Information Technology Advisory Committee Glossary


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A

ACWI Advisory Committee on Water Information; multi-agency
AD Active Directory - a Microsoft authentication and management service
AD Assistant Director - Discipline Chiefs and Others
ADAPS Automatic Data Processing System
ADIP  
ADR Annual Data Report
AFS Andrews File System
AIS Administrative Information System
AJAX Asynchronous Javascript and XML
ANNIE Computer program for interactive hydrologic analyses and data management
ANSS Advanced National Seismic System
APS Administrative Policy and Services
ArcIMS ArcIMS provides the foundation for distributing high-end geographic information systems (GIS) and mapping services via the Internet.
ASC Alaska Science Center
AVG Asset Valuation Guide
AWUDS Aggregate Water Use System - NWIS

B

BASIS + Bureau Administrative Information System
BioTDB Biological Transactional Data Base
BITSM Bureau Information Technology Security Manager; this person has a group of people, sometimes 'the BITSM group or team.' They do security POLICY, see ITSOT
BLOG Web log - An online journal comprised of links and postings in reverse chronological order
BOR Bureau of Reclamation
BRD Biological Resources Discipline
BUST Bureau Unix Support Team
BWTST Bureau Windows Technical Support Team

C

C&A Certification and Accreditation
CAAST Certification and Accreditation Automation and Streamlining Team
CAPP Cartography and Publishing Program
CCIT Collaborative Communications Infrastructure Team
CCM Configuration Control Management
CF ColdFusion
CIO Chief Information Officer
CLP Closed LooP - An Arc/Info coverage classification
COB Close of Business
COO Continuity of Operations
COOP Continuity of Operations Plan - aka "COO Plan"
CPIC Capital Planning and Investment Control
CR Central Region
CRADA Cooperative Research and Development Agreements
CRIC Central Region Information Cooperative
CTA Cooperative Technical Agreement - see CRADA
CTO Chief Technology Officer
CY Calendar Year

D

DA Domain Administrator
DAA Designated Approval Authority
DB Data Base
DBA Data Base Administrator
DBMS Data Base Management System
DBTAC Data Base Technical Advisory Committee
DC Domain Controller
DC District Chief
DCR Deployment Coordinator
DDS Digital Data Series
Decodes Device Conversion and Delivery system - converts data from a wide range of sources into an NWIS format
DEM Digital Elevation Model
DIS Distributed Information System
DNS Domain Name Server
DOMSAT Domestic Satellite
DMZ De-Militarized Zone; used for part of network outside the secure internal WAN
DO District Office
DOD Department of Defense
DOI Department of the Interior
DOMSAT domestic satellite
DRG Digital Raster Graphic
DRGS Direct Readout Ground Station; can get data real-time from GOES
DSD Digital Spatial Data
DWH Data Warehouse

E

EA Enterprise Architecture
EFTP Enterprise FTP
EGIM Enterprise Geographic Information Management
E-GIS Enterprise Geographic Information System
ELT Executive Leadership Team of the Bureau
EMS Enterprise Messaging
ENS  
EPA Environmental Protection Agency
EPA Storet Environmental Protection Agency Storage and Retrieval
EROS Earth Resources Observation Systems
ESC Executive Steering Committee for NWIS
ESIC Earth Science Information Center
ESM Enterprise Security Manager
ESN Enterprise Services Network
ESRI Earth Science Research Institute
ETL Export, Transfer, and Load
E-Web Enterprise Web

F

FAIR Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act (FAIR)
FAR Fishes and Aquatic Research
FBCA  
FBMS Financial Business Management System
FCIS (Formerly FCIG) Field Computing Integration and Support
FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency
FIPS Federal Information Processing Standards
FISMA Federal Information Security Management Act
FormRouter Forms Software
FTE Full Time Equivalency

G

GCLAS Graphical Constituent Loading Analysis System
GD Geology Discipline
GIO Geographic Information Office; Officer equal to CIO in other orgs.
GIOLT Geographic Information Office Leadership Team
GIPO Geographic Information Program Office; replaced by E-GIS
GIS Geographic Information System
GISRA Government Information Security Reform Act of 2000
GNats NWIS problem-reporting system - based on the GNU Gnats Problem Report Management System
GNU the Free Software Foundation - their name is based on the recursive acronym "GNU's Not Unix"
GOES Geostationary Observation Environmental Satellite; NWS down link on Wallups Island
GWIN Georgia Water Information Network
GWSI Ground Water Site Inventory System
GWUG Ground-Water Users Group

H

HIF Hydrologic Instrumentation Facility
HPO High-Performing Organization
HRI Human Resources Initiatives
Hydstra Hydrologic database software developed in Australia by Hydstra, Pty, Ltd.

I

ICOM Instrumentation Committee
IG Inherently Governmental
IIE Integrated Information Environment
IMAP Internet Access Message Protocol
IOWDM Input and Output for Watershed Management Software
IP Internet Protocol
IPDS Information Product Data System
IRB Investment Review Board
ISA Interconnection Security Agreement
ISS Internet Security Systems
IT Information Technology
ITA Information Technology Advisory Committee of Water Discipline
ITMC Information Technology Management Council
ITSOT Information Technology Security Operation Team; Lester North
ITSSC Information Technology Security Steering Committee

L

LAN Local Area Network - inside the office - see WAN
LAS Logic ASCII Standard
LIMS Laboratory Information Management System
LLMA Local Lotus Mail Administrator
LNA Lotus Notes Administrator

M

MISTE MIssing STreamflow Estimation Program - part of ADAPS
MNS Managed Network Services
MOU Memorandum of Understanding
MS EA Microsoft Enterprise Agreement

N

NAD  
NatWeb National Web Server System
NAWQA National Water Quality Assessment Program
NBC National Business Center
NBII National Biological Information Infrastructure
NEIC National Earthquake Information Center
NMD National Mapping Discipline
NFS Network Filesystem
NHD National Hydrography Dataset
NIPT Network Integrated Project Team
NOC Network Operation Center
NOSC Network Operation and Security Center
NTC National Training Center
NTTAC New Technology Technical Advisory Committee; Windows OS and more
NWIS National Water Information System
NWISWeb National Water Information System Web
NWQL National Water Quality Laboratory
NWS National Weather Service

O

OA Office Automation
OAG Office Automation General
OAS Office Automation Specialized
OFR Open-File Report
OGW Office of Ground Water
OWI Office of Information, Water
OMB Office of Management and Budget
OWQ Office of Water Quality
OSW Office of Surface Water
OU Organizational Unit
OWCP Office of Workers' Compensation

P

PC Personal Computer
PCFF Personal Computer Field Forms
PDA Personal Digital Assistant
PDD Presidential Decision Directive
PERL Practical Extraction and Report Language
PIA Privacy Impact Assessment
PIG Publishing Interest Group of the Bureau
PHOENIX Water-Quality Users Group
PKI Public Key Infrastructure
PMI Project Management Institute
POAMS Plans of Actions and Milestones
POPS Point of Presence
PR Problem Report

Q

QW Water Quality
QWData Water Quality System, NWIS

R

RCSer's Water's Regional Computer Specialists
RD Regional Director
RDB Relational Data Base
REX Regional Executive
RGIO Regional Geographic Information Officer
RITSM Regional Information Security Technology Manager
RNS Reports Numbering System
RPM  
RT Real Time
RTS Reports Tracking System
RTWWW ?? original distributed real time system-still in use in some districts
Ratplot Rating Plot

S

SA Site or System Administrator
SANS  
SAS Statistical Analysis Software - SAS Institute, Inc.
SDE ESRI Arc Spatial Data Engine
SDT Science Documentation Team
SEP  
SIMS Scientific Information Management Systems
SLEDS Sediment Laboratory Environmental Data System
SMS System Management Server - a Microsoft system management tool
SPOC  
SPLUS Statistics and graphics software endorsed and licensed by DIS - Insightful Corp.
SRTM Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
SSH Secure Shell
SSL Secure Resources Sockets Layer
SSP System Security Plan
STED Scientific and Technical Employee Development Committee
STIG System Technical Implementatioin Guidelines
STORET STOrage RETrieval - EPA's largest computerized system
SUN TAC Sun Technical Advisory Committee, now under NWIS
SUS Software Update Services - a Microsoft system management tool
SWAT Software Action Team
SWIM Surface Water Inspection and Measurement
SWSTAT Surface-Water Statistics Software
SWUDS Site Specific Water Use System - NWIS
SWUG Surface-Water Users Group

T

TIG Technical Integration Group
TWRI Technical Water Resources Investigation

V

VHF Video High Frequency
VI Visual Information
VMWare Virtual Machineware
VOIP Voice Over Internet Protocol
VPN Virtual Private Network

W

WAN Wide area network between offices - see LAN
WICAS Water Information Computer Applications Support Program
WISKI Water Resources Information System Kisters
WRD Water Resources Discipline
WRIR Water-Resources Investigations Report
WSC Water Science Center

X

XML Extensible Markup Language

 

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