Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Initialisms

N-ISDN
Narrowband ISDN

NAC
Naval Avionics Center

NACAM
National COMSEC Advisory Memorandum

NACSEM
National COMSEC Emanations Memorandum

NACSI
National COMSEC Instruction

NACSIM
National COMSEC Information Memorandum

NADC
Naval Air Development Center

NADEP
Navy Depot Cherry Point

NADF
North American Directory Forum

NAE
Naval Acquisition Executive

NAECON
National Aerospace and Electronics Conference

NAK
Negative Acknowledgment control character

NALCOMIS
Naval Aviation Logistics Management Information System

NAMLS
Naval Automated Medical Logistics System

NAP
network access point

NAP
network access provider

NAPDD
Non-Acquisition Program Definition Document

NAS
National Academy of Science

NAS
national air space

NAS
naval air station

NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NASD
National Association of Securities Dealers

NASD
Network Area Storage Device

NASDAQ
National Association of Security Dealers Automated Quotation

NASTRAN
NAS STRuctural ANalysis

NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization

NATS
National Activity to Test Software

NAU
Network Addressable Unit

NAVAIDS
Navigation Aids

NAVAIR
Naval Air Systems Command

NAVAIRSYSCOM
Naval Air Systems Command Naval Information System

NAVCIRT
Naval Computer Incident Response Team

NAVCOMPARS
NAVy COMmunications Processing And Routing System

NAVEUR
Naval Command Europe

NAVILCO
Naval International Logistics Command

NAVLEX
Naval Electronic System Command

NAVMACS
Naval Modular Automated Communications System

NAVMASSO
Naval Management Systems Support Office

NAVNET
Naval Network

NAVOCEANO
Naval Oceanographic Office

NAVSAT
navigation satellite

NAVSEA
Naval Systems Engineering Activity

NAVSSI
Navigation Sensor System Interface

NAVSUP
Naval Supply Systems Command

NAVTIP
Naval Telecommunications Infrastructure Project

NAWC
Naval Air Warfare Center

NB
Narrow Band

NBS
National Bureau of Standards

NBST
Narrow Band Secure Terminal

NC
network computer

NC-C
Network Computer-Client

NC-S
Network Computer-Server

NCA
National Command Authority

NCA
Navy Center for Cost Analysis

NCAR
National Center for Atmospheric Research

NCARAI
Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence

NCAT
National Center for Advanced Technologies

NCC
Network Control Center

NCCA
Naval Center for Cost Analysis

NCCD
Nuclear Command and Control Document

NCCOSC
Naval Command and Control Ocean Surveillance Center

NCCOSC
Naval Command, Control, and Ocean Surveillance Center

NCEE
National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying

NCMS
National Center for Manufacturing Systems

NCP
NetWare Core Protocol

NCP
Network Control Program

NCPII
Fleet Interface for Navy Communications Processing and Routing Re-Engineered Systems

NCR
National Capital Region

NCS
National Communications System

NCS
National Computer Systems

NCS
National Cryptologic School

NCS
Net Control Station

NCS
Node Control System

NCS
Non-Critical Sensitive

NCSA
National Computer Security Association

NCSC
National Computer Security Center

NCSC
National Computer Security Classification

NCSC
National Computer Security Conference

NCSC
Naval Coastal Systems Center

NCSD
National Cyber Security Division

NCTAMS
Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station

NCTC
Naval Computer and Telecommunications Command

NCTF
Naval Computer and Telecommunications Facility

NCTS
Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station

NDAC
Naval Data Automation Command

NDBS
Netscape Database Keystore

NDDS
Navigation Data Distribution System

NDI
non-developmental item

NDIA
National Defense Industrial Association

NDIS
Network Driver Interface Specification

NDS
Netscape directory server

NDS
non-developmental software

NDS
Novell Directory Services

NDSS
Network and Distributed System Security

NDU
National Defense University

NDU
Navigation Distribution Unit

NECC
National Educational Computing Conference

Necter
Network Computer Architecture

NELS
NASA Electronic Library System

NEP
Network Entry Point

NERF
Navy Emitter Reference File

NEST
Navy Exercise Support Terminal

NETS
Nationwide Emergency Telecommunications Service

NETSEC
Network Security

NEXT
near-end cross talk

NFS
network file system

NGC
Next Generation Computer

NGCR
Next Generation Computing Resources

NGS
non-governmental standards

NIAC
NASA Industrial Applications Center

NIC
Network Information Center

NIC
Network Interface Card

NID
Navy Intelligence Database

NIEWS
Navy Imagery Exploitation Workstation

NIEX
No-Notice Interoperability Exercise

NIF
Navy Industrial Fund

NIH
National Institutes of Health

NIH
not invented here

NII
National Information Infrastructure

NIIT
National Information Infrastructure Testbed

NIMA
National Imagery & Mapping Agency

NIP
National Infrastructure Protection Center

NIPRNET
Unclassified but sensitive (N-level) Internet Protocol Router Network

NIPS
Naval Intelligence Processing System

NIPS
NTCS-A Information Processing Services

NIS
Network Information Service

NISAC
National Industrial Security Advisory Committee

NISMC
Naval Information Systems Management Center

NISSC
National Information Systems Security Conference

NIST
National Institute of Standards and Technology

NISTMEL
National Institute of Standards and Technology Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory

NIU
Network Interface Unit

NIUF
North American ISDN Users Forum

NJE
Network Job Entry

NLM
NetWare Loadable Modules

NLP
natural language processing

NLQ
Near Letter Quality

NLZ
No-Lone Zone

NMCI
Navy Marine Corps Intranet

NMCS
National Military Command System

NMI
Non-Maskable Interrupt

NMIC
Naval Medical Information Center

NMP
Network Management Protocol

NMPPS
Nuclear Mission Planning and Production System

NMR
nuclear magnetic resonance

NMRO
Nuclear Monitoring Research Office

NMS
National Military Strategy

NMS
Network Management System

NNI
Network to Network Interface

NNIEG
Trusted Network Interpretation Environment Guideline

NNTP
Network News Transport Protocol

NOA
Navy Open Architecture

NOAA
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NOAA
National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration

NOO
Naval Oceanic Office

NORAD
North American Aerospace Defense Command

NORAD
North American Air Defense Command

NORC
Naval Ordnance Research Computer

NORMA
No Remote Memory Access

NOS
network operating system

NOSC
Naval Ocean Systems Center

NPFC
Naval Publications and Forms Center

NPOC
Naval, Point of Contact

NPS
Naval Postgraduate School

NPV
net present value

NRAC
Naval Research Advisory Council

NRaD
NCCOSC Research and Development Center

NRaD
Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation Division

NRC
National Research Council

NRC
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

NREN
National Research and Education Network

NRG
Numerics Rapporteur Group (WG9)

NRL
Naval Research Laboratory

NRO
National Reconnaissance Office

NRZ
non-return to zero

NS/EP
National Security and Emergency Preparedness

NSA
National Security Agency

NSAD
Network Security Architecture and Design

NSC
National Software Council

NSD
National Security Directive

NSDD
National Security Decision Directive

NSDIR
National Software Data & Information Repository

NSIA
National Security Industrial Association

NSIE
Network Security Information Exchange

NSIPS
Navy Standard Integration Personnel System

NSN
national stock number

NSO
Network Security Officer

NSP
network service provider

NSP
not separately priced

NSPE
National Society of Professional Engineers

NSRD
National Software Reuse Directory

NSS
National Security System(s)

NSS
Network Security Services

NSS
Networked Systems Survivability

NSSA
National Security Space Architect

NSSC
Naval Sea Systems Command

NSSE
national special security event

NSSN
New Attack Submarine

NSTAC
National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee

NSTAC
National Security Telecommunications Advisory Council

NSTISSC
National Security Telecommunications and Information Systems Security Committee

NSTISSD
National Security Telecommunications and Information Systems Security Directive

NSTISSI
National Security Telecommunications and Information Systems Security Instruction

NSTISSP
National Security Telecommunications and Information Systems Security Security Policy

NSWC
Naval Surface Warfare Center

NTB
national test bed

NTCB
Network Trusted Computing Base

NTCS-A
Naval Tactical Command Center-Afloat

NTCSS
Naval Tactical Command Support System

NTDS
Naval Tactical Data System

NTF
national test facility

NTI
National Technology Initiative

NTIA
National Telecommunications and Information Administration

NTIS
National Technical Information Service

NTISA
Navy Tactical Interoperability Support Activity

NTOPS
New Technologies for Office and Portable Systems

NTP
Navy Training Plan

NTP
Network Time Protocol

NTSC
National Television Standards Committee

NTSC
National Television System Committee

NTSC
Naval Training Systems Center

NTTC
National Technology Transfer Center

NTU
National Technological University

NUICCS
NORAD U.S. Space Command Integrated Command and Control Center

NUMA
Non-Uniform Memory Access

NUMWG
Numerics Working Group

NUSC
Naval Underwater Systems Center

NUWC
Naval Undersea Warfare Center

NUWES
Naval Undersea Warfare Engineering Station

NWC
Naval Weapons Center

NWP
Naval Warfare Publication

NWSS
Navy WWMCCS Software Standardization

NWTDB
Naval Warfare Tactical Database

NYIT
New York Institute of Technology

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