IT Jorgans -

BIN BINary
BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain
BIOS Basic Input Output System
BIT Built-In Test
BIT Binary digit
BITE Built-In Test Equipment
BITS Base Information Transfer System
BPS Bits per second
BAN Battlespace Area Network
AHPL A hardware programming language
ALU Arithmetic and logic unit
ASCII American National Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASCII American standard code for information interchange
CASE Computer applications and software engineering
CASE Computer-aided software engineering
CASE Computer-aided systems engineering

CAT Computer Aided Testing
CAT Computer aided test
CD Compact disk
CERT A registered service mark used by the CERT Coordination Center, an SEI group that focuses on Internet security; usage guidelines are available from lhp@cert.org
CISC Complex instruction set computersCMMCapability Maturity Model
CMMI Capability Maturity Model Integration
CMMI-SE/SW Capability Maturity Model-Integrated for Systems Engineering/Software Engineering
CMMI-SE-SW/IPPD Capability Maturity Model-Integrated for Systems Engineering/Software Engineering/Integrated Product and Process Development
CMOS(COSMOS) complementary metal oxide semiconductor
COBOL Common Business Oriented Language (should not be defined; use as a word)
COBOL Common Business-Oriented Languag
COLD Computer Output to Laser Disk
COM Component Object Model
COM Computer Operations Manual
COM Computer output microfilm
CORBA Common object request broker architecture
CRM Computer Resources Management
CRM Continuous Risk Management
CRM Computer resource management
CRM Computer resource manager
CISC Complex instruction set computers

DBDF Database display function
DBMS Database Management System
DBMS Database management system
DOS Disk operating system
DOT Distributed object technology
XICS Xerox Integrated Composition System
XML Extensible Markup Language
WORM write once and read many times (disk drive)
VAN Value Added Network
VHDL VHSIC hardware description language
VDL Vienna Definition Language
VLAN Virtual Local Area Network
VLM Very Large Memory
VLSI Very Large Scale Integration
VM Virtual Machine
VSCS Voice Switching and Control Systems

CAT Center for Advanced Technology (in New York state)
CAT Computer Aided Testing
Uml Unified markup language
TQM Total Quality Management

Tcl/Tk Tool Control Language/Toolkit
TCP Transmission Control Protocol (Dept. of Defense)
SA System Administrator
SA Structured analysis
SAA System Application Architecture
SAAE Software architecture attribute engineering
SAAM Software architecture analysis method

SA-CMM Software Acquisition Capability Maturity Model

SAMM Software Acquisition Maturity Model
SAN Storage Area Network
SCM Software configuration management]
SDLC Synchronous Data Link Control
SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol
RA Risk analysis

RAID Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
RAM Random access memory
RAP Risk Aversion Plan
RAS Remote Access Services
R&D Research and development
RDA Relational Distributed Architecture
RDA Remote Database Access
RDB Relational Database
RDBMS Relational Database Management System
RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computer

RMA Reliability, Maintainability, Availability

RMC Resource Management Center
RMI Remote method indicator
RMI Remote method invocation
RTC Real Time Clock

RTOS Real-time operating system
RTOS Real-time operating system

QC Quality Control

QL Query Language

PC-AT Personal computer, advanced technology (IBM model name)
PCB Printed Circuit Board
PCM Plug Compatible Mainframe
P-CMM People Capability Maturity Model
POSIX Portable Operating System for Computer Environments
ODBC Open database connectivity
ODBMS Object Database Management System OORDBMSObject/Relational Database Management System
OOSE Object-oriented system engineering
OOT Object-oriented technology
MAC Message authentication code

MAN Metropolitan Area Network
MASCOT Modular Approach to Software Construction, Operation, and Testing
MB1024 kilobytes
mbps Megabytes Per Second

LCSEC Life-Cycle Software Engineering Center (Army)
LCSS Life-cycle software support
LCSSE Life-cycle Software Support Environment
LDAP Lightweight directory access protocol
LED Light emitting diode

J2EE Java 2 Enterprise Edition (Sun
JAAS Java Authentication and Authorization Service
JCL Job control language
JDBC Java Database Connectivity
JDK Java Development Kit