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Appendix A: Glossary

3D - Three Dimensional

ACTD - Advanced Concepts Technology Demonstration

ADCI/AP - Assistant DCI for Analysis and Production

ADCI/C - Assistant DCI for Collection

AIIM - Airfield Infrastructure Intelligence Model

BDA - Battle Damage Assessments

BW - Biological Warfare

CAPPS-II - Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System II

CBW - Chemical and biological weapons

CI - Counterintelligence

CIA - Central Intelligence Agency

CIO - Chief Information Officer

CLASS - Consular Lookout and Support System

CNO - Computer Network Operation

COP - Common Operation Pictures

CPA - Coalition Provisional Authority

D&D - Denial and Deception

DCI - Director of Central Intelligence

DHS - Department of Homeland Security

DI - CIA Directorate of Intelligence

DIA - Defense Intelligence Agency

DNEOPack - Digital Noncombatant Evacuation Operations package

DoD - Department of Defense

EXBS - Export Control and Related Border Security

FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation

FDDC - Foreign Denial and Deception Committee

FY - Fiscal Year

GIS - Geographic Information System

GEODSS - Ground Based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance

GPS - Global Positioning System

HIU - Humanitarian Information Unit

IBIS - Interagency Border Inspection System

ICCIO - Intelligence Community Chief Information Officer

IC EA - Intelligence Community Enterprise Architecture

iCI - System for sharing CI information electronically at the Top Secret/SCI level, formerly known as Intelink-CI

IC MAP - Intelligence Community Multi-Acquisition Program

ICSIS - Intelligence Community System for Information Sharing

INR - Department of State Bureau of Intelligence and Research

IOTC - Information Operations Technology Center

ISB - Intelligence Science Board

ISG - Iraq Survey Group

IT - Information Technology

J2 - Joint Staff Director for Intelligence

JAEIC - Joint Atomic Energy Intelligence Committee

JCMEC - Joint Captured Materiel Exploitation Center

JICPAC - Joint Intelligence Center Pacific

JIVU - Joint Intelligence Virtual University

JSF - Joint Strike Fighter

JWICS - Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System

LASER -  Language and Speech Exploitation Resources

MANPAD - Man Portable Air Defense system

MASINT - Measurement and Signature Intelligence

MCIA - Marine Corps Intelligence Activity

MSIC - Missile and Space Intelligence Center

NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NASIC - National Air and Space Intelligence Center

NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization

NCR/DHS - NSA/CSS Representative to the Department of Homeland Security

NCSD - National Cyber Security Division of the Department of Homeland Security

NEO - Noncombatant Evacuation Operations

NGA - National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, formerly NIMA

NIC - National Intelligence Council

NICB - National Intelligence Collection Board

NIEX - No-Notice Interoperability Exercise

NIMA - National Imagery and Mapping Agency, now NGA

NIO - National Intelligence Officer

NIPF - National Intelligence Priorities Framework

NSA - National Security Agency

NSA/CSS - National Security Agency/Central Security Service

NSF - National Science Foundation

NSSE - National Special Security Events

ONCIX - Office of National Counterintelligence Executive

ONI - Office of Naval Intelligence

ONRA - TSA Office of National Risk Assessment

OPSEC - Operations Security

OSD - Office of the Secretary of Defense

OWR - Optical Word Recognition

S&T - Science and Technology

SBU - Sensitive But Unclassified

SIGINT - Signals Intelligence

SIPRNet - Secret Internet Protocol Router Network

SOFViz - Special Operations Forces Visualization

SPB - ONCIX Special Programs Branch

SSE - Special Security Events

STEP - Science and Technology Expert Partnership

STIC - Scientific and Technical Intelligence Committee

TSA - Transportation Security Administration

TSC - Terrorist Screening Center

TTIC - Terrorist Threat Integration Center

UAV - Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

USAID - US Agency for International Development

USCENTCOM - United States Central Command

USCG - United States Coast Guard

USCS - United States Customs Service

USEUCOM - United States European Command

USJFCOM - United States Joint Forces Command

USNORTHCOM - United States Northern Command

USPACOM - United States Pacific Command

USSOCOM - United States Special Operations Command

USSS - United States Secret Service

USSTRATCOM - United States Strategic Command

USTRANSCOM - United States Transportation Command

WMD - Weapons of Mass Destruction

WSSIC - Weapons and Space Systems Intelligence Committee


Posted: May 01, 2007 09:34 AM
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