Abbreviations and Acronyms
This is the consolidated list of special terms and abbreviations used across the IT Planning and Management Guides
| ACF | Administration for Children and Families, an HHS Agency |
| ADO | ActiveX Data Objects |
| AIS | Automated Information System |
| AHRQ | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, an HHS Agency |
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
| AOA | Administration on Aging, an HHS Agency |
| APD | Advanced Planning Document |
| API | Application Program Interface |
| ASP | Application Service Provider |
| A-TARS | Agency Technical Architecture Reference Set |
| ATA | Agency Technical Architecture |
| ATSDR | Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, an HHS Agency |
| CCB | Change Control Board |
| CD | Compact Disk |
| CDC | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an HHS Agency |
| CD-RW | Compact Disk - ReWritable |
| CIO | Chief Information Officer |
| CICS | Customer Information Control System |
| CM | Configuration Management |
| CMP | Contractor Management Plan |
| CMS | Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, an HHS Agency |
| COBOL | Common Business Oriented Language |
| COM | Component Object Model |
| CORBA | Common Object Request Broker Architecture |
| COTS | commercial-off-the-shelf |
| CPU | Central Processing Unit |
| CSE | Child Support Enforcement |
| DASD | Direct Access Storage Device |
| DBMS | Database Management System |
| DOM | Document Object Model |
| DNS | Domain Name System |
| DSL | Digital Subscriber Line |
| DTD | Document Type Definition |
| DVD | Digital Versatile Disk |
| DVD+RW | DVD-Rewriteable |
| EAI | Enterprise Application Integration |
| EBT | Electronic Benefit Transfer |
| EJB | Enterprise JavaBean |
| EoS | Estimate of the Situation |
| FAMIS | Family Assistance Management Information System |
| FAR | Federal Acquisition Regulation |
| FDA | Food and Drug Administration, an HHS Agency |
| FFP | Federal Financial Participation |
| GQM | Goal, Question, Metric approach to measurement |
| Department of Health and Human Services | |
| HRSA | Health Resources and Services Administration, an HHS Agency |
| Human Services | |
| HTML | HyperText Markup Language |
| IHS | Indian Health Service, an HHS Agency |
| IDE | Integrated Development Environment |
| IDEF0 | Integrated Computer-Aided Manufacturing (ICAM) DEFinition for function modeling |
| IDEF1X | Integrated Computer-Aided Manufacturing (ICAM) DEFinition for data modeling |
| IDL | Interface Definition Language |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| IEP | IT Evolution Plan |
| IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force |
| IPv6 | Internet Protocol Version 6 |
| IS | information system |
| ISO/IEC | International Organization for Standardization |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider |
| IT | Information Technology |
| IV&V | independent verification and validation |
| J2EE | Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| MOU | Memorandum of Understanding |
| MPEG | Motion Picture Experts Group |
| MP3 | MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3 |
| NHSITRC | National Human Services Information Technology Resource Center |
| NIH | National Institutes of Health, an HHS Agency |
| NIST | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| OLAP | On-Line Analytical Processing |
| OMA | Object Management Architecture |
| OMG | Object management Group |
| OS | The Secretary of Health and Human Services, an HHS Agency |
| OSI | Open Systems Interconnection |
| PAPD | Planning Advanced Planning Document |
| PBX | Private Branch Exchange |
| PC | personal computer |
| PDA | Personal Digital Assistant |
| PEP | Plan for the IT Evolution Plan |
| Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act | |
| PSC | Program Support Center, an HHS Agency |
| QA | quality assurance |
| QFD | quality function deployment |
| RAID | Redundant Array of Independent Disks |
| RFI | Request for Information |
| RFP | Request for Proposal |
| ROI | Return on Investment |
| RMP | Risk Management Plan |
| SACWIS | State Automated Child Welfare Information System |
| SAE GOA | Society of Automotive Engineers Generic Open Architecture |
| SAMHSA | Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, an HHS Agency |
| SAX | Simple API for XML |
| SLOC | source lines of code |
| SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol |
| SOW | Statement of Work |
| SQL | Structured Query Language |
| TAFIM | Technical Architecture Framework for Information Management |
| Temporary Aid to Needy Families | |
| TRM | Technical Reference Model |
| UML | Unified Modeling Language |
| UPS | Uninterruptible Power Supply |
| USB | Universal Serial Bus |
| VBA | Visual Basic for Applications |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| WAN | Wide Area Network |
| WBS | Work Breakdown Structure |
| Win32 | Windows 32-bit interface |
| Welfare Reform Information Technology | |
| W3C | World Wide Web Consortium |
| XML | Extensible Markup Language |
| Y2K | Year 2000 Date Problem |