ACRONYMS
ABCCC
Airborne Battlefield Command and
Control Center
ACAT
Acquisition Category
ACC
Air Combat Command
ACC/CC
Air Combat Command Commander in
Chief
ACTD
Advanced Concept Technology
Demonstration; Advanced Concept
Technology Demonstrator
AC2ISRC
Aerospace Command and Control and
Intelligence, Surveillance, and
Reconnaissance Center
AC2ISRC/C2U
Aerospace Command and Control and
Intelligence, Surveillance, and
Reconnaissance Center/Command and
Control Directorate
AESA
Active electronically scanned array
AETC
Air Education and Training Command
AF/XORR
Air Force Director of Operational
Requirements
AFFTC
Air Force Flight Test Center
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AFOTEC
Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation
Center
AoA
Analysis of alternatives
ARIA
Advanced Range Instrumentation Aircraft
ASC
Aeronautical Systems Center
ASC/CC
Aeronautical Systems Center commander
in chief
ASC/RAV
Aeronautical Systems
Center/Reconnaissance Air Vehicle
AV
Air vehicle
C4ISP
Command, control, communications,
computers, and intelligence support plan
C4ISR
Command, control, communications,
computers, intelligence, surveillance, and
reconnaissance
CAS
Cost Accounting Standards
CDL
Contract Data List; common data link
CGS
Common ground segment
CICA
Competition in Contracting Act
CINC
Commander in chief
CLS
Contractor logistics support
CONOPS
Concept of operations; concepts of operations
COTS
Commercial off-the-shelf
CPAF
Cost plus award fee
CPFF
Cost plus fixed fee
CPIF
Cost plus incentive fee
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CRS
Common Reporting System
CSAF
Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force
CSE
Computing and Software Engineering
D&E
Demonstration and Evaluation
DAB
Defense Acquisition Board
DAE
Defense Acquisition Executive
DAES
Defense acquisition executive summary
DAMA
Demand assigned multiple access
DARO
Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office
DARPA
Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency
DFAR
Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation(s)
DoD
Department of Defense
DT/OT
Development test/operational test
EMD
Engineering and manufacturing development
EO/IR
Electro-optical/infrared
ESIS
Early Strategies and Issues Session
FAR
Federal Acquisition Regulation(s)
FFP
Firm fixed price
FPAF
Fixed-price award fee
FPIF
Fixed-price incentive fee
FY
Fiscal year
FYDP
Five-Year Defense Plan
GAO
[U.S.] General Accounting Office
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GATM
Global air traffic management
GHSPO
Global Hawk System Program Office
GMTI
Ground moving target indicator
GPS
Global Positioning System
HAE UAV
High-Altitude Endurance Unmanned
Aerial Vehicle
HQ AIA
Headquarters, Air Intelligence Agency
IMINT
Imaging intelligence
IMMC
Integrated mission management computer
INT
Intelligence
IOT&E
Initial operational test and evaluation
IPDM
Intelligence program decision memorandum
IPPD
Integrated Product and Process
Development
IPRG
Intelligence Program Review Group
IPT
Integrated Product Team
ISP
Intelligence support plan
ISR
Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance
ISS
Integrated sensor suite
JFCOM
Joint Forces Command
JPO
Joint program office
JROC
Joint Requirements Oversight Council
JSTARS
Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar
System
Acronyms
LCRS
Launch, control, and recovery station
LL
Long lead
LMSW
Lockheed Martin Skunk Works
LO
Low observable
LRE
Launch and recovery element
LRIP
Low-rate initial production
MAE
Medium-Altitude Endurance
MCE
Mission control element
MDAP
Major Defense Acquisition Program
MILCON
Military construction
MNS
Mission need statement
MoU
Memorandum of understanding
MUA
Military utility assessment
NRE
Nonrecurring engineering
OIPT
Oversight Integrated Product Team
ORD
Operational requirements document
OSD
Office of the Secretary of Defense
OT
Other Transactions
OTA
Other Transaction Authority
OT&E
Operational test and evaluation
PB
President’s budget
PMD
Program Management Directive
POM
Program objective memorandum
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PPBS
Planning, Programming, and Budgeting
System
R&D
Research & Development
RFP
Request for proposal
RMS
Reliability, maintainability, and supportability
RSTA
Reconnaissance, surveillance, and target
acquisition
RTIP
Radar Technology Improvement Program
SAF/AQ
Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition
SAF/AQIJ
Secretary of the Air Force/Directorate for
Information Dominance
SAMP
Single acquisition management plan
SAR
Synthetic aperture radar; selected acquisition report
SATCOM
Satellite communication
SCD
System capability document
SecAF
Secretary of the Air Force
SECDEF
Secretary of Defense
SEI
Software Engineering Institute
SEMP
System engineering master plan
SEPM
System engineering and program management
SETA
Systems Engineering and Technical
Assistance
SIGINT
Signal intelligence
SoS
System of systems
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SPO
System program office
STA
System threat assessment
STAR
System threat assessment report
TCAS
Traffic collision avoidance system
TEMP
Test and evaluation master plan
TES
Test and Evaluation Squadron
TINA
Truth in Negotiations Act
TSPR
Total system performance responsibility
UAV
Unmanned aerial vehicle
UFP
Unit Flyaway Price
USACOM
United States Atlantic Command
USD(A&T)
Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition
and Technology
USD(AT&L)
Under Secretary of Defense for
Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics
WPAFB
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base