Interpretation system
ARU acid recovery unit
ARZ auto-restricted zone
Arzamas-16 (site of All-Russian Institute of
Experimental Physics)
AS - AT
AS abstract syntax
AS annual summary
AS aqueous solution
AS area source
AS assistant secretary (DOE)
AS autonomous system
AS aviation safety
A&S accident and sickness
ASA attribute SAS authority (SAS screen)
ASA accelerated safety assessment
ASALM advanced strategic air-launched missile
ASAP Ariane structure for auxiliary payloads
ASAP as soon as possible
ASAT antisatellite (weapon)
ASB advanced strategic bomb
ASC administrative safety control
ASCC alternate security control center
ASCE American Society of Civil Engineers
ASCI Advanced/Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASCOT atmospheric simulations over complex terrain
ASCOT atmospheric studies over complex terrain
ASD Accelerating Structure Development
ASE Amplified Spontaneous Emission
ASEP Accident Sequence Evaluation Program
ASER Annual Site Environmental Report
ASESA Armed Services Electro Standards Agency
ASG auxiliary steam generator
ASHAA Asbestos in Schools Hazard Abatement Act
ASHRAE American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and
Air-Conditioning Engineers
ASI Advanced Simulation Initiative
ASIC application-specific integrated circuit
ASIS American Society for Industrial Security
ASIWPCA Association of State & Interstate Water Pollution Control
Administrators
ASL above sea level
ASL Advanced Simulation Laboratory
ASL American Sign Language
ASLB Atomic Safety Licensing Board
ASLV augmented satellite launch vehicle (India)
ASM American Society for Metals
A&SM attrition and special materials
ASME American Society of Mechanical Engineers
ASN.1 abstract syntax language one (ISO/OSI)
ASNT American Society for Nondestructive Testing
ASNT-TC-LA (ASNTPersonnel Qualifications Standards)
ASP administrative site procedures
ASP Advanced Study Program
ASP alarms and shutdown process
ASP Astronomical Society of the Pacific
ASPA American Society of Public Administration
ASPEA Association Suisse pour l'Énergie Atomique
ASPR Armed Services Procurement Regulation
ASQC American Society for Quality Control
ASR automatic send and receive
ASRF Advanced Size Reduction Facility
ASROC antisubmarine rocket
ASSIGN (parallel program generator; CMU)
AST aboveground storage tank
AST AVCO Systems Textron
ASTAB asynchronous status board
ASTHO Association of State & Territorial Health Officials
ASTIA Armed Services Technical Information Agency
ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials International
ASTSWMO Association of State & Territorial Solid Waste Management Officials
ASW antisubmarine warfare
AT abnormal transient
AT Accelerator Operations and Technology Division; see AOT
AT Accelerator Technology Division, 1/78??/93
AT acceptance test
AT advanced technology (IBM, 1984)
AT Antarctic Treaty
AT applied technology
AT attenuator
ATAC Advanced Technology Assessment Center
ATACMS Army Tactical Missile System
ATAPI AT attachment packet interface
ATB advanced technology bomber (stealth)
ATBM anti-tactical ballistic missile
ATD advanced technology demonstration
ATE automated test equipment
ATEGG advanced turbine-engine gas generator
ATEM analytical transmission
ATEN Association Technique de l'Énergie Nucléaire (France)
ATHENA Advanced Thermal-Hydraulic Energy Network Analyzer
ATI Albuquerque Technology Incubator
ATL automatic tape library
ATLAS Advanced Testing Line for Actinide Separations
ATM Adobe Type Manager
ATM asynchronous transfer mode
ATM automated/automatic teller machine
ATMS automated transportation management system (materials)
ATMX atomic materials rail transport car
ATN accelerator technical note
ATN aeronautical telecommunications network
ATNA annual training needs assessment
ATOG abnormal test procedure operator guidelines
ATOG abnormal transient operator guidelines
ATOMAL (NATO term applied to RD/FRD)
ATP Advanced Technology Program (DOC)
ATP acceptance test procedure
ATP annual training plan
ATP acquisition, tracking, and pointing
ATP acquisition, tracking, and positioning
ATP adenosine triphosphate
A&TP assembly and test pit
ATR advanced test reactor
ATR Alliance for Transportation Research (LANL, SNL, UNM, NMSU, NMTD)
ATR automatic target recognition
ATRAP air-transportable RADIAC package
ATRAP Alliance for Transportation Research
ATRMD Air, Toxics & Radiation Monitoring Research Division (EPA ORD)
ATS Accelerator Test Stand
ATS action tracking system/strategy
ATS aerothermal structure
ATS alternative test system
ATS applicant tracking system
ATS audit tracking system
ATS automatic transfer stand
ATS automatic transfer switch
ATSD (AE) Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (Atomic Energy)
ATSDR Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (CDC)
ATSR Argonne Thermal Source Reactor
ATSU Accelerator Test Stand Upgrade
ATTF air toxics task force
ATU amplifier test/technology unit
ATV all-terrain vehicle
ATV Ariane transfer vehicle
ATW accelerator transmutation of waste
ATWS anticipated transient without scram
AU - AZ
AU astronomical unit
AU authors system
AUI archiver user interface
AUI attachment unit interface
AUP acceptable use policy
AUS authority services (SAS screen)
AUTEC Atlantic Undersea Test & Evaluation Center (U.S. Navy)
AUTEC WPD AUTEC West Palm Beach
AUTODIN automatic digital network
AUTO-SEVOCOM automatic secure voice communications network
AUTOVON automatic voice network
AUW advanced underseas weapon
AV audio-visual (also A/V)
AVI audio-video interleaved (Windows format)
AVLIS atomic vapor laser isotope separation
AVM airborne vapor monitor
AVMS annulus vacuum maintenance system
AVO avoid verbal orders
AVS application visualization system (IBM)
AVT all volatile treatment
AW absent without leave (attendance code)
AW acid waste
AW active well
AW Anchor (Ranch) Site West (TA-8)
AWACS Airborne Warning and Control System
AWC Association of Women in Computing
AWCC active well coincidence counter
AWE Atomic Weapons Establishment (U.K.)
AWEA American Wind Energy Association
AWES American Wind Energy Systems
AWF Aging Waste Facility
AWG American wire gauge
AWISE Association of Women in Science and Engineering
awk (UNIX utility)
AWQC Ambient Water Quality Criteria
AWRDF Advanced Weapons Radiochemical Diagnostics Facility
AWRE Atomic Weapon Research Establishment (U.K.)
AWS administrative workstation
AWS American Welding Standards
AWSC aqueous water-soluble chelator
AWSIMS air war simulations
AWTG Atomic Weapons Training Group (FCDNA)
AWWA American Water Works Association
AWU Associated Western Universities, Inc.
AXAF advanced x-ray astrophysics facility
AX acceptance requirements index
AX auxiliary systems
AXAF advanced x-ray astrophysics facility
AY (Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, drawing no. prefix)
AYS at your service
B Return to Alphabet
B bandwidth
B biocide
B Operation Crossroads Division, 1946
B- bomb (weapon designator)
B-1 (visitor on business visa)
B-1 (NCSC software security level)
BA basic assembly
BA budget authority/authorization
B.A. baccalaureus artium; bachelor of arts
BAA broad agency announcement
BAA Buy American Act
BAC biotechnology advisory committee
BAC blood alcohol concentration
BAC Boeing Aerospace company
BAC boric acid concentrator
BAC budget at completion
BACER Biological and Climatological Effects Research
BACT best available control technology
BADT best available demonstrated technology
BAF bioaccumulation factor
BAFO best and final offer
BAM Berkeley Abstract Machine
BAM Brooklyn Arts Museum
BAM Bundesanstalf für Materielprüfung (Germany)
BANSHEE Beam Accelerator for Novel Super High Energy Electron
BAP benefits analysis program
BAP branch arm piping
BaP benzo(a)pyrene
BARC Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (India)
BART Bay Area Rapid Transit (California)
BART best available retrofit technology
BASIC beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code (computer language)
BASIS Battelle Automated Search Information System
BAT best available technology
BAT borehole acoustic televiewer
BAT boric acid tank/transfer
BATEA best available technology economically achievable
BATSE burst and transient source experiment
BATSF Beryllium Atomization and Thermal Spray Facility
BB big business (LANL vendor liaison office)
BBC balanced biological communities
BBC British Broadcasting Corporation
BBF bursty bulk flow
BBGKY Bogoliubov-Born-Green-Kirkwood-Yvon
BBN Bolt Beranek & Newman, Inc.
BBP best business practice
BBRD broadband radiation detector
BBRD broadband receiver digitizer
BBRR Brookhaven Beam Research Reactor
BBS bulletin board system
BBU beam breakup
BBXRT broadband x-ray telescope
BC - BE
BCC blind (carbon) copy
BCC block check character
bcc body-centered cubic
BCCB Baseline Change Control Board
BCD barcode decal
BCD binary coded decimal
BCDTL bridge-coupled drift tube linac
BCF bioconcentration factor
BCL Battelle Columbus Laboratory
BCM boiler-condenser mode (heat transfer)
BCME bis(chloromethyl) ether
BCP broadband communications product
BCS Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer
BCS basic combined subset
bct body-centered tetragonal
BCT best available pollution control technology
BCU base-line control unit
BCWP budgeted cost for work performed
BCWS budgeted cost for work scheduled
BD base-line design
BD blood donation (attendance code)
BD blowdown
Bd. Band; volume (German)
BDASS basic data analysis subsystem
BDAT best demonstrated available technology
BDBA beyond-design-basis accident
BDBE beyond-design-basis event
BDC before declassification
BDC Bomb Data Center (FBI)
BDD base-line document description
BDI blast door interlock
BDL below detection limits
BDM BDM Corp. (Braddock, Dunn, McDonald)
BDT bomb disposal technician
BE best estimate (code)
BE binding energy
BE brilliant eyes
BEA building evacuation area
BEAMS Becoming Enthusiastic About Math and Science
BEAR beam experiment aboard a rocket
BECAMP basic environmental compliance and monitoring program
BEF bottom end fitting
BEI biological exposure index
BEIR biological effects of ionizing radiation
BEJ best engineering judgment
BEJ best expert judgment
BEP Black Employment Program
BEP building emergency plan
BER basic encoding rules (ASN.1)
BER beryllium electrorefining
BER Biological and Environmental Research
BER bit error rate
BER budget execution review
BERP Biological & Environmental Research Program
BES Basic Energy Sciences
BET beryllium worker training
BET BrunauerEmmettTeller (theory/equation)
BETA Beta Site (TA-5)
BF - BN
B&F building and facilities
BFA blank fire adapter
BFD basis for design
BFE Blacker front end
BFI bottom fitting insert
BFI brain functional imaging
BFO blazing flash of the obvious
BFP backflow preventer
BFP boiler feed pump
BFS beam foil spectroscopy
BFS bitfile server for HPSS (API)
BFS budget forecasting section
BFW boiler feed water
BG budget guidance
BG burial grounds
BGCP burner gas cock position
BGI Beta-Gamma Incinerator (SRS/SRL)
BGO (bismuth germanium particle detector, LAMPF)
BGP border gateway protocol
BGRR Brookhaven Graphite Research Reactor
BGS blanket gas system
BHC benzene hexachloride
BHC borehole compensated
BHN Brinnell hardness number
BHT bottom hole temperature
BHW boiler, hot water
BI book inventory
BI Brookings Institution
BIA Bureau of Indian Affairs
BID buoyancy induced dispersion
BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain
BIOS basic input/output system
BIPP B-Plant Immobilization Pilot Plant
BIPS billion instructions per second
BIPY 2,2',bypyridine
BIRD Binational Industrial Research & Development Foundation (U.S.-Israel)
bit binary digit
BIT boron injection tank
BITNET Because It's Time/There Network
BKC Bendix (Corp.), Kansas City (Division)
BL beta lambda
BL broken loop
BLACS basic linear algebra communication routines
BLAS basic linear algebra subprograms
BLC boundary layer control
BLEVE boiling-liquid expanding-vapor explosion
BLIMP boundary layer integral matrix procedure
BLM beam loss monitor
BLM Bureau of Land Management
BLO Barbie Liberation Organization
BLOB biologically liberated organo-beasties
BLS Bureau of Labor Statistic
BLWT boiling light-water tank
BL0 butt line zero
BM battle management (DoD)
BM building manager
BM burst mode (FEL)
BM/C3 battle management/command, control, and communication
BMD ballistic missile defense
BMD battle management defense
BMDO Ballistic Missile Defense Organization
BMEP brake mean effective pressure
BMEWS ballistic missile early warning system
BMFT Bundesministerium für Technologie (Federal Minister for
Research and Technology, Germany)
BMI Battelle Memorial Institute
BMO Ballistic Missile Office
BMP best management practice
BMP bit-mapped (file extension)
BMPF best management practice finding
BMR base-line monitoring report (CWA)
BMRR Brookhaven Medical Research Reactor
BMT bulk moderator temperature
BMW bombardment wing (FEMA)
BN Bechtel Nevada
BNA Bureau of National Affairs
BNCT boron neutron-capture therapy
BNFL British Nuclear Fuels Limited
BNFL BNFL Engineering Ltd
BNI Bechtel National, Inc.
BNL Brookhaven National Laboratory
BNM Bandelier National Monument
BNPI Benedict Nuclear Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
BNWL Battelle (Pacific) Northwest Laboratory
BO - BR
BO back order
BO budget outlay
BOA basic ordering agreement
BOA blanket order agreement
BOA broad ocean area
BOC beginning of cycle (reactor operations)
BOC Bell Operating Co. (telecom.)
BOCREC bottom-of-core recovery
BOD biochemical/biological oxygen demand
BOE Bureau of Explosives
BOF basic oxygen furnace
BOL beginning of life
BOM bill of material
BOM Bureau of Mines
BOP balance of plant
BOP basic oxygen process
BOP bit-oriented protocol
BOR burnout risk
BOSARI body of severe-accident review information
BOSI body of safety information (database)
BOSS Badge Office Security System
BOY beginning of year (balance for goods and services on order)
BP back propagation
BP before present
BP borrowed personnel
B&P bid and proposal
BPA blanket purchase agreement
BPA borrowed personnel agreement
BPA Bonneville Power Administration
BPE barometric pressure evaluation
BPH benign prostatic hyperplasia
BPI base performance/percentage increase
BPJ best professional judgment (CWA)
BPM beam position monitor
BPN breakdown pulse noise
BPO Bartlesville Project Office
BPR burnable poison rod
BPR business process reengineering
BPS basic partitioning scheme
bps bits per second
BPSA beam power spectrum analyzer
BPT best practical technology/treatment
B&PV boiler and pressure vessel
B&PW boiler and pressure vessel code (ASME)
BR breeder reactor
BR BR Site (TA-47)
BR business roundtable
B&R budget and reporting (code)
BRACC Base Realignment & Closure Commission
BRASS Basic Rapid Alarm Security System
BRC below regulatory concern
BRC budget and reporting classification
BRC business reply card
BRCC Blue Ribbon Citizens' Committee
BRD Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Federal Republic of [West] Germany)
BRITE Basic Research in Industrial Technologies Europe
BRL Ballistic Research Laboratory
BR-3 (experimental power reactor in Belgium)
BRS Bibliographic Retrieval Service
BS - BZ
BS beam splitter
BS boiler, steam
BS broadcast satellite
BSA balance sheet account
BSA Business Software Association
BSAC Biotechnology Science Advisory Committee
B.S. baccalaureus scientiae; bachelor of science (also B.Sc.)
BSC bomb shape components
BSCCO bismuth-strontium-calcium-copper oxide
BSD Berkeley Software Distribution (UNIX)
BSD Berkeley Software Design, Inc. (UNIX)
BSE basic semiconductor equation
BSE boresight error
BSG base spares group
BSI British Standards Institute
BSMT basement
BSO benzene-soluble organics
BSO bismuth silicon oxide
BSR base spares report
BSRL base spare repair list
BST bleed storage tank
BST blowdown suppression tank
BST boron storage tank
BSTS Boost Surveillance and Tracking System
BSTS Brumman Satellite
BTAG Biological Technical Assistance Group
BTEX benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylene
BTI balanced technology initiative
BTI Biomagnetic Technologies, Inc.
BTL Bell Telephone Laboratories
BTS beam transport system
BTS boosting and transfer systems
BTU basic transmission unit
Btu British thermal unit
BTX benzene, toluene, xylene
BTW buried transuranic waste
BU bargaining unit
BU Butler Services
BUCS Budgeting and Computing System
BUD Budget Division, 08/80??/91?
BUN blood urea nitrogen
BURPA basic research proposal announcement
BUS Business Operations Division, 10/93
BV building ventilation
BW bridgewire
B&W Babcock and Wilcox
BWC Biological Weapons Convention
BWHC Babcock & Wilcox Hanford Company
BWIP Basalt Waste Isolation Project
BWO backward wave oscillator
BWP buried waste program
BWPI Babcock & Wilcox Protec, Inc.
BWR boiling-water reactor
BWS boiler, water supply
BWST borated water storage tank
BX base exchange
BXA Bureau of Export Administration (DOC)
BXT benzene, xylene, and toluene
BY budget year
BZ benzene
BZ buckled zones
C Return to Alphabet
C conference (LA-series report designator)
C confidential
C connecting cable
C consolidation plan
C convective
C Computing and Communications Division (03/8410/93)
C Computing Division 01/8003/84
C Computing Sciences/Services 04/6801/80
C (high-level programming language; descendant of B)
C-2 (NCSC software security level)
C3 Command, Control & Communications
C4 command, control, communication & computers
CA cellular automata
CA charge amplifier
CA chemical addition
CA Citizen Act
CA compressor, air
CA Computer Associates International, Inc.
CA Office of Congressional Affairs
CA contract administrator
CA cooperative agreement
CA corrective activities/action
CA critical assembly
CA on-call pay (attendance code)
CAA Clean Air Act
CAA compliance assurance agreement
CAA Concepts Analysis Agency (U.S. Army)
CAA contaminant analysis automation
CAAA Clean Air Act Amendments
CAALS Consortium on Automated Standards
CAAS chloride aqueous actinide separation
CAAZ construction authorization application
CAC California Administrative Code
CACM Communications of the ACM
CAD computer-aided design
CAD containment atmosphere dilution
CAD corrective action design
CADD computer-aided design and drafting
CADP Coordinator for Automatic Data Processing, 07/6604/68
CAE computer-aided engineering
CAE cooler, air evaporative
CAEP China Academy of Engineering Physics
CAER community awareness and emergency response
CAERD Clean Air and Environmental Reporting Division (EG&G RFP)
CAF combustion air flow
CAFE corporate average fuel economy
CAFEE critical assembly fuel element exchange
CAFM computer-aided facilities management
CAFO consent agreement/final order
CAG carcinogen assessment group (EPA ORD)
CAGEC commercial and government entity code
CAI carcinogen activity indicator
CAI computer-aided instruction
CAI Controlled Air Incinerator
CAIN controlled access by individual number
CAIR comprehensive assessment information rule
CAIRS computerized accident/incident reporting system
CAL computer-aided learning
CALCOR Campus-Laboratory Collaborative Research Program Nuclear Science Fund
CALE (2-D arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian code)
CALIOPE chemical analysis by laser interrogation of proliferant effluents
CALLS California Academia Libraries List of Serials
Cal/OSHA California Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
CALS computer-aided acquisition and logistics support
CALS continuous acquisition and life-cycle support program
Caltech California Institute of Technology
CALUTRON California University Cyclotron
CAM computer-aided machining /manufacturing
CAM constant/continuous air monitor
CAM content-addressed memory
CAM contract area manager
CAMAC computer-automated measurement and control
CAMP Capital Assets Management Program
CAMP Cleveland Area Manufacturing Program
CAMP Code Assessment & Maintenance Program
CAMS Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (LLNL)
CAMS Containment Activity Monitoring System
CAMSE Council to Advance Math and Science Education
CAMU corrective action management unit
CAN Community Alert Network (emergency)
CANDU Canadian deuterium-uranium (natural-uranium,
heavy-water-moderated and -cooled power reactor)
CAP capital accumulation provision (UCRP)
CAP Civil Air Patrol
CAP combat air patrol
CAP computer application profile
CAP continuous audit program
CAP corrective action plan
CAP cost allocation procedure
CAP criteria air pollutant
CAPA critical aquifer protection area
CAPCE corrective action plan cost estimates
CAPE Civilian Application Programs Engineering (NTIS number)
CAPE computer-aided pattern engineering
CAPS Cassini plasma spectrometer
CAR concept assessment report
CAR configuration acceptance review
CAR contract administrator representative
CAR control advisory release
CAR corrective action reporting
CARB California Air Resources Board
CARC containment air recirculation and cooling
CARD Citizens Against Radioactive Dumping
CARE cataloging and rapid entry process
CARLA computer-assisted retrieval at Los Alamos
CARS coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy/scattering
CARS containment atmosphere recirculation system
CART cloud and radiation testbed
CAS casual (employee status)
CAS Center for Automotive Safety
CAS central alarm station/system
CAS Chemical Abstract Service
CAS collision avoidance system
CAS combined anode stirrer
CAS condition assessment survey (DOE)
CAS Consultant and Affiliate Services (now AIS)
CAS containment assessment plan
CAS control alarm station
CAS cost accounting standards
CAS criticality alarm system
C.A.S. Chemical Abstract Service Registry
CASA Center Against Sexual Assault
CASA (computer testbed wide-area network)
CASAC Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CAA)
CASB Cost Accounting Standards Board
CASC Coalition for Academic Supercomputer Centers
CASE computer-aided software engineering
CASS Computer-Assisted Surveillance System
CASSI Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index
CAST Centro de Asistancia y Servicios Technologicos (Juarez, Mexico)
CAST Chinese Academy of Space Technology
CAST Committee of Advisors on Science & Technology (President's)
CAT category
CAT change agent team
CAT chemical addition tank
CAT compact audio technology
CAT compliance assessment team
CAT computer-aided training
CAT computerized axial tomography
CAT concatenate
CAT conditionally accepted tag
CAT crack arrest temperature
CAT cryogenic accelerator technology
CATG capital assets task group
CATS computer-assisted tracking system
CATS corrective action tracking system
CATV community antenna television (cable)
CAU carbon absorption unit
CAU command arithmetic unit
CAV constant angular velocity
CAW cooler, air, chilled water
CAYG clean as you go
CB - CC
CB cataclysmic binary
CB chlorobromo-methane
CB circulation blower
CB citizens' band (radio)
CB conduction band
CB containment breach
CB continuous bubbler
CB control/containment building
CB cost/benefit analysis
C&B compensation and benefits
CBA collective bargaining agreement
CBA cost-benefit analysis
CBB control budget base
CBC circulating bed combuster
CBD Commerce Business Daily
C/BD chemical/biological (weapons) defense
CBED convergent beam electron attraction
CBERS China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite
CBI compliance biomonitoring inspection (CWA)
CBI confidential business information
CBI crossbar interface
CBM capacitive beam monitor
CBM confidence-building measures
CBNM Central Bureau of Nuclear Measurements
CBO Congressional Budget Office
CBOD carbonaceous biochemical oxygen demand
CBR California bearing ratio
CBR commercial breeder reactor
CBR constant bit rate
CBRS Coastal Barrier Resources System
CBS central budgeting system
CBS crossbar switch
CBT computer-based training
CBW chemical and biological weapons/warfare
CC (carbon) copy
CC charge control
CC common cause
CC component check
CC component cooling
CC construction component
CC copies
CC core component
CC cost center
CC coupled channel
CC cryogenic calorimeter
C&C Consultation and Cooperation Agreement
CCA contamination control area
CCAA Canadian Clean Air Act
CCAFS Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
C-CAP coast watch change analysis program
CC&AT cross-cutting and advanced technologies
CCB Configuration Control Board
CCB control budget base
C3 command, control, and communication
C3I command, control, communication, and intelligence
CCCP (Russian initialism for former U.S.S.R.)
CCD charge-coupled device
CCD Conference of the Committee on Disarmament
CCDF complementary cumulative distribution function
CCEA conventional combustion environmental assessment
CCF Central Computing Facility
CCF common-cause failure
CCF communications control field
CCFL countercurrent flow limitation
CCHW Citizens Clearinghouse for Hazardous Wastes
CCIC California Casualty Insurance Company
CCID Confidential Chemicals Identification System
CCIO contract counterintelligence officer
CCIRN coordinating committee for intercontinental research networks
CCISCMO Community Counterintelligence and Security Countermeasures Office
CCITT Comité Consultatif International
Téléphonique et Télégraphique
CCL coupled-cavity linac
CCL Commerce Control List
CCL commodity control list
CCLA Concerned Citizens of Los Alamos
CCLC carrier common line charge
CCLFISH (CCL design code)
CCMS Committee on the Challenges of a Modern Society (NATO)
CCNB Concerned Citizen for the Nuclear Breeder
CCNS Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety
CCP composite correction plan (CWA)
CCP cost change proposal
CCR California Code of Regulations
CCR Center for Communications Research
CCR central control room
CCR commitment, concurrence, and redundancy
CCRC construction candidates review committee
CCRHS central control room habitability system
CCR Center for Communications Research (IDA)
CCS castable ceramic system
CCS common channel signaling (telecom.)
CCS component cooling system
CCS condensate cleanup system
CCS containment cooling system
CCS contamination control station
CCS cost closing statement
CCS cryogenic cooling system
CCT clean coal technology
CCTB cryogenic component testbed
CCTF Cylindrical Core Test Facility (Japan)
CCTP Clean Coal Technology Program
CCTV closed-circuit television
CCU communications control unit
CCW component cooling water
CCW constituent concentrations in wastes
CCW counterclockwise
CCWE constituent concentrations waste extract
CD - CE
CD change directory (command)
CD civil defense
CD civil emergency preparedness training (attendance code)
CD climatological data
CD Committee/Conference on Disarmament
CD collector, dust
CD collision detection
CD compact disk
CD conceptual design
CD consent decree
CD containment depressurization
CD control drawing
CD cooldown
CD cost distribution
C&D charge and discharge (fuel/target)
CDA Copper Development Association
CDAC Construction Development Advisory Committee
CDAS Control and Data Acquisition System
CDB consolidated database
CDBF chlorinated dibenzofurans
CDC Centers for Disease Control (Public Health Service)
CDC classified document control
CDC communicable disease center
CDC Control Data Corporation
CDC cryogenic distillation column(s)
CDD chlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxin
CDDI copper distributed data interface
CDDO Construction Department (JCI)
CDDR cost and delivery data report
CDDS controlled documents distribution system
CDE Chemical Defence Establishment (U.K.)
CDE Common Desktop Environment
CDEV control panel device
CDF core damage frequency
CDH Colorado Department of Health
CDI chronic daily intake
CD-I compact disk-interactive
CDL commercial driver's license
CDM climatological dispersion model
CDM code division multiplexing (telecom.)
CDMA code division multiple access (Qualcomm mobile phone standard)
CDMQC climatological dispersion model with calibration and source
contribution
CDO Construction Development/Design Office
CDPD cellular digital packet data (commun.)
CDR concept definition report
CDR conceptual design report
CDR critical design review
CD-R compact disk-recordable
CD-ROM compact disk read-only memory (also CD/ROM)
CD-ROM XA CD-ROM extended architecture (IBM) (also CD-ROM/XA)
CDS charged droplet scrubber
CDS command disable schedule
CDS compliance data system (CAA)
CDS component disassembly station
CDS conceptual design study
CDS condensate demineralization subsystem
CDT Center for Defense Trade
CDT Conventional Defense Technology
CDU capacitive/capacitor discharge unit
CDU Christian Democratic Union
CDV capacitance discharge vaporization
CDV Central Drawings Vault
CDW charge-density wave
CDW collision damage waiver
CE capital equipment
CE categorical exclusion
CE chemical energy
CE chief engineer
CE civil emergency (attendance code)
CE Combustion Engineering (also C-E)
CE compromising emanations
CE Corps of Engineers (U.S. Army)
CE cost effectiveness
CE cubicle exhaust
CEA Comissariat á l'Énergie Atomique (France)
CEA cost-effectiveness analysis
CEAM Center for Exposure Assessment Modeling
CEARP Comprehensive Environmental Assessment & Response Program
CEARP Continuing Education & Recognition Program
CEAT community emergency action team
CEAT contractor evidence audit team
CEARC Canadian Environmental Assessment Research Council
CEB chemical element balance
CEBAF see TJNAF
CEBS Capital Equipment Budget System
CEC California Energy Commission
CEC cation exchange capacity
CEC cooperative enforcement agreement
CEC control element assembly
CED CERCLA Enforcement Division (EPA)
CED control element drive
CED Criminal Enforcement Division (EPA)
CEDR Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource
CEDE committed effective dose equivalent
CEE Center for Environmental Education, Inc.
CEGA Combustion Engineering/General Atomics
CEHIC Center for Environmental Health & Injury Control, Centers for
Disease Control
CEI compliance evaluation inspection (CAA)
CEL carbon equilibrium loop
CEL channel effluent limit
CELRF Canadian Environmental Law Research Foundation
CELS coded explosive logic system
CEM Center for Electromagnetics
CEM channel electron multiplier
CEM computational electromagnetics
CEM continuous emission monitoring (CAA)
CEM cost estimating manager
CEMF counter electromotive force
CEM-UT Center for Electromagnetics at the University of Texas
CEN Centre d'Études Nucléaires (France)
CEN cervical intraepithelial neoplasia
CENC Community Environmental Health Concerns
CENRTC capital equipment not related to construction
CENTAR Code for Extended Nonlinear Transient Analysis of
Extraterrestrial Reactors
CEO chief executive officer
CEOI communications electronic operating instruction
CEP capital equipment project
CEP circular error probability
CEP containment evaluation panel
CEP continuing education program
CEP Controls for Environmental Pollution, Inc.
CEP Council on Economic Priorities
CEPEX Central Equatorial Pacific Experiment
CEPOD catalyzed electrochemical plutonium oxide dissolution/dissolver
CEPOD catalytic enhanced plastic decontamination
CEPP Chemical Emergency Preparedness Program
CEPT Conference of European Postal and Telecommunications Administrations
CEQ Council on Environmental Quality
CER complete engineering release
CERC Convex Engineering Research Complex
CERCLA Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
CERCLIS Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and
Liability Information System (EPA)
CERES clouds and Earth's radiant energy system
CERI Center for Environmental Research Information
CERMET ceramic and metal
CERN Formerly the European Center for Nuclear Research, now known
as the European Laboratory for Particle Physics
CERN Centre Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire
CERP comprehensive environmental restoration program
CERT computer emergency response team
CESC centrifugal electroslag casting
CET critical experiment tank
CETEC Center for Extraterrestrial Engineering & Construction
CETS connector environmental test stand
CEU continuing education unit(s)
CEUSP Consolidated Edison Uranium Solidification Program
CF - CH
CF cable, fuzing or firing
CF calibration factor
CF charcoal filter
CF compliance finding
CF confinement factor
CF Conservation Foundation
CF containment failure
CF continuous flow
CFA cognizant federal agency
CFA continuous flow analysis
CFA control facilities area
CFA crossed field amplifier
CFC chlorofluorocarbon
CFC Combined Federal Campaign (charities)
CFC constant-flow cooling
CFD computational fluid dynamics
CFD constant fraction discriminator
CFE chlorotrifluoroethylene
CFE Conventional Forces in Europe (agreement)
CFL consequence of failure level
CFM chlorofluormethane(s)
CFM cubic feet per minute
CFM containment failure mode
CFPAS Ceramic Filled Polymer Armor System
CFR Code of Federal Regulations
CFR commercial fast reactor
CFR condensate filter demineralizer
CFR cooperative fuel research
CFRD confidential formerly restricted data
CFRL continuous flow recirculating loop
CFRV crash-fire-rescue vehicle
CFTF central filter test facility
CFS central file system
CFS Common File System
CFT californium target(s)
CFT consequence of failure type(s)
CFT core flood tank
CFT Cray FORTRAN Compiler
CFTLIB Cray FORTRAN (I/O) Library
CFV call for votes
CG center of gravity
CG change guide
CG character generator
CG classification guide
CG combustion gas
CG compilation guide
CG concentration guide
CG conjugate gradient
CG controls group
CGA color graphics adapter
CGA Compressed Gas Association
CGI combustible gas indicator
CGI common gateway interface
CGI composite graphics interface
CGI computer-generated imagery
CGI computer graphics interface
CGL Comprehensive General Liability (policy)
CGL computer graphics laboratory
CGM computer graphics metafile
CGMP comprehensive generic monitoring plan
CGRO Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory
CGS Canadian Geologic Survey
CGS color graphics adapter (IBM)
CGS common graphics system
CGS conjugate gradient squared
CGWIC China Great Wall Industry Corporation
CH Calico Hills
CH component handling
CH contact handling/handled
CHAOS circular high acceptance (magnetic) orbit spectrometer (TRIUMF)
CHAMMP Computer Hardware, Advanced Mathematics, and Model Physics
CHAMP Community Health Air Monitoring Program
CHAP Compton high-altitude pulse
CHDBR Calico Hills demonstration breakout room
Chelyabinsk-70 (site, All-Russian Institute of
Technical Physics)
CHEMLL chemical and low-level (waste)
CHEMTREC Chemical Transportation Emergency Center
CHESS Community Health & Environmental Surveillance System
CHF critical heat flux
CHGS Center for Human Genome Studies
CHIP chemical hazard information profile
CHLW commercial high-level waste
CHM Chemistry Division, 8/82??/??
CHM Chinese Hamster Ovary (Health Division cell replication)
CHMR Center for Hazardous Materials
CHO chemical hygiene officer
CHP chemical hygiene plan
CHR confinement heat removal
CHRP common hardware reference platform (Power PC)
CHRS confinement heat removal system
CH-TRU contract-handled transuranic waste
CHW chilled water
CHX (mammalian fibroblast cells with unstable chromosomes)
CI - CL
CI cast iron (pipe)
CI chemical injection
CI compression ignition
CI computer interface
CI confidence interval
CI construction inspector
CI containment integrity/isolation
CI control instrumentation
CI corrosion inhibitor
C.I. confidence interval (statistics)
C/I classification/identification
CIA Central Intelligence Agency
CIA containment isolation actuation
CIAC computer incident advisory capability
CIAM Central Institute of Aviation Motors
CIAQ Council on Indoor Air Quality
CIBL convective internal boundary layer
CIC compensated ion chamber
CIC Computing Information Center
CIC Computing, Information & Communications Division, 10/93
CICA Competition in Contracting Act
CICIS Chemicals in Commerce Information System
CID charge-injected device
CID combined immunological deficiency
CIDRS cascade impactor data reduction system
CIE Commission International de l'Eclairage
CIF Consolidated Incineration Facility (SRL)
CIF Consolidated Incinerator Facility
CIIN corporate integrated information network
CIIIK (United States of America; Russian abbreviation)
CIK crypto-ignition key
CIL component integration lab
CIL computer inoperative limits
CIL critical items list
CIM Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
CIM computer input microfilm
CIMD Coalition to Increase Minority Degrees
CIMI Committee on Integrity & Management Improvement
CIMS Coalition for Intelligent Manufacturing Systems
CINC Commander in Chief
CIO Central Imagery Office (intelligence)
CIO Community Involvement and Outreach Office
CIP cast iron pipe
CIP cataloging-in-publication
CIP cold isostatic pressing
CIP continuation in part
CIPA California Information Practices Act
CIPP contexts, input, processes & products
CIPSO common Internet protocol security option
CIRRPC Committee on Interagency Radiation Research & Policy Coordination
CIS chemical information/injection system
CIS Commonwealth of Independent States
CIS Computational and Information Sciences
CIS containment isolation system
CISA Center for International Security Affairs
CISC complex instruction set computer
CISE Computer Information Science and Engineering (NSF)
CISR Center for Iron and Steel Research
CIT communications improvement team (EIT)
CITES Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of
Wild Fauna and Flora
CITF Cold Integrated Test Facility
CITIS contractor integrated technical information service
CIX commercial Internet exchange
CJ crane, jib
CJE critical job element
CJO chief judicial officer
CKVA complex Kohn variation principle
CL centerline
CL closed loop
CL collaborator
CL confidence level
CL court leave (attendance code)
CL-20 (polycyclic nitramine)
CLAMS Common Los Alamos Mathematical Software
CLAMDOC CLAMS online documentation
CLASS Classification Office, 9/791/81
CLASS composite lightweight affordable spacecraft structure
CLC capacity-limiting constituents
CLC Computing Learning Center
CLEANS clinical laboratory for evaluation and assessment of toxic substances
CLEER Center for Legislative Energy & Environmental Research
CLEO Classified Energy On-line (database)
CLEVER clinical laboratory for evaluation and validation of
epidemiologic research
CLF Conservation Law Foundation
CLFMI Chain Link Fence Manufacturers Institute
CLGP cannon-launched guided projectile
ClHC trimsol
CLI command line interpreter
CLIPS chemical list index & processing system
CLISE chloride-ion-specific electrode
CLMP connectionless-mode network protocol
CLNP connectionless network protocol (OSI)
CLP contract laboratory program (EPA)
CLS characteristic loss spectroscopy
CLS classified logistic shipment
CLS Chemistry and Laser Sciences Division
CLSP Center for Law & Social Policy
CLV ceiling limit value
CLV constant linear velocity
CM - CO
CM cementation
CM Chemistry and Metallurgy Division, 4/4410/45
CM circuit master
CM Configuration Management
CM core melt
CM corrective measure
CM crane maintenance
CM crane, monorail
CM crisis management (crisis manager)
CMA charring material ablation
CMA Chemical Manufacturers Association
CMAA Crane Manufacturer's Association of America
CM-2 Connection Machine 2 (Thinking Machines Corporation)
CM-5 Connection Machine 5
CMB chemical mass balance
CMB Chemistry-Metallurgy "Baker" Division, 9/568/82
CMB Configuration Management Branch
CMC computer-mediated conversation
CMCA cruise missile carrier aircraft
CME comprehensive (ground water) monitoring evaluation
CME coronal mass ejection
CMEP critical mass energy project
CMF ChemistryMetallurgy "Fowler" Division, 9/561/71
CMF compressed-magnetic field
CMI corrective measures implementation
CMIP Capability Maintenance and Improvements Project
CMIP common management information protocol
CMIS common management information services
CMIS computer management and information science (DoD)
CML current-mode logic
CMM computerized measuring machine
CMM coordinate measuring machine
CMOS complementary metal oxide semiconductor
CMOT CMIS over TCP/IP
CMP certified meeting professional
CMP Configuration Management Plan
CMP corrugated metal pipe
CMP counter-military potential
CMP critical materials program
CMPGRD composite finite-difference grid program
CMPO octyl(phenyl)-N,N-diisobutylcarbonoylmethyl-phosphine oxide
CMR Chemistry and Metallurgy Research (building)
CMR Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Division, 10/4509/56
CMPGRD composite overlapping grid
CMS Center for Materials Science, 01/81
CMS Community Management Staff (intellig.)
CMS corrective measures study (RCRA)
CMSC California Mine and Safety Code
CMSEML Center for Materials Science Electron Microscope Laboratory
CMSSL Connection Machine Scientific Software Library
CMTR certified material test report
CMU Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
CMU concrete masonry unit
CMW compartmented-mode workstation
CMWO chemical and mixed waste operations
CMYK cyan-magenta-yellow-black (color model)
CN construction notice
CN consultant
CNA Canadian Nuclear Association
CNC Chemistry/Nuclear Chemistry Division, 1/718/82
CNC computerized numerical control
CNEN Comissao Nacional de Energia Nuclear
CNES Center for National Space Studies (France)
CNET Centre National d'Etudes des Télécommunications (Paris)
CNI Coalition for Networked Information
CNLS Center for Nonlinear Studies
CNN Cable News Network
CNNR conventional nonnuclear weapons
CNO Chief of Naval Operations
CNPS compact nuclear power source
CNR Chief of Naval Research
CNR composite noise ratio
CNR conventional nuclear weapons
CNRI Corporation for National Research Initiatives
CNRR containment radioactivity removal
CNSI Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations
CNSI confidential national security information
CNSS Center for National Security Studies
CNT Central Networking Testbed
CNT crisis negotiation team
CNWDI critical nuclear weapon design information
CO chief operator
CO contracting officer
C/O carryover (funds)
COB close of business
COBAE Brazilian Commission of Space Activities
COBE Cosmic Background Explorer (satellite)
COBOL common business oriented language (also Cobol)
COBRA Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act
COBRA constant boiling and rod arrays
COBRA continuous beam research apparatus
COBRA-TF Coolant Boiling in Rod Arrays code (two-fluid)
COC certificate of conformance
COC continuity of combustibility
COCA consent order and compliance agreement
COCO contractor-owned/contractor-operated
COCOM Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls
COD cash on demand
COD chemical oxygen demand
COE Corps of Engineers
COE crude oil equivalent
COEDS common event database system
COEI composition of ending inventory
COG continuity of government
COGEMA Compagnie général des matères nucléaires
COGEMP continuity of government emergency management teams
COGS cost of goods sold
COH coefficient of haze
COHb carboxyhemoglobin
COI certificate of inspection
COI conflict of interest
COINS computer output information system
COLA cost-of-living adjustment/allowance
COLIWASA Composite Liquid Waste Sampler
COM command (file)
COM communications (program, port)
COM computer output microfilm
COMHED common header
COMINT communications intelligence
COMPASS comprehensive on-line maintenance purchasing & store system
COMPTEL imaging Compton telescope
COMSAT Communications Satellite Corp.
COMSAT communications satellite
COMSEC communications security
CONDOR (code for simulating microwave and plasma experiments)
CONIFER (designates some U.K. secret documents)
CONOPS concept of operations
CONS connection-oriented mode network service
CONT controller
CONTAIN (computer code)
CONTR contractor
CONT-RM Risk Management Office (Lab Controller)
CONUS contiguous United States
CONVEX confined vessel experiments
CO-OP Undergraduate Cooperative Program
COP certification of process
COP class of property
COP coefficient of performance
COR contracting officer representative
COR core operations report
CORA cost of remedial action
CORBA common object request broker architecture
CORE common runtime environment
COR-FD Contracting Officer Representative - Fire Department (DOE)
CORM controlled oxidation of radioactive metal
CORRTEX continuous reflectometry for radius versus time experiments
COS change of station
COS Cray Operating System
COSEPUP Committee on Science, Engineering & Public Policy
COSL certificate of safe load
COSL Chemistry Operations Support Laboratory (Rocky Flats)
COSMIC (label for TS NATO information)
COSMO (unnamed graded person)
COSTIND Commission of Science, Technology, and Industry for National Defense
COTK control track
COTR Contracting Officer's Technical Representative
COTS commercial off-the-shelf
Courtney (not an acronym; SATAN detector)
COVA change of vehicle assignment
COVE code verification
COVI concurrent outer vector inner
COVICS covert video communications system
COW coldworked, not furnace-sensitized and welded
CP - CR
CP calibration procedure
CP call pay
CP change proposal
CP charge conjugation/parity transformation
CP cold pipe
CP column product
CP Computer Professionals, Inc.
CP conducting polymer
CP construction permit/plan
CP control point
CP coolant pump
CP critical power
CP Crystal Plaza, Washington, DC
CP 2-(5-cyanotetrazolata)-pentaamine-cobalt (III) perchlorate
CP* Cross Point Star
CPA charged particle analyzer
CPA contract property administrator
C/PA cost/price analysis
CPAF cost plus award fee
CPAS Current Production & Analytic Support (CIA)
CPBX computerized private branch exchange
CPC card programmable calculator
CPCI Central Personnel Clearance Index
C/PC closure/post-closure
CPCA core program cooperative agreement
CPCWQCA California Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act
CPD comprehensive program of disarmament
CPD coordinated product definition
CPD cyclopentadiene
CPDF Centrifuge Processing Development Facility
CPDS construction project data sheet
CPE central processing element
CPE charged particle equilibrium
CPE circular probable error
CPF carcinogen potency factors
CPFF cost plus fixed fee
CPG central pattern generator
CPG Core Planning Group
CPI consumer price index
CPI cost performance index
CPIF cost plus incentive fee
CPL confinement protection limit
CPM colliding pulse mode
CPM computer program protection manager
CPM construction/contract project manager
CPM construction procedures manual
CPM continuous particle monitor
cpm counts/cycles per minute
CPM critical path method
CP/M control program for microcomputers (DEC operating system)
CPMB Construction Department (JCI)
CPMIEC Chinese Precision Machinery Import-Export. Corp.
CPO Central Policy Office (ES&H)
CPO certified project officer
CPP complex privatization plan
CPP Compliance Policy & Planning (EPA)
CPPM computer protection program manager
CPR cardio-pulmonary resuscitation
CPR Center for Public Resources
CPR comprehensive product record
CPR cost performance index
CPR critical power ratio
CPRA California Public Records Act
CPRC construction project review committee
CPRF Confinement Physics Research Facility (TA-21)
CPRF controlled pinch reversed field
CPPSR contractor property system review
CPS Compliance Program & Schedule
CPS contract personnel services
CPSA Consumer Product Safety Act (1972)
CPSC Consumer Product Safety Commission
CPSI configurable PostScript interpreter
CPSR Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, cpsr.org
CPT cone penetrometer technology
CPTR certified proof test report
CPU central processing/processor unit
CPV cold process verification
CPW commercialization planning workshop
CPX command post exercise
CQD constant-Q spectrometer
CQI continuous quality improvement
CQM cost quality management
CR carriage return
CR catalytic reactor
CR coaxial resonator
CR community relations
CR compressor, refrigeration
CR conditional release
CR conditioned reinforcer
CR control rod/room
CR Cray Research
CRA comment response appendix
CRA compressor, refrigerant, air cool
CRAC coaxial removable anode cup
CRB contract review board
CRADA cooperative research and development agreement
CRASS correlation reduction analysis subsystem (NRC)
CRAVE carcinogen risk assessment verification endeavor
CRB Contracts/Contract Review Board
CRBR Clinch River Breeder Reactor
CRC Coleman Research Corporation
CRC Complex Reconfiguration Committee
CRC cyclic redundancy check
CRD Comments & Response Document
CRD confidential restricted data
CRD control rod drive
CRD creation/revision/deletion request (JCI)
CRDC collaborative R&D centers
CRDCS control rod drive control system
CRDEC Chemical Research, Development, and Engineering Center (U.S. Army)
CRDL contract-required detection limit
CRE compressor, refrigerant, evaporative
CRE contaminant removal efficiency
CREN Corporation for Research and Educational Networking
CREOL Center for Research on Electrical Optics and Lasers
CRFQS cryogenic radio-frequency quadrupole sparker
CRI Cray Research, Inc.
CRI criteria-referenced instruction
CRIB card reader insert board
CRIITIC National Security Agency alert system
CRITS Chalk River Injector Test Stand
CRL Communications Research Laboratory (Japan)
CRLB Cramer-Rao lower bound
CRM certified reference materials
CRM communications and records management
CRM count rate meter
CRMO Communications and Records Management Office, 8/8011/93
CRN critical ranking number
CRNL Chalk River Nuclear Laboratory
CRO Chemical Release Observation (satellites)
CROP consolidated rules of practice
CRP community relations plan
CRPC Center for Research on Parallel Computation
CRPP community relations program plan
CRPO Crystalline Rock Project Office (Chicago)
CRQL contract-required quantitation limit
CRR Center for Renewable Resources
CRR change request reply
CRREL Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (U.S. Army)
CRRES combined release and radiation effects satellite (NASA)
CRRS Comprehensive Records Retention Schedule
CRS Complex Reconfiguration Study
CRS component requirement schedule
CRS conductivity recording switch
CRS Congressional Research Service
CRT cargo restraint transporter
CRT cathode ray tube
CRU computer resource unit
CRZ contamination reduction zone
CS - CT
CS chemical/cold storage
CS chlorinated solvents
CS communications satellite/system
CS community service (attendance code)
CS confined space
CS containment safety/spray
CS containment substation bus (electrical)
CS Courant-Snyder
CS (nuclear) criticality safety
C/S containment and surveillance
CSA camphorsulphonic acid
CSA Canadian Standards Association
CSA cancer suspect agent(s)
CSA canned subassembly
CSA compliance schedule agreement
CSAC charge safety analysis checklist
CSAC Council on Superconductivity for American Competitiveness
CSAM chlorosulphonic acid mixture
CSAU code scaling, applicability & uncertainty
CSBM confidence and security building measures
CSC Convention for Safe Containers (1972)
CSC Criticality Safety Committee
C/SCB Cost/Schedule Control Branch (T&MSS)
CSCE Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
C/SCR cost/schedule change request
C/SCS cost/schedule control system
CSCSC cost and schedule control systems criteria
C/SCSC cost and schedule control systems concepts
CSD cold shutdown
CSD conceptual summary document
CSDP Continental Scientific Drilling Program
CSE charge safety evaluation
CSE chemical systems engineering
CSE confined space entry
CSE Consortium for Superconducting Electronics
CSE criticality safety evaluation
CSEA California State Employees Association
CSER computer security enhancement review
CSF cerebrospinal fluid
CSF colony stimulating factor
CSF consolidated and overpacked spent fuel
CSI Clean Sites, Inc.
CSI compliance sampling inspection (CWA)
CSI customer service indicator
CSIN Chemical Substances Information Network (TSCA)
CSIP customer service improvement plan
CSIR Council for Scientific & Industrial Research (South Africa)
CSIS Center for Strategies and International Studies
CSL computation structures language
CSLA criticality safety limit approval (document)
CSM Colorado School of Mines (Golden, CO)
CSMA Chemical Subspecialties Manufacturers Association
CSMA/CD carrier sense multiple access with collision detection
CSNET Computer and Science Network
CSO combined sewer overflow
CSOL criticality safety operating limits
CSP Comprehensive Site Plan
CSPCP comprehensive source and plume characterization plan
CSPE California Society of Professional Engineers
CSPI Center for Science in the Public Interest
CSPP Computer Systems Policy Project
CSPWG computer security policy working group
CS&R codes, standards, and regulations
CSRA Civil Service Reform Act (of 1978)
CSRL Center for the Study of Responsive Law
CSRS coherent Stokes-Raman spectroscopy
CSS coded switch set
CSS computer subsystem
CSS containment spray system
CSS contaminated soil storage
CSSA contaminated soil storage area (OR)
CSSE closed system step etching
CSSI containment spray system, post-accident injection phase
CSSM computer security site manger
CSSO computer system security officer
CSSR containment spray system, post-accident recirculation phase
CST Chemical Science and Technology Division, 10/93
CST condensate storage tank
CST confined space training
CSTAG Computer Systems Technical Advisory Committee
CSTC Consolidated Satellite Test Center
CSU channel service unit (telephony)
CSU Christian Social Union
CSU Colorado State University
CSU/DSU channel service unit/data service unit (used in place of modem)
CSV comma-separated value
CT cable, test
CT calf thymus
CT computer/computed/computerized tomography (scanner, scan)
CT cooling tower
CT current transformer
C-T Cretaceous-Tertiary (geologic boundary; also K-T, CT)
CTA Central Training Academy
CTARC Chemical Testing & Assessment Research Commission
CTBT Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
CTC coefficient of thermal contraction
CTC Corneal Theory Center
CTD cumulative trauma disorder (see CTS, RSI)
CTE charge transfer efficiency
CTE coefficient of thermal expansion
CTEN combined thermal and epithermal neutron
CTF contrast-transfer-function
CTG control technique guidelines
CTG corporation test group
CTI Computational Testbed for Industry
CTL CTSS command language controller
CTMP comprehensive treatment & management plan
CTN Critical Technologies Newsletter
CTP composite theoretical performance
CTP computer-to-plate (imagesetting)
CTR controlled thermonuclear reactor/research
CTR Controlled Thermonuclear Research Div., 4/74?/?89?
CTR control temperature ratio
CTR Council for Tobacco Research (industry organization)
CTRD central training records database
CTRL control (keyboard)
CTRW commercial transuranic waste
CTS carpal tunnel syndrome (see CTD, RSI)
CTS central tracker subsystem
CTS conformance testing service
CTSB Computer Science & Technology Board
CTSS Cray Time-Sharing System
CTVC California Technology Ventures Corp.
CTX Compact Torus Experiment
CU - CZ
CUA common user access (IBM standard)
CUBE computer use by engineers (symposium)
CUI consistent user interface
CUSP cyclotron up-scattering process
CV cataclysmic variable
CV coefficient of variation
CV compliance verification
CV cost variance
CVAAS cold vapor atomic absorption spectroscopy
CVC conserved vector current
CVD chemical vapor deposition
CVD controlled, fluidized bed, vapor deposition
CVG Consolidated Verification Group
CVI center of visual impact
CVI chemical vapor infiltration
CVI compact vacuum insulation
CVN Charpy V-Notch
CVR cost variance report
CVS constant-volume sampler
CVTR Carolinas-Virginia tube reactor
CW chemical warfare/weapons
CW circulating water
CW cold-worked
CW column waste
CW Congress Watch
CW continuous wave
CW cooling water
CWA Clean Water Act (Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 1977)
CWAM crated waste assay monitor (OR)
CWAP clean water action project
CWBCM continuous-wave beam current monitor
CWBS contractor work breakdown structure
CWC Chemical Weapons Convention
CWDD continuous-wave deuterium demonstrator
CWDF Central Waste Disposal Facility
CWDR Chemical Waste Disposal Request (form)
CWF chiller, water, fan/coil
CWGM cooling water gamma monitor
CWI (Mathematics Institute of the Netherlands)
CWIP current work in progress
CWIS campus wide information system
CWIV contaminated waste isolation valve
CWLM cumulative working level months
CWO capital work order
CWP coal workers' pneumoconiosis
CWR chiller, water, refrigerated
CWR cooling water return
CWRSS contaminated water removal & storage system
CWS chilled water system
CWS circulating/cooling water system
CWS containment water storage
CWSFPP Commercial Waste and Spent Fuel Packaging Program
CWT Chemical Warfare Treaty
CWTC Chemical Waste Transportation Council
CX categorical exclusions
CX column extractant
CX configuration index
CX criticality experiment
CXI Common X-Windows Interface
CY calendar year
CY cubic yards
CYGNUS (air shower detector; array of scintillation counters-not an acronym)
CYLTRAN Cylindrical (electron) Transport (Monte Carlo code)
D Return to Alphabet
D absorbed dose
D Documentary Division, 08/4610/70
D D-Site (TA-26)
D1 (digital component video format)
D-38 depleted uranium
2,4-D dichlorophenoxyacetic acid
DA deaerator
DA design agency (DOE)
DA desk accessory
DA destination address (telecom.)
DA detonation-control algorithm
DA direct access
DA discretionary absence (attendance code)
DA dose assessment
D-A, D/A digital-to-analog
DA&D Director for Audits & Assessments
DAB Defense Acquisition Board
DAC daily administrative check
DAC derived air concentratio(n)s
DAC Disaster Assistance Center
DAC discharged assembly cooling
DAC door, air curtain
DACS data acquisition control system
DAD dryer, compressed air, desiccant
DAF Device Assembly Facility
DAF dilution and attenuation factor
DAF dissolved air flotation
DAO Dayton Area Office
DAP data archiving process
DAP directory access protocol
DAP discipline action plan
DAP draft action plan
DAPC data acquisition and process control
DAR declassification areas
DAR dryer, compressed air, refrigerated
DARHT dual-axis radiographic/radiography hydrotest (hydrodynamics
testing facility)
DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DARSS diode array rapid-scan spectrometer
DART distributed anti-Stokes ratio thermometry
DARTAB dose & risk assessment technician
DARTS digital alarm, remote telemetry system
DARTS DOE Audit Reporting & Tracking System
DAS data acquisition system/subsystem
DAS digital analysis system
DAS dual attached station (telecom.)
DASA Defense Atomic Support Agency (predecessor to DNA)
DASC Defense Logistics Agency Administrative Support Center
DASD direct-access storage device
DASMA Deputy Assistant Secretary for Military Application
DATE direct application of thermal energy
DAVACS DOE Automated Visitor Access Control System (database)
DAY dial-a-yield (unclassified)
DB - DE
dB decibel
DB dome breach
DB dry bulb
D-B Davis-Bacon Act (also D/B)
DBA design-basis accident(s)
DBB detect before break (computer code)
DBMS database management system
DBE design base earthquake(s)
DBE design-basis event/earthquake
DBF design basis fire(s)
DBFL design basis flood(s)
DBMS database management system
DBR design basis report
DBS direct broadcast satellites (Japan)
DBSPD design basis and scope and planning documents
DBT design basis tornado(es)
DBTT ductile-to-brittle transition temperature
DBX debugger for UNIX
DC design change
DC design criteria
DC direct current (also dc)
DC document control
DC drain channel
DCA detailed configuration accounting
DCA detonation chamber assembly
DCA document control assistant
DCAA Defense Contract Audit Agency
DCC department computer coordinators
DCCP disposal of contaminated/classified property (form)
DCDP designated central(ized) delivery point
DCDR design critical drawing release
DCE date circuit-terminating equipment
DCE dichloroethene
DCE digital communications experiment
DCE distributed computing environment (Open Software Foundation)
DCER design criteria engineering release
DCG Derived Air Concentration Guide for Uncontrolled Areas (DOE)
DCG derived concentration guides
DCG disaster control group (FEMA)
DCH direct containment heating
DCHP dicesium hexachloroplutonate
DCI dechlorination
DCI Director, Central Intelligence
DCI display control iinterface (Windows 95)
DCG delayed compliance order (CAA)
DCG disaster control officer
DCG document control officer
DCNA data communications network architecture
DCPD dicyclopentadiene
DCR daily change report
DCR design change request
DCR design criteria report
DCR direct conversion reactor
DCRDR detailed control room design review
DCRT double-contained receiver tank
DCS dedicated cleanup system
DCS defined context set (telecom.)
DCS distributed computing system
DCT database configuration tool
DCT direct current transducer
DCT discrete cosine transform
DCTL direct-coupled transistor logic
DCTN Defense Commercial Telecom. Network
DCTSI Dynacorp Tri-Cities Services, Inc.
DCX Delta Clipper experimental (rocket)
DCX double-charge exchange
DD data deliverable
DD deputy director
DD deuterium-deuterium
DD digital data
DD division director
D&D decontamination and decommissioning
DDA (accounts payable/procurement system)
DDA digital differential analyzer
DDA document description architecture
DDC direct digital control
DDD direct distance dialing
DD&D design, development & test
DDE dichlorodiphenyldichloroethane (also DDD)
DDE dynamic data exchange
DDESB Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board
DDI dideoxyinosine (commercial name didanosine; drug for AIDS)
DDID decontamination & decommissioning integrated demonstration
DDL data description language
DDN Defense Data Network (once ARPANET)
DDR deficiency and disposition report
DDR Deutsches Demokratisches Republik (obsolete; East Germany)
DDRE director of defense research and engineering
DDS digital data service
DDT deflagration to detonation transition
DDT dichloro diphenyl trichloroethane
DDT differential die-away technique
DDT dynamic debugging tool (CTSS debugger)
DE design engineering
DE dose equivalent
DE double-ended
DE drums equivalent
D&E deposit & exit (conveyor or canal)
D&E discharge and exit
DEA Drug Enforcement Administration
DEAR Department of Energy acquisition regulation
DEC Digital Equipment Corporation
DEC DOE environmental checklist
DECU Developmental & Educational Communications Unit (India)
DECUS DEC Users Society
DEET diethyltoluamide
DEGB double-ended guillotine break
DEHP dis(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate
DEIS draft environmental impact statement (also DES)
DEK data encryption key
DEM Dept. of Emergency Mgmt., Washington (FEMA)
DEQSOL (parallel program, Hitachi)
DER development engineering release
DES data encryption standard
DES di-2-ethylhexel sebecate
DES diethylstilbesterol
DESH DE & S Handford, Inc. (Duke Engineering & Servcies Hanford, Inc.)
DESN DE & S Northwest, Inc. (Duke Engineering & Services Northwest, Inc.)
DESO double-end shut off
DEST Directed Energy Science & Technology
DESY Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (Hamburg, Germany)
DET detonator
DETEC Defense Technology Evaluation Code
DEV development
DEW directed energy weapon
DEW distant early warning
DEWPOINT Directed Energy Weapon Power Integration
DF - DI
DF data form
DF decontamination factor
DF design feature
DF deuterium fluoride
DF DF Site (TA-40)
DF dilution factor
DF disposal facility
DF dose factor
DF duty factor
D&F determination and findings
DFB distributed feedback
DFC digital frequency converter
DFDP defense facility decommissioning program
DFF (deuterated lauric acid surfactant)
DFI design, fielding, instrumentation
DFN/WIN Deutsches Forschungnetz / Wissenschafnetz
DFS distributed file system; Open Software Foundation Distributed Computing
DFSM digital frequency smoothing method
DFT discrete Fourier transform
DFX desferrioxamine-B
DG Data General, Inc.
DG design guide
DG diesel generator
DG double Gaussian (model)
DFWM degenerate four wave mixing
DGGE denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis
DGPS differential global positioning system
DGVW declared gross vehicle weight
DGZ desired ground zero
DH decay heat
DHDTV digital high-definition television
DHFA Director's Health & Fitness Award
DH&HS Director of Health & Human Services
DHLW defense high-level waste
DHR decay heat removal
DHR Director of Human Resources
DI defense information (see NSI)
DI deionized
DI diagnostic imaging/inspection
d.i. das ist; that is/i.e. (German)
DIA Defense Intelligence Agency
DIAL differential absorption lidar
DIALOG (information access system)
DIB device independent bitmap
DIB directory information base (telecom.)
DIB Disabilities Issues Board
DIC Defense Intelligence College
DICE defensive information to counter espionage
DID direct inward dialing
DiDAC digital data acquisition & control
DIDS Defense Integrated Data System
DIF data interchange format (Software Arts)
DIG DOE Interaction Group
DIL daily instruction logs
DIL drainable interstitial liquid
DIM data interpretation module
DIMM dual in-line memory module (64 bit)
DIN do it now
DINO (computer language, R. Schnabel)
DIP document image processing
DIP dual in-line package (switches)
DIPS dynamic isotope power system
DIQ design inventory questionnaire
DIR director; directive
DIR Director's Office
DIRC DOE Internal Review Committee
DIRP DOE Internal Review Panel
DIS data item specification
DIS Defense Intelligence Service
DIS deionized water system
DIS Directory Information System
dis disintegration(s)
DIS distributed information system
DIS draft international standard (telecom.)
DISA Defense Information Systems Agency
DISA Division of International Security Affairs (ERDA, obsolete)
DISC direct-injection stratified charge
DISN Defense Information Systems Network
DISS DOE Integrated Security System
DIT directory information tree (telecom.)
DIU data interface unit/Hubble Space Telescope
DIX Digital, Intel, and Xerox
DIX divergence measurement
DJ - DO
DJM distributed job manager (ACL)
DJO development job engineer
DL deal load
DL design layout
DL detection limit
DL discharge line
DL disciplinary leave (attendance code)
DL distribution license
DL division leader (obsolete title)
DLA Defense Logistics Agency
DLA Division of Library Automation, Univ. of California
DLL dynamic link library (linked libraries)
DLSO division laser safety officer
DLT defense laser technology
DLW doubly labeled water
DM development module
DM door, motorized
DM dry matter
DMA Defense Mapping Agency
DMA diagnosing multiple alarms
DMA direct memory access
DMA Directory of Military Application
DMAIAGS Defense Mapping Agency Inter-American Geodetic Survey
DMD deformable mirror device
DMDCNQI 2,5-dimethyl-dicyanoquinonediimine
DML Dimensional Metrology Laboratory (Rocky Flats)
DMM digital multimeter
DMO direct methanol oxidation
DMR deuteron magnetic resonance
DMR discharge monitoring report (CWA)
DMS data management system
DMSP Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
DN delayed neutron
DN diagnostics, neutron
DN discrepancy notice
DNA Defense Nuclear Agency
DNA delayed neutron activation
DNA does not apply
DNA deoxyribonucleic acid
DNA-PK DNA-dependent protein kinase
DNAPL dense nonaqueous phase liquid
DNBR departure-from-nucleate-boiling ratio
DNC delayed neutron counting
DNF defense nuclear facilities
DNFSB Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
DNIC data network identification code
DNO do not operate
DNP Division of Nuclear Physics
DNR dynamic nuclear polarization
DNS direct numerical simulation
DNS domain name system
DO Dawson and Oberman model (plasmas)
DO designated official
DO dissolved oxygen
DO division office
DO duty officer
DOA dead on arrival
DOB date of birth
DOC Department of Commerce
DOC dissolved organic carbon
DoD Department of Defense (also DOD)
DOD DOD Programs
DODCI Department of Defense Computer Institute
DOE Department of Energy
DOE diffractive optical element
DOE/AL DOE Albuquerque
DOE/DP DOE Office of Defense Programs
DOE/EH DOE Office of Environment, Safety and Health
DOE/EM DOE/Environmental Management
DOE/HQ DOE Headquarters
DOE/HQ-EH DOE Headquarters, Environment & Health
DOE/ID DOE Idaho
DOE/LAAO DOE Los Alamos Area Office
DOELAP DOE Laboratory Accreditation Program
DOE/MD DOE Materials Disposition
DOE/NE DOE Office of Nuclear Energy
DOE/NS DOE Office of Nuclear Safety
DOE/NV DOE Nevada Operations Office
DOE-PMR DOE Property Management Regulations
DOE/RF DOE Rocky Flats Operations Office
DOE/RFO DOE Rocky Flats Office
DOE/RL DOE Richland Operations
DOE/SR DOE Savannah River
DOF degree of freedom
DOFS distributed optical-fiber sensing
DOI Department of the Interior
DOJ Department of Justice
DOL Department of Labor
DOM dissolved organic matter
DOP detailed operating procedure
DOP diameter of particle
DOP dioctyl phylodine
DOP diocthyl phthlate
DOP disaster operations plan
DOQ digital orthophoto quadrangle
DOR direct oxide reduction
DORIS Doppler orbitography & radiopositioning integrated by satellite
DOS Department of Space (India)
DOS disk operating system
DOSH Division of Occupational Safety & Health (California)
DOT Department of Transportation
DOV diaphragm-operated valve
DOVE digital orbiting voice encoder (Brazil)
DOW Defenders of Wildlife
DP - DR
DP Defense Programs (DOE)
dp density, pressure
DP development project
dp differential pressure (also DP)
DP digital photography
DP Director's Policy
DP displaced person
DP disposal of plutonium (TA-21)
DP disposal procedures
DP distributed processor
DPA distinguished performance award
DPAR data-parallel abstraction
DPB Division of Particle Beams, APS
DPCT data processing control transmittal card
DPDT double pole, double throw (switch)
DPFC Defense Program Field Council
DPHA diphenylamine
dpi dots per inch
DPMB Defense Programs Management Board
DPO Division of Production Operations (DOE)
DPSOL Du Pont Savannah River Operations Logbook (SR specification)
DPST disaster preparedness support team (FEMA)
DPST double pole single throw
DPST-FI-A- (Du Pont report identifier)
DPT data processing terminal
DPTA distinguished project team award
DQ Director of Quality
DQF driver qualification file
DQO data quality objective
DR deficiency/discrepancy report
DR development report
DR document request system
DR Dubinin/Radushkevich (equation)
DRA Defense Research & Applications
DRAAG Design Review and Acceptance Group
DRAINO2 (code to generate table of tank height)
DRAM dynamic random-access memory (chip)
DRATTS DRA target tracking
DRB design review board
DRDA distributed relational database access
DRE Defense Research and Engineering
DRE destruction and removal efficiency
DRE door, roll-up, electric
DRF disaster response force (FEMA)
DRF dose reduction factor
DRI Denver Research Institute
DRI Desert Research Institute
DRM door, roll-up, manual
DRMS Data Record Management System
DRP detailed review plan
DRR Defense Research Review
DRR design review record
DRS data relay satellite
DRS document review sheet
DRSV deep submergence rescue vehicle
DRTS data relay & tracking system (Japan)
DS - DT
DS Defense Science
DS detection system
DS development support/specification
DS dichotomous sampler
DS drill string
DS Incinerator Site (TA-42)
D/S dynamic/static
D&S defense and space
DSA digital signature algorithm
DSA directory system agent
DSAA Defense Security Assistance Agency
DSAC defense science advisory committee
DSAC deterministic severe accident criterion
DSAP data self-auditing program
DSAP DOE special analysis project
DSAT defense satellite
DSC desktop support center
DSC differential scanning calorimetry
DSC Director's Staff Coordinator
DSC direct satellite communications
DSC discipline safety committee
DSC distinguished service cross
DSC domesticated satellite carrier
D. Sc. doctor scientiae; doctor of science
DSCM dry standard cubic meter(s)
DSCS defense satellite communications system (U.S. satellite)
DSD detonation shock dynamics
DSE distributed system environment
DSE domestic sewage exclusion
DSE draft safety evaluation
DSET Desert Sunshine Exposure Testing, Inc.
DSHS Dept. of Social & Health Services (Washington)
DSM digital speed matching
DSM distributed shared memory
DSN Defense Switched Network
DSO division security officer
DSP Defense Support Program
DSP digital signal processor/processing
DSP domain specific part (telecom.)
DSPD design scope and planning document
DSR design support request
dsRNA double-stranded ribonucleic acid
DSRV deep submergence rescue vehicle
DSS digital signature system (NIST)
DSS direct support & services
DSS domestic sewage study
DSS drain and storage system
DSSG Defense Science Study Group
DSSSL document style semantics and specification language
DST dedicated system time
DST Direction de la Surveillance du Territorie (France,