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- A -
AACE: American Association of Cost Engineers (AKA AACE International)
ABMA: Army Ballistic Missile Agency
ADP: Automated Data Processing
ADS: Astrophysics Data System (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory)
AFAA: Air Force Audit Agency
AFCAA: Air Force Cost Analysis Agency
AFIT: Air Force Institute of Technology
AIAA: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
AMCM: Advanced Missions Cost Model
APA: Allowance for Program Adjustment
APL: Applied Physics Laboratory
ARC: Ames Research Center
ARPA: Advanced Research Projects Agency (aka DARPA), Army Redstone Project Arsenal
ASA (FM&C): Assistant Secretary of the Army for Financial Management and Comptroller
ASI: Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (Italian Space Agency)
ASPE: American Society of Professional Estimators
ATECM: Aircraft Turbine Engine Cost Model
ATP: Authorization to Proceed; - B -
BLS: Bureau of Labor Statistics
BMD: Business Management Directorate; - C -
CARD: Cost Analysis Requirements Document
CDG: Concept Development Group
C&DH: Command and Data Handling
CDR: Critical Design Review
CECM: Cost Estimating Cost Model
CEG: Cost Estimating Group
CER: Cost Estimating Relationship
CERT: Centre d'Études et de Recherches de Toulouse (France)
CETF: Critical Evaluation Task Force
CFO: Chief Financial Officer
CIA: Central Intelligence Agency
CSIRO: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (Australia)
COCOMO: Constructive Cost Model
CoF: Construction of Facilities
CPI: Consumer Price Index
CPSC: Consumer Product Safety Commission
CSM: Command/Service Module
CSA: Canadian Space Agency; - D -
DARPA: Defense Advanced Research Project Agency
DCAA: Defense Contract Audit Agency
DCAS: Defense Contract Audit Service
DDT&E: Design Development Test and Evaluation
D&D: Design and Development
DFRC: Dryden Flight Research Center
DHHS: Department of Health and Human Services
DLR: Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (German Aerospace Center)
DOC: Department of Commerce
DOD: Department of Defense
DOE: Department of Energy
DOJ: Department of Justice
DOL: Department of Labor
DOS: Department of State
DOT: Department of Transportation
DSN: Deep Space Network; - E -
ECLS: Environmental Control and Life Support
ECOM: ESA Cost Modeling Software
ECOS: ESA Costing Software
ED: Department of Education
EPA: Environmental Protection Agency
EPDC: Electrical Power Distribution and Control
ESA: European Space Agency (European Space Information System)
ESTEC: European Space Research and Technology Centre, Noordwijk, Netherlands; - F -
FAR: Federal Acquisition Regulations
FCC: Federal Communications Commission
FDIC: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
FEMA: Federal Emergency Management Agency
FMM: NASA Financial Management Manual
FSD: Full Scale Development
FSS: GSA Federal Supply Service
FTC: Federal Trade Commission
FY: Fiscal Year; - G -
GAO: General Accounting Office
GCA: Graduate Cost Analysis Program
GFE: Government Furnished Equipment
GISS: Goddard Institute for Space Studies
GN&C: Guidance Navigation and Control
GRC: Glenn Research Center (John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field, aka Lewis Research Center)
GSA: General Services Administration
GSE: Ground Support Equipment
GSFC: Goddard Space Flight Center; - H -
HQ: NASA Headquarters
HUD: Department of Housing and Urban Development; - I -
IACO: Integration, Assembly and Checkout
ICASE: Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering
ICBM: Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
ICEC: International Cost Engineering Council
INCOSE: International Council On Systems Engineering
INPE: Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (National Institute for Space Research - Brazil)
IMS: Institutional Management System
IOC: Initial Operating Capability
IRF: Institutet för rymdfysik (Institute of Space Physics - Sweden)
ISAS: The Institute of Space and Aeronautical Science (Japan)
ISPA: International Society of Parametric Analysts
ISSA: International Space Station Alpha; - J -
JPL: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
JSC: Johnson Space Center; - K -
KSC: Kennedy Space Center; - L -
LaRC: Langley Research Center
LDO: Lunar Discovery Orbiter
LEM: Lunar Excursion Module
LeRC: Lewis Research Center (John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field)
LFBB: Liquid Fly Back Booster
LM: Lunar Module
LTRS: Langley Technical Report Server
LWS: Light Weight Seats; - M -
MCC: Mission Control Center
MICM: Multi-Variable Instrument Cost Model
MISR: Mars ISRU Sample Return
MOCM: Mission Operations Cost Model
MOD: Mission Operations Directorate
MSC: Manned Spacecraft Center (see JSC)
MSFC: Marshall Space Flight Center
MSI&T: Mission System Integration and Test; - N -
NACA: National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
NAR: Non-Advocate Review
NARA: National Archives and Records Administration
NAS: Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation Division (Ames Research Center)
NAFCOM: NASA/Air Force Cost Model (aka NASCOM)
NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASCOM: NASA Cost Model (see NAFCOM)
NASDA: National Space Development Agency (Japan)
NEH: National Endowment For The Humanities
NHB: NASA Handbook
NLR: Nationaal Lucht- en Ruimtevaartlaboratorium (National Aerospace Laboratory - Netherlands)
NMI: NASA Management Instruction
NOA: New Obligation Authority
NOAA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NRC: Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NSF: National Science Foundation
NSA: National Security Agency
NTRS: NASA Technical Report Service
NWODB: New Ways of Doing Business; - O -
OCD: Operations Capability Development
OMB: Office of Management and Budget
OSHA: Occupational Safety and Health Administration; - P -
PC: Personal Computer
PCC: Program Cost Commitment
PCEH: Parametric Cost Estimating Handbook
PDR: Preliminary Design Review
PMS: Program Management System, Performance Measurement System
POP: Program Operating Plan
PPSSCC: Foundation for the President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control (AKA Grace Commission)
PRC: Planning Research Corporation
PY: Program Year; - Q -; - R -
RCS: Reaction Control System
RDT&E: Research, Development, Testing and Evaluation
REDSTAR: Resource Data Storage and Retrieval system
REVIC: Revised Intermediate COCOMO
RLV: Reusable Launch Vehicle
ROM: Rough Order of Magnitude
ROS: Research Operations Support
RPM: Research and Program Management; - S -
SAIC: Science Applications International Corporation
SASET: Software Architecture Sizing and Estimating Tool
SBA: Small Business Administration
SBIR: Small Business Innovative Research
SCAN: Selected Current Aerospace Notices
SCEA: Society of Cost Estimating and Analysis
SEC: Securities and Exchange Commission
SE&I: Systems Engineering and Integration
SI: Smithsonian Institution
SICM: Scientific Instrument Cost Model
SOTA: State of the Art
SR&QA: Safety, Reliability, and Quality Assurance
SSA: Social Security Administration
SSC: Stennis Space Center
SSCAG: Space Systems Cost Analysis Group
STH: System Test Hardware
STO: System Test Operations
SVLCM: Spacecraft/Vehicle Level Cost Model; - T -
TDRSS: Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System
TPS: Thermal Protection System
TQ: Transition Quarter
TSTO: Two Stage To Orbit; - U -
UN: United Nations
UNOOSA: United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (United Nations)
UPN: Uniform Product Number
USAF: US Air Force
USAF SMC: US Air Force Space and Missile Systems Command
USAID: US Agency For International Development
USCM: Unmanned Spacecraft Cost Model
USDA: US Department of Agriculture
USIA: US Information Agency
USITA: US International Trade Administration
USPS: US Postal Service
USTREAS: US Department of the Treasury; - V -
VA: US Department of Veterans Affairs
VAFB: Vandenberg Air Force Base
VOA: Voice of America; - W -
WBS: Work Breakdown Structure
WFF: Wallops Flight Facility Comment: usually fails link check
WP: Work Package
WPA: Works Projects Administration
WPAFB: Wright-Patterson Air Force Base; - X -; - Y -; - Z -

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