Leading Change 

Army Reinvention and Quality
Initiatives Report - 1998

Annex I – Acronyms

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A
ACALA Armament and Chemical Acquisition & Logistics Activity
ACBOP Acquisition Center Business Opportunity Page
ACE Armored Combat Earthmover
ACWA Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment
ADR Alternate Disputes Resolution
AFH Army Family Housing
AIAD Advanced Individual Academic Development
AIEP Army Ideas for Excellence Program
AIS Automated Information System
ALT Administrative Lead-Time
AMC Army Materiel Command
AMCOM Army Aviation and Missile Command
AMDF Army Master Data File
AMEDD Army Medical Department
ANAD Anniston Army Depot
APF Appropriated Fund
APIC Army Performance Improvement Criteria
ARDEC Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center
B
BASIC Body Armor Sets, Individual Countermine
BASOPS Base Operations
BCP Breach Contingency Plan
BDA Bilateral Destruction Agreement
BEST Business Efficiency Support Template
BOLD Base Operations Opportunity Leveraging and Development
BOP Business Opportunities Page
BROS Bridgeport Rental and Oil Services
BS&L Behavioral Sciences and Leadership
C
CAA Center for Army Analysis
CAE Computer Aided Engineering
CAIV Cost as an Independent Variable
CAMP Computer Assisted Match Program
CAPR Capability Requirement Process
CDA Centralized Distribution Activity
CECOM Communications-Electronics Command
CIC Corporate Information Center
CIO Chief, Information Officer
COCO Contractor-Owned, Contractor-Operated
CONUS Continental United States
COTS Commercial off the Shelf
CUBE Cal-Tech USGS Broadcast of Earthquake
CWC Chemical Weapons Convention
D
DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DFAS Defense Finance and Accounting Service
DIL Digital Integrated Laboratory
DLA Defense Logistics Agency
DOC Directorate of Contracting
DoD Department of Defense
DOE Department of Energy
DOIM Director of Information Management
DOL Director of Logistics
DPW Directorate of Public Works
DSM Decision Support Module
E
EC Electronic Commerce
EDI Electronic Data Interface
EPA Environmental Protection Agency
ESPC Energy Savings Performance Contract
F
FAR Federal Acquisition Regulation
FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation
FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency
FFP Firm Fixed Price
FORSCOM Forces Command
FSRO Fort Shafter Resident Office
G
GDAS Global Deployment Analysis System
GFE Government Furnished Equipment
GFM Government Furnished Materiel
GFP Government Furnished Property
GIS Geographic Information System
GOCO Government-Owned/Contractor-Operated
GPRA Government Performance Results Act
H
HELSTF High Energy Laser Systems Test Facility
HET Heavy Equipment Transporter
HIA High Impact Agency
I
ID/IQ Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity
IFN Items for Negotiation
IMMC Integrated Materiel Management Center
IMPAC International Merchant Purchase Authorization Card
INFOSEC Information Security
IOC Industrial Operations Command
IPPD Integrated Product and Process Development
IPT Integrated Product Team
IRAC Internal Review and Audit Compliance
IT Information Technology
ITIC Information Technology Innovation Center
J
JCAHO Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
JIT Just-in-Time
JWARS Joint War-fighting System
JWOD/NISH Jacob Wagner O'Day/National Institute for Severely Handicapped
L
LA Los Angeles
LADS Laundry Advanced System
LAR Logistics Assistance Representative
LCAAP Lake City Army Ammunition Plant
LCOE Logistics Center of Excellence
LEAD Letterkenny Army Depot
M
MANTLE Management Through leadership
MEDCOM Medical Command
MILSPECS Military Specifications
MLRS Multiple Launch Rocket System
MOA Memorandum of Agreement
MOBCEM Mobilization Capabilities Evaluation Model
MRO Materiel Release Order
MSC Major Subordinate Commands
MTBF Mean Time Between Failure
MTS Modernization Through Spares
N
NAF Non-appropriated Funds
NECO Navy's Electronic Commerce On-Line
NICP National Inventory Control Point
NJCST New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology
NJDEP New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
NJIT New Jersey Institute of Technology
NPR National Partnership for Reinventing Government
NRDEC Natick Research, Development and Engineering Center
O
O&M Operation and Maintenance
OCONUS Outside the Continental United States
OMB Office of Management and Budget
OPCW Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
OPM Office of Personnel and Management
OST Order to Ship Time
P
PALT Procurement Administrative Lead-Time
PAT Process Action Team
PC Personal Computer
PCA Project Cooperation Agreement
PCR Performance-based Contract Requirements
PEO Program Executive Officer
PLS Palletized Load System
PM Program Manager
PM TRADE: Program Manager Training Device
POM Program Objective Memorandum
PPBES Program, Planning, Budgeting and Execution System
PROCNET Procurement Network
R
R&D Research and Development
RBA Ranger Body Armor
RDEC Research, Development and Engineering Center
RFP Request for Proposal
RSOI~S Reception, Staging, Onward Movement, Integration plus Strategic Study
S
SAACONS Standard Army Automated Contracting System
SBCCOM Soldier and Biological Chemical Command
SBCCOM-SSC U.S. Army Soldier and Biological Command, Soldier System Center
SES Senior Executive Service
SMID Strategic Management and Innovations Division
SPS Standard Procurement System
STRATLOFF Strategic Lift Trade Off
STRICOM Simulation, Training and Instrumentation Command
SUSS Small Unit Solar Shade
T
TAA Theater Tactical Assembly Area
TAC Transatlantic Programs Center
TACOM Tank and Automotive Command,
TAPES Total Army Personnel Evaluation System
TAQ Total Army Quality
TARDEC Tank-Automotive Command, Research, Development And Engineering Center
TEC Test and Evaluation Command
TIM Technical Interchange Meeting
TMDE Test, Measurement and Diagnostic Equipment
TOPS Total Operating Paperless System
TRADOC Training and Doctrine Command
U
UDLP United Defense Limited Partnership
USACE U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
USAERDC U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center
USAMRAA U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity
USAREUR U.S. Army Europe
USGS U.S. Geological Survey
USMA United States Military Academy
UXO Unexploded Ordnance
V
VA Veterans Administration
VE Value Engineering
VECP Value Engineering Change Proposal
VEP Value Engineering Proposal
VTC Video Teleconference
W
WES Waterways Experiment Station
WIT Wireless Interworking Test-bed
WWW World Wide Web
Y
YPG Yuma Proving Ground

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