ABBREVIATIONS, ACRONYMS, AND INITIALISMS
  AADL

Avionics Architecture Description Language

  ITMS Information Technology Metrics Strategy
  ABET Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology   IWCASE International Workshop on Computer-Aided Software Engineering
  ACM Association for Computing Machinery   JMPS Joint Mission Planning System
  ACSAC Annual Computer Security Applications Conference   JSIMS Joint Simulation System
  AFMSS Air Force Mission Support System   KLOC thousand source lines of code
  AirCERT Automated Incident Reporting-CERT   MAP Mining Assets for Product Lines
  AIAA American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics   MFR multi-function radar
  AMCOM Army’s Aviation and Missile Command   MilPDS Military Personnel Data System
  AMP Avionics Modernization Program   MILSATCOM Military Satellite Communications
  ARC Appraisal Requirements for CMMI¨   MISRT Medical Information Security Readiness Team
  ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency   NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  ASA ALT Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology   NAVAIR Naval Air Systems Command
  ASD Avionics Embedded Systems Division   NAVSEA Naval Sea Systems Command
  ASP Acquisition Support Program   NDIA National Defense Industrial Association
  ASQ American Society for Quality   NNTP network news transport protocol
  ATAMSM Architecture Tradeoff Analysis MethodSM   NPS Naval Postgraduate School
  ATD advanced technology demonstration   NRC National Research Council of Canada
  C3I command, control, communications, and intelligence   NRO National Reconnaissance Office
  CAD computer-aided design   NSERC Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
  CAE computer-aided engineering   NSF National Science Foundation
  CAiSE Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering   NTIS National Technical Information Service
  CCS-C Command and Control System Consolidation   NUWC Naval Undersea Warfare Center
  CCSS Command and Control Systems School   OCTAVESM Operationally Critical Threat, Asset, and Vulnerability EvaluationSM
  CD compact disk   OCTAVE-S Operationally Critical Threat, Asset, and Vulnerability EvaluationSM for Small Businesses
  CeBASE Center for Empirically Based Software Engineering   OOPSLA Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications
  CECOM Communications-Electronics Command   OSD Office of the Secretary of Defense
  CEO chief executive officer   OUSD (A&T) Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology
  CERT¨/AC CERT¨ Analysis Center   OUSD
(AT&L)
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics
  CERT¨/CC CERT¨ Coordination Center   PACC Predictable Assembly from Certifiable Components
  CIO chief information officer   PAIS Process Appraisal Information System
  CMM® Capability Maturity Model®   PCIPB President’s Critical Infrastructure Protection Board
  CMMI® Capability Maturity Model Integration   P-CMM People Capability Maturity Model
  CMMI®-SE/SW Capability Maturity Model®-Integrated for Systems Engineering/Software Engineering   PECT prediction-enabled component technology
  CMS Center for Medicare and Medicaid Systems   PEO/ SYSCOM Program Executive Officer/System Commander
  COE common operating environment   PLP Product Line Practice
  COTS commercial off-the-shelf   PLTPSM Product Line Technical ProbeSM
  CR capture-recapture   POSIX Portable Operating System Interface
  CRADA cooperative research and development agreement   PSM Practical Software Measurement
  CRSIP Computer Resources Support Improvement Program   PSPSM Personal Software ProcessSM
  CSC Computer Sciences Corporation   PWS project work statement
  CSEE Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training   QSM Quantitative Software Management
  CSIRT computer security incident response team   R&D research and development
  CSPI Critical Systems Protection Initiative   RMA rate monotonic analysis
  CURESM COTS Usage Risk EvaluationSM   SA-CMM Software Acquisition Capability Maturity Model
  DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency   SAE Society of Automotive Engineers
  DAU Defense Acquisition University   SAIC Science Applications International Corporation
  DCAPES Deliberate and Crisis Action Planning and Execution Segment   SCAMPISM Standard CMMI Appraisal Method for Process Improvement
  DCMA Defense Contract Management Agency   SCESM software capability evaluation
  DDoS distributed denial of service   SCS School of Computer Science
  DFAS Defense Finance and Accounting Service   SEC Software Engineering Center
  DNS domain name system   SE-CMM Systems Engineering Capability Maturity Model
  DoD Department of Defense   SEISM Software Engineering Institute
  DTIC Defense Technical Information Center   SEIR Software Engineering Information Repository
  EA evolutionary acquisition   SEMI Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International
  ECOOP European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming   SEPGSM Software Engineering Process Group
  ECSAP Electronic Crime Special Agent Program   SERP software engineering research and practice
  EDS Electronic Data Systems   SESC Software Engineering Standards Committee
  EIA Electronic Industries Alliance   S&ET Science and Engineering Technology
  EPICSM Evolutionary Process for Integrating COTS-Based SystemsSM   SIGPLAN ACM Special Interest Group for Programming Languages
  e-RA e-Authentication risk and requirements analysis   SIM security improvement module
  ESC Electronic Systems Center   SIP strategic impact program
  ESC/AC Electronic Systems Center/Combat Air Forces Command and Control   SIW Simulation Interoperability Workshop
  E-SEPG European Software Engineering Process GroupSM   SNMP simple network management protocol
  ESI European Software Institute   SPAWAR Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command
  ESPI European Software Process Improvement   SPLC Software Product Lines Conference
  FBCB2 Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below   SPS Standard Procurement System
  FCS Future Combat Systems   SR special report
  FY fiscal year   SSC SD SPAWAR Systems Center San Diego
  GSAW Ground System Architecture Workshop   STEP Software Technology and Engineering Practices
  GUI graphical user interface   STO Science and Technology Objective
  HB handbook   STSC Software Technology Support Center
  HLA high-level architecture   SW-CMM Capability Maturity Model for Software
  ICCBSS International Conference on COTS-Based Software Systems   TCM technology change management
  ICSE International Conference on Software Engineering   TIDE Technology Insertion, Demonstration, and Evaluation
  IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers   TN technical note
  IFIP International Federation for Information Processing   TR technical report
  IFPUG International Function Point User Group   TRL technology readiness level
  INCOSE International Council on Systems Engineering   TTP Technology Transition Practices
  IPD integrated product development   TSPSM Team Software ProcessSM
  IPPD integrated product and process development   UML Unified Modeling Language
  IR&D independent research and development   USC-CSE University of Southern California Center for Software Engineering
  ISAT Information Science and Technology   USSS United States Secret Service
  ISO International Organization for Standardization   WICSA Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architectures
  ISPI Institute for Software Process Improvement   WP work practice
  IT information technology   XP extreme programming
  ITA independent technical assessment   Y2K year 2000