Government Jargon Glossary¶
This will grow as questions arise. The focus will be largely on security topics, due to the author’s biases.
- A&A¶
assessment and authorization (see RMF)
- AAA¶
authentication, authorization, and access
- AO¶
authorizing official
- AODR¶
authorizing official designated representative
- ATC¶
Authorization to Connect
- ATD¶
authorization termination date
- ATO¶
authority to operate
- ATP¶
authority to proceed
- C&A¶
certification and accreditation (see A&A)
- C2¶
Command and Control
- C3¶
Command, Control, and Communications
- C4¶
Command, Control, Communications, and Computers
- C4ISR¶
Command, Control, Communications, Computer, Intelligence, Surveilance and Reconnaisssance
- CA¶
certifying authority
- CAAP¶
Critical Asset Assurance Program
- CAC¶
Common Access Card
- CCA¶
Clinger-Cohen Act
- CCI¶
control correlation identifier
- CDS¶
cross-domain solution
- CERT¶
Computer Emergency Response Team
- CFR¶
Code of Federal Regulations
- CI¶
configuration item
- CI¶
Counterintelligence
- CIAC¶
Computer Incident Advisory Capability
- CIRT¶
Computer Incident Response Team
- CJCS¶
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- CNA¶
Computer Network Attack
- COE¶
Common Operating Environment
- COMSEC¶
Communications Security
- CONOPS¶
Concept of Operations
- COTS¶
Commericial Off-the-Shelf
- CSA¶
Computer Security Act
- CSIR¶
Computer (and Network) Security Incident Response
- CSSO¶
Computer Systems Security Officers
- CUI¶
controlled unclassified information (see UCNI)
- DAA¶
Designated Approving Authority (DAA)
- DARPA¶
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- DATO¶
denial of authorization to operate
- DCGS¶
Distributed Common Ground System
- DCI¶
Director of Central Intelligence
- DIA¶
Defense Intelligence Agency
- DIACAP¶
DoD Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process
- DIB¶
Defense Industrial Base
- DIRNSA¶
Director, National Security Agency
- DISA¶
Defense Information Systems Agency
- DITSCAP¶
DoD IT Security Certification and Accreditation Process
- DNI¶
Director of National Intelligence
- DOC¶
DCGS Operations Center (see 480th ISR Wing)
- DoE¶
Department of Energy
- DoN¶
Department of the Navy
- DPOC¶
DCGS PED Operations Center (AF level)
- DSS¶
Defense Security Service
- E/APL¶
Evaluated Approved Product
- EAL¶
Evaluation Assurance Level
- FISMA¶
Federal Information Security Management Act
- FN¶
foreign national
- FOIA¶
Freedom of information Act
- FSO¶
Field Security Office
- GAO¶
General Accounting Office
- GCCS¶
Global Command and Control System
- GIG¶
Global Information Grid
- GSA¶
General Services Administration
- I&W¶
Indications and Warning
- IA¶
Information Assurance
- IATC¶
Interim Authority to Connect
- IATO¶
Intermin Authority to Operate
- IATT¶
Intermin Authority to Test
- IAVA¶
Information Assurance Vulnerability Alert
- IC¶
Intelligence Community
- ICD¶
interface control document
- INFOSEC¶
Information Systems Security
- IO¶
Information Operations
- IO¶
intelligence officer
- ISSM¶
Information System Security Manager
- ISSO¶
Information System Security Officer
- IW¶
Information Warfare
- JCIDS¶
Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System
- JWICS¶
Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System
- LEA¶
Law Enforcement Agency
- MOA¶
memorandum of agreement
- MOU¶
memorandum of understanding
- NIST¶
National Institute of Standards and Technology
- PED¶
processing, exploitation, and dissemination
- POAM¶
plan of action and milestones
- PPSM¶
ports and protocols security matrix
- RMF¶
risk management framework
- SSP¶
system security plan
