Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Initialisms

ASN (RDA)
ASN for Research, Development and Acquisition

R&AT
research and advanced technology

R&D
research and development

R-TOC
reduction in total ownership cost

R/SOCC
Region/Sector Operation Control Center

R3B
Resources and Requirements Review Board

RA
resident affiliate

RA
risk analysis

RAAD
Rapid Architecture Application Development

RAASP
Reusable Ada Avionics Software Packages

RAC
Reliability Analysis Center

RAC
Repair Action

RACE
Rapid Automatic Cryptographic Equipment

RAD
Rapid Application Development

RADC
Rome Air Development Center

RADDS
Radar Display and Distribution System

RAH-66
Comanche helicopter

RAI
Research Access Inc.

RAID
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks

RAISE
Rigorous Approach to Industrial Software Engineering

RAM
random access memory

RAM
Reliability, Availability, Maintainability

RAMP
Rating Maintenance Phase

RAP
Risk Aversion Plan

RAPID
[Army] Reusable Ada Products for Information Systems Development

RAPID
Reusable Ada Products for Information Systems Development.

RAPIDS
Real-Time Automated Personnel Identification System

RAS
Remote Access Services

RAVE
Reuse Architecture for Verification

RBAC
rule-based access control

RBNA RTC
Robert Bosch North America Research and Technology Center

RBOC
Regional Bell Operating Companies

RBSE
repository-based software engineering

RBT
Requirements Based Testing

RCA
Radio Corporation of America

RCA
Reuse Cost Avoidance

RCL
Rapid Center Library

RCM
Requirements Correlation Matrix

RCMP
Royal Canadian Mounted Police

RCP
Remote Control Protocola

RCR
relative cost of reuse

RCS
Radar Cross Section

RCS
Radio Communication System

RCS
Revision Control System

RCWR
Relative Cost of Writing for Reuse

RD&A
Research Development and Acquisition

RDA
Relational Distributed Architecture

RDA
remote database access

RDB
Relational Database

RDBMS
Relational Database Management System

RDC
Rapid Deployment Capability

RDN
Relative Distinguished Name

RDT
reliable data transfer

RDT&E
research, development, test & evaluation

RE
risk exposure

REAP
Reengineering Application Project

REBOOT
Reuse Based Object-Oriented Technology

REBOOT
Reuse by Object-Oriented Techniques

REE
requirements engineering environment

REGIS
Remote Graphic Instruction Set

REO
radar electro-optical

REQWG
Requirements Working Group

RES
Risk Estimate of the Situation

RESC
Reuse Executive Steering Committee

REST
Real-Time Embedded Systems Testbed

REVIC
Revised Intermediate COCOMO

REVS
Requirements Engineering Validation System

RF
radio frequency

RFC
request for change

RFC
request for comments

RFI
Radio Frequency Interference

RFI
request for information

RFO
reason for failure

RFP
request for proposal

RFQ
request for quote

RFS
Remote File System

RGB
Red Green Blue

RGL
Report Generator Language

RGS
Requirements Generation System

RGT
Report Generator Tool

RI
Robotics Institute

RICC
Reusable Integrated Command Center

RICIS
Research Institute for Computing and Information Systems

RIDC
Regional Industrial Development Corporation of Southwestern

RIF
Reduction In Force

RIG
Reuse Library Interoperability Group

RIP
Router Information Protocol

RISC
Reduced Instruction Set Computer

RIT
Rochester Institute of Technology

RJ-45
8-pin modular connector

RL
requirement list

RL
Rome Laboratories

RLA
repair level analysis

RLF
reusability library framework

RLL
run length limited

RM
requirements management

RM
risk management

RMA
rate monotonic analysis

RMA
Reliability, Maintainability, Availability

RMARTS
Rate Monotonic Analysis for Real-Time Systems

RMC
Resource Management Center

RMI
remote method indicator

RMI
remote method invocation

RMON
Remote Monitoring

RMP
Risk Management Plan

RMPM
Requirements Management Process Model

RMS
Reliability, Maintainability, and Supportability

RMS
Root Mean Square

RMWG
Requirements Management Working Group

RNIF
RosettaNet Implementation Framework

RNTDS
Restructured Naval Tactical Data System

RO
Requirements Officer

RO
Risks Officer

ROADS
Rapid Open Architecture Distribution Systems

ROAM
Reuse Opportunity Analysis Method

ROC
required operational capability

ROCC
regional operations control center

ROI
return on investment

ROLM
ROLM Corporation

ROM
read-only memory

ROM
rough order of magnitude

ROSE
remote operation service element

ROTS
ruggedized off-the-shelf

RPC
remote procedure call

RPD
remote desktop protocol

RPI
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

RPO
Reuse Project Officer

RPS
rotational position sensing

RQT
Reliability Qualification Tests

RR
restricted rights

RR
round robin

RRISM
Portable Reusable Integrated Software Modules

RSA
Reusable Software Asset

RSA
Rivest, Shamir, Adleman encryption algorithm developed in 70's at MIT

RSA
Rivest-Shamir-Adelman public key encryption algorithm

RSC
reusable software component

RSI
Rationalization, Standardization, Interoperability

RSIP
Radar System Improvement Program

RSL
Requirements Specification Language

RSL
Reusable Software Library

RSL
runtime support library

RSM
Remote System Manager

RSM
Requirements Spiral Model

RSO
reusable software object

RSPM
Remote Site Project Management

RSPP
Remote Site Pilot Project

RSRC
Remote Site Reuse Center

RSS
Response Summary Sheet

RSSG
Remote Site Support Group

RSVP
Resource Reservation Protocol

RT
Regression Testing

RT
Test Analysis Report

RTC
Real Time Clock

RTC
Remote Terminal Controller

RTCN
real-time computing network

RTCP
Real Time Transport Control Protocol

RTE
run-time environment

RTE
Run-Time Efficiency

RTF
Rich Text Format

RTID
real-time target identification

RTM
real-time monitor

RTM
Regression Test Manager

RTM
Requirements Traceability Management

RTN
Received Track Number

RTOS
real-time operating system

RTP
real-time transport protocol

RTP
Research Triangle Park

RTS
real-time system

RTS
runtime system

RTSIA
Real-Time Scheduling in Ada

RTSP
Real-Time Streaming Protocol

RTWG
Reuse Technical Working Group

RUP
Rational Unified Process

RVA
Reuse Value Added

RVI
Requirement Volatility Index

RWHAS
Robotized Wire Harness Assembly System

RZ
return to zero

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