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UA
User Agents

UAH
University of Alabama at Huntsville

UARC
university-affiliated research center

UART
Universal Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter

UAT
User Acceptance Testing

UATL
Universal Ada Test Language

UAV
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

UB
Unified Build

UC
user consultant

UCB
University of California at Berkeley

UCC
Uniform Commercial Code

UCI
University of California at Irvine

UCL
upper control limit

UCLA
University of California at Los Angeles

UCP
Universal Communications Processor

UCSD
University of California at San Diego

UDAC
user-directed access control

UDDI
universal description, discovery, and integration

UDF
User Defined Function

UDP
Universal Datagram Protocol

UDP
User Datagram Protocol

UHF
ultra high frequency

UI
Unique Identifier

UI
UNIX International

UI
user interface

UICL
user interface command language

UIL
user inferface language

UIMS
User Interface Management System

UIMS
user interface management system(s)

UIRK
Unique Interswitch Rekeying Key

UIS
User Interface System

UIUC
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

UJTL
Universal Joint Task Lists

UK
United Kingdom

UK-MOD
United Kingdom Ministry of Defence

ULANA
Unified Local Area Network Architecture

UM
User Manual

UMA
Uniform Memory

UML
Unified Modeling Language

UNAS
Universal Network Architecture Services

UNC
University of North Carolina

UNIX
not an acronym; play on words derived from MULTICS

UNPL
upper natural process limit

UNTL
Universal Naval Task Lists

UPF
universal page format

UPIA
unified process improvement approach

UPM
Universidad Politecnico de Madrid

UPP
User Partnership Program

UPS
Uninterruptable Power Supply

UR
unlimited rights

URL
Uniform Resource Locator

URP
University Research Program

USAF
United States Air Force

USAFA
United States Air Force Academy

USAID
United States Agency for International Development

USAISC
U.S. Army Information Systems Center

USAISEC
United States Army Information Systems Engineering Command

USAISSDCL
U.S. Army Information Systems Software Center-Software Development Center, Fort Lee

USAR
United States Army Reserve

USASISSDCL
U.S. Army Information Systems Software Development Center-Lee

USB
Universal Serial Bus

USB
Upper Side Band

USC
United States Code

USC
University of Southern California

USCGA
United States Coast Guard Academy

USDA
U.S. Department of Agriculture

USDE
Undesired Signal Data Emanations

USE-CSE
University of Southern California-Center for Software Engineering

USEEP
Undergraduate Software Engineering Education Project

USENET
User Network

USGPO
United States Government Printing Office

USIA
United States Information Agency

USL
upper specification limit

USMA
United States Military Academy

USMA
U.S. Military Academy

USMC
United States Marine Corps

USMTF
Uniform Services Message Text Format

USN
United States Navy

USNA
United States Naval Academy

USNA
U.S. Naval Academy

USSS
United States Secret Service

USSTRATCOM
U.S. Strategic Command

UT
Universal Time

UTC
Coordinated Universal Time

UTP
Unshielded Twisted Pair

UUCP
Unit-to-Unit Copy

UUCP
Unix-to-Unix Copy Protocol

UUID
Unique User Identifier

UUT
Unit Under Test

UVPROM
Ultraviolet PROM

UWM
Ultrix window manager

UWV
University of West Virginia

UX
UNIX



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