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H&SS
College of Humanities and Social Sciences

HAC
House Appropriations Committee

HAC
Hughes Aircraft Company

HASC
House Armed Services Committee

HBC
House Budget Committee

HCA
Head of the Contracting Activity

HCI
human-computer interaction

HD
high density

HDBK
handbook

HDCP
High Dependability Computing Program

HDD
hard disk drive

HDL
hardware description language

HDLC
high-level data link control

HDM
hierarchical development methodology

HDSL
high-data-rate digital subscriber line

HDTP
Hyper-Data Transfer Protocol

HDTV
High Definition Television

HEL
Army Human Engineering Lab

HEMP
High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse

HEP
heterogeneous element processor

HF
high frequency

HFE
human factors engineering

HFRG
High Frequency Radio Group

HIC
Human Interaction Capability

HIPAA
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

HIPO
hierarchy plus input process output

HLA
high-level architecture

HLL
high-level language

HMI
Human-Machine Interface

HMMWV
High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle

HMS
Human Safety Mandatory Modification

HNSC
House National Security Committee

HOL
high-order language

HOLWG
Higher Order Language Working Group

HOPL
history of programming languages

HOS
Highway Operations System

HP
Hewlett-Packard

HPC
High Performance Computing Initiative

HPCMP
High Performance Computing Modernization Program

HPNET
high performance network

HPR
High Performance Routing

HPS
High Performance System

HPSC
High Performance Supercomputer

HQ
headquarters

HQMC
Headquarters Marine Corps

HR
human resources

HSC
Human Systems Center

HSDTN
high-speed data transfer network

HSFB
high-speed fleet broadcast

HSLN
high-speed local network

HSM
Hierarchical Storage Management

HSTP
high-speed transport protocol

HSTS
high-speed transport service

HTCIA
High Tech Computer Investigators Association

HTCIA
High Technology Crime investigation Association

HTML
hypertext markup language

HTTP
hypertext transfer protocol

HUD
heads-up display

HUD
Office of Housing and Urban Development

HUS
Hardened Unique Storage

HUSK
Hardened Unique Storage Key

HVAC
heating, ventilation, and air conditioning

HW
hardware

HWCI
hardware configuration item

HWIL
hardware-in-the-loop

HYDRA
Hierarchical Yet Dynamic Radio Architecture

HYPROof
Hyper-Programming System by Object-Oriented Formula



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