Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Initialisms

G&A
general and administrative

GAA
Government Auditing Agency

GAO
General Accounting Office

GAO
Government Accountability Office

GAT
Government Acceptance Test

GATEC
Government Acquisition Through Electronic Commerce

GB
1024 megabytes

GBPS
giga (billion) bits per second

GBS
global broadcast system

GCA
Ground Controlled Approach

GCCS
Global Command and Control System

GCHQ
Government Communications Headquarters

GCN
Government Computer News

GCP
Graduate Curriculum Project

GCSS
Global Combat Support System

GDI
Graphics Device Interface

GDSS
Global Decision Support System

GDT
Global Descriptor Table

GE
General Electric

GEE
generic enterprise ensemble

GENSER
General Service

GEO
Geosynchronous Earth Orbit

GFE
government-furnished equipment

GFI
government-furnished information

GFP
government-furnished property

GFR
General Functional Requirements

GFS
government-furnished software

GICOD
good idea cutoff date

GIDEP
Government-Industry Data Exchange Program

GIF
Graphics Interchange Format

GIGO
garbage in garbage out

GIL
Generalized Image Library

GILS
Government Information Locator System

GISA
Guidance Instruction Set Architecture

GIT
Georgia Institute of Technology

GITS
Government Information Resources Support Improvement Program

GKS
Graphical Kernel System

GKS
Graphics Kernel System

GLOBIXS
Global Information Exchange System

GMRA
Government Management Reform Act of 1994

GMT
greenwich mean time

GMT
ground mobile terminal

GMWS
Guide Missile Weapon System

GNMP
Government Network Management Profile

GNP
gross national product

GNU
GNU is not UNIX

GO
Government Order / Ordinance

GOSIP
Government Open System Interconnection Profile

GOTS
Government off-the-Shelf

GP
Generic Practice

GPEF
Generic Package of Elementary Functions

GPLR
Government Purpose License Rights

GPO
Government Printing Office

GPPF
Generic Package of Primitive Functions

GPRA
Government Performance and Results Act of 1993

GPS
Global Positioning System

GPS
OCS Global Position System Operational Control Segment

GQIM
goal-question-indicator-metric

GQL
generalized query language

GQM
Goal-Question-Metric

GRMA
generalized rate monotonic analysis

GRMS
Generalized Rate Monotonic Scheduling

GSA
General Services Administration

GSAW
Ground System Architecture Workshop

GSBCA
General Services Board of Contract Appeals

GSBCA
Government Services Board of Contract Appeals

GSFC
Goddard Space Flight Center

GSIA
German Information Security Agency [see ZIS]

GSIA
Graduate School of Industrial Administration

GSIS
Graphics Standard Interface Standard

GSO
Government Sector Operations

GSSP
Generally Accepted System Security Principles

GSU
Geographically Separated Unit

GTE
General Telephone

GTE
General Telephone and Electronics

GTN
Global Transportation work

GTR
government travel rate

GTS
Global Telecommunications Service

GUI
graphical user interface

GURPS
Generic Universal Role Playing System

GWAC
Government Wide Agency Contract

GWEN
Ground Wave Emergency Network

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