ATI: Air Technical lndex 

BLDSC: British Library Document Supply Centre
BPR: Business Process Reengineering

CA: Commercial Activities
CAB: Current Awareness Bibliography
CBIAC: Chemical Warfare/Chemical - Biological Defense Information Analysis Center
CD-ROM: Compact Disk-Read Only Memory
CDS: Congressional Descriptive Summary
CENDI: Commerce, Education, Energy, NASA, NLM, Defense and Interior Federal STI Managers Group
CISTI: Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information
COMSEC: Communications Security
COR: Contracting Officer's Representative
CORBA: Common Object Request Broker Architecture
COSATI: Committee on Scientific and Technical Information
COTR: Contracting Officer's Technical Representative
CPIA: Chemical Propulsion Information Agency
CRDA: Cooperative Research and Development Agreement
CRS: Current Research Summaries
CSAS: Corporate Source Authority System
CSERIAC: Crew Systems Ergonomics Information Analysis Center

DACS: Data and Analysis Center for Software
DAL: Dissemination Authority List
DARPA: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (formerly Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA))
DASC: Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Administrative Support Center
DBMS: Database Management System
DD: Defense Department
DDN: Defense Data Network
DDR&E: Director, Defense Research and Engineering
DED: Data Element Dictionary
DII: Defense Information Infrastructure
DIS: Defense Investigative Service (now known as Defense Security Service)
DISA: Defense Information Systems Agency
DISN: Defense Information System Network
DISNET: Defense Integrated Secure Network
DL: Distance Learning
DLA: Defense Logistics Agency
DLIS: Defense Logistics Information Service (formerly known as Defense Logistics Services Center (DLSC))
DLSC: Defense Logistics Services Center (now known as Defense Logistics Information Service (DLIS))
DMS: Defense Message System
DMSTTIAC: Defense Modeling, Simulation and Tactical Technology Information Analysis Center
DOC: Department of Commerce
DoD: Department of Defense
DoDD: DoD Directives
DoDISS: DoD Index of Specifications and Standards
DOIM: Directorate of Information Management
DOTRAC: Directory of Organizational Technical Report Acronym Codes
DPI: Data Processing Installation
DRIS: Defense Regional Interservice Support
DRIT: Defense Retrieval and Indexing Terms
DROLS: Defense RDT&E On-line System
DSN: Defense Switched Network
DSS: Defense Security Service (formerly known as Defense Investigative Service)
DTAP: Defense Technology Area Plan
DTIC: Defense Technical Information Center
DURS: Defense User Registration System

EBRS: Enterprise Backup/Recovery System
EC: Electronic Commerce
ECAB: Electronic Current Awareness Bibliography
EDI: Electronic Dissemination of Information
EDMS: Electronic Document Management System
EIS: Executive Information System
EUC: End User Computing

FEDLINK: Federal Library and Information Network
FFRDC: Federally-Funded Research and Development Centers
FLICC: Federal Library and Information Center Committee
FOIA: Freedom of Information Act
FOIR: Freedom of Information Request
FTP: File Transfer Protocol
FWC: Federal WWW Consortium

GACIAC: Guidance and Control Information Analysis Center
GAO: General Accounting Office
GCCS: Global Command and Control System
GILS: Government Information Locator Service
GPRA: Government Performance and Results Act
GRA&I: Government Reports and Announcements Index

HBCU: Historically Black Colleges and Universities
HF: Human Factors
HTGI: How To Get It

IAC: Information Analysis Center
IATAC: Information Assurance Technology Analysis Center
IG: Inspector General
IMPAC: International Merchant Purchase Agreement Card
INFOSEC: Information Systems Security
IR&D: Independent Research and Development
IRIA: Infrared Information and Analysis Center
ISP: Internet Service Provider
ISSO: Information System Security Officer

JWSTP: Joint Warfighting Science and Technology Plan
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L: Limited
LimDis: Limited Distribution
LAN: Local Area Network

MAI: Machine-Aided Indexing
MATRIS: Manpower and Training Research Information System
MCTL: Militarily Critical Technologies List
MECC: Military Education Coordination Conference Working Group
MIPR: Military Interdepartmental Purchase Request
MIS: Management Information System
MLW: Military Librarians Workshop
MORS: Military Operations Research Society
MOU: Memorandum of Understanding
MPTS: Manpower, Personnel, Training, Simulation
MTIAC: Manufacturing Technology Information Analysis Center

NARDIC: Navy Acquisition, Research and Development Information Center
NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NCS: National Communications System
NFAIS: National Federation of Abstracting & Indexing Services
NISO: National Information Standards Organization
NICRAD: Navy-Industry Cooperative Research and Development
NLM: National Library of Medicine
NOS: Network Operating System
NPAC: Nuclear Nonproliferation and Arms Control
NSAREF: National Security Agency Reference Center for Scientific and Technical Information
NTIAC: Nondestructive Testing Information Analysis Center
NTIS: National Technical Information Service

OA: Office Automation
ODDR&E: Office of the Director of Defense Research & Engineering
ODUSDRE: Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Research and Engineering
OLTIPS: Online Technical Information Packages
OPI: Office of Primary Interest
OSD: Office of the Secretary of Defense
OUSD(A&T): Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition & Technology)
OUSD(R&E):Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Research & Engineering)

PCIRD: Personal Computer Independent Research and Development
PCWUIS: Personal Computer Work Unit Information System (WUIS is now known as TEAMS--Technical Effort and
Management System)
POC: Point of Contact
POM: Program Objective Memorandum
PCP: Potential Contractors Program
PSE: Principal Staff Element

QA: Quality Assurance
QRI: Qualitative Requirements Information

R&D: Research and Development
R&E: Research and Engineering
R&AT: Research and Advanced Technology
R&DPP: Research and Development Program Planning
R&T: Research and Technology
R&T WUIS: Research and Technology Work Unit Information System (WUIS is now known as Technical Effort and
Management System)
RA: Requirements Analysis
RAC: Reliability Analysis Center
RD&A: Research, Development and Acquisition
RDDS: Research and Development Descriptive Summaries
RDP: Report Documentation Page
RDT&E: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation
RP: Request Processing
RTIS: Remote Terminal Input System

SBIR: Small Business Innovation Research
SDI: Strategic Defense Initiative
SF: Standard Form
SITIS: SBIR Interactive Technical Information System
SIPRNET: Secure Internet Protocol Router Network
SLA: Special Libaries Association
STI: Scientific and Technical Information
STILAS: Scientific and Technical Information Library Automation System
STINET: Scientific and Technical Information Network
STINFO: Scientific and Technical Information
STINT: Scientific and Technical Information Transfer
STIP: Scientific and Technical Information Program
SURVIAC: Survivability/Vulnerability Information Analysis Center

T&E: Test and Evaluation
TEAMS: Technical Effort and Management System (TEAMS) (formerly Work Unit Information System (WUIS))
TCC: Telecommunications Control Center
TCF: Technical Control Facility
TILO: Technical Industrial Liaison Office (Army)
TIP: Technical Information Pilot
TR: Technical Report
TRAIL: Technical Report Awareness Internet Links
TR CD-ROM: Technical Report Bibliographic Database (TR) on CD-ROM
TRGUI: Technical Reports Graphical User Interface

U2: Unclassified, Unlimited Distribution
URI: University Research Initiative
URS: University Research Support
USD(A&T): Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition and Technology)

WAIS: Wide Area Information Server
WAN: Wide Area Network
WBT: Web-Based Training
WINS: Work Unit Input System ("Work Unit" is now known as "Technical Effort")
WUIS: Work Unit Information System (now known as Technical Effort and Management System (TEAMS))
WWW: World Wide Web