSD
Federal Systems Division

FSD
formal system development

FSD
Full scale Development

FSD
full-scale development

FSED
full scale engineering development

FSF
Free Software Foundation

FSG
Federal Supply Group

FSK
Frequency Shift Keying

FSM
finite state machine

FSM
firmware support manual

FSN
federal stock number

FSQ
flow service quality

FSRS
Functional Security Requirements Specification

FSSE
Fire Support Software Engineering

FST
Functional System Test

FSTS
Federal Secure Telephone Service

FTA
Fault Tree Analysis

FTAM
file transfer, access, and management

FTCS
Fault-Tolerant Computing Symposium

FTE
full-time employees

FTE
full-time equivalent

FTLS
formal top-level specification

FTM
Fault Tolerant Mach

FTP
File Transfer Protocol

FTS
Federal Telecommunications System

FTS-2000
Federal Telecommunications Services - 2000

FU
Functional User

FW
fiscal week

FWSEB
Force Warfare Systems Engineering Board

FY
fiscal year

FYDP
five-year development plan

FYDP
future years defense plan

FYI
for your information

FYMTP
five-year master test plan

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