FAATBook_July2009

Acronyms

Abbreviations

& Terms

A Capability Assurance Job Aid

FEMA P-524 / July 2009

FEMA

Acronyms

Abbreviations

and Terms

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2SR

Second Stage Review

4Wd

Four Wheel Drive

1) Activity of Isotope

2) Ampere

3) Atomic Mass

A&E

Architectural and Engineering

A&FM

Aviation and Fire Management

A&M

Customs and Border Protection Air & Marine

(CBP/A&M)

A/D

Analog/Digital

A/N

Alert and Notication (see AN)

A2H

America's Second Harvest

1) Afrmative Action

2) Allocation Advice

3) Applicant Assistance

4) Approval Authority

5) Atomic Absorption

6) Attribute Authority

AAA

1) Agriculture Adjustment Administration

2) American Ambulance Association

3) Area Agency on Aging

AAACE

Airport Access Authorization to Commercial

Establishments

AAAE

American Association of Airport Executives

AAC

1) Activity Address Code

2) Applicant Assistance Center

AACES

Automated, Adaptive Chemical Examination

System

AACPP

Airport Access Control Pilot Program

AACS

Automated Access Control System

AAD

Assistant Associate Director

AADPIA

Assistant Associate Director for Public &

Intergovernmental Affairs

AADR

Age-Adjusted Death Rate

AAEI

American Association of Exporters and

Importers

AAER

Average Annual Erosion Rate

AAFAS

Automated Airborne Flight Alert System

AAFB

Andrews Air Force Base

AAML

Agency Aviation Military Liaison

AAMS

Automated Acquisition Management System

(ProTrac / ProDoc)

AAMVA

American Association of Motor Vehicle

Administrators

AAPA

American Association of Port Authorities

AAPD

American Association of People with Disabilities

AAR

1) After Action Report

2) After Action Review

3) Association of American Railroads

AASHTO

American Association of State Highway and

Transportation Ofcials

AAU

Association of American Universities

AAVLD

American Association of Veterinary Laboratory

Diagnosticians

ABA

1) American Bar Association

2) American Bus Association

ABAG

Association of Bay Area Governments

ABC

1) American Baptist Churches

2) [Outstanding] American By Choice Award

3) Arizona Border Control Plan

ABCI

Arizona Border Control Initiative

ABCO

Automated Billing & Collection Off-sets

ABD

Air Bridge Denial

ABEL

Agent Based Economic Laboratory

ABF

Automatic Broadcast Feed

ABHS

Alcohol Based Hand Sanitizer

ABI

Automated Broker Interface

ABIH

American Board of Industrial Hygiene

ABIS

see IDENT

ABM

Anti-Ballistic Missile

ABMC

American Battle Monuments Commission

ABNCP

Airborne Command Post

ABO

Agents of Biological Origin

ABRO

Aircraft Base Radio Operator

ABS

Arson and Bomb Squad

1) Alternating Current

2) Area Command

3) Area Committee

ACAA

Air Carrier Association for Americans

ACAC

Area Command Aviation Coordinator

ACADA

Automatic Chemical Agent Detection and Alarm

ACAMS

Automatic Continuous Air Monitoring System

ACAP

1) Agency-wide Corrective Action Program

2) Alien Criminal Apprehension Program

ACBIRC

Advanced Chemical/Biological Integrated

Response Course

ACC

1) Agency Command Center

2) Air Combat Command

3) American Chemistry Council

4) Aviation Command Center

ACCS

Accounting Classication Code Structure

ACCT

1) Accounting Technician

2) Account

ACDA

U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

ACDO

Advanced Concept Demonstration Ofce

ACDP

Aircraft Dispatcher

ACDR

Area Commander

ACE

1) Academy of Counter-Terrorist Education

2) Accumulated Cyclone Energy

3) American Council on Education

4) Army Corps of Engineers

5) Automated Commercial Environment (secure

data portal)

6) Automated Construction Estimate

ACEP

American College of Emergency Physicians

ACF

1) Administration for Children and Families

2) Alternate Care Facility

3) Alternate Control Facility

ACFM

Advanced Certied Floodplain Manager

ACGIH

American Council of Government Industrial

Hygienists

ACH

Automated Clearing House

AChE

Acetylcholinesterase

ACHP

Advisory Council on Historic Preservation

ACI

1) Advanced Contracting Initiative

2) Airports Council International

3) Approved Course of Instruction

ACI/NA

Airports Council International--North America

ACIP

Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices

ACIR

Advisory Commission on Inter-governmental

Relations

ACIS

Aviation Credential Interoperability Solution

ACL

Access Control List

ACMR

Assistant Cache Manager

ACMS

Academy Class Management System

ACO

1) Administrative Contracting Ofcer

2) Agency Claims Ofcer

3) Agency Collection Ofcer

4) Animal Control Ofcer

ACP

1) Accelerated Conversion Process

2) Access Control Points

3) Allied Communications Publication

4) Alternate Command Post

5) Area Command Post

6) Area Contingency Plan

ACPSEM

Advisory Council on Professional Standards for

Emergency Managers

ACR

1) Acreage Conservation Reserve

2) Advance Conrmation Report

3) Agency Conrmation Report

ACS

1) Adventist Community Services

2) Alternate Command Staff

3) Automated Commercial System

ACSD

Advanced Container Security Device (See CSD.)

ACSDR

Adventist Community Services Disaster Response

ACSI

American Customer Satisfaction Index

ACSM

American Congress of Surveying and Mapping

ACT

1) American Council for Technology

2) Area Command Team

ACT FAST

Agent Characteristics Toxicity - First Aid and

Special Treatment

ACTD

Advanced Concepts Technology Demonstration

ACTE

Association of Corporate Travel Executives

ACTY

Activity

ACV

1) Actual Cash Value

2) Alarm Check Valve

ACVP

Airline Certicate Vetting Program

ACWG

Air Cargo Working Group

1) Administratively Determined (also AD#)

2) Assistant Director

3) Associate Director

4) Automatic Determination

ADA

Americans with Disabilities Act

ADAMS

Automated Disaster Assistance Management

System

ADASHI

Automated Decision Aid System for Hazardous

Incidents

ADASP

Aviation Direct Access Screening Program

ADD

Automated Deployment Database

ADDIE

Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation,

and Evaluation

ADDS

Automated Disaster Deployment System

ADEM

1) Arizona Division of Emergency Management

2) Arkansas Department of Emergency

Management

ADES

Alaska Division of Emergency Services

ADFR

Arson Detection for the First Responder

ADGGS

Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical

Surveys

ADIS

Arrival and Departure Information System

ADIZ

Air Defense Identication Zone

ADJ

Adjustable

ADL

Automated Distance Learning

ADM

1) Acquisition Decision Memorandum

2) Admiral

ADMIN

1) Administration

2) Administrative

ADMSYS

Admissions System

ADO

Airport District Ofce

ADO Team

Assistant Disbursing Ofcer Team

ADOS

Automated Document Ordering System

ADP

Automated Data Processing

ADPE

Automated Data Processing Equipment

ADR

1) Address

2) Alternative Dispute Resolution

3) American Disaster Reserve

ADRA

1) Adventist Development and Relief Agency

2) Air Domain Risk Assessment

3) Alternative Dispute Resolution Act

ADRS

Automated Disaster Reporting System

ADTS

Automated Data Telecommunications Service

ADVISE

Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight,

and Semantic Enhancement

ADVON

Advanced Echelon

1) Aero-medical Evacuation

2) Architects and Engineering

AEA

1) American Economic Association

2) American Electronics Association

AEAS

Automated Exercise and Assessment System

AEC

1) Advanced Electronic Classroom

2) Agency Emergency Coordinator

3) Army Environmental Center (Aberdeen

Proving Ground, Maryland)

4) Atomic Energy Commission

AECB

Atomic Energy and Control Board

AECC

1) Aero-Medical Evacuation Control Center

2) Aero-Medical Evacuation Coordination Center

3) American Evangelical Christian Church

AECE

Aero-medical Evacuation Control Element

AECM

Aero-medical Evacuation Crew Members

AECR

Achieving Extraordinary Customer Relations

AED

Automated External Debrillator

AEGL

Acute Exposure Guidelines Level

AEI

American Enterprise Institute

AEIC

Alaska Earthquake Information Center

AEL

1) Adverse Effect Level

2) Airborne Exposure Limit

3) Authorized Equipment List

AELT

Aero-medical Evacuation Liaison Team

AEMA

Alabama Emergency Management Agency

AEOD

Analysis and Evaluation of Operation Data

AEP

Airport Emergency Plan

AERT

Alaska Emergency Response Team

AES

1) Advanced Encryption Standard

2) Aero-medical Evacuation System

3) Automated Export System

AEW

Airborne Early Warning

1) Acre Feet

2) Air Force

AFA

Association of Flight Attendants

AFB

Air Force Base

AFCEA

Armed Forces Communications and Electronics

Association

AFD

Airport Facility Directory

AFEM

Alliance for Fire and Emergency Management

AFEWES

Air Force Electronic Warfare Evaluation

Simulator

AFFIRM

Association for Federal Information Resources

Management

AFG

Assistance to Fireghters Grant

AFGE

American Federation of Government Employees

AFGWC

Air Force Global Weather Central

AFIP

Armed Forces Institute of Pathology

AFL-CIO

American Federation of Labor and Congress of

Industrialized Organizations

AFM

Adjudicator's Field Manual

AFMIC

Armed Forces Medial Intelligence Center

AFMLS

Asset Forfeiture & Money Laundering Section

AFMO

Assistant Fire Management Ofcer

AFMS

Automated Forms System

AFNSEP

Air Force National Security Emergency

Preparedness

AFO

Area Field Ofce

AFOC

Air Force Operations Center

AFOSC

Air Force Operations Support Center

AFRAS

Association For Rescue At Sea

AFRAT

Air Force Radiation Assessment Team

AFRB

Air Force Reserve Base

AFRCC

Air Force Rescue Coordination Center

AFRES

Air Force Reserve

AFRL

Air Force Research Laboratory

AFRRI

Armed Force Radiobiology Research Institute

AFSA

American Financial Services Association

AFSC

Armed Forces Staff College

AFSOF

Air Force Special Operations Forces

AFSP

Alien Flight Student Program

AFSS

Automated Flight Service Station

AFTAC

Air Force Technical Applications Center

1) Adjutant General

2) Agriculture

3) Attorney General

AGAR

Alternate Governor’s Authorized Representative

AGAUS

Adjutants General Association of the U.S.

AGC

1) Advanced Gas Centrifuge

2) Association of General Contractors

3) Associate General Counsel

AGCA

Associated General Contractors of America

AGCR

Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactor

AGE

Aerospace Ground Equipment

AGILE

Advanced Geospatial Imagery Library

Enterprise

AGL

Above Ground Level

AGR

Active Guard/Reserve

AGS

Aviation Group Supervisor

AGV

Aggregate Value

AGY

Agency

AGZ

Actual Ground Zero

Alternate Headquarters

AHAM

Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers

AHCC

Alternate Host Communications Center

AHG

Ad Hoc Group

AHIMT

All Hazards Incident Management Team

AHJ

Agency Having Jurisdiction

AHMA

American Hotel and Motel Association

AHRQ

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

AHT

Animal Health Technician

AHU

Air Handling Unit

AHUA

America Highway User Alliance

AI&H

Assistance to Individuals and Households

AI2

Acquisition Improvement Initiative

AIA

1) American Institute of Architects

2) American Insurance Association

AIAA

American Institute of Aeronautics and

Astronautics

AIATP

Anti-Terrorism Intelligence Awareness Training

Program

AIBS

American Institute of Biological Sciences

AIC

1) Animal Identication Coordinator

2) Automated Inventory Control (formerly AIS)

AID

Agency for International Development

AIF

Assistance Information Form

AIG

Address Indicating Group

AIHEC

American Indian Higher Education Consortium

AILA

American Immigration Lawyers Association

AIMS

1) Arson Information Management System

2) Automated Inventory Management System

AIP

1) Agreement In Principle

2) Airport Improvement Program

3) Assisted Imaging Processing

AIPC

All Indian Pueblo Council

AIREP

Aircraft Report

AIS

1) Automated Information System

2) Automatic Identication System

AIT

Aeromedical Isolation Team

Administrative Judge

AKA

Also Known As

AKDT

Alaska Daylight Time (GMT - 8)

AKST

Alaska Standard Time (GMT - 9)

Applicant Liaison

ALARA

As Low as Reasonably Achievable

ALB

Administration and Logistics Branch (US-VISIT)

ALC

1) Agency Location Code

2) Agency Logistics Center

3) Annual Letter of Certication

ALCC

1) Airlift Control Center

2) Airlift Coordination Cell

ALCE

Airlift Control Element

ALCOM

Alaskan Command

ALE

1) Additional Living Expenses

2) Automatic Link Establishment

ALERT

Automated Local Evaluation in Real Time

ALOHA

Aerial Locations Of Hazardous Atmospheres

ALPA

Airline Pilots Association

ALS

Advanced Life Support

ALSM

Airborne Laser Swath Mapping (aka: "LIDAR")

ALT

Alternate

ALTRETCO

Alternate Regional Emergency Transportation

Coordinator

ALUM

Aluminum

1) Amplitude Modulation

2) Ante Meridiem

AMA

American Medical Association

AMB

Air & Marine Branch (ICE/AMB)

AMBUS

Ambulance Bus

AMC

1) Air Mobility Command

2) Army Materiel Command

AMCCOM

Armament Munitions and Chemical Command

AMD

Acquisition Management Division

AMEAGS

Automated Major Emergency Action Guidelist

System

AMF

Alternative Morgue Facility

AMGS

Air & Marine Group Supervisor

AMHS

Automated Message Handling System

AMID

Air and Marine Interdiction Division

AMINESKAL

American Indian Eskimo Aleutian

AMIO

Alien Migrant Interdiction Operations

AML

ARC Macro Language

AMO

Air and Marine Operations (ICE)

AMOC

Air and Marine Operations Center

AMP

Amperage

AMPS

Automated Message Processing System

AMR

Agricultural Mitigation and Restoration

AMS

1) Aerial Measuring System

2) American Meteorological Society

3) Atmospheric Monitoring System

4) Automated Manifest System

AMSLAN

American Sign Language

AMSP

Area Maritime Security Plan

AMT

Amount

AMTOR

Amateur Telegraphy Over Radio

AMWA

Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies

1) Above Normal

2) Alert and Notication (see A/N)

ANACI

Access National Agency Check and Inquiry

ANAD

Anniston Army Depot

ANCA

Anniston Chemical Activity

ANCDF

Anniston Chemical Disposal Facility

ANFAZD

Academic Network for Foreign Animal and

Zoonotic Disease

ANFO

Ammonium Nitrate and Fuel Oil

ANG

1) Air National Guard

2) Army National Guard

ANGB

Air National Guard Base

ANI

1) American Nuclear Insurers

2) Area Not Included

ANL

Argonne National Laboratories

ANOC

Association of National Olympic Committees

ANPR

Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

ANPRM

Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking [see

NPRM and SNPRM]

ANPSC

Alternate National Processing Service Center

ANRC

American National Red Cross

ANS

1) Alert and Notication System

2) Answer

3) Aquatic Nuisance Species

ANSI

American National Standards Institute

ANSI-HSSP

American National Standards Institute-

Homeland Securities Standards Panel

ANZUS

Australia, New Zealand and United States

1) Action Ofcer

2) Administrative Ofcer

3) Area of Operations

4) Assistance Ofcer

AOA

1) Administration on Aging

2) Aviation Operations Area

AOAC

Association for Ofcial Analytical Communities

AOBD

Air Operations Branch Director

AOBS

Aerial Observer

AOC

1) Aircraft Operating Center (NOAA)

2) Area of Concern

3) Army Operations Center

AOIC

Acting Ofcial in Charge

AOPA

Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association

AOR

Area of Responsibility

AOSSP

Aircraft Operator Standard Security Program

AOV

Agency Owned Vehicle

1) Aerial Port

2) Alternate Power

3) Arrival Point

4) Assembly Point

5) Associated Press

AP&CP

Arson Prevention and Control Plan

APA

1) American Planning Association

2) Administrative Procedure Act

APB

Acquisition Program Baseline

APC

Agency Program Coordinator

APCO

Association of Public Safety Communications

[Worldwide]

APE

Area of Potential Effect

APEC

Asia Pacic Economic Cooperation

APERMANS

Automated Personnel Management System

APG

Aberdeen Proving Ground

APHA

American Public Health Association

APHIS

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

APHL

Association of Public Health Laboratories

API

Application Programming Interface

APIS

1) Administrative and Program Information

System

2) Advance Passenger Information System

APL

Annex Planning Leaders

APLCN

Application

APLCT

Applicant

APLNC

Appliance

APMB

Acquisition and Program Management Branch

(US-VISIT)

APO

Accountable Property Ofcer

APOD

Aerial Port of Debarkation

APOE

Aerial Port of Embarkation

APP

1) Apparatus

2) Applicant

3) Application

4) Application Portability Prole

APPN

Appropriation

APPT

Appointment

APR

1) Agency Procurement Review

2) Air-Purifying Respirator

APRSAC

Academe and Policy Research Advisory

Committee

APSO

Asylum Pre-Screening Ofcer

APSP

Automated Passenger Screening Prole

APSRS

Aerial Photography Summary Record System

APSS

Automated Personnel Security System

APT

Administrative Payment Team

APTA

American Public Transportation Associations

APTS

1) Airport, Port, and Terminal Security

2) Association of Public Television Stations

APWA

American Public Works Association

AQI

Agricultural Quarantine Inspections

1) Acknowledge Receipt

2) Aerial Reconnaissance

3) Army Regulation

ARA

1) Aircraft Rental Agreement

2) Analog Radio Adapter

ARAA

Advanced Radiological Accident Assessment

ARAC

Atmospheric Release Advisory Capability

ARB

Air Reserve Base

ARC

1) American Red Cross (also RC) [ESF-6]

2) Analytic Resources Catalog

ARCA

Area Requiring Corrective Action

ARCHIE

Automated Resource for Chemical Hazard

Incident Evaluation

ARD

Advanced Radiation Detection

AREAL

Atmospheric Research and Exposure Assessment

Laboratory

AREP

Agency Representative

ARES

Amateur Radio Emergency Services

ARF

1) Action Request Form

2) Aviation Route Forecast

ARFCAM

Autonomous Rapid Facility Chemical Agent

Monitor

ARFF

Aircraft Rescue Fireghting

ARFI

Areas Recommended For Improvement

ARG

Accident Response Group

ARI

Acute Respiratory Infection

ARIES

Airborne Rapid Imagery for Emergency Support

ARIO

Advanced Radiation Incident Operations

ARIP

Accidental Release Information Program

ARJIS

Automated Regional Justice Information System

ARL

1) Activities Result List

2) Airborne Reconnaissance Low

ARL-M

Airborne Reconnaissance Low - Multifunction

ARM

Aerial Radiological Monitor

ARMS

Automated Resource Management System

(FEMA)

ARNG

Army National Guard

ARNGOPS

Army National Guard Operations

A-ROC

Alternate Regional Operations Center

ARP

1) Administration and Resource Planning

2) Alarm Resolution Protocols

ARPA

Advanced Research Projects Agency

ARPANET

Advanced Research Projects Agency Network

ARRA

American Recovery & Reinvestment Act

ARRAS

Automatic Residential Remote Alarm System

ARRL

American Radio Relay League

ARS

1) Agricultural Research Service

2) Automatic Route Selection

ARSOF

Army Special Operations Forces

ARSR

Air Route Surveillance Radar

ART

Awards Review Team

ARTCC

Air Route Trafc Control Center

ARTS

Audit Report Tracking System

ARWO

Aerial Reconnaissance Weather Ofce

1) Applicant Services

2) Automatic Sprinkler

AS 06

Ardent Sentry 06 (exercise)

ASA

Average Speed of Answer

ASA/IL&E

Assistant Secretary of the Army (Installation,

Logistics and Environment)

ASAC

Aviation Security Advisory Committee

ASAP

1) Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel

2) All-Hazards Situation Assessment Prototype

3) As Soon As Possible

4) Automated Standard Application for

Payments

ASC

1) Advanced Systems Center

2) Allowable Stack Concentration

3) Application Support Center

4) Area of Special Consideration

ASCADS

Automated Sorting, Conversion and Distribution

System

ASCE

American Society of Civil Engineers

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information

Interchange

ASCS

Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation

Services

ASD

1) Acoustic Surveillance Device

2) Administrative Security Division

3) Allowable Stress Design

4) Assistant Secretary of Defense

ASD (HD)

Assistant Secretary of Defense, Homeland

Defense

ASD (SO/LIC)

Assistant Secretary of Defense (Special

Operations/Low-Intensity Conict)

ASDAR

Aircraft to Satellite Data Relay

ASDRC

Automated Systems Disaster Recovery Capabilities

ASDSO

Association of State Dam Safety Ofcials

ASDWA

Association of State Drinking Water

Administrators

ASEAN

Association of Southeast Asian Nations

ASFPM

Association of State Floodplain Managers

ASGS

Air Support Group Supervisor

ASH

Assistant Secretary for Health

ASHA

Assistant Secretary for Health Affairs

ASHG

Accident Site Health Group

ASHRAE

American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and

Air-Conditioning Engineers

ASI

America's Shield Initiative

ASIA

1) Anti-Smuggling Investigators Association

2) Assistant Secretary for Information Analysis

ASIANPACI

Asian Pacic Islander

ASIP

Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Protection

ASIS

American Society for Industrial Security

ASIWPCA

Association of State and Interstate Water

Pollution Control Administrators

ASL

1) Above Sea Level

2) American Sign Language

ASLB

Atomic Safety and Licensing Board

ASM

Air Support Manager

ASME

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

ASMRO

Armed Services Medical Regulating Ofce

ASMT

Assessment

ASN

Abstract Syntax Notation

ASOS

Automated Surface Observing System

ASP

1) Active Server Page

2) Advanced Spectroscopic Portal

3) Associate Safety Professional

4) Aviation Security Program

ASPA

Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs

ASPE

American Society of Professional Estimators

ASPECT

1) Airborne Spectral Environmental Collection

Technology

2) Airborne Spectral Photographic

Environmental Collection Technology

ASPHEP

Assistant Secretary for Public Health Emergency

Preparedness

ASPRS

American Society of Photogrammetry and

Remote Sensing

ASR

1) Aquifer Storage Recovery

2) Atmosphere Supplying Respirator

3) Automatic Sprinkler Riser

ASSE

American Society of Safety Engineers

ASSET

Advanced Simulation and Software Engineering

Technology

ASST

Assistant

ASSY

Assembly

AST

1) Aboveground Storage Tank

2) Accessible Systems and Technologies

3) Aviation Survival Technician

ASTA

American Society of Travel Agents

ASTHO

Association of State and Territorial Health

Ofcials

ASTI

Airport Security Technology Integration

ASTM

American Society for Testing and Materials

ASTS

Aeromedical Staging Squadron

ASU

All-Source Situational Understanding

ASUFAC

Airport and Seaport User Fee Advisory

Committee, INS

1) Advanced Technology

2) Anti-Terrorism

AT&L

Acquisition, Technology and Logistics

AT/FP

Anti-Terrorism & Force Protection

ATA

1) Actual Time of Arrival

2) Airline Transportation Association

3) American Trucking Association

ATB

Applied Technology Board

ATBM

AirTanker Base Manager

ATC

1) Air Trafc Control

2) Applied Technology Council

A-TCET

1) Anti-Terrorism Combat Enforcement Team

2) Anti-Terrorism Contraband Enforcement

Team

ATCO

Airtanker Coordinator

ATCT

Air Trafc Control Tower

ATD

1) Actual Time of Departure

2) Advanced Technology Demonstration

3) Atmospheric Transport and Dispersion

ATDI

Advance Trade Data Initiative

ATDP

Annual Training and Development Plan

ATDT

Atlantic Daylight Time (GMT - 3)

ATF

Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

[Bureau of]

ATGS

Air Tactical Group Supervisor

ATH

Air-Transportable Hospital

ATIS

Alliance for Telecommunications Industry

Solutions

ATM

1) Automated Teller Machine

2) Asynchronous Transfer Mode

ATMU

Advanced Technology Meteorological Unit

ATMWU

Air Transportable Mobile Weather Unit

ATN

Aeronautical Telecommunications Networks

ATO

Air Tasking Order

ATP

1) Air Transit Program

2) Authority to Participate

ATR

Advanced Thermal Reactor

ATRAP

Air Transportable RADIAC Package

ATS

Automated Targeting System

ATSA

Aviation and Transportation Security Act

ATSDR

Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease

Registry (USPHS)

ATST

Atlantic Standard Time (GMT - 4)

ATT

Anti-Terrorism Technologies

ATTF

Antiterrorism Task Force

ATTN

Attention

ATV

All-terrain vehicle

AUH

Attached Unit Housing

AUSA

Assistant U. S. Attorney

AUTHN

Authorization

AUTHY

Authority

AUTODIN

Automatic Digital Network

AUVSI

Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems

International

1) Air Vehicle

2) Audio-Visual

AVC

Alaska Volcano Center

AVHRR

Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer

AVI

Audio-Visual Interleave

AVIC

Area Veterinarian in Charge

AVIP

Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program

AVLIS

Atomic Vapor Laser Isotope Separation

AVMA

American Veterinary Medical Association

AVO

Alaska Volcano Observatory

AVOps

Aviation Operations

AVSEC

Aviation Security

AWACS

Airborne Warning and Control System

AWBA

Average Weekly Benet Amount

AWD

Available Without Declaration

AWIPS

Advanced Weather Interactive Processing

System

AWIS

Automated Weather Information System

AWO

American Waterway Operators

AWOL

Absent Without Leave

AWOP

Absence Without Pay

AWRA

American Water Resources Association

AWS

Alternate Work Schedule

AWWA

American Water Works Association

AYE

Alternate Year Exercise

B&SA

Bureau and Statistical Agent (NFIP)

B/C

Benet/Cost

BAA

1) Broad Agency Announcement

2) Broad Area Announcement

BACM

Business Alliance for Customs Modernization

BAER

1) Burned Area Emergency Rehabilitation

(Team)

2) Burned Area Emergency Response

BALV

Best Available Lodging Value

BAND

Bio-agent Autonomous Networked Detectors

BARDA

Biomedical Advanced Research & Development

Authority

BAREPP

Bay Area Regional Earthquake Preparedness

Project

BASIS

Biological Aerosol Sentry and Information

System

BATF

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms

BATT

Battery

BAWS

Biological Aerosol Warning System

BBP

Blood Borne Pathogen

BBRS

Board of Building Regulations and Standards

BBS

Bulletin Board System

1) Base Camp

2) Branch Chief

BCA

Benet-Cost Analysis

BCBP

Bureau of Customs and Border Protection

BCC

Border Crossing Card

BCF

Billion Cubic Feet

BCMC

Board for the Coordination of Model Codes

BCMG

Base/Camp Manager

BCMR

Board of Correction of Military Records

BCP

Business Continuity Planning

BCR

1) Benet-Cost Ratio

2) Border Cargo Release

BDA

Battle Damage Assessment

BDC

Bomb Data Center (FBI)

BDE

Brigade

BDO

Battle Dress Overgarment

BDRP

Biological Defense Research Program

BDS

Biohazard Detection System

BDU

Battle Dress Utility

BEA

Bureau of Economic Analysis

BEEF

Big Explosive Experimental Facility

BEIR

Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation

BENS

Business Executives for National Security

BENT SPEAR

Nuclear Incident (codeword)

BEP

Budget Execution Plan

BERD

Blocked Erosion Rate Database

BERT

Building Emergency Response Team

BEST

1) Bus Explosive Screening Technology

2) Building Engagement, Strengths and Talent

BFA

Benet Fraud Assessment

BFC

Bills for Collection

BFD

Base Flood Depth

BFE

Base Flood Elevation

BFM

Budget and Financial Management Branch

(US-VISIT)

BGAD

Blue Grass Army Depot

BGAN

Broadband Global Area Network

BGCA

Blue Grass Chemical Activity

BGP

Border Gateway Protocol

BHEF

Business-Higher Education Forum

BHS

Bureau of Health Services

Background Investigation

BIA

1) Board of Immigration Appeals/Affairs (DOJ)

2) Bureau of Indian Affairs

BICEP

Basic Investigation of Computer and Electronic

Crimes Program

BICEPP

Business and Industry Council for Emergency

Preparedness and Planning

BIDS

Biological Integrated Detection System

BIIDB

Badge Imaging Information Database

BIL

Band Interleaved by Line (Format)

BIO

Biological

BISC

Border Interdiction Support Center

BIT

1) Building Inventory Tool

2) Built-In Test

3) Business Intelligence Tool

BITE

Biometric Identication Technology Ethics

BIWG

Bilateral Interdiction Working Group

BJA

Bureau of Justice Assistance (DOJ)

BKC

Biodefense Knowledge Center [Part of

NBACC, National Biodefense Analysis and

Countermeasures Center]

BKR

Breaker

Bill of Lading

BLESTP

Basic Law Enforcement Supervisor Training

Program

BLEVE

Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion

BLM

Bureau of Land Management

BLS

1) Basic Life Support

2) Bureau of Labor Statistics

Bench Mark

BMBL

Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical

Laboratories

BMC

Bomb Management Center

BMD

Borders and Maritime Security Division (S&T/

BMD)

BMP

Best Management Practice

BMS

Building Management System

Battalion

BNA

Baseline Needs Assessment

BNICE

Biological, Nuclear, Incendiary, Chemical,

Explosive

BNML

Battalion Military Liaison

BOC

Basic Operating Cost

BOCA

Building Ofcials and Code Administrators

BOL

Bureau of Labs

BOLO

Be On the Lookout alert

BOM

Bill of Materials

BOO

Base of Operations

BOP

(Federal) Bureau of Prisons

BOR

Bureau of Reclamation

BORCAP

Border Patrol Criminal Alien Program

BORP

Building Occupancy Resumption Program

BORSTAR

Border Patrol Search, Trauma and Rescue Team

BORTAC

Border Patrol Tactical Unit

BOV

Board of Visitors

BOXER

Bulk-Only X-ray Enhanced Region

BPA

1) Blanket Purchasing Agreement

2) Border Patrol Agent

BPAT

Building Performance Assessment Team

BPD

Blast-Protective Design

BPM

Basic Property Management

BPML

Business Process Markup Language

BPN

Business Partner Network

BPO

Blanket Purchase Order

BPP

Business Policy and Planning Branch (US-VISIT)

BPR

Business Process Reengineering

BPRP

Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response

Program

BPS

Bits Per Second

BPSS

Business Process Specication Schema

BPWG

Best Practices Working Group

BRAC

Base Realignment and Closure Act

BRASS

Border Release Advance Screening & Selectivity

BRI

Building Related Illness

BRIDGES

Building Respect in Diverse Groups to Enhance

Security

BRM

1) Bio-Regulator/Modulator

2) Business Reference Model

BROKEN ARROW

Nuclear Accident (codeword)

BRT

Business Round Table

BSA

1) Base Support Area

2) Business Software Alliance

BSC

1) Biometrics Support Center

2) Building Security Committee

BSCO

Biosafety Coordinating Ofcial

BSD

Border Security Deployment

BSE

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (aka: “Mad

Cow Disease”)

BSI

1) Base/Basic Support Installation

2) Border Safety Initiative

BSIR

Biannual Strategy Implementation Reports

BSO

Biosafety Ofcer

BSOP

Battle Staff Operating Procedures

BSPP

Broadcast Station Protection Program

BSSC

Building Seismic Safety Council

BST

1) Border Support Team

2) Burn Specialty Team

1) Bioterrorism

2) Buying Team

BTA

1) Bioterrorism Act

2) Border Trade Alliance

BTCP

1) Biological Terrorism Contingency Plan

2) Biological Threat Characterization Program

BTO

Business Transformation Ofce

BTS

1) Budget Tracking System

2) Bureau of Transportation Statistics

BTU

British Thermal Unit

BTW

By The Way

Building (Line)

BUMED

Bureau of Medicine

BUYL

Buying Team Leader

BUYM

Buying Team Member

Buttery Valve

1) Biological Warfare

2) Biological Weapon

BWC

Biological Weapons Convention

BWIC

Biological Warning and Incident

Characterization

BWR

Boiling Water Reactor

Budget Year

Breathing Zone

BZPP

1) Buffer Zone Protection Plan

2) Buffer Zone Protection Program

C Number

Crew number

C&C

Components and Cladding

C&D

Clean and Disinfect

C/A

Controller/Analyst

C/E

Communications/Electronics

Command and Control

1) Command, Control, and Communications

2) Customs Cybersmuggling Center

3) (ICE) Cyber Crimes Center

C3I

Command, Control, Communications,

Information

C3ISR

Command, Control, Communications,

Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance

Command, Control, Communications and

Computers

C4ISR

C4+Intelligence, Surveillance and

Reconnaissance

1) Capability Assurance

2) Chemical Agent

3) Civil Affairs

4) Congressional Affairs

5) Cooperating Agency

6) Cooperative Agreement

CAA

Clean Air Act

CAAP

Critical Asset Assurance Program

CAARS

Cargo Advanced Automated Radiography

System

CABIN

Chemical and Biological Information Network

CAC

1) Citizens’ Advisory Commissions

2) Civil Applications Committee

3) Climate Analysis Center

4) Common Access Card

5) Community Assistance Contact

6) Crisis Action Center

CACB

Camp Crew Boss

CACTIS

Computer-Assisted CSEPP Training Information

System

CAD

1) Computer Aided/Assisted Dispatch

2) Computer-Aided/Assisted Design

3) Computer-Assisted Drafting

CADD

Computer-Assisted Drafting and Design

CADET

Computer-Assisted Design for Exercise Training

CADW

Civil Air Defense Warning

CAE

Command Assessment Element (for CBIRF)

CAEM

Committee for Animal Emergency Management

CAEO

Competitive Analysis and Evaluation Ofce

CAER

Community Awareness and Emergency Response

CAF

1) Compressed Air Foam

2) Critical Asset Factor

CAG

Core Agency Group

CAI

1) Chemical Accident/Incident

2) Computer-Aided Instruction

CAIC

Chemical Accident/Incident Control

CAICO

Chemical Accident/Incident Control Ofcer

CAIRA

Chemical Accident/Incident Response and

Assistance

CALM

Cognitive and Affective Learning Model

CAM

1) Chemical Agent Monitor

2) Computer-Aided Manufacturing

CAMDS

Chemical Agent Munition Disposal System

CAMEO

Computer-Aided Management of Emergency

Operations

CAMEXPAN

Central America, Mexico, Panama

CAMPS

Civil Aircraft Missile Protection System

CAMRA

Center for Advancing Microbiological Risk

Assessment

CAMS

Continuous Air Monitoring System

CAMU

Companion Animal Management Unit

CANAR

Consortia of Administrators for Native

American Rehabilitators

CANDU

Canadian-Deuterium Uranium (Reactor)

CAO

1) Caribbean Area Ofce

2) Chief Administrative Ofcer

CAP

1) Capability Assessment Program

2) Capability Assurance Program

3) Civil Air Patrol

4) Collection, Analysis and Planning

5) Combat Air Patrol

6) Common Alerting Protocol

7) Community Action Program

8) Community Assistance Program

9) Contract Administration Plans

10) Corrective Action Program

11) Criminal Alien Program

12) Crisis Action Process

CAPA

Coalition of Airline Pilots Association

CAPC

Civil Aviation Planning Committee

CAPCO

Controlled Access Program Coordination Ofce

CAP-FASSE

Corrective Action Program - Federal Agency

Support Services Element

CAPPS II

Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening

System (II equals 2nd generation)

CAPR

Categorical Assistance Progress Reports

CAPRA

Critical Asset and Portfolio Risk Analysis

CAP-SSSE

Corrective Action Program - State Support

Services Element

CapWIN

Capital Wireless Integrated Network

CAR

1) Capability Assessment for Readiness

2) Congressional Affairs Representative

CARAT

Cooperation Aoat Readiness and Training

CARCAH

Chief, Aerial Reconnaissance Coordination -All

Hurricanes

CARD

Collaborative Agencies for Responding to

Disasters

CARDA

Continental Airborne Reconnaissance for

Damage Assessment

CARL

Computerized Activities Results List

CARRI

Community and Regional Resilience Initiative

CART

1) Computer Analysis and Response Team

2) County Animal Response Team

CARVER

Criticality, Accessibility, Recuperability,

Vulnerability, Effect and Recognizability

CAS

1) Chemical Abstract Service

2) Crisis Action System

3) Comprehensive Assessment System

CASC

Cache Supply Clerk

CASE

Computer Aided Software Engineering

CASPER

C-130 Airborne Sensor with Palletized

Electronic Reconnaissance

CASS

Cockpit Access Security System

CAST

Commercial Aviation Safety Team

CASU

Centralized Administrative Services Unit

CAT

1) Catalog

2) Catastrophic

3) Category

4) Collier Area Transit (Florida)

5) Crisis Action Team

CATEGORY A

PUBLIC ASSISTANCE

Debris Removal

CATEGORY B

PUBLIC ASSISTANCE

Emergency Protective Measures

CATEGORY C

PUBLIC ASSISTANCE

Roads and Bridges

CATEGORY D

PUBLIC ASSISTANCE

Water Control Facilities

CATEGORY E

PUBLIC ASSISTANCE

Buildings and Contents

CATEGORY F

PUBLIC ASSISTANCE

Utilities

CATEGORY G

PUBLIC ASSISTANCE

Parks, Recreational, and Other

CATEX

1) Catastrophic Exercise

2 ) C a t a g o r i a l E x c l u s i o n

CATF

Catastrophic Task Force

CATL

Chronology and Time Line

CATS

Consequences Assessment Tool Set

CAV

Community Assistance Visit

CAX

1) Capability Assurance Exercise

2) Computer-Assisted Exercise

CB Or C/B

1) Chemical Biological (or Chemical/Biological)

2) Citizens’ Band

3) Cluster Bomb

CBA

Cost-Benet Analysis

CBARS

Coastal Barrier Resources System

CBCF

Cross Border Crime Forum

CBCT

Chemical/Biological Countermeasures Training

CBD

1) Chemical and Biological Defense

2) Chemical and Biological Division (S&T/CBD)

CBEFF

Common Biometric Exchange Formats

Framework

CBEK

Compendium of Basic Exercise Knowledge

CBEP

Career Builder Express Program

CBET

Computer Based Education and Training

CBI

1) Chandler Burning Index

2) Computer-Based Instruction

CBIA

Coastal Barrier Improvement Act

CBIAC

Chemical and Biological Information Analysis

Center

CBIG

Caribbean Border Interagency Group

CBIRF

Chemical/Biological Incident Response Force

(USMC)

CBL

1) Commercial Bill of Lading

2) Computer-Based Learning

CBN

1) Chemical, Biological, or Nuclear

2) Cooperative Base Network

CBO

1) Community-Based Organization

2) Congressional Budget Ofce

CBP

U.S. Customs and Border Protection [Bureau

of] (also called BCBP)

CBPMO

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Modernization Ofce

CBPO

CBP Ofcer

CBQRF

Chemical-Biological Quick Response Force

CBR

Chemical, Biological and/or Radiological

CBR&D

Chemical and Biological Research and

Development Sector

CBRA

Coastal Barrier Resources Act of 1982 (see

COBRA)

CBRD

Chemical, Biological and Radiological Defense

CBRDEC

Chemical & Biological, Research, Development

& Engineering Center

CBRDT

Chemical/Biological Rapid Deployment Team

CBRN

Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear

CBRNE

Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and

Explosive

CBRNE-CM

Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear,

or High-Yield Explosive - Consequence

Management

CBRRT

Chemical & Biological Rapid Response Team

CBRS

1) Coastal Barrier Resources System

2) Concept Based Requirement System

CBRT

Chemical and Biological Response Team

CBRTA

Chemical, Biological and Radiological

Technology Alliance

CBSA

Canada Border Security Agency

CBT

1) Chemical Biological Toxin

2) Computer-Based Training

CBW

Chemical and Biological Warfare

cubic centimeter

1) Citizen Corps

2) Congregate Care

3) Coordination Center

4) Courtesy Copy

5) Crisis Counseling

CCA

1) Circuit Card Assembly

2) Continuity Communications Architecture

CCAM

Coordinating Council on Access and Mobility

CCAMS

Comprehensive Cooperative Agreement

Monitoring System

CCAP

Child Citizenship Act Project

CCAT

Center for Commercialization of Advanced

Technology

CCB

Conguration Control Board

CCC

1) Citizen Corps Council

2) Congregate Care Center

3) Crisis Coordination Center

CCD

1) Consular Consolidated Database

2) Corporate Communications Division

(S&T&CCD)

CCDB

Consolidated Counterdrug Data Base

CCDPH

Cook County Department of Public Health

CCF

Coded Cities Forecast

CCFP

(National Institute of Justice) Center for Civil

Force Protection

CCG

Crisis Coordination Group

CCI

Command, Control, and Interoperability

CCIO

Command and Control Incidents Operations

CCIR

Commander's Critical Information Report

CCITP

Cyber Counterterrorism Investigations Training

Program

CCITT

Consultative Committee for International

Telephony and Telegraphy

CCL

Contamination Control Line

CCLS

Command Center Liaison Section

CCMIS

Crisis Consequence Management Information

System

CCMRF

CBRNE Consequence Management Response Force

CCN

Canonical Correlation Analysis

CCND

Consultative Committee on Natural Disasters

CCO

1) Claims Coordinating Ofce

2) Consultation Coordination Ofcer

CCP

1) Casualty Collection Point

2) Citizen Corps Program

3) Crisis Counseling Program

CCR

Central Contractor Registration (www.ccr.gov)

CCRF

Commissioned Corps Readiness Force

CCS

1) Congregate Care System

2) Contamination Control Station

CCSL

Command and Control Simulation Lab

CCSO

Cook County Sheriff's Ofce

CCSP

Certied Cargo Screening Program

CCST

Chemical Casualty Site Team

CCT

1) Communications Coordination Team

2) Critical Care Transport

CCTV

Closed Circuit Television

CCU

Correspondence Control Unit

CCV

Characteristics and Common Vulnerabilities

1) Civil Defense

2) Code

3) Compact Disc

CDBG

Community Development Block Grant

CDC

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

CDCP

Center for Disease Control and Prevention

CDD

1) Capability Development and Demonstration

2) Cross-Disaster Database

CDE

Committed Dose Equivalent

CDER

Computer Data Entry Recorder

CDERA

Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency

CDEX

Civil Defense Exercise

CDL

1) Commercial Driver’s License

2) Community Disaster Loan

CDM

Content Design Manager

CDMA

Code Division Multiple Access

CDO

Central Dense Overcast

CDP

1) Candidate Development Program

2) Center for Domestic Preparedness

3) Chemical Demilitarization Program

CDR

1) Christian Disaster Response

2) Commander

3) Critical Design Review

4) Crude Death Rate

CDRDB

Conventional Disaster Resource Database

CDRG

Catastrophic Disaster Response Group

CDRG-PAC

Catastrophic Disaster Response Group -

Primary Agency Committee

CD-ROM

Compact Disk Read Only Memory

CDRS

Call Detail Reporting System

CDS

Charge Data System

CDSO

Collateral Duty Safety Ofcer

CDSP

Cache Demobilization Specialist

CDT

Central Daylight Time (GMT - 5)

CDU

Contagious Disease Unit

CDV

Civil Defense Victoreen

CDX

Control and Direction Exercise

1) Categorical Exclusion

2) Civil Engineer

CEA

1) Council of Economic Advisors

2) County Executives of America

CEB

Contractor Evaluation Board

CEC

Chief Exercise Controller

CED

Committee for Economic Development

CEDAP

Commercial Equipment Direct Assistance

Program

CEDE

Committed Effective Dose Equivalent

CEE

Consolidated Enforcement Environment

CEEP

Critical Employee Emergency Planning

CEF

1) Cost Estimating Format

2) Critical Emergency File

CEG

Council for Excellence in Government

CEI

Critical Elements of Information

CEM

1) Certied Emergency Manager

2) Comprehensive Emergency Management

CEMD

County Emergency Management Director

CEMIS

Crisis and Emergency Management Information

System

CEMP

Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan

CEMS

Continuous Emission Monitoring System

CENL

Chemical Event Notication Level

CENR

Committee on Environment and Natural

Resources

CEO

1) Chief Executive Ofcer

2) Community Education and Outreach

CEOC

County Emergency Operations Center

CEOS

Committee on Earth-Orbiting Satellites

CEP

1) Circular Error Probable

2) Civil Emergency Planning (NATO)

3) Civil Emergency Preparedness

CEPAP

Cost Estimating for the Public Assistance

Program, Expert Panel on

CEPI

Catastrophic Emergency Preparedness Initiative

CEPPO

Chemical Emergency Preparedness and

Prevention Ofce

CEQ

Council on Environmental Quality

CERC

1) Coastal Engineering Research Center

2) Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication

CERCLA

Comprehensive Environmental Response,

Compensation, and Liability Act (aka:

“Superfund”)

CERDEC

Communications-Electronics Research

Development and Engineering Center

CERES

California Environmental Resources Evaluation

System

CERT

1) Community Emergency Response Team

2) Computer Emergency Readiness Team

3) Computer Emergency Recovery Team

4) Computer Evidence Recovery/Response

Training

5) Council of Energy Resource Tribes

CERT/CC

Computer Emergency Response Team/

Coordination Center

CEST

Cyber Emergency Support Team

CET

Contraband Enforcement Team

CEU

1) Compliance Enforcement Unit

2) Continuing Education Unit

CEXS

Cooperative Extension Service

CFA

1) Capability Focus Area

2) Cognizant Federal Agency

3) Computerized Fleet Analysis

CFAI

Commission on Fire Accreditation International

CFAO

Cognizant Federal Agency Ofcial

CFATS

Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards

CFBCI

Center for Faith Based and Community

Initiatives (FEMA/CFBCI)

CFC

1) Chlorouorocarbon

2) Combined Federal Campaign

CFC-NCA

Combined Federal Campaign of the National

Capital Area

CFDA

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

CFGDP

Crash Feed Grain Donation Program

CFI

Credentialing Framework Initiative

CFIUS

Committee on Foreign Investment in the

United States

CFIVSAC

Commercial Fishing Industry Vessel Safety

Advisory Committee

cfm

cubic feet per minute

CFO

1) Chief Financial Ofcer

2) Chief of Field Operations

CFR

Code of Federal Regulations

cfs

cubic feet per second

CFS

Certied Fraud Specialists, Association of

CFSA

Consolidated Farm Service Agency

CFSI

Congressional Fire Services Institute

CFTC

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Commanding General

CGD

Coast Guard District

CGFAA

Cerro Grande Fire Assistance Act

CGI

Common Gateway Interface

CGISS

Center for Geophysical Investigation of the

Shallow Subsurface

CGM

Computer Graphics Metale

CGS

Council of Graduate Schools

Channel

CHARM

Complex Hazardous Release Model

CHAWS

Chemical Hazard Warning System

CHCO

Chief Human Capital Ofcer (MGMT/CHCO)

CHDS

Center for Homeland Defense and Security

ChE

Cholinesterase

CHECK 21

Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act

CHEMTREC

Chemical Transportation Emergency Center

CHERCAP

Comprehensive HAZMAT Emergency Response

Capability Assessment Program

CHER-CAP

Community Hazards Emergency Response -

Capability Assurance Process

CHIP

1) Capability and Hazard Identication

Program

2) Critical Homeland Infrastructure Protection

CHM

Chemistry of Hazardous Materials

CHPPM

Center for Health Promotion and Preventive

Medicine (U.S. Army)

CHRCL

Center for Human Rights and Constitutional

Law

CHRIS

Chemical Hazard Response Information System

CHS

Correctional Health Services

Critical Infrastructure

CIA

1) Catastrophic Incident Annex

2) Central Intelligence Agency

CIAD

Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs

Division

CIAETP

Criminal Investigation in Automated Equipment

Training Program

CIAO

1) Chief Infrastructure Assurance Ofcer

2) Critical Infrastructure Assurance Ofce

3) Critical Infrastructure Assurance Ofcer

CICAD

Center for Intelligence Collection Analysis and

Dissemination

CICG

Critical Infrastructure Coordination Group

CID

1) Command, Control and Interoperability

Division (S&T/CID)

2) Criminal Investigation Division or

Department, Community Identication

CIDCON

Civil Defense Condition

CIDER

Computer Interactive Display, Entry, and

Retrieval

CIEE

Common Information Exchange Environment

CIF

1) Central Information File

2) Cost, Insurance, and Freight

CIG

Central Intelligence Group

CIH

Certied Industrial Hygienist

CII

Critical Infrastructure Information

CIIA

Critical Infrastructure Information Act of 2002

CIID

Counterintelligence and Investigations Division

(DHS)

CIII

Critical Infrastructure Interdependencies

Integrator

CIIMS

Critical Infrastructure Inspection Management

System

CIIP IWG

Critical Information Infrastructure Protection

Interagency Working Group

CIK

Crypto-Ignition Key

CIKR

Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources

CIMA

Channel Industry Mutual Aid

CIMRT

Critical Incident Management Response Team

CIMS

1) Correspondence and Issues Management

System

2) Critical Incident Management Support

3) Critical Infrastructure Modeling System

CIMST

Critical Incident Management Support Team

CINC

Commander-in-Chief

CINCAMC

Commander-in-Chief, Air Mobility Command

CINCLANT

Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic Fleet

CINCNORAD

Commander-in-Chief, North American Aerospace

Defense Command

CINCPAC

Commander-in-Chief, Pacic Command

CINCSOC

Commander-in-Chief, Special Operations

Command

CINCTRANS

Commander-in-Chief, Transportation Command

CIND

Compact Integrated Narcotics Detector

CINDI

1) Center for Integration of Natural Disaster

Information

2) Compact Integrated Narcotics Detector

Instrument

CINS

Catastrophic Incident of National Signicance

CINT

Chief Intelligence Ofcer

CIO

Chief Information Ofcer

CIP

Critical Infrastructure Protection

CIP IWG

Critical Infrastructure Protection Interagency

Working Group

CIPAC

Critical Infrastructure Partnership Advisory

Council

CIPB

Critical Infrastructure Protection Board

CIP-DSS

CIP-Decision Support System

CIPIC

Critical Infrastructure Protection Information

Center

CIPP

Certied Information Privacy Professionals

CIPWG

Critical Infrastructure Protection Working Group

CIR

Critical Infrastructure Resiliency

CIRA

Catastrophic Incident Response Annex

CIRES

Catastrophic Incident Response Execution

Schedule

CIRG

Critical Incident Response Group

CIRMS

Council of Ionizing Radiation Measurements

and Standards

CIRP

Catastrophic Incident Response Plan

CIS

1) Catastrophic Incident Supplement

2) Central Index System

3) Citizenship and Immigration Services,

Bureau of (see also BCIS and USCIS)

4) Civil Infrastructure Security

5) Community Information System

CISD

Critical Incident Stress Debrieng

CISM

Critical Incident Stress Management

CISMT

Critical Incident Stress Management Team

CISO

Chief Information Security Ofcer

CISOMB

Citizenship and Immigration Services

Ombudsman

CISSC

Central Information Systems Storage Center

CITAC

Computer Intrusion Threat Assessment Center

CITMO

Commercial Information Technology for

Multinational Operations

CITO

Central Imagery Tasking Ofce

CITP

Criminal Investigator Training Program

CJCS

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

CJIS

Criminal Justice Information Services/System

CJTF

Commander, Joint Task Force

Caulk

CLAIMS

Computer Linked Application Information

Management System

CLASP

Consular Lost and Stolen Passport System

CLASS

Consular Lookout and Support System

CLDC

Connected Limited Device Conguration

CLIA

Civil Liberties Impact Assessment

CLIVAR

Climate Variability

CLMS

Claims Specialist

CLO

1) Chief Logistics Ofcer

2) Congressional Liaison Ofcer

CLOMA

Conditional Letter of Map Amendment

CLOMR

Conditional Letter of Map Revision

CLR

Common Language Runtime

CLS

Central Locator System

centimeter

1) Cadre Manager

2) Chief of Mission

3) Conguration Management

4) Consequence Management

5) Counter-Measure

CMA

1) Certied Medical Assistant

2) Chemical Manufacturers Association

3) Chemical Materials Agency

4) Community Map Action (Form)

CMAA

Customs Mutual Assistance Agreement (afliated

with CBP)

C-MANPADS

Counter-Man-Portable-Air-Defense Systems

CMAS

1) Circular Map Accuracy Standard

2) Commercial Mobile Alert System

CMAT

Consequence Management Advisory Team

CMC

1) Center for Marine Conservation

2) Crisis Management Center

3) Crisis Management Coordinator

4) Customs Management Centers

CMCAC

Crisis Management Center Augmentation Cadre

CME

1) Chief Medical Examiner

2) Continuing Medical Education

CMF

Case Management File

CMG

Consequence Management Group

CMHS

Center for Mental Health Services

CMIA

Cash Management Improvement Act

CMIR

Currency and Monetary Instruments Report

CMIS

Corporate Management Information System

CML

Commercial

CMM

Capability Maturity Model

CMMI

Capability Maturity Model Integration

CMO

1) Chief Medical Ofcer

2) Civil Military Operations

CMOC

Civil Military Operations Center

CMRT

Consequence Management Response Team

CMS

1) Call Management System

2) Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

3) Crisis Management System

CMT

Crisis Management Team

CMTB

Countermeasures Test Bed

CMU

1) Concrete Masonry Unit

2) Crisis Management Unit

CMV

Commercial Motor Vehicle

CMX

Crisis Management Exercise

Communications Network

CNA

Certied Nursing Assistant

CNAC

Customs National Aviation Center

CNBC

Congress of National Black Churches

CNC

1) Central Network Control

2) Computer Numerical Control

CNCS

Corporation for National and Community

Service

CNDSP

Computer Network Defense Service Provider

CNE

1) Continuing Nursing Education

2) Ofce of Counternarcotics Enforcement

(formerly CNO)

CNGB

Chief of the National Guard Bureau

CNMI

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana

Islands

CNN

Cable News Network

CNO

1 ) C h i e f o f N a v a l O p e r a t i o n s

2) Counter-Narcotics Ofcer

CNPPD

Chemical & Nuclear Preparedness and

Protection Division

CNR

Center for National Response, The

CNS

Central Nervous System

CNSC

Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission

CNSIP

Classied National Security Information

Program

CNSNS

Commission for Nuclear Safety and Safeguards

CNT

1) Counternarcoterrorism

2) Crisis Negotiation Team

CNU

Crisis Negotiations Unit (FBI)

CNWDI

Critical Nuclear Weapons Design Information

1) Commanding Ofcer

2) Communications Ofcer

3) Contracting Ofcer

4) Custodial Ofcer

CO2

Carbon Dioxide

COA

Course of Action

COAC

Customs Operations Advisory Committee

COAD

Community Organizations Active In Disaster

COAP

Center for Ocean Analysis and Prediction

COB

Close of Business

COBOL

Common Business-Oriented Language

COBRA

1) Chemical, Ordnance, Biological, Radiological

2) Coastal Barriers Resources Act

COBRE

Carry-On Bag Remote Examination

COC

1) Combat Operations Center

2) Country of Citizenship

COCO

Computer Coordinator

COCOM

1) Combatant Command

2) Coordinating Committee

COD

Cash on Delivery

CODEL

Congressional Delegation

CODIS

Combined DNA Index System

COE

Center of Excellence

COEM

Chicago Ofce of Emergency Management

COF

Construction of Facilities projects

COG

1) Continuity of Government

2) Council of Governments

COGO

Coordinate Geometry

COI

1) Community of Interest

2) Critical Operational Issue

COL

1) Colonel

2) Cost of Living

COLA

1) Combined Operating License Application

2) Cost of Living Allowance

COLISEUM

Community On-Line Intelligence System for End

Users and Managers

COLT

Cellular on Light Truck

COM

1) Communications

2) Component Object Model

COMC

Communications Coordinator

COMCDTF

Commander, Civil Disturbance Task Force

COMINT

Communications Intelligence

COML

Communications Unit Leader

COMM

Communications

COMMDIR

Communications Directory

CoMNET

Consequence Management News, Equipment

and Training

COMP

Compensation/Claims Unit Leader

COMPUSEC

Computer Security

COMREL

Community Relations

COMSEC

Communications Security

COMSVC

Component Services (OHA/COMSVC)

CONG

Congressional

CONGR

Congress

CONO

Contracting Ofcer

CONOPS

1) Control Operations

2) Concept of Operations

CONPLAN

1) Concept of Operations Plan

2) Contingency Plan

3) U.S. Government Interagency Domestic

Terrorism Concept of Operations Plan (see

NRP)

CONUS

1) Contiguous United States

2) Continental United States

CONUSA

Continental United States Army

COO

Chief Operating Ofcer

COOP

Continuity of Operations

COP

1) Chief of Party

2) Chief of Police

3) Committee of Principals

4) Common Operating/Operational Picture

5) Continuation of Pay

COPS

Community Oriented Policing Service

COR

1) Central Ofce of Record

2) Contracting Ofcers Representative

CORBA

Common Object Request Broker Architecture

CORE

1) Cadre of Response Employees

2) Cadre of On-call Response Employees

3) Citizens of Oakland Respond to Emergencies

CORS

Continuously Operating Reference Station

COS

1) Cash on Shipment

2) Chief of Staff

COSIN

Control Staff Instruction

COSMIC

Computer Software Management and

Information Center (NASA)

COSO

Chief of Staff Ofce/Operations

COSP (see PLCY)

Chief of Staff Ofce/Policy (former DHS

Subcomponent)

COST

Cost Unit Leader

COTHEN

Customs Over the Horizon Enforcement

Network

COTP

Captain of the Port

COTR

Contracting Ofcer’s Technical Representative

COTS

Commercial Off the Shelf

COUSCS

Commercial Operations of the US Customs

Service, Advisory Committee on

COW

Cellular on Wheels

1) Command Post

2) Control Point

3) Coordination and Planning

CPA

Coalition Provisional Authority

CPAS

Cellular Priority Access System

CPAV

Community Program Assistance Visit

CPC

1) Climate Prediction Center

2) Commission on Professional Credentialing

3) Country of Particular Concern

CPD

1) Community Planning and Development

2) Community Preparedness Division

CPE

Contingency Planning Exchange

CPG

1) Civil Preparedness Guide

2) Comprehensive Preparedness Guide

CPHC

Central Pacic Hurricane Center

CPI

Consumer Price Index

CPIC

Capital Planning and Investment Control

cpm

1) characters per minute

2) counts per minute

CPMCC

Coalition Partner Mobile Command Center

CPO

1) Central Processing Ofce

2) Chief Procurement Ofcer

CPOT

Consolidated Priority Organization Target

CPPA

Certied Professional Property Administrator

CPPM

Certied Professional Property Manager

CPPS

Certied Professional Property Specialist

CPR

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

CPRM

Checkpoint Resource Management

CPS

Certied Public Secretary

CPSC

Consumer Product Safety Commission

CPSD

Contingency Planning and Support Division

CPSP

Comprehensive Passenger Screening Prole

CPTED

Crime Prevention Through Environmental

Design

CPU

Central Processing Unit

CPX

Command Post Exercise

CQA

Commandant's Quality Award

1) Civil Rights

2) Claims Representative

3) Community Relations

4) Congressional Relations

5) County Road

CRADA

Cooperative Research and Development

Agreement

CRAF

Civil Reserve Air Fleet

CRAMP

Coral Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program

CRC

1) Contamination Reduction Corridor

2) Crisis Response Cell

3) Curriculum Review Conference

CRCL

Ofce for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

CRCPD

Conference of Radiation Control Program

Directors

CRDC

Cybersecurity Research & Development Center

CRDF

U.S. Civilian Research & Development

Foundation

CRDS

Consolidated Remote Delivery Site

CREATE

Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of

Terrorism Events

CREM

Classied Removable Electronic Media

CREP

Crew Representative

CREST

Contingency Real Estate Support Team

CREW

Cascadia Region Earthquake Workgroup

CRI

Cities Readiness Initiative

CRL

Certicate Revocation Lists

CRM

1) Common Risk Model

2) Crisis (or Communications) Resource

Manager

CRO

1) Congressional Relations Ofcer

2) Community Reuse Organization

CROP

Common Relevant Operational Picture

CROSS

Counterterrorism Reporting on Suspicious

Surveillance

CRP

1) Conservation Reserve Program

2) Critical Review Phase

CRR

Case Resolution Records

CRRDB

Comprehensive Reference Resource Database

CRREL

Cold Region Research and Engineering

Laboratory (US Army)

CRS

1) Catholic Relief Services

2) Community Rating System

3) Community Relations Service

4) Congressional Research Service

CRT

Cathode Ray Tube

CRTF

1) Commander, Response Task Force

2) Crisis Response Task Force

CRUD

Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete

CRWB

Crew Boss

CRWG

1) (Hurricane Katrina) Comprehensive Review

Working Group

2) Crisis Response Working Group

CRWRC

Christian Reformed World Relief Committee

CRYSYS

Cryospheric System

CRZ

Contamination Reduction Zone

1) Chief of Staff

2) Chief Scientist [NOAA]

CS&C

Cyber Security and Communications, Ofce of

(NPPD/CS&C)

CS1M

Contracting Specialist, 1M

CS25

Contracting Specialist, 25K

CSA

1) Chief of Staff, Army

2) Cognizant Security Authority

3) Community Services Administration

CSAC

Chemical Security Analysis Center

CSAF

Chief of Staff, Air Force

CSB

US Chemical Safety & Hazard Investigation

Board

CSBG

Community Services Block Grant

CSD

Container Security Device

CSDGM

Content Standard for Digital Geospatial

Metadata

CSDP

Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program

CSE

Communications Security Establishment

CSEM

Center for the Study of Emergency

Management

CSEPP

Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness

Program

CSG

1) Coordinating Sub-Group

2) Council of State Governments

3) Counterterrorism Security Group

CSH

Combat Support Hospital

CSHEMA

Campus Safety, Health & Environmental

Management Associations

CSHIB

Chemical Safety and Hazards Investigation

Board

CSHO

Compliance Safety and Health Ofcer- OSHA

CSI

1) Container Security Initiative

2) Customer Satisfaction Index

CSID

1) Call Subscriber ID

2) Centralized Scheduling and Information Desk

CSIL

Commercial Satellite Imagery Library

CSIRC

Computer Security Incident Response Center

CSIRT

Computer Security Incident Response Team

CSIS

1) Canadian Security Intelligence Service

2) Center for Strategic International Studies

3) Credited Structures Inventory System

CSM

Chemical Surety Material

CSMIP

California Strong-Motion Instrumentation

Program

CSO

1) Chief Security Ofcer

2) Component Security Ofcer

CSP

Certied Safety Professional

CSPI

1) Critical Structure Protection Initiative

2) Critical Systems Protective Initiative

CSPO

Cargo Systems Program Ofce

CSREES

Cooperative State Research Education and

Extension Service

CSRS

Civil Service Retirement System

CST

1) Central Standard Time (GMT-6)

2) Civil Support Team (National Guard--for

WMD)

CSTARC

Cyber Security Tracking, Analysis, & Response

Center

CSTE

Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists

CSU

1) Clearing-Staging Unit

2) Crime Scene Unit

3) Customer Satisfaction Unit

Counterterrorism

CT/NP-ESG

Counterterrorism and National Preparedness

Exercise Sub-Group

CTA

Combined Travel Authorization

CTAC

Chemical Transportation Advisory Committee

C-TAP

Counter-Terrorism Airport Primacy

CTB

see CMTB

CTBT

Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

CTC

1) Conference and Training Center

2) Counterterrorism Center

CTCC

Counterproliferation Technology Coordinating

Committee

CTD

1) Concept and Technology Development

2) Counterterrorist Division

3) Cumulative Trauma Disorder

CTF

Combined Task Force

CTGP

Competitive Training Grant Program

CTI

Computer Telephony Integration

CTIA

Cellular Telecommunications & Internet

Association

CTISS

Common Terrorism Information Sharing

Standards

CTJTF

Counter-Terrorism Joint Task Force

CTOC

Containerized Tactical Operations Center

CTOEM

Connecticut Ofce of Emergency Management

CTOTF

Counter-Terrorism Operations Training Facility

CTP

Cooperating Technical Partners (Initiative)

C-TPAT

Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism

CTR

Crew Time Report

CTS

1) Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

2) Cooperating Technical State

CTSP

Computer Technical Specialist

CTTP

Consolidated Trusted Traveler Program

CTU

Chemistry/Toxicology Unit

CTUIR

Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian

Reservation

cubic

CUI

Controlled Unclassied Information

CUL

Cost Unit Leader

CULS

Cultural Specialist

CUREE

Consortium of Universities for Research in

Earthquake Engineering

CUSEC

Central United States Earthquake Consortium

CUSP

Central United States Partnership

1) Combined Verication

2) Curriculum Vitae

CVE

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

CVI

Commercial Vehicle Inspection

CVO

Cascades Volcano Observatory

CVP

Citizenship Verication Procedures

CVS

1) Clearance Verication System

2) Combined Verication Section

CVVFA

Cumberland Valley Volunteer Firemen’s

Association

1) Chemical Warfare/Weapons

2) Continuous Wave

CWA

1) Chemical Warfare Agent

2) Clean Water Act

CWC

Chemical Weapons Convention

CWG

1) Concept Working Group

2) Continuity of Operations Working Group

CWIN

1) Critical Infrastructure Warning Information

Network

2) Cyberspace Warning Intelligence Network

CWN

Call When Needed

CWP

Center for Watershed Protection

CWS

1) Check Writing System

2) Church World Service

3) Compressed Work Schedule

CWSN

Cisco Works for Switched Networks

CWU

Church Women United

cubic yard

Calendar Year

CZM

Coastal Zone Management

CZMA

Coastal Zone Management Act

D/A

Departments and Agencies

D2PC

An Army computer dispersion modeling

capability

D2Puff

An Army computer dispersion modeling

capability that can factor in terrain and wind

changes

1) Damage Assessment

2) Declaration of Applicant

3) Department of the Army

4) Disaster Assistance

5) District Attorney

DA PAM

Department of the Army Pamphlet

DAA

Designated Accrediting Authority

DAAC

Distributed Active Archive Center

DAAMS

Depot Area Air Monitoring System

DAC

1) Defense Ammunition Center

2) Direct Air Carrier

3) Disaster Application/Assistance Center

DACS

Deportable Alien Control System

DAD

Deputy Assistant Director

DAE

Disaster Assistance Employee [aka: "SAE"]

DAEO

Designated Agency Ethics Ofcial

DAGC

Deputy Associate General Counsel

DAIP

Disaster Assistance Improvement Program

DALIS

Disaster Assistance Logistics Information System

DALO

Disaster Area Liaison Ofcer

DAM

Digital Asset Management

DAMAGES

Disaster Accountability Management System

DAN

Document Accountability Number

DAO

Defense Attache Ofce

DAP

Disaster Assistance Program

DAR

Designated Agency Representative

DARAC

Direct Assistance Replacement Assistance

Consideration

DARCOM

Development And Readiness Command

DARIS

Disaster Automated Reporting and Information

System

DARO

Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Ofce

DARPA

Defense Advance Research Projects Agency

DART

1) Daily Advisories/Risk and Threat

2) Damage Assessment Reconnaissance Team

3) DHS Accessibility Requirements Tool

4) Disaster Assessment and Recovery Team

5) Disaster Assessment and Response Team

6) Disaster Assistance and Response Team

DASA(ECW)

Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for the

Elimination of Chemical Weapons

DASC

Disaster Assistance Support Center

DASH

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health

DASHO

Designated Agency Safety and Health Ofcial

DASP

Disaster Assistance Support Program

DAST

Disaster Assessment Survey Team

DAT

Digital Audio Tape

DAWG

Disaster Attache Working Group

DAWIA

Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act

decibel

Database

dB(A/B/C)

Indicating The Method Used to Weight Sound

Frequencies When Measuring Sound Pressure

Levels

DBA

1) Database Administrator

2) Design Basis Accident

DBMS

Database Management System

1) Dangerous Contact

2) Direct Current

3) Dislocated Civilians

4) District of Columbia

5) Dry Chemical

DCA

1) Defense Communications Agency

2) Disaster Communication Agreement

DCAA

Defense Contract Audit Agency

DCAC

Demilitarization Chemical Agent Concentrator

DCAS

Document Control and Accountability System

DCBP

Double Check Backow Preventer

DCC

1) Document Control Center

2) Donation Coordination Center

DCCC

Defense Collection Coordination Center

DCD

Deseret Chemical Depot

DCE

1) Defense Coordinating Element

2) Disaster Coordinating Element

3) Disaster Communications Equipment

DCE/MED TF

Disaster Coordinating Element / Medical Task

Force

DCEMA

District of Columbia Emergency Management

Agency

DCFO

Deputy Chief Financial Ofcer

DCFSA

Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account

DCG

Disaster Control Group

DCHD

DuPage County Health Department

DCI

Director of Central Intelligence

DCID

Director of Central Intelligence Directive

DCIS

Defense Criminal Investigative Service

DCLN

Declaration

DCLO

Deputy Congressional Liaison Ofcer

DCM

Deputy Chief of Mission

DCMI

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative

DCN

1) Disaster Contractors Network

2) Document Control Number

DCO

1) Defense Coordinating Ofcer

2) Disaster Coordinating Ofce

DCP

Development Concept Plan

DCPA

Defense Civil Preparedness Agency

DCPDS

Defense Civilian Personnel Data System

DCPS

Digital Cartographic Production System

DCS

1) Data Collection System

2) Defense Communications System

3) Defense Courier Service

4) Deputy Chief of Staff

5) Digital Control System

DCT

1) Data Collection Tool

2) Donations Coordination Team

DCV

Detector Check Valve

DCWDB

Direction, Control and Warning Database

DCX

Direction and Control Exercise

1) Damaged Dwelling

2) Defensive Driving

3) Direct Dial

4) Dynamic Data

DDD

Direct Distance Dialing

DDE

Dynamic Data Exchange

DDL

Data Denition Language

DDO

Deputy Director of Operations

DDOS

Distributed Denial of Service

DDP

Data-Derived Product

DDRM

Deputy Disaster Recovery Manager

DEA

1) Data Exchange Agreement

2) Drug Enforcement Administration

DEAC

Deemed Export Advisory Council

DEAS

Digital Emergency Alert System

DEASTP

Digital Evidence Acquisition Specialist Training

Program

DEC

1) DCI Environmental Center

2) Director’s Executive Council

3) Disasters Emergency Committee

4) Disaster Emergency Communications

DECD

Department of Economic and Community

Development

DECK

Deck Coordinator

DECON

Decontamination

DED

Department of Education

DEE

Department Environmental Executive (DHS)

DEEDS

Data Elements for Emergency Department

Systems (CDC)

DEERS

Defense Eligibility Enrollment Reporting System

DEFCON

Defense Condition

deg

degree

DEI

Dose Equivalent Iodine

DELO

Deputy Environmental Liaison Ofcer

DEM

1) Department of Environmental Management

2) Digital Elevation Model

3) Division of Emergency Management

DEMA

Department of Energy and Military Affairs

DEMS

Domestic Emergency Management System

DEN

Domestic Events Network

DEO

Detention Enforcement Ofcer

DEP

1) Department of Environmental Protection

2) Domestic Emergency Preparedness

DEPER

Deployed Personnel Report

DEPS

Domestic Emergency Planning System

DEPSEC

Deputy Secretary

DEPSECDEF

Deputy Secretary of Defense

DEQ

Department of Environmental Quality

DERC

Damage Estimates, Ranges and Casualties

DERF

Defense Emergency Response Fund

DERIS

Domestic Emergency Response Information

Services

DES

1) Data Encryption Standard

2) Disaster Emergency Services

3) Division of Emergency Services

DESCOM

Depot System Command

DEST

Domestic Emergency Support Team

DETER

Defense Technology Experimental Research

DEW

Distant Early Warning

DFA

Direct Federal Assistance

DFAA

Delegation of Financial Assistance Authority

DFAIT

Department of Foreign Affairs and International

Trade

DFAS

Defense Financial Accounting Service

DFCO

Deputy Federal Coordinating Ofcer

DFIRM

Digital Flood Insurance Rate Map

DFIRM-DLG

Digital Flood Insurance Rate Map - Digital

Line Graph

DFO

Designated Federal Ofcial

DFOM

Disaster Field Operations Management

DFOMC

Disaster Field Operations Management Course

DFRN

Disaster Federal Register Notice

DFSG

Disaster Financial Services Group

DFSR

Disaster Financial Status Report

DFTO

1) Disaster Field Training Ofce

2) Disaster Field Training Organization

DG/CS

Dangerous Goods/Cargo Security

DGCO

Deputy Grant Coordinating Ofcer

DGN

Design (File)

DGPS

Differential Global Positioning System

DGSA

DOD Goal Security Architecture

DGZ

Desired Ground Zero

Disaster Housing

DHA

Disaster Housing Assistance

DHAP

Disaster Housing Assistance Program

DHC

Disaster Housing Checkwriter

DHCD

Department of Housing and Community

Development

DHelp

Disaster Help Web Site

DHF

Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever

DHHS

Department of Health and Human Services

DHO

Disaster Housing Ofcer (replaced by IA

Program/HA Manager)

DHP

Disaster Housing Program (replaced by IHP/HA)

DHS

1) U.S. Department of Homeland Security

[ESF-13]

2) Disaster Health Service

DHUD

Department of Housing and Urban

Development (also HUD)

DIA

Defense Intelligence Agency

DIAC

Defense Intelligence & Analysis Center

DIAO

Deputy Individual Assistance Ofcer

DIB

Defense Industrial Base

DIC

Deputy Incident Commander

DID

Direct Inward Dial

DIDA

Detection, Identication, and Assessment

DIDS

Decision Information Distribution System

DIFAX

Digital Facsimile

DIHS

Division of Immigration Health Services

DII

Defense Information Infrastructure

DIL

Derived Intervention Level

DIMC

Digital Identity Management Center

DIMHRS

Defense Integrated Military Human Resources

System

DIMO

Defense Institute of Medical Operations

DIMOS

Drug Intelligence Method of Operation System

DIR

1) Director

2) Domestic Imagery Requirement

DIRC

Disaster Information Resource Center

DIRNSA

Director, National Security Agency

DIS

1) Defense Investigative Service

2) Distributed Interactive Simulation

DISA

Defense Information Systems Agency

DISC

Disaster Information System Clearinghouse

DISCO

1) Defense Industrial Security Clearance Ofce

2) Defense Industrial Security Clearance Ofcer

DISN

Defense Information System Network

DISUM

1) Daily Intelligence Summary

2) Disaster Summary

DIVS

Division/Group Supervisor

DLA

Defense Logistics Agency

DLG

Digital Line Graph

DLG-3

Digital Line Graph Level 3

DLL

Dynamic-Link Library

DLS

Disaster Legal Services

DLSGP

Driver's License Security Grant Program

DLT

Department Leadership Team

1) Dimension

2) Disaster Management

DMA

1) Defense Mapping Agency

2) Designated Market Area

3) Disaster Mitigation Act

4) Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 (also called

DMA 2000 or DMA2K)

DMAC

Disaster Management Advisory Committee

DMAT

Disaster Medical Assistance Team

DMDC

Defense Manpower Data Center

DMH

1) Department of Mental Health

2) Disaster Mental Health

DMHT

Disaster Mental Health Team

DMI

Disaster Management Interoperability

DMIATF

Data Management Improvement Act Task Force,

INS

DMIS

Disaster Management Information System

DMI-Services (or

Disaster Management Interoperability Services

DMIS)

DMOB

Demobilization Unit Leader

DMORT

Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team

DMRIS

Defense Medical Regulating Information System

DMRS

Data Management and Retrieval System

DMS

1) Dispatch Messaging System

2) Document Management System

DMSS

Defense Medical Surveillance System

DMV

Department of Motor Vehicles

DNA

1) Defense Nuclear Agency

2) deoxyribonucleic acid

DNAT

Defense Nuclear Advisory Team

DND

Department of National Defense

DNDO

Domestic Nuclear Detection Ofce

DNF

Did Not Finish

DNFSB

Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board

DNI

Director of National Intelligence

DNR

Department of Natural Resources

DNS

1) Department of Nuclear Safety

2) Domain Name Server

DNSSEC

Domain Name System Security Extensions

1) Designated Ofcial (OEP)

2) Digital Orthophoto

3) Director of Operations

4) Disaster Operations (FEMA/DO)

DOA

1) Dead On Arrival

2) Department of Agriculture

DOB

1) Date of Birth

2) Duplication of Benets

DOC

1) U.S. Department of Commerce

2) Department of Conservation

3) Department of Corrections

4) Department Operations Center

5) Discrete Organic Chemicals

DOCL

Documentation Unit Leader

DOD

U.S. Department of Defense

DODD

Department of Defense Directive

DODESB

Department of Defense Explosive Safety Board

DODMS

DoD Discovery Metadata Standard

DODRDB

Department of Defense Resource Database

DOE

U.S. Department of Energy [ESF-12]

DOEd

U.S. Department of Education (see ED)

DOG

Deployable Operations Group

DOH

Department of Health

DOI

U.S. Department of the Interior

DOIM

Director of Information Management

DOJ

U.S. Department of Justice [ESF-13]

DOL

U.S. Department of Labor

DOLP

Disaster Operations Leadership Program

DOM

Disaster Operations Manual

DOMO

Domestic Operations (USCIS/DOMO)

DOMS

Director of Military Support

DON

Donation

DONAT

Donation

DOQ

Digital Orthophoto Quadrangle

DOS

1) U.S. Department of State

2) Disk Operating System

DOT

U.S. Department of Transportation [ESF-1]

DOZB

Dozer Boss

1) Disaster Preparedness

2) Double Pedestal

DP#

(Drop points are numbered and marked

locations on a re where people meet,

equipment is exchanged, and resources may

be stationed.)

DPA

1) Deepwater Ports Act

2) Defense Production Act

3) Delegation of Procurement Authority

DPAO

1) Deputy Public Affairs Ofcer

2) Deputy Public Assistance Ofcer

DPAS

Defense Priorities and Allocations System

DPC

Domestic Policy Council

DPETAP

Domestic Preparedness Equipment Technical

Assistance Program (NDPC)

DPFO

Deputy Principal Federal Ofcial

DPG

Defense Planning Guidance

DPIG

Disaster Preparedness Improvement Grant

DPM

Disintegrations Per Minute

DPMT

Disaster Pediatric Medical Team

DPMU

Disaster/Deployable Portable Morgue Unit

DPOD

Disaster Personnel Operations Division

DPP

1) Disaster Processing Procedures

2) Domestic Preparedness Program

DPPC

Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners

DPRE

Displaced Persons, Refugees and Evacuees

DPRO

Display Processor

DPS

1) Department of Public Safety

2) Dry Pendent Sprinkler

DPV

Dry Pipe Valve

DPW

Department of Public Works

1) Disaster Declaration Number (alphabetic

designation or precursor for)

2) Disaster Recovery

3) Disaster Response

4) Door(s)

DRASH

Deployable Rapid-Assembly Shelter

DRAT

District Response Advisory Team

DRC

Disaster Recovery Center

DRD

Direct-Reading Dosimeter

DREC

Deputy Regional Emergency Coordinator

DRES

Disaster Response Evaluation System

DRF

1) Disaster Relief Fund

2) Disaster Response Force

DRG

1) Digital Raster Graphic

2) Disaster Response Group

3) District Response Group

4) Domestic Readiness Group

DRII

Disaster Recovery Institute International

DRL

Derived Response Levels

DRM

1) Data Reference Model

2) Disaster Recovery Manager

DRO

Detention and Removal Ofce (ICE/DRO)

DRP

Division of Radiation Protection

DRS

Disaster Reconnaissance System

DRSF

Disaster Response Support Facilities

DRSS

Division of Radiation Safety and Safeguards

DRT

Disaster Response Team (NIMA)

DRTF

Disaster Relief Task Force

DRU

1) Direct Reporting Unit

2) Disaster Resistant Universities

3) Disaster Response Unit

DRWD

Disaster Reserve Workforce Division

1) Damage Survey

2) Deputy Secretary

DSA

Digital Standard Algorithm

DSB

Defense Science Board

DSBCC

Detection Systems for Biological & Chemical

Countermeasures

DSC

Digital Selective Calling

DSCA

Defense Support of Civil Authorities

DSCO

Deputy State Coordinating Ofcer

DSCS

Defense Satellite Communications System

DSEA

Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003

DSEC

Deputy Secretary

DSEL

Dynamic Synchronization Event Log

DSES

Directory Services and E-mail System

DSFO

Deputy Senior FEMA Ofcial

DSL

Digital Subscriber Line

DSN

Defense Switched Network

DSO

1) Director of Site Operations

2) Disaster Safety Ofcer

DSP

Disaster Support Package

DSR

Damage Survey Report

DSS

1) Decision Support System

2) Digital Signature Standard

3) Diplomatic Security Service

DSSG

Defense Science Study Group

DSWA

Defense Special Weapons Agency

Development Team

DT&E

Development Test and Evaluation

DT/CPS

Domestic Terrorism/Counterterrorism Planning

Section (FBIHQ)

DTAPPS

Disposable Toxicological Agent Personal

Protection System

DTD

1) Data Transfer Device

2) Document Type Denition

DTE

Disaster Temporary Employee

DTED

Digital Terrain Elevation Data

DTG

Date-Time Group

DTIC

Defense Technical Information Center

DTM

Digital Terrain Model

DTMS

Disaster Transportation Management System

DTO

Drug Trafcking Organization

DTOC

Deployable Tactical Operations Center

DTOS

Deployable Tactical Operations System

DTRA

Defense Threat Reduction Agency

DTRG

Defense (or DoD) Technical Response Group

DTRIM

Domestic Threat Reduction and Incident

Management

DTS

Diplomatic Telecommunications Service

DTSA

Defense Technical Security Agency

Dobson Unit

DUA

Disaster Unemployment Assistance

DUH

Detached Unit Housing

DUL

Documentation Unit Leader

DULL SWORD

Nuclear Safety Deciency

DUNS

Data Universal Numbering System

DUS

Deputy Under Secretary

DUSM

Deputy United States Marshal

DUST OFF

Medical Evacuation via Helicopter (slang)

Distinguished Visitor

DVA

Department of Veterans Affairs

DVD

Digital Versatile Disk

DVM

Doctor of Veterinary Medicine

Data Window

DWG

Drawing (le)

DWI

1) Disaster Welfare Information (or Inquiry)

2) Driving While Intoxicated

DWML

Digital Weather Markup Language

DWR

Department of Water Resources

DWT

Dead Weight

DXF

Drawing Exchange Format

DZOP

Dozer Operator

E 911

Enhanced 9-1-1

E number

Equipment number

E.O.

Executive Order of the President

1) Eastern Area

2) Emergency Action

3) Energy Assurance

4) Enterprise Architecture

5) Environmental Assessment

6) External Affairs

EAB

1) Enterprise Architecture Board

2) Exclusion Area Boundary

EACC

Eastern Area Coordination Center

EACG

Eastern Area Coordinating Group

EACOE

Enterprise Architecture Center of Excellence

EACRS

Emergency Automated Computerized Retrieval

System

EACT

Emergency Action and Coordination Team

EAD

1) Employment Authorization Document

2) Executive Associate Director

EADRCC

Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination

Center

EAG

Exercise Analysis Group

EAGLE

Enterprise Acquisition Gateway for Leading

Edge Solutions

EAI

Enterprise Application Integration

EAL

1) Emergency Action Level

2) Entry Authority List

EAM

Emergency Action Message

EAO

1) Emergency Action Ofcer

2) Energy Assurance Ofce (see also EA)

EAP

1) Emergency Action Plan

2) Emergency Action Procedures

3) Emergency Assistance Personnel

4) Employee Assistance Program

5) Event Action Plan

e-APIS

electronic-Advanced Passenger Information

System

EAPMO

Enterprise Architecture Program Management

Ofce

EAR

1) Emergency Alert Radio

2) Exercise Analysis Report

EARN

Employer Assistance Referral Network

EARS

Emergency Animal Rescue Service

EART

Evening Advisory Risk Threat

EAS

Emergency Alert System (replaced EBS in 1997)

EAWA

Employ American Workers Act

EBR

Endogenous Biological Regulators

EBT

Electronic Benets Transfer

EBW

1) Electronic Bridge Wire

2) Exploding Bridge Wire

1) Electronic Commerce

2) Elevation Certicate

3) Emergency Coordinator

4) Environment of Care (medical)

5) Extraordinary Circumstances

ECA

1) Earth-orbit Crossing Asteroid

2) Edgewood Chemical Activity

ECAPS

Enterprise Coordination & Approval Processing

System

ECBC

Edgewood Chemical Biological Center

ECC

Emergency Communications Center

ECCS

Emergency Core Cooling System

ECCV

Emergency Command and Control Vehicle

ECD

1) Effective Cumulative Dose

2) Emergency Contacts Directory

3) Estimated Completion Date

ECFG

Emergency Coordination Functional Group

ECG

1) Emergency Coordination Group

2) Exercise Control Group

ECI

Export-Controlled Information

ECL

Emergency Classication Level

ECN

Executive Control Node

ECP

1) Emergency Conservation Program

2) Entry Control Point

ECPC

Emergency Communications Preparedness

Center

ECS

1) Electronic Certication System

2) Emergency Communications Staff

3) Emergency Coordinating Staff

ECSAP

Electronic Crimes Special Agent Program

ECT

1) Emergency Coordinating Team

2) Exercise Control Team

ECTF

Electronic Crimes Task Force

ECU

Environmental Control Unit

ECWAG

Emergency Community Water Assistance Grant

1) U.S. Department of Education (see DOEd)

2) Effective Dose

3) Emergency Department

ED&DG

Exercise Design and Development Group

EDA

Economic Development Administration

EDAC

Economic Defense Advisory Committee

EDAP

Excess Delivery Acquisition Program

EDC

1) Energy Disruption Committee

2) EROS Data Center

EDD

Explosive Detection Device

EDE

Effective Dose Equivalent

EDEN

Education Disaster Extension Network

EDI

Electronic Data Interchange

EDIFACT

EDI for Administration, Commerce, and

Transport

EDIS

Emergency Disaster Information System

EDITH

Exit Drills In The Home

EDL

Environmental Disposal Liability

EDMO

Enterprise Data Management Ofce (formerly

MCOE)

EDPP

Electronic Design and Pre-Press

EDR

1) Economic Development Representative

2) External Data Request

EDRC

Expanded Dispatch Recorder

EDS

Explosive Detection System

EDT

1) Eastern Daylight Time (GMT - 4)

2) Explosive Device Team

EDXL

Emergency Data Exchange Language

EDXL-DE

EDXL Distribution Element

EDXL-RM

Emergency Data Exchange Language Resource

Messaging

EEE

1) Eastern Equine Encephalitis

2) Essential Evaluation Elements

EEG

Exercise Evaluation Guide

EEGL

Emergency Exposure Guidance Level

EEI

1) Essential Elements of Information

2) External Environment Interface

EEM

Exercise Evaluation Methodology

EENET

Emergency Education Network (at NETC)

EEO

1) Equal Employment Ofce

2) Equal Employment Opportunity

EEOC

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

EER

Eligible Existing Resources

EERI

Earthquake Engineering Research Institute

EESL

Extreme Events Simulation Laboratory

EET

Emergency Evacuation Team

EEVS

Employment Eligibility Verication System

EEX

Employee Express

EEZ

Exclusive Economic Zone

EFAP

Emergency Feed Assistance Program

EFO

Emergency Field Ofce

EFOP

Executive Fire Ofcer Program

EFP

Emergency Feed Program

EFPOP

Executive Fire Prevention Ofcer Program

EFS

Emergency Food & Shelter

EFSNB

Emergency Food and Shelter National Board

EFSP

Emergency Food and Shelter Program

EFT

Electronic Funds Transfer

E-GIS

DHS-wide enterprise GIS system

EGM

Enhancing Grants Management

E-Gov

E-Gov is the use by the government of

web-based Internet applications and other

information technologies, combined with

processes that implement these technologies.

This term is also used to refer to the E-Gov

agenda item in the President’s Management

Agenda (PMA), Presidential Priority E-Gov

initiatives, and the E-Gov focus areas

referenced in the FY 2004 President’s Budget.

EHM

Earthquake Hazard Mitigation

EHP

1) Environmental/Historic Preservation

2) Environmental Planning & Historic

Preservation

EHR

Electronic Health Records

EHS

Extremely Hazardous Substance

EHU

Emergency Housing Unit

Exercise Information

EIC

1) Earned Income Credit

2) Emergency Interoperability Consortium

EICC

Emergency Information and Coordination

Center

EID

Enforcement Integrated Database

EIDA

Executive Information and Display Area

EIDL

Economic Injury Disaster Loan

EIIP

Emergency Information Infrastructure

Partnership

EIM

Emergency Information Management

EIMA

Emergency Information and Media Affairs

EIN

Employer Identication Number

EIO

Emergency Information Ofcer

EIPA

Emergency Information and Public Affairs

EIPT

Exercise Integrated Process Team

EIRS

Emergency Information Retrieval System

EIS

1) Emergency Information System

2) Environmental Impact Statement

3) Epidemiological Intelligence Service

EIT

Electronic Information Technology

EITS

Enhanced International Travel Security System

Environmental Justice

EKU

Eastern Kentucky University

ELC

Engineering Logistics Center

ELF

Earth Liberation Front

ELINT

Electronic Intelligence

ELO

1) Enabling Learning Objectives

2) Environmental Liaison Ofcer

ELR

Employee Labor Relations

ELT

1) Emergency Location Transmitter

2) Evacuation Liaison Team

1) Emergency Management

2) Emergency Manager

3) Environmental Management

4) Exercise Manual

EMA

Emergency Management Agency

EMAC

Emergency Management Assistance Compact

E-mail

Electronic Mail

EMAP

Emergency Management Accreditation Program

Standard

EMAS

Emergency Management Assessment System

EMD

1) Electronic Monitoring Device

2) Emergency Management Director

3) Emergency Management Division

4) Emergency Medical Dispatcher

EMERCOM

Emergency Command

EMERGCON

Emergency Condition

eMerge2

electronically Managing enterprise resources for

government effectiveness and efciency

EMERS

Emergency Management Exercise Reporting

System

EMI

1) Electromagnetic Interference

2) Emergency Management Institute

3) Emergency Management Institute, Board of

Visitors for the

EMIO

Expanded Maritime Interdiction Operation

EMIS

Emergency Management Information System

EML

Environmental Measurements Laboratory

EMMIE

Emergency Management Mission Integrated

Environment (disasters)

EMNPP

Emergency Management and National

Preparedness Program

EMOC

1) Emergency Management Operations Center

2) Emergency Management Operations Course

EMP

1) Electromagnetic Pulse

2) Emergency Management Plan

EMPA

Emergency Management Planning and

Assistance

EMPG

Emergency Management Performance Grant

EMPO

Emergency Medical Preparedness Ofce

EMPS

Emergency Management Program Specialist

EMPTY QUIVER

Theft, seizure, or loss of a nuclear weapon or

component

EMR

1) Electromagnetic Radiation

2) Emergency Minimal Repair

3) Environmental Management Review

EMR-ISAC

Emergency Management & Response-

Information Sharing & Analysis Center

EMRS

Emergency Management Response System

EMRT

Emergency Medical Response Team

EMS

1) Emergency Management Specialist

2) Emergency Medical Service

3) Emergency Medical System

4) Environmental Management System

5) Evacuation Management System

EMSHG

Emergency Management Strategic Healthcare

Group

EMSSA

Emergency Medical Services System Act

EMT

1) Emergency Management Team

2) Emergency Management Training

3) Emergency Medical Technician

EMTALA

Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor

Act

EMTASC

Emergency Management Training, Analysis &

Simulation Center

EMT-B

Emergency Medical Technician - Basic

EMT-I

Emergency Medical Technician - Intermediate

EMT-P

Emergency Medical Technician - Paramedic

EMWIN

Emergency Managers Weather Information

Network

END

Exotic Newcastle Disease

ENDEX

End of Exercise

ENGB

Engine Boss

ENOP

Engine Operator

ENR

Environmental and Natural Resources

ENS

Emergency Notication Service/System

ENSO

El Nino / Southern Oscillation

1) Electro-Optical

2) Emergency Ofce

3) Environmental Ofcer

4) Executive Order

5) Exterior Orientation (Parameter)

EO/IR

Electro Optical/Infrared

EOC

1) Emergency Operating Center/Emergency

Operations Center

2) European Olympic Committee

EOD

1) Entered on Duty

2) Explosive Ordnance Disposal

EOE

Equal Opportunity Employer

EOEA

Executive Ofce of Environmental Affairs

EOF

1) Emergency Operations/Operating Facility

2) End of File

EOG

Exercise Observation Group

EOIR

Executive Ofce for Immigration Review

EOM

End of Month

EOO

Emergency Operations Organization

EOP

1) Emergency Operations/Operating Plan

2) Executive Ofce of the President

3) Extent of Play

EOPT

Emergency Operations Planning Template

EOS

1) Earth-Observing System

2) Emergency Operations Software

3) Equation of State

EOT

Emergency Operations Team

EOV

Emergency Operations Vehicle

EOW

Envelope of Water

1) Electric Power

2) Emergency Programs

EPA

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

EPAD

Emergency Provider Access Directory

EPAL

Enterprise Privacy Authorization Language

EPAP

Equipment Purchase Assistance Program

EPC

Emergency Preparedness Canada

EPCA

Energy Policy and Conservation Act

EPCRA

Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-

Know Act

EPD

Electronic Personnel Dosimeter

EPEAT

Electronic Product Environmental Assessment

Tool

EPG

1) Emergency Planning Guide

2) Exercise Preparation Guide

EPI

Emergency Public Information

EPIC

1) Emergency Preparedness Information

Coordinator

2) Electronic Privacy Information Center (“No

y” list; epic.org)

EPICS

Emergency Preparedness Incident Command

Stimulation

EPL

Evaluated Products List

EPLO

Emergency Preparedness Liaison Ofcer

EPMS

Environmental Portable Monitoring System

EPO

Environmental Protection Ofcer

EPOC

1) Emergency Point of Contact

2) Emergency Preparedness Operations Center

EPP

1) Emergency Preparedness Program

2) Employee Personal Page

3) Executive Potential Program

EPPC

Emergency Prevention and Preparedness

Council

EPPM

1) Emergency Planning, Preparedness, and

Mobilization

2) Environmental Planning Program Manager

EPR or EP&R

Emergency Preparedness and Response

EPS

Encapsulated PostScript

EPSCoR

Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive

Research

EPW

Exercise Planning Workshop

EPZ

Emergency Planning Zone

EQPCE

Earthquake Preparedness Center of Expertise

EQPI

Equipment Inspector

EQPM

Equipment Manager

EQTR

Equipment Time Recorder

EQUIP

Earthquake Impacts Projection (Model)

E-Quip

Electronic Questionnaire for Investigation

Processing

1) Emergency Relief

2) Emergency Room

3) Equal Rights

4) Expedited Removal

ERA

Equal Rights Amendment

ERAMS

Environmental Radiation Ambient Monitoring

System

ERB

Economic Resources Board

ERC

Emergency Response Coordinator

ERCG

Emergency Response Coordination Group

ERCP

Emergency Response Concept Plan

ERDA

Energy Research and Development

Administration

ERDC

Engineer Research and Development Center

[U.S. Army]

ERDEC

Edgewood Research, Development and

Engineering Center

ERF

Emergency Response Facility

ERFOG

Emergency Responder Field Operating Guide

ERG

Emergency Relocation Group

ERL

Environmental Research Laboratories

ERLink

Emergency Response Link

ERM

1) Elevation Reference Mark

2) Enforcement Removal Module

ERMS

1) Emergency Resource Management System

2) Enterprise Records Management System

ERN

Emergency Response Network

ERO

1) Emergency Response Ofcial

2) Equal Rights Ofce

3) Equal Rights Ofcer

EROS

Earth Resources Observing Satellite

ERP

1) Elevation Reference Point

2) Emergency Response Plan

3) Enterprise Resource Planning

4) Expedited Removal Process

ERPA

Emergency Response Planning Area

ERPG

Emergency Response Guidelines

ERPS

1) Efuents Radiation Protection Section

2) Emergency Response Planning Scenario

ERRO

Emergency Response/Recovery Ofce (USACE)

ERRS

Emergency and Rapid Response Services

ERS

1) Emergency Relocation Site

2) Executive Reporting System

ERSAC

Emergency Response Senior Advisory Committee

ERT

1) Emergency Response Team

2) Environmental Response Team

3) Evidence Recovery Team

4) Evidence Response Team

ERT:BC

Emergency Response to Terrorism: Basic

Concepts

ERT:SS

Emergency Response to Terrorism: Self-Study

ERT-A

Emergency Response Team - Advance Element

ERT-N-NCR

National Emergency Response Team for the

National Capital Region

ERT-S

Emergency Response Team Support Capability

ERV

Emergency Response Vehicle

ERW

Enhanced Radiation Weapon

1) Emergency Support

2) End System

3) Engineering Section (Information Resources

Division, FBIHQ)

4) Environmental Specialist

ESA

Endangered Species Act

ESAP

Energy Security and Assurance Program

ESAR-VHP

Emergency System for the Advanced

Registration of Volunteer Health Professionals

ESC

Executive Steering Committee

ESD

Emergency Services Director

ESDP

Engineering Study Data Package

ESDPF

Engineering Study Data Package Facility

ESDRB

Emergency Services and Disaster Relief Branch

ESEC

Executive Secretariat

ESF

Emergency Support Function [see below]

ESF 01

Transportation

ESF 02

Communications

ESF 03

Public Works and Engineering

ESF 04

Fireghting

ESF 05

Emergency Management

ESF 06

Mass Care, Emergency Assistance, Housing, and

Human Services

ESF 07

Logistics Management and Resource Support

ESF 08

Public Health and Medical Services

ESF 09

Search and Rescue

ESF 10

Oil and Hazardous Materials Response

ESF 11

Agriculture and Natural Resources

ESF 12

Energy

ESF 13

Public Safety and Security

ESF 14

Long-Term Community Recovery

ESF 15

External Affairs

ESFLG

Emergency Support Function Leaders Group

ESGR

Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve

ESI

Electronically Stored Information

ESIC

Earth Science Information Center

ESIF

Emergency Services Interconnect Forum

ESL

English as a Second Language

ESM

1) Electronic Support Measures

2) Enterprise Security Manager

ESN

Electronic Serial Number

ESO

Energy Senior Ofcial

ESP

1) Early Site Permit

2) Electric Service Priority

3) Extranet Secure Portal

ESPC

Energy Savings Performance Contract

ESS

1) Electronic Switching System

2) Emergency Services Sector

3) Environmental Sensor Station

ESS-SSA

Emergency Services Sector-Sector Specic

Agency

ESSV

Emergency Support Service Vehicle

EST

1) Eastern Standard Time (GMT - 5)

2) Emergency Support Team

ESTA

Electronic System for Travel Authorization

ESTD

Established

ESTED

Estimated Safe Time before Evacuation

Decisions

ESTI

Emergency Services Training Institute

1) End of Transect (Line)

2) Electronic Technician

ETA

1) Estimated Time of Arrival

2) Employment and Training Administration

ETAG

Employee Training Advisory Group

etc

et cetera

ETC

Emergency Transportation Center

ETD

1) Estimated Time of Departure

2) Explosives Trace Detector

ETE

1) Estimated Time Enroute

2) Evacuation Time Estimate

ETIC

Estimated Time in Commission

ETIS

Emergency Trafc Information System

ETJ

Extra-Territorial Jurisdiction (Limits)

ETL

Extraction, Transformation and Loading

ETO

Exercise and Training Ofcer

ETOC

Emergency Tactical Operations Center

ETP

Employment and Transition Plan

ETRMS

Emergency Transportation Resource

Management System

ETS

Evacuation Time Study

ETT

Eligible Travel Trailer

1) European Union

2) Explosives Unit (BDC, FBI)

EVM

Earned Value Management

EVT

Emergency Vehicle Technician

EVVE

Electronic Verication of Vital Events

Emergency Worker

EWAC

Emergency Worker and Assistance Center

EWC

Emergency Worker Center

EWF

Electronic Warfare

EWI

Entry Without Inspection

EWMDS

Emergency Worker Monitoring and

Decontamination Station

EWO

Emergency War Order

EWP

Emergency Watershed Protection

EWRI

Environmental and Water Resources Institute

EX/IM Bank

Export/Import Bank of the U.S.

EXB

Export-Import Bank

EXD

Explosives Division (S&T/EXD)

EXPLAN

Exercise Plan

EXTIN

Extinguisher

F&STD

Fire and Safety Test Detachment

F/ERO

Federal Emergency and Mutual Aid Response

Ofcial

F/WRKGPS

For Work Groups

FAA

1) Federal Aviation Administration

2) Foreign Assistance Act

FAADS

Federal Assistance Award Data System

FAAP

Foreign Airport Assessment Program

FAAR

Facilitated After Action Report

FAAS

FEMA Automated Acquisition System

FAAT

1) FEMA Acronyms, Abbreviations, & Terms

2) Fully Analytical Aerial Triangulation

FAB

FEMA Advisory Board

FAC

1) Family Assistance Center

2) Financial Attack Center

3) Foreign Air Carrier

FACA

Federal Advisory Committee Act

FACL

Facilities Unit Leader

FACMAN

Facilities Management System

FACNET

Federal Acquisition Network

FACP

Fire Alarm Control Panel

FAD

Foreign Animal Disease

FADED GIANT

Nuclear reactor radiological incident/ accident

FAE

Fuel Air Explosives

FAEST

Forward Area Emergency Support Trailers

FAI

Fire/Arson Investigation

FAIH

Federal Assistance to Individuals and

Households

FAIR

1) Fair Access to Insurance Requirements

2) Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act [of

1998]

FAITS

FEMA Automated Inventory Tracking System

FALA

Faller A

FALB

Faller B

FALC

Faller C

FAM

Federal Air Marshal

FAMA

Fire Apparatus Manufacturers’ Association

FAMAS

Facility Accreditation Management and

Administration System

FAMIS

FEMA Audit Management Information System

FAMS

Federal Air Marshal Service (see OLE/FAMS)

FANMAP

FEMA Automated Network Management

Program

FAO

1) Federal Approving Ofcer

2) Federal Approving Ofcial

3) Food & Agricultural Organization (UN)

FAOC

FEMA Alternate Operations Center

FAPRS

Federal Access Program Retrieval System

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

FAR

1) Federal Acquisition Regulations

2) Federal Aviation Regulations

FARS

Financial Accounting and Reporting System

FAS

1) Federal Acquisition Service

2) Foreign Agricultural Service

3) Freely Associated States

4) Freight Assessment System

FASSE

Federal Agency Support Service Element

FAST

1) Field Assessment Team

2) Future Attribute Screening Technology

3) Free and Secure Trade [Initiative]

FAX

Facsimile

FBAN

Fire Behavior Analyst

FBCI

Faith-Based and Community Initiatives

FBCO

Faith-Based and Community Organizations

FBFM

Flood Boundary and Floodway Map

FBI

Federal Bureau of Investigation [ESF-13]

FBIIC

Financial and Banking Information

Infrastructure Committee

FBN

Federal Base Network

FBO

Fixed Base Operator

FBR

Fast Breeder Reactor

1) Fire Control

2) Fire Corps (Citizen Corps Program Partner

administered by USFA)

FCA

Farm Credit Administration

FCBA

Federal Communications Bar Association

FCC

1) Federal Communications Commission

2) Federal Coordinating Center

FCD

Financial Crimes Division

FCDA

Federal Civil Defense Agency

FCE

Functional Capability Element

FCI

Facility Condition Index

FCIC

Federal Crop Insurance Corporation

FCIP

1) Federal Career Intern Program

2) Federal Crime Insurance Program

FCIS

Federal Crime Insurance System

FCM

Federal Communications Manager

FCMG

Fire Cache Manager

FCMSSR

Federal Committee for Meteorological Services

and Supporting Research

FCO

Federal Coordinating Ofcer

F-codes

Charge codes for FEMA incidents

FCP

1) Field/Forward Command Post

2) Federal Center Plaza

FCRR

Fundamentals Course for Radiological Response

FCS

1) Food and Consumer Service

2) Farm Credit Service

FCSA

Fee-Charge System Administrator

FCT

Forward Coordinating Team

1) Fire Department

2) Foundation Data

FDA

Food & Drug Administration

FDC

Fire Department Connection

FDDI

Fiber Distributed Data Interface

FDIC

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

FDID

Fire Department Identication Number

FDL

Forensic Documents Laboratory

FDMS

Federal Docketing Management System

FDNS

Fraud Detection and National Security Unit

FDO

Flight Deck Ofcer

FDP

Federal Demonstration Project

FDSOA

Fire Department Safety Ofcers Association

FDSS

Federal Drug Seizure System

FDUL

Food Unit Leader

1) Fire Extinguisher

2) Functional Exercise

FEA

Federal Enterprise Architecture

FEB

1) Federal Executive Board

2) Federal Executive Branch

FEC

1) Facility Emergency Coordinator

2) Federal Election Commission

3) Federal Electronics Challenge

FECA

Federal Employees Compensation Act

FECC

Federal Emergency Communications Coordinator

FED – TRT

Federal Tactical Response Team

FEDCIRC

Federal Computer Incident Response Center

FEDD

Flood Elevation Determination Docket

FEDMER

Federal Medical Evidence of Record

FED-STD

Federal Standard

FEEA

Federal Employee Education & Assistance

FEFFLA

Federal Employees Family Friendly Leave Act

FEGLI

Federal Employees’ Group Life Insurance

FEHB

Federal Employees Health Benets

FEI

Federal Executive Institute

FEIMS

Fire and Explosion Investigation Management

System

FEIS

Final Environmental Impact Statement

FEKC

FEMA Employee Knowledge Center

FELB

Felling Boss

FEMA

Federal Emergency Management Agency [ESF-5]

FEMAAR

Federal Emergency Management Agency

Acquisition Regulation

FEMIS

Federal Emergency Management Information

System

FEMO

Fire Effects Monitor

FEPA

Fair Employment Practices Agency

FERC

1) Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

2) FEMA Emergency Response Capability

FERS

Federal Employees Retirement System

FES

Field Evaluation System

FESC

Federal Emergency Support Coordinator

FESHE

Fire and Emergency Services Higher Education

FEST

Foreign Emergency Support Team

Fireghter

FFALC

Federal Fire and Aviation Leadership Council

FFAMIA

Federal Financial Assistance Management

Improvement Act

FFARS

FEMA Facsimile and Record System

FFATA

Federal Funding Accountability and

Transparency Act

FFC

FEMA Finance Center (OCFO)

FFCD

Full, Final, and Complete Disclosure

FFDO

Federal Flight Deck Ofcer

FFE

Federal Field Exercise

FFFI&PP

Fireghter Fatality Investigation & Prevention

Program (NIOSH)

FFI

Financial Fraud Institute

FFMIA

Federal Financial Management Improvement Act

FFMS

FEMA Frequency Management System

FFO

First Federal Ofcial

FFRDC

Federally Funded Research & Development

Center

FFS

Federal Financial System

FFSTG

Federal Fire Service Task Group

FFT1

Fireghter Type 1

FFT2

Fireghter Type 2

FGCC

Federal Geodetic Coordinating Committee

FGDC

Federal Geographic Data Committee

FGI

Foreign Government Information

Fire Hydrant

FHA

1) Federal Housing Administration

2) Fire Hazards Analysis

3) Flood Hazard Area

FHAR

Flood Hazard Analyses Report

FHBM

Flood Hazard Boundary Map

FHCS

Federal Human Capital Survey

FHFB

Federal Housing Finance Board

FHH

Fire Hose House

FHM

Flood Hazard Mapping

FHML

Federal Hazardous Material Law

FHR

1) Fire Hose Rack

2) Fire Hose Reel

FHWA

Federal Highway Administration

FIA

Federal Insurance Administration

FIAB

Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board

FIAMIS

Federal Insurance Administration Management

Information System

FICA

Federal Insurance Contributions Act

FICC

Federal Interagency Coordination Council

FICEMS

Federal Interagency Committee on Emergency

Medical Services

FICO

1) Flood Insurance Claims Ofce

2) Flood Insurance Claims Ofcer

FIDA

FEMA Information Data and Analysis

FIDLER

Field Instrument for the Detection of Low

Energy Radiation

FIFMS

FEMA Integrated Financial Management System

FIG

Field Intelligence Groups

FIMO

Federal Incident Management Ofcial

FIN

Fingerprint Identication Number

FINCEN

1) Financial Center

2) Financial Crimes Enforcement Network

FINS

Federal Information Notices

FIO

1) Federal Information Ofcer

2) Fire Information Ofcer

FIOC

Federal Interagency Operations Center

FIP

Federal Information Processing

FIPNC

Flood Insurance Producers National Committee

FIPS

1) Federal Information Processing Standards

(Code)

2) FOIA Information Processing System

FIR

1) Federal Inspection Report

2) Final Inspection Report

3) Flood Insurance Report

FIRB

Firing Boss

FIRESAT

Fire-Detection Satellite System (previously

known as the Integrated Hazard Information

System)

FIRESCOPE

Fireghting Resources of California Organized

for Potential

FIRM

Flood Insurance Rate Map

FIRM-DLG

Flood Insurance Rate Map-Digital Line Graph

FIRMPD

FEMA Information Resources Management

Procedural Directive

FIRMR

Federal Information Resources Management

Regulation

FIS

Flood Insurance Study

FISA

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

FISH

Forensic Information System for Handwriting

FISMA

Federal Information Security Management Act

of 2002

FIST

Field Intelligence Support Team

FIT

1) Failed Income Test

2) Financial Information Tool

FLAG

FEMA Logistics Advisory Group

FLAR

Forward Looking Airborne Radar

FLASH

Fellow Law Enforcement Agencies Securing the

Homeland

FLDPLN

Floodplains

FLEA

Fireline Explosive Advisor

FLEB

Fireline Blaster

FLEC

Fireline Explosives Crewmember

FLETA

Federal Law Enforcement Training Accreditation

FLETC

Federal Law Enforcement Training Center

FLEX

Federal or FEMA Leadership Exercise

FlHB

Fire Line Hand Book

FLIR

Forward Looking Infrared Radar

FLRA

Federal Labor Relations Authority

FLS

Flood Statement

1) Financial Management

2) Force Module

3) Frequency Modulation

FMA

1) Field Mitigation Assistance

2) Flood Mitigation Assistance

3) Floodplain Management Association

FMAGP

1) Fire Management Assistance Grant

2) Fire Management Assistance Grant Program

FMAP

1) Fire Management Assistance Program

2) Flood Mitigation Assistance Program

FMC

1) Federal Management Circular

2) Federal Maritime Commission

3) Federal Mobilization Center

4) Fully Mission Capable

FMCIMS

Flood Map Center Inventory Management

System

FMCS

Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service

FMCSA

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

FMD

Foot and Mouth Disease

FMDC

Flood Map Distribution Center

FME

Federally Managed Exercise

FMH

Federal Meteorological Handbook

FmHA

Farmers Home Administration

FMHCSS

Federal Manufactured Home Construction and

Safety Standards

FMLA

Family and Medical Leave Act

FMO

Fire Management Ofcer

FMP

Field Management Program

FMR

Fair Market Rental

FMS

1) Federal Medical Shelters

2) Financial Management System

FMSIS

Flood Map Status Information Service

FMT

Field Monitoring Team

FMV

Fair Market Value

FMWC

Federal Multilingual Website Committee

Foreign National

FNAMS

FEMA National Automated Message System

FNAPS

FEMA National Paging System

FNARS

FEMA National Radio System

FNF

Fixed Nuclear Facility

FNS

Food and Nutrition Services

Field Ofce

FOB

Federal Ofce Building

FOBS

Field Observer

FOC

1) FEMA Operations Center

2) Forward Operations Center

3) Free of Charge

4) Full Operating Capability

FOD

Foreign Object Damage

FOF

Field Operating Facility

FOG

1) Field Operating Guide

2) Field Operation Guide

FOH

Federal Occupational Health

FOI

Functional Ofce Index

FOIA

Freedom of Information Act

FONSI

Finding of No Signicant Impact

FOP

1) Fraternal Order of Police

2) Fugitive Operations Program

FORSCOM

Forces Command

FOS

1) Family of Services

2) Federal Operations Support

FOSA

Federal Operational/Operations Staging Area

FOSC

Federal On-Scene Coordinator/Commander

FOSS

Field Operating Site Setup

FOUO

For Ofcial Use Only

FOV

Field of View

1) Force Protection

2) Fire Protection

FP&S

Fire Prevention & Safety

FPC

1) Federal Power Commission

2) Federal Preparedness Circular

3) Federal Preparedness Coordinator

4) Final Planning Conference

FPCs

Federal Preparedness Coordinators

FPDL

Fire Protection Demonstration Lab

FPE

Fire Protection Engineering

FPEIS

Federal Programmatic Environmental Impact

Statement

FPF

Federal Policy Fee

FPG

Federal Preparedness Guide

FPI

1) Floodplain Information Report

2) Foreign Person of Interest

FPMR

Federal Property Management Regulation

FPO

1) Federal Preservation Ofcer

2) Flood Potential Outlook

FPPS

Federal Personnel Payroll System

FPS

Federal Protective Service

FQI

Federal Quality Institute

1) Federal Register

2) Field Reference

FRA

1) Federal Railroad Administration

2) Federal Records Act

FRAC

First Responder Authorization Credential

FRATS

FEMA Recovery Action Tracking System

FRB

Federal Reserve Board

FRC

1) Fast Response Cutters

2) Federal Records Center

3) Federal Regional Center

4) Federal Resource Coordinator

5) Federal Response Center

FRCA

Findings Requiring Corrective Action

FRCM

FEMA Regional Communications Manager

FRD

Formerly Restricted Data

FRERP

Federal Radiological Emergency Response Plan

FRESH

Fire, Rescue, Emergency, Safety, & Health

FRID

Flood Risk Directory

FRMAC

Federal Radiological Monitoring/Measurement

and Assessment Center

FRMAP

Federal Radiological Monitoring and Assessment

Plan

FRMT

Field Radiological Monitoring Team

FRN

1) Federal Register Notice

2) Federal Reserve Note

3) FEMA Radio Network

FRO

Flood Response Ofce

FRP

Facility Response Plan

FRPCC

Federal Radiological Preparedness Coordinating

Committee

FRPG

Federal Response Planning Guidance

FRPI

First Responder Partnership Initiative

FRRATS

1) Federal Response and Recovery Automated

Tracking System

2) FEMA Response & Recovery Applicant

Tracking System

FRS

1) Federal Reserve System

2) Federal Response Subcommittee

FRSA

Federal Railroad Safety Act

FRSD

First Responders and Small Departments

FRSGP

Freight Rail Security Grant Program

FRSSB

Facilities Radiological Safety and Safeguards

Branch

FRTIB

Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board

FRZ

Flight Restricted Zone

1) Feasibility Study

2) [United States] Forest Service [ESF-4]

FSA

1) Farm Service Agency

2) FEMA/State Agreement

3) Fire Suppression Assistance

4) Flexible Spending Account

5) Forward Staging Areas

FSAR

Final Safety Analysis Report

FSB

Forward Support Base

FSC

1) Federal Support Center

2) FEMA Storage Center

FSC1

Finance/Admin Section Chief

FSC2

Finance/Admin Section Chief

FSD

1) Federal Security Director

2) Fire System Deciency

3) Forensic Services Division

FSDO

Flight Service District Ofce

FSE

Full-Scale Exercise

FSG

Financial Services Group

FSH

Forest Service Handbook

FSIE

Fire Service Intelligence Enterprise

FSIS

1) Food Safety and Inspection Service

2) Foreign Service Institute

FSIU

Field Support Intelligence Unit

FSL

Federal, State, Local

FSLC

Federal Senior Leadership Council

FSLIC

Federal Savings and Loan Insurance

Corporation

FSM

Federated States of Micronesia

FSN

1) Federal Stock Number

2) FEMA Switched Network

FSO

Free Space Optics

FSR

Financial Status Report

FSS

1) Family Support Services

2) Federal Supply Service

FSSA

Flight School Security Awareness

FSSC

Fleet Surveillance Support Command

FSTC

Foreign Science Technology Center (United

States Army)

FSTS

Federal Secure Telephone System

FSVS

FEMA Secure Video System

FSX

Full Scale Exercise

1) foot/feet

2) Full Time

ft/min

feet per minute

ft3/min

cubic feet per minute

FTA

Federal Transit Administration

FTAA

Free Trade Area of the Americas

FTC

1) Federal Trade Commission

2) Federal Training Coordinator

3) Field Team Coordinator

FTD

Federal Travel Directory

FTE

1) Full-Time Employee

2) Full-time Equivalent

FTO

Foreign Terrorist Organization

FTP

File Transfer Protocol

FTS

1) Federal Technology Service

2) Forms Tracking System

FTSS

Federal Training Support Staff

FTTTF

Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force

FTX

Field Training Exercise

FTZ

Foreign Trade Zone

FUM1

Fire Use Manager 1

FUM2

Fire Use Manager 2

FUNC

Functional

Fire Weather

FWAN

FEMA Wide Area Network

FWBM

Fixed Wing Base Manager

FWCA

Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act

FWD

Forward

FWP

Federal Women’s Program

FWPCA

Federal Water Pollution Control Act

FWPT

Fixed Wing Parking Tender

FWS

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Functional Exercise

Fiscal Year

FYHSP

Future Years Homeland Security Program

FYI

For Your Information

Flood Zone

FZDC

Flood Zone Determination Company

G&T

Ofce of Grants and Training

General Adjuster

GA/FBO

General Aviation/Fixed-Base Operations

GAAP

Generally Accepted Accounting Principles

GAAS

Generally Accepted Auditing Standards

GAAWG

General Aviation Airports Working Group

GACC

Geographic Area Coordination Center

GACG

Geographic Area Coordinating Group

GAL

1) gallon

2) Global Access List

GAN

Grant Adjustment Notice

GANTSEC

Greater Antilles Section

GAO

1) General Accounting Ofce

2) Government Accountability Ofce

GAR

Governor’s Authorized Representative

GARS

Global Area Reference System

Gigabyte

GBL

Government/General Bill of Lading

GBPS

Gigabytes Per Second

General Counsel (see also OGC)

GCC

Government Coordinating Council

GCCS

Global Command and Communications System

GCE

Government Cost Estimate

GCF

Ground Concentration Factor

GCO

Grant Coordinating Ofcer

GCOA

Gross Consequence of Attack

GCOS

Global Climate Observing System

GCR

Gulf Coast Region

GCS

Ground Control Station

GD&A

Grant Development and Administration

GDIN

Global Disaster Information Network

GDM

Geospatial Data Model

GDNP

Gross Domestic National Product

GDS

Geographic Display System

GDSS

Global Decision Support System

GDT

Ground Data Terminal

General Emergency

Ge (Li)

Lithium Drifted Germanium

GEA

Geospatial Enterprise Architecture

GEIA

Government Electronic and Information

Technology Association

GEMA

Georgia Emergency Management Agency

GEMINI

Global Emergency Management Information

Network Initiative

GEMS

Global Emergency Management System

GEOCC

Government Emergency Operations

Coordination Center

GeoTIFF

Georeferenced Tagged Image File Format

GER

Global Emergency Response

GES

Global Enrollment System

GETA

Government Emerging Technology Alliance

GETS

Government Emergency Telecommunications

System/Service

GFE

Government-Furnished Equipment

GFI

Government-Furnished Information

GFIP

Group Flood Insurance Policy

GFIRST

Government Forum of Incident Response and

Security Teams

GFM

1) Generic Financial Module (NEMIS)

2) Government-Furnished Material

GGI

Global Geospatial Intelligence

GGI&S

Global Geospatial Information and Services

GHAD

Geologic Hazard Abatement District

1) Geographic Information

2) Ground Infantry

GIF

1) Graphical Image Format

2) Graphics Interchange Format

GIG

Global Information Grid

GIL

Grant-In-Lieu

GILS

Government Information Locator Service

GIS

1) Geographic Information System

2) Geospatial Information System

GISS

GIS Specialist

GISWG

Global Infrastructure and Standards Working

Group

GIWG

Global Intelligence Working Group

GIWW

Gulf Intracoastal Waterway

GLD

General Law Division

GLPAC

Great Lakes Pilotage Advisory Committee

GLWRM

Great Lakes Wave Runup Model

Guidance Memorandum

G-M

Geiger-Mueller (radiation detector)

GMDSS

Global Maritime Distress and Safety System

GMF

Government Master File

GML

Geographic Markup Language

GMO

1) Geospatial Management Ofce

2) Genetically Modied Organism

GMR

Graduated Mobilization Response

GMS

1) Grant Management Specialists

2) Grants Management System

GMT

Greenwich Mean Time (aka: "ZULU Time")

GNDA

Global Nuclear Detection Architecture

GNIS

Geographic Names Information System

GOALS

Government On-Line Accounting Link System

GOES

1) Geostationary Operational Environmental

Satellite

2) Global Online Enrollment System

GOGO

Government-Owned, Government-Operated

GOM

Gulf of Mexico

GOMEX

Gulf of Mexico

GOSC

Global Operations Security Center

GOTS

Government Off-The-Shelf

GOV

Government Owned Vehicle

Grant Programs, Ofce of (FEMA/GP)

GPCI

Geographical Physician Cost Index

GPD

Grant Programs Directorate

GPEA

Government Paperwork Elimination Act

GPL

1) General Population Level

2) General Population Limit

GPLD

Government Property Lost or Damaged

GPM

gallons per minute

GPMRC

Global Patient Movement Requirements Center

GPO

Government Printing Ofce

GPRA

Government Performance and Results Act

GPS

Global Positioning System

GRASS

Geographic Resources Analysis and Support

System

GRP

Grant Reporting Portal

GRS

Geodetic Reference System

1) General Schedule

2) Geological Survey

3) Geo-Stationary

4) Ground Support

GSA

General Services Administration

GSAAR

General Services Administration Acquisition

Regulation

GSACR

GSA Communications Representative

GSB

GIS Solutions Branch

GSE

Government-Sponsored Enterprise

GST

Ground Support Team

GSUL

Ground Support Unit Leader

GTA

1) Government Travel Account

2) Government Travel Authorization

GTC

Government Travel Card

GTM

Government Technical Monitor

GTR

1) Government Technical Representative

2) Government Transportation Request

GTS

Global Telecommunications System

GUI

1) Geographical User Interface

2) Graphical User Interface

GUIRR

Government-University-Industry Research

Roundtable

GVO

Green Vinyl Overboot

GWA

Government Wide Accounting

GWAC

Government-wide Acquisition Contract

Ground Zero

H&H

1) Hydraulics and Hydrology

2) Hydrologic and Hydraulic (Analyses)

Housing Assistance

HAB

Hostile Action Based

HADT

Hawaiian Daylight Time (GMT - 9)

HAG

Highest Adjacent Ground [grade]

HALE

High Altitude Long Endurance (see also MALE)

HAMMER

1) Hazardous Agent Mitigation and Medical

Emergency Response

2) Hazardous Materials Management and

Emergency Response

HAN

Health Alert Network

HAP

Hazard Abatement Plan

HARN

High Accuracy Reference Network

HARTline

Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority

(Florida)

HASP

Health and Safety Plan

HAST

1) Hawaiian Standard Time (GMT - 10)

2) Humanitarian Assistance Survey Team

HAWAS

Hawaiian Warning System

HAZCAT

Hazard Categorizing

HAZCOM

Hazard Communication

HAZMAT

Hazardous Material

HAZMIN

Hazard Minimization

HAZMIT

Hazard Mitigation

HAZUS

Hazards United States

HAZUS-MH

Hazards - United States (Multi-Hazard)

HAZWOPER

Hazardous Waste Operation and Emergency

Response

Health Benet

HBCU

Historically Black Colleges and Universities

HBX

High-Blast Explosive

Human Capital

HCA

High Consequence Area

HCF

Height Correction Factor

HCFA

Health Care Financing Administration

HCFSA

Health Care Flexible Spending Account

HCIB

Human Capital Investment Branch

HCO

Human Capital Ofce (see OCHCO)

HCOP

Human Capital Operational Plan

HCTS

Hazardous Cargo Transportation Security

Hurricane Day

Hdbks

Handbooks

HDD

Heating Degree Days

HDER

Homeland Defense Equipment Reuse

HDP

Hurricane Destruction Potential

HDTC

Homeland Defense Technology Center

High Explosive

HEAR

Hospital Emergency Administrative Radio

HEB1

Helibase Manager (4+)

HEB2

Helibase Manager (1-3)

HEC

Hydrologic Engineering Center

HECM

Helicopter Crewmember

HEICS

Hospital Emergency Incident Command System

HELB

Helicopter Boss

HELM

Helicopter Manager

HELP

Health Emergencies in Large Populations

HEMP

High Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse

HEOC

Hospital Emergency Operations Center

(medical)

HEPA

High Efciency Particulate Air (as in lters)

HERN

Hospital Emergency Radio Network

HERO

Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation to

Ordnance

HERS

Helicopter Rappel Spotter

HERT

Hospital Emergency Response Team

HES

Hurricane Evacuation Study

HESM

Helispot Manager

HET

Headquarters Emergency Transportation

HETA

Homeland Environment and Threat Analysis

Division

HEU

Highly Enriched Uranium

HEW

U.S. Department of Health, Education and

Welfare

1) High Frequency

2) Hydrogen Fluoride

HF/S SB

High Frequency / Single Side Band

HFD

Human Factors Division (S&T/HFD)

HFSC

Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition

HgI2

mercuric iodide

HHA

High Hazard Area

HHC

Headquarters and Headquarters Company

HHD

Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment

HHMD

Hand-Held Metal Detector

HHS

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

[ESF-8]

HHS SERT

Health and Human Services Secretary’s

Emergency Response Teams

HHSEOC

Health and Human Services Emergency

Operations Center

HHW

Household Hazardous Wastes

HIC

Hydrologist-in-Charge

HIDTA

High Intensity Drug Trafcking Area

HIP

Housing Improvement Program

HIPAA

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability

Act

HIPDB

Healthcare Integrity & Protection Data Bank

HIPS

Homeland Innovative Prototypical Solutions

HIRA

Hazard Identication and Risk Assessment

HITRAC

Homeland Infrastructure Threat and Risk

Analysis Center

HITRON

Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron

HITS

High Impact Technology Solutions

1) Help Line

2) Hotline

HLCO

Helicopter Coordinator

HLD

Homeland Defense

HLDBU

Homeland Defense Budget Unit

HLS

1) Homeland Security

2) Hurricane Local Statement

HLS-CAM

Homeland Security Comprehensive Assessment

Model

HLSEA

Homeland Security Enterprise Architecture

HLT

Hurricane Liaison Team

HLW

High-Level Waste

1) Hazard Mitigation

2) Hazardous Materials

HMA

Hazardous Materials Accident

HMAC

Hazardous Materials Advisory Council

HMC

Hazard Mitigation Coordinator

HME

1) Hazardous Materials Endorsement

2) Health, Medical, and Environmental

HMEP

Hazardous Materials Emergency Preparedness

HMER

Hazardous Material Emergency Response

HMG

Hazard Mitigation Grant

HMGP

Hazard Mitigation Grants Program

HMIX

Hazardous Materials Information Exchange

HMMWV

Highly Mobile Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle

HMRT

Hazardous Materials Response Team

HMRU

Hazardous Materials Response Unit (FBI)

HMST

Hazard Mitigation Survey Team

HMTA

Hazardous Materials Transportation Act

HMTAP

1) Hazard Mitigation Technical Assistance Plan

2) Hazard Mitigation Technical Assistance

Program

HMTUSA

Hazardous Materials Transportation Uniform

Safety Act

HNAT

Human Needs Assessment Team

HNT

Hostage Negotiation Team

HOB

Height of Burst

HOH

Head Of Household

HOO

[NRC] Headquarters Operations Ofcer

HOPWA

Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS

HOTMAC

High Order Turbulence Model for Atmospheric

Circulation

1) Health Physicist

2) Historic Preservation

3) Horsepower

4) Hurricane Program

HPAC

Hazard Prediction and Assessment Capability

HPC

1) High Probability of Completion

2) Hydrometeorological Prediction Center

HPCC

High-performance Computing and

Communications

HPPM

Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine

[U.S. Army Center for]

HPRDS

Human Portable Radiation Detection System

HPRP

Home Protection Roong Program

HPSI

High Pressure Safety Injection

HPT

Health Physics Technician

HPXe

high-pressure xenon

Headquarters

HQAMC

Headquarters Air Mobility Command

HQDA

Headquarters, Department of the Army

HQUSACE

Headquarters, US Army Corps of Engineers

hour

1) Home Repair

2) House of Representatives

3) Human Resources

HRAP

Helicopter Rappeller

HRCQ

Highway Route Controlled Quantity

HRD

Human Resources Division

HRDI

High Resolution Doppler Imager

HRLD

Human Rights Law Division

HRMS

Human Resources Management System

HRPT

High Resolution Picture Transmission

HRS

Hours

HRSA

Health Resources and Services Administration

HRSAN

Health Resources Services Administration

(Federal)

HRSP

Human Resource Specialist

HRT

1) Hostage Rescue Team

2) Hydraulic Rescue Tool

HRV

Human Rights Violator/Violation

1) Homeland Security

2) Human Services

HSA

Homeland Security Advisor

HSAC

1) Homeland Security Advisory Committees

(PLCY/HSAC)

2) Homeland Security Advisory Council

HSAP

Homeland Security Assistance Program

HSARPA

Homeland Security Advanced Research Project

Agency

HSAS

Homeland Security Advisory System

HSAT

Homeland Security Action Team

HSC

1) Health Service Command

2) Homeland Security Center

3) Homeland Security Council (formerly OHS)

HSCG

Homeland Security Coordination Group

HSD

Human Services Department

HSDF

Homeland Security Dialogue Forum

HSDN

1) High Seas Drift Nets

2) Homeland Secure Data Network

HSEEP

Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation

Program

HSEES

Hazardous Substances Emergency Event

Surveillance (Program)

HSELP

Homeland Security Executive Leadership

Program

HSGP

Homeland Security Grant Program

HSI

Homeland Security Institute

HSIA

Homeland Security Industry Alliance

HSIN

Homeland Security Information Network

(formerly JRIES)

HSIPP

Homeland Security Integrated Planning Process

HSIR

Homeland Security Intelligence Report

HSL

Health and Safety Laboratory

HSLA

Homeland Security Leadership Alliance

HSLD

Historic Shoreline Location Database

HSLRB

Homeland Security Labor Board

HSNTP

Homeland Security National Training Program

HSO

Human Services Ofcer

HSOC

Homeland Security Operations Center [see new

name under NOC]

HSOMB

Homeland Security Operations Morning Brief

HSPCD

Historic Shoreline Positional Change Database

HSPD

Homeland Security Presidential Directive

HSPI

Homeland Security Policy Institute

HSPO

(DHS) Human Subjects Protection Ofcial

HSPTAP

Homeland Security Preparedness Technical

Assistance Program

HSS

1) Health Service Support

2) Hyperspectral Sensor System

HSSP

Homeland Security Standards Panel

HSSTAC

Homeland Security Science and Technology

Advisory Committee

HSTA

Homeland Security Threat Assessment

HSTF

Homeland Security Task Force

HSTS

Homeland Security Training System

HSTTIG

Homeland Security Terrorist Threat Intelligence

Group

HSUS

The Humane Society of the United States

HTCI

High-Tech Crime Investigation

HTGR

High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor

HTMG

Helitorch Manager

HTML

HyperText Markup Language

HTMM

Helitorch Mixmaster

HTPT

Helitorch Parking Tender

HTRT

Hiring & Transition Response Team

HTS

High Temperature Superconductor

HTTP

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

HTUA

High Threat Urban Area

HUB

Historically Underutilized Business

HUBZone

Historically Under-Utilized Business Zone

HUD

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban

Development

HUG

HAZUS User Group

HUMINT

Human Intelligence

HURCON

Hurricane Condition

HUREVAC

Hurricane Evacuation

HV/HR

High value/High risk

HVA

Hazard Vulnerability Analysis

HVAC

Heat, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning

HVT

High Value Target

HWL

High Water Line

HWM

High Water Mark

HWP

Highway Watch Program

HWR

Heavy Water Reactor

Hertz (cycle per second)

1) Individual/Family

2) Iodine Exposure Intensity

I&A

Ofce of Intelligence and Analysis

I&P or I/P

Information and Planning

I&W

Indication and Warning

I/O

Input/Output

1) In and around

2) Individual Assistance

3) Information Analysis

4) Information Assurance

5) Initial attack

6) Inter-agency

7) Internal Affairs

8) International Affairs (see OIA)

IAA

Interagency Agreement

IAAE

International Association of Airport Executives

IAAI

International Association of Arson Investigators

IAASP

International Association of Airport and

Seaport Police

IAB

Interagency Board

IABPFF

International Association of Black Professional

Fire Fighters

IAC

1) Incident Action Council, formerly IIMG

(NRP-CIS)

2) Incident Advisory Council

3) Information Analysis Center (DOD)

4) International Aviation Club

IACET

International Association for Continuing

Education and Training

IACG

Interagency Airspace Coordination Guide

IACNDR

Inter-American Committee for Natural Disaster

Reduction

IACP

International Association of Chiefs of Police

IACUC

Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee

IAD

Information & Application Delivery

IADP

Initial Attack Dispatcher

IAE

Integrated Acquisition Environment

(eGovernment Initiative)

IAEA

International Atomic Energy Agency

IAEGC

Interagency Electronic Grants Committee

(Federal)

IAEGWG

Interagency Electronic Grants Working Group

IAEM

International Association of Emergency

Managers

IAFC

International Association of Fire Chiefs

IAFF

International Association of Fire Fighters

IAFIS

Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identication

System

IAFPA

International Aviation Fire Protection

Association

IAG

Interagency Advisory Group

IAHFF

International Association of Hispanic

Fireghters

IAI

International Association for Identications

IAIP

Information Analysis and Infrastructure

Protection [DHS former Directorate]

IALEIA

International Association of Law Enforcement

Intelligence Analysts

IAM

1) Identity and Access Management

2) Incident Activity Manager

IANA

Intermodal Association of North America

IAO

Individual Assistance Ofcer

IAP

1) Immigration Advisory Program (previously

known as the Immigration Security Initiative)

2) Incident Action Plan

IAPH

International Association of Ports and Harbors

IAPP

International Association of Privacy

Professionals

IAQ

Indoor Air Quality

IARLJ

International Association of Refugee Law Judges

IARR

Interagency Resource Representative

IAS

International Assistance System

IASE

Information Assurance Support Environment

(DoD IA Portal)

IASIR

International Association of Security and

Investigative Regulators

IASIU

International Association of Special

Investigation Units

IAT

Incident Assessment Team

IATA

International Air Transport Association

IATBOG

Interagency Airtankers Base Operations Guide

IAVA

Information Assurance Vulnerability Alert

IAW

In accordance with

IAWF

International Association of Wildland Fire

IBA

Incident Business Advisor

IBA1

Incident Business Advisor Type 1

IBA2

Incident Business Advisor Type 2

IBA3

Incident Business Advisor Type 3

IBAD

Interim Biological Agent Detector

IBC

1) International Broadcast Center

2) International Building Code

IBD

Improvised Biological Device

IBDS

Integrated Biological Detection System

IBET

Integrated Border Enforcement Team

IBHS

Institute for Business and Home Safety

IBIS

1) Interagency Border Inspection Services

2) Interagency Border Inspection System

IBPAP

International Business Practices Advisory Panel

IBS

Integrated Baseline System

IBSGP

Intercity Bus Security Grant Program

IBT

International Brotherhood of Teamsters

IBWA

International Bottled Water Association

1) Incident Command/Commander

2) Information Collection

3) Intelligence Community

IC&V

Intelligent Collaboration and Visualization

ICAF

Industrial College of the Armed Forces

ICAHST

Interagency Center for Applied Homeland

Security Technology

ICAO

International Civil Aviation Organization

ICAP

Incident Communications Action Plan

ICAV

Infrastructure Critical Asset Viewer

ICBM

Intercontinental Ballistic Missile

ICC

1) Incident Command Center

2) Increased Cost of Compliance

3) Information Control Cell

4) Intelligence Control Center

5) Interagency Coordination Council

6) International Code Council

ICCB

Intergovernmental Consultation and

Coordination Board

ICCOH

Interagency Coordinating Committee On

Hurricanes

ICCT

Incident Community Coordination Team

ICD

1) Improvised Chemical Device

2) Infrastructure Coordination Division

3) Institute of Chemical Defense

ICDR

Interagency Committee on Disability Research

ICE

1) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

2) Interoperable Communications Equipment

ICEP

Incident Communications Emergency Plan

ICEPP

Incident Communications Emergency Policy and

Procedures

ICER

Incident Communications Emergency Reference

ICF

1) Incident Command Facility

2) Insulating Concrete Forms

ICGP

Interoperable Communications Grant Program

ICHRO

Incident Command for High-rise Operations

ICIMPP

Integrated Civilian Industrial Mobilization

Planning Process

ICISF

International Critical Incident Stress Foundation

ICITAP

International Criminal Investigative Training

Assistance Program

ICLN

Integrated Consortium of Laboratory Networks

ICMA

International City/County Management

Association

ICML

Intelligence Community Markup Language

ICMOP

Integrated CONUS Medical Operations Plan

ICMSSR

Interdepartmental Committee for Meteorological

Services and Supporting Research

ICODS

Interagency Committee on Dam Safety

ICP

1) Incident Command Post

2) Information Collection Plan

3) Integrated Cargo Processing

ICPACC

Incident Communications Public Affairs

Coordination Committee

ICPAE

Interagency Committee on Public Affairs in

Emergencies

ICPO

(see INTERPOL)

ICPS

Integrated Card Production System

ICR

Information Collection Request

ICRC

International Committee of the Red Cross

ICRI

Incident Commander Radio Interface

ICRP

International Commission on Radiological

Protection

ICS

1) Incident Command System

2) Initial Contingency Staff

ICSA

ICS Advisor

ICSC

International Cargo Security Council

ICSCI

Incident Command for Structural Collapse

Incidents

ICSSC

Interagency Committee on Seismic Safety in

Construction

ICT

Incident Command Team

ICT1

Incident Commander Type 1

ICT2

Incident Commander Type 2

ICT3

Incident Commander Type 3

ICT4

Incident Commander Type 4

ICT5

Incident Commander Type 5

ICTAP

Interoperable Communications Technical

Assistance Program

ICTOA

International Counter-Terrorism Ofcers

Association

ICU

1) Incident Crisis Unit

2) Information Coordination Unit

3) Intensive Care Unit

ICWW

Intracoastal Waterway

1) Identication credentials

2) Infectious Disease

IDE

1) Initial Damage Estimate

2) Intrusion Detection Equipment [see IDS]

IDEC

International Drug Enforcement Conference

IDEM

Iowa Department of Emergency Management

IDENT

Automated Biometric Identication System

IDEX

Image Data Exploitation (System)

IDGA

Institute for Defense and Government

Advancement

IDIQ

Indenite Delivery, Indenite Quantity

IDLH

Immediate Danger to Life and/or Health

IDP

Imagery-Derived Product

IDPP

Infectious Disease Prevention Program

IDR

Institute for Disaster Research

IDS

1) Information Display System

2) Institute for Discrete Sciences

3) Integrated Deepwater System

4) International District Station

5) Intrusion Detection System

ID-WSF

Identity Web Services Framework

Initial Elevation (Line)

IEA

1) Immigration Enforcement Agent

2) International Energy Agency

IEC

1) InterExchange Carrier

2) Integrated Exploitation Capability

IECGP

Interoperable Emergency Communications

Grant Program

IED

1) Incendiary Explosive Device

2) Improvised Explosive Device

3) In-line Explosive Detection

IEEE

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IEISS

Interdependent Energy Infrastructure Simulation

System

IEMA

Illinois Emergency Management Agency

IEMC

Integrated Emergency Management Course

IEMG

International Emergency Management Group

IEMIS

Integrated Emergency Management Information

System

IEMS

Integrated Emergency Management System

IEP

Ingestion Exposure Pathway

IEPD

Information Exchange Package Documentation

IES

Industry Executive Subcommittee

IETF

Internet Engineering Task Force

IETM

Interactive Electronic Technical Manual

IEVS

Income Eligibility Verication System

Inland Fetch (Line)

IFALPA

International Federation of Airline Pilots

Association

IFB

Invitation for Bid

IFC

Intelligence Fusion Cell

IFE

In-Flight Emergency

IFERWG

1) Industrial Fire & Emergency Response

Working Group

2) International Fire & Emergency Response

Working Group

IFG

Individual and Family Grant

IFGP

Individual and Family Grant Program

IFLOWS

Integrated Flood Observing and Warning

System

IFMA

International Fire Marshals Association

(formerly FMANA)

IFMIS

Integrated Financial Management Information

System

IFR

1) Instrument Flight Rules

2) Interim Final Rule

IFSAC

International Fire Service Accreditation

Congress

IFSAR

Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar

IFSTA

International Fire Service Training Association

IFTP

Internet Forensic Training Program

1) Inspector General (see also OIG)

2) Instructor Guide

IGD

Infrastructure and Geophysical Division (S&T/

IGD)

IGE

Independent Government Estimate

IGES

Initial Graphics Exchange Specication

IGP

Intergovernmental Programs, Ofce of (NPPD/

IGP)

IGPT

Interagency Geospatial Preparedness Team

IGRP

Interior Gateway Routing Protocol

IGSA

Inter-Governmental Service Agreement

1) Industrial Hygiene

2) Industrial Hygienist

3) Inhalation

4) Intense Hurricane

IHC

1) Interagency Hotshot Crew

2) International Hurricane Center

IHD

Intense Hurricane Day

IHE

Insensitive High Explosive

IHMT

Interagency Hazard Mitigation Team

IHOG

Interagency Helicopter Operation Guide

IHP

Individual and Households Program

IHS

Indian Health Service

IHSS

Institute for Homeland Security Solutions

IIBMH

Interagency Incident Business Management

Handbook

IIC

1) Interagency Intelligence Cell

2) Investigator In Charge

IICRC

Institute of Inspection Cleaning and Restoration

Certication

IICT

Interagency Intelligence Committee on

Terrorism

IIFC

Information/Intelligence Fusion Center

III

Interstate Identication Index

IIMG

Interagency Incident Management Group

IIMS

Integrated Information Management System

IIMT

Interagency Incident Management Team

IIOM

Install, Integrate, Operate, and Maintain

IIPLR

Insurance Institute for Property Loss Reduction

IIPO

Information Integration Program Ofce

IIRIRA

Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant

Responsibility Act

IIT

Incident Investigation Team

IITCT

Interviewing and Interrogation Techniques for

Courtroom Testimony

IITP

Internet Investigations Training Program

IJIS

Integrated Justice Information System

ILE

Installations, Logistics & Environment

ILEA

International Law Enforcement Academy

ILM

Information Lifecycle Management

ILS

Integrated Logistics Support

Incident Management (Task)

IMA

Individual Mobilization Augmentee

IMAAC

Interagency Modeling and Atmospheric

Assessment Center

IMAC

Infrastructure Monitoring, Analysis, and

Coordination

IMAGE

ICE Mutual Agreement Between Government

and Employers

IMAP

Interactive Mail Access Protocol

IMAR

Inspection Management Activity Report

IMAT

Incident Management Assistance Team

IMC

1) Instrument Meteorological Conditions

2) Interim Message Change

3) International Mechanical Code

4) International Medical Corps

IMCS

Incident Management Communications Systems

IMD

Incident Management Division

IMET

Incident Meteorologist

IMG

Information Management Group

IMINT

Imagery Intelligence

IMO

International Maritime Organization

IMOC

International Maritime Ofcers Course

IMPAC

International Merchant Purchase Authorization

Card

IMPT

Incident Management Planning Team

IMRD

Information Management and Requirements

Division

IMS

1) Image Management System

2) Incident Management System

3) Information Management System

4) Institute of Museum Services

5) Intelligence Management System

6) Ion Mobility Spectrometry

IMSA

Incident Medical Special Assistant

IMSI

Incident Management Systems Integration

Division [of DHS/FEMA]

IMSID

Incident Management Systems Integration

Division

IMSM

Incident Medical Special Manager

IMSR

Incident Management Situation Report

IMST

Incident Medical Special Technician

IMSuRT

International Medical Surgical Response Team

IMT

1) Incident Management Team

2) Integrated Management Team

IMU

Inertial Measurement Unit

INA

Immigration and Nationality Act

INC

Income

INCITS

International Committee for Information

Technology Standards

INCM

Incident Communications Manager

IND

Improvised Nuclear Device

INEEL

Idaho National Engineering and Environmental

Laboratory

INEOA

International Narcotic Enforcement Ofcers

Association

INER

Interagency National Executive Reserve

INES

International Nuclear Event Scale

INF

1) Infrastructure

2) Immediate Needs Funding

INFOCON

Information Operations Condition

INFOSEC

Information Security

INL

International Narcotics and Law Enforcement

Affairs [Bureau for]

INMARST

International Maritime Satellite Terminal

INPASS

INS Passenger Accelerated Service System

INPHO

Information Network for Public Health Ofcials

INPO

Institute for Nuclear Power Operations

INRP

Initial National Response Plan

INS

1) Inertial Navigation System

2) Insurance

INSARAG

International Search and Rescue Advisory

Group

Insp

Inspection

INSPASS

see INPASS

INT

Intelligence, Ofce of (ICE/INT)

INTERCOM

Internal Communications

INTERPOL

International Criminal Police Organization

INV

Investigations, Ofce of

Information Ofcer

IOC

1) Initial Operational Capability

2) International Olympic Committee

IOF

1) Initial Operating Facility

2) Interim Operating Facility

IOM

International Organization for Migration

IONS

Incident of National Signicance

IOR

Initial Operating Report

1) Implementing Procedure

2) Improvement Plan

3) Infected Premises

4) Information and Planning

5) Infrastructure Protection, Ofce of (NPPD/

IP) [formerly with IAIP]

6) Internet Protocol

IPA

Interagency Personnel Agreement

IPAWS

Integrated Public Alert and Warnings System

IPB

Illustrated Parts Breakdown

IPC

1) Initial Planning Conference

2) Interagency Planning Committee

3) International Paralympic Committee

IPD

Infrastructure Protection Division

IPE

1) Integrated Performance Evaluation

2) Integrated Process Evaluation

IPFO

Interim Principle Federal Ofcial

IPG

Integrated Planning Guidance

IPIA

Improper Payments Information Act

IPP

1) Imminent Peril to the Public

2) Infrastructure Protection Program

IPR

1) In-Process Review

2) In-Progress Review

3) Incident Prevention and Response [Task]

(National Preparedness Guidance)

4) Initial Projections Report

5) Intellectual Property Rights

IPRL

Intelligent Personal Radiation Locator

IPRSGP

Intercity Passenger Rail Security Grant

Program

IPS

1) Information and Planning Section

2) Information Processing System

3) Integrated Planning System

4) International Port Security

IPSCOM

Imagery Policy and Security Committee

IPT

1) Integrated Process Team

2) Integrated Product Team

3) Integrated Project Team

IPTI

Integrated Patient Tracking Initiative

IPX

Internetwork Packet Exchange

IPZ

Ingestion Pathway Zone

1) Infrared

2) Infrared Radiation

IRA

Immediate Response Authority

IRAC

Interagency Radiological Assistance Committee

IRAPP

Infrastructure Risk Assessment Partnership

Program

IRB

1) Information Resources Board

2) Institutional Review Board (MD 10300)

3) Investment Review Board

IRBM

Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile

IRC

1) Information Resources Center

2) InfoSec (Information Security) Research

Council

3) International Residential Code

IRCA

Immigration Reform and Control Act (1986)

IRCM

Infrared Countermeasure

IRF

Initial Response Force

IRFA

International Religious Freedom Act

IRFC

Initial Response Force Commander

IRFS

Infrared Field Specialist

IRI

Industrial Research Institute

IRIN

Infrared Interpreter

IRIS

1) Incident Resource Inventory System

2) Incorporated Research Institutions for

Seismology

IRM

Information Resources Management

IRMCO

Interagency Resources Management Conference

IRMS

Information Resources Management Service

IRP

1) Installation Restoration Plan

2) Institutional Removal Program

3) Interior Repatriation Program

4) Investment Review Process

IRPMR

Information Resources Procurement and

Management Review

IRR

Initial Response Resource

IRRIS

Integrated Response and Recovery Information

System

IRS

Internal Revenue Service

IRT

1) Independent Review Team

2) Initial Response Team

3) International Registered Traveler

IRTI

Immigration Reform Transformation Initiatives

IRTPA

Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention

Act of 2004

IRVMC

Inland River Vessel Management Center

IRZ

Immediate Response Zone

1) Independent Study

2) Information Security

3) Information System

4) Infrastructure Support

5) Inspection Services

IS&C

Information Sharing and Coordination [Branch]

(Ofce of Intelligence & Analysis)

ISA

Incident Staging Area

ISAAC

Integrated Security and Access Control

ISAAG

Information Systems Architectural Advisory

Group

ISABP

International South Atlantic Buoy Program

ISAC

1) Information Sharing and Analysis Center

2) Infrastructure Sector Advisory Committee

ISACA

Information Systems Audit and Control

Association

ISAMS

Information Sharing Agreement Management

System

ISAO

Information Sharing and Analysis Organization

ISAR

Inspection Services Activity Report

ISBE

Infrastructure Security for the Built

Environment

ISC

1) Infrastructure Subcommittee

2) Information Sharing & Collaboration Ofce

(I&A/ISC)

3) Inspection Services Coordinator

4) Interagency Security Committee

5) Interstate Commerce

ISCC

Information Sharing Coordinating Council

ISCO

Information Sharing and Collaboration Ofce

ISCORS

Interagency Steering Committee on Radiation

Standards

ISCP

Integrated Support Communications Plan

ISCS

International Satellite Communications Systems

ISD

Infrastructure Services Division

ISDL

Inert Skin Decontamination Lotion

ISDN

Integrated Services Digital Network

ISDR

International Strategy for Disaster Reduction

ISE

Information Sharing Environment

ISEMA

Indiana State Emergency Management Agency

ISFSI

International Society of Fire Service Instructors

ISG

Incident Support Group

ISGB

Information Sharing Governance Board

ISI

Immigration Security Initiative

ISIP

Initial Strategy Implementation Plan

ISIS

Integrated Surveillance Intelligence System

ISM

1) Information Security Marketing

2) Integrated Safety Management

ISMA

International Security Management Association

ISO

1) Incident Support Organization

2) Insurance Services Ofce

3) International Security Organization

4) International Standards Organization

ISOC

1) Information Security Oversight Committee

2) Interagency SEAT Operations Guide

ISOO

Information Security Oversight Ofce

ISP

1) Immediate Services Program

2) Information Security Program

3) Information Systems Plan

4) Intensive Supervision Program

5) Interagency Security Plan

6) Internet Service Provider

ISPAG

Information Systems Policy Advisory Group

ISPP

Information Systems Planning Program

ISPS

International Ship and Port Facility Security

ISR

Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance

ISRS

Image Storage and Retrieval System

ISSA

1) Information Systems Security Association

2) Interservice Support Agreement

ISSM

Information Systems Security Manager

ISSO

Information Systems Security Ofcer

ISSP

Information Systems Security Program

IST

Incident Support Team

IST-A

Incident Support Team – Advance Element

ISTEA

Intermodal Surface Transportation Efciency

Act

ISTL

Incident Support Team Leader

ISTS

Institute for Security Technology Studies

ISVB

Imagery Science Validation Board

ISWG

Import Safety Working Group

Information Technology

ITA

1) Information Technology Architecture

2) Integrated Transport Analysis

ITAA

Information Technology Association of America

ITAAC

Inspections, Tests, Analyses, and Acceptance

Criteria

ITAC

Information Technology Acquisition Center

ITACG

Interagency Threat Assessment and

Coordination Group

ITAR

1) Information Technology Acquisition Review

2) International Trafc in Arms Regulations

ITC

1) Information Technology Committee

2) Information Technology Coordinator

3) International Trade Commission

ITD

International Training Division

ITDS

International Trade Data System

ITE

Institute of Transportation Engineers

I-Team

1) Incident Team

2) Intelligence Team

ITED

IFSAR Terrain Elevation Data

ITEP

Information Technology & Evaluation Program

ITF

Intelligence Task Force

ITI

International to International

ITIC

International Tsunami Information Center

ITIPS

Information Technology Investment Portfolio

System

ITL

Information Technology Laboratory

ITM

Inspection Transfer Manager

ITMRA

Information Technology Management Reform

Act of 1996

ITP

1) Infrastructure Transformation Program

2) Individual Training Plan

ITPMO

Infrastructure Transformation Program Ofce

I-TRAP

Interagency Terrorism Response Awareness

Program

ITS

1) Information Technology Services

2) Intelligent Transportation System

ITSD

Information Technology Services Directorate

ITSH

Internal Transport, Storage, and Handling

ITTC

Identity Theft Technology Council

ITU

International Telegraphic Union

ITV

In-Transit Visibility

ITWG

International Technical Working Group

IUPA

International Union of Police Associations

Intravenous

IV&V

Interdependent Verication and Validation

IVD

Interactive Video Disk

IVHHN

International Volcanic Health Hazard Network

IVR

Interactive Voice Response

IWG

1) Implementation Working Group

2) Investment Working Group

IWIN

Interactive Weather Information Network

IWN

Integrated Wireless Network

IWOMEN

International Association of Women in Fire &

Emergency Services

IWP

Integrated Warning Program

IWS

Information Warfare and Strategy

JAARS

Joint After-Action Reporting System

JAC

1) Joint Advisory Committee

2) Joint Analysis Center

JACADS

Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System

JACE

Joint Assessment of Catastrophic Events

JAD

Joint Application Development

JAG

1) Joint Action Group

2) Judge Advocate General (DOD)

JANAP

Joint Army-Navy-Air Force Publication

JAS

Joint Alternate Site

JATS

Joint Air Transportation System

JAWAS

Joint Automated Weather Observing System

JBPDS

Joint Biological Point Detection Systems

JCAH

Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals

JCAHO

Joint Commission on Accreditation of

Healthcare Organizations

JCC

Joint Coordination Center

JCCC

Joint Customs Coordination Council [U.S. and

European Union]

JCGC

Joint Center for Global Connectivity

JCS

Joint Chiefs of Staff

JDCC

Joint Data Coordination Center

JDISS

Joint Deployable Intelligence Support System

JDOMS

Joint Director of Military Support

JEAD

Joint Exercise and Analysis Division (Joint

Staff - J-7)

JECG

Joint Exercise Control Group

JEEP

Joint Emergency Evacuation Plan

JEMP

Joint Exercise Management Program

JEOC

Joint Emergency Operations Center

JFACC

Joint Force Air Component Commander

JFC

Joint Force Commander

JFCOM

Joint Forces Command

JFHQ-HLS

Joint Forces Headquarters - Homeland Security

JFHQ-State

Joint Force Headquarters-State

JFLCC

Joint Force Land Component Commander

JFO

Joint Field Ofce

JFOCG

Joint Field Ofce Coordination Group

JFSP

Joint Fire Science Program

JHA

Job Hazard Analysis

JHAT

Joint Hazardous Assessment Team

JHEC

Joint Hazard Evaluation Center

JHOC

Joint Harbor Operations Command Center

Johnston Island

JIACG

Joint Interagency Coordination Group

JIALO

Joint Interagency Liaison Ofcer

JIATF

Joint Interagency Task Force

JIB

Joint Information Bureau

JIC

1) Joint ICE Center

2) Joint Information Center

3) Joint Intelligence Center

JICG

Joint International Control Group

JICPAC

Joint Intelligence Center, Pacic

JIISE

Joint Interagency Intelligence Support Element

JIMPP

Joint Industrial Mobilization Planning Process

JIOC

Joint Investigative Operations Center

JIS

Joint Information System

JIT

1) Job Instruction Training

2) Just In Time

JITC

Joint Interoperability Test Command

JITF-CT

Joint intelligence Task Force for Combating

Terrorism

JLCO

Joint Legal Claims Ofce

JMC

Joint Movement Center

JMET

Joint Mission Essential Task

JMFU

Joint METOC Forecast Unit

JMIE

Joint Maritime Information Element

JMIP

Joint Military Intelligence Program

JMMO

Joint Medical Mobilization Ofce

JMRO

Joint Medical Regulating Ofce

JMT

Joint Management Team (combination of IST

and MST - US&R and DMAT or NDMS)

JNACC

Joint Nuclear Accident Coordinating Center

JNAIRT

Joint Nuclear Accident/Incident Response Team

JNC

Joint News Center

JOA

Joint Operational Area

JOC

Joint Operations Center

JOPES

Joint Operations Planning and Execution

System

JPAC

Joint Planning Augmentation Cell (for CBIRF)

JPAS

Joint Personnel Adjudication System

JPATS

Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation

System

JPEG

Joint Photographic Experts Group

JPEO/CBD

Joint Program Executive Ofce for Chemical

and Biological Defense

JPIC

Joint Public Information Center

JPMRC

Joint Patient Movement Requirements Center

JPMT

Joint Patient Movement Team

JPO

Joint Program Ofce

JPSG

Justice-Defense Program Steering Group

JRC

Joint Requirements Council

JRERP

Joint Radiological Emergency Response Plan

JRIC

Joint Regional Intelligence Center

JRIES

1) Joint Regional Information Exchange System

(see HSIN)

2) JITF-CT RISSNET Information Exchange

System

JRMP

Joint Regional Medical Planner

JRMPO

Joint Regional Medical Planning Ofce

JRS

Joint Reporting System

JRT

Joint Response Team

Joint Staff

JSCP

Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan

JSERA

Joint Special Events Risk Assessment

JSIPP

Joint Service Installation Pilot Program

JSOTF

Joint Special Operations Task Force

JSTARS

Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System

JTA

Jacksonville Transportation Authority

JTF

Joint Task Force

JTF - O

Joint Task Force - Olympics

JTF-CM

Joint Task Force - Consequence Management

JTF-CS

Joint Task Force - Civil Support

JTF-FF

Joint Task Force - Fireghter

JTF-Katrina

Joint Task Force-Katrina

JTF-NCR

Joint Task Force - National Capital Region

JTF-State

Joint Task Force-State

JTIMS

Joint Training Information Management System

JTMS

Joint Training Master Schedule

JTOT

1) Joint Tactical Operations Team

2) Joint Technical Operations Team

JTPA

Job Training Partnership Act

JTR

Joint Travel Regulations

JTRB

Joint Telecommunications Resources Board

JTTF

Joint Terrorism Task Force

JTWC

Joint Typhoon Warning Center

JULL

Joint Universal Lessons Learned (Report)

JULLS

Joint Universal Lessons Learned System

JVM

Java Virtual Machine

JWARN

Joint Warning and Reporting Network

JWC

Joint Warfare Center

JWFC

Joint Warghting Center

JWICS

Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communication

System

JWID

Joint Warrior Interoperability Demonstration

JXDM

[Global] Justice XML Data Model

kilo (1,000)

1) Kilobyte

2) Kilobit

kBPS

Kilobits Per Seconds

KBRM

Knowledge-Based Risk Management

KCCO

Kansas City Commodity Ofce

Knocked Down

KDEM

1) Kansas Department of Emergency

Management

2) Kentucky Department of Emergency

Management

KDP

Key Decision Point

kilogram

kHz

kiloHertz

Potassium Iodide

kilometer

KMI

Key Management Infrastructure

KML

Keyhole Markup Language

KMS

Knowledge Management System

kilo-Newton

KSA

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

KSO

Key Security Ofcial (MD 10300)

KST

Known or Suspected Terrorist

Kiloton

kilovolt

KVERT

Kamchatkan Volcanic Eruptions Response Team

Kilowatt

kWh

kilowatt hour

Locality

L&D

Learning & Development

LAC

Local Assistance Center

LAG

Lowest Adjacent Ground [grade]

LAN

Local Area Network

LAN/WAN

Local Area Network/Wide Area Network

LANDSAT

Land Satellite

LANL

Los Alamos National Laboratory

LAO

Lead Agency Ofcial

LAP

Lesson Administration Page

LASP

Large Aircraft Security Program

pound

LBAD

Lexington Blue Grass Army Depot

lbf

pound force

Logistics Center

LC-A

Logistics Center-Atlanta

L-CAR

Local Capability Assessment for Readiness

LCAT

Logistics Closeout Assistance Team

LCCE

Life Cycle Cost Estimate

LC-FW

Logistics Center-Fort Worth

LCM

Life Cycle Management

LC-MF

Logistics Center-Moffett Field

LCMS

Learning Content Management System

LCO

Limiting Condition for Operation

LCS

Local Communications System

LCT

Liaison Coordination Team

1) Lethal Dose

2) Limited Data

LDAP

Light Directory Access Protocol

LDR

Lutheran Disaster Response

LDS

Lightning Detection System

LDW

Last Day Worked

Law Enforcement

LEA

1) Law Enforcement Agency

2) Light Enforcement Aircraft

LEADERS

Lightweight Epidemiology Advanced Detection

and Emergency Response System

LEAINTP

Law Enforcement Advanced Interviewing

Training Program

LEAP

Law Enforcement Availability Pay

LEC

Local Exchange Carrier

LECC

Law Enforcement Coordination Center

LEDET

Law Enforcement Detachment

LEED

Law Enforcement Executive Development

Program

LeeTran

Lee County Transit Authority (Florida)

LEGAT

Legal Attache

LEGATS

Legal attachments

LEH

Light Enforcement Helicopter

LEISP

Law Enforcement Information Sharing Program

LEL

1) Lower Explosive Limit

2) Lowest Effect Level

LELI

Law Enforcement Leadership Institute

LEM

Local Emergency Management

LEMA

Local Emergency Management Authority

LEMDP

Law Enforcement Management Development

Program

LEO

Law Enforcement Ofcer

LEOC

Local Emergency Operations Center

LEOSA

Law Enforcement Ofcers Safety Act

LEP

1) Leadership Excellence Program

2) Limited English Prociency

3) Loaned Executive Program

LEPC

Local Emergency Planning Committee

LEPPC

Local Emergency Prevention and Preparedness

Council

LERN

Law Enforcement Radio Net

LERT

Logistics Emergency Response Team

LESC

Law Enforcement Support Center

LESO

Law Enforcement Security Ofcer

LETPP

Law Enforcement Terrorism Prevention Program

LETS

Law Enforcement Telecommunications System

LEU

Low-Enriched Uranium

LEVEL 1 EST

Full EST activation level (NRCC)

LEVEL 2 EST

Intermediate EST activation level (NRCC)

LEVEL 3 EST

Minimal EST activation level (NRCC)

LEWG

Law Enforcement Working Group

1) Linear Foot

2) Low Frequency

LFA

Lead Federal Agency

LFD

Letter of Final Determination

LFE

Lowest Floor Elevation

LFEOC

Local Federal Emergency Operations Center

LFFE

Lowest Finished Flood Elevation

LFO

Lead Federal Ofcial

LFP

Livestock Feed Programs

Local Hire

LHA/LHD

Landing Helicopter - Assault/ Landing

Helicopter - Deck

LHD

Local Health Department

LHMC

Local Hazard Mitigation Coordinator

LHR

Limited Home Repair

LHW

Last Hour Worked

LIBSYS

Library System

LIC

License

LID

Low-Impact Development

LIDAR

Light Detection and Ranging (system)

LIDEF

Levee Inventory Data Entry Form

LIFE

Legal Immigration Family Equity

LIHEAP

Low Income Household Energy Assistance

Program

LIMFAC

Limiting Factor

LIMS

1) Laboratory Information Management System

2) Logistics Information Management System

LINX

Law Enforcement Information Exchange [Navy]

LISS

Linear Imaging and Self-Scanning

Lessons Learned

LLEA

1) Lead Law Enforcement Agency

2) Local Law Enforcement Agency

LLIS

Lessons Learned Information Sharing System

LLNL

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

LLP

Limited Liability Partnership

LLR

Lessons Learned (Hot Wash) Report

LLW

Low-Level Waste

LLWS

Low-Level Wind Shear

Logistics Management (FEMA/LM)

LMA

Land Management Agencies

LMD

Logistics Management Directorate (of DHS/

FEMA)

LMF

Logistics Management Facility

LMFBR

Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor

LMI

Logistics Management Institute

LMPC

Labor-Management Partnership Council

LMR

Living Marine Resource

LMS

Learning Management System

LNG

Liqueed Natural Gas

LNO

Liaison Ofcer

LOA

Letter of Agreement

LOAD

Loadmaster

LOAEL

Lowest Observed Adverse Effect Level

LOC

1) Letter of Credit

2) Levels of concern

3) Library of Congress

4) Line of Communication

LOCA

Loss of Coolant Accident

LOC-TFCS

Letter of Credit - Treasury Financial

Communications System

LODR

Letter of Determination Review

LOEP

Louisiana Ofce of Emergency Preparedness

LOFR

Liaison Ofcer

LOG

Logistics

LOI

1) Letter of Intent

2) Letter of Instruction

LOINC

Logical Observation Identiers Names and

Codes

LOMA

Letter of Map Amendment

LOMC

Letter of Map Change

LOMC-VALID

Letter of Map Change Revalidation

LOMR

Letter of Map Revision

LOMR-F

Letter of Map Revision Based on Fill

LOP

Legal Orientation Program

LOS

Line of Sight

LOSA

Logistical Operations Staging Area

LOSAP

Length-of-service Award Program

LOSSEST

Loss Estimation

LOU

Limited Ofcial Use

LPA

Legislative and Public Affairs

LPDP

Livestock Preservation Donation Program

LPG

Liqueed Petroleum Gas

LPN

Licensed Practical Nurse

LPOC

Last Port of Call

LPPC

Local Preparedness and Prevention Council

LPR

1) Lawful Permanent Resident (status)

2) Legal Permanent Resident (person)

LPZ

Low Population Zone

Limited Response

LRA

Louisiana Recovery Authority

LR-BSDS

Long Range Biological Standoff Detection

System

LRC

1) Learning Resource Center

2) Logistics Resource Center

3) Logistics Response Center

LRFD

Load and Resistance Factor Design

LRIP

Low Rate Initial Production

LRMP

Long Range Management Plan

LRN

Laboratory Response Network

LRT

Long Range Tracker

LRU

Lowest Replaceable Unit

1) Logistics Support

2) Lump Sum

LSA

Logistics Staging Area

LSC

1) Legal Services Corporation

2) Life Safety Code

3) Life Support Center

LSC1

Logistics Section Chief Type 1

LSC2

Logistics Section Chief Type 2

LSCAD

Lightweight Stand-off Chemical Agent Detector

LSCD

Life Safety Code Deciency

LSCT

Line Scout

LSE

Local Subscriber Environment

LSFE

Life Safety and Fire Engineering

LSFE

Life Safety and Fire Engineering Branch of

FEMA Ofce of Occupational Safety, Health &

Environment (OSHE)

LSFP

Life Safety and Fire Protection

LSFP

Life Safety and Fire Protection Program

LSG

Large Scale Game

LSP

Lump Sum Payment

LSS

1) Laboratory Scientic Services

2) Life Support System

LSU

Louisiana State University (NDPC)

LSV

Logistical Staging Vehicle

Lieutenant (aka: Lt or Lieut)

LTA

Lighter Than Air

LTATP

Land Transportation Anti-terrorism Training

Program

LTCR

Lost Time Case Rate

LTD

Limited

LTG

Lieutenant General

LTL

Less-than Truck Load

LTR

Long-Term Recovery

LTRC

1) Long Term Recovery Committee

2) Long Term Recovery Coordinator

LTRO

Long Term Recovery Ofce

LULC

Land Use and Land Cover

LVA

Low Volatility Agent

LVB

Large Vehicle Bomb

LWDR

Lost Work Day Rate

LWF

Lutheran World Federation

LWOP

Leave Without Pay

LWR

Light Water Reactor

LYNX

Central Florida Regional Transportation

Authority

Landing Zone

meter

M&A

Management and Administrative

M&IE

1) Meals and Incidental Expenses

2) Miscellaneous and Incidental Expenses

M&S

Modeling and Simulation

M/S

Meters per Second

1) Marshalling Area

2) Mission Assignment

MAA

Mutual Aid Agreement

MAAD

Mobile Asset Activities Document

MAAFS

Mid-Atlantic Association of Forensic Scientists

MABAS

Mutual Aid and Box Alarm System

MAC

1) Mapping and Analysis Center

2) Mission Assignment Coordinator

3) Mitigation Assistance Clinic

4) Monitoring and Analysis Coordinator

5) Multi-Agency Command

6) Multiagency Committees

7) Multiagency Coordinating (Entity)

8) Multiagency Coordination

9) Multiple Award Contract

MAC Entity

Multiagency Coordinating Entity

MACA

Military Assistance to Civil Authorities

MACC

1) Multiagency Command Center

2) Multi-Agency Coordination Center

3) Multi-Agency Crime Center

MACDIS

Military Assistance for Civil Disturbances

MACGp

Multi-Agency Coordination Group

MACOM

Major Command

MACS

Multi-Agency Coordination System

MAEC

Mid-America Earthquake Center

MAELU

Mutual Atomic Energy Liability Underwriters

MAF

Master Appropriation File

MAFC

MAFFS Clerk

MAFFS

Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System

MAGIC

Mid-America Geographic Information Council

MaHIMS

Medical and Health Incident Management

System

MALE

Medium Altitude Long Endurance (see also

HALE)

MANPADS

Man Portable Air Defense System

MAOC

Military Air Operations Coordinator

MAPs

Motorist Assist Points

MAR

Monthly Accomplishments Report

MARAC

Mutual Aid Regional Advisory Committee

MARAD

Maritime Administration

MARC

1) Mid-America Regional Council

2) Maryland Rail Commuter

MAREP

Marine Report

MARFORLANT

Marine Forces Atlantic

MARPLOT

Mapping Applications for Response, Planning,

and Local Operational Tasks

MARR

Mission Assignment Reimbursement Request

MARS

1) Military Afliated Radio System

2) Mobile Analytical Response System

3) Multi-function Acquisition and Reporting

System

MARSA

Military Assumes Responsibility for Separation

of Aircraft

MARSEC

Maritime Security

MarshMALLOW

Marsh Management Activities for Learning the

Lifestyles of Wildlife

MART

Morning Advisory Risk Threat (see also DART

and EART)

MAS

Mapping Activity Statement

MASF

Mobile Aeromedical Staging Facility

MASFO

Multi-Agency Strike Force Operation

MASH

Mobile Army Surgical Hospital

MASINT

Measurement and Signature Intelligence

MAST

1) Maritime Security and Strategic Toolkit

2) Midwestern Alliance of Sovereign Tribes

3) Military Assistance to Safety and Trafc

4) Mitigation Advisors’ Strategic Tracker

MAT

Mobilization Assistance Team

MATES

Mobilization and Training Equipment Site

MATF

Multi-Agency Task Force

MATRIX

Multi-state Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange

MATTS

1) Marine Asset Tag Tracking System

2) Mobile Air Transportable

Telecommunications System

MAV

Micro Air Vehicle

1) millibar

2) Megabyte

MBA

Master of Business Administration

MBO

Management by Objectives

MBPS

Megabytes per Second

MBTA

Migratory Bird Treaty Act

1) Marine Corps

2) Member of Congress

3) Mobilization Center

MCA

Multi-Channel Analyzer

MCAD

Military Crew Advisor

M-CAST

Medical Capabilities Assessment & Status Tool

MCB

Movement Coordination Branch

MCC

1) Major Cities [police] Chiefs

2) Master Control Cell

3) Mobility Control Center

4) Movement Coordination Center

5) Mission Control Center

MCD

Medical Crew Director

MCE

Maximum Credible Event

MCEER

Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake

Engineering Research

MCF

1) Mass Care and Feeding

2) Movement Coordination Function

MCI

Mass Casualty Incident

MCMC

Mid-Continent Mapping Center

MCMT

Mobilization Center Management Team

MCO

MERS Coordination Ofce

MCOC

Marine Corps Operations Center

MCOE

Metadata Center of Excellence (see EDMO)

MCR

Military Communications Representative

MCS

Movement Coordination System

MCSAP

Motor Carrier Safety and Assistance Program

MCU

Movement Coordination Unit

MCV

Mobile Coordinating Vehicle

1) Management Directive

2) Medical Doctor

MDA

Maritime Domain Awareness

MDC

Maintenance and Deactivation Contracts

MDD

Metal Detection Device

MDF

Medical, Dental and Funeral

MDRC

Mobile Disaster Recovery Center

MDRO

Mission Disaster Relief Ofcer

MDRV

Mobile Disaster Recovery Vehicle

MDS

Mennonite Disaster Service

MDST

Mountain Daylight Savings Time (see MDT)

MDT

Mountain Daylight Time (GMT - 6)

Medical Examiner

MEA

1) Major Emergency Action

2) Multi-Role Enforcement Aircraft

MEAG

Major Emergency Action Guide

MEAP

Mobile Environmental Analytical Platform

MED

Medium

MEDEVAC

Medical Evacuation

MEDL

Medical Unit Leader

MEDRED

Medical Readiness (OHA/MEDRED)

MEEMCN

Minimum Essential Emergency Medical

Communications Network

MEF

Mission Essential Function

MEG

Medical Evaluation Guidance

MEIR

Medical Effects of Ionizing Radiation

MEL

Mobile-Erector Launcher

MEMA

1) Maine Emergency Management Agency

2) Maryland Emergency Management Agency

3) Massachusetts Emergency Management

Agency

4) Mississippi Emergency Management Agency

5) Missouri Emergency Management Agency

MEMU

Mass Evacuation Management Unit

MEOW

1) Maximum Envelope of Water

2) Maximum Envelope of Winds

MEP

Management Engineering Plan

MEPI

Middle East Partnership Initiative

MEPP

Master Exercise Practitioner Program

MERRT

Medical Emergency Radiological Response Team

MERS

Mobile Emergency Response Systems/Support

MERSA

Mobile Emergency Response Support Assets

MET

1) Meteorological

2) Meteorologist

3) Mission Essential Task

METAR

1) Meteorological Aviation Report

2) Management Evaluation Technical Assessment

Review

METL

Mission-Essential Task List

METOC

Meteorological and Oceanographic

METSAT

Meteorological Satellite

MeV

1) millielectronvolt

2) Megaelectronvolt

MEWT

Mobile Electronic Warfare Technologies

MFAS

Marriage Fraud Amendment System

MFR

Memorandum For the Record

MFRI

Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute

MFTR

Manufacturer

1) milligram

2) Marsh Vegetation (Line)

MG/M3

Milligrams per Cubic Meter

MG-MIN/M3

Milligram Minutes per Cubic Meter

MGMT

Management

1) Manufactured Housing

2) Mental Health

3) Mobile Home

MHC

Mobile Health Clinic

MHE

Materiel Handling Equipment

MHEC

Military Helicopter Crewmem

MHEM

Military Helicopter Manager

MHMS

Military Helicopter Manager Supervisor

MHS

Message Handling System

MHTGR

Modular High Temperature Gas Reactor

MHW

Mean High Water

MHWL

Mean High Water Line

MHz

Megahertz

1) Major Incident (medical)

2) Middle Initial

MI2

Multi-level-secure Information Infrastructure

MIC

1) Media Information Center

2) Meteorologist in Charge

MICS

Monitoring Information on Contracted Studies

(System)

MIDAS

Micro-uidic Integrated DNA Analysis System

MIEP

Mass Immigration Emergency Plan

MIFC

Maritime Intelligence Fusion Center

MIIS

Microsoft Identity Integration Server

MIL

Military Advisor's Ofce

MILES

Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System

MIL-STD

Military Standard

MIM

Major Incident Management (medical)

MIME

Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions

MIN

1) Minimum

2) Mobile Identication Number

MIND

Maritime Interceptor for Nuclear Detection

MINICAM

Miniature Chemical Agent Monitor

MIPR

Military Interdepartmental Purchase Request

MIPT

Memorial Institute for the Prevention of

Terrorism

MIRP

Military Improved Response Program

MIRV

Multiple Independent Re-entry Vehicle

MIS

Management Information System

MISLE

Maritime Information for Safety and Law

Enforcement

MIT

Mitigation

MITT

Mobile Implementation Training Team

M-JPEG

Motion JPEG

MKT

Mobile Kitchen Trailer

MLAT

Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty

MLD

Median Lethal Dose

MLETP

Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty

MLH

Medium Lift Helicopter

MLOS

Microwave Line of Sight

MLW

Mean Low Water

millimeter

MMA

Major Metropolitan Area

MMC

Main Media Center

MMCE

Medical Management of Chemical Exposure

MMD

Merchant Mariner Document

MMI

Modied Mercalli Intensity

MMIS

Municipal Management Information System

MMPA

Marine Mammal Protection Act

MMPAC

Merchant Marine Personnel Advisory Committee

MMRS

Metropolitan Medical Response System

MMS

Minerals Management Service

MMST

Metropolitan Medical Strike Team

MMWR

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

MNAP

Mapping Needs Assessment Process

MNS

Mission Needs Statement

MNUSS

Map Needs Update Support System

1) Medical Ofcer

2) Method of operation

MOA

Memorandum of Agreement

MOB

1) Mobilization (or Mobilize)

2) Main Operating Base

MOB Center

Mobilization Center

MOC

MERS Operations Center

MODEM

Modulator/Demodulator

MODU

Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit

MOM

1) Maximum of Maximums

2) Middle of Month

MOOTW

Military Operations Other Than War

MOPP

Mission-Oriented Protective Posture

Making Ofcer Redeployment Effective

MOSS

Management Operations and Student Support

MOU

Memorandum of Understanding

MOX

Mixed Oxide Fuels

1) Management Proler

2) Military Police

MPA

Maritime Patrol Aircraft

MPAC

Muslim Public Affairs Council

MPC

1) Main Press Center

2) Maximum Permissible Concentration

3) Mid-term Planning Committee

4) Mid-term Planning Conference

MPD

Maximum Potential Destruction

MPE

Maximum Permissible Exposure

MPEG

Motion Picture Expert Group

MPH

Miles per Hour

MPPP

Mortgage Portfolio Protection Program

MPS

Mission Planning System

MPU

1) Microprocessor Unit

2) Mobile Power Unit

MQIT

Medical Quality Improvement Team

MQM

Medical Quality Management

milliroentgen/millirem

1) Medical Records

2) Medical Response

mR/h

milliRoentgen per hour

MRA

1) Monthly Rental Assistance

2) Mortgage and Rental Assistance

MRAT

Medical Radiobiology Advisory Team

MRC

1) Management Review Council

2) Medical Reserve Corps

3) Monthly Recurring Costs

MRE

Meal, Ready-to-Eat

mRem

millirem

MRF

Medium Range Forecast

MRI

Mean Recurrence Interval

MRIC

Mobile Registration Intake Center

MRMC

Medical Research and Materiel Command

MRO

Mandatory Removal Offense

MRP

1) Machine Readable Passport

2) Minimal Repair Program

MRR

Measurement Residual Ratio

MRRS

MERS Response Reporting System

MRT

Medical Response Team

MRV

1) Mobile Response Van

2) Mobile Response Vehicle

3) Multi-Radio Van

4) Multi-Radio Vehicle

MS&G

Models, Simulations, and Games

MS-1

Medical Service – 1 (Hospital)

MSA

1) Metropolitan Statistical Area

2) Modeling, Simulation, & Analysis

3) Mutual Support Agreement

MSC

1) Marine Safety Center

2) Map Service Center

3) Major Subordinate Command

4) Mobile Switching Center

MSCA

Military Support to Civil Authorities (see DSCA)

MSCLEA

Military Support to Civilian Law Enforcement

Agencies

MSD

1) Military Support Detachment

2) Musculoskeletal Disorder

MSDS

1) Material Safety Data Sheet

2) Manpower Standards Development System

MSE

MERS Support Element

MSEL

Master Scenario Events List

MSF

Mobile Screening Force

MSFCMA

Magnuson-Stevens Fisheries Conservation and

Management Act

MSFO

Marine Safety Field Ofce

MSHA

Mine Safety and Health Administration

MSI

Minority-Serving Institution

MSIA

Metadata Standards for Information Assurance

MSIC

Missile and Space Intelligence Center

MSIIP

Minority Serving Institutions Internship

Program

MSIS

1) Minority Serving Institutions

2) Marine Safety Information System

MSL

Mean Sea Level

MSLO

Military Support Liaison Ofcer

MSO

1) Marine Safety Ofce

2) Maritime Security Operations

3) Military Support Ofcer

MSPB

Merit Systems Protection Board

MSR

Main Supply Route

MSRAM

Maritime Security Risk Assessment Model

MSST

Maritime Safety and Security Team

MST

1) Management Support Team

2) Master

3) METRO Strike Team

4) Mountain Standard Time (GMT - 7)

MSU

1) Management Support Unit

2) Marine Safety Unit

3) Medical Support Unit

1) Megaton

2) metric ton

3) Mitigation (FEMA/MT)

MTA

Material Transfer Area

MTF

Medical Treatment Facility

MTI

Methodology Technical Implementation

MTMC

Military Trafc Management Command

MTOE

Modied Table of Organization and Equipment

MTOW

Maximum Takeoff Weight

MTP

1) Master Trainer Program

MTR

1) Maritime Training Response

2) Military Training Route

MTSA

Maritime Transportation Security Act

MTSP

Mass Transit Security Program

MTT

Mobile Training Team

MUDAC

Meteorological and Unied Dose Assessment

Center

MUF

Materials Unaccounted For

MUTCD

Manual of Uniform Trafc Control Devices

Merchant Vessel

MVGP

Mission, Vision and Guiding Principles

1) megawatt

2) Microwave

3) Mount Weather

MWA

Metropolitan Washington Area

MWCOG

Metropolitan Washington Council of

Governments

MWEAC

1) Mount Weather Emergency Action Center

2) Mount Weather Emergency Assistance Center

MWEOC

Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center

MWFRS

Main Wind Force Resisting System

MWH

megawatt hour

MWMD

Mount Weather Management Division

MWS

Marine Weather Statement

MXMS

Mixmaster

M-ZONE

High Mudow Hazard Area

N/A

1) Not Affected

2) Not (or Non) Applicable

N/P

Not Provided

1) North American

2) Northeastern Area

NAAE

National Association of Agricultural Employees

NAAK

Nerve Agent Antidote Kit

NAAQS

National Ambient Air Quality Standards

NAAT

North American Aviation Trilateral

NAC

1) National Advisory Committee

2) National Advisory Council

3) National Agency Check

4) Nebraska Avenue Complex

NAC/AEGL

National Advisory Committee on Acute

Exposure Guidelines Levels (for Chemical

Substances)

NACA

National Air Carrier Association

NACCHO

National Association of County and City Health

Ofcials

NACD

National Association of Corporate Directors

NACDD

National Association of Councils on

Developmental Disabilities

NACE

National Association of County Engineers

NACI

National Agency Check with Inquiries

NACIC

National Counterintelligence Center

NACo

National Association of Counties

NACS

1) NEMIS Access Control System

2) Netware Asynchronous Communications

Service

NACWA

National Association of Clean Water Agencies

NAD27

North American Datum of 1927

NAD83

North American Datum of 1983

NADB

National Assets Data Base

NADO

National Association of Development

Organizations

NAEMT

National Association of Emergency Medical

Technicians

NAERG

North American Emergency Response

Guidebook

NAFAX

National Facsimile Network

NAFSMA

National Association of Flood & Stormwater

Management Agencies

NAFTA

North America Free Trade Agreement

NAFTZ

National Association of Free Trade Zones

NAHB

National Association of Home Builders

NAHERC

National Animal Health Emergency Response

Corps

NAHF

National Association of Hispanic Fireghters

NAI

North American Initiative

NaI(Tl)

Sodium Iodide Doped with Thallium

(scintillator)

NAIC

National Association of Insurance

Commissioners

NAIIA

National Association of Independent Insurance

Adjusters

NAILS

National Automated Immigration Lookout

System

NAMRI

Naval Medical Research Institute

NANDA

North American Nuclear Detection Architecture

NAOC

National Airborne Operations Center

NAOS

North American Atmospheric Observing System

NAP

1) National AIDS Policy

2) Nuclear Assessment Program

NAPA

National Academy of Public Administration

NAPI

National Arson Prevention Initiative

NARA

National Archives and Records Administration

NARAC

National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center)

NARCL

Nuclear Accident Response Capabilities Listing

NARFE

National Active & Retired Federal Employees

Association

NARP

1) National Agriculture Release Program

2) Nuclear Accident Response Plan

3) Nuclear Accident Response Procedures

NARS

National Archives and Records Service

NARSAP

National Advanced Remote Sensing Applications

Program

NARTC

National Advanced Resource Technology Center

NAS

National Academy of Sciences

NASA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NASAR

National Association for Search and Rescue

NASBLA

National Association of State Boating Law

Administrators

NASCIO

National Association of State Chief Information

Ofcers

NASEMSD

National Association of State Emergency

Medical Services Directors

NASEMSO

National Association of State Emergency

Medical Ofcials

NASF

National Association of State Foresters

NASFM

National Association of State Fire Marshals

NASNA

National Association of 9-1-1 Administrators

NASTTPO

National Association of State Title Three

Program Ofcials

NASULGC

National Association of State Universities and

Land-Grant Colleges

NATA

National Air Transportation Association

NATCA

National Air Trafc Controllers Association

NATO

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

NAVAID

Navigational Aid

NAVC

National Audio-Visual Center

NAVD88

North American Vertical Datum of 1988

NAWAS

1) National Alert and Warning System

2) National Warning System

NAWAS/BCC

National Warning System Bridge and

Conference Controller

NAWC

National Association of Water Companies

NAWE

National Association for Waterfront Employees

NBACC

National Biodefense Analysis and

Countermeasures Center

NBAF

National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility

NBC

Nuclear, Biological and Chemical

NBFAC

National Bioforensic Analysis Center

NBFSPQ

National Board on Fire Service Professional

Qualications

NBHPP

National Bioterrorism Hospital Preparedness

Program

NBIC

National Biosurveillance Integration Center

NBIS

National Biosurveillance Integration System

NBSAC

National Boating Safety Advisory Council

NBSCAB

National Bomb Squad Commanders Advisory

Board

NBSG

National Biosurveillance Group

NBTA

National Business Travel Association

NBWDA

National BioWeapons Defense Analysis Center

NC&B

Nuclear, Chemical and Biological

NCA

National Command Authority

NCAI

National Congress of American Indians

NCAP

National Corrective Action Program

NCAR

National Center for Atmospheric Research

NCAS

National Cyber Alert System

NCATF

National Church Arson Task Force

NCAVC

National Center for the Analysis of Violent

Crime

NCBFAA

National Customs Brokers and Forwarders

Association of America

NCC

National Coordinating Center (for

Telecommunications)

NCCC

National Council of the Churches of Christ

NCCG

National Civilian Community Group

NCD

National Council on Disability

NCDDM

National Center for Disaster Decision Making

NCEH

National Center for Environmental Health

NCEP

National Centers for Environmental Prediction

NCFPD

National Center for Food Protection and

Defense

NCFS

National Center for Forensic Science

NCGIA

National Center for Geographic Information

and Analysis

NCIC

National Crime Information Center

NCID

National Center for Infectious Diseases

NCIS

Naval Criminal Investigative Service

NCISP

National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan

NCITD

National Council on International Trade and

Development

NCIX

Ofce of National Counterintelligence Executive

NCJA

National Criminal Justice Association

NCLIS

National Commission on Libraries and

Information Science

NCMEC

National Center for Missing and Exploited

Children

NCO

Non-Commissioned Ofcer

NCP

1) National Oil and Hazardous Substances

Pollution Contingency Plan (aka: "National

Contingency Plan")

2) National Continuity Programs (FEMA/NCP)

NCPC

1) National Capitol Planning Commission

2) National Crime Prevention Council

NCPI

National Committee on Property Insurance

NCR

National Capital Region

NCRC

National Capital Region Coordination (FEMA/

NCRC), Ofce of

NCRCG

National Cyber Response Coordination Group

NCRPM

National Council on Radiation Protection and

Measurements

NCS

1) National Communications System [ESF-2]

2) Net Control System

NCSA

1) National Center for Super-computing

Applications

2) North Carolina Sheriffs’ Association

NCSC

National Cybersecurity Center

NCSD

1) National Cyber Security Division

2) National Communications System Directive

NCSH

National Communications System Handbook

NCSL

National Council of State Legislators

NCSLLET

National Center for State & Local Law

Enforcement Training, Advisory Committee to

the

NCSM

National Communications System Manual

NCSP

1) National Cyber Security Partnership

2) National Communications Support Plan

NCSRM

National Communications Systems Regional

Manager

NCSSA

National Cartographic Standards for Spatial

Accuracy

NCTC

National Counter-Terrorism Center

NCUA

National Credit Union Administration

NCVIP

National Child Victim Identication Program

NDA

1) National Defense Area

2) Nevada Department of Agriculture

3) Non-Disclosure Agreement

NDAA

Natural Disaster Assistance Act

NDAC

Network Design and Analysis Center

NDC

National Data Center

NDEA

National Defense Emergency Authorization

NDEC

National Disaster Education Coalition

NDEP

National Digital Elevation Program

NDER

National Defense Executive Reserve

N-DEX

[Law Enforcement] National Data Exchange

NDFD

National Digital Forecast Database

NDHS

National Disaster Housing Strategy (FEMA)

NDHTF

National Disaster Housing Task Force

NDIA

National Defense Industrial Association

NDIC

National Drug Intelligence Center

NDMC

National Drought Mitigation Center

NDMN

National Donations Management Network

NDMOC

National Disaster Medical Operations Center

NDMS

National Disaster Medical System

NDMSOSC

National Disaster Medical System Operations

Support Center

NDPC

National Domestic Preparedness Consortium

NDPO

National Domestic Preparedness Ofce

NDRSMP

National Distress and Response System

Modernization Project (also known as “Rescue

21”)

NDS

1) National Defense Stockpile

2) National Detention Standards

3) Nuclear Detection System

NDTA

National Defense Transportation Association

NDU

National Defense University

NDW

Naval District of Washington

1) Northeast

2) New England

NEA

National Endowment for the Arts

NEARS

National Emergency and Alerting Response

System

NEC

1) National Earthquake Center

2) National Electric Code

NECA

Newport Chemical Activity

NECD

Newport Chemical Depot

NECLC

National Emergency Child Locator Center

NECN

National Emergency Communications Network

NECP

National Emergency Communications Plan

NED

1) National Exercise Division

2) Nuclear Explosive Device

NEDCTP

National Explosives Detection Canine Team

Program

NEDSS

National Electronic Disease Surveillance System

NEEP

1) National Earthquake Education Program

2) National Exercise and Evaluation Program

NEET

National Exercise Evaluation Team

NEF

National Essential Function

NEFRLS

National Emergency Family Registry and

Locator System

NEFSMA

New England Floodplain and Stormwater

Managers Association

NEG

National Emergency Grant

NEH

National Endowment for the Humanities

NEHA

National Environmental Health Association

NEHRP

National Earthquake Hazards Reduction

Program

NEI

Nuclear Energy Institute

NEIC

1) National Earthquake Information Center

2) National Enforcement Investigations Center

NEIS

National Earthquake Information Service

NEMA

1) National Emergency Management Association

2) Nebraska Emergency Management Agency

NEMB-CAP

National Emergency Management Baseline

-Capability Assessment Program

NEMIS

National Emergency Management Information

System

NEMSIS

National EMS Information System

NEMSPI

National Emergency Medical Services

Preparedness Initiative

NEMT

National Emergency Management Team

NENA

National Emergency Number Association

NEO

1) Near-Earth Orbit

2) Non-combatant Evacuation Operation

NEOB

New Executive Ofce Building

NEOC

National Emergency Operations Center

NEP

National Exercise Program

NEPA

National Environmental Protection Act (also

called National Environmental Policy Act)

NEPPC

National Emergency Prevention and

Preparedness Council

NERC

North American Electric Reliability Council

NERR

National Emergency Resource Registry

NERRTC

National Emergency Response and Rescue

Training Center (TEEX/NDPC)

NERT

National Emergency Response Team

NESC

National Exercise Simulation Center

NESEC

Northeast States Emergency Consortium

NESN

Necessary Expenses and Serious Needs

NESP

National Environmental Studies Project

NESPM

National EMS Scope of Practice Model

NEST

Nuclear Emergency Search/Support Team

NESWG

National Earthquake Strategy Working Group

NET

No Earlier Than

NETAC

National Environmental Technology Application

Center

NETAP

National Earthquake Technical Assistance

Program

NETC

National Emergency Training Center

NEXRAD

Next Generation Weather Radar

NEXS

National Exercise Schedule

NEXUS

Next Generation Upper Weather System

NFA

1) National Fire Academy

2) National Fire Academy, Board of Visitors

for the

NFAAA

National Fire Academy Alumni Association

NFAEB

National Fire & Aviation Executive Board

NFAR

No Further Action Required

NFC

National Finance Center (MD 3171)

NFCD

National Finance Center Database

NFDA

1) National Flood Determination Association

2) National Funeral Directors Association

NFDC

National Fire Data Center

NFES

National Fire Equipment System

NFFE

National Federation of Federal Employees

NFFF

National Fallen Fireghters Foundation

NFFS

Northeast Forest Fire Supervisors

NFI

National Flood Insurance

NFIB

National Foreign Intelligence Board

NFIC

National Fire Information Council

NFIF

National Flood Insurance Fund

NFIP

1) National Flood Insurance Program

2) National Foreign Intelligence Program

NFIRA

National Flood Insurance Reform Act of 1994

NFIRS

National Fire Incident Reporting System

NFMA

National Forest Management Act

NFOP

National Fugitive Operations Program

NFP

Not For Prot

NFPA

National Fire Protection Association

NFPCA

National Fire Prevention and Control

Administration

NFPE

National Fire Protection Equipment

NFR

Notice of Finding and Recommendation

NFS

National Forest System

NFSA

National Fire Sprinkler Association

NFSC

Narcotics Financing Strategy Center

NFSCC

National Fire Science Curriculum Committee

NFSLO

National Fire Suppression Liaison Ofcer

NFTS

National File Tracking System (replaced RAFACS)

National Guard

NGA

1) National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

2) National Governors Association

NGB

1) National Guard Bureau

2) National Governing Body

NGDC

National Geophysical Data Center

NGI

Next Generation Internet

NGIC

National Ground Intelligence Center [Army]

NGLO

National Guard Liaison Ofcer

NGM

Nested Grid Model

NGN

Next-Generation Network

NGO

Non-Government Organization

NGRS

National Geodetic Reference System

NGS

National Geodetic Survey

NGVD

National Geodetic Vertical Datum

NGVD29

National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929

NGWT

Next Generation Warning Tool

NHC

National Hurricane Center

NHPA

National Historic Preservation Act

NHSSS (also known

National Homeland Security Support System

as NH3S)

NHSU

National Homeland Security University

NHTSA

National Highway Transportation Safety

Administration

NHV

Natural Hazard Vulnerability

No Insurance

NIAAA

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and

Alcoholism

NIAC

1) NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts

2) National Infrastructure Advisory Council

3) National Iranian American Council

NIB

National Industries for the Blind

NIBC

National Interagency Biodefense Campus

NIBRS

National Incident Based Reporting System

NIBS

National Institute of Building Sciences

NIC

1) National Integration Center

2) National Intelligence Council

3) National Instrumentation Center

4) NIMS Integration Center

NICACS

National Incident Control and Action

Communication System

NICC

1) National Infrastructure Coordination Center

2) National Interagency Coordination Center

NICCL

National Incident Communications Conference/

Coordination Line

NICCP

National Interdiction Command & Control Plan

NICI

National Interagency Counterdrug Institute

NICRAT

National Incident Command Resource Allocation

Tool

NICS

National Instant Background Check System

NID

1) National Intelligence Director (see DNI)

2) National Inventory of Dams

NIDF

National Insurance Development Fund

NIEHS

National Institute of Environmental Health

Services

NIEM

National Information Exchange Model

NIEOC

National Interagency Emergency Operations

Center

NIER

National Industrial Equipment Reserve

NIF

1) National Ignition Facility

2) Non-Industrial Facility

NIFC

National Interagency Fire Center

NIFCC

National Interagency Fire Coordination Center

NIH

National Institutes of Health

NIHS

National Institute for Hometown Security

NII

1) National Information Infrastructure

2) Non-Intrusive Inspection

NII/GII

National Information Infrastructure/Global

Information Infrastructure Initiatives

NIIMS

National Interagency Incident Management

System

NIIS

Non-Immigrant Information System

NIITP

National Investigative Interview Training

Program

NIJ

National Institute of Justice

NIMA

National Imagery and Mapping Agency (see

NGA)

N-IMAT

National Incident Management Assistance Team

NIMBY

Not In My Backyard

NIMG

National Interagency Mobilization Guide

NIMH

National Institutes of Mental Health

NIMO

National Incident Management Organization

NIMS

National Incident Management System

NIMS SC

NIMS Support Center

NIMS STEP

NIMS Supporting Technology Evaluation

Program

NIMS/NET

National Incident Management System Network

NIMSCAST

National Incident Management System

Compliance Assistance Support Tool

NIMTO

Not In My Term of Ofce

NIOSH

National Institute for Occupational Safety and

Health

NIP

1) National Immunization Program

2) National Intelligence Program

NIPC

National Infrastructure Protection Center

NIPF

National Intelligence Priority Framework

NIPP

National Infrastructure Protection Plan

NIPS

Numerically Integrated Proling System

NIR

Non Ionizing Radiation

NIRSC

National Interagency Radio Support Cache

NIRT

Nuclear Incident Response Team

NISAC

National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis

Center

NISE

National Intelligence Support Element

NISP

National Industrial Security Program

NISPOM

National Industrial Security Program Operating

Manual

NIST

National Institute of Standards and Technology

NIUSR

National Institute for Urban Search and Rescue

NIVS

Non-Immigrant Visa System

NJBF

New Jersey Business Force

NJTTF

National Joint Terrorism Task Force

NLC

1) National League of Cities

2) National Location Code

NLD

Nunn-Lugar-Domenici

NLE

National-Level Exercise

NLECC

National Law Enforcement Coordination Center

NLETS

National Law Enforcement Telecommunications

System

NLRA

National Labor Relations Authority

NLRB

National Labor Relations Board

NLS

National Language Standards

NLT

No/Not Later Than

NLZ

No Lone Zone

Nautical Mile

NMAB

National Materials Advisory Board

NMAS

National Map Accuracy Standard

NMB

National Mediation Board

NMC

1) National Meteorological Center

2) Non-Mission Capable

NMCC

1) National Master Control Cell

2) National Military Command Center

NMD

National Mapping Division (of USGS)

NMETS

National Mass Evacuation Tracking System

NMFS

National Marine Fisheries Service

NMI

No Middle Initial

NMIC

National Maritime Intelligence Center

NMJIC

National Military Joint Intelligence Center

NMRI

Naval Medical Research Institute

NMRS

National Medical Response System

NMRT

National Medical Response Team

NMSAC

National Maritime Security Advisory Committee

NMSP

National Maritime Security Plan

NMSRA

National Maritime Strategic Risk Assessment

NMSS

Nuclear Materials Safeguards and Security

NMT

New Mexico Tech (NDPC)

NMTSP

National Marine Transportation Security Plan

NNALEA

National Native American Law Enforcement

Association

NNEC

National Network Emergency Center

NNO

National Night Out

NNOB

National Network Operations Branch

NNOC

National Network Operations Center

NNRT

National Nurses Response Team (medical)

NNSA

National Nuclear Security Administration

National Ofce

No FEAR Act

Notication and Federal Employee Anti-

discrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002

NOAA

National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration

NOAEL

No Observed Adverse Effects Level

NOBLE

National Organization of Black Law

Enforcement Executives

NOC

1) National Olympic Committee

2) National Operations Center (OPS/NOC)

3) Navy Operations Center

4) Negotiations Operations Center

5) Network Operations Center

NOC-HQE

National Operations Center - Headquarters

Element

NOEL

No Observed Effects Level

NOFA

Notice of Funds Availability

NOFD

New Orleans Fire Department

NOGA

Notice of Grant Award

NOI

1) Notice of Intent

2) Notice of Interest

NOID

Notice of Intent to Deny

NOK

Next of Kin

NOPD

New Orleans Police Department

NOPR

Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

NORAD

North American Aerospace Defense Command

NORM

Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material

NORTHCOM

United States Northern Command

NOS

1) National Ocean Survey

2) Not Otherwise Specied

NOSAC

National Offshore Safety Advisory Committee

NOTAM

Notice to Airmen

NOUE

Notice of Unusual Event

1) National Preparedness (FEMA/NP)

2) Navigation Processor

NPC

1) National Paralympic Committee

2) National Petroleum Council

NPD

National Preparedness Directorate

NPDES

National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

NPDP

National Performance of Dams Program

NPES

National Planning and Execution System

NPFC

National Pollution Funds Center

NPG

1) National Preparedness Goal

2) National Preparedness Guidelines

NPL

National Priorities List

NPLA

National Preparedness Leadership Academy

NPM

National Preparedness Month

NPMA

National Property Management Association

NPMOC

Naval Pacic Meteorology and Oceanography

Center

NPOC

Next Port of Call

NPOESS

National Polar-Orbiting Operational

Environmental Satellite System

NPP

Nuclear Power Plant

NPPC

National Preparedness and Prevention Council

NPPD

National Protection and Programs Directorate

NPR

1) National Partnership for Reinventing

Government

2) National Preparedness Report

3) Nationwide Plan Review

NPRA

National Petrochemical & Reners Association

NPRM

Notice of Proposed Rulemaking [see also

ANPRM and SNPRM]

NPRT

National Pharmacist Response Team

NPS

1) National Park Service

2) National Pharmaceutical Stockpile

3) National Planning Scenarios

4) National Preparedness System

5) Naval Postgraduate School

NPSC

National Processing Service Center

NPSP

National Pharmaceutical Stockpile Program

NPSTC

National Public Safety Telecommunications

Council

NRAT

1) National Radiological Advisory Team

2) Nuclear Radiological Advisory Team

NRC

1) National Records Center

2) National Research Council

3) National Response Center

4) [United States] Nuclear Regulatory

Commission

NRCC

1) National Response Coordination Center

2) Northern Regional Coordination Center

NRCOC

Nuclear Regulatory Commission Operations

Center

NRCS

Natural Resources Conservation Service

NRCSDC

Natural Resources Conservation Service District

Conservationist

NRCSSC

Natural Resources Conservation Service State

Conservationist

NRF

National Response Framework [supersedes NRP]

NRIA

Nuclear/Radiological Incident Annex (to the

NRF)

NRIMC

National Resources Information and Mapping

Center

NRIS

National Resource Information System

NRO

National Reconnaissance Ofce

NRPC

National Railway Passenger Commission

NRP-CIS

National Response Plan Catastrophic Incident

Supplement

NRR

Noise Reduction Rating

NRS

National Response System

NRT

1) National Response Team

2) Near Real-Time

NRWA

National Rural Water Association

National Strategic (Task)

NS/EP

National Security and Emergency Preparedness

NS/EPC

National Security and Emergency Preparedness

Communications, Committee for

NSA

1) National Security Agency

2) National Security Area

3) National Sheriff’s Association

4) Network Security Agreement

NSABB

National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity

NSAC

Navigation Safety Advisory Council

NSAT

Network Service Acceptance Test

NSBC

National Safe Boating Council

NSC

1) National Safety Council

2) National Security Council

3) National Security Cutter

4) NFIRS Support Center

NSD

1) Named Storm Day

2) National Security Directive

NSDD

National Security Decision Directive

NSDI

National Spatial Data Infrastructure

NSEC

1) National Security Emergency Coordination

2) National Standard Exercise Curriculum

NSEERS

National Security Entry Exit Registration

System

NSEPT

National Security and Emergency Preparedness

Telecommunications

NSF

1) National Science Foundation

2) National Strike Force

NSFCC

National Strike Force Coordination Center

NSGIC

National States Geographic Information Council

NSGP

Non-Prot Security Grant Program

NSHS

National Strategy for Homeland Security

NSI

1) National Security Information

2) Nuclear Surety Inspection

NSLRSDA

National Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data

Archive

NSMP

National Strong-Motion Program

NSN

1) National Security Notications

2) National Stock Number

NSPD

National Security Presidential Directive

NSPE

National Society of Professional Engineers

NSPS

National Security Personnel System

NSRS

National Spatial Reference System

NSRV

National Security and Records Verication

(USCIS/NSRV)

NSS

1) National Security Strategy

2) National Shelter System

NSSA

National Safe Skies Alliance

NSSDA

National Standard for Spatial Data Accuracy

NSSE

National Special Security Event

NSSFC

National Severe Storms Forecast Center

NSSL

National Severe Storms Laboratory

NSTAC

National Security Telecommunications Advisory

Committee/Council

NSTC

National Science & Technology Council

NSTR

Nothing Signicant to Report

1) Network Technology

2) Windows NT operating system

NTA

1) National Technology Alliance (research

partnership between government, academia

and industry)

2) Network Technology Architecture

3) Non-Traditional Agent

4) Notice to Appear

NTAC

National Threat Assessment Center

NTC

1) National Targeting Center

2) National Teleregistration Center

NTC-MW

National Teleregistration Center at Mount

Weather

NTE

Not to Exceed

NTEU

National Treasury Employees Union

NTFI

National Task Force on Interoperability

NTIA

National Telecommunications and Information

Administration

NTIS

National Technical Information Service

NTM

National Technical Means

NTMR

National Technical Means of Reconnaissance

NTMS

National Telecommunications Management

Structure

NTNFC

National Technical Nuclear Forensics Center

NTR

Nothing to Report

N-TRAP

National Terrorism Response Awareness

Program

NTRO

National Terrorism Response Objective

NTS

1) National Trafc System

2) Nevada Test Site

NTSB

National Transportation Safety Board

NTSC

National Telecommunications Standards

Committee

NTSP

National Telecommunications Support Plan;

a.k.a. National Plan for Telecommunications

Support in Non-Wartime Emergencies

NTSRA

National Transportation Sector Risk Assessment

NTVRP

Non-Tank Vessel Response Plan

Name Unknown

NUCFLASH

Accidental, unauthorized, or unexplained

nuclear detonation

NUDET

Nuclear Detonation

NUL

National Urban League

NUMARC

Nuclear Management and Resources Council

NUREG

Nuclear Regulation

NUSRS

National Urban Search and Rescue System,

Advisory Committee of the

NUWAX

Nuclear Weapon Exercise

NUWC

Naval Undersea Warfare Center

NVAC

National Visualization and Analytics Center

NVC

National Visa Center

NVDC

National Vessel Documentation Center

NVFC

National Volunteer Fire Council

NVG

Night Vision Goggles

NVIC

Navigation and Vessel Inspection Circular

NVL

Night Vision Laboratory

NVLAP

National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation

Program

NVMC

National Vessel Movement Center

NVOAD

National Voluntary Organizations Active in

Disasters

NVTSA

Night Vision Technology Safety Act

Neighborhood Watch

NWARSG

Nuclear Weapons Accident Response Steering

Group

NWC

National Warning Center

NWCG

1) National Wildre Coordinating Group

2) National Wildland Coordinating Group

NWP

Neighborhood Watch Program (see NW)

NWR

1) National Weather Radio

2) NOAA Weather Radio

NWS

National Weather Service

NWSFO

National Weather Service Forecast Ofce

NWWS

National Weather Wire Service

NYCOEM

New York City Ofce of Emergency

Management

O number

Order number

O&M

Operations and Maintenance

O/C

Observer/Controller

1) Ofce Automation

2) Over and Above

OAA

Older Americans Act

OAD

Operations Analysis Division (S&T/OAD)

OADR

Originating Agency Determination Required

OAFME

Ofce of the Armed Forces Medical Examiner

OAM

Ofce of Acquisition Management

OAO

Ofce of Aviation Operations

OAR

1) Ofce of Air and Radiation

2) Ofce of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research

OAS

1) Ofce of Administrative Support

2) Ofce of Aircraft Services

3) Organization of American States

OASD

Ofce of the Assistant Secretary of Defense

OASH/OEP

Ofce of the Assistant Secretary for Health /

Ofce of Emergency Preparedness

OASIS

Organization for the Advancement of

Structured Information Standards

OAST

Ofce of Accessible Systems & Technology

OAWG

Organizational Attack Working Group

Ofcial Business

OBE

Overcome by Events

OBP

Border Patrol, Ofce of (CBP/OBP)

OBS

Observation

Operations Center

OCA

1) Ofce of Congressional Affairs

2) Original Classication Authority

OCAO

Ofce of the Chief Administrative Ofcer

(MGMT/OCAO)

OCB

Operations Centers Branch

OCC

1) Ofce of the Chief Counsel

2) Ofce of the Comptroller of the Currency

OCD

Ofce of Community Development

OCDETF

Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force

OCFO

Ofce of the Chief Financial Ofcer

OCFOAS

Ofce of Chief Financial Ofcers &

Administrative Services

OCGFC

Ofce of Cerro Grande Fire Claims

OCHAMPUS

Ofce of Civilian Health and Medical Program

of the Uniformed Services

OCHCO

Ofce of the Chief Human Capital Ofcer

(MGMT/OCHCO)

OCIO

Ofce of the Chief Information Ofcer (MGMT/

OCIO)

OCIPEP

Ofce of Critical Infrastructure Protection and

Emergency Preparedness

OCJCS

Ofce of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of

Staff

OCLA

Ofce of Congressional Liaison and Affairs

OCLUS

Outside the Continental Limits of the United

States

OCN

Optimal Climate Normals

OCOG

Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games

OCONUS

Outside the Continental United States

OCPM

Ofce of Crisis Planning and Management

OCPO

Ofce of the Chief Procurement Ofcer (MGMT/

CPO)

OCR

1) Ofce of Collateral Responsibility

2) Optical Character Reader

3) Optical Character Recognition

OCRWM

Ofce of Civilian Radioactive Waste

Management

OCS

1) Ofcer Candidate School

2) Outer Continental Shelf

OCSO

Ofce of the Chief Security Ofcer (MGMT/

OCSO)

OCSP

Online Certicate Status Protocol

OCTAVE

Operationally Critical Threat, Asset, and

Vulnerability Evaluation

OCTEL

Operations Center Telephone

OCZM

Ofce of Coastal Zone Management

ODAM

Offsite Dose Assessment Manual

ODBC

Open Database Connectivity

ODC

Other Direct Cost

ODEM

Oklahoma Department of Emergency

Management

ODIS

Offshore Detection Inegrated System

ODNI

Ofce of the Director of National Intelligence

ODP

Ofce for Domestic Preparedness

ODRO

Ofce of Detention and Removal Operations

ODS

Operation Desert Safeguard

1) Operational Environment

2) Operating Expenses

3) Organizational Elements

OEC

Ofce of Emergency Communications

OECD

Organization for Economic Cooperation &

Development

OEM

1) Ofce of Emergency Management

2) Original Equipment Manufacturers

OEMA

Ohio Emergency Management Agency

OEMC

Ofce of Emergency Management and

Communications

OEMP

Ofce of Emergency Medical Preparedness

OEP

1) Occupant Emergency Plan

2) Occupant Emergency Program

3) Ofce of Emergency Preparedness

OER

1) Ofce of Emergency Response

2) Ofce of Equal Rights

OES

Ofce of Emergency Services

OET

Ofce of Emergency Transportation (DOT)

1) Ofce of Finance

2) Over-water Fetch (Line)

OFA

1) Ofce of Family Assistance

2) Other Federal Agency

OFAC

Ofce of Foreign Assets Control

OFCR

Ofcer

OFDA

Ofce of Foreign Disaster Assistance

OFF

Offshore Forecast

OFM

Ofce of Financial Management

OFMA

Oklahoma Floodplain Management Association

OFO

Field Operations, Ofce of (CBP/OFO)

OFP

Ofce of Field Programs

OFSEP

Ofce of Food Security and Emergency

Preparedness

OGAT

Ofcial Government Acceptance Test

OGC

Ofce of the General Counsel

OGE

Ofce of Government Ethics

OGO

Ofce of Grant Operations

OGSA

Open Grid Services Architecture

1) Overhead

2) Occupational Health

OHA

Ofce of Health Affairs

OHR

Ofce of Human Resources

OHRM

Ofce of Human Resources Management

OHRP

Ofce for Human Research Protections [US

Dept. of Health and Human Services] (MD

10300)

Ofce of Investigations

OIA

International Affairs, Ofce of

OIC

1) Ofce for Interoperability & Compatibility

2) Ofcer in Charge

OIE

Ofce of International Enforcement

OIG

Ofce of Inspector General

OIM

Ofce of Incident Management

OIRA

Ofce of Information and Regulatory Affairs

OIS

Immigration Statistics, Ofce of (PLCY/OIS)

OIT

Ofce of Information Technology

OIWG

Operational Intelligence Working Group

OJCS

Ofce of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

OJP

Ofce of Justice Programs

OJT

On the Job Training

OKC

Oklahoma City

OLA

Ofce of Legislative Affairs

OLAP

On-Line Analytical Processing

OLAW

Ofce of Laboratory Animal Welfare

OLC

Ofce of Legal Counsel

OLE

1) Object Linking and Embedding

2) Ofce of Law Enforcement

OLE/FAMS

Law Enforcement, Ofce of/Federal Air Marshal

Service (TSA/OLE/FAMS)

OLES

Ofce of Law Enforcement Standards

OLTP

On-Line Transaction Processing

OMA

Operations, Management, and Administration

OMB

Ofce of Management and Budget

OMNCS

Ofce of the Manager, National

Communications System

OMS

Operations Management Systems

OMTPE

Ofce of Mission to Planet Earth

ONA

Other Needs Assistance (IHP)

ONCRC

Ofce of National Capital Region Coordination

ONDCP

Ofce of National Drug Control Policy

ONRA

Ofce of National Risk Assessment

OOC

Ofce of Citizenship

OPA

1) Ofce of Public Affairs

2) Oil Pollution Act

3) Otherwise Protected Area

OPAC

On-Line Payments and Collection

OPBD

Operations Branch Director

OPC

Organizational Program Coordinators

OPCOM

Operational Command

OPCON

Operational Control

OPD

Ofce of Policy Development

OPDAT

Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance

and Training

OPEN

Open Platform for Emergency Networks

OPERIOD

Operational Period

OPF

Ofcial Personnel Folder

OPHEP

Ofce of Public Health Emergency Preparedness

(HHS)

OPHS

Ofce of Public Health and Science

OPLAN

Operations Plan

OPM

Ofce of Personnel Management

OPORD

Operation Order

OPPRED

Operation Predator

OPR

1) Ofce of Primary Responsibility

2) Protective Research, Ofce of (USSS/OPR)

OPREP

Operational Report

OPS

1) Operations Coordination, Ofce of

2) Ofce of Operations Coordination and

Planning

3) Ofce of Pipeline Safety

4) Operational Planning System

5) Operations

OPSEC

Operations/Operational Security

OPSG

Operation Stonegarden

OPSUM

Operations Summary

OPT

Operations and Planning Team

OPTEMPO

Operating Tempo

OPUS

Olympic Properties of the United States

OPVAL

Operational Validation Program

OPW

Operational Planning Worksheet

OR&R

Ofce of Regulations and Rulings

ORA

Outstanding Research Award

ORCA

Operational Readiness Capability Assessment

ORD

1) Ofce of Research and Development

2) Ofce of the Regional Director

3) Operational Requirements Document

ORDM

Ordering Manager

OREMS

Oak Ridge Evacuation Modeling System

ORIA

Ofce of Radiation and Indoor Air

ORISE

Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education

ORM

Other Regulated Materials

ORNL

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

ORO

Off-site Response Organization

ORPA

Orthophoto Analyst

ORR

Ofce of Refugee Resettlement

1) Operating System

2) Operations Support

OS&Y

Outside Stem and Yoke

OSA

Operational Staging Area

OSAI

Ofce of SAFETY Act Implementation

OSARP

On-Screen Alarm Resolution Protocol

OSC

1) Ofce of Special Counsel

2) On-Scene Commander

3) On-Scene Coordinator

4) Operation Safe Commerce

5) Operational Support Center

6) Operations Support Center

7) Operations Systems Center

OSC1

Operations Section Chief 1

OSC2

Operations Section Chief 2

OSCE

Organization for Security and Cooperation in

Europe

OSD

1) Ofce of the Secretary of Defense

2) Operations Support Division

3) Operational Systems Document

OSDBU

Ofce of Small and Disadvantaged Business

Utilization

OSD-HD

Ofce of the Secretary of Defense for

Homeland Defense

OSEP

1) Occupational Safety and Environmental

Programs (DHS)

2) Ofce of Safety and Environmental

Programs

OSHA

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

OSHE

Occupational Safety, Health and Environment

OSI

Open Systems Interconnect

OSIH

Occupational Safety and Industrial Hygiene

OSINT

Open-Source Intelligence

OSLGC&P

Ofce of State and Local Government

Coordination and Preparedness

OSLTF

Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund

OSM

Ofce of Surface Mining

OSO

Security Operations, Ofce of (TSA/OSO)

OSOCC

On-Site Operations Coordination Center

OSP

Strategic Plans, Ofce of (PLCY/OSP)

OSPF

Open Shortest Path First

OSS

Ofcer Safety and Survival Training Program

OST

1) Ofce of the Secretary for Transportation

2) Operation Support Team

OSTC

On-Scene Tactical Commander

OSTP

Ofce of Science and Technology Policy

Other Transaction

OTAN

Organisation du Traité de l'Atlantlique Nord

(NATO)

OTAR

Over the Air Rekeying

OTBE

Over-Taken By Events

OTD

Ofce of Training & Development

OTE

Operational Test and Evaluation

OTH

Over the Horizon

OTR

Ofce of Trade Relations

OTRS

Ofcial Time Reporting System

OTS

Ofce of Thrift Supervision

OTSP

Ofce of Transportation Security Policy

OTVP

Ofce of Transportation Vetting and

Credentialing

OUS

Ofce of the Undersecretary

OVC

Ofce for Victims of Crime

OVI

Ofce of Volunteerism Initiatives

OVP

Ofce of the Vice President

OWMD

Ofce of Weapons of Mass Destruction

P&A

1) Planning and Assessment

2) Price and Availability

P&D

Production and Development

P&I

Protection and Indemnity

P2P

Peer-to-Peer

1) Physician Assistant

2) Principal Advisor

3) Programmatic Agreement

4) Public Address

5) Public Affairs

6) Public Announcement

7) Public Assistance

PA&E

Program Analysis and Evaluation

PA05

Purchasing Agent, 5K

PA10

Purchasing Agent, 10K

PA25

Purchasing Agent, 25K

PA50

Purchasing Agent, 50K

PABX

Private Automatic Branch Exchange

PAC

1) Political Action Committee

2) Primary Agency Committee

3) Public Assistance Coordinator

PACC

Patient Airlift Control Center

PACOM

U.S. Pacic Command

PAD

1) Protective Action Decision

2) Public Affairs Director

PADC

Patch Authentication and Dissemination

Capability

PADRE

Protective Action Dosage Reduction Estimator

PAECE

Protective Action Evaluator for Chemical

Emergencies

PAES

Private Aircraft Enforcement System

PAG

Protective Action Guide

PAH

Poly-nuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons

PAHO

Pan-American Health Organization

PAL

Public Affairs Level

PALS

Portable Automated Lookout System

PA-NST

Public Affairs - National Support Team

PANYNJ

Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

PAO

1) Pacic Area Ofce

2) Public Affairs Ofce/Ofcial/Ofcer

3) Public Assistance Ofcer

PAP

Project Application Processor

PAPD

Port Authority Police Department

PAPOs

Preparedness Analysis and Planning Ofcers

PAPR

Powered Air Purifying Respirator

PAPRS

Phone Activated Paperless Request System

PA-PRT

Public Affairs - Planning Response Team

PAR

1) Performance & Accountability Report

2) Personal/Personnel Accountability Record

3) Population at Risk

4) Protective Action Recommendation

5) Public Administration Review

PARADE

Prevention, Advocacy, Resources and Data

Exchange

PARDOS

Partial Dosage

PART

Program Assessment Rating Tool (OMB)

PAS

1) Protective Actions

2) Presidential Appointment with Senate

Conrmation

PASP

Protective Action Strategy Plan

PASS

1) Partners Assuring Safer Schools

2) Performance Accountability and Standards

System

3) Personnel Alert Safety System

PAT

Process Action Team

PATCO

Professional, Administrative, Technical, Clerical,

Other

PATF

Practical Applications Training Facility

PATRIOT

(see USA PATRIOT [Act])

PAWSA

Ports and Waterways Safety Assessment

PAX

Passengers

PAZ

Protective Action Zone

PBA

Pine Bluff Arsenal

PBAC

Policy Based Access Control

PBCA

Pine Bluff Chemical Activity

PBD

Program Budget Decision

PBDS

Prototype Biological Detection System

PBOP

Probeye Operator

PBRB

Program Budget Review Board

PBS

1) Public Buildings Service

2) Public Broadcasting System

PBSIS

Public Building Service Information System

PBX

1) Phone (or Private) Bank Exchange

2) Private Branch Exchange

1) Peace Corps

2) Personal Computer

PCC

1) Pathobiologics Collaborating Center

2) Policy Coordination Committee

PCCIP

President’s Commission on Critical

Infrastructure Protection

PCE

Programmatic Categorical Exclusion

PCERT

Preliminary Computer Evidence Recovery

Training

PCF

Patient Care Form

PCII

Protected Critical Infrastructure Information

PCIIMS

PCII Management System

PCIS

Partnership for Critical Infrastructure Security

PCLOB

Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board

PCO

Privy Council Ofce

PCPT

Pasco County Public Transportation (Florida)

PCR

1) polymerase chain reaction

2) Program and Capability Review

PCS

1) Permanent Change of Station

2) Personal Communications Service/System

3) Planning, Coordination and Support [Task]

(National Preparedness Guidance)

PCSF

Process Control Systems Forum

PCT

1) Polk County Transit (Florida)

2) Program Control Team

PCTARE

Personal Computer Time and Attendance

Remote Entry

PCWHF

Presidential Commission on White House

Fellows

1) Paid

2) Per Diem

3) Police Department

4) Policy Directive

5) Position Description

6) Presidential Declaration

PDA

1) Personal Data Assistant

2) Preliminary Damage Assessment

3) Presbyterian Disaster Assistance

4) Pueblo Depot Activity

PDASH

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health

PDB

President's Daily Brief

PDC

1) Pacic Disaster Center

2) Personnel Data Card

PDCA

Plan, Do, Check, Adjust

PDD

Presidential Decision Directive

PDEV

Policy Development, Ofce of (PLCY/PDEV)

PDF

1) Portable Document Format

2) Probability Density Function

PDIM

1) Planning Development and Information

Management

2) Planning Development and Implementation

Management

3) Planning Document Imaging Management

4) Postgraduate Diploma in Information

Management

PDM

Pre-disaster Mitigation (including Grant

Program)

PDMF

Pre-disaster Mitigation Fund

PDO

Program Decision Option

PDOP

Position Dilution of Precision

PDP

Policy Decision Point

PDS

1) Personnel Decontamination Station

2) Practice Dangerous to Security

PDSI

Palmer Drought Severity Index

PDT

Pacic Daylight Time (GMT - 7)

Professional Engineer

PEA

Programmatic Environmental Assessment

PEAD

Presidential Emergency Action Document

PECC

Provincial Emergency Coordination Center

PED

Portable Electronic Device

PEDS

Portable Emergency Data System

PEG

1) Performance Evaluation Group

2) Performance Evaluation Guide

PEIS

Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement

PEL

Permissible Exposure Limit

PEMA

Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency

PEO

Public Education and Outreach

PEOC

President’s Emergency Operations Center

PEP

1) Prepositioned Equipment Program

2) Primary Entry Point

3) Professional Excellence Program

PEPAC

Primary Entry Point Advisory Committee

PERI

Public Entity Risk Institute

PERT

Program Evaluation and Review Technique

PES

Performance Excellence Series

PETL

Prevention Education Team Leader

PETM

Prevention Education Team Manager

PFA

1) Primary Federal Agency

2) Procurement Funding Authority

PFD

Primary Frontal Dune

PFO

Principal Federal Ofcial/Ofcer

PFOR

Principal Federal Ofcial’s Representative

PFPA

Pentagon Force Protection Agency

PFT

Permanent Full-Time

Planning Group

PGC

Privacy Guidelines Committee

PGM

Program

PGP

Pretty Good Privacy

Public Health

PHEP

Public Health Emergency Preparedness

PHILIS

Portable High-Throughput Integrated

Laboratory Identication System

PHIN

Public Health Information Network

PHMSA

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety

Administration (within DOT)

PHRBAE

Public Health Readiness for Biological Agent

Event

PHS

Public Health Service

1) Pandemic Inuenza

2) Project Impact

3) Project Inspector

PIA

Privacy Impact Assessment

PIADC

Plum Island Animal Disease Center

PIAT

Public Information Assist Team

PIC

1) Pilot in Charge

2) Pressurized Ion Chamber

3) Prime Integration Contractor

PICCL

Private Sector Communications Coordination

Line

PIER

Public Information, Education and Relations

PIF

Policies in Force

PIG

Public Interest Group

PII

Personally Identiable Information

Personal Identication Number

PINS

Personnel in Need of Supervision

PIO

Public Information Ofcer

PIO1

Public Information Ofcer Type 1

PIO2

Public Information Ofcer Type 2

PIP

Proposer Information Pamphlet

PIPS

Pre-Incident Planning System

PIR

1) Post Implementation Review

2) Priority Intelligence Requirement

PIV

1) Personal Identity Verication

2) Post Indicating Valve

PKEMRA

Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform

Act of 2006

Pkg

Package

PKI

Public Key Infrastructure

1) Padlock

2) Preparedness Level

3) Public Law (also abbreviated as P.L.)

PL 93-288

Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and

Emergency Assistance Act (as amended)

PLA

Principal Legal Advisor

PLC

Pacic Logistics Center

PLCY

Ofce of Policy

PLE

Principal Level Exercises

PLOTS

Passport Lookout Tracking System

PLSS

[United States] Public Land Survey System

PLUMIS

(See PIADC [Plum Island])

1) Postmaster

2) Post Meridiem

3) Program Manager

4) Project Monitor

PMA

President’s Management Agenda

PMCE

Positive Memorable Customer Experience

PMCS

Preventive Maintenance Checks and Services

PMF

Presidential Management Fellows

PMG

1) Program Management Group

2) Program Monitoring Group

PMIS

Performance Measurement Information System

PM-ISE

Program Manager for the Information Sharing

Environment (Ofce of)

PMO

1) Program Management Ofce

2) Property Management Ofcer

PMP

1) Performance Monitoring Plan

2) Project Management Professional

PMR

1) Patient Movement Request

2) Physical Map Revision

PMRS

Performance Management And Recognition

System

PMS

1) Payments Management System

2) Program Management System

PMT

Project Management Team

PMTL

Protective Measures Target List

PMU

Property Management Unit

PMWG

Performance Management Working Group

1) Part Number

2) Project Number

PNE

Peaceful Nuclear Explosion

PNG

Portable Network Graphics

PNNL

Pacic Northwest National Laboratory

PNOV

Preliminary Notice of Violation

PNP

Private Non-Prot

PNR

Passenger Name Record

PNV

Present Net Value

1) Personnel Ofce

2) Post Ofce

3) Preparedness Ofcer

4) Project Ofcer

5) Purchase Ofcer

6) Purchase Order

POA

Point of Arrival

POB

Place of Birth

POC

Point of Contact

POD

1) Point of Departure

2) Point of Distribution

PODS

Point of Distribution Sites

POE

1) Point of Entry

2) Port of Entry

POES

Polar-Orbiting Environmental Satellite

POETE

Plan, Organize, Equip, Train, Exercise

POETE/OPS

Planning, Organization, Equipment, Training,

Exercises, and Operations Support

POGO

Project on Government Waste

POI

1) Plan of Instruction

2) Point of Instruction

3) Program of Instruction

POL

Petroleum, Oil and Lubricants

POLF

Points of Light Foundation

POLREP

Pollution Report

POMSO

Plans, Operations, and Military Support Ofcer

POP

Period Of Performance

POP-3

Post Ofce Protocol (Version 3)

POR

Point of Review

POTS

Plain Old Telephone Service

POTUS

President of the United States

POTW

Public Owned Treatment Works

POV

Personal/Privately Owned Vehicle

1) Pay Period

2) Personal Property

3) Personal Protection

PP5

Pilot Program Airports (San Francisco, Kansas

City, Rochester, Jackson Hole & Tupelo)

PPA

Performance Partnership Agreement

PPACA

Performance Partnership Agreement

Cooperative Agreement

PPAG

Proposed Public Affairs Guidance

PPB

1) Parts Per Billion

2) Plans, Programs and Budget

PPBCP

Professional Practices for Business Continuity

Professionals

PPBE

Planning, Programming, Budgeting and

Execution

PPBES

Planning, Programming and Budgeting

Execution System

PPBM

Positive Passenger Baggage Match

PPBS

Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System

PPC

Prevention and Preparedness Council

PPCBP

Prickly Pear Cactus Burning Program

PPD

Preparedness Programs Division (PREP)

PPDS

Pre-Positioned Disaster Supplies

PPE

1) Pay Period Ending

2) Personal Protective Equipment

PPFRP

Prepared and Perishable Food Rescue Program

PPG

Program Planning Guidance

PPI

1) Port Partnership Initiative

2) Preliminary (or Pre-) Placement Interview

3) Progressive Policy Institute

PPM

1) Parts Per Million

2) Printer/Plotter Module

3) Program Performance Monitoring

PPN

Passport Number

PPO

Preferred Provider Organizations

PPPA

Preparedness Policy, Planning, and Analysis

(Ofce of)

PPQ

Plant Protection and Quarantine

PPR

1) Plans, Programs, & Requirements (Ofce of)

2) Prior Permission Required

PPS

Pre-Positioned Site

1) Positive Response (Exercise Series)

2) Public Relations

3) Purchase Request

PRA

1) Paperwork Reduction Act

2) Patient Reporting Activity

PRB

Procurement Review Board

PRC

1) Peoples Republic of China

2) Permanent Resident Card

3) Postal Rate Commission

4) Presidential Reserve Call-up

PRD

Personal Radiation Detection Device

PREPnet

National Preparedness Network

PRER

Peacetime Radiological Emergency Response

PRIME POWER

USACE Engineer Battalion

PRISM

Performance and Registration Information

Systems Management

PRIV

Privacy Ofce

PRND

Preventive Radiological/Nuclear Detection

PRNG

Puerto Rico National Guard

PRO

Personnel Records On-Line

PROACT

Protective and Response Options for Airport

Counter Terrorism

PROC

Procurement Unit Leader

PROFLOW

Procedural Flow

PROTECT

Program for Response Options and Technology

Enhancements for Chemical/Biological Terrorism

PRP

1) Personnel Reliability Program

2) Preferred Risk Policy

PRS

Primary Receiving Site

PRT

Planning and Response Team

Program Support

PSA

1) Patient Staging Area

2) Port Security Assessment

3) Protective Security Advisor

4) Public Service Announcement

PSAMS

Personnel Security Activity Management System

PSAPs

Public Safety Answering Points

PSAT

Protective Security Assistance Teams

PSB

Planning Support Branch

PSC1

Planning Section Chief Type 1

PSC2

Planning Section Chief Type 2

PSCD

Protective Security Coordination Division

PSD

1) Plastic Sphere Dispenser

2) Protective Security Division

PSEAG

Physical Security Equipment Action Group

PSGP

Port Security Grant Program

psi

pounds (of pressure) per square inch

PSI

Proliferation Security Initiative

PSIA

Pounds per Square Inch Absolute

PSIC

Public Safety Interoperable Communications

PSIG

Pounds per Square Inch Gauge

PSMA

Pre-Scripted Mission Assignment

PSN

Public Switched Network

PSO

Private Sector [Coordination] Ofce (PLCY/PSO)

PSOB

Public Safety Ofcer Benets

PSOTP

Protective Security Operations Training

Program

PSR

1) Personal Service Radio

2) Power Soft Report

PSRC

Presidential Selected Reserve Call-up

PSS

Physical Security Specialist

PST

Pacic Standard Time (GMT - 8)

PSTA

Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority (Florida)

PSTN

Public Switched Telephone Network

PSU

Port Security Unit

PSWAC

Public Safety Wireless Advisory Committee

PSWN

Public Safety Wireless Network

1) Part-Time

2) Payload Transporter

PTA

1) Parent-Teachers Association

2) Privacy Threshold Analysis

PTB

Position Task Book

PTBS

Position Task Books

PTI

Positive Threat Identication

PTO

Patent and Trademark Ofce

PTR

1) Pointer

2) Printer

3) Property Transfer Report

PTRC

Personnel Time Recorder

PTSD

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

PTWC

Pacic Tsunami Warning Center

PUCA

Pueblo Chemical Activity

PUCD

Pueblo Chemical Depot

PUD

Planned Unit Development

PUDA

Pueblo Depot Activity

PUP

Principal User Processor

PUREX

Plutonium Uranium Extraction

PVA

Port Vulnerability Assessment

PVC

Permanent Virtual Circuits

PVCS

Polyton Version Conguration System

PVO

1) Private Voluntary Organization

2) Private Volunteer Organization

PVTSAC

Private Sector Senior Advisory Committee

1) Project Worksheet

2) Public Works

PWCS

Ports Waters & Coastal Security

PWD

1) Password

2) Persons with Disabilities

PWG

Practitioners Working Group

PWR

1) Power

2) Pressurized Water Reactor

Past Year

Precautionary Zone

Q&A

Question and Answer

Quality Level 3; refers to a digital version

of a Flood Insurance Rate Map (note: Q3

Data refers to the ood zone information

represented on the map)

Quality Assurance

QA/QC

Quality Assurance/Quality Control

QAPP

Quality Assurance Project Plan

QASP

Quality Assurance Plan

QBE

Query by Example

QBO

Quasi-Biennial Oscillation

Quality Control

Quantity/Distance

QFR

1) Questions for the Record (afliated with

OLA)

2) Questions for Review

QOP

Quality of Protection

QOS

Quality of Service

QRB

Quality Review Board

QRC

Quick Reaction Checklist

QRP

Quick Response Program

QRS

Quick Response System

QRT

Quick Response Team

QRU

Quick Response Unit

QSI

Quality Step Increase

Total Activity Released

QTF

Quantitative Temperature Forecast

QTY

Quantity

QUF6

Uranium Hexauoride Inventory

Roentgen

R&D

Research and Development

R&R

Response & Recovery

R/h

Roentgens per hour

1) Regional Administrator

2) Reimbursable Agreement

3) Resource Advisor

4) Risk Assessment

RAA

1) Radiological Accident Assessment

2) Regional Airline Association

3) Request for Allocation Advice

RAAC

Radiological Accident Assessment Concepts

RAAW

Request for Allocation Advice Worksheet

RAC

1) Reception and Care

2) Regional Assistance Committee

3) Remedial Action Coordinator

4) Risk Assessment Code

RAC AC

Regional Assistance Committee Advisory Council

RACES

Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Services

RACF

Resource Access Control Facility

RAD

1) Radiation-Absorbed Dose

2) Radiological

3) Resource Allocation Decision

Rad/Nuc

Radiological/Nuclear

Rad/NUc CTEC

Radiological/Nuclear Countermeasures Test and

Evaluation Complex

RADCON

Radiological Control (Team)

RADEF

Radiological Defense

RADIAC

Radioactivity Detection, Indication and

Computation

RADID

Radar Information Display

RADLAB

Radiological Laboratory

RADNUC

Radiological/ Nuclear Enforcement

RADO

Radio Operator

RAFACS

Receipt and Alien File Accountability and

Control System (see NFTS)

RAIC

Resident Agent in Charge

RAID

1) Rapid Assessment and Initial Detection

2) Redundant Array of Independent Disks

RAIO

Refugee, Asylum & International Operations

(USCIS/RAIO)

RAM

1) Radiological/Radioactive Material

2) Random-Access Memory

3) Remedial Action Manager

RAMAC

Random Access Method Accounting Control

RAMCAP

Risk Analysis and Management for Critical

Asset Protection

RAM-D

Risk Assessment Methodology for Dams

RAMOS

Remote Automated Meteorological Observing

System

RAMP

1) Ramp Manager

2) Remedial Action Management Program

RAMPID

Remedial Action Management Program Issue

Database

RAMPREP

Remedial Action Management Program Report

RAMT

Radiological Assessment Medical Team

RAMTAR

Radiological Material Transportation Accident

Response

RAP

1) Radiological Assistance Plan

2) Radiological Assistance Program

3) Remedial Action Project

4) Resource Allocation Plan

5) Risk Assessment Policy

RAPID

1) Recovery Assistance Programs Information

and Delivery

2) Risk Assessment Process for Informed

Decision Making

RAPS

Refugees, Asylum and Parole System (DHS

program, afliated with USCIS)

RAPTAD

Random Particle Transport And Diffusion

RAR

Regional Analysis and Recommendation

RARE

Roadless Area Review and Evaluation

RART

Regional Assessment and Response Team

RASCAL

Radiological Assessment System for

Consequence Analysis

RASO

Radiological Affairs Support Ofce (US Navy)

RASS

Radio Acoustic Sounding System

RAT

Radiological Assistance Team

RAWG

Rapid Assessment Work Group

RAWN

Radar Wind Sounding

RAWS

1) Remote Automated Weather Station

2) Remote Automated Weather System

RBAC

Role-Based Access Control

RBCS

Rural Business Cooperative Service

1) Reception Center

2) Recovery Center

3) Red Cross (also ARC)

4) Reserve Component

RC&D

Resource Conservation and Development

RCA

1) Radiological Control Area

2) Riparian Conservation Area

3) Rural Community Assistance

RCAC

Red Cross Assistance Center

RCBAP

Residential Condominium Building Association

Policy

RCC

1) Reception and Congregate Care

2) Regional Climate Center

3) Rescue Coordination Center

RCDCB

Regional Civil Defense Coordinating Board

RCDM

Receiving/Distribution Manager

RCF

Release Conversion Factor

RCM

Radar-Coded Message

RCP

1) Regional Contingency Plan

2) Regional Oil and Hazardous Substances

Pollution Contingency Plan

RCPG

Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant

RCPGP

Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant

Program

RCRA

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

RCS

1) Reports Control System

2) Reactor Coolant System

RCT

Response Coordination Team

RCV

Replacement Cost Value

1) Regional Director

2) Restricted Data

RDB

Resource Database

RDBMS

Relational Database Management System

RDC

Regional Disaster Coordinator

RDCD

Rapidly Deployable Chemical Detection

RDD

Radiological Dispersion/Dispersal Device

RDO

1) Radiological Defense Ofcer

2) Regional Disaster Ofce

3) Regional Duty Ofcer

4) Regular Day Off

RDOS

Real-Time Disk Operating System

RDP

Regional Delivery Program

RDPC

Rural Domestic Preparedness Consortium

RDS

Remote Delivery Site

RDT

Rapid Deployment Team

RDTE or RDT&E

Research, Development, Testing and Evaluation

Real Estate

REA

1) Radioactive Emergency Area

2) Rural Electrication Administration

REAC

Radiation or Radiological Emergency Assistance

Center

REAC/TS

1) Radiation Emergency Assistance Center -

Training Site

2) Radiological Emergency Assistance Center -

Training Site

REACT

1) Radio Emergency Assistance Communications

Team

2) Radio Emergency Associated Communications

Team

READI

Response to Emergencies and Disasters

Institute

REAL ID

Real Identication

REC

1) Regional Emergency Coordinator

2) Regional Examination Center

RECA

Residual Capability Assessment

RECAT

Residential Capability Assessment Team

RECC

Regional Emergency Communications

Coordinator

RECCWG

Regional Emergency Communications

Coordination Working Group

RECD

Rural Economic and Community Development

RECON

1) Reconnaissance

2) Reconsideration

RECP

Regional Emergency Communications Plan/

Planner

RECS

Radiological Emergency Communications System

REDAM

Radiological Emergency Dose Assessment Model

REDCAP

Readiness and Capability Exercise

REDI

Regional Emergency Disaster Inventory

REL

Recommended Exposure Limit

REM

Roentgen Equivalent Man/Mammal

REMS

Remote Environmental Monitoring System

REMT

Regional Emergency Management Team

RENC

Regional Emergency Notication Center

REO

Regional Environmental Ofcer

REOC

Regional Emergency Operations Center

REP

1) Radiological Emergency Preparedness

2) Regional Evacuation Plan

3) Regional Evacuation Point

REPLO

Regional Emergency Preparedness Liaison

Ofcer

REPP

Radiological Emergency Preparedness Program

REPPM

Radiological Emergency Preparedness Program

Manual

REPS

Remote EHU Property System

RER

Record of Environmental Review

RERO

Radiological Emergency Response Operations

RERP

Radiological Emergency Response Plan

RERT

Radiological Emergency Response Team

RESL

Resource Unit Leader

RESTAT

Resources Status

RET

1) Regional Emergency Transportation

2) Retardent

3) Retirement

RETCO

Regional Emergency Transportation Coordinator

RETOPS

Radiological Emergency Team Operations

RETREP

Regional Emergency Transportation

Representative

REX

Readiness Exercise

Radio Frequency

RFA

Request for Federal Assistance

RFC

River Forecast Center

RFD

Rescue Floatation Device

RFI

1) Radio Frequency Interference

2) Request for Information

RFID

Radio Frequency Identication

RFO

1) Ready for Occupancy

2) Regional Field Ofce

RFP

Request for Proposal

RFQ

Request for Quote

RFS

Request for Service

RFSI

Residential Fire Safety Institute

Review Guide

RGN

Region

RHA

1) Reduced Hazard Ammunition

2) Regional Health Administrator

3) Rural Housing Agency

RHAVE

Risk Hazard and Value Evaluation Program

RHS

Rural Housing Service

1) Registration Intake

2) Remedial Investigation

RIA

Requiring Immediate Action

RIAT

Rapid Impact Assessment Team

RIC

Recovery Information Center

RICCS

Regional Incident Communication and

Coordination System

RICO

Racketeer Inuenced and Corrupt Organization

RICT

Regional Incident Coordination Team

RIF

Reduction in Force

RIID

Radiation Isotope Identier Device (also known

as Radioisotope Identication; or Radio-isotope

identication detectors)

RIJAN

Regional Information Joint Awareness Network

RIO

Regional Investment Ofcer

RIP

Routing Information Protocol

RIS

Regulatory Issue Summary

RISC

Regional Interagency/Interofce Steering

Committee

RISS or RISSNET

Regional Information Sharing System

RIT

Rapid Intervention Team (Fire/Rescue)

RITF

Rapid Intervention Task Force (Fire/Rescue)

RKB

Responder Knowledge Base

1) Recording level

2) Repetitive Loss

RLE

Run Length Encoding

RLP

Repetitive Loss Property

RLS

Registered Land Surveyor

RLTG

Repetitive Loss Target Group

1) Radiological Monitor

2) Records Management

3) Resource Manager

4) Risk Management

RMA

1) Risk Management Agency

2) Risk Management and Analysis, Ofce of

(NPPD/RMA)

RMAT

Risk Management Assessment Tool

RMD

Risk Management Division

RMEC

Regional Military Emergency Coordinator

RMG

Resource Management Group

RMI

Republic of the Marshall Islands

RMM

River Mile Marker

RMNCS

Regional Manager National Communications

System

RMRIWFCG

Rocky Mountain Regional Interagency Wildland

Fire Communications Group

RMS

Root Mean Square

RMSE

Root Mean Square Error

RMSI

Regional Maritime Security Initiative (DHS

program, afliated with USCG)

RMT

Radiological Monitoring Team

RMTN

Regional Meteorological Telecommunications

Network

RMTO

Resources Management Transformation Ofce

Registered Nurse

RNA

Rapid Needs Assessment

RNAT

Rapid Needs Assessment Team

RNCSAA

Radiological & Nuclear Countermeasure System

Architectures Analysis

RNCTEC

Radiological/Nuclear Counter-measures Test &

Evaluation Complex

RNMCB

Reserve Naval Mobile Construction Battalion

1) Radiological Ofcer

2) Read Only

3) Receive-Only

4) Regional Ofce

5) Reports Ofcer

6) Responsible Ofcer

ROB

Regional Ofce Building

ROBCAT

Rules of Behavior and Computer Awareness

Training

ROD

Record of Decision

ROE

1) Right Of Entry

2) Rules of Engagement

ROI

Report of Investigation (afliated with ICE,

DNDO)

ROM

Read-Only Memory

RON

Remain Overnight

ROR

Released on their Own Recognizance

RORO

Roll On/Roll-Off

ROS

Response Operating System

ROSS

Resource Ordering and Status System

ROST

1) Regional Ofce Support Team

2) Regional Operations Support Team

ROTHR

Relocateable Over the Horizon Radar

ROWPU

Reverse Osmosis Water Purication Unit

Real Property

RPA

1) Regional Planning Agent

2) Request for Public Assistance

3) Resources Planning Act

RPBP

Reduced Pressure Backow Preventer

RPG

Response Planning Guide

RPH

Resource Priority Header

RPM

1) Radiological Portal Monitor

2) Remedial Project Manager

3) Revolutions per Minute

RPO

Regional Project Ofcer

RPOC

Regional Point of Contact

RPP

Radiological Pilot Project

RPPO

Radiological Pilot Program Ofce (DHS

program, afliated with DNDO)

RPS

Radiological Protection System

RPT

1) Radiation Protection Technician

2) Report

RPV

Remotely Piloted Vehicle (afliated with CBP,

ICE, EPR)

Reportable Quantity

1) Railroad

2) Response & Recovery (also R&R)

3) Rest and Relaxation

4) Rural Route

RRAC

Regional Radiological Assistance Committee

RRB

Railroad Retirement Board

RRCC

Regional Response Coordination Center

(replacing ROC)

RRF

Regional Response Force

RRIS

Rapid Response Information System

RRP

Regional Response Plan

RRR

Readiness, Response and Recovery

RRRV

Regional Rapid Response Vehicle

RRT

1) Radiological Response Team

2) Regional Response Team

RRWG

Reward and Recognition Working Group

1) Regional Summary

2) Relay System

3) Remote Sensing

4) Response Support

RSAT

Risk Self Assessment Tool (formerly VISAT)

RSC

Remote Sensing Coordinator

RSD

Remote Sensing Data

RSI

Repetitive Stress Injury

RSL

Recommended Standard List

RSO

Radiation Safety Ofcer

RSOI

Reception, Staging, Onward movement, and

Integration

RSP

1) Regular Services Program

2) Render Safe Procedures

RSPA

Research and Special Programs Administration

RSS

1) Really Simple Syndication

2) Remote Storage Site

RSSC

Remote Sensing Support Coordinator

RST

1) Reference Standard Time

2) Regional Support Team

3) Remote Sensing Team

4) Render Safe Team

RSTA

Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Target

Acquisitions

RSU

1) Response Support Unit

2) Reunication Services Unit

RSVP

Retired Senior Volunteer Program

1) Registered Traveler

2) Resource Tracker

3) Resource Tracking

RTAP

1) Rapid Technology Application Program

2) Real-Time Analytical Platform

RTC

Road to Crisis

RTF

1) Responder/Response Task Force

2) Rich Text Format

RTF-E

Response Task Force - East

RTF-W

Response Task Force - West

RTI

Regional Technology Integration

RTK

Real Time Kinematic

RTM

Regional Training Manager

RTS

Regional Transit System

RTSWG

Regional Transit Security Working Group

RTT

Regional Transition Team

RUL

Resource Unit Leader

RUS

Rural Utilities Service

RVAC

Regional Visual Analytics Center

RVSS

Remote Video Surveillance Systems

RVT

Remote Video Terminal

RWA

Reimbursable Work Authorization

RWP

Regional Work Plan

RWS

Revised Work Schedule

1) Prescribed (re)

2) Prescription (medical)

3) Reactor

RXB1

Prescribed Fire Burn Boss 1

RXB2

Prescribed Fire Burn Boss 2

RXB3

Prescribed Fire Burn Boss 3

RXCM

Prescribed Fire Crew Member

RXI1

Ignition Specialist Type 1

RXI2

Ignition Specialist Type 2

RXM1

Prescribed Fire Manager Type 1

RXM2

Prescribed Fire Manager Type 2

RXPL

Prescribed Fire Planner

S number

Supply number

S&E

Salaries and Expenses

S&L

1) Savings and Loan

2) State and Local

S&T

Science and Technology

S-60

DOT Ofce of Intelligence Security

1) Special Agent

2) State Agency

3) Support Agency

SAA

State Administrative Agency

SAAM

Special Airlift Assignment Mission

SAAR

Secretary's After Action Report

SAAT

Standardized Awareness Authorized Trainer

SABA

Supplied Air Breathing Apparatus

SABT

Special Agent Bomb Technician

SAC

1) Special Agency in Charge

2) Special Agent in Charge (afliated with ICE,

FEMA, FBI)

SACS

Secure Access Control System

SAD

Southern Area District

SAE

1) Site Area Emergency

2) Stafford Act Employee (also DAE)

SAFE

1) Screening Applied Fairly and Equitably

2) Secure Against Fires and Embers

3) Secure All-around Flotation Equipped

4) Security and Accountability for Every Port

SAFE TEA

Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efcient

Transportation Equity Act

SAFECOM

1) Safe Community

2) Safety Communique

SAFER

Stafng for Adequate Fire and Emergency

Response

SAFETY ACT

Support Anti-Terrorism by Fostering Effective

Technologies Act of 2002

SAFTI

Secure and Facilitated International Travel

Initiative

SAG

Senior Advisory Group

SAIC

Special Agent in Charge (USSS)

SAIL

Secure Automobile Inspection Lanes

SAL

Salvation Army

SALEMDUG

State and Local Emergency Managers Data

Users Group

SAM

1) Station for Atmospheric Measurements

2) Surface to Air Missile (afliated with TSA)

SAME

Specic Area Message Encoding

SAMHSA

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services

Administration

SAML

Security Assertion Markup Language

SAMP

Special Area Management Plan

SAN

Storage Area Network

SANS

1) Ship Arrival Notication System

2) SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security (SANS

Institute)

SAO

1) Security Advisory Opinion (DHS program,

afliated with USCIS, CBP)

2) State Approving Ofcer (afliated with

FEMA)

3) State Approving Ofcial (afliated with

FEMA)

SAP

1) Special Access Program

2) State Action Plan

3) State Administrative Plan

SAR

1) Safety Analysis Report

2) Sector Annual Reports

3) Search and Rescue

4) Special Access Required

5) Suspicious Activity Report

6) Synthetic Aperture Radar

SARA

Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization

Act

SARDA

State Airborne Reconnaissance for Damage

Assessment

SAREX

Search and Rescue Exercise

SARS

1) Security Activities Reporting System

2) Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

SARSAT

Search and Rescue Satellite-Aided Tracking

SART

State Animal Response Team

SAS

1) Scientic Analysis Section

2) Secondary Antenna System

SASS

Student Administration and Scheduling System

SAST

Scientic Assessment and Strategy Team

SAT

1) Satellite

2) Search Augmentation Team

3) Simplied Acquisition Threshold

SATCOM

Satellite Communications

SATERN

Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio

Network

SATO

Scheduled Airline Ticket Ofce

SAV

1) Site Assistance Visit (afliated with NPPD/IP,

FEMA, NPPD/RMA)

2) Staff Assistance Visit

SAVE

Systematic Alien Verication Entitlements

SAVER

1) Systems Assessment and Validation for

Emergency Responders

2) Systems Assessments Validation and

Equipment Response

SAVI

Suspect and Violator Indices

SBA

1) Shared Border Accord

2) Small Business Administration

SBACC

Shared Border Accord Coordination Committee

SBC

Southern Baptist Convention

SBCCOM

Soldier and Biological Chemical Command (U.S.

Army)

SBD

1) Smart Border Declaration

2) Strategic Policy and Budget Division (S&T/

SBD)

SBDC

Small Business Development Center

SBI

1) Secure Border Initiative

2) Special Background Investigation

SBINET

Secure Border Initiative Network

SBIR

Small Business Innovation Research

SBL

Straight Bill of Lading (also SBOL)

SBOL

Straight Bill of Lading

S-BOSS

Scenario-Based Orientation for Senior Staff

SBU

Sensitive But Unclassied

1) Section Chief

2) Study Contractor

SCADA

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition

SCAT

1) Security Control of Air Trafc

2) Space Coast Area Transit (Florida)

SCATANA

Security Control of Air Trafc and Air

Navigation Aids

SCBA

Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus

SCC

1) Secretary's Command Center

2) Sector Coordinating Council

SCD

Service Computation Date

SCEC

Southern California Earthquake Center

SCEPC

Senior Civil Emergency Planning Committee

(NATO)

SCG

Security Classication Guide

SCI

Sensitive Compartmented Information

SCIC

Software Control Integration Center

SCIF

Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility

SCIP

Statewide Communications Interoperability

Plan/Planning

SCM

Survivable Crisis Management

SCO

1) Screening Coordination Ofce (PLCY/SCO)

2) State Coordinating Ofcer

SCOTUS

Supreme Court of the United States

SCP

Security Control Point

SCR

Software (or System) Change Request

SCRAG

Senior Civilian Representative of the Attorney

General

SCRR

Special Conversion Recommendation Report

SCS

Soil and Conservation Service

SCSEP

Senior Citizen Service Employment Program

SCSN

Southern California Seismic Network

SCUB

Scuba Diver

1) Security Directive

2) Static Data

SD&D

System Development and Demonstration

SDA

Seventh Day Adventist

SDD

Software Development Division

SDF

Special Direct Facility

SDK

Software Development Kit

SDLO

1) Senior Disaster Logistics Ofcer

2) Senior Disaster Logistics Ofcial

SDM

Scenario Development Message

SDO

1) Staff Duty Ofcer

2) Standards Development Organization

SDP

1) Secretarial Development Program

2) Service Delivery Point

SDSFIE

Spatial Data Standard for Facilities,

Infrastructure, and Environment

SDTS

1) Spatial Data Transfer Standard

2) Spatial Data Transfer System

SDUSM

Special Deputy U. S. Marshall

SDVOSB

Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business

SDWIS

Safe Drinking Water Information System

SEAR

Special Events Assessment Rating

SEAT

Single Engine Airtankers

SEB

Staphylococcus Enterotoxin type B

SEC

1) Secretary, Ofce of the

2) Securities and Exchange Commission

SEC1

Security Specialist Level 1

SEC2

Security Specialist Level 2

SECARMY

Secretary of the Army

SECC

State Emergency Coordination Center

SECDEF

Secretary, Department of Defense

SECDHS

Secretary, Department of Homeland Security

SECG

Security Guard (not LE)

SECHHS

Secretary, Department of Health and Human

Services

SECLAN

Secure Local Area Network

SECM

Security Manager

SECURE

Strategic Communications Resources Effort

SED

1) Shippers Export Declaration

2) Systems Engineering and Development

SEI

Software Engineering Institute

SEL

Standardized Equipment List

SELS

Severe Local Storms

SEM

Seattle Emergency Management

SEMA

State Emergency Management Agency

SEMO

State Emergency Management Ofce

SEMS

Standardized Emergency Management System

SENTINEL

Securing the Nation through Infrastructure

Enhancements Locally

SENTRI

Secure Electronic Network for Traveler's Rapid

Inspection

SEO

Senior Energy Ofcial

SEOC

1) Simulated Emergency Operations Center

2) State Emergency Operations Center

SEP

State Emergency Plan

SEPLO

State Emergency Preparedness Liaison Ofcer

SERC

State Emergency Response Commission

SERF

Standard Exercise Report Form/Format

SERFC

Southeast River Forecast Center (NWS)

SERL

Special Events Readiness Level (see below)

SERL I

Unique event requiring full support of US

Government

SERL II

Primary event requiring local resource

augmentation and limited predeployment of US

Government assets

SERL III

Secondary event requiring limited local

resource augmentation and limited

predeployment of US Government assets

SERL IV

Minor event generally requiring no US

Government asset support

SERRI

Southeast Region Research Initiative

SERT

1) Secretary's Emergency Response Team

2) State Emergency Response Team (DHS

program, afliated with FEMA, NPPD/IGP)

SES

Senior Executive Service

SES CDP

Senior Executive Service Candidate Development

Program

SET

Source Evaluation Team

SETCP

Southeast Transportation Corridor Pilot

SEUS

Snow Estimation and Updating System

SEVIS

Student and Exchange Visitor Information

System

SEVP

Student and Exchange Visitor Program

1) Security Forces

2) Special Facility

3) Special Forces

4) Standard Form

SFAR

Special Federal Aviation Regulation

SFHA

Special Flood Hazard Area

SFI

Secure Freight Initiative

SFIP

Standard Flood Insurance Policy

SFLEO

1) Senior Federal Law Enforcement Ofcer

2) Senior Federal Law Enforcement Ofcial

SFO

1) Senior Federal Ofcial

2) Senior FEMA Ofcial

3) State Field Ofce

4) State Field Ofcer

SFP

Supplementary Feeding Program

SFPE

Society of Fire Protection Engineers

SFSO

Senior Financial Services Ofcer

Surgeon General

SGE

Special Government Employee

SGML

Standard Generalized Markup Language

SGTP

Society of Government Travel Professionals

SGTR

Steam Generator Tube Rupture

SGTS

Standard Gas Treatment System

SHA

Secure Hash Algorithm

Safety, Health, and Return-to-Employment

Shared Resource (NCS high frequency radio

network)

SHCP

Strategic Human Capital Plan

SHIELD

Strategic Hazards Identication Evaluation for

Leadership Decisions

SHIRA

Strategic Homeland Infrastructure Risk

Assessment

SHMO

State Hazard Mitigation Ofcer

SHMP

State Hazard Mitigation Program

SHO

1) Safety and Health Ofcial

2) State Health Ofcer

SHPO

State Historic Preservation Ofce

SHSAS

State Homeland Security Assessment and

Strategy

SHSEEP

State Homeland Security Exercise and

Evaluation Program

SHSGP

State Homeland Security Grant Program

SHSI

Sensitive Homeland Security Information

SHSP

State Homeland Security Program

SHSS

State Homeland Security Strategy

SIA

Special Interest Alien

SIAM

Structure Ignition Assessment Model

SICCL

State Incident Communications Coordination

Line

SICG

Senior Interagency Coordination Group

SID

1) Station Identier

2) System Identier

SIDA

Security Identication Display Area

SIEC

State Interoperability Executive Committee

SIED

Special Improvised Explosive Device

SIES

Strategic Industries and Economic Security,

Ofce of

SIF

Standard Interchange Format

SIGINT

Signals Intelligence

SIGMET

Signicant Meteorological Information

SII

Security/Suitability Investigations Index

SIIA

Software and Information Industry Association

SIMBAD

Sensor Integration and Modeling for Biological

Agent Detection

SIMCELL

Simulation Cell

SIMCEN

(National Exercise) Simulation Center

SIO

Senior Infrastructure Ofcer

SIOC

1) Strategic Information and Operations Center

2) Strategic Intelligence and Operations Center

SIOP

Single Integrated Operational Plan

SIP

1) Session-Initiation Protocol (NGN)

2) Shelter-In-Place

3) Streamlined Inspection Program

SIPRNET

Secret Internet Protocol Router Network

SIRIXS

Secure Infrastructure for Rapid Information

Exchange Solution

SIT

Situation Reporting System

SIT REPORT

Interagency Management Situation Report

(summary of nationwide re statistics)

SITL

Situation Unit Leader

SITMAN

Situation Manual

SITREP

Situation Report

SITROOM

Situation Room

SITSTAT

Situation Status

Senior-Level

SL&T

State, local, and Tribal (NRF, ESF 13 Annex)

SLA

1) Service Level Agreement

2) State and Local Assistance

SLAR

Side-Looking Airborne Radar

SLBM

Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile

SLC

1) Salt Lake City

2) Subscriber Line Carrier

SLE

State and Local Exercise

Sleeping Dragon

Term used to identify a barrier of protesters

who have linked themselves to one another

SLEP

State and Local Exercise Program

SLFC

State and Local Fusion Center

SLG

State and Local Guide

SLGCP

State and Local Government Coordination &

Preparedness, Ofce of (now NPPD/IGP)

SLLE

State and Local Law Enforcement, Ofce for

(PLCY/SLLE)

SLM

Sound Level Meter

SLO

State Liaison Ofcer

SLOSH

Sea, Lake and Overland Surges from Hurricanes

SLP

State & Local Program

SLPA

Sea Level Pressure Anomaly

SLRFC

State, Local and Regional Fusion Center

SLSAC

State and Local Ofcials Senior Advisory

Committee

SLUDGEM

Salivation, Lacrimation, Urination, Defecation,

Gastric Distress, Emesis and Miosis

1) Shelter Management

2) Student Manual

SMAC

State Mapping Advisory Committee

SMB

Secretary's Morning Brief

SMC

Specialty/Specialized Management Center

SMCC

System Management Control Center

SME

Subject Matter Expert

SME PED

Secure Mobile Environment Portable Electronic

Device

SMG

Specialty Management Group

SMHA

State Mental Health Agency

SMI

1) Safety Management Institute

2) Smithsonian Institute

S-MIME

Secure MIME

SMMA

Standard Mitigation Measures Agreement

SMO

See OCSO

SMP

State Mitigation Plan

SMS

1) Short Message Service

2) Software Management System

SMSA

Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area

SMSD

State-Managed Small Disaster

SMTP

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SMU

1) Shelter Management Unit

2) Special Mission Unit (afliated with FEMA)

SMURC

Satellite Mobile US&R Resupply Cache

Serial Number

SNA

Survivable Network Analysis

SNJTK

Special Needs Jurisdiction Tool Kit

SNL

Sandia National Laboratory

SNM

Special/Specic Nuclear Material

SNMP

Simple Network Management Protocol

SNOMED

Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine

SNPRM

Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

[see also ANPRM and NPRM]

SNS

Strategic National Stockpile

SNSEE

School for National Security Executive

Education (NDU)

SNWDI

Critical Nuclear Weapon Design Information

1) Safety Ofcer

2) Sheriff’s Ofce

SOA

Service Oriented Architecture

SOAP

Simple Object Access Protocol

SOB

Souls On Board

SOC

1) Statement of Concern

2) Security Operations Center

3) State Operations Center

SOCA

Seed Key-ONLY COMSEC Account

SOCMA

Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers

Association

SOE

1) Senior Ofcials Exercise

2) Summary of Expenses

SOF

Special Operations Forces

SOF1

Safety Ofcer Type 1

SOF2

Safety Ofcer Type 2

SOFA

Status of Forces Agreement

SOFR

Safety Ofcer, Line

SOG

1) Seat of Government

2) Standard Operating Guideline

SOI

Southern Oscillation Index

SOIC

Senior Ofcial of the Intelligence Community

SOLAS

Safety of Life at Sea

SOLGEN

Solicitor General

SOLIC

Special Operations-Low Intensity Conict

SOLRAD

Solar Radiation

SOMA

Summary of Map Actions

SON

Statement of Need

SONAR

Sound Navigation and Ranging

SONET

Synchronous Optical Network

SONS

Spill of National Signicance

SOO

Statement of Objective

SOP

1) Safe Operating Procedure

2) Standard/Standing Operating Procedure

SOPEP

Shipboard Oil Pollution Emergency Plan

SOR

Statement of Requirements

SORDS

Stand-Off Radiation Detection System

SORN

System of Record Notice

SOS

Status of Studies

SOSC

State On-Scene Coordinator

SOUTHCOM

United States Southern Command

SOW

Statement of Work

Single Pedestal

SPAWAR

Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center

SPC

Storm Prediction Center

SPCA

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to

Animals

SPD

Special Programs Division (S&T/SPD)

SPE

1) Skill Performance Evaluation

2) Strategic Planning and Evaluation

SPEGL

Short-term Public Emergency Guidance Level

SPEN

State Police Emergency Network

SPG

1) Senior Policy Group

2) Strategic Planning Guide

SPII

Sensitive Personally Identiable Information

SPIRIT

Security, Planning, and Integrated Resources

for Information Technology

SPL

Single Pedestal Left

SPLASH

Special Program to List the Amplitude of Surge

from Hurricanes

SPM

System Programming and Maintenance

SPOC

1) Single Point of Contact

2) Stafng Point of Contact

SPOD

Seaport of Debarkation

SPOE

Seaport of Embarkation

SPOT

1) Satellite Positioning and Tracking

2) Screening of Passengers by Observation

Techniques

3) Systeme Probatoire d’Observation de la

Terre (French satellite system)

SPOTREP

Spot Report

SPP

1) Screening Partnership Program

2) Secure Passage Program

3) Security and Prosperity Partnership

SPR

1) Single Pedestal Right

2) Special Problem Report

3) State Preparedness Report

4) Strategic Petroleum Reserve

SPRB

Senior Performance Review Board

SPRL

Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory

SPSCIF

Semi-Permanent Sensitive Compartmented

Information Facility

SPUL

Supply Unit Leader

SQL

Structured Query Language

SRA

1) Safe Refuge Area

2) Society for Risk Analysis

SRC

Source

SRD

Self-Reading Dosimeter

SRF

Service Response Force

SRFC

Service Response Force Commander

SRFX

Service Response Force Exercise

SRM

Service Reference Model

SRSC

Strategic Review Steering Committee

SRT

Search Rescue Team

SRV

Safety Relief Value

SRWG

Site Remediation Working Group

SSA

1) Sector-Specic Agency

2) Self Storage Association

3) Senior State Advisor

4) Social Security Administration

5) Survivable Systems Analysis

SSAA

System Security Authorization Agreement

SSAN

Social Security Account Number

SSAS

Strategic Sourcing and Acquisition Systems

SSB

Single Side Band

SSBI

Single-Scope Background Investigation

SSC

1) Scientic Support Coordinator

2) Senior Site Controller

3) Strategic Storage Center

SSCJ

San Diego Sector Command Center Joint

SSD

Systems Support Division

SSE

Safe Shutdown Earthquake

SSFSD

Secret Service Forensic Sciences Division

SSG

Strategic Sourcing Group

SSHS

Safr-Simpson Hurricane Scale

SSI

Supplemental Security Income

SSL

Secure Socket Layer

SSN

Social Security Number

SSO

Special Security Ofcer

SSP

1) Sector-Specic Plan

2) Species Survival Plan

SSR

Special Security Representative (MD 11039)

SSS

1) Selective Service System

2) Small Structure Survey

SS-SATCOM

Slow Speed Satellite Communicator

SSSE

State Support Service Element

SST

1) Safe Secure Transport

2) Sea-Surface Temperature

3) Shelter Survey Technician

4) Super-Sonic Transport

ST ISAC

Surface Transportation Information Sharing and

Analysis Center

STA

Special Temporary Authority

STAFFORD ACT - OUTLINE

TITLES and SECTION NUMBERS

(42 U.S.C. counterpart number in parenthesis)

TITLE I

Findings, Declarations, and Denitions

101 (§ 5121)

Findings and Declarations

102 (§ 5122)

Denitions

TITLE II

Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation Assistance

201 (§ 5131)

Federal and State Disaster Preparedness

Programs

202 (§ 5132)

Disaster Warnings

203 (§ 5133)

Predisaster Hazard Mitigation

204 (§ 5134)

Interagency Task Force

TITLE III

Major Disaster and Emergency Assistance

Administration

301 (§ 5141)

Waiver of Administrative Conditions

302 (§ 5143)

Coordinating Ofcers

303 (§ 5144)

Emergency Support Teams

304 (§ 5147)

Reimbursement

305 (§ 5148)

Non-liability of Federal Government

306 (§ 5149)

Performance of Services

307 (§ 5150)

Use of Local Firms and Individuals

308 (§ 5151)

Nondiscrimination in Disaster Assistance

309 (§ 5152)

Use and Coordination of Relief Organizations

310 (§ 5153)

Priority for Public Housing

311 (§ 5154)

Insurance

312 (§ 5155)

Duplication of Benets

313 (§ 5156)

Standards and Reviews

314 (§ 5157)

Penalties

315 (§ 5158)

Availability of Materials

316 (§ 5159)

Protection of Environment

317 (§ 5160)

Recovery of Assistance

318 (§ 5161)

Audits and Investigations

319 (§ 5162)

Advance of Non-Federal Share

320 (§ 5163)

Limitation on Use of Sliding Scales

321 (§ 5164)

Rules and Regulations

322 (§ 5165)

Mitigation Planning

323 (§ 5165a)

Minimum Standards for Public and Private

Structures

324 (§ 5165b)

Management Costs

325 (§ 5165c)

Public Notice, Comment and Consultation

Requirements

TITLE IV

Major Disaster Assistance Programs

401 (§ 5170)

Procedure for Declaration

402 (§ 5170a)

General Federal Assistance

403 (§ 5170b)

Essential Assistance

404 (§ 5170c)

Hazard Mitigation

405 (§ 5171)

Federal Facilities

406 (§ 5172)

Repair, Restoration and Replacement of

Damaged Facilities

407 (§ 5173)

Debris Removal

408 (§ 5174)

Federal Assistance to Individuals and

Households

410 (§ 5177)

Unemployment Benet Assistance

412 (§ 5179)

Food Coupons and Distribution

413 (§ 5180)

Food Commodities

414 (§ 5181)

Relocation Assistance

415 (§ 5182)

Legal Services

416 (§ 5183)

Crisis Counseling Assistance and Training

417 (§ 5184)

Community Disaster Loans

418 (§ 5185)

Emergency Communications

419 (§ 5186)

Emergency Public Transportation

420 (§ 5187)

Fire Management Assistance

421 (§ 5188)

Timber Sale Contracts

422 (§ 5189)

Simplied Procedure

423 (§ 5189a)

Appeals of Assistance Decisions

424 (§ 5189b)

Date of Eligibility; Expenses Incurred Before

Date of Disaster

TITLE V

Emergency Assistance Programs

501 (§ 5191)

Procedure for Declaration

502 (§ 5192)

Federal Emergency Assistance

503 (§ 5193)

Amount of Assistance

TITLE VI

Emergency Preparedness

601 (§ 5195)

Declaration of Policy

602 (§ 5195a)

Denitions

603 (§ 5195b)

Administration of Title

611 (§ 5196)

Detailed Functions of Administration

612 (§ 5196a)

Mutual Aid Pacts Between States and

Neighboring Countries

613 (§ 5196b)

Contributions for Personnel and Administrative

Expenses

614 (§ 5196c)

Requirement for State Matching Funds for

Construction of Emergency Operating Centers

615 (§ 5196d)

Use of Funds to Prepare for and Respond to

Hazards

621 (§ 5197)

Administrative Authority

622 (§ 5197a)

Security Regulations

623 (§ 5197b)

Use of Existing Facilities

624 (§ 5197c)

Annual Report to Congress

625 (§ 5197d)

Applicability of Title

626 (§ 5197e)

Authorization of Appropriations and Transfers

of Funds

627 (§ 5197f)

Relation to Atomic Energy Act of 1954

628 (§ 5197g)

Federal Bureau of Investigation

TITLE VII

Authority to Prescribe Rules and Accept Gifts

701 (§ 5201)

Authority to Prescribe Rules and Accept Gifts

705 (§ 5205)

Disaster Grant Closeout Procedures

STAC

Science and Technology Advisory Committee

STAM

Staging Area Manager

STAR

1) Science to Achieve Results

2) Science-based Threat Analysis and Response

Program

3) Strategic Threat and Action Report

4) Studies, Training, Analysis and Research

STARC

State Area Command

STARS

Standard Terminal Automation Replacement

System

START

1) Scientic and Technical Advisory and

Response Team

2) Scientic and Technical Analysis and

Response Team

3) Security Through Advanced Research &

Technology

4) Superfund Technical Assessment and

Response Team

STARTEAM

Specialized Target Area Registration Team

STARTEX

Start of Exercise

STATEX

Statutory Exclusion

STATREP

Status Report

STB

Surface Transportation Board

STC

1) Satellite Teleregistration Center

2) Secure the Cities

3) State Coordinator

STCC

Standard Transportation Commodity Code

STCR

Strike Team Leader Crew

STCW

Standards of Training, Certication and

Watchkeeping [for Seafarers]

STDO

Security Technology Deployment Ofce

ST-DOSE

Source Term to Dose

STDZ

Strike Team Leader Dozer

STE

Secure Telephone/Terminal Equipment

STEL

Short-Term Exposure Limit

STEM

Science, Technology, Engineering and

Mathematics

STEN

Strike Team Leader Engine

STEP

1) Security Training Exercise Program

2) State Tribal Education Program

STL

Strike team leader

STLM

Strike Team Leader Military

STO

Special Technical Operations

STOC

Sniper Tactical Operations Center

STOLS

System to Locate Survivors

STOP

Strategy for Targeting Organized Piracy

STP

Standard Temperature and Pressure

STPS

Structural Protection Specialist

STQ

Screening Threshold Quantities

STR

Suspicious Transaction Report

STRATCOM

Strategic Command

STSC

Student and Schools System

STU

1) Satellite Transmission Unit

2) Secure Telephone Unit

STUDS

Small Tactical Ubiquitous Detection Sensors

STU-III

Secure Telephone Unit – Third Generation

STU-IV

Secure Telephone Unit – Fourth Generation

SUA

1) Specied Unlawful Activities

2) Special Use Airspace

SUBD

Support Branch Director

SUI

Sensitive Unclassied Information

SUL

Situation Unit Leader

SUM

Software User’s Manual

SUMA

Supply Management

SUPREPS

Supplemental Reports Created by OIC

SUPSALV

Supervisor of Salvage

SUV

Sport Utility Vehicle

SVBD

Service Branch Director

svc

service

SVC

Switched Virtual Circuits

SVIS

Secure Video System

SVOS

Secure Voice System

SVSS

Small Vessel Security Strategy

SVTC

Secure Video Teleconference

SVTS

Secure Video Teleconferencing System

1) Software

2) Soil and Water

SWAT

Special Weapons and Tactics/Training

SWC

Severe Weather Center

SWEL

Stillwater Flood Elevation

SWFL

Stillwater Flood Level

SWG

1) Scenario Working Group

2) Security Working Group

SWGDE

Scientic Working Group on Digital Evidence

SWGFACT

Scientic Working Group for Forensic Analysis

of Chemical Terrorism/Threats

SWIS

Satellite Weather Information System

SWO

Senior Watch Ofcer

SWP

1) State Warning Point

2) State Weekends Program

SWS

Severe Weather Statement

SWSA

Semantic Web Services Architecture

T&A

Time and Attendance

T&C

Time and Cost

T&E

1) Test and Evaluation

2) Threatened and Endangered

T&EPW

Training and Exercise Planning Workshop

Top Ofcials Exercise/TOPOFF 2

1) Table of Allowances

2) Technical Assistance

3) Time and Attendance

4) Travel Authorization

TAC

1) Technical Advisory Committee

2) Technical Assistance Contractor

TACACS

Terminal Access Controller Access Control

System

TACC

Training Academy Charter Committee

TAC-DESK

Tactical Desk

TACEX

Tactical Exercise

TACLET

Tactical Law Enforcement Team

TACON

Tactical Control

TAC-SMC

Tactical Specialized Management Center

TAD

Technical Assistance Division

TADS

1) Threat Assessment Database System

2) Training Aids for Dam Safety

TAES

Tactical Aero-medical Evacuation System

TAFA

Terrorism and Foreign Assassination

TAFIM

Technical Architecture Framework for

Information Management

TAFT

Test, Analyze, Fix and Test

TAG

1) Technology & Architecture Group

2) The Adjutant General

3) Threat Advisory Group

TAI

TSA Approved Instructor

TAIS

Telecommunications and Automated Information

Systems

TAOS

The Arbiter of Storms

TAP

Task Analysis Plan

TAPS

Trans-Alaska Pipeline System

TAR

Tone-Alert Radio

TARP

Troubled Asset Relief Program

TARS

1) Tethered Aerostat Radar System

2) Tone-Alert Radios

TAT

Technical Assistance Team

TAV

1) Technical Asistance Visit (DPETAP/NDPC)

2) Total Asset Visibility

TAVISS

Targeted Violence Information Sharing System

TBA

1) Thyroid Blocking Agent (see KI)

2) To be Announced

TBD

To be Determined

TBM

Temporary Bench Mark

TBP

To be Published

TBR

Travel Business Roundtable

Technical Committee

T-CAR

Tribal Capability Assessment for Readiness

TCC

1) Tele-Communications Center

2) Telephone Contact Center

3) Trafc Control Center

4) Transportable Communications Center

5) TSA Telephone Contact Center

TCD

Tropical Cyclone Discussion

TCL

Target Capabilities List

TCO

Territorial Coordinating Ofcer

TCOP

Tactical Common Operating Picture

TCP

1) Tele-Communications Priorities

2) Trafc Control Point

3) Transmission Control Protocol

TCR

Total Case Rate

TCS

1) Tactical Control System

2) (Standard Flood Hazard) Tracking and

Correspondence System

TCU

1) Threat Containment Unit

2) Transportation Coordination Unit

3) Tribal Colleges and Universities

TCV

Total Containment Vessel

TDC

1) Theater Deployable Communications

2) Travel Document Checker

TDD

Telecommunications or Teletype Device for the

Deaf

TDFM

Trafc Demand Forecast Model

TDI

Tactical Display Interface

TDIS

Travel Document Issuance System

TDO

Typhoon Duty Ofcer

TDS

Time, Distance and Shielding

TDY

Temporary Duty

TEAM-CPR

Thermal, Etiological, Asphyxiation, Mechanical,

Chemical, Psychological and Radioactive

TECS

Treasury Enforcement Communications System

TED

Total Effective Dose

TEDE

Total Effective Dose Equivalent

TEEM

Training Excellence Emergency Management

TEEX

Texas Engineering Extension Service

TEI

Training and Exercise Integration (Division)

TEL

Transporter Erector Launcher

TELL

(Ofce of) Training, Exercises, and Lessons

Learned

TELNET

Tele-conference Network

TEMA

Tennessee Emergency Management Agency

TEMCC

Tribal Emergency Management Coordinating

Council

TEMP

1) Temporary Employee

2) Test and Evaluation Master Plan

TENCAP

Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities

TEOAF

Treasury Executive Ofce of Asset Forfeiture

TEOC

1) Tele-Engineering Operations Center

2) Transportation Emergency Operations Center

TEPD

Training, Education, and Professional

Development

TERO

Tribal Employment Rights Organization

TERT

Telecommunicator Emergency Response

Taskforce

TEU

Technical Escort Unit

TEW

Terrorist Early Warning (Group)

Task Force

TFAH

Trust for America’s Health

TFCC

Task Force Control Center

TFER

Task for Emergency Readiness

TFL

1) Task Force Leader

2) Temporary Fuel Location

TFLD

Task Force Leader

TFR

Temporary Flight Restriction

TFS

Texas Forest Service

TFT

Temporary Full-Time

1) Technological Hazards

2) Temporary Housing

THA

Temporary Housing Assistance

THAMIC

Toxic Hazard Analysis Model for Industrial

Chemicals

THC

Temporary Housing Checkwriter

THD

Technological Hazards Division

THO

Temporary Housing Ofcer

THP

Temporary Housing Program

THREATCON

Threat Condition

THU

Temporary Housing Unit

TIA

Terrorism Information Awareness

TIARA

Tactical Intelligence and Related Activities

TIAS

Training Information Access System

TIB

Temporary Importation Bond

TIC

1) Toxic Industrial Chemical

2) Trainee Incident Commander

TICP

Tactical Interoperable Communications Plan

TIDE

Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment

TIER

Treasury Information Executive Repository

TIFF

Tagged Image File Format

TIGER

Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding

and Reference (System)

TIH

Toxic Inhalation Hazard

TIM

Toxic Industrial Material

TIMACS

Telecommunications Inventory Management and

Control System

TIMS

Trafc Incident Management System

TIN

1) Taxpayer Identication Number

2) Triangular Irregular Network

TIOC

Transportation Information Operations Center

TIP

1) Threat Image Projection

2) Threat Image Protection

TIPOFF

Terrorism Information Program [database at

DOS]

TIPS

Terrorism Information and Prevention System

TIROS

Television and Infrared Observation Satellite

TISD

Transportation Infrastructure Security Division

TISP

The Infrastructure Security Partnership

TKB

Terrorism Knowledge Base

1) Team Leader

2) Truckload

TLD

Thermo-Luminescent Dosimeter

TLO

Terminal Learning Objectives

TLS

Transport Layer Security

TLV

Threshold Limit Value

Trademark

TMARS

Team Management and Rostering System

TMC

1) Transportation Management Center

2) Travel Management Center

TMI

Three Mile Island (Nuclear Power Plant)

TMS

1) Training Management System

2) Trafc Management Specialist

TMT

1) Trafc Management Team

2) Training Management Team

TNA

Training Needs Assessment

TNC

Terminal Node Controller

TNF

Technical Nuclear Forensics

TNSP

Training Specialist

TNT

Trinitrotoluene

TOA

1) Time of Arrival

2) Transportation Operating Agency

TOC

1) Table of Contents

2) Tactical Operations Center

3) Trafc Operations Center

TOCDF

Tooele Chemical Disposal Facility

TOLC

Take-Off and Landing Coordinator

TOP

Technology Opportunities Program

TOPOFF

Top Ofcials (exercise series)

TOSC

Tactical On-Scene Commander

TOT

Time on Target

Time Period

TPC

Tropical Prediction Center

TPED

Tasking, Processing, Exploitation and

Dissemination

TPEP

Terrorism Prevention Exercise Program

TPFDD

Time-Phased Force Deployment Data

TPFDL

Time-Phased Force Deployment List

TPI

Two-Person Integrity

TPM

Trading Partner Management (system)

TPO

1) Technical Program Ofcer

2) Transition Planning Ofce

TPOC

Training Point of Contact

TPOP

Tractor Plow Operator

TPPB

Terrorism Production Planning Board (NCTC)

TPS

Temporary Protected Status

Transportation Request

TRAC2ES

TRANSCOM’s Regulating and Command and

Control Evacuation System

TRACEM

Thermal, Radioactive, Asphyxiation, Chemical,

Etiological and Mechanical

TRADE

Training Resources And Data Exchange

TRADOC

US Army Training and Doctrine Command

TRAGIS

Transportation Routing Analysis Geographic

Information System

TRAM

Transit Risk Assessment Methodology

TransCAER

Transportation Community Awareness

Emergency Response

TRAVEL

Transportation Risk Assessment and

Vulnerability Evaluation Tool

TRC

1) Telephone Response Center

2) Technology Review Committee

TREAS

Department of the Treasury

TRES

Department of Treasury (Federal Government)

TRI

Toxic Release Inventory

TRIA

Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (afliated with

PLCY/PSO)

TRICS

Telephone to Radio Interface Communications

System

TRIP

1) Transit (and) Rail Inspection Pilot (DHS

program, afliated with TSA)

2) Traveler Redress Inquiry Program

TRIPS

Travel Reporting and Information Processing

System

TRM

Technical Reference Model

TRO

1) Transient Accommodations Only

2) Transitional Recovery Ofce

TROPAN

Tropical Analysis Facsimile Network

TROR

Treasury Report on Receivables

TRP

Tactical Response Plan

TRPB

Tractor/Plow Boss

TRR

Test Readiness Review

TRT

Tactical Response Team

1) Thunderstorm

2) Top Secret

3) Transfer System

4) Tropical Storm

TS/SCI

Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented

Information

TSA

1) The Salvation Army

2) Transportation Security Administration

TSAAC

Transportation Security Administration's Access

Certicate

TSAC

Towing Safety Advisory Committee

TSAR

Transportation Security Administration

Representative

TSARM

TSA Self-Assessment Risk Module

TSB

1) Technical Services Branch

2) Training Support Brigade

TSC

1) Technical Support Center

2) Terrorist Screening Center (afliated with

TSA, CBP, I&A)

3) Transportation Security Clearinghouse

TSCA

Toxic Substance Control Act

TSCC

Transportation Security Command Center

(afliated with TSA)

TSCM

1) Technical Security Countermeasure

2) Technical Surveillance Countermeasures

TSCO

Top Secret Control Ofcer

TSD

1) Technical Services Division

2) Test and Evaluation Standards Division

(S&T/TSD)

TSDB

Terrorist Screening Data Base

TSDN

Technical Support Data Notebook

TSDR

Toxic Substance and Disease Registry

TSGP

Transit Security Grant Program

TSI

Transportation Security Inspector

TSIS

Transportation Security Intelligence Service

TSL

Transportation Security Laboratory

TSN

Trade Support Network

TSNM

Transportation Sector Network Management

(TSA/TSNM)

TSO

Transportation Security Ofcer

TSOC

Transportation Security Operations Center

TSP

1) Telecommunications Service Priority

2) Thrift Savings Plan

3) Total Suspended Particulates

4) Training Support Package

5) Transit Security Program

TSPSOC

Telecommunications Service Priority/System

Oversight Committee

TSR

1) Telecommunications Service Request

2) Teleregistration Service Representative

TSS

Temporary Storage Site

TSSP

Transportation Sect Specic Plan

TSWA

Temporary Secure Working Area

TSWG

Technical Support Working Group

Travel Trailer

TT&E

Training, Testing and Exercising

TTAC

Terrorist Threat Assessment and Credentialing

TTC

1) Technical Training Center

2) Time To Complete

TTD

(see TDD)

TTF

Terrorism Task Force

TTIC

Terrorism/Terrorist Threat Integration Center

TTP

Tactics, Techniques and Procedures

TTPP

Transportation Threat Protection Program

TTT

Train the Trainer

TTWS

Terrorist Threat Warning System (DHS program,

afliated with OPS/NOC)

TTX

Tabletop Exercise

TTY

Teletypewriter (see TDD)

TUAV

Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

TUH

Two Unit Housing

TUSCAN

TIPOFF U.S.-Canada

TUTT

Tropical Upper Tropospheric Trough

1) Television

2) Thomasville, Georgia

TVA

Tennessee Valley Authority

TVIS

Threat Vulnerability Integration System

TVM

Threat-Vulnerability Mapper

TVTA

Threat and Vulnerability, Testing and

Assessment

TWA

Time Weighted Average

TWD

Tropical Weather Discussion

TWG

1) Technical Working Group

2) Terrorist Working Group

TWIC

Transportation Workers Identication Credential

TWOV

Transit Without Visa Program

TWPDES

Terrorist Watchlist Person Data Exchange

Standard

TWVP

(see TWOV - preferred acronym)

U.S.

United States

1) Unauthorized Absence

2) Universal Adversary

3) Upper Air

UAC

Unied Area Command

UASI

Urban Areas Security Initiative

UAV

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (drone)

UAV ESG

UAV Executive Steering Group

UAWG

Urban Area Working Group

UBC

Uniform Building Code

UBR

Universal Business Registry

1) Unemployment Compensation

2) Unied Command

UC/IC

Unied Command / Incident Command

UCC

Unied Combatant Command

UCGIS

University Consortium for Geographic

Information Science

UCP

1) Unied Command Plan

2) Unied Command Post

UCS

Unied Command System

UCT

1) Universal Coordinated Time (see ZULU)

2) Unied Command Team

Unied Defense

UDA

Undocumented Aliens

UDDI

Universal Description, Discovery, and

Integration

UDP

Urban Dispersion Program

UEC

Unauthorized Entry into Cuban Territorial

Waters

UEL

Upper Explosive Limit

UF6

Uranium Hexauroide

UGC

Universal Generic Code

UHF

Ultra High Frequency

Unemployment Insurance

UIC

Unied Incident Command

UICDS

Unied Incident Command and Decision

Support

UJTL

Universal Joint Task List

Underwriters Laboratories

ULD

Unit Loading Device

ULF

Ultra Low Frequency

ULN

Unit Line Number

ULO

Unliquidated Obligation

ULP

Unfair Labor Practice

UMCA

Umatilla Chemical Activity

UMCD

Umatilla Chemical Depot

UMCOR

United Methodist Committee on Relief

UMD

University of Maryland

UMDA

Umatilla Depot Activity

UML

Unied Modeling Language

UMOC

Unied Medical Operations Center

UMP

Upward Mobility Program

UMRA

Unfunded Mandates Reform Act [1995]

United Nations (foreign, afliated with FEMA,

PLCY/OIA)

UNC

Universal Naming Convention

UNCLASS

Unclassied

UNDRO

United Nations Disaster Relief Organization

UNGA 62

62nd Meeting of the United Nations General

Assembly

UNHCR

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

UNP

Unmet Needs Program

UNSCOM

United Nations Special Commission

UO2F2

Uranyl Fluoride

UOC

USACE Operations Center

UOM

Unit Of Measure

UPC

Universal Product Code

UPR

User Prole Record

UPS

1) Uninterruptible Power Supply

2) United Postal Service

URA

Uniform Relocation Act

URGENT

Uniform Regional Guidance Employing National

Teams

URI

Upper Respiratory Infection

URISA

Urban and Regional Information Systems

Association

URL

Uniform Resource Locator

Under Secretary (also U/S)

US&R

Urban Search and Rescue (see also USAR)

USA

1) United States of America

2) U.S. Army

USA PATRIOT [Act]

Uniting & Strengthening America by Providing

Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept &

Obstruct Terrorism

USACBDC

United States Army Chemical and Biological

Defense Command

USACDA

United States Arms Control and Disarmament

Agency

USACDRA

United States Army Chemical Demilitarization

and Remediation Activity

USACE

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers [ESF-3]

USACHPPM

United States Army Center for Health

Promotion and Preventive Medicine

USACMDA

United States Army Chemical Material

Destruction Agency

USADACS

United States Army Defense Artillery Center

and School

USAF

U.S. Air Force

USAFA

U.S. Air Force Academy

USAHA

U.S. Animal Health Association

USAID

U.S. Agency for International Development

USAISC

United States Army Information Systems

Command

USA-ITA

U.S. Association for Importers of Textiles and

Apparel (private sector association, afliated

with CBP)

USAMRAA

US Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity

USAMRICD

U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of

Chemical Defense (DOD program, afliated

with FEMA, NPPD, S&T, OHA)

USAMRIID

U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for

Infectious Disease

USANCA

United States Army Nuclear and Chemical

Agency

USAR

1) Urban Search and Rescue

2) U.S. Army Reserve

USBP (see CBP)

U.S. Border Patrol

USBR

United States Bureau of Reclamation

USC

1) United States Citizen

2) United States Code

USCAP

U.S. Civilian Aviation Partnership

US-CERT

United States Computer Emergency Readiness

Team

USCG

U.S. Coast Guard

USCGR

United States Coast Guard Reserve

USCIRF

U.S. Commission of International Religious

Freedom

USCIS

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (aka:

"CIS")

USCM

US Conference of Mayors

USCOLD

U.S. Committee On Large Dams

USCP

United States Capitol Police

USCS (see CBP)

United States Customs Service (now U.S.

Customs and Border Protection)

USCSCFAC

U.S. Customs Service COBRA Fees Advisory

Committee

USDA

U.S. Department of Agriculture

USDA/CSREES

United States Department of Agriculture/

Cooperative State Research, Education and

Extension Service (aka: "the Extension

Service")

USDOI

United States Department of the Interior

USDOL

United States Department of Labor

USDOT

United States Department of Transportation

USET

United South and Eastern Tribes

USFA

United States Fire Administration (FEMA/USFA)

USFS

United States Forest Service (DOI division)

[EST-4]

USFWS

United States Fish and Wildlife Service

USG

United States Government

USGS

United States Geological Survey

USGS-DLG

United States Geological Survey Digital Line

Graph (Format)

USIA

United States Information Agency

USIC

United States Interdiction Coordinator

USITC

United States International Trade Commission

USJFCOM

United States Joint Forces Command

USMC

United States Marine Corps

USMCR

United States Marine Corps Reserve

USML

United States Munitions List

USMRICD

United States Army Medical Research Institute

of Chemical Defense

USMS

United States Marshals Service

USMTF

United States Message Text Format

USN

United States Navy

USNCB

United States National Central Bureau

USNG

1) United States National Guard

2) United States National Grid (NAD83)

USNORTHCOM

United States Northern Command

USNR

United States Naval Reserve

USOC

United States Olympic Committee

USP

Under Secretary for Preparedness

USPACOM

United States Pacic Command

USPHS

United States Public Health Service

USPIS

United States Postal Inspection Service

USPP

United States Park Police

USPS

United States Postal Service

USS

1) United States Senate

2) United States Ship

USSOCOM

United States Special Operations Command

USSOUTHCOM

United States Southern Command

USSPACECOM

United States Space Command

USSS

United States Secret Service

USSTRATCOM

United States Strategic Command

UST

Underground Storage Tank

USTR

United States Trade Representative

USTRANSCOM

United States Transportation Command

USVI

United States Virgin Islands

US-VISIT

U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator

Technology (NPPD/US-VISIT)

UTC

1) Unit Type Code

2) Universale Temps Coordinaire (i.e.,

Coordinated Universal Time)

UTCP

Unied Tactical Communications Program

UTL

Universal Task List

UTM

Universal Transverse Mercator

UUV

Unmanned Underwater Vehicle

Ultraviolet

UVI

Ultraviolet Index

UWB

Ultra Wideband

volt

Voltage

1) Vulnerability Assessment

2) U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs

VACF

Vetted Anti-Counterfeiting Forces

VACIS

Vehicle and Cargo Inspection System

VADM

Vice Admiral

VAERS

Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System

VAL

1) Validation

2) Voluntary Agency Liaison

VAMC

Veteran’s Administration Medical Center

VAX

Virtual Address Extension

VBIED

Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Device

VCC

Venue Control Cell (afliated with FEMA)

VCOS

Volunteer Chief Ofcer Section

VCR

Video Cassette Recorder

VCU

VOLAG Coordination Unit

VDEM

Virginia Department of Emergency Management

VDU

1) Visual Display Unit

2) Visual Docking Unit

VEDS

Vehicular Emergency Data Set

VEE

Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis

VEI

Volcanic Explosivity Index

VERA

Voluntary Early Retirement Authority

VFD

Volunteer Fire Department

VFR

Visual Flight Rules

VGA

Video Graphics Adapter

VGTOF

Violent Gangs Terrorist Organization File

VHA

Veterans Health Administration

VHF

Very High Frequency

Virgin Islands

VIA

By way of

VIG

Vaccinia Immuno Globulin

VIK

Value in Kind

VIP

1) Very Important Person

2) Volunteer Incentive Program

VIPR

Visual Intermodal Protection and Response

VIPS

Volunteers in Police Service

VISC

Visual Information Support Center

VISIT

Visitor & Immigrant Status Indicator Technology

VISN

Veteran's Integrated Services Network

VISTA

Volunteers in Service to America

VITA

Volunteers in Technical Assistance

VITEMA

Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency

Management Agency

VLF

Very Low Frequency

VLN

Virtual LAN

VLSI

Very Large Scale Integration

VMAS

Vertical Map Accuracy Standard

VMAT

Veterinary Medical Assistance Team

VMC

Virtual Model Community

VMI

Vendor Managed Inventory

VMO

Veterinary Medical Ofcer

VMS

Virtual Memory System

VNN

Virtual News Network

VNPSC

Virginia National Processing Service Center

VOA

Volunteers of America

VOAD

Volunteer Organizations Active in a Disaster

VOIP

Voice Over Internet Protocol

VOLAG

Voluntary Agency

VOR

Visual Omni Ranger

VORTEX

Verication of the Origin of Rotation in

Tornadoes Experiment

VOSS

Vessel of Opportunity Skimming System

VPF

Vector Product Format

VPN

Virtual Private Network

Virtual Reality

VRC

Volunteer Reception Center

VRML

Virtual Reality Modeling Language

VRP

Vessel Response Plan

1) Veterinary Services

2) Victim Support

VSAB

Vehicle Storage Administration Building

VSP

Visa Security Program

VST

Victim Support Task

VSU

Visa Security Unit

VTC

Video Tele-Conference

VTS

Vessel Trafc Service

VWP

Visa Waiver Program

VWPPA

Visa Waiver Permanent Program Act of 2000

V-Zone

Coastal High Hazard Area

watt

Wattage

W/COMB

With Combination

W/LK

With Lock

W/M

With Monitor

W/SH

With Shelves

WACC

Weapons and Ammunition Commodity Council

WAE

When Actually Employed

WAN

Wide Area Network

WAPA

Western Area Power Administration (part of

DOE)

WAR

Weekly Activity Report

WARN

Web Alert & Relay Network

WARNO

Warning Order

WARP

Web Audit and Remediation Program

WASS

Wide Area Surveillance System

WATS

Wide Area Telecommunications Service

WAWAS

Washington Area Warning System

WAWS

Washington Area Warning System

WAWTAP

Wind And Water Technical Assistance Program

1) Whole Body

2) Wideband

WBT

Web-Based Training

Wet Chemical

WCATWC

West Coast & Alaska Tsunami Warning Center

WCF

Working Capital Fund

WCO

World Customs Organization

WCRP

World Climate Research Program

WEB-TA

Web-based Time and Attendance

WEE

Western Equine Encephalitis

WEF

1) Water Environment Federation

2) World Economic Forum

WELP

Women’s Executive Leadership Program

WEM

Workshop in Emergency Management

WER

Weapons-Effect Reporting

WERT

Wireless Emergency Response Team

WFLC

Wildland Fire Leadership Council

WFSA

Wildland Fire Situation Analysis

WFU

Wildland Fire Use

1) Wage Grade

2) Working Group

WGA

Western Governors’ Association

WGI

Within-Grade Increase

1) Warehouse

2) White House

WHCA

White House Communications Agency

WHITCU

White House Initiative for Tribal Colleges and

Universities

WHL

White House Liaison Ofce (SEC/COS/WHL)

WHLO

White House Liaison Ofce

WHMO

White House Military Ofce

WHO

1) White House Ofce

2) World Health Organization

WHP

White House Package

WHS

Washington Headquarters Services

WHSR

White House Situation Room

WHTI

Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative

WIFLE

Women in Federal Law Enforcement

WIMS

Weather Information Management System

WIN

Warrant Information Network

WIPT

Working Integrated Process Team

WISE

Water Infrastructure Simulation Environment

WITS

Washington Interagency Telecommunications

System

WJIIP

Windows Joint Instructional Input Program

WKS

Worksheet

WLANs

Wireless Local Area Networks

WLSP

Watch List Service Providers

1) Warehouse Management (system)

2) Water Mist

WMA

Washington Metropolitan Area

WMATA

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority

WMD

1) Water Management District

2) Weapon of Mass Destruction

WMD COP

Weapons of Mass Destruction Common

Operational Picture

WMDBD

WMD and Biodefense (OHA/WMDBD)

WMD-DAC

WMD Decision Analysis Center

WMD-MCM

Weapons of Mass Destruction Medical

Countermeasures

WMDO-IM

Weapons of Mass Destruction Ofce & Incident

Management

WMDOU

Weapons of Mass Destruction Operations Unit

(FBI)

WMF

Windows Metale

WMO

World Meteorological Organization

1) Warrant Ofcer

2) Washington Ofce (District of Columbia

ofce for NORAD-USNORTHCOM)

3) Work Order

WOBS

Weather Observer

WORM

Write Once - Read Many (CD-ROM Drive)

WOSB

Woman Owned Small Business

1) Warning Point

2) White Phosphorus

3) Word Processing

4) Work Packet

WPL

Worker Population Limit

WPM

Wood Packing Material

WPS

1) Water Purication System

2) Wireless Priority Service/System

3) Word Processing System

WPT

Workforce Performance Training

WRC

Weapons Recovery Center

WRDA

Water Resources Development Act

WRF

Weather Research and Forecasting

WRIST

Weather Radar Identication of Severe

Thunderstorms

WRM

War Reserve Material

WRS

Wreck Removal and Salvage

WRSAME

Weather Radio Specic Area Message Encoding

Wildlife Services

WSDA

Washington State Department of Agriculture

WSDE

Washington State Department of Ecology

WSDH

Washington State Department of Health

WSDIS

Washington State Department of Information

Services

WSDL

Web Services Description Language

WSDOT

Washington State Department of Transportation

WSE

Web Service Enhancement

WSEL

Water-Surface Elevation

WSEMD

Washington State Emergency Management

Department

WSF

Washington State Ferries

WSP

Washington State Patrol

WSR

Weather Surveillance Radar

WSSPC

Western States Seismic Policy Council

Weight

WTO

World Trade Organization

WUI

Wildland-Urban Interface

WVOES

West Virginia Ofce of Emergency Services

WWL

Wind/Water Line

WWU

Watch and Warning Unit

WWW

World Wide Web

WYO

Write Your Own (Insurance, e.g., NFIP)

WYOP

Write Your Own Program

WYSIWYG

What You See Is What You Get

XDA

Existing Data Study

XEDO

Xedar Heat Detection Unit

Extra Large

XML

Extensible Markup Language

XPA

Extent of Play Agreement

Extra Small

XSTF

XML Structure Task Force

YCC

Youth Conservation Corps

yard

YLD

1) Yield

2) Young Lawyers Division

year

YTD

Year To Date

Zulu (UTC)

ZBB

Zero-Based Budgeting

ZECP

Zone Emergency Communications Planner

ZFP

Zone Forecast Product

ZIP

Zoning Improvement Plan

ZONE A

Special Flood Hazard Area inundated by the

100-year ood; base ood elevations are not

determined (AE as well as A1-30 included)

ZONE A99

Special Flood Hazard Area inundated by the

100-year ood to be protected from the

100-year ood by a Federal ood protection

system under construction; base ood

elevations are not determined

ZONE AH

Special Flood Hazard Area inundated by

the 100-year ood; ood depths of 1 to 3

feet (usually areas of ponding); base ood

elevations are determined

ZONE AO

Special Flood Hazard Area inundated by the

100-year ood; with ood depths of 1 to 3

feet (usually sheet ow on the sloping terrain);

average depths are determined. For areas

of alluvial fan ooding, velocities are also

determined

ZONE AR

Special Flood Hazard Area that results from

the decertication of a previously accredited

ood protection system that is in the process

of being restored to provide a 100-year or

greater level of ood protection

ZONE B

Area of 500-year ood; area subject to the

100-year ood with average depths of less

than 1 foot or with contributing drainage area

less than one square mile; and areas protected

by levees from the base ood

ZONE C

Area determined to be outside the 500-year

oodplain

ZONE D

Area in which ood hazards are undetermined

ZONE V

Special Flood Hazard Area inundated by the

100-year ood; coastal oods with velocity

hazards (wave action); base ood elevations

are not determined (VE as well as V1-30

included)

ZONE X

If unshaded: Area determined to be outside

the 500-year oodplain

If shaded: Area of 500-year ood; area subject

to the 100-year ood with average depths of

less than 1 foot or with contributing drainage

area less than one square mile; and areas

protected by levees from the base ood

ZULU

Indicates use of Universal Coordinated Time

(Greenwich Mean Time) [afliated with FEMA,

NPPD]

ZWA

Zonal Wind Anomaly

Obsolete or Replaced

AIS

Automated Information Systems (see AIC)

ATWC

Alaska Tsunami Warning Center (see WCATWC)

AUTOVON

Automatic Voice Network (see DSN)

BCIS

Bureau for Citizenship and Immigration

Services (see USCIS)

BICE

Bureau of Immigration and Customs

Enforcement

BIFC

Boise Interagency Fire Center (see NIFC or

NIFCC)

BTS

Border and Transportation Security (former

DHS Directorate, contained CBP, ICE, TSA and

FLETC)

CAPSS

Corrective Action Program Support System

CBDCOM

Chemical and Biological Defense Command (see

SBCCOM)

CCA

Comprehensive Cooperative Agreement (see CA)

Coast Guard

CNO

Counter-Narcotics Ofce (see CNE)

COE

US Army] Corps of Engineers

CS&T

Cyber Security and Telecommunication (see

CS&C)

DFO

Disaster Field Ofce

EBS

Emergency Broadcast System (see EAS)

Executive Secretariat (see ESEC)

FMANA

Fire Marshals Association of North America

(see IFMA)

FPA

Federal Preparedness Agency

FRP

Federal Response Plan (see NRF)

IMSD

Incident Management Systems Division [of DHS/

FEMA] (see IMSI or IMSID)

INS

1) Immigration and Naturalization Service

(replaced among USCIS, CBP and ICE at DHS;