Master Glossary of Acronyms

NMCI Master Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Terms


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Term Definition

A&E Architecture & Engineering

AACT Advanced Application Certification Testing

AART Audit Application Review Team

AAUSN Administrative Assistant to the Under Secretary of the Navy

ABCD Methodology Assumptions-Based Communications Dynamics Methodology

Acclimation The process of orienting personnel to the NMCI contract environment and its program objectives, functions, processes, procedures, and specific job requirements.

ACD Automated Call Distribution

ACE Application Certification Engineer

ACK Acknowledgement

ACL Access Control List

ACO Administrative Contracting Officer

ACR/NEXT Attenuation and Cross-Talk/Near End Cross-Talk

ACS Assistant Chief of Staff

ACT Action Collaboration Team

Activity Process, procedure, or job aid. An action taken to create a work product or service, or achieve a result.

ACTR Assistant Contract Technical Representative

AD Active Directory

ADD Active Directory Domain

ADM Admiral (4 Star), U.S. Navy

ADS Application Deployment Solution

Advocacy Ensures that customer issues, concerns, and problems are heard and addressed by NMCI personnel.

AEAG Applications Enterprise Action Group

AFB Air Force Base

AFSO Assistant Facility Security Officer

Agent The role, organizational unit/function, or automated process that achieves or creates a work product; answers the question “Who?”

AIM Asset Information Management System

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Term Definition

AIP Administrative Installation Point

AIS Automated Information Systems

Alarm Indication by an IA countermeasure that an abnormal activity has occurred

AMHS Automated Message Handling System

Anomaly Any condition that deviates from expectations based on things, such as requirement specifications, design documents, user documents, standards, or from someone’s perceptions or experiences. Anomalies may be found during, but not limited to, the review, test, analysis, construction, or use of (software) work products.

AoA Analysis of Alternatives

AOFR Assumption of Financial Responsibility

AOI Alarm of Interest. An alarm that has been evaluated by an IA professional and is deemed to be either a known threat action or an unknown action that requires further analysis.

AOR Assumption of Responsibility

API Application Programming Interface

APLIT Automated Post Local Installation List

APM Assistant Program Manager

APM Applications Project Manager

APM Actual Performance Measure. A measurement of actual services provided, as defined in the Service Level Agreement.

ARG Application Resource Guide

ASC Authorization to Solicit/Commit

ASCLS Automated Cartridge System Library Software

ASD Assistant Secretary of Defense

As-Is Current (Pre-NMCI)

ASN Assistant Secretary of the Navy

Assumption Conditions or states of the project, environment, or personnel that are considered true for basis of the project planning. May include best-guess decisions needed to plan the project in areas where the customer has not made a decision.

AT Assistive Technology

ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode

ATM Application-to-Machine Mapping

ATO Authority to Operate. Ongoing approval to operate a network as part of an approved Government network; status after resolution of IATO discrepancies.

Availability The ability of an NMCI service or component to perform its required function




Term Definition

at a stated instant or over a stated period.

AVT Assessment and Validation Team

B1 Boundary 1

B2 Boundary 2

B3 Boundary 3

B4 Boundary 4

BAN Base Area Network

Baseline A specification that has been formally reviewed and agreed on, which thereafter serves as the basis for future development and can be changed only through formal change control procedures.

BCA Business Case Analysis

BDC Backup Domain Controller

Best Practices Tools, strategies, and insights that enable a team to maximize revenue, enhance profitability, and optimize operations; documented strategies and tactics that are implemented and honed on the basis of lessons learned.

BFM Business Financial Manager

BHA Boundary Hardware Administrator

BI Background Investigation

BII Base Infrastructure Installation

BIOS Basic Input Output System

BIP Base Implementation Plan

BIS Business Integration Services

BLII Base Level Information Infrastructure

BMO Business Management Office

BoM Bill of Materials

BSA Baseline System Assessment

BSC Business Services Center

BUMED Bureau of Medicine (Navy)

BUPERS Bureau of Personnel (Navy)

Business Process Reengineering

Technique for improving business processes that usually abides by the following course of action:

Define the scope and objectives of a business process reengineering project

Perform learning process (with clients, employees, competitors, noncompetitors, and new technology)

Use knowledge to create a vision for the future and design new business processes




Term Definition

Use this definition of the To-Be environment to create a plan of action based on the gap between the To-Be environment and current processes, technologies, and structures

Implement the solution

BWM Bandwidth Manager

C&A Certification and Accreditation. The activities that lead to the Government’s approval to operate a network as part of a set of secure Government networks; including IATC, IATO, and ATO.

C2 Command and Control

C3I Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence

C4 Command, Control, Communications, and Computers

C4I Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence

CA Certificate Authenticator

CA Client Advocate; Client Advocacy

CA Corporate Agreement

CAA Customer Advocate Advisory

CAB Change Advisory Board

CAC Common Access Card

CAD Change/Add/Delete

CAP Computer/Electronic Accommodations Program

CAPT Captain (0-6) USN

CAS Corporative Administrative System

CBA Certification by Association

CBNR Certified But Not Recommended

CBT Computer-Based Training

CCA Claimant/Command Agreement

CCA Clinger-Cohen Act

CCB Change Control Board

CCB Configuration Control Board

CCC Cutover Command Center

CCDR Contractor Cost Data Requirement

CCI Controlled Cryptographic Item

CCIE Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert

CCL Change Control Log

CCM Cultural Change Management




Term Definition

CCO Cisco Connect Online

CCSD Command Communications Service Designator (DISA)

CD Compact Disc

CDA Central Design Authority

CDA Content Delivery Agents

CDAC CSP-to-DMS Addressing Component

CDB Customer Design Brief

CDR Critical Design Review

CDTAB Cross-Domain Technical Advisory Board

CE&P Computer Equipment and Printing

CEP Command Execution Plan

CFE Contractor-Furnished Equipment

CFO Chief Financial Officer

Change Control Element of configuration management, consisting of the evaluation, coordination, approval or disapproval, and implementation of changes to configuration items after formal establishment identification.

Checklist Optional document developed to use as a tool helping agents perform tasks or procedures. It is associated with processes or procedures.

CI Configuration Item

CIFS Common Internet File System

CINC Commander in Chief

CINCLANT Command-in-Chief, Atlantic

CINCLANTFLT Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet

CINCPAC Commander-in-Chief, Pacific

CINCPACFLT Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet

CIO Chief Information Officer

CIWG Common Interoperability Working Group

CJA Critical Joint Applications

Claimant Organizational structure within the Navy that receives funding.

Classified Information The three classification levels (Confidential, Secret, and Top Secret) of official U.S. Government information that require protection against unauthorized disclosure in the interest of national security.

CLF Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet

Client Navy and Marine Corps personnel

Client Advocate Ensures customer satisfaction and achieves the incentives offered by the NMCI contract.




Term Definition

CLIN Contract Line Item Number

CM Change Manager

CM Configuration Management

CMC Commandant of the Marine Corps

CMDB Configuration Management Database

CME Command Mission Equipment

CMM Capability Maturity Model. Improvement models from SEI that assists organizations with their people, processes, and technology assets to improve long-term business performance.

CMMI Capability Maturity Model Integration. Improvement model from SEI that combines the following three source models into a single improvement framework for organizations to use in pursuing Enterprise-wide process improvement:

1. SW-CMM, v2.0, draft C

2. EIA/IS 731

3. IPD-CMM v0.98

CMS COMSEC Material System

CMS Conference Management Services

CMS Cryptologic Material Security

CMW Compartmented Mode Workstation

CND Computer Network Defense

CNET Chief of Naval Education and Training

CNNOC Commander of Naval Network Operations Center

CNNWC Commander Naval Network Warfare Command

CNO Chief of Naval Operations

CNO Computer Network Operations

CNO-16 Director, Space, Information Warfare, Command, and Control

CNOC Classified Network Operations Center

COI Community of Interest

COINS Community of Interest Network Services

COL Colonel, U.S. Marine Corps

COM Component Object Model

Commitment to Perform

Actions the organization must take to ensure that a process is established. Usually involves establishing organizational policies and senior management sponsorship.

COMNAVAIRSYSCOM

Commander, Naval Air Systems Command




Term Definition

COMOPTEVFOR Commander, Operational Test and Evaluation Force

Compliance Measure of the degree to which actual performance satisfies the expectations of a process or standard.

Component Automated or manual part(s) of a system.

COMPUTSEC Computer Security

COMSEC Communications Security

CONOPS Concept of Operations

Constraints Conditions that define or restrict how project goals and objectives are met. May include procedures, environment, staff, technical requirements, budgets, and schedules.

Contingency Plan Identified, evaluated, and selected actions of alternative strategies that address actions to be taken when a trigger event occurs, or when a risk becomes a problem.

Continuous Process Improvement

Technique for reviewing and upgrading business processes that usually abide by the following course of action:

Document the process as currently conducted

Establish ways to measure the process based on client requirements

Use the process, measure results, and identify improvement opportunities based on data collected

Implement process improvements

Repeat loop (continuous process improvement, also called business process improvement or functional process improvement)

Contracting Officer The only person authorized to approve changes to any of the requirements of a contract. Notwithstanding provisions contained elsewhere in the contract, this authority remains solely the Contracting Officer’s. If the contractor affects any change at the direction of any person other than the Contracting Officer, that change is considered to have been made without authority and no adjustment will be made in the contract price to cover any increase in charges incurred.

CONUS Continental United States

COO Chief Operating Officer

COR Contracting Officer’s Representative

COTR Contracting Officer’s Technical Representative

COTS Commercial Off-the-Shelf (software)

CPAR Contractor Performance Assessment Report

CPARS Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System

CPE Customer Premise Equipment

CPERQ Certification Phase Engineering Review Questionnaire

CPF Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet

CPM Customer Project Manager




Term Definition

CPO Civilian Personnel Office

CPR Client Problem Repair

CR Completion Report (DISA)

CRA Continuing Resolution Authority

CRAB Classified Remote Access Boundary

CS Change Sponsor

CS Customer Satisfaction

CSA Cognizant Security Agency

CSF Classified Server Farm

CSIDS Cisco Secure Intrusion Detection System

CSP Communications Support Processor

CSR Customer Service Representative

CSSO Contractor Special Security Officer

CSU/DSU Channel Service Unit/Digital Service Unit

CT&E Contractor Test & Evaluation

CTB Classified Transport Boundary

CTF Commander Task Force

CTI Category/Type/Item

CTO Chief Technology Officer

CTR Contract Technical Representative

CTR Customer Transition Representative

Customer (See Client)

CWND Congestion Window

CY Calendar Year

DAA Designated Approval Authority

DADMS DoN Application & Database Management System

DAN Dial Access Network

DASN Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy

DAT Development Approach Team

DATMS-C Data ATM Services—Classified

DATMS-U Data ATM Services—Unclassified

DB Database

DCII Defense Clearance and Investigations Index

DCMS Director, COMSEC Material System




Term Definition

DCS Data Conference Services

DCTS Defense Collaborative Tool Suite

DDN Defense Data Network

DDR Dual Desktop Reduction

DEERS Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System

Defect A flaw in a system or system component that causes the system or component to fail to perform its required function.

Deliverable The project output(s) that will be provided to the customer.

DEMARC Demarcation

Dependency Identification of a sequential and logical relationship between a set of tasks or activities of a project.

DFAS Defense Finance and Accounting Service

DFS Distributive File System

DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DII Defense Information Infrastructure

DIMHRS Defense Integrated Military Human Resource System

DISA Defense Information Systems Agency

DISN Defense Information Systems Network

DITCO Defense Information Technology Contracting Office (DISA)

DITSCAP Defense Information Technology Security Certification and Accreditation Process

DL Distribution Lists

DM Distributed Monitoring

DM Decision Meeting

DMC Document Management Center

DMDS Defense Message Dissemination System

DMS Defense Message System

DMT Design Management Team

DMT Data Management Team

DMZ Demilitarized Zone

DNS Domain Name Server

DO Delivery Order

Document User Any employee permitted access to QMS documents based on qualifications and authorization to perform quality activities.




Term Definition

Documentation Specialist

An individual who creates, maintains, and publishes all forms of documentation.

Documented Procedure

Set of rules and steps for performing a task that can be used by individuals who can perform the task in a repeatable manner.

DoD Department of Defense

DoN Department of the Navy

DoNMC Department of Navy and Marine Corps

DPM Deputy Program Manager

DPMS Distributed Project Management Solution

DREN Defense Research Engineering Network

DRM Design Reference Manual

DS Directory Services

DS Delivery Specialist

DSAWG DISN Security Accreditation Work Group

DSC DISN Service Center (DISA)

DSL Definitive Software Library

DSL Digital Subscriber Line

DSN Defense Switched Network

DSS Defense Security Service

DTC DISN Transition Contract

DTS DISA Transport Services

DVS DISN Video Systems

DVS-G DISN Video Systems—Global

E&SA E-mail and Systems Access

EAG Enterprise Action Group

EAGLE Enterprise Applications Group for Legacy and Emerging

EAI Enterprise Application Integration

ECCB Enterprise Change Control Board

EDMS Electronic Document Management System

EDS Electronic Data Systems

EDS NMCI Personnel All EDS employees, subcontractors, and vendors involved in the implementation and ongoing support of NMCI (formerly know as ISF Personnel).

EFS Encrypted File System

EIA/IS Electronic Industries Alliance Interim Standard




Term Definition

EIWG Enterprise IT Strategy and Coordination Working Group

e-Learning Web-based training courses

ELFEXT Equivalent Level Far End Cross-Talk

EMF Enterprise Management Facility

eMp eMarketplace

EMS Enterprise Management System

EMSEC Emission Security

End User(s) Individual or group who uses the system for its intended operational use when it is deployed in its environment.

Entry Criteria Describes when the activities within a process begin and the condition(s) that need to be met before the agent begins performing tasks or procedures within a process.

EO Enterprise Operations

EO Executive Order

EOI Event of Interest: An event that has been evaluated as an actual successful penetration attempt or other successful IA system service interruption.

EPMG Enterprise Process Management Group

EPMO Enterprise Program Management Office

EPSQ Electronic Personnel Security Questionnaire

EPVC Enterprise Value Project Council

ERP Enterprise Resource Planning

ERQ Engineering Review Questionnaire

ESD Electronic Software Distribution

ESM Enterprise Security Manager

Exit Criteria Describes when the activities of a process end. The condition(s) under which the agent leaves the process (all major tasks or procedures in a process have been performed).

FAD Financial Accounting Data

FAD Funding Authorization Documents

FAD Force Activity Designator

FAM Functional Area Manager

FaP File and Print

FAQ Frequently Asked Question

FAR Federal Acquisition Regulations

FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation

FCL Facility Clearance




Term Definition

FFP Firm Fixed Price

FGI Foreign Government Information

FIMS Financial Information Management System

FISC Fleet Industrial Supply Center

FIWC Fleet Information Warfare Center

Flowchart Graphical, step-by-step representation of a sequence of operations in an information system, program, or process:

Top-down flowchart: depiction of major steps in process

Detailed flowchart: detailed information about what happens during each step in a process

Workflow diagram: depiction of movements of people, materials, documents, or information in a process

Cross-functional process map: display of the flow of activities and tasks within a process, using swim lanes to identify responsible groups and organizations

FMB Financial Management Board

FOC Full Operational Capability

FOUO For Official Use Only

FSA Functional Specialty Area

FSO Facility Security Officer

FTE Full-Time Equivalent

FTP File Transfer Protocol

FTS Federal Telecommunications Service

FY Fiscal Year

FYDP Future Years Defense Program

GAL Global Address List

GCA Government Contracting Activity

GCCS Global Command and Control System

GETS Government Emergency Telecommunications Service

GFE Government-Furnished Equipment

GFF Government-Furnished Facilities

GFI Government-Furnished Information

GFI Government-Furnished Inventory

GIAC Global Information Assurance Center

GIG Global Information Grid

GL General Ledger




Term Definition

GLISSM Global Information Systems Security Manager

GMO Government Management Office

GNOC Global Network Operations Center

GNOC Government Network Operations Center

GOTS Government-Off-the-Shelf (software)

GPO Group Policy Object

GRE Generic Routing Encapsulation

Green Seat Marine Corps Seat

GSA General Services Administration

GUI Graphical User Interface

GWS GroupWare Server

HAC S&I House Appropriations Committee Survey and Inspection Team

HAG High-Assurance Guard (Mail Guard)

HASC House Armed Services Committee

HCI Human Computer Interface

HD Help Desk

Help Desk Incident An issue reported by an NMCI end user; may or may not be an IA event.

Homeport NMCI Web site

HP Hewlett Packard

HQMC Headquarters, Marine Corps

HTTB High-Throughput Transport Boundary

HVAC Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning

I&A Information and Authentication

I/Q/O Inquire/Quote/Order (DISA)

IA Information Assurance (Security)

IA Event An evaluated alarm of interest that meets the conditions of a potential penetration attempt or other suspicious activity.

IAA&E Information Assurance Architecture & Engineering

IABO Information Assurance Base Operations

IACB Information Assurance Capabilities Baseline

IATC Interim Authority to Connect. Approval by the Government to connect a network to an approved Government network.

IATO Interim Authority to Operate. Approval by the Government to operate a network as part of an approved Government network.

IATT Information Assurance Tiger Team




Term Definition

IATT Interim Authority to Test

IAVA Information Assurance Vulnerability Alert. A Government-defined alarm on a particular threat.

IAVB Information Assurance Vulnerability Bulletin. A Government-defined advisory on a particular threat.

IAW In accordance with

IBM International Business Machines

ICA Independent Computing Architecture

ICD Interface Control Document

ID Identification

ID/IQ Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity

IDF Intermediate Distribution Facility

IDO Incentive Determining Official

IDR Initial Design Review

IDS Intrusion Detection Services

IE Internet Explorer

IER Information Exchange Requirement

IFE Impacted Federal Employee

IIS Internet Information Services

IL Implementation Lead

ILS Integrated Logistics Support

ILSP Integrated Logistics Support Plan

IM/IT Information Management/Information Technology

Impacted Federal Employee

Permanent civilian Government DoD employee whose position is being impacted (eliminated or changed) because of the transition from the current system to the NMCI system.

IMS Integrated Master Schedule

INFOSEC Information Security

Infrastructure Readiness

Everything needed to roll desktops.

Input Resource transformed by an activity to accomplish the purpose of the activity.

Inputs Describes the work products used (for example, templates and working knowledge required before beginning execution of a process).

IOC Initial Operational Capability

IOT&E Interoperability Test and Evaluation

IP Internet Protocol




Term Definition

IPD-CMM Integrated Product Development Capability Maturity Model

IPR In-Progress Review

IPSEC Internet Protocol Security

IPT Integrated Process Team

IR Information Request

IRAAD Issues/Risks/Actions/Assumptions/Decision (Management)

IRB Incentive Review Board

ISAPI Internet Services Application Programming Interface (Microsoft)

ISC Integrated Support Center

ISDN Integrated Switched Digital Network

ISEA In-Service Engineering Agent

ISEC Information Systems Engineering Command

ISF Information Strike Force (see EDS NMCI Personnel)

ISMO Information Systems Management Office

ISO International Organization for Standardization

ISO International Standards Office

ISO Industrial Security Office

ISP Inside Plant

ISP Internet Service Provider

ISP Information Security Program

ISP International Standards Office

ISSA Information Systems Security Administrator

ISSM Information Systems Security Manager

ISSO Information Systems Security Officer

ISSP Information Systems Security Policy

IT Information Technology

IT21 Information Technology for the 21st Century

ITA Intruder Alert Agent

ITC Information Transport Cloud

ITIA Information Technology Infrastructure Architecture

ITIL Information Technology Infrastructure Library. A widely accepted approach to IT service management in the world. ITIL provides a comprehensive and consistent set of best practices for IT service management, promoting a quality approach to achieving business effectiveness and efficiency in the use of information systems.




Term Definition

ITM IBM Tivoli Monitoring

IV&V Independent Verification and Validation

IWM Interwarehouse Move

JEPC Joint Enterprise Process Council. An NMCI client-based organization established to perform the following:

Validate that a compelling business reason exists for the process.

Monitor that process changes are developed and implemented based on a prioritization methodology.

Authorize approval for the process development and/or modification to proceed.

Serve as a communication mechanism to EDS NMCI interface management.

JITC Joint Interoperability Test Command

Job Aid Procedural tool necessary to complete the procedure; includes task instructions, templates, forms, checklists, and guidelines; used primarily by EDS NMCI peers.

JPAS Joint Personnel Adjudication System

JRB Joint Reserve Base

JTA Joint Technical Architecture

JTF Joint Task Force

JV 2010 Joint Vision 2010

KA Knowledge Author

KAPM Key Application Performance Monitor

KBS Knowledge Base System

Key Activity Aggregate of multiple individual steps with collective output.

KM Knowledge Management

KMCoP Knowledge Management Community of Practice

KVM Switch Keyboard Video Mouse switch. A switch that connects two or more computers to the same keyboard, mouse, and monitor.

LAC Local Agency Check

LADRA Legacy Application Deployment Readiness Activity. A pre-Alpha and Beta test where workstations are set up and the applications from the NOC are downloaded through the B2 firewall. Some limited reachback testing with end-users are conducted during this testing.

LAN Local Area Network

LAPOC Legacy Application Point of Contact

LART Legacy Application Red Team

LATG Legacy Application Transition Guide




Term Definition

LC Logistics Coordinator

LCM Logistics Coordinator Manager

LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

LDE Limited Deployment Evaluation

LDS Logistics Delivery Services

LDSA Local Directory System Agents

LDSD&T Local Deployment Solution Development and Test

LE Lead Engineer

LEC Local Exchange Carrier

Legacy Application An existing customer software application that is not included in the NMCI standard seat services or CLIN 0023.

LLT Long Lead Time

LM Logistics Manager

LMS Learning Management System

LOA Line of Accounting

LOC Letter of Consent

LOE Level of Effort

LOM Logistics Operations Manager

LOO Letter of Observation

LPM Logistics Portal Manager

LR Logistics Request

LRA Local Registration Authority

LRP Logistics Request Package

LSA Logistics Support Analysis

LSTG Legacy System Transition Guide

LTN Legacy Test Network

LTTB Low-Throughput Transport Boundary

MAC Move, Add, and Change

MAC Operations Group

Move/Add/Change Operations Group

MAN Municipal Area Network

MARCORSYSCOM Marine Corps System Command

MARFORLANT Marine Forces Atlantic

MARFORPAC Marine Forces Pacific




Term Definition

MARFORRES Marine Forces Reserve

MARFORSOUTH Marine Forces South

MATCOM USMC Materiel Command

MAW Marine Aircraft Wing

MCAGCC Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center

MCCDC Marine Corps Combat Development Center

MCCS Marine Corps Community Services

MCEN Marine Corps Enterprise Network

MCLB Marine Corps Logistics Base

MCNOSC Marine Corps Network Operations and Security Command

MCP Microsoft Certified Professional

MCPD Marine Corps Programs Department

MCRC Marine Corps Recruiting Command

MCSC Marine Corps Systems Command

MCSD Microsoft Certified Solution Developer

MCSE Microsoft Systems Engineer

MCTN Marine Corps Tactical Network

MDAC Microsoft Data Access Component

Measurement Defines how the performance of an activity is assessed

Method An ordered way of performing a task; a procedure, technique, or process for accomplishing task objectives.

MFS Multifunction Switches

MGS Medium Grade Service

MIB Management Information Base

MILDEP Military Department

MILSATCOMM Military Satellite Communications

MLS Multi-Level Security

MMC Microsoft Management Console

MOA Memorandum of Agreement

MOU Memorandum of Understanding

MP Migration Planner

MS Microsoft

MSC Military Sealift Command

MSI Microsoft Installer Package




Term Definition

MSSQL Microsoft Structured Query Language Server

MTBF Mean Time Between Failure

MTTB Medium-Throughput Transport Boundary

MX Mail Exchange

NAC National Agency Check

NADTF Navy Applications Database Task Force

NAF Naval Air Facility

NAOR Network Assumption of Responsibility

NAS Naval Air Station

NASCAMP Navy Switch and Cable Modernization Program

NAT Network Address Translation

NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization

NAV Norton Anti-Virus

NAVAIRSYSCOM Naval Air Systems Command

NAVFAC Naval Facilities Engineering Command

NAVICP Navy Inventory Control Point

NAVRESFOR Navy Reserve Force

NAVRESNET Naval Reserve Network

NAVSEA Naval Sea Systems Command

NAVSUP Naval Supply Systems Command

NAWCTSD Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division

NAWCWD Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division

NCAP NMCI Connection Approval Process

NCARP NMCI Connection Approval Review Panel

NCIS Naval Criminal Investigative Service

NCR National Capital Region

NCSA NetScreen Certified Security Associate

NCSP NetScreen Certified Security Professional

NCWF Navy Capital Working Fund

NDA Non-Disclosure Agreement

NDOR NMCI Deployment Order Reconciliation

NDOT NMCI Director’s Ordered Testing

NDW Naval District Washington

NEADG Navy Enterprise Application Development Guide




Term Definition

NEPP Navy/Marine Corps Enclave Protection Policy

NET NMCI Enterprise Tool

NETPROWLER A software application

NETWARCOM Naval Network Warfare Command

NEXT Near End Cross-Talk

NIM NOC Implementation Manager

NIPRNET Non-Secure Internet Protocol Router Network

NISPOM National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual

NMC Network Management Center

NMCI Navy Marine Corps Intranet

NMCI Personnel Government and EDS NMCI personnel involved in the implementation and ongoing support of the NMCI (see EDS NMCI Personnel).

NMCRC Navy and Marine Corps Reserve Center

NMCWP Navy Marine Corps White Pages

NMOC Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command

NMS Network Management System

NNIOC Naval Network and Information Operations Command

NNOC Naval Network Operations Command

NNPI Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information

NOC Network Operations Center

NOIS NMCI Order Interface System

NOVADIGM A software application

NRC Naval Reserve Center

NRDDG NMCI Release Development and Deployment Guide

NRFK Norfolk

NRMP Navy Release Management Process

NSA National Security Agency

NSA Naval Support Activity

NSCAP NMCI Security Certification and Accreditation Process

NSCM NMCI Software Configuration Management

NSIPS Naval Standard Integrated Personnel System

NSM Network Systems Monitors

NSS National Security Systems

NSTISSI National Security Telecommunications and Information Systems Security




Term Definition

Instruction

NSWC Naval Surface Warfare Center

NTLC Network Transport Logistical Center

NTPG NMCI Transition Planning Guide

O&M Operations and Maintenance

OA Operational Assessment

OAB Operations Advisory Board

OACT Overarching Action Collaboration Team

OADR Originating Agency’s Determination Required

OBLD On Base Low Density

OCA Original Classification Authority

OCM Object Creation Module

OCONUS Outside the Continental United States

OCP Oracle Certified Professional

ODBC Open Database Connectivity

OIC Officer in Charge

OLA Office of Legislative Affairs

Ombudsman An individual or office that investigates and facilitates resolution of customer issues, problems, and concerns including reporting and trend analysis.

ONI Office of Naval Intelligence

ONR Office of Naval Research

OOB Out of Band

OPCON Operational Control

Operational Reporting (Tactical)

Reporting performed to allow the network operations staff keep the system operational and allow the EDS NMCI team to examine the network proactively for problem avoidance; reporting includes day-to-day reports and ad hoc reports that may identify problems (such as outages) that can then be mitigated.

OPM Office of Personnel Management

OPNAV Office of the Chief of Naval Operations

OPNAVINST Office of the Chief of Naval Operations Instruction

OPSEC Operations Security

OPTEVFOR Operational Test & Evaluation Force

ORN Order Request Number

OS Operating System

OSD Office of the Secretary of Defense




Term Definition

OSP Outside Plant

OT Operational Testing

OT&E Operational Test & Evaluation

OTRR Operational Test Readiness Review

OU Operational Unit

Output The work product or service produced by an activity

Outputs Describes work products that are produced; the deliverables resulting from performing a process.

OWAN Okinawa Wide Area Network

P2P Point-to-Point

P2P Peer-to-Peer

PAB Personal Address Book

PACOM Pacific Command

PAL Process Asset Library. Centralized database storage location for current process assets.

PBT Performance Benchmark Testing

PC Performance Category. Subset of performance required for a particular SLA.

PC Personal Computer

PCCB Process Change Control Board

PCL Proving Center Lab

PCM Process Change Manager

PCMC Process Change Management Coordinator

PCO Program Contracting Officer

PCT Project Control Tool

PD Program Directorate

PDA Personal Digital Assistant

PDA Product Delivery Analyst

PDC Program Designator Code

PDF Portable Document Format

PDM Product Delivery Manager

PDP Project Defined Process

PDR Preliminary Design Review

PDS Partitioned Data Set




Term Definition

PDU Power Distribution Unit

Peer Review A methodical, documented process review performed by peers, as appropriate, to identify anomalies and gain a better understanding of the changes to a process asset

PEO Program Executive Office

PEO-IT Program Executive Office for Information Technology

PF Public Folder

PGWS Primary Groupware Server

Phase Portion of a series of activities

PI Potential Incident. Events of interest that have been evaluated to meet the criteria of an actual targeted service interruption; elevated to CNNOC for evaluation of an actual incident.

PIAB POP in a Box

PIC Program Information Center

PIM Process and Information Management

PIO Program Information Office

PIRC Product Insertion Review Committee

PIV Project InVision

PKI Public Key Infrastructure

PLA Post-LADRA Assessment

Plan Documents processes to be performed and how they will be tracked and managed; provides an operational bridge between organizationally defined processes and PDPs; identifies who, what, when, where, why, and how

PLM Product Line Manager

PM Program Manager

PMC Portal Management Console

PMF Process Management Framework. The EDS NMCI Process Management Framework identifies components that can be used in a predefined structure to create and implement functional processes in a consistent manner. This framework enables new process products to be defined and added to the organization’s assets, so that they will integrate (relate) to the existing ones.

PMO Program Management Office

PMW Program Management Warfare

PO Purchase Order

POA&M Plan of Action and Milestones

POC Point of Contact

Policy Provides guiding principles that influence and determine organizational decisions; demonstrates Senior Leadership commitment to a process.




Term Definition

POM Program Objective Memorandum

POP Point of Presence

POR Program Of Record

POST Power On Self Test

POTS Plain Old Telephone Service

PPI Past Performance Information

PPP Priority Placement Program

PPR Program Planning Review

QMS Quality Management System

PR Purchase Request

PRI Primary Rate Interface (ISDN)

PRLH Pearl Harbor

Procedure Mechanism used to execute a process; provides step-by-step instructions or how-to information; an established series of steps that are followed in a regular, definite order to accomplish tasks; an established or prescribed method followed routinely in the performance of designated operations or in designated situations.

Process Defines what people do; documents roles and responsibilities for specific steps that are executed; uses inputs to accomplish a purpose, usually work products or services; sequential, related work activities and tasks that focus on accomplishing a specific objective:

Defined starting and ending points for each work unit

Combination of people, technologies, raw materials, methods, and environments to create a product, deliver a service, or accomplish an interim milestone

Process Activities Major actions within a process that are documented as a series or sequence of steps.

Process Asset Any developed process, procedure, or job aid used by EDS NMCI personnel to support the NMCI contract; documentation that relates to describing, implementing, and improving processes (for example, policies, measurements, process descriptions, process standards, models, frameworks, life cycles, and process implementation support tools).

Process Author Responsible for developing or updating a process asset; presents the process asset documentation in a Peer Review; responds to reviewer questions; participates in document improvement discussions; and applies changes to the document after the Peer Review.

Process Business Rules

Guidelines or formulas that dictate the structure of an activity within a process (for example, design reviews must occur during the 10 days before AOR).

Process Complexities Process anomalies, such as the following: Mistakes and defects in a process outcome Breakdowns and delays in delivering a process outcome Inefficiencies in a process




Term Definition Variations in process outcome

Process Constraint Restriction to a process (i.e., what the process will and will not achieve); explanation of process boundaries and limitations; for example, issues, such as customization, access, consistency, geographic dispersion of process resources or users, and agreement among stakeholders.

Process Dependencies

All events, factors, players, and other processes that affect a process (before the fact or after the fact).

Process Documentation

Printed documents, electronic files, software, and other materials and tools (including cross-item links) related to a process, for example, job aids, reference materials, guidelines, templates, flowcharts.

Process Flowchart A graphical view of the logical flow of major tasks and procedure calls within a process.

Process Input Resource used by an activity to accomplish the activity’s purpose; all significant information, knowledge, guidelines, documents that are required to complete an activity or task within a process.

Process Management Phases of process management as follows:

Develop. Create a process by defining activities and tasks that must be completed, responsible personnel, sequence of completion, inputs and outputs, and by creating supporting tools, such as templates, databases, user guides, job aids, references.

Document. Develop narrative, flowcharts, presentations, Web pages, databases, and archives that describe and support a process.

Approve and Accept. Formally review and agree on a process that can be changed after approval only through the use of formal, controlled procedures.

Implement. Put a process into practice.

Monitor. Track process performance over time, using identified measures.

Improve. Analyze process performance and identify changes that will increase its effectiveness.

Process Owner The individual responsible for approving changes made to a process.

PSI Physical Site Identifier

PSQ Preliminary Site Questionnaire

PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network

PTR Post-Test Review

PVC Permanent Virtual Circuit

QDATS Quarantine Desktop Application Transition Strategy

QUAN Quantico

R/W/B seat Red/White/Blue seat

RA Recovery Agent

RAB Remote Access Boundary




Term Definition

RAS Remote Access Service

RBAC Role-Based Access Control

RC Responsibility Center

RCA Root Cause Analysis. An analysis to determine the cause of a Service Level Variance.

RCP Request for Contractual Procurement

RCS Radia Configuration Server

RD&A Research Development and Acquisition

RDT&E Research, Development, Testing & Evaluation

REA Request for Equitable Adjustment

Related Documents Documents that are used within, or referenced by, a process.

RESFOR Reserve Forces

RESO Resolution

Resources Tools, skills, knowledge, or training required by or available for use in a process.

RFA Request for Access

RFC Request for Comment

RFC Request for Change

RFP Request for Proposal

RFS Request for Service (DITCO)

R-G Robbins-Gioia

RGC Routing Group Connector

RGCS Routing Group Connector Services

RII Reinvestment in Infrastructure

RMA Records Management Application

RMC Raptor Management Console

RMC Request Management Center

RME Resource Manager Essentials

RMERQ Risk Mitigation Engineering Review Questionnaire

RMP Release Management Process

RMS Records Management System

ROI Return on Investment

ROM Rough Order of Magnitude

ROM Rough Order of Magnitude




Term Definition

RPC Remote Procedure Calls

RPS Radia Proxy Server

RR Readiness Review

RRPTE Requesting a Release in the Post-Transition Environment

RSP Remedy Skilled Professional

RTD Request to Deploy

RTO Request to Operate

RtOP Response to Operational Problem

S Secret

S&T Science and Technology

SABI Secret and Below Interoperability

SACK Selective Acknowledgement

SAM Status of Acquisition Message (DISA)

SAN Storage Area Network

SAP Special Access Program

SAR Solution Approval Review

SAR Status of Acquisition Report

SAT Special Action Team

SATE Security Awareness, Training, and Education

SAV Symantec Anti-Virus

SAWG Security and Accreditation Working Group

SBU Sensitive But Unclassified

SCG Security Classification Guide

SCI Sensitive Compartmental Information

SCM Site Concurrence Memorandum

SCM Site Continuity Management

SCM Supply Chain Management

Scope The range of activity covered by a process or procedure

SCR Schedule Change Request

SDM Site Delivery Manager

SDM Server Data Migration

SDNI San Diego

SDP Service Delivery Point (DISA)

SDU Secure Domain Unit (DISA)




Term Definition

SEAG Security Enterprise Action Group

SECGRU Naval Security Group

SECNAVINST Secretary of the Navy Instruction

SEI Software Engineering Institute

SEM Systems Engineering Management

SEMP Systems Engineering and Migration Planning

SF Server Farm

SF Standard Form

SHC Stakeholders’ Council

SIL Site Integration Lead

SIMAN Station Iwakuni Metropolitan Area Network

SIPRNET Secret Internet Protocol Router Network

SLA Service Level Agreement. A written agreement between an IT service provider (see EDS NMCI Personnel) and the IT client (DoN or Marine Corps), defining the key service targets and responsibilities of both parties.

SLIP Service Level Incentive and Penalty

SLM Service Level Management

SLV Service Level Variance

SM Site Manager

SMB Server Message Blocks

SMD Site Management Division

SME Subject Matter Expert

SMO STEM Management Office

SMP Service Management Plan

SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol

SOAP Simple Open Access Protocol

SOC Site Operations Center

SOE Standard Office Environment

SONET Synchronous Optical Network

SOO Statement of Objectives

SOP Standard Operating Procedure

SOVT System Operational Verification Test

SOW Statement of Work




Term Definition

SP Service Pack

SPAWAR Space and Naval Warfare

SPAWARCOM Space and Naval Warfare Command

SPAWARSYSCEN Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center

SPM Standard Performance Measure

SPPA Services and Products Purchasing Agreement

SQL Structured Query Language (structured language protocol for a database query)

SR Service Request

SRM Service Request for Maintenance

SRM Service Request Management

SRO Service Request Owner

SSA Software Support Activity

SSAA System Security Authorization Agreement

SSBI Single-Scope Background Investigation

SSC Symantec System Console

SSC-SD SPAWAR Systems Center—San Diego

SSE Site Solution Engineer

SSH Secure Shell

SSL Secure Sockets Layer

SSO Special Security Officer

SSR Sea Shore Rotation

SSTB Small Site Transport Boundary

ST&E Security Test & Evaluation

Stakeholder Anyone who has a vested interest in the successful functionality of a process asset and can review the process asset as desired by the process author.

STAQA Standards, Testing, Audit, and Quality Assurance

STAT Systems Transition Analysis Team

STE Secure Terminal Equipment

STEM Site Transition Execution Manager

Steps The actions that create or achieve a work product or service; answers the question “How?”

ST-ERQ System Transition—Engineering Review Questionnaire

STM Site Transition Manager

SubK Mgt Subcontracts Management




Term Definition

SW-CMM Capability Maturity Model for Software

SWG Security Working Group

System Group of related processes or components that interact as a whole to perform tasks, continually affecting each other over time and operating toward a common goal.

T&E Test and Evaluation

T/EC Tivoli Enterprise Console

TAC Technical Assistance Center

TACACS Terminal Access Controller Access Control System

TAPM Tivoli Application Performance Monitor

TART Technical Application Review Team

Task Individual activity that is just one element of a larger activity.

TCC Tivoli Certified Consultant

TCEC Tivoli Certified Solution Expert

TCP Transmission Control Protocol

TDR Time Domain Reflect-o-meter

TEAG Technical Enterprise Action Group

TEAM Total Enterprise Asset Management

TECOM Test and Evaluation Command

TELCO Telephone Company

TELNET Telecommunications Network

TESP Test & Evaluation Strategy Plan

TEWG Test & Evaluation Working Group

TFWeb Task Force Web

THREATCON Threat Condition

Tier 1 Review Place where Legacy applications are collected.

Tier 2 Review When Legacy applications are determined whether or not to be complex.

Tier 3 Review When NMCI personnel meet with Legacy application owners (not users) to better understand the application.

TMR Tivoli Management Region

TO Task Order

To-Be Where NMCI is at cutover.

TOD Technical Objective Document

Tools An application, database, checklist, SOP, or other job aid used to complete process activities and tasks.




Term Definition

Touch Point Connection between activities in different processes.

TPPR Transition Program Process Review

TPRB Technical Prioritization Review Board

TR Telecommunications Request (DISA)

TRQ Tempest Requirements Questionnaire

TS Top Secret

TSG Technical Support Group

TSO Telecommunications Service Order

TSR Technical Solution Request

TSR Technical Solution Review

TSR Telecommunications Service Request

TSR Technical Services Request

TST Technical Solutions Team

TWR Technical Work Request

U Unclassified

UAIF User Asset and Information Form

UAT User Acceptance Testing

UC Underpinning Contracts

UDDI Universal Description Discovery and Integration

UDP User Data Protocol

UIC Unit Identification Code

ULSP User Logistics Support Plan

U-NNPI Unclassified Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information

UPN User Principal Name

UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply

uRAS unclassified Remote Access Service

URL Uniform Resource Locator

USB Universal Serial Bus

Useful Commercial Life

The commercial utility of the facility (instead of its physical life) with consideration given to factors, such as location of facilities, specialized nature, and obsolescence.

uSF Unclassified Server Farm

USMC United States Marine Corps

USN United States Navy




Term Definition

UTAM User-to-Application Mapping

UTCM User-to-CLIN Mapping

UTNpp Unclassified Trusted Network Protect Policy

UTP Unshielded Twisted Pair

UUNET Unix-to-Unix Network

VAL Visit Authorization Letter

VB Vendor BOM

vBNS Very High-Speed Backbone Network Service

VERA Voluntary Early Retirement Authority

VIP Very Important Person

VLAN Virtual Local Area Network

VPN Virtual Private Network

VRF Visit Letter Request Form

VRU Voice Response Unit

VSSD Very Small Site Design

VTC Video Teleconferencing

W!NGS WAM!NET Government Services

WAN Wide Area Network

WAR Weekly Activity Report

WBT Web-Based Training

WINS Windows Internet Name Service

WIP Work in Progress

WIPT Working Integrated Product Team

Work Products The result of agents performing activities; can be a tangible artifact or a service; answers the question “What?”

WR Work Request

WS Warehouse Specialist

WSH Windows Scripting Host

WWW World Wide Web

XPS Extensible Portal Software (or Services)

