A
Acceptance Testing (AT)
Acquisition Manager (AM)
Ada
ANSI (American National Standards Institute)
Analog
Anchor
ANSI X12
Applet
Application Profile
Application Protocol (AP)
Archie
ARPAnet
ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency)
ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)
Attribute

B
Backbone
Bandwidth
Bar Coding
Baud
BPR (Business Process Re-engineering
Browser
Bulletin Board Service (BBS)

C
Cache
CAD (Computer-Aided Design )
CAE (Computer-Aided Engineering)
CALS (Continuous Acquisition and Life-cycle Support)
CALS Test Network (CTN)
CAM (Computer-Aided Manufacturing)
CASE (Computer-Aided Software Engineering)
CBT (Computer-Based Training)
CCITT Group 4)
CCITT
CD ROM, CD ROM Drive (Compact Disk Read-Only Memory)
CE (Concurrent Engineering)
CERN (Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire)
CGI, cgi-bin (Common Gateway Interface)
Client Pull
Clipboard
CGM (Computer Graphics Metafile)
CIM (Computer-Integrated Manufacturing)
CIM (Corporate Information Management)
CITIS (Contractor Integrated Technical Information Service)
Client
CMS (Life-cycle Management System)
COCOMO
Communication (COM) port
Communication Protocol (CP)
Compliance
Component Testing (CT)
Configuration Management (CM)
Conformance Testing (CT)
COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf )
Cyberspace

D
Database Management System (DBMS)
Data Dictionary (DD)
Data Management Standards
Data Model
Data Modeling
Declaration File
Defacto Standard (Proprietary Standard)
Descriptive Markup
Destination System
Development Testing
DID (Data Item Description)
Digital
Digital Technical Data
Direct Connection
Distributed Database
Distributed Systems
Document
Document Image File
Document Type
Document type declaration
DTD (Document Type Definition)
Document Type Definition
Domain Name System (DNS)
Dot Pitch
Drawing
DTD (Document Type Definition)

E
Electronic Bulletin Board
E-Mail (Electronic Mail)
EC (Electronic Commerce)
EDI (Electronic Data Interchange)
EDIF (Electronic Design Interchange Format)
EDIFACT (EDI For Administration, Commerce and Transport)
EFT (Electronic Funds Transfer )
EFT (Electronic Funds Transfer)
Encryption
Engineering Data
Enterprise Integration (EI)
Enterprise
ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)
ESnet (Energy Sciences Network)
Expert System
A software system with two basic components

F
FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)
FCIM (Flexible Computer Integrated Manufacturing )
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
File
Finger
FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard )
Firewall
FOSI (Formatting Output Specification Instance)
FTAM (File Transfer, Access and Management)

G
Gateway
Gopher
GOSIP (Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile)
Graphics Standard
GTIS (Government Technical Information Systems)

H
HTML ( Hypertext Markup Language )
HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protoco)
Hypertext
Hyperbolic Space or Hyperspace

I
ICR (Intelligent Character Recognition)
IDEF0
IDEF1
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
IETM (Interactive Electronic Technical Manual)
IGES (Initial Graphics Exchange Standard)
ILS (Integrated Logistics Support)
Information Engineering
Information Infrastructure
Information Superhighway
Integration
Can be described as consisting of three main components
Intelligent Gateway
Inter-operability Testing
Interactive Access
Internet Protocol (IP)
Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
Internet
InterNIC
Intranet
IP Address
IP (Internet protocol)
IPDB (Integrated Product Data Base)
IRDS (Information Resources Dictionary System)
IRQ
ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network)
ISO (International Standards Organization)
ISO (International Standards Organization)
ISO 9000
ISO/OSI (International Standards Organization/Open System Interconnection)
IWSDB (Integrated Weapon Systems Database)

J
JCALS (Joint Computer-Aided Acquisition and Logistic Support)
JCMO (Joint CALS Management Office)
JEDMICS (Joint Engineering Data Management Information and Computer System)
JIT (Just-In-Time) Inventory
JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group)

K
Kilobit and Kilobyte

L
LAN ( Local Area Network )
Layer
LCC (Life-Cycle-Cost)
LDM (Legacy Data Management)
Lead Time
Legacy Data
LOA (Letter Of Agreement)
Logistics
LSA (Logistics Support Analysis)
LSAR (Logistics Support Analysis Record)

M
Magnetic Tape
Mailing List
Maintainability
MANTECH (Manufacturing Technology)
MAP (Manufacturing Automation Protocol)
Markup
MIL-HDBK (Military Handbook)
MIL-HDBK-59 (Military Handbook 59)
MIL-SPEC (Military Specification)
MODEM (MOdulator-DEModulator)
Mosaic
Motif
MPEG (Motion Pictures Experts Group)
MRP (Material Requirements Planning)
Multimedia

N
National Information Infrastructure (NII)
National Research and Education Network (NREN)
Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS)
Network News Transport Protocol (NNTP)
Newsgroup
NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Node

O
OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
ODA/ODIF (Office Document Architecture / Office Document Interchange Format)
Open Data-link Interface (ODI)
Open System
OSI (Open Systems Interconnection)
Optical Disk

P
Packet Internet Gopher (PING)
Parser
PDES/STEP (Product Data Exchange Standard/Standard for the Exchange of Product Model Data)
PDF (Portable Document Format)
PDL (Page-Description Language)
PLDB (Parts List Data Base)
POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface)
POTS
PREMO
Processable Data Document
Product Data
Product Model
Propriety Standard (Defacto Standard)
Protocol
Protocol

Q
Query Language

R
RAMP (Rapid Acquisition of Manufactured Parts)
Random-Access Memory (RAM)
Rapid Response Manufacturing (RRM)
Raster Graphics
RDA (Remote Data Access)
RDBMS (Relational Database Management System)
Real-Time
Relational Database
Reliability
Repository
Resolution
RFQ (Request For Quote)
ROM (Read-Only Memory)
Router

S
Search Engine, Tool, Utility
Serial Line IP/Point-to-Point Protocol (SLIP/PPP)
SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language)
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
Source System
SQL (Structured Query Language)
Standards Testing
STEP (Standard for the Exchange of Product model data)
System

T
Tape Set
TBITS (Treasury Board Information Technology Standards)
TDP (Technical Data Package)
Technical Data
Technical Information Systems
Telnet
Text File
Text-Graphics Integration
TIFF (Tag Image File Format)
Total Quality Management (TQM)
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)

U
Unix
Usenet (User Network)

V
VAN (Value-Added Network)
Vector Graphics
Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Netwide Index to Computerized Archives (Veronica)

W
WAN (Wide-Area Network)
Web Browser
WHOIS
Wide Area Information Server (WAIS)
Workflow Management
Workflow
World Wide Web (WWW)

X
X 12
X.25
X.400
X.500



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