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Acronyms 

Abbreviations 

& Terms

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FEMA-524 / March 2005

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AA

) 

2

) Allocation Advice

3

) Applicant Assistance

4

) Approval Authority

5

) Atomic Absorption

AAA

1

) Agriculture Adjustment Administration

2

) American Automobile Association

AAAE American Association of Airport Executives

AAC

1

) Activity Address Code

2

) Applicant Assistance Center

AACS Automated Access Control System

AAD Assistant Associate Director

AADR Age-Adjusted Death Rate

AAEI American Association for Exporters and Importers

AAER Average Annual Erosion Rate

AAFB Andrews Air Force Base

AAMS Automated Acquisition Management System (ProTrac / ProDoc)

AAMVA American Association of Motor Vehicle 

Administration

AAPA American Association of Port Authorities

AAR

1

) After-Action Report

2

) After action Review

3

) Association of American Railroads

AARP American Association of Retired Persons

AASHTO American Association of State Highway and 

Transportation Officials

AAU Association of American Universities

ABA

1

) American Bankers Association

2

) American Bar Association

ABAG Association of Bay Area Governments

ABC

1

) American Baptist Churches

2

) Associated Builders and Contractors

ABCO Automated Billing & Collection Offsets

ABF Automatic Broadcast Feed

ABM Anti-Ballistic Missile

ABMC American Battle Monuments Commission
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AC

1

) Alternating Current

2

) Area Committee

ACAA Air Carrier Association for Americans

ACADA Automatic Chemical Agent Detection and Alarm

ACAMS Automatic Continuous Air Monitoring System

ACAP

1

) Agency-wide Corrective Action Program

2

) Alien Criminal Apprehension Program

ACBIRC Advanced Chemical/Biological Integrated 

Response Course

ACC

1

) Agency Command Center

2

) Air Combat Command

3

) American Chemistry Council

4

) Aviation Command Center

ACCS Accounting Classification Code Structure

ACDA

[US] Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

ACE

1

) American Council on Education

2

) Army Corps of Engineers

3

) Automated Commercial Environment (secure data portal)

4

) Automated Construction Estimate

ACF

1

) Administration for Children and Families

2

) Alternate Care Facility

ACFM Advanced Certified Floodplain Manager

ACGIH American Council of Government Industrial 

Hygienists

AChE Acetylcholinesterase

ACHP Advisory Council on Historic Preservation

ACI

1

) Advanced Contracting Initiative

2

) Airports Council International

3

) Approved Course of Instruction

ACI/NA Airports Council International--North America

ACIP Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices

ACIR Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental 

Relations


3

) Agency Collection Officer

ACP

1

) Accelerated Conversion Process

2

) Access Control Point

3

) Allied Communications Publication

4

) Alternate Command Post

5

) Area Command Post

6

) Area Contingency Plan

ACPSEM Advisory Council on Professional Standards for 

Emergency Managers

ACR

1

) Acreage Conservation Reserve

2

) Agency Confirmation Report

3

) Advance Confirmation Report

ACS

1

) Adventist Community Services

2

) Alternate Command Staff

ACSM American Congress of Surveying and Mapping

ACTD Advanced Concepts Technology Demonstration

ACT FAST Agent Characteristics Toxicity - First Aid and 

Special Treatment

ACV Actual Cash Value

ACWG Air Cargo Working Group

A/D Analog/Digital

AD

1

) Administratively Determined

2

) Assistant Director

3

) Associate Director

ADA Americans with Disabilities Act

ADAMS Automated Disaster Assistance Management 

System

ADASHI Automated Decision Aid System for Hazardous 

Incidents

ADD Automated Deployment Database

ADDS Automated Disaster Deployment System

ADEM Arkansas Department of Emergency Management

ADES Alaska Division of Emergency Services

ADGGS Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical 

Surveys

ADIS Arrival and Departure Information System
ADMSYS Admissions System

ADO Airport District Office

ADOS Automated Document Ordering System

ADO Team Assistant Disbursing Officer Team

ADP Automated Data Processing

ADPE Automated Data Processing Equipment

ADR American Disaster Reserve

ADRA

1

) Act Adventist Development and Relief Agency

2

) Alternative Dispute Resolution

ADRS Automated Disaster Reporting System

ADVON Advanced Echelon

A&E Architectural and Engineering

AE

1

) Aeromedical Evacuation

2

) Architects and Engineering

AEA American Economic Association

AEC

1

) Agency Emergency Coordinator(

s

)

2

) Atomic Energy Commission

AECB Atomic Energy and Control Board

AECC

1

) Aeromedical Evacuation Coordination (or Control) Center

2

) American Evangelical Christian Church

AECE Aeromedical Evacuation Control Element

AECM Aeromedical Evacuation Crew Members

AECR Achieving Extraordinary Customer Relations

AEGL Acute Exposure Guidelines Level

AEI American Enterprise Institute

AEIC Alaska Earthquake Information Center

AEL

1

) Adverse Effect Level 

2

) Airborne Exposure Limit

AELT Aeromedical Evacuation Liaison Team

AEMA Alabama Emergency Management Agency

AEOD Analysis and Evaluation of Operation Data

AEP Airport Emergency Plan
AES

) 

y

2

) Automated Export System

AEW Airborne Early Warning

A&FM Aviation and Fire Management

AF

1

) Acre Feet

2

) Air Force

AFA Association of Flight Attendants

AFB Air Force Base

AFCEA Armed Forces Communications and Electronics 

Association

AFD Airport Facility Directory

AFEM Alliance for Fire and Emergency Management

AFGE American Federation of Government Employees

AFGP Assistance for Firefighters Grant Program

AFGWC Air Force Global Weather Central

AFMLS Asset Forfeiture & Money Laundering Section

AFMS Automated Forms System

AFNSEP Air Force National Security Emergency 

Preparedness

AFOSC Air Force Operations Support Center

AFRAS Association For Rescue At Sea

AFRAT Air Force Radiation Assessment Team

AFRB Air Force Reserve Base

AFRCC Air Force Rescue Coordination Center

AFRES Air Force Reserve

AFRRI Armed Force Radiobiology Research Institute

AFSOF Air Force Special Operations Forces

AFSS Automated Flight Service Station 

AFTAC Air Force Technical Applications Center

AG

1

) Adjutant General

2

) Agriculture

3

) Attorney General

AGAR Alternate Governor’s Authorized Representative

AGC

1

) Advanced Gas Centrifuge

2

) Association of General Contractors


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AGL Above Ground Level

AGS Aviation Group Supervisor

AGZ Actual Ground Zero

AH Alternate Headquarters

AHCC Alternate Host Communications Center

AHG Ad Hoc Group

AHJ Agency Having Jurisdiction

AIA

1

) American Institute of Architects

2

) American Insurance Association

AIATP Antiterrorism Intelligence Awareness Training 

Program

AIC Automated Inventory Control 

(formerly AIS)

AID Agency for International Development

AIF Assistance Information Form

AIG Address Indicating Group

AI&H Assistance to Individuals and Households

AIMS

1

) Arson Information Management System

2

) Automated Inventory Management System

AIP

1

) Agreement In Principle

2

) Airport Improvement Program

AIR Applied Insurance Research

AIREP Aircraft Report

AIS

1

) Automated Information System(

s

)

2

) Automatic Identification System

AIT Aeromedical Isolation Team

AKA Also Known As

AKDT Alaska Daylight Time 

(GMT - 8)

AKST Alaska Standard Time 

(GMT - 9)

AL Applicant Liaison

ALARA As Low As Reasonably Achievable

ALC

1

) Agency Location Code

2

) Agency Logistics Center

3

) Annual Letter of Certification


ALCE Airlift Control Element

ALCOM Alaskan Command

ALE

1

) Additional Living Expenses

2

) Automatic Link Establishment

ALERT Automated Local Evaluation in Real Time

ALOHA Aerial Locations Of Hazardous Atmospheres

ALPA Airline Pilots Association

ALS Advanced Life Support

ALSM Airborne Laser Swath Mapping 

(aka LIDAR)

ALTRETCO Alternate Regional Emergency Transportation 

Coordinator

AM

1

) Amplitude Modulation

2

) Ante Meridiem

AMA American Medical Association

AMB Air & Marine Branch

AMBUS Ambulance Bus

AMC

1

) Air Mobility Command 

2

) Army Materiel Command

AMCCOM Armament Munitions and Chemical Command

AMF Alternative Morgue Facility

AMGS Air & Marine Group Supervisor

AMHS Automated Message Handling System

AMID Air and Marine Interdiction Division

AMIO Alien Migrant Interdiction Operations

AML ARC Macro Language

AMO Air and Marine Operations

AMOC Air and Marine Operations Center

AMPS Automated Message Processing System

AMR Agricultural Mitigation and Restoration

AMS

1

) Aerial Measuring System

2

) American Meteorological Society

3

) Atmospheric Monitoring System

4

) Automated Manifest System

AMSC American Satellite Communications

AMSLAN American Sign Language


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AMWA Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies

A/N Alert/Notification

AN

1

) Above Normal

2

) Alert and Notification (see also A/N)

ANAD Anniston Army Depot

ANCA Anniston Chemical Activity

ANCDF Anniston Chemical Disposal Facility

ANFO Ammonium Nitrate and Fuel Oil

ANG Air National Guard

ANGB Air National Guard Base

ANI

1

) American Nuclear Insurers

2

) Area Not Included

ANL Argonne National Laboratory

ANOC Association of National Olympic Committees

ANPR Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

ANPSC Alternate National Processing Service Center 

ANRC American National Red Cross

ANS

1

) Alert and Notification System

2

) Aquatic Nuisance Species

ANSER Analytic Services, Inc.

ANSI American National Standards Institute

ANZUS Australia, New Zealand and United States

AO

1

) Action Officer

2

) Administrative Officer

3

) Area of Operations

4

) Assistance Officer

AoA Administration on Aging

AOA Aviation Operations Area

AOC

1

) Aircraft Operating Center (NOAA)

2

) Area of Concern

3

) Army Operations Center

AOIC Acting Official in Charge

AOR Area of Responsibility


gy 

AP

1

) Aerial Port

2

) Alternate Power

3

) Assembly Point

4

) Associated Press

APA

1

) American Planning Association

2

) Administrative Procedure Act

APB Acquisition Program Baseline

APCO Association of Public-Safety Communications 

Officials, International

APE Area of Potential Effect

APEC Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation

APG Aberdeen Proving Ground

APHA American Public Health Association

APHIS Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service 

APHL Association of Public Health Laboratories

API Application Programming Interface

APIS

1

) Administrative and Program Information System

2

) Advanced Passenger Information System

APO Accountable Property Officer

APOD Aerial Port of Debarkation

APOE Aerial Port of Embarkation

APP Application or Applicant

Apps Applications

APR

1

) Agency Procurement Review

2

) Air-Purifying Respirator

APRSAC Academe and Policy Research Advisory Committee

APSO Asylum Pre-Screening Officer

APSP Automated Passenger Screening Profile

APSRS Aerial Photography Summary Record System

APSS Automated Personnel Security System

APT Administrative Payment Team

APTA American Public Transportation Associations

APWA American Public Works Association

AQI Agricultural Quarantine Inspections
1

0

ARA Aircraft Rental Agreement

ARAA Advanced Radiological Accident Assessment

ARAC Atmospheric Release Advisory Capability

ARC American Red Cross 

(also RC)

[ESF-6]

ARCA Area Requiring Corrective Action

ARCHIE Automated Resource for Chemical Hazard Incident 

Evaluation

ARES Amateur Radio Emergency Services

ARF

1

) Action Request Form

2

) Aviation Route Forecast

ARFI Areas Recommended For Improvement

ARG Accident Response Group

ARI Acute Respiratory Infection

(

s

)

ARIP Accidental Release Information Program

ARL

1

) Activities Result List

2

) Airborne Reconnaissance Low

ARL-M Airborne Reconnaissance Low - Multifunction

ARM Aerial Radiological Monitor

ARNG Army National Guard

ARNGOPS Army National Guard Operations

A-ROC Alternate Regional Operations Center

ARP

1

) Administration and Resource Planning

2

) Alarm Resolution Protocols

ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency

ARPANET Advanced Research Projects Agency Network

ARRAS Automatic Residential Remote Alarm System

ARRL American Radio Relay League

ARS

1

) Agriculture Research Service

2

) Automatic Route Selection

ARSOF Army Special Operations Forces

ARSR Air Route Surveillance Radar

ART Awards Review Team

ARTCC Air Route Traffic Control Center
11

AS Applicant Services

ASA Average speed of answer

ASAC Aviation Security Advisory Committee

ASA 

(IL & E) Assistant Secretary of the Army (Installation, Logistics, and Environment

)

ASAP

1

) As Soon As Possible

2

) All-Hazards Situation Assessment Prototype

ASC

1

) Advanced Systems Center

2

) Allowable Stack Concentration

3

) Application Support Center

4

) Area of Special Consideration

ASCADS Automated Sorting, Conversion and Distribution 

System

ASCE American Society of Civil Engineers

ASCII American Standard Code for Information 

Interchange

ASCS Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service

ASD

1

) Allowable Stress Design

2

) Assistant Secretary of Defense

ASDAR Aircraft-to-Satellite Data Relay

ASDSO Association of State Dam Safety Officials

ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations

ASFPM Association of State Floodplain Managers

ASH

1

) America’s Second Harvest

2

) Assistant Secretary for Health

ASIS American Society for Industrial Security

ASL

1

) Above Sea Level

2

) American Sign Language

ASLB Atomic Safety and Licensing Board

ASM Air Support Manager

ASME American Society of Mechanical Engineers

ASMRO Armed Services Medical Regulating Office

ASOS Automated Surface Observing System

ASP

1

) Active Server Page(

s

)

2

) Aviation Security Program
1

2

ASR Aquifer Storage Recovery

ASSE American Society of Safety Engineers

ASSET Advanced Simulation and Software Engineering 

Technology

ASST Assistant

AST Aboveground Storage Tank

ASTHO Association of State and Territorial Health Offices

ASTI Airport Security Technology Integration

ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials

ASTS Aeromedical Staging Squadron

ASU All-Source Situational Understanding

ASUFAC Airport and Seaport User Fee Advisory Committee, IN

AT Antiterrorism

ATA

1

) Actual Time of Arrival

2

) Airline Transportation Association

ATB Applied Technology Board

ATC

1

) Air Traffic Control

2

) Applied Technology Council

A-TCET

1

) Anti-Terrorism Combat Enforcement Team

2

) AntiTerrorism Contraband Enforcement Team

ATCO Airtanker Coordinator

ATCT Air Traffic Control Tower

ATD Actual Time of Departure

ATDP Annual Training and Development Plan

ATDT Atlantic Daylight Time 

(GMT - 3)

ATF

(Bureau of) Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms

AT/FP Antiterrorism & Force Protection

ATH Air-Transportable Hospital

ATM

1

) Automated Teller Machine

2

) Asynchronous Transfer Mode

ATMU Advanced Technology Meteorological Unit

ATMWU Air Transportable Mobile Weather Unit

ATO Air Tasking Order
13

ATR Advanced Thermal Reactor

ATRAP Air Transportable RADIAC Package

ATS Automated Targeting System

ATSA Aviation and Transportation Security Act

ATSDR Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry 

(USPHS)

ATST Atlantic Standard Time (GMT - 4)

ATTF Anti-Terrorism Task Force

ATTN Attention

ATV All-Terrain Vehicle

ATWC Alaska Tsunami Warning Center 

(obsolete; see WCATWC)

AUTODIN Automatic Digital Network

AUTOVON Automatic Voice Network (obsolete; see DSN)

AUVSI Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems 

International

AV 1) Air Vehicle

2) Audio-Visual

AVC Alaska Volcano Center

AVHRR Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer

AVIP Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program

AVLIS Atomic Vapor Laser Isotope Separation

AVO Alaska Volcano Observatory

AVOps Aviation Operations

AVSEC Aviation Security

AWD Available Without Declaration

AWIPS Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System

AWIS Automated Weather Information System

AWO American Waterway Operators

AWOL Absent Without Leave

AWRA American Water Resources Association

AWS Alternate Work Schedule

AYE Alternate Year Exercise
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BAER Burned Area Emergency Rehabilitation (Team)

BALV Best Available Lodging Value

BAND Bio-agent Autonomous Networked Detectors

BAREPP Bay Area Regional Earthquake Preparedness Proje

BASIS Biological Aerosol Sentry and Information System

BATF Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms

BBRS Board of Building Regulations and Standards

BBS Bulletin Board System

B/C Benefit/Cost

BC 1) Base Camp

2) Branch Chief

BCA Benefit-Cost Analysis

BCC Border Crossing Cards

BCF Billion Cubic Feet

BCIS Bureau for Citizenship and Immigration Services 

(see also CIS)

BCMC Board for the Coordination of Model Codes

BCR Benefit-Cost Ratio

BDA Battle Damage Assessment

BDC Bomb Data Center (FBI)

BDE Brigade

BDO Battle Dress Overgarment

BDRP Biological Defense Research Program

BDS Biohazard Detection System

BEEF Big Explosive Experimental Facility

BEIR Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation

BENS Business Executives for National Security

BENT SPEAR Nuclear Incident (codeword)

BEP Budget Execution Plan

BERD Blocked Erosion Rate Database

BERT Building Emergency Response Team

BFC Bills For Collection
1

5

BGAD Blue Grass Army Depot

BGCA Blue Grass Chemical Activity

BI Background Investigation

BIA

1

) Board of Immigration Appeals

2

) Bureau of Indian Affairs

BICE Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement

BIDS Biological Integrated Detection System

BIFC Boise Interagency Fire Center 

(obsolete, see NIFCC)

BIIDB Badge Imaging Information Database

BIL Band Interleaved by Line 

(Format)

BIT

1

) Building Inventory Tool

2

) Built-In Test

BIWG Bilateral Interdiction Working Group

BL Bill of Lading

BLESTP Basic Law Enforcement Supervisor Training Progra

BLEVE Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion

BLM Bureau of Land Management

BLS Basic Life Support

BM Bench Mark

BMC Bomb Management Center

BMP Best Management Practice

(

s

)

BN Battalion

B-NICE Biological, Nuclear, Incendiary, Chemical, or 

Explosive

BOC Basic Operating Cost

BOCA Building Officials and Code Administrators

BOM Bill of Materials

BoO Base of Operations

BOR Bureau of Reclamation

BORP Building Occupancy Resumption Program

BOXER Bulk-Only X-ray Enhanced Region

BPA

1

) Blanket Purchasing Agreement

2

) Border Patrol Agent

BPAT Building Performance Assessment Team
16

BPR Business Process Reengineering

BPRP Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Program

BPS Bits Per Second

BPWG Best Practices Working Group

BRM 1) Bioregulator/Modulator

2) Business Reference Model

BROKEN ARROW Nuclear Accident (codeword)

BRT Business Round Table

B&SA Bureau and Statistical Agent (NFIP)

BSA 1) Base Support Area

2) Business Software Alliance

BSC Building Security Committee

BSE Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy 

(aka, “Mad Cow Disease”)

BSI 1) Base Support Installation

2) Border Safety Initiative

BSIR Biannual Strategy Implementation Reports

BSPP Broadcast Station Protection Program

BSSC Building Seismic Safety Council

BST Burn Specialty Team

BT Buying Team

BTA Bioterrorism Act

BTCP 1) Biological Terrorism Contingency Plan

2) Biothreat Characterization Program

BTS

1) Budget Tracking System

2) Border and Transportation Security

3) Bureau of Transportation Statistics

BTU British Thermal Unit

BU Building (Line)

BTW By the way

BW Biological Warfare/Weapons

BWC Biological Weapons Convention

BWIC Biological Warning and Incident Characterization
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BZPP Buffer Zone Protection Plan

C2 Command and Control

C3

1

) Command, Control, and Communications

2

) Customs Cybersmuggling Center

C4 Command, Control, Communications, and 

Computers

C4ISR

Command, Control, Communications and 

Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and 

Reconnaissance

CA

1

) Capability Assurance

2

) Chemical Agent

3

) Civil Affairs

4

) Congressional Affairs

5

) Cooperating Agency

6

) Cooperative Agreement

CAA Clean Air Act

CAAP Critical Asset Assurance Program

CABIN Chemical and Biological Information Network

CAC

1

) Citizens’ Advisory Commissions

2

) Civil Applications Committee

3

) Climate Analysis Center 

4

) Community Assistance Contact

5

) Crisis Action Center

CACTIS Computer-Assisted CSEPP Training Information 

System

CAD

1

) Computer Aided/Assisted Dispatch

2

) Computer-Assisted Design

3

) Computer-Assisted Drafting

CADD Computer-Assisted Drafting and Design

CADET Computer-Assisted Design for Exercise Training

CADW Civil Air Defense Warning

CAE Command Assessment Element 

(for CBIRF)

CAER Community Awareness and Emergency Response

CAG Core Agency Group

CAI

1

) Chemical Accident/Incident

2

) Computer-Aided Instruction
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CALM Cognitive and Affective Learning Model

CAM

1

) Chemical Agent Monitor

2

) Computer-Aided Manufacturing

CAMDS Chemical Agent Munition Disposal System

CAMEO Computer-Aided Management of Emergency 

Operations

CAMEXPAN Central America Mexico Panama

CAMS Continuous Air Monitoring System

CANDU Canadian-Deuterium Uranium 

(Reactor)

CAO

1

) Caribbean Area Office

2

) Chief Administrative Officer

CAP

1

) Capability Assessment Program

2

) Capability Assurance Program

3

) Civil Air Patrol

4

) Collection, Analysis and Planning

5

) Combat Air Patrol

6

) Community Action Program

7

) Community Assistance Program

8

) Corrective Action Program

CAPA Coalition of Airline Pilot Association

CAPC Civil Aviation Planning Committee

CAP-FASSE Corrective Action Program - Federal Agency 

Support Services Element

CAPPS II Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System (II equals 2nd generation)

CAPSS Corrective Action Program Support System (obsolete)

CAP-SSSE Corrective Action Program - State Support Services 

Element

CAR

1

) Capability Assessment for Readiness 

2

) Congressional Affairs Representative

CARAT Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training

CARCAH Chief, Aerial Reconnaissance Coordination - All 

Hurricanes

CARD Collaborative Agencies for Responding to Disasters
19

CARL Computerized Activities Results List

CART 1) Computer Analysis and Response Team

2) County Animal Response Team

CAS 1) Chemical Abstract Service

2) Crisis Action System

CASE Computer-Aided Software Engineering

CASPER C-130 Airborne Sensor with Palletized Electronic 

Reconnaissance

CASU Centralized Administrative Services Unit

CAT

1) Catastrophic

2) Category

3) Collier Area Transit (Florida)

4) Crisis Action Team

CATEGORY A

PUBLIC 

ASSISTANCE

Debris Removal

CATEGORY B

PUBLIC 

ASSISTANCE

Emergency Protective Measures

CATEGORY C

PUBLIC 

ASSISTANCE

Roads and Bridges

CATEGORY D

PUBLIC 

ASSISTANCE

Water Control Facilities

CATEGORY E

PUBLIC 

ASSISTANCE

Buildings and Contents

CATEGORY F

PUBLIC 

ASSISTANCE

Utilities

CATEGORY G

PUBLIC 

ASSISTANCE

Parks, Recreational, and Other
20

CATS Consequences Assessment Tool Set

CATV Cable Television

CAV Community Assistance Visit

(

s

)

CAX Capability Assurance Exercise

CB

1

) Chemical Biological

2

) Citizens’ Band

3

) Cluster Bomb

CBA

1

) Contractors and Builders Association

2

) Cost-Benefit Analysis

CBCF Cross Border Crime Forum

CBD Chemical and Biological Defense

CBDCOM Chemical and Biological Defense Command (obsolete; see SBCCOM)

CBEK Compendium of Basic Exercise Knowledge

CBET Computer Based Education and Training

CBI

1

) Chandler Burning Index

2

) Computer-Based Instruction

CBIA Coastal Barrier Improvement Act

CBIAC Chemical and Biological Information Analysis Cent

CBIRF Chemical/Biological Incident Response Force 

(USM

CBL

1

) Commercial Bill of Lading 

2

) Computer-Based Learning

CBN

1

) Chemical, Biological, or Nuclear

2

) Cooperative Base Network

CBO

1

) Congressional Budget Office

2

) Community Based Organization(

s

)

CBP Customs and Border Protection, Bureau of (also called BCBP)

CBPMO

[US] Customs and Border Protection Modernizatio

Office

CBQRF Chemical-Biological Quick Response Force

CBR Chemical, Biological, and/or Radiological

CBRA Coastal Barrier Resources Act of 1982 (also see COBRA)
2

1

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CBRN Chemical, Biological, Radiological or Nuclear

CBRNE Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, or 

High-Yield Explosive

CBRNE-CM Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, or 

High-Yield Explosive - Consequence Management

CBRRT Chemical & Biological Rapid Response Team

CBRS

1

) Coastal Barrier Resources System

2

) Concept Based Requirement System

CBRT Chemical-Biological Response Team

CBT

1

) Chemical Biological Toxin 

2

) Computer-Based Training

CBW Chemical and Biological Warfare

C&C Components and Cladding

cc cubic centimeter

CC

1

) Citizen Corps

2

) Congregate Care

3

) Coordination Center

4

) Courtesy Copy

5

) Crisis Counseling

CCA Comprehensive Cooperative Agreement (obsolete; see CA)

CCB Configuration Control Board

CCC

1

) Commodity Credit Corporation

2

) Congregate Care Center

3

) Crisis Coordination Center

CCF Coded Cities Forecast

CCFP

(National Institute of Justice)

Center for Civil Force Protection

CCG Crisis Coordination Group

CCITP Counterterrorism Cyber-crime Investigations 

Training Program

CCL Contamination Control Line

CCN Canonical Correlation Analysis

CCND Consultative Committee on Natural Disasters

CCO

1

) Claims Coordinating Office

2

) Consultation Coordination Officer
22

involving citizens; based in OSLGC&P

)

3

) Crisis Counseling Program

CCR Central Contractor Registration 

(www.ccr.gov)

CCRA Canada Customs and Revenue Agency

CCSL Command and Control Simulation Lab

CCST Chemical Casualty Site Team

CCT Communications Coordination Team

CCTV Closed-Circuit Television

CD

1

) Civil Defense

2

) Compact Disc

CDBG Community Development Block Grant

CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

CDCP Center for Disease Control and Prevention

CDD

1

) Capability Development and Demonstration

2

) Cross-Disaster Database

CDE Committed Dose Equivalent

CDERA Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency

CDEX Civil Defense Exercise

CDL

1

) Commercial Driver’s License

2

) Community Disaster Loan

CDMA Code Division Multiple Access

CDO Central Dense Overcast

CDP Center for Domestic Preparedness

CDR

1

) Christian Disaster Response

2

) Commander

3

) Critical Design Review

4

) Crude Death Rate

CDRDB Conventional Disaster Resource Database

CDRG Catastrophic Disaster Response Group

CDRG-PAC Catastrophic Disaster Response Group - Primary 

Agency Committee

CD-ROM Compact Disc – Read-Only Memory

CDRS Call Detail Reporting System

CDT Central Daylight Time 

(GMT - 5)
2

3

CE

1

) Categorical Exclusion

2

) Civil Engineer

CEA Council of Economic Advisors

CEB Contractor Evaluation Board

CEC Chief Exercise Controller

CED Committee for Economic Development

CEDE Committed Effective Dose Equivalent

CEE Consolidated Enforcement Environment

CEF

1

) Cost, Insurance, and Freight

2

) Critical Emergency File

CEI Critical Elements of Information

CEM

1

) Certified Emergency Manager

2

) Comprehensive Emergency Management

CEMA Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association

CEMD County Emergency Management Director

CEMIS Crisis and Emergency Management Information 

System

CEMO Canada Emergency Measures Organization

CEMP Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan

CEMS Continuous Emission Monitoring System

CENL Chemical Event Notification Level

CENR Committee on Environment and Natural Resources

CENTPAC Central Pacific

CEO Chief Executive Officer

CEOC County Emergency Operations Center

CEOS Committee on Earth-Orbiting Satellites

CEP

1

) Circular Error Probable

2

) Civil Emergency Planning (NATO)

3

) Civil Emergency Preparedness

CEPA Canadian Emergency Preparedness Association

CEPAP Cost Estimating for the Public Assistance Program, 

Expert Panel on

CEPPO Chemical Emergency Preparedness and Prevention 

Office
24

CERCLA 

pp, 

Compensation, and Liability Act 

(aka “Superfund”

CERES California Environmental Resources Evaluation 

System

CERT

1

) Community Emergency Response Team

2

) Computer Emergency Readiness Team

3

) Computer Emergency Recovery Team

4

) Computer Evidence Response Training

CERT/CC Computer Emergency Response Team/

Coordination Center

CEST Cyber Emergency Support Team

CET Contraband Enforcement Team

CEU Compliance Enforcement Unit

CEXS Cooperative Extension Service

CFA

1

) Cognizant Federal Agency

2

) Computerized Fleet Analysis

CFAO Cognizant Federal Agency Official

CFC

1

) Chlorofluorocarbon

2

) Combined Federal Campaign

CFDA Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

CFGDP Crash Feed Grain Donation Program

CFIUS Committee for Foreign Investment in the United 

States

CFIVSAC Commercial Fishing Industry Vessel Safety Advisory 

Committee

cfm cubic feet per minute

CFO

1

) Chief Financial Officer

2

) Chief of Field Operations

CFR Code of Federal Regulations

CFS

1

) Certified Fraud Specialists, Association of

2

) Cubic Feet per Second

CFSA Consolidated Farm Service Agency

CFSI Congressional Fire Services Institute

CFTC Commodity Futures Trading Commission
25

CGD Coast Guard District

CGEOC Canadian Government Emergency Operations 

Center

CGFAA Cerro Grande Fire Assistance Act

CGISS Center for Geophysical Investigation of the Shallow 

Subsurface

CGM Computer Graphics Metafile

CGS Council of Graduate Schools

CHARM Complex Hazardous Release Model

CHAWS Chemical Hazard Warning System

CHCO Chief Human Capital Officer

ChE Cholinesterase

CHECK 21 Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act

CHEMTREC Chemical Transportation Emergency Center

CHER-CAP Community Hazards Emergency Response 

- Capability Assurance Process 

CHG Change

CHIP Capability and Hazard Identification Program

CHRIS Chemical Hazard Response Information System

CI Critical Infrastructure

CIA Central Intelligence Agency

CIAD Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs 

Division

CIAETP Criminal Investigation in Automated Equipment 

Training Program

CIAO Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office/Officer

CIBADS Canadian Integrated Biochemical Agent Detection 

System

CICAD Center for Intelligence Collection Analysis and 

Dissemination 

CICG Critical Infrastructure Coordination Group

CID Criminal Investigation Division or Department, 

Community Identification

CIDA Canadian International Development Agency

CIDCON Civil Defense Condition
26

CIFFC Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre

CII Critical Infrastructure Information

CIIA Critical Infrastructure Information Act of 2002

CI/KR Critical Infrastructure/Key Resources

CIMA Channel Industry Mutual Aid

CIMRT Critical Incident Management Response Team

CIMS

1) Correspondence and Issues Management 

System

2) Critical Incident Management Support

CIMST Critical Incident Management Support Team

CINC Commander-In-Chief

CINCAMC Commander-in-Chief, Air Mobility Command

CINCLANT Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic Fleet

CINCNORAD Commander-in-Chief, North American Aerospace 

Defense Command

CINCPAC Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Command

CINCSOC Commander-inChief, Special Operations Command

CINCTRANS Commander-in-Chief, Transportation Command

CIND Compact Integrated Narcotics Detector

CINDI

1) Center for Integration of Natural Disaster 

Information

2) Compact Integrated Narcotics Detector 

Instrument

CIO Chief Information Office/Officer

CIP Critical Infrastructure Protection

CIPB Critical Infrastructure Protection Board

CIPIC Critical Infrastructure Protection Information 

Center

CIPWG Critical Infrastructure Protection Working Group

CIRG Critical Incident Response Group

CIRP Catastrophic Incident Response Plan
2

7

CIS

(see also BCIS)

3

) Civil Infrastructure Security

4

) Community Information System

CISD Critical Incident Stress Debriefing

CISM Critical Incident Stress Management

CITAC Computer Intrusion Threat Assessment Center

CITO Central Imagery Tasking Office

CJCS Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

CJIS Criminal Justice Information System

CJTF Commander, Joint Task Force

CLIVAR Climate Variability

CLO Congressional Liaison Officer

CLOMA Conditional Letter of Map Amendment

CLOMR Conditional Letter of Map Revision

CLS Central Locator System

CM

1

) Cadre Manager

2

) Chief of Mission

3

) Configuration Management

4

) Countermeasure

CMA

1

) Chemical Manufacturers Association

2

) Chemical Materials Agenc

3

) Community Map Action (Form)

CMAA Customs Mutual Assistance Agreement (affiliated with BTS/CBP)

CMAS Circular Map Accuracy Standard

CMAT Consequence Management Advisory Team

CMC

1

) Center for Marine Conservation

2

) Crisis Management Center

3

) Crisis Management Coordinator

4

) Customs Management Centers

CMCAC Crisis Management Center Augmentation Cadre

CME Chief Medical Examiner

CMF Case Management File

CMG Consequence Management Group

CMHS Center for Mental Health Services
2

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CMT Crisis Management Team

CMTB Countermeasures Test Bed

CMU

1

) Concrete Masonry Unit

2

) Crisis Management Unit

CMV Commercial Motor Vehicle

CMX Crisis Management Exercise

CNC

1

) Central Network Control

2

) Computer Numerical Control

CNMI Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

CNN Cable News Network

CNO

1

) Chief of Naval Operations

2

) Counternarcotics Office/Officer

CNR Center for National Response, The

CNS

1

) Central Nervous System

2

) Corporation for National Security

3

) Corporation for National Service

CNSC Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission

CNSIP Classified National Security Information Program

CNSNS Commission for Nuclear Safety and Safeguards

CNT Counternarcoterrorism

CNU Crisis Negotiations Unit 

(FBI)

CNWDI Critical Nuclear Weapons Design Information

CO

1

) Commanding Officer

2

) Communications Officer

3

) Contracting Officer

4

) Custodial Officer

COA Course of Action

COAC Customs Operations Advisory Committee

COAD Community Organizations Active In Disaster

COAP Center for Ocean Analysis and Prediction

COB Close of Business

COBOL Common Business-Oriented Language

COBRA Coastal Barriers Resources Act
2

9

COC

) 

p

2

) Country of Citizenship

COCOM Coordinating Committee

COD Cash On Delivery

CODEL Congressional Delegation

COE

[US Army] Corps of Engineers

COG

1

) Continuity of Government

2

) Council of Governments

COGO Coordinate Geometry

COI Critical Operational Issue

COL

1

) Colonel

2

) Cost of Living

COLA Cost-of-Living Allowance

COLISEUM Community On-Line Intelligence System for End 

Users and Managers

COLT Cellular-on-Light-Truck

COMC Communications Coordinator

COMCDTF Commander, Civil Disturbance Task Force

COMINT Communications Intelligence

COMM Communications

COMPUSEC Computer Security

COMREL Community Relations

COMSEC Communications Security

CONOPS Concept of Operations

CONPLAN

1

) Concept of Operations Plan

2

) Contingency Plan

3

) U.S. Government Interagency Domestic 

Terrorism Concept of Operations Plan 

(see NRP)

CONUS Continental 

(or Contiguous) United States

CONUSA Continental United States Army

COO Chief Operating Officer

COOP Continuity of Operations

COP

1

) Common Operating Picture

2

) Chief of Party

3

) Chief of Police

COPS Community Oriented Policing Service
3

0

3

) Citizens of Oakland Respond to Emergencies

CORS Continuously Operating Reference Station

(

s

)

COS

1

) Cash on Shipment

2

) Chief of Staff

COSIN Control Staff Instruction

(

s

)

COSO Chief of Staff Office/Operations

COTHEN Customs Over-The-Horizon Enforcement Network

COTP Captain of the Port

COTR Contracting Officer’s Technical Representative

COTS Commercial Off-The-Shelf

COUSCS Commercial Operations of the US Customs Service, 

Advisory Committee on

COW Cellular-On-Wheels

CP

1

) Command Post

2

) Control Point

3

) Coordination and Planning

CPA Coalition Provisional Authority

CPAS Cellular Priority Access System

CPAV Community Program Assistance Visit

CPC Climate Prediction Center

CPD Community Planning and Development

CPE Contingency Planning Exchange

CPG Civil Preparedness Guide

CPHC Central Pacific Hurricane Center

CPI Consumer Price Index

cpm counts per minute

CPO

1

) Central Processing Office

2

) Chief Procurement Officer

CPOT Consolidated Priority Organization Target

CPPA Certified Professional Property Administrator

CPPM Certified Professional Property Manager

CPPS Certified Professional Property Specialist

CPR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
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CPSC Consumer Product Safety Commission

CPSP Comprehensive Passenger Screening Profile

CPTED Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design

CPU Central Processing Unit

CPX Command Post Exercise

CR

1

) Claims Representative

2

) Community Relations

3

) Congressional Relations

4

) County Road

CRAF Civil Reserve Air Fleet

CRAMP Coral Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program

CRC

1

) Contamination Reduction Corridor

2

) Crisis Response Cell

CRCL Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

CRCPD Conference of Radiation Control Program Director

CRDC Cybersecurity Research & Development Center

CREST Contingency Real Estate Support Team

CREW Cascadia Region Earthquake Workgroup

CRI Cities Readiness Initiative

CRM Crisis 

(or Communications) Resource Manager

CRO

1

) Congressional Relations Officer

2

) Community Reuse Organization

CROP Common Relevant Operational Picture

CRP

1

) Conservation Reserve Program

2

) Critical Review Phase

CRREL

(US Army) Cold Region Research and Engineering 

Laboratory

CRS

1

) Catholic Relief Services

2

) Community Rating System

3

) Community Relations Service

4

) Congressional Research Service

CRT Cathode Ray Tube

CRTF Commander, Response Task Force

CRUD Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete

CRWG Crisis Response Working Group
3

2

CS

1

) Chief of Staff 

2

) Chief Scientist 

[NOAA]

CSA

1

) Chief of Staff, Army

2

) Community Services Administration

CSAF Chief of Staff, Air Force

CSBG Community Services Block Grant

CSDGM Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata

CSDP Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program

CSEM Center for the Study of Emergency Management

CSEPP Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness 

Program

CSG

1

) Council of State Governments

2

) Counterterrorism Security Group

CSH Combat Support Hospital

CSHIB Chemical Safety and Hazards Investigation Board

CSI

1

) Container Security Initiative

2

) Customer Satisfaction Index

CSIL Commercial Satellite Imagery Library

CSIRT Computer Security Incident Response Team

CSIS

1

) Canadian Security Intelligence Service

2

) Center for Strategic International Studies

3

) Credited Structures Inventory System

CSM Chemical Surety Material

CSMIP California Strong-Motion Instrumentation Program

CSO

1

) Chief Security Officer

2

) Component Security Officer

CSPI Critical Systems Protection Initiative

CSREES Cooperative State Research Education and 

Extension Service

CST

1

) Central Standard Time (GMT-6)

2

) Civil Support Team (National Guard--for WMD)

CSTARC Cyber Security Tracking, Analysis, & Response Cent

CSTE Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists
33

3

) Customer Satisfaction Unit

CT Counterterrorism 

CTA Combined Travel Authorization

CTAC Chemical Transportation Advisory Committee

CTBT Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

CTC

1

) Conference and Training Center

2

) Counter-Terrorism Center

CTD

1

) Concept and Technology Development

2

) Counterterrorist Division

3

) Cumulative Trauma Disorder

CTF Combined Task Force

CTIA Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Associatio

CTJTF Counter-Terrorism Joint Task Force

CTOC Containerized Tactical Operations Center

CTOEM Connecticut Office of Emergency Management

CTOTF Counter-Terrorism Operations Training Facility

CTP Cooperating Technical Partners 

(Initiative)

C-TPAT Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism

CTS Cooperating Technical State

CTUIR Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian 

Reservation

Cu Cubic

CUREE Consortium of Universities for Research in 

Earthquake Engineering

CUSEC Central United States Earthquake Consortium

CUSP Central United States Partnership

CV Combined Verification

CVE Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

CVO Cascades Volcano Observatory

CVP Citizenship Verification Procedures

CVS Combined Verification Section

CW

1

) Chemical Warfare/Weapons

2

) Continuous Wave

CWA

1

) Chemical Warfare Agent

2

) Clean Water Act
3

4

CWS

1

) Check Writing System

2

) Church World Service

CWU Church World United

CY

1

) Calendar Year

2

) Cubic Yard

CZM Coastal Zone Management

CZMA Coastal Zone Management Act

D2PC An Army computer dispersion modeling capability

D2Puff An Army computer dispersion modeling capability 

that can factor in terrain and wind changes

D/A Departments and Agencies

DA

1

) Damage Assessment

2

) Declaration of Applicant

3

) Department of the Army

4

) District Attorney

DAAMS Depot Area Air Monitoring System

DAAC Distributed Active Archive Center

DAC

1

) Disaster Application/Assistance Center

2

) Direct Air Carrier

DACS Deportable Alien Control System 

(replaced by ERM

DAD Deputy Assistant Director

DAE Disaster Assistance Employee

(

s

)

[aka SAE]

DAEO Designated Agency Ethics Officer

DALIS Disaster Assistance Logistics Information System

DALO Disaster Area Liaison Officer

DAMAGES Disaster Accountability Management System

DAP Disaster Assistance Program

(

s

)

DA PAM Department of the Army Pamphlet

DAR Designated Agency Representative

DARCOM Development And Readiness Command

DARIS Disaster Automated Reporting and Information 

System

DARO Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office
3

5

DART

) 

y 

2

) Damage Assessment Reconnaissance Team

3

) Disaster Assessment and Recovery (or Response)

Team

4

) Disaster Assistance Response Team

DASC Disaster Assistance Support Center

DASH Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health

DASHO Designated Agency Safety and Health Official

DASP Disaster Assistance Support Program

DAST Disaster Assessment Survey Team

DAT Digital Audio Tape

DAWG Disaster Attache Working Group

DAWIA Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act

DBA

1

) Database Administrator

2

) Design Basis Accident

DBMS Database Management System

DC

1

) Direct Current

2

) Dislocated Civilians

3

) District of Columbia

DCA

1

) Defense Ammunition Center

2

) Defense Communications Agency

3

) Disaster Communication Agreement

DCAA Defense Contract Audit Agency

DCAC Demilitarization Chemical Agent Concentrator

DCAS Document Control and Accountability System

DCC

1

) Document Control Center

2

) Donation Coordination Center

DCCC Defense Collection Coordination Center

DCD Deseret Chemical Depot

DCE

1

) Defense Coordinating Element

2

) Disaster Communications Equipment

DCEMA District of Columbia Emergency Management 

Agency

DCE/MED TF Disaster Coordinating Element/ Medical Task Force

DCI Director, Central Intelligence

DCIS Defense Criminal Investigation Service
36

DCO Defense Coordinating Officer

DCP Development Concept Plan

DCPS Digital Cartographic Production System

DCS

1

) Defense Communications System

2

) Deputy Chief of Staff

3

) Digital Control System

DCT Donations Coordination Team

DCWDB Direction, Control, and Warning Database

DCX Direction and Control Exercise

DD

1

) Damaged Dwelling

2

) Direct Dial

DDD Direct Distance Dialing

DDE Dynamic Data Exchange

DDOS Distributed Denial of Service

DDP Data-Derived Product

DDRM Deputy Disaster Recovery Manager

DEA

1

) Data Exchange Agreement

2

) Drug Enforcement Administration

DEC

1

) DCI Environmental Center

2

) Director’s Executive Council

3

) Disasters Emergency Committee

DECD Department of Economic and Community 

Development

DECON Decontamination

DED Department of Education

DEFCON Defense Condition

DELO Deputy Environmental Liaison Officer

DEM

1

) Department of Environmental Management

2

) Digital Elevation Model

3

) Division of Emergency Management

DEMOB Demobilization or Demobilize

DEO Detention Enforcement Officer

DEP

1

) Department of Environmental Protection

2

) Domestic Emergency Preparedness
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DEPSEC Deputy Secretary

DEPSECDEF Deputy Secretary of Defense

DERC Damage Estimates, Ranges and Casualties

DERF Defense Emergency Response Fund

DERIS Domestic Emergency Response Information Servic

DES

1

) Data Encryption Standard

2

) Disaster Emergency Services

3

) Division of Emergency Services

DESCOM Depot System Command

DEST Domestic Emergency Support Team

(

s

)

DEW Distant Early Warning

DFA Direct Federal Assistance

DFAIT Department of Foreign Affairs and International 

Trade

DFAS Defense Financial Accounting Service

DFC Disaster Finance Center

DFCO Deputy Federal Coordinating Officer

DFIRM Digital Flood Insurance Rate Map

DFO Disaster Field Office

DFOM Disaster Field Operations Management

DFRN Disaster Federal Register Notice

DFSG Disaster Financial Services Group

DFSR Disaster Financial Status Report

DFTO Disaster Field Training Office (or Organization)

DGCO Deputy Grant Coordinating Officer

DG/CS Dangerous Goods/Cargo Security

DGN Design 

(File)

DGPS Differential Global Positioning System

DH Disaster Housing

DHA Disaster Housing Assistance

DHC Disaster Housing Checkwriter

DHCD Department of Housing and Community 

Development
38

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DHO Disaster Housing Officer

DHP Disaster Housing Program

DHS Department of Homeland Security [ESF-13]

DHUD Department of Housing and Urban Development 

(also HUD)

DIA Defense Intelligence Agency

DIAO Deputy Individual Assistance Officer

DID Direct Inward Dial

DIDA Detection, Identification, and Assessment

DIFAX Digital Facsimile

DIHS Division of Immigration Health Services

DII Defense Information Infrastructure

DIL Derived Intervention Level

DIMOS Drug Intelligence Method of Operation System

DIR 1) Director

2) Domestic Imagery Requirement

DIRC Disaster Information Resource Center

DIRNSA Director, National Security Agency

DIS Defense Investigative Service

DISA Defense Information Systems Agency

DISC Disaster Information Systems Clearinghouse

DISCO Defense Industrial Security Clearance Office(r)

DISN Defense Information System Network

DISUM 1) Daily Intelligence Summary

2) Disaster Summary

DLA Defense Logistics Agency

DLG Digital Line Graph

DLG-3 Digital Line Graph Level 3

DLL Dynamic-Link Library(ies)

DLS Disaster Legal Services

DM Disaster Management
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3) Disaster Mitigation Act

DMAC Disaster Management Advisory Committee

DMAT Disaster Medical Assistance Team

DMA2K Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 

(also called DMA 2000 or DMA)

DMH Disaster Mental Health

DMHT Disaster Mental Health Team

DMI Disaster Management Interoperability

DMIATF Data Management Improvement Act Task Force, IN

DMI-Services Disaster Management Interoperability Services

DMIS Disaster Management Information System

DMORT Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team

DMRIS Defense Medical Regulating Information System

DMRS Data Management and Retrieval System

DMS Dispatch Messaging System

DMSS Defense Medical Surveillance System

DMV Department of Motor Vehicles

DNA 1) Defense Nuclear Agency

2) deoxyribonucleic acid

DNAT Defense Nuclear Advisory Team

DNF Did Not Finish

DNR Department of Natural Resources

DNS 1) Department of Nuclear Safety

2) Domain Name Server

DO 1) Digital Orthophoto

2) Director of Operations

DOA Dead On Arrival

DOB 1) Date of Birth

2) Duplication of Benefits

DOC

1) Department of Commerce

2) Department of Conservation

3) Department of Corrections

4) Department Operations Center

5) Discrete Organic Chemicals

DOD or DoD Department of Defense
40

DOE Department of Energy 

[ESF-12]

DOEd Department of Education

DOH Department of Health

DOI Department of the Interior

DOIM Director of Information Management

DOJ Department of Justice 

[ESF-13]

DOL Department of Labor

DOLP Disaster Operations Leadership Program

DOM Disaster Operations Manual

DOMS Director of Military Support

DON Donation

(

s

)

DONAT Donation

(

s

)

DOQ Digital Orthophoto Quadrangle

DOS

1

) Department of State

2

) Disk Operating System

DOT Department of Transportation

DP Disaster Preparedness

DPA

1

) Deepwater Ports Act

2

) Defense Production Act

3

) Delegation of Procurement Authority

DPAO

1

) Deputy Public Affairs Officer

2

) Deputy Public Assistance Officer

DPAS Defense Priorities and Allocations System

DPC Domestic Policy Council

DPIG Disaster Preparedness Improvement Grant

DPM Disintegrations Per Minute

DPMU Disaster/Deployable Portable Morgue Unit

DPMT Disaster Pediatric Medical Team

DPOD Disaster Personnel Operations Division

DPP

1

) Disaster Processing Procedures

2

) Domestic Preparedness Program

DPPC Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners

DPRE Displaced Persons, Refugees and Evacuees
4

1

p

DR

1

) Disaster Declaration Number (alphabetic designation or precursor for)

2

) Disaster Recovery

3

) Disaster Response

DRASH Deployable Rapid-Assembly Shelter

DRAT District Response Advisory Team

DRC Disaster Recovery Center

DRD

1

) Deputy Regional Director

2

) Direct-Reading Dosimeter

DRES Disaster Response Evaluation System

DRF

1

) Disaster Relief Fund

2

) Disaster Response Force

DRG

1

) Digital Raster Graphic

2

) District Response Group

DRL Derived Response Levels

DRM Disaster Recovery Manager

DRO Detention and Removal Office

DRSS Division of Radiation Safety and Safeguards

DRT Disaster Response Team 

(NIMA)

DRTF Disaster Relief Task Force

DRU

1

) Direct Reporting Unit

2

) Disaster Resistant Universities

3

) Disaster Response Unit

DSB Defense Science Board

DSBCC Detection Systems for Biological & Chemical 

Countermeasures

DSC Digital Selective Calling

DSCA Defense Support to Civil Authority 

DSCO Deputy State Coordinating Officer

DSCS Defense Satellite Communications System

DSEA Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003

DSEC Deputy Secretary

DSFO Deputy Senior FEMA Official

DSN Defense Switched Network
42

DSR Damage Survey Report

DSWA Defense Special Weapons Agency

DTAPPS Disposable Toxicological Agent Personal Protection 

System

DT&E Development Test and Evaluation

DTE Disaster Temporary Employee(s)

DTED Digital Terrain Elevation Data

DTG Date-Time Group

DTIC Defense Technical Information Center

DTM Digital Terrain Model

DTMS Disaster Transportation Management System

DTO Drug Trafficking Organization

DTOS Deployable Tactical Operations System

DTRA Defense Threat Reduction Agency

DTRG Defense (or DoD) Technical Response Group

DTRIM Domestic Threat Reduction and Incident 

Management

DTS Diplomatic Telecommunications Service

DTSA Defense Technical Security Agency

DU Dobson Unit

DUA Disaster Unemployment Assistance

DULL SWORD Nuclear safety deficiency

DUNS Data Universal Numbering System

DUS Deputy Under Secretary

DUST OFF Medical Evacuation via Helicopter (slang)

DV Distinguished Visitor

DVA Department of Veterans Affairs

DW Data Window

DWG Drawing (file)

DWI 1) Disaster Welfare Information (or Inquiry)

2) Driving While Intoxicated

DWR Department of Water Resources
4

3

EA

1

) Eastern Area

2

) Emergency Action(

s

)

3

) Energy Assurance 

4

) Enterprise Architecture

5

) Environmental Assessment

6

) External Affairs

EAB

1

) Enterprise Architecture Board

2

) Exclusion Area Boundary

EACC Eastern Area Coordination Center

EACG Eastern Area Coordinating Group

EACT Emergency Action and Coordination Team

EAD

1

) Employment Authorization Document

2

) Executive Associate Director

EADRCC Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination 

Center

EAL Emergency Action Level

EAM Emergency Action Message

EAO

1

) Emergency Action Officer

2

) Energy Assurance Office (see also EA)

EAP

1

) Emergency Action Plan

2

) Emergency Action Procedures

3

) Employee Assistance Program

EAR Emergency Alert Radio

EARN Employer Assistance Referral Network

EART Evening Advisory Risk Threat

EAS Emergency Alert System (replaced EBS in 1997)

EBR Endogenous Biological Regulators

EBS Emergency Broadcast System (obsolete, see EAS)

EBT Electronic Benefits Transfer

EBW Exploding 

(or Electronic) Bridge Wire

EC

1

) Elevation Certificate

2

) Emergency Coordinator

3

) Extraordinary Circumstances

ECA Earth-orbit Crossing Asteroid
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ECCS Emergency Core Cooling System

ECCV Emergency Command and Control Vehicle

ECD

1

) Effective Cumulative Dose

2

) Emergency Contacts Directory

3

) Estimated Completion Date

ECFG Emergency Coordination Functional Group

ECG

1

) Emergency Coordination Group

2

) Exercise Control Group

ECI Export-Controlled Information

ECL Emergency Classification Level

ECP Emergency Conservation Program

ECS

1

) Electronic Certification System

2

) Emergency Communications Staff

3

) Emergency Coordinating Staff

ECSAP Electronic Crimes Special Agent Program

ECT

1

) Emergency Coordinating Team

2

) Exercise Control Team

ECTF Electronic Crimes Task Force

ECWAG Emergency Community Water Assistance Grant

ED

1

)

[Department of] Education

2

) Effective Dose

EDA Economic Development Administration

EDAC Economic Defense Advisory Committee

EDC

1

) EROS Data Center

2

) Energy Disruption Committee

EDD Explosive Detection Device

EDE Effective Dose Equivalent

EDI Electronic Data Interchange

EDIS Emergency Disaster Information System

EDR

1

) Economic Development Representative

2

) External Data Request

EDS Explosive Detection System

(

s

)

EDT Eastern Daylight Time 

(GMT - 4)
45

EEGL Emergency Exposure Guidance Level

EEI Essential Elements of Information

EEM Exercise Evaluation Methodology

EENET Emergency Education Network 

(at NETC)

EEO Equal Employment Opportunity

EEOC Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

EER Eligible Existing Resources

EERI Earthquake Engineering Research Institute

EET Emergency Evacuation Team

EEX Employee Express

EEZ Exclusive Economic Zone

EFAP Emergency Feed Assistance Program

EFO Emergency Field Office

EFP Emergency Feed Program

EFS Emergency Food and Shelter

EFSNB Emergency Food and Shelter National Board

EFSP Emergency Food and Shelter Program

EFT Electronic Funds Transfer

E-Gov

E-Gov is the use by the government of web-based 

Internet applications and other information 

technologies, combined with processes that 

implement these technologies. This term is also 

used to refer to the E-Gov agenda item in the 

President’s Management Agenda 

(PMA), Presidenti

Priority E-Gov initiatives, and the E-Gov focus area

referenced in the FY 2004 President’s Budget.

EHM Earthquake Hazard Mitigation

EHP Environmental/Historic Preservation

EHS Extremely Hazardous Substance

EIA Electronic Industries Alliance

EICC Emergency Information and Coordination Center

EIDA Executive Information and Display Area

EIDL Economic Injury Disaster Loan

EIIP Emergency Information Infrastructure Partnership
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EIPT Exercise Integrated Process Team

EIRS Emergency Information Retrieval System

EIS

1) Emergency Information System

2) Environmental Impact Statement

3) Epidemiological Intelligence Service

EIT Electronic and Information Technology

EJ Environmental Justice

ELC Engineering Logistics Center

ELINT Electronic Intelligence

ELO Environmental Liaison Officer

ELR Employee Labor Relations

ELT 1) Emergency Location Transmitter

2) Evacuation Liaison Team

EM 1) Emergency Management (or Manager)

2) Exercise Manual

EMA Emergency Management Agency

EMAC Emergency Management Assistance Compact

E-mail Electronic Mail

EMAS Emergency Management Assessment System

EMD

1) Electronic Monitoring Device

2) Emergency Management Director

3) Emergency Management Division

EMERCOM Emergency Command

EMERGCON Emergency Condition

eMerge2 electronically Managing enterprise resources for 

government effectiveness and efficiency

EMERS Emergency Management Exercise Reporting System

EMI

1) Emergency Management Institute

2) Emergency Management Institute, Board of 

Visitors for the

3) Electromagnetic Interference

EMIS Emergency Management Information System

EML Environmental Measurements Laboratory
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EMOC Emergency Management Operations Center 

(or Course)

EMP Electromagnetic Pulse

EMPA Emergency Management Planning and Assistance

EMPG Emergency Management Performance Grants

EMPO Emergency Medical Preparedness Office

EMPS Emergency Management Program Specialist

EMPTY QUIVER Theft, seizure, or loss of a nuclear weapon or 

component

EMR

1) Electromagnetic Radiation

2) Emergency Minimal Repair

3) Environmental Management Review

EMRT Emergency Medical Response Team

EMS 1) Emergency Management Specialist

2) Emergency Medical System [or Service(s)]

EMSHG Emergency Management Strategic Healthcare 

Group

EMSSA Emergency Medical Services System Act

EMT 1) Emergency Management Team

2) Emergency Medical Technician

EMT-P Emergency Medical Technician - Paramedic

EMWIN Emergency Managers Weather Information 

Network

ENDEX End of Exercise

ENR Environmental and Natural Resources

ENS Emergency Notification Service

ENSO El Nino / Southern Oscillation

E.O. Executive Order of the President

EO

1) Electro-Optical

2) Emergency Office

3) Environmental Officer

4) Executive Order

5) Exterior Orientation (Parameter)

EOC

1) Emergency Operating Center/Emergency 

Operations Center

2) European Olympic Committee(s)
4

8

EOEA Executive Office of Environmental Affairs

EOF

1

) Emergency Operations/Operating Facility

2

) End-of-File

EO/IR Electro Optical/Infrared

EOIR Executive Office for Immigration Review

EOM End of Month

EOO Emergency Operations Organization

EOP

1

) Emergency Operations/Operating Plan

2

) Executive Office of the President

3

) Extent of Play

EOS

1

) Earth-Observing System

2

) Emergency Operations Software

3

) Equation Of State

EOT Emergency Operations Team

EOV Emergency Operations Vehicle

EOW Envelope of Water

EP Electric Power

EPA

[United States] Environmental Protection Agency

EPC Emergency Preparedness Canada

EPCRA Emergency Planning and Community Right-toKnow Act

EPD Electronic Personnel Dosimeter

EPG Emergency Planning Guide

EPI Emergency Public Information

EPIC

1

) Emergency Preparedness Information 

Coordinator

2

) Electronic Privacy Information Center (“No fly” list; epic.org)

EPLO Emergency Preparedness Liaison Officer

EPO Environmental Protection Officer

EPOC

1

) Emergency Point(

s

) of Contact

2

) Emergency Preparedness Operations Center

EPP

1

) Executive Potential Program

2

) Emergency Preparedness Program
4

9

EPPM 

gy g, p, 

Mobilization

EPR or EP&R Emergency Preparedness and Response

EPS Encapsulated PostScript

EPZ Emergency Planning Zone

EQPCE Earthquake Preparedness Center of Expertise

EQUIP Earthquake Impacts Projection 

(Model)

ER

1

) Emergency Relief

2

) Emergency Room

3

) Equal Rights

ERA Equal Rights Amendment

ERAMS Environmental Radiation Ambient Monitoring 

System

ERB Economic Resources Board

ERC Emergency Response Coordinator

ERCG Emergency Response Coordination Group

ERCP Emergency Response Concept Plan

ERDA Energy Research and Development Administration

ERDEC Edgewood Research, Development and Engineerin

Center

ERF Emergency Response Facility

ERG Emergency Relocation Group

ERL Environmental Research Laboratories 

ERLink Emergency Response Link

ERM

1

) Elevation Reference Mark

2

) Enforcement Removal Module (replaces DACS)

ERMS Emergency Resource Management System

ERN Emergency Response Network

EROS Earth Resources Observing Satellite

ERP

1

) Elevation Reference Point

2

) Emergency Response Plan

3

) Expedited Removal Process

ERPA Emergency Response Planning Area

ERPG Emergency Response Guidelines

ERPS Effluents Radiation Protection Section
50 

ERS

) 

gy 

2

) Executive Reporting System

ERSAC Emergency Response Senior Advisory Committee

ERT

1

) Emergency Response Team

2

) Environmental Response Team

3

) Evidence Response Team

ERT-A Emergency Response Team - Advance Element

ERT-N National Emergency Response Team

ERT-N-NCR National Emergency Response Team for the 

National Capital Region

ERT-S Emergency Response Team Support Capability

ERV Emergency Response Vehicle

ERW Enhanced Radiation Weapon

ES

1

) Emergency Support

2

) Environmental Specialist

3

) Executive Secretariat

ESA Endangered Species Act

ESAP Energy Security and Assurance Program

ESC Executive Steering Committee

ESDP Engineering Study Data Package

ESDPF Engineering Study Data Package Facility

ESDRB Emergency Services and Disaster Relief Branch

ESF Emergency Support Function

(

s

)

[see below]

ESF 01 Transportation 

ESF 02 Communications 

ESF 03 Public Works and Engineering

ESF 04 Firefighting 

ESF 05 Emergency Management

ESF 06 Mass Care, Housing and Human Services

ESF 07 Resource Support

ESF 08 Public Health and Medical Services 

ESF 09 Urban Search and Rescue 

ESF 10 Oil and Hazardous Materials Response

ESF 11 Agriculture and Natural Resources
5

1

y y

ESF 14 Long-term Community Recovery and Mitigation

ESF 15 External Affairs

ESFLG Emergency Support Function Leaders Group

ESGR Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve

ESIC Earth Science Information Center

ESN Electronic Serial Number

ESP

1

) Early Site Permit

2

) Electric Service Priority

ESSV Emergency Support Service Vehicle

EST

1

) Eastern Standard Time (GMT - 5)

2

) Emergency Support Team

ESTED Estimated Safe Time before Evacuation Decisions

ET

1

) End-of-Transect (Line)

2

) Electronic Technician

ETA

1

) Estimated Time of Arrival

2

) Employment and Training Administration

ETC

1

) et cetera

2

) Emergency Transportation Center

ETD

1

) Estimated Time of Departure

2

) Explosives Trace Detector

ETE

1

) Estimated Time Enroute

2

) Evacuation Time Estimate

ETIC Estimated Time in Commission

ETIS Emergency Traffic Information System

ETJ Extraterritorial Jurisdiction 

(Limits)

ETO Exercise and Training Officer

ETOC Emergency Tactical Operations Center

ETRMS Emergency Transportation Resource Management 

System

ETS Evacuation Time Study

ETT Eligible Travel Trailer

EU European Union

EW Emergency Worker

EWAC Emergency Worker and Assistance Center

EWC Emergency Worker Center
52 

EWO Emergency War Order

EWP Emergency Watershed Protection

EWRI Environmental and Water Resources Institute

EXB Export-Import Bank

EXORD Execution Order

EXPLAN Exercise Plan

FAA 1) Federal Aviation Administration

2) Foreign Assistance Act

FAAS FEMA Automated Acquisition System

FAAT 1) FEMA Acronyms, Abbreviations, & Terms

2) Fully Analytical Aerial Triangulation

FAB FEMA Advisory Board

FAC

1) Family Assistance Center

2) Financial Attack Center

3) Foreign Air Carrier

FACA Federal Advisory Committee Act

FACNET Federal Acquisition Network

FADED GIANT Nuclear reactor radiological incident/ accident

FAE Fuel Air Explosives

FAEST Forward Area Emergency Support Trailers

FAIH Federal Assistance to Individuals and Households

FAIR 1) Fair Access to Insurance Requirements

2) [Refers to the] FAIR Act

FAM Federal Air Marshal

FAMA Fire Apparatus Manufacturer’s Association

FAMAS Facility Accreditation Management and 

Administration System

FAMS Federal Air Marshal Service

FANMAP FEMA Automated Network Management Program

FAO 1) Federal Approving Officer (or Official)

2) Food & Agricultural Organization (UN)

FAOC FEMA Alternate Operations Center

FAPRS Federal Access Program Retrieval System
5

3

FAR

) 

qg

2

) Federal Aviation Regulations

FARS Financial Accounting and Reporting System

FAS

1

) Foreign Agricultural Service

2

) Freely Associated States

FASSE Federal Agency Support Service Element

FasT Field Assessment Team

FAX Facsimile

FBFM Flood Boundary and Floodway Map

FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation 

[ESF-13]

FBIIC Financial and Banking Information Infrastructure 

Committee

FBN Federal Base Network

FBO Fixed Base Operator

FBR Fast Breeder Reactor

F-codes Charge codes for FEMA incidents

FC

1

) Fire Control

2

) Fire Corps (Citizen Corps Program Partner 

administered by USFA)

FCA Farm Credit Administration

FCC

1

) Federal Communications Commission

2

) Federal Coordinating Center

FCD Financial Crimes Division

FCE Functional Capability Element

FCIC Federal Crop Insurance Corporation

FCIP Federal Crime Insurance Program

FCIS Federal Crime Insurance System

FCM Federal Communications Manager

FCO Federal Coordinating Officer

FCP

1

) Field/Forward Command Post

2

) Federal Center Plaza

FCS

1

) Food and Consumer Service

2

) Farm Credit Service

FCSA Fee-Charge System Administrator

FCT Forward Coordinating Team
54 

FDIC Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

FDL Forensic Documents Laboratory

FDMS Federal Docketing Management System

FDO Flight Deck Officer

FDSS Federal Drug Seizure System

FE Functional Exercise

FEB

1

) Federal Executive Board

2

) Federal Executive Branch

FEC Facility Emergency Coordinator

FECA Federal Employees Compensation Act

FECC Federal Emergency Communications Coordinator

FedCIRC Federal Computer Incident Response Center

FEDD Flood Elevation Determination Docket

FED-STD Federal Standard

FED – TRT Federal Tactical Response Team

FEEA Federal Employee Education & Assistance

FEFFLA Federal Employees Family Friendly Leave Act

FEGLI Federal Employees Group Life Insurance

FEHB Federal Employees Health Benefits

FEI Federal Executive Institute

FEIS Final Environmental Impact Statement

FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency 

[ESF-5]

FEMAAR Federal Emergency Management Agency 

Acquisition Regulation

FEMIS Federal Emergency Management Information Syste

FERC

1

) Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

2

) FEMA Emergency Response Capability

FESC Federal Emergency Support Coordinator

FESHE Fire and Emergency Services Higher Education 

FEST Foreign Emergency Support Team

FF Firefighter

FFCD Full, Final, and Complete Disclosure

FFDO Federal Flight Deck Officer
55

FFRDC Federally Funded Research & Development Center

FGCC Federal Geodetic Coordinating Committee

FGDC Federal Geographic Data Committee

FHA

1

) Federal Housing Administration

2

) Flood Hazard Area(

s

)

FHAR Flood Hazard Analyses Report

FHBM Flood Hazard Boundary Map

FHM Flood Hazard Mapping

FHML Federal Hazardous Material Law

FHWA Federal Highway Administration

FIAB Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board

FICC Federal Interagency Coordination Council

FICEMS Federal Interagency Committee on Emergency 

Medical Services

FICO Flood Insurance Claims Office

(

r)

FIDLER Field Instrument for the Detection of Low Energy 

Radiation

FIMO Federal Incident Management Official

FinCen Financial Center

FIOC Federal Interagency Operations Center

FIP Federal Information Processing

FIPNC Flood Insurance Producers National Committee

FIPS

1

) Federal Information Processing Standards (Code

2

) FOIA Information Processing System

FIR

1

) Federal Inspection Report

2

) Final Inspection Report

3

) Flood Insurance Report

FIRESAT Fire-Detection Satellite System 

(previously known 

as the Integrated Hazard Information System

)

FIRM Flood Insurance Rate Map

FIRM-DLG Flood Insurance Rate Map-Digital Line Graph

FIRMR Federal Information Resources Management 

Regulation

FIRST

1

) Federal Incident Response Support Team 

2

) Federal Initial Response Support Team
5

6

yg

FIT

1

) Failed Income Test

2

) Financial Information Tool

FLAG FEMA Logistics Advisory Group

FLAR Forward Looking Airborne Radar

FLETC Federal Law Enforcement Training Center

FLEX Federal or FEMA Leadership Exercise

FLIR Forward-Looking Infrared

FLRA Federal Labor Relations Authority

FLS Flood Statement

FM

1

) Financial Management

2

) Force Module

3

) Frequency Modulation

FMA Floodplain Management Association

FMAGP Fire Management Assistance Grants (or Grant Program)

FMANA Fire Marshals Association of North America

FMAP

1

) Fire Management Assistance Program

2

) Flood Mitigation Assistance Program

FMC

1

) Federal Management Circular

2

) Federal Maritime Commission

3

) Federal Mobilization Center 

4

) Fully Mission Capable

FMCIMS Flood Map Center Inventory Management System

FMCS Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service

FMCSA Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

FMDC Flood Map Distribution Center

FME Federally Managed Exercise

FMH Federal Meteorological Handbook

FmHA Farmers Home Administration

FMHCSS Federal Manufactured Home Construction and 

Safety Standards

FMLA Family and Medical Leave Act

FMO Fire Management Officer
5

7

gy

FMSIS Flood Map Status Information Service

FMT Field Monitoring Team

FMV Fair Market Value

FNARS FEMA National Radio System

FNF Fixed Nuclear Facility

(ies)

FNS Food and Nutrition Services

FOB Federal Office Building

FOC

1

) FEMA Operations Center

2

) Forward Operations Center

3

) Free Of Charge

4

) Full Operating Capability

FOD Foreign Object Damage

FOF Field Operating Facility

FOG Field Operating 

(or Operations) Guide

FOIA Freedom of Information Act

FONSI Finding Of No Significant Impact

FORSCOM Forces Command

FOS

1

) Family of Services

2

) Federal Operations Support

FOSC Federal On-Scene Coordinator

FOUO For Official Use Only

FOV Field Of View

FPA Federal Preparedness Agency 

(obsolete)

FPC

1

) Federal Power Commission

2

) Federal Preparedness Circular

FPDL Fire Protection Demonstration Lab

FPEIS Federal Programmatic Environmental Impact 

Statement

FPF Federal Policy Fee

FPG Federal Preparedness Guide

FPI Floodplain Information Report

FPL Florida Power & Light

FPMR Federal Property Management Regulation

FPO

1

) Federal Preservation Officer

2

) Flood Potential Outlook
5

8

FRA Federal Railroad Administration

FRB Federal Reserve Board

FRC

1

) Federal Records Center

2

) Federal Regional Center

3

) Federal Resource Coordinator 

4

) Federal Response Center

FRCA Findings Requiring Corrective Action

FRCM FEMA Regional Communications Manager

FRD Formerly Restricted Data

FRERP Federal Radiological Emergency Response Plan

FRID Flood Risk Directory

FRMAC Federal Radiological Monitoring and Assessment 

Center

FRMAP Federal Radiological Monitoring and Assessment 

Plan

FRMT Field Radiological Monitoring Team

FRN

1

) Federal Register Notice

2

) Federal Reserve Note

3

) FEMA Radio Network

FRO Flood Response Office

FRP Federal Response Plan 

(now NRP)

FRPCC Federal Radiological Preparedness Coordinating 

Committee

FRPG Federal Response Planning Guidance

FRS

1

) Federal Reserve System

2

) Federal Response Subcommittee

FRSA Federal Railroad Safety Act

FRSSB Facilities Radiological Safety and Safeguards Branc

FRTIB Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board

FRZ Flight Restricted Zone

FS

1

) Feasibility Study

2

)

[United States] Forest Service [ESF-4]
5

9

3

) Forward Staging Areas

FSAR Final Safety Analysis Report

FSB Forward Support Base

FSC

1

) Federal Support Center

2

) FEMA Storage Center

FSD

1

) Federal Security Director

2

) Forensic Services Division

FSDO Flight Service District Office

FSE Full-Scale Exercise

FSG Financial Services Group

FSH Forest Service Handbook

FSIS Food Safety and Inspection Service

FSIU Field Support Intelligence Unit

FSL Federal, State, Local

FSLIC Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation

FSM Federated States of Micronesia

FSN

1

) Federal Stock Number

2

) FEMA Switched Network

FSO Free Space Optics

FSR Financial Status Report

FSS

1

) Family Support Services

2

) Federal Supply Service

FSSA Flight School Security Awareness

F&STD Fire and Safety Test Detachment

FSTS Federal Secure Telephone System

FSVS FEMA Secure Video System

ft foot/feet

FT Full-Time

FTA Federal Transit Administration

FTAA Free Trade Area of the Americas

FTC

1

) Federal Trade Commission

2

) Federal Training Coordinator

3

) Field Team Coordinator

FTD Federal Travel Directory

FTE Full-Time Equivalent
6

0

gg

FTP File Transfer Protocol

FTS

1

) Federal Telecommunications (or Telephone) System (or Service

)

2

) Forms Tracking System

FTSS Federal Training Support Staff

FTTTF Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force

FTX Field Training Exercise

FW Fire Weather

FWAN FEMA Wide Area Network

FWCA Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act

FWD Forward

FWP Federal Women’s Program

FWPCA Federal Water Pollution Control Act

FWS

(U.S.) Fish and Wildlife Service

FY Fiscal Year

FYHSP Future Years Homeland Security Program

FYI For Your Information

FZ Flood Zone

FZDC Flood Zone Determination Company

GA General Adjuster

GAAP Generally Accepted Accounting Principles

GAAS Generally Accepted Auditing Standards

GAAWG General Aviation Airports Working Group

GACC Geographic Area Coordination Center

GA/FBO General Aviation/Fixed-Base Operations

gal gallon

GAMA General Aviation Manufacturers Association

GANTSEC Greater Antilles Section

GAO General Accounting Office

GAR Governor’s Authorized Representative

GB Gigabyte

GBL Government/General Bill of Lading
61

()

GCCS Global Command and Communications System

GCE Government Cost Estimate

GCF Ground Concentration Factor

GCO Grant Coordinating Officer

GCOS Global Climate Observing System

GCS Ground Control Station

GDIN Global Disaster Information Network

GDNP Gross Domestic National Product

GDS Geographic Display System

GDSS Global Decision Support System

GDT Ground Data Terminal

Ge 

(Li) Lithium Drifted Germanium

GE General Emergency

GEMA Georgia Emergency Management Agency

GEMINI Global Emergency Management Information 

Network Initiative

GEMS Global Emergency Management System

GETS Government Emergency Telecommunications 

System/Service

GeoTIFF Georeferenced Tagged Image File Format

GFE Government-Furnished Equipment

GFI Government-Furnished Information

GFIP Group Flood Insurance Policy

GFIRST Government Forum of Incident Response and 

Security Team

GFM

1

) Generic Financial Module (NEMIS)

2

) Government-Furnished Material

GGI&S Global Geospatial Information and Services

GHAD Geologic Hazard Abatement District

GI

1

) Geographic Information

2

) Ground Infantry

GIL Grant-In-Lieu

GILS Government Information Locator Service,

GIS Geographic Information System

(

s

)
6

2

p 

G-M Geiger-Mueller 

(radiation detector)

GM Guidance Memorandum

GMDSS Global Maritime Distress and Safety System

GMF Government Master File

GMO genetically modified organism

GMR Graduated Mobilization Response

GMT Greenwich Mean Time 

(aka ZULU Time)

GNIS Geographic Names Information System

GOALS Government On-Line Accounting Link System

GOES Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite

GOGO Government-Owned, Government-Operated

GOSC Global Operations Security Center

GOTS Government Off-The-Shelf

GOV Government Owned Vehicle

GPL

1

) General Population Level

2

) General Population Limit

GPLD Government Property Lost or Damaged

GPM gallons per minute

GPMRC Global Patient Movement Requirements Center

GPO Government Printing Office

GPRA Government Performance and Results Act

GPS Global Positioning System

GRASS Geographic Resources Analysis and Support System

GRP Grant Reporting Portal 

GRS Geodetic Reference System

GS

1

) General Schedule

2

) Geological Survey

3

) Geo-Stationary

GSA General Services Administration

GSAAR General Services Administration Acquisition 

Regulation

GSACR GSA Communications Representative

GSE Government-Sponsored Enterprise
63

GTA

) 

2

) Government Travel Authorization

GTM Government Technical Monitor

GTR

1

) Government Technical Representative

2

) Government Transportation Request

GTS Global Telecommunications System

GUI Geographical User Interface

GVO Green Vinyl Overboot

GWA Government Wide Accounting

h 

(also hr) hour

HA Housing Assistance

HADT Hawaiian Daylight Time 

(GMT - 9)

HAG Highest Adjacent Ground 

[grade]

HAI Human Affairs International

HALE High Altitude Long Endurance 

(see also MALE)

HAN Health Alert Network

HARN High Accuracy Reference Network

HARTline Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority (Florida)

HAST

1

) Hawaiian Standard Time (GMT - 10)

2

) Humanitarian Assistance Survey Team

HAWAS Hawaiian Warning System

HAZMAT Hazardous Material

(

s

)

HAZMIN Hazard Minimization

HAZMIT Hazard Mitigation

HAZUS Hazards – United States

HAZUS-MH Hazards - United States 

(Multi-Hazard)

HAZWOPER Hazardous Waste Operation and Emergency 

Response

HBX High-Blast Explosive

HC Health Canada

HCF Height Correction Factor

HCFA Health Care Financing Administration

HCO Human Capital Office

HCTS Hazardous Cargo Transportation Security
6

4

g gy

HDP Hurricane Destruction Potential

HE High Explosive

HEAR Hospital Emergency Administrative Radio

HEC Hydrologic Engineering Center

HEICS Hospital Emergency Incident Command System

HELP Health Emergencies in Large Populations

HEMP High Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse

HEPA High Efficiency Particulate Air 

(as in filters)

HERN Hospital Emergency Radio Network

HERT Hospital Emergency Response Team

HES Hurricane Evacuation Study

HET Headquarters Emergency Transportation

HEU Highly Enriched Uranium

HEW Health, Education, and Welfare

HF

1

) High Frequency

2

) hydrogen fluoride

HF/SSB High Frequency / Single Side Band

H&H

1

) Hydraulics and Hydrology

2

) Hydrologic and Hydraulic (Analyses)

HHA High Hazard Area

HHC Headquarters and Headquarters Company

HHD Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment

HHMD Hand-Held Metal Detector

HHS Health and Human Services, Department of ESF-8

]

HHSEOC Health and Human Services Emergency Operations 

Center

HIC Hydrologist-in-Charge

HIDTA High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area

HIP Housing Improvement Program

HIPAA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Ac

HIRA Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment

HITRON Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron
6

5

HLS

1

) Hurricane Local Statement

2

) Homeland Security

HLT Hurricane Liaison Team

HLW High-Level Waste

HM

1

) Hazard Mitigation

2

) Hazardous Materials

HMAC Hazardous Materials Advisory Council

HMC Hazard Mitigation Coordinator

HME Health, Medical, and Environmental

HMEP Hazardous Materials Emergency Preparedness

HMGP Hazard Mitigation Grants Program

HMIX Hazardous Materials Information Exchange

HMMWV Highly Mobile Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle

HMRU Hazardous Materials Response Unit 

(FBI)

HMST Hazard Mitigation Survey Team

HMTA Hazardous Materials Transportation Act

HMTAP Hazard Mitigation Technical Assistance Program (or Plan)

HMTUSA Hazardous Materials Transportation Uniform 

Safety Act

HNAT Human Needs Assessment Team

HOB Height of Burst

HOH Head Of Household

HOO

[NRC] Headquarters Operations Officer

HOPWA Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS

HOTMAC High Order Turbulence Model for Atmospheric 

Circulation

HP

1

) Hewlett-Packard

2

) Historic Preservation

3

) Hurricane Program

HPAC Hazard Prediction and Assessment Capability

HPC Hydrometeorological Prediction Center

HPRP Home Protection Roofing Program

HPSI High Pressure Safety Injection

HPT Health Physics Technician
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HR

1

) Home Repair

2

) House of Representatives

3

) Human Resources

HRCQ Highway Route Controlled Quantity

HRD Human Resources Division

HRDI High Resolution Doppler Imager

HRMS Human Resources Management System

HRPT High Resolution Picture Transmission

HRT Hostage Rescue Team

HRV Human Rights Violator/Violation

HS

1

) Homeland Security

2

) Human Services

HSAC Homeland Security Advisory Council

HSARPA Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects 

Agency

HSAS Homeland Security Advisory System

HSC

1

) Health Service Command

2

) Homeland Security Center

3

) Homeland Security Council (formerly OHS)

HSDN High Seas Drift Nets

HSEEP Homeland Security Exercise Evaluation Program

HSIA Homeland Security Industry Alliance

HSIN Homeland Security Information Network 

(see JRIES

HSIPP Homeland Security Integrated Planning Process

HSLD Historic Shoreline Location Database

HSO Human Services Officer

HSOC Homeland Security Operations Center

HSPCD Historic Shoreline Positional Change Database

HSPD Homeland Security Presidential Directive

HSS

1

) Health Service Support

2

) Hyperspectral Sensor System

HSTF Homeland Security Task Force
67

HSUS The Humane Society of the United States

HTGR High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor

HTML HyperText Markup Language

HUB Historically Underutilized Business

HUD Housing and Urban Development, Department of

HUG HAZUS User Group

HUMINT Human Intelligence

HURCON Hurricane Condition

HUREVAC Hurricane Evacuation

HVA Hazard Vulnerability Analysis

HVAC Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning

HVT High Value Target

HWC Health and Welfare Canada

HWL High Water Line

HWM High Water Mark

HWR Heavy Water Reactor

Hz Hertz 

(cycle per second)

I

1

) Individual/Family

2

) Iodine Exposure Intensity

IA

1

) In and Around

2

) Individual Assistance 

3

) Information Analysis

4

) Information Assurance

5

) Inter-agency 

6

) Internal Affairs

7

) International Affairs (see OIA)

IAA Interagency Agreement

IAB Interagency Board

IAC

(DoD) Information Analysis Center

IACG Interagency Airspace Coordination Guide

IACNDR Inter-American Committee for Natural Disaster 

Reduction

IACP International Association of Chiefs of Police

IAE Integrated Acquisition Environment (eGovernment Initiative)
68 

IAFF International Association of Fire Fighters

IAFIS Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification 

System

IAG Interagency Advisory Group

IAI International Association for Identifications

IAIP Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection [DHS Directorate]

IAM Incident Activity Manager

IAO Individual Assistance Officer

IAP Incident Action Plan

IARLJ International Association of Refugee Law Judges

IARR Interagency Resource Representative

IASIR International Association of Security and 

Investigative Regulators

IAT Incident Assessment Team

IATA International Air Transport Association

IATBOG Interagency Airtankers Base Operations Guide

IAW In accordance with

IBA Incident Business Advisor

IBAD Interim Biological Agent Detector

IBC International Broadcast Center

IBD Improvised Biological Device

IBDS Integrated Biological Detection System

IBET Integrated Border Enforcement Team

IBHS Institute for Business and Home Safety

IBIS Interagency Border Inspection System

IBS Integrated Baseline System

IBT International Brotherhood of Teamsters

IBWA International Bottled Water Association

IC

1

) Incident Command/Commander

2

) Information Collection

3

) Intelligence Community 
69

g

ICAP Incident Communications Action Plan

ICBM Intercontinental Ballistic Missile

ICC

1

) Incident Command Center

2

) Increased Cost of Compliance

3

) Intelligence Control Center

4

) International Code Council

ICCB Intergovernmental Consultation and Coordination 

Board

(

s

)

ICCOH Interagency Coordinating Committee On Hurrican

ICD

1

) Improvised Chemical Device

2

) Infrastructure Coordination Division

3

) Institute of Chemical Defense

ICE

1

) Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 

Bureau of 

(also called BICE)

2

) Interoperable Communications Equipment

ICER Incident Communications Emergency Reference

ICF

1

) Incident Command Facility

2

) Insulating Concrete Forms

ICGP Interoperable Communications Grant Program

ICIMPP Integrated Civilian Industrial Mobilization Plannin

Process

ICISF International Critical Incident Stress Foundation

ICITAP International Criminal Investigative Training 

Assistance Program

ICMA International City/County Management 

Association

ICMOP Integrated CONUS Medical Operations Plan

ICODS Interagency Committee on Dam Safety

ICP

1

) Incident Command Post

2

) Information Collection Plan

3

) Integrated Cargo Processing

ICPACC Incident Communications Public Affairs 

Coordination Committee

ICPAE Interagency Committee on Public Affairs in 

Emergencies

ICPO

(see INTERPOL)
7

0

ICRP 

g

Protection

ICS

1

) Incident Command System

2

) Initial Contingency Staff

ICSSC Interagency Committee on Seismic Safety in 

Construction

ICU

1

) Information Coordination Unit

2

) Incident Crisis Unit

3

) Intensive Care Unit

ICWW Intracoastal Waterway

ID

1

) Identification credentials

2

) Infectious Disease

IDE Intrusion Detection Equipment 

[see IDS]

IDEM Iowa Department of Emergency Management

IDENT Automated Biometric Fingerprint Identification 

System

IDEX Image Data Exploitation 

(System)

IDIQ Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity

IDLH Immediate Danger to Life and/or Health

IDP Imagery-Derived Product

IDPP Infectious Disease Prevention Program

IDR Institute for Disaster Research

IDS

1

) Information Display System

2

) Integrated Deepwater System

3

) Intrusion Detection System

IE Initial Elevation 

(Line)

IEA

1

) Immigration Enforcement Agent

2

) International Energy Agency

IEC

1

) InterExchange Carrier

2

) Integrated Exploitation Capability

IED

1

) Improvised Explosive Device

2

) Incendiary Explosive Device

IEMA Illinois Emergency Management Agency

IEMC Integrated Emergency Management Course

IEMG International Emergency Management Group
71

IEMS Integrated Emergency Management System

IEP Ingestion Exposure Pathway

IEVS Income Eligibility Verification System

IF Inland Fetch 

(Line)

IFALPA International Federation of Airline Pilots Associatio

IFB Invitation for Bid

IFG Individual and Family Grant

IFGP Individual and Family Grant Program

IFLOWS Integrated Flood Observing and Warning System

IFMIS Integrated Financial Management Information 

System

IFPA Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, Inc.

IFR

1

) Instrument Flight Rules

2

) Interim Final Rule

IFSAR Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar

IFTP Internet Forensic Training Program

IG

1

) Inspector General (see also OIG)

2

) Instructor Guide

IGE Independent Government Estimate

IGPT Interagency Geospatial Preparedness Team

IH

1

) Inhalation 

2

) Intense Hurricane

IHC

1

) Interagency Hotshot Crew

2

) International Hurricane Center

IHD Intense Hurricane Day

IHE Insensitive High Explosive

IHMT Interagency Hazard Mitigation Team

IHOG Interagency Helicopter Operation Guide

IHP Individuals and Households Program

IHS Indian Health Service

IIC

1

) Interagency Intelligence Cell

2

) Investigator in Charge

IICT Interagency Intelligence Committee on Terrorism

IIFC Information/Intelligence Fusion Center

III Interstate Identification Index
7

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IIPO Information Integration Program Office

IIS

[Microsoft] Internet Information Server

IIT Incident Investigation Team

IITP Internet Investigations Training Program

ILE Installations, Logistics & Environment

ILEA International Law Enforcement Academy

ILS Integrated Logistics Support

IMA Individual Mobilization Augmentee

IMAAC Interagency Modeling and Atmospheric Assessmen

Center

IMAC Infrastructure Monitoring, Analysis, and 

Coordination

IMC

1

) Instrument Meteorological Conditions

2

) Interim Message Change

3

) International Mechanical Code

4

) International Medical Corps

IMCS Incident Management Communications Systems

IMG Information Management Group

IMINT Imagery Intelligence

IMO International Maritime Organization

IMPAC International Merchant Purchase Authorization Ca

IMRD Information Management and Requirements 

Division

IMS

1

) Incident Management System

2

) Information Management System

3

) Intelligence Management System

IMSR Incident Management Situation Report

IMSuRT International Medical Surgical Response Team

IMT

1

) Incident Management Team

2

) Integrated Management Team

IMU Inertial Measurement Unit

INA Immigration and Nationality Act

IND Improvised Nuclear Device
73

INER Interagency National Executive Reserve

INES International Nuclear Event Scale

INF

1

) Infrastructure

2

) Immediate Needs Funding

INFO Information

INFOSEC Information Security

INMARSAT International Maritime Satellite

INPO Institute for Nuclear Power Operations

INPHO Information Network for Public Health Officials

INRP Initial National Response Plan

INS

1

) Immigration and Naturalization Service

2

) Inertial Navigation System

3

) Insurance

INSARAG International Search and Rescue Advisory Group

Insp Inspection

INTERCOM Internal Communications

INTERPOL International Criminal Police Organization

IOC

1

) Initial Operational Capability

2

) International Olympic Committee

IOF

1

) Initial Operating Facility 

2

) Interim Operating Facility

IOR Initial Operating Report

IOS International Organization for Standardization

I&P or I/P Information and Planning

IP

1

) Implementing Procedure

2

) Information and Planning

3

) Infrastructure Protection

IPC

1

) Interagency Planning Committee

2

) International Paralympic Committee

IPE

1

) Integrated Performance Evaluation

2

) Integrated Process Evaluation

IPFO Interim Principle Federal Official

IPIA Improper Payments Information Act

IPP Imminent Peril to the Public
7

4

IPS

1

) Information and Planning Section

2

) Information Processing System

3

) International Port Security

IPSCOM Imagery Policy and Security Committee

IPT

1

) Integrated Process Team

2

) Integrated Product Teams

3

) Integrated Project Team

IPZ Ingestion Pathway Zone

IR Infrared

IRAC Interagency Radiological Assistance Committee

IRB

1

) Information Resources Board

2

) Investment Review Board

IRBM Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile

IRC

1

) International Residential Code

2

) Information Resources Center

IRF Initial Response Force

IRFC Initial Response Force Commander

IRI Industrial Research Institute

IRIS Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology

IRM Information Resources Management

IRMS Information Resources Management Service

IRP

1

) Institutional Removal Program

2

) Interior Repatriation Program

3

) Investment Review Process

IRPMR Information Resources Procurement and 

Management Review

IRR Initial Response Resource

(

s

)

IRS Internal Revenue Service

IRT

1

) Independent Review Team

2

) Initial Response Team

IRZ Immediate Response Zone

IS

1

) Information Security

2

) Information System(

s

)

3

) Infrastructure Support

4

) Inspection Services
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ISABP International South Atlantic Buoy Program

ISAC

1

) Information Sharing and Analysis Center

2

) Infrastructure Sector Advisory Committee 

ISACA Information Systems Audit and Control Association

ISAO Information Sharing and Analysis Organization

ISAR Inspection Services Activity Report

ISC

1

) Inspection Services Coordinator 

2

) Interstate Commerce

ISCS International Satellite Communications Systems

ISD Infrastructure Services Division

ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network

ISDR International Strategy for Disaster Reduction

ISEMA Indiana State Emergency Management Agency

ISI Immigration Security Initiative

ISIP Initial Strategy Implementation Plan

ISIS Integrated Surveillance Intelligence System

ISMA International Security Management Association

ISO

1

) Incident Support Organization

2

) Insurance Services Office

3

) International Standards Organization

ISOC

1

) Information Security Oversight Committee 

2

) Interagency SEAT Operations Guide

ISOO Information Security Oversight Office

ISP

1

) Immediate Services Program

2

) Information Security Program

3

) Information Systems Plan

4

) Intensive Supervision Program

5

) Interagency Security Plan

6

) Internet Service Provider

ISPAG Information Systems Policy Advisory Group

ISR Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance

ISSA Information Systems Security Association

ISSP Information Systems Security Program

IST Incident Support Team

IST-A Incident Support Team - Advance Element
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ISTS Institute for Security Technology Studies

ISVB Imagery Science Validation Board

IT Information Technology

ITA

1

) Information Technology Architecture

2

) Integrated Transport Analysis

ITAA Information Technology Association of America

ITAAC Inspections, Tests, Analyses, and Acceptance Criter

ITAR International Traffic in Arms Regulations

ITC

1

) Information Technology Committee

2

) Information Technology Coordinator

3

) International Trade Commission

ITD International Training Division

ITDS International Trade Data System

I-Team

1

) Incident Team

2

) Intelligence Team

ITED IFSAR Terrain Elevation Data

ITF Intelligence Task Force

ITI International to International

ITIC International Tsunami Information Center

ITM Inspection Transfer Manager

ITMRA Information Technology Management Reform Act 

of 1996

I-TRAP Interagency Terrorism Response Awareness Progra

ITS

1

) Information Technology Services

2

) Intelligent Transportation System(

s

)

ITSD Information Technology Services Directorate

ITSH Internal Transport, Storage, and Handling

ITV In-Transit Visibility

ITWG International Technical Working Group

IVD Interactive Video Disk

IVHHN International Volcanic Health Hazard Network

IVR Interactive Voice Response

I&W Indications and Warning
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JAARS Joint After-Action Reporting System

JAC Joint Advisory Committee

JACADS Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System

JACE Joint Assessment of Catastrophic Events

JAD Joint Application Development

JAG

1

) Joint Action Group

2

) Judge Advocate General (DoD)

JANAP Joint Army-Navy-Air Force Publication

JATS Joint Air Transportation System

JAWAS Joint Automated Weather Observing System

JBPDS Joint Biological Point Detection Systems

JCAH Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals

JCAHO Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare 

Organizations

JCC Joint Coordination Center

JCS Joint Chiefs of Staff

JDCC Joint Data Coordination Center

JDISS Joint Deployable Intelligence Support System

JDOMS Joint Director of Military Support

JECG Joint Exercise Control Group

JEEP Joint Emergency Evacuation Plan

JEMP Joint Exercise Management Program

JEOC Joint Emergency Operations Center

JFACC Joint Force Air Component Commander

JFC Joint Force Commander

JFCOM Joint Forces Command

JFHQ-HLS Joint Forces Headquarters - Homeland Security

JFLCC Joint Force Land Component Commander

JFO Joint Field Office

JHAT Joint Hazardous Assessment Team

JHEC Joint Hazard Evaluation Center

JI Johnston Island

JIACG Joint Interagency Coordination Group

JIALO Joint Interagency Liaison Officer
78 

JIC

) J

2

) Joint ICE Center

3

) Joint Intelligence Center

JICPAC Joint Intelligence Center, Pacific

JIISE Joint Interagency Intelligence Support Element

JIMPP Joint Industrial Mobilization Planning Process

JIOC Joint Investigative Operations Center

JIS Joint Information System

JIT

1

) Job Instruction Training

2

) Just In Time

JMC Joint Movement Center

JMFU Joint METOC Forecast Unit

JMIP Joint Military Intelligence Program

JMMO Joint Medical Mobilization Office

JMRO Joint Medical Regulating Office

JMT Joint Management Team 

(combination of IST and 

MST - US&R and DMAT or NDMS

)

JNACC Joint Nuclear Accident Coordinating Center

JOA Joint Operational Area

JOC Joint Operations Center

JOPES Joint Operations Planning and Execution System

JPAC Joint Planning Augmentation Cell 

(for CBIRF)

JPATS Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System

JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group

JPIC Joint Public Information Center

JPMRC Joint Patient Movement Requirements Center

JPMT Joint Patient Movement Team

JPO Joint Program Office

JRERP Joint Radiological Emergency Response Plan

JRIES Joint Regional Information Exchange System (see HSIN)

JRMP Joint Regional Medical Planner

JRMPO Joint Regional Medical Planning Office

JRS Joint Reporting System
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JSOTF Joint Special Operations Task Force

JSTARS Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System

JTA Jacksonville Transportation Authority

JTF Joint Task Force

JTF-CM Joint Task Force - Consequence Management

JTF-CS Joint Task Force - Civil Support

JTF-FF Joint Task Force - Firefighter 

NTF-NCR Joint Task Force - National Capital Region

JTOT

1

) Joint Tactical Operations Team

2

) Joint Technical Operations Team

JTPA Job Training Partnership Act

JTR Joint Travel Regulations

JTRB Joint Telecommunications Resources Board

JTTF Joint Terrorism Task Force

JTWC Joint Typhoon Warning Center

JWICS Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications 

System

JWID Joint Warrior Interoperability Demonstration k kilo

KAPP Key Asset Protection Program (obsolete; see CAAP)

kB Kilobyte

Kb Kilobit

kBPS Kilobits Per Seconds

KBRM Knowledge-Based Risk Management

KCCO Kansas City Commodity Office

KD Knocked Down

KDEM

1

) Kansas Department of Emergency Management

2

) Kentucky Department of Emergency 

Management

KDP Key Decision Point

kg kilogram

kHz kiloHertz

km kilometer
8

0

kV kilovolt

KVERT Kamchatkan Volcanic Eruptions Response Team

kW Kilowatt

(

s

)

kWh kilowatt hour L Locality

LA Legislative Affairs 

(see OLA)

LAC Local Assistance Center

(

s

)

LAG Lowest Adjacent Ground 

[grade]

LAN Local Area Network

LANDSAT Land Satellite

LANL Los Alamos National Laboratory

LAN/WAN Local Area Network/Wide Area Network

LAO Lead Agency Official

LAW Light Antitank Weapon

lb pound

LBAD Lexington Blue Grass Army Depot

lbf pound force

L-CAR Local Capability Assessment for Readiness

LCAT Logistics Closeout Assistance Team

LCCE Life Cycle Cost Estimate

LCM Life Cycle Management

LCO Limiting Condition for Operation

LCT Liaison Coordination Team

LD Lethal Dose

LDR Lutheran Disaster Response

LDS Lightning Detection System

LDW Last Day Worked

LE Law Enforcement

LEA

1

) Law Enforcement Agency

2

) Light Enforcement Aircraft

LEADERS Lightweight Epidemiology Advanced Detection and 

Emergency Response System
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)

LEGAT Legal Attache

LEH Light Enforcement Helicopter

LEL 1) Lower Explosive Limit

2) Lowest Effect Level

LEM Local Emergency Management

LEMA Local Emergency Management Authority

LEOC Local Emergency Operations Center

LEP 1) Leadership Excellence Program

2) Limited English Proficiency

LEPC Local Emergency Planning Committee

LEPPC Local Emergency Prevention and Preparedness 

Council

LERN Law Enforcement Radio Net

LERT Logistics Emergency Response Team

LESC Law Enforcement Support Center

LESO Law Enforcement Security Officer

LETPP Law Enforcement Terrorism Prevention Program 

LETS Law Enforcement Telecommunications System

LEU Low-Enriched Uranium

LEVEL 1 EST Full EST activation level (NRCC)

LEVEL 2 EST Intermediate EST activation level (NRCC)

LEVEL 3 EST Minimal EST activation level (NRCC)

LEWG Law Enforcement Working Group

LF 1) Linear Foot

2) Low Frequency

LFA Lead Federal Agency

LFD Letter of Final Determination

LFE Lowest Floor Elevation

LFEOC Local Federal Emergency Operations Center

LFFE Lowest Finished Flood Elevation

LFO Lead Federal Official

LFP Livestock Feed Programs

LH Local Hire
8

2

LHMC Local Hazard Mitigation Coordinator

LHR Limited Home Repair

LHW Last Hour Worked

LIBSYS Library System

LID Low-Impact Development

LIDAR Light Detection and Ranging 

(system)

LIDEF Levee Inventory Data Entry Form

LIFE Legal Immigration Family Equity

LIHEAP Low Income Household Energy Assistance Program

LIMFAC Limiting Factor

LIMS

1

) Laboratory Information Management System

2

) Logistics Information Management System

LISS Linear Imaging and Self-Scanning

LLEA Local Law Enforcement Agency

LLNL Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

LLP Limited Liability Partnership

LLW Low-Level Waste

LLWS Low-Level Wind Shear

LM Logistics Management

LMDC Lower Manhattan Development Corporation

LMF Logistics Management Facility

LMFBR Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor

LMR Living Marine Resource

LNG Liquefied Natural Gas

LNO Liaison Officer

LOA Letter of Agreement

LOAEL Lowest Observed Adverse Effect Level

LOC

1

) Letter of Credit

2

) Library of Congress

3

) Line of Communication 

LOCA Loss-Of-Coolant Accident

LOC-TFCS Letter of Credit - Treasury Financial 

Communications System
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LOG Logistics

LOI 1) Letter of Intent

2) Letter of Instruction

LOMA Letter of Map Amendment

LOMC Letter of Map Change

LOMC-VALID Letter of Map Change Revalidation

LOMR Letter of Map Revision

LOMR-F Letter of Map Revision Based on Fill

LOS Line-of-Sight

LOSA Logistical Operations Staging Area

LOSSEST Loss Estimation

LOU Limited Official Use

LPDP Livestock Preservation Donation Program

LPG Liquefied Petroleum Gas

LPN Licensed Practical Nurse

LPOC Last Port of Call

LPPC Local Preparedness and Prevention Council

LPR Lawful Permanent Resident

LPZ Low Population Zone

LR Limited Response

LR-BSDS Long Range Biological Standoff Detection System

LRC 1) Learning Resource Center

2) Logistics Readiness Center

LRFD Load and Resistance Factor Design

LRIP Low Rate Initial Production

LRMP Long Range Management Plan

LRN Laboratory Response Network

LRU Lowest Replaceable Unit

LS 1) Logistics Support

2) Lump Sum

LSC 1) Legal Services Corporation

2) Life Support Center

LSCAD Lightweight Standoff Chemical Agent Detector

LSG Large Scale Game(s)
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LT or Lt or Lieut Lieutenant

LTATP Land Transportation Anti-terrorism Training 

Program

LTD Limited

LTL Less-than Truckload

LTR Long Term Recovery

LULC Land Use and Land Cover

LWF Lutheran World Federation

LWOP Leave Without Pay

LWR Light-Water Reactor

LYNX Central Florida Regional Transportation Authority

LZ Landing Zone

MA 1) Marshalling Area

2) Mission Assignment

MAA Mutual Aid Agreement

MAAD Mobile Asset Activities Document

MAC

1) Mapping & Analysis Center

2) Mission Assignment Coordinator

3) Monitoring and Analysis Coordinator

4) Multi-Agency Command

5) Multiple award contract

MACA Military Assistance to Civil Authorities

MACC 1) Multi-Agency Coordination Center

2) Multi Agency Crime Center

MACDIS Military Assistance for Civil Disturbances

MACGp Multi-Agency Coordination Group

MACOM Major Command

MACS Multi-Agency Coordination System

MAEC Mid-America Earthquake Center

MAELU Mutual Atomic Energy Liability Underwriters

MAF Master Appropriation File

MAFFS Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System

MAGIC Mid-America GIS Council
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MAR Monthly Accomplishments Report

MARAC Mutual Aid Regional Advisory Committee

MARAD Maritime Administration

MARC Maryland Rail Commuter

MAREP Marine Report

MARR Mission Assignment Reimbursement Request

MARS

1) Military Affiliated Radio System

2) Mobile Analytical Response System

3) Multifunction Acquisition and Reporting System

MARSA Military Assumes Responsibility for Separation of 

Aircraft

MARSEC Maritime Security

MarshMALLOW Marsh Management Activities for Learning the 

Lifestyles of Wildlife

MART Morning Advisory Risk Threat 

(see also DART and EART)

MAS Mapping Activity Statement

MASF Mobile Aeromedical Staging Facility

MASH Mobile Army Surgical Hospital

MASINT Measurement and Signature Intelligence

MAST Military Assistance to Safety and Traffic

MAT Mobilization Assistance Team

MATES Mobilization and Training Equipment Site

MATRIX Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange

MATTS Mobile Air Transportable Telecommunications 

System

mb Millibar

MB Megabyte

MBA 1) Master of Business Administration

2) Mortgage Bankers Association

MBO Management by Objectives

MBPS Megabytes Per Second

MBTA Migratory Bird Treaty Act
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4

) Mobilization Center

MCA Multichannel Analyzer

MCC

1

) Major Cities 

[police] Chiefs

2

) Master Control Cell

3

) Mobility Control Center

4

) Movement Coordination Center

5

) Mission Control Center

MCD Medical Crew Director

MCE Maximum Credible Event

MCEER Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake 

Engineering Research

MCF

1

) Mass Care and Feeding

2

) Movement Coordination Function

MCI Mass Casualty Incident

MCMC Mid-Continent Mapping Center

MCMT Mobilization Center Management Team

MCO MERS Coordination Office

MCOC Marine Corps Operations Center

MCR Military Communications Representative

MCS Movement Coordination System

MCSAP Motor Carrier Safety and Assistance Program

MCU Movement Coordination Unit

MCV Mobile Coordinating Vehicle

MD

1

) Management Directive

2

) Medical Doctor

MDA Maritime Domain Awareness

MDD Metal Detection Device

MDF Medical, Dental, and Funeral

MDRO Mission Disaster Relief Officer

MDS Mennonite Disaster Service

MDST Mountain Daylight Savings Time 

(see MDT)

MDT Mountain Daylight Time 

(GMT - 6)

ME Medical Examiner
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MEAG Major Emergency Action Guide

MEAP Mobile Environmental Analytical Platform

MEDEVAC Medical Evacuation

MEL Mobile-Erector Launcher

MEMA

1) Maine Emergency Management Agency

2) Maryland Emergency Management Agency

3) Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency

4) Mississippi Emergency Management Agency

5) Missouri Emergency Management Agency

6) Motor & Equipment Manufacturers Association

MEOW Maximum Envelope of Water (or Winds)

MEP Management Engineering Plan

MEPI Middle East Partnership Initiative

MERRT Medical Emergency Radiological Response Team

MERS Mobile Emergency Response Support/System

MERSA Mobile Emergency Response Support Assets

MET Meteorologist (or Meteorological)

METAR Meteorological Aviation Report

METL Mission-Essential Task List

METOC Meteorological and Oceanographic

METSAT Meteorological Satellite

meV Millielectronvolt

MeV Megaelectronvolt

MFAS Marriage Fraud Amendment System

mg milligram

MG Marsh Vegetation (Line)

MG/M3 Milligrams per Cubic Meter.

MG-MIN/M3 Milligram Minutes per Cubic Meter.

MGMT Management

MH

1) Manufactured Housing

2) Mental Health

3) Mobile Home

MHC Mobile Health Clinic

MHE Materiel Handling Equipment
88 

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MHWL Mean High Water Line

MHz Megahertz

MIACC Major Industrial Accidents Council of Canada

MIC

1

) Media Information Center

2

) Meteorologist in Charge

MICS Monitoring Information on Contracted Studies (System)

MIDAS Microfluidic Integrated DNA Analysis System

M&IE Miscellaneous and Incidental Expenses

MIEP Mass Immigration Emergency Plan

MIFC Maritime Intelligence Fusion Center

MIN Mobile Identification Number

MINICAM Miniature Chemical Agent Monitor

MIPR Military Interdepartmental Purchase Request

MIPT Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism

MIRV Multiple Independent Re-Entry Vehicle

MIS Management Information System

MIT Mitigation

MKT Mobile Kitchen Trailer

MLAT Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty

MLD Median Lethal Dose

MLH Medium Lift Helicopter

MLOS Microwave Line-of-Sight

MLW Mean Low Water

MMC Main Media Center

MMCE Medical Management of Chemical Exposure

MMI Modified Mercalli Intensity

MMIS Municipal Management Information System

MMPA Marine Mammal Protection Act

MMPAC Merchant Marine Personnel Advisory Committee

MMRS Metropolitan Medical Response System

MMS Minerals Management Service
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MNAP Mapping Needs Assessment Process

MNUSS Map Needs Update Support System

MO

1

) Medical Officer

2

) Method of operation

MOA Memorandum of Agreement

MOB

1

) Mobilization (or Mobilize)

2

) Main Operating Base

MOB Center Mobilization Center

MOC Mobile Operations Center

MODEM Modulator/Demodulator

MOM

1

) Maximum of Maximums

2

) Middle of Month

MOOTW Military Operations Other Than War

MOPP Mission-Oriented Protective Posture

MOU Memorandum of Understanding

MOX Mixed-Oxide Fuels

MP

1

) Management Profiler

2

) Military Police

MPA Maritime Patrol Aircraft

MPC

1

) Main Press Center

2

) Maximum Permissible Concentration 

3

) Midterm Planning Committee

MPD Maximum Potential Destruction

MPE Maximum Permissible Exposure

MPEG Motion Picture Expert Group

MPH Miles Per Hour

MPPP Mortgage Portfolio Protection Program

MPS Mission Planning System

MPU

1

) Microprocessor Unit

2

) Mobile Power Unit

mR milliroentgen/millirem

MR

1

) Medical Records

2

) Medical Response

MRA Mortgage and Rental Assistance
9

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mRem millirem

MRF Medium Range Forecast

mR/h milliRoentgen per hour

MRI Mean Recurrence Interval

MRIC Mobile Reconstruction Information Center

MRMC Medical Research and Materiel Command

MRP

1

) Machine readable passport

2

) Minimal Repair Program

MRR Measurement Residual Ratio

MRRS MERS Response Reporting System

MRT Medical Response Team

MRV

1

) Mobile Response Van (or Vehicle)

2

) Multi-Radio Van (or Vehicle)

M/S Meters per second

MS MicroSoft

MS-1 Medical Service - 1 

(Hospital)

MSA

1

) Mutual Support Agreement

2

) Metropolitan Statistical Area

MSC

1

) Marine Safety Center

2

) Map Service Center

3

) Major Subordinate Command

4

) Mobile Switching Center

MSCA Military Support to Civil Authorities 

(see DSCA)

MSCLEA Military Support to Civilian Law Enforcement 

Agencies

MSDS Material Safety Data Sheet

MSE MERS Support Element

MSEL Master Scenario Events List

MSF Mobile Screening Force

MSFCMA Magnuson-Stevens Fisheries Conservation and 

Management Act

MSHA Mine Safety and Health Administration

MSIC Missile & Space Intelligence Center
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MSLO Military Support Liaison Officer

MSO Military Support Officer

MSPB Merit Systems Protection Board

MSR Main Supply Route

MSRC Marine Spill Response Corporation

MSST Maritime Safety and Security Team

MST

1

) Management Support Team

2

) METRO Strike Team

3

) Mountain Standard Time (GMT - 7)

MSU

1

) Management Support Unit

2

) Medical Support Unit

MT

1

) Megaton

2

) metric ton

MTA Material Transfer Area

MTF Medical Treatment Facility

MTMC Military Traffic Management Command

MTOE Modified Table of Organization and Equipment

MTR Military Training Route

MTSA Maritime Transportation Security Act

MTSP Mass Transit Security Program

MUDAC Meteorological and Unified Dose Assessment Cente

MUF Materials Unaccounted For

M/V Merchant Vessel

MVGP Mission, Vision, and Guiding Principles

MW

1

) megawatt

2

) Microwave

3

) Mt Weather

MWA Metropolitan Washington Area

MWCOG Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

MWEAC Mt Weather Emergency Assistance Center

MWEOC Mt Weather Emergency Operations Center

MWFRS Main Wind Force Resisting System

MWH megawatt hour

MWS Marine Weather Statement
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NA 1) North American

2) Northeastern Area

NAAE National Association of Agricultural Employees

NAAK Nerve Agent Antidote Kit

NAAP Newport Army Ammunition Plant (obsolete)

NAAQS National Ambient Air Quality Standards

NAAT North American Aviation Trilateral

NAC

1) National Advisory Committee

2) National Agency Check

3) Nebraska Avenue Center/Complex

NACA National Air Carrier Association

NAC/AEGL National Advisory Committee on Acute Exposure 

Guidelines Levels (for Chemical Substances)

NACCHO National Association of County and City Health 

Officials

NACD National Association of Corporate Directors

NACE National Association of County Engineers

NACI National Agency Check with Inquiries

NACo National Association of Counties

NACS NEMIS Access Control System

NAD27 North American Datum of 1927

NAD83 North American Datum of 1983

NADO National Association of Development Organization

NAERG North American Emergency Response Guidebook

NAFAX National Facsimile Network

NAFSMA National Association of Flood & Stormwater 

Management Agencies

NAFTA North America Free Trade Agreement

NAHB National Association of Home Builders

NAI North American Initiative

NaI(Tl) Sodium Iodide Doped with Thallium (scintillator)

NAII National Association of Independent Insurers
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NAILS National Automated Immigration Lookout System

NAMRI Naval Medical Research Institute

NAOC National Airborne Operations Center

NAOS North American Atmospheric Observing System

NAP Nuclear Assessment Program

NAPA National Academy of Public Administration

NAPI National Arson Prevention Initiative

NARA National Archives and Records Administration

NARAC National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center

NARCL Nuclear Accident Response Capabilities Listing

NARP Nuclear Accident Response Plan (or Procedures)

NARS National Archives and Records Service

NARSAP National Advanced Remote Sensing Applications 

Program

NARTC National Advanced Resource Technology Center

NAS National Academy of Sciences

NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NASAR National Association for Search and Rescue

NASCDD National Association of State Civil Defense Director

NASEMSD National Association of State Emergency Medical 

Services Directors

NASFM National Association of State Fire Marshals

NASNA National Association of 9-1-1 Administrators

NASTTPO National Association of State Title Three Program 

Officials

NASULGC National Association of State Universities and 

Land-Grant Colleges

NATCA National Air Traffic Controllers Association

NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization

NAVAID Navigational Aid

NAVD88 North American Vertical Datum of 1988

NAWAS 1) National Alert and Warning System

2) National Warning System

NAWAS/BCC National Warning System Bridge and Conference 

Controller
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NBC Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical

NBFAC National Bioforensic Analysis Center

NBSAC National Boating Safety Advisory Council

NBTA National Business Travel Association

NBWDA National BioWeapons Defense Analysis Center

NCA National Command Authority

NCAI National Congress of American Indians

NCAR National Center for Atmospheric Research

NCAS National Cyber Alert System

NC&B Nuclear, Chemical and Biological

NCBFAA National Customs Brokers and Forwarders 

Association of America

NCC National Coordinating Center (for Telecommunications)

NCCC National Council of the Churches of Christ

NCCG National Civilian Community Group

NCDDM National Center for Disaster Decision Making

NCEH National Center for Environmental Health

NCEP National Centers for Environmental Prediction

NCGIA National Center for Geographic Information and 

Analysis

NCIC National Crime Information Center

NCID National Center for Infectious Diseases

NCIT National Council on International Trade

NCLIS National Commission on Libraries and Information 

Science

NCMEC National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

NCO Non-Commissioned Officer

NCP National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution 

Contingency Plan 

(aka National Contingency Plan)

NCPC

1

) National Capitol Planning Commission

2

) National Crime Prevention Council

NCPI National Committee on Property Insurance
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NCRPM National Council on Radiation Protection and 

Measurements

NCS

1

) National Communications System 

[ESF-2]

2

) Net Control System

NCSA National Center for Supercomputing Applications

NCSD National Cyber Security Division

NCSL National Council of State Legislators

NCSLLET National Center for State & Local Law Enforcement 

Training, Advisory Committee to the

NCSP National Communications Support Plan

NCSRM National Communications Systems Regional Manag

NCSSA National Cartographic Standards for Spatial Accura

NCTC National Counterterrorism Center

NCUA National Credit Union Administration

NCVIP National Child Victim Identification Program

NDA

1

) National Defense Area

2

) Non-Disclosure Agreement

NDAA Natural Disaster Assistance Act

NDAC Network Design and Analysis Center

NDC National Data Center

NDEA National Defense Emergency Authorization

NDEC National Disaster Education Coalition

NDEP National Digital Elevation Program

NDER National Defense Executive Reserve

NDIA National Defense Industry Association

NDIC National Drug Intelligence Center

NDMC National Drought Mitigation Center

NDMOC National Disaster Medical Operations Center

NDMS National Disaster Medical System

NDMSOSC National Disaster Medical System Operations 

Support Center

NDPO National Domestic Preparedness Office

NDRSMP National Distress and Response System 

Modernization Project 

(aka “Rescue 21”)
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NE

1

) Northeast

2

) New England

NEC National Earthquake Center

NECA Newport Chemical Activity

NECC National Emergency Coordination Center (obsolete; see NRCC)

NECD Newport Chemical Depot

NECN National Emergency Communications Network

NEDSS National Electronic Disease Surveillance System

NEEP National Earthquake Education Program

NEET National Exercise Evaluation Team

NEFSMA New England Floodplain and Stormwater Manager

Association

NEG National Emergency Grant

NEHA National Environmental Health Association

NEHRP National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program

NEI Nuclear Energy Institute

NEIC National Earthquake Information Center

NEIS National Earthquake Information Service

NEMA

1

) National Emergency Management Association

2

) Nebraska Emergency Management Agency

NEMB-CAP National Emergency Management Baseline 

- Capability Assessment Program

NEMIS National Emergency Management Information 

System

NEMT National Emergency Management Team

NENA National Emergency Number Association

NEO

1

) Near-Earth Orbit

2

) Noncombatant Evacuation Operation

NEOB New Executive Office Building

NEOC National Emergency Operations Center

NEPA National Environmental Protection Act

NEPPC National Emergency Prevention and Preparedness 

Council
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NESEC Northeast States Emergency Consortium

NESN Necessary Expenses and Serious Needs

NESP National Environmental Studies Project

NEST Nuclear Emergency Search/Support Team

NET No Earlier Than

NETAC National Environmental Technology Application 

Center

NETAP National Earthquake Technical Assistance Program

NETC National Emergency Training Center

NEXRAD Next Generation Weather Radar

NEXS National Exercise Schedule

NEXUS Next Generation Upper Weather System

NFA National Fire Academy

NFAR No Further Action Required

NFCD National Finance Center Database

NFDA 1) National Flood Determination Association

2) National Funeral Directors Association

NFDC National Fire Data Center

NFES National Fire Equipment System

NFFE National Federation of Federal Employees

NFFF National Fallen Firefighters Foundation

NFFS Northeast Forest Fire Supervisors

NFI National Flood Insurance

NFIB National Foreign Intelligence Board

NFIC National Fire Information Council

NFIF National Flood Insurance Fund

NFIP 1) National Flood Insurance Program

2) National Foreign Intelligence Program

NFIRA National Flood Insurance Reform Act of 1994

NFIRS National Fire Incident Reporting System

NFMA National Forest Management Act

NFP Not-For-Profit

NFPA National Fire Protection Association
98 

NFR Notice of Finding and Recommendation 

NFS National Forest System

NFSC Narcotics Financing Strategy Center

NFSCC National Fire Science Curriculum Committee 

NFSLO National Fire Suppression Liaison Officer

NG National Guard

NGA

1

) National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

2

) National Governor’s Association

NGB

1

) National Governing Body

2

) National Guard Bureau

NGDC National Geophysical Data Center

NGLO National Guard Liaison Officer

NGM Nested Grid Model

NGO Non-Governmental Organization

NGRS National Geodetic Reference System

NGS National Geodetic Survey

NGVD National Geodetic Vertical Datum

NGVD29 National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929

NHC National Hurricane Center

NHPA National Historic Preservation Act

NHTSA National Highway Transportation Safety 

Administration

NHV Natural Hazard Vulnerability

NI No Insurance

NIAC

1

) NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts

2

) National Infrastructure Advisory Council

3

) National Iranian American Council

NIBERS National Incident Based Reporting System

NIBS National Institute of Building Sciences

NIC

1

) National Instrumentation Center

2

) NIMS Integration Center

NICC National Interagency Coordination Center

NICCP National Interdiction Command & Control Plan
99

NID

) 

g

2

) National Inventory of Dams

NIDF National Insurance Development Fund

NIEHS National Institute of Environmental Health Service

NIEOC National Interagency Emergency Operations Cente

NIER National Industrial Equipment Reserve

NIF

1

) National Ignition Facility

2

) Non-Industrial Facility

NIFC National Interagency Fire Center

NIFCC National Interagency Fire Coordination Center

NIH National Institutes of Health

NII

1

) National Information Infrastructure

2

) Non-Intrusive Inspection

NIIMS National Interagency Incident Management System

NIIS Non-Immigrant Information System

NIJ National Institute of Justice

NIMA National Imagery and Mapping Agency 

(see NGA)

NIMBY Not In My Backyard

NIMCAST National Incident Management Compliance 

Assurance Tool

NIMG National Interagency Mobilization Guide

NIMH National Institutes of Mental Health

NIMS National Incident Management System

NIMS/NET National Incident Management System Network

NIMTO Not In My Term of Office

NIOSH National Institute for Occupational Safety and 

Health

NIP National Immunization Program

NIPC National Infrastructure Protection Center

NIPF National Intelligence Priority Framework

NIPP National Infrastructure Protection Plan

NIRSC National Interagency Radio Support Cache

NIRT Nuclear Incident Response Team

NISAC National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis 

Center
100

NJTTF National Joint Terrorism Task Force

NLC

1

) National League of Cities

2

) National Location Code

NLD Nunn-Lugar-Domenici

NLECC National Law Enforcement Coordination Center

NLETS National Law Enforcement Telecommunications 

System

NLRA National Labor Relations Authority

NLRB National Labor Relations Board

NLS National Language Standards

NLT No Later Than

NM Nautical Mile

NMAB National Materials Advisory Board

NMAS National Map Accuracy Standard

NMB National Mediation Board

NMC

1

) National Meteorological Center

2

) Non-Mission Capable

NMCC National Military Command Center

NMFS National Marine Fisheries Service

NMI No Middle Initial

NMIC National Maritime Intelligence Center

NMJIC National Military Joint Intelligence Center

NMRI Naval Medical Research Institute

NMRS National Medical Response System

NMRT National Medical Response Team

NMSAC National Maritime Security Advisory Committee

NMSP National Maritime Security Plan

NMSS Nuclear Materials Safeguards and Security

NNEC National Network Emergency Center

NNOB National Network Operations Branch

NNOC National Network Operations Center

NNSA National Nuclear Security Administration
1

01

p

NOAEL No Observed Adverse Effects Level

NOBLE National Organization of Black Law Enforcement 

Executives

NOC

1

) National Olympic Committee

2

) National Operations Center

3

) Navy Operations Center

4

) Negotiations Operations Center

5

) Network Operations Center

NOEL No Observed Effects Level

NOFA Notice of Funds Availability

NOGA Notice of Grant Award

NOI

1

) Notice of Intent

2

) Notice of Interest

NOK Next-of-Kin

NOPR Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

NORAD North American Aerospace Defense Command

NORTHCOM

(United States) Northern Command

NOS

1

) National Ocean Survey

2

) Not Otherwise Specified

NOSAC National Offshore Safety Advisory Committee

NOTAM Notice To Airmen

NOUE Notice of Unusual Event

N/P Not Provided

NP

1

) National Preparedness

2

) Navigation Processor

NPC

1

) National Paralympic Committee

2

) National Petroleum Council

NPDES National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

NPDP National Performance of Dams Program

NPFC National Pollution Funds Center

NPL National Priorities List

NPLA National Preparedness Leadership Academy

NPMA National Property Management Association

NPMOC Naval Pacific Meteorology and Oceanography Cent

NPOC Next Port of Call
102

NPPC National Preparedness and Prevention Council

NPR National Partnership for Reinventing Government (formerly National Performance Review)

NPRM Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

NPS National Park Service

NPSC National Processing Service Centers

NPSP National Pharmaceutical Stockpile Program

NPSTC National Public Safety Telecommunications Counci

NRAT

1

) National Radiological Advisory Team

2

) Nuclear Radiological Advisory Team

NRC

1

) National Records Center

2

) National Research Council

3

) National Response Center

4

)

[United States] Nuclear Regulatory Commission

NRCC

1

) National Response Coordination Center

2

) Northern Regional Coordination Center

NRCOC Nuclear Regulatory Commission Operations Center

NRCS Natural Resources Conservation Service

NRCSDC Natural Resources Conservation Service District 

Conservationist

NRCSSC Natural Resources Conservation Service State 

Conservationist

NRIMC National Resources Information and Mapping Cent

NRIS National Resource Information System

NRO National Reconnaissance Office

NRP National Response Plan

NRPC National Railway Passenger Commission

NRS National Response System

NRT

1

) National Response Team

2

) Near Real-Time

NSA

1

) National Security Agency

2

) National Security Area

3

) National Sheriff’s Association

4

) Network Security Agreement
1

03

NSC

) 

y 

2

) National Security Council

3

) National Security Cutter

4

) NFIRS Support Center

NSD

1

) Named Storm Day

2

) National Security Directive

NSDD National Security Decision Directive

NSDI National Spatial Data Infrastructure

NSEC National Security Emergency Coordination

NSEERS National Security Entry Exit Registration System

NS/EP National Security and Emergency Preparedness

NS/EPC National Security and Emergency Preparedness 

Communications, Committee for

NSF

1

) National Science Foundation

2

) National Strike Force

NSFCC National Strike Force Coordination Center

NSGIC National States Geographic Information Council

NSHS National Strategy for Homeland Security

NSI

1

) National Security Information

2

) Nuclear Surety Inspection

NSLRSDA National Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data 

Archive

NSMP National Strong-Motion Program

NSN National Stock Number

NSPD National Security Presidential Directive

NSPE National Society of Professional Engineers

NSRS National Spatial Reference System

NSS National Security Strategy

NSSA National Safe Skies Alliance

NSSDA National Standard for Spatial Data Accuracy

NSSE National Special Security Event

NSSFC National Severe Storms Forecast Center

NSSL National Severe Storms Laboratory

NSTAC National Security Telecommunications Advisory 

Committee
104 

NTA

) 

gy 

(research partnership between government, 

academia and industry)

2) Notice to Appear

NTAC National Threat Assessment Center

NTC 1) National Targeting Center

2) National Teleregistration Center

NTC-MW National Teleregistration Center at Mount Weather

NTE Not To Exceed

NTEU National Treasury Employees Union

NTIA National Telecommunications and Information 

Administration

NTIS National Technical Information Service

NTM National Technical Means

NTMR National Technical Means of Reconnaissance

NTMS National Telecommunications Management 

Structure

NTR Nothing To Report

N-TRAP National Terrorism Response Awareness Program

NTRO National Terrorism Response Objective

NTS 1) National Traffic System

2) Nevada Test Site

NTSB National Transportation Safety Board

NTSC National Telecommunications Standards Committe

NTSP

National Telecommunications Support Plan 

(aka National Plan for Telecommunications 

Support in Non-Wartime Emergencies)

NU Name Unknown

NUCFLASH Accidental, unauthorized, or unexplained nuclear 

detonation

NUDET Nuclear Detonation

NUL National Urban League

NUMARC Nuclear Management and Resources Council

NUREG Nuclear Regulation
105

NVDC National Vessel Documentation Center

NVFC National Volunteer Fire Council

NVLAP National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation 

Program

NVMC National Vessel Movement Center

NVOAD National Voluntary Organization Active in 

Disasters

NVTSA Night Vision Technology Safety Act

NW Neighborhood Watch 

NWC National Warning Center

NWCG National Wildfire Coordinating Group

NWP Neighborhood Watch Program 

(see NW)

NWR National Weather Radio

NWS National Weather Service

NWSFO National Weather Service Forecast Office

NWWS National Weather Wire Service

NYCOEM New York City Office of Emergency Management

OA

1

) Office Automation

2

) Over and Above

OAA Older Americans Act

OADR Originating Agency Determination Required

OAFME Office of the Armed Forces Medical Examiner

OAO Office of Aviation Operations

OAR

1

) Office of Air and Radiation

2

) Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research

OAS

1

) Office of Administrative Support

2

) Office of Aircraft Services

3

) Organization of American States

OASH/OEP Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health / Office 

of Emergency Preparedness

OAWG Organizational Attack Working Group

OB Official Business

OBE Overcome by Events

OBS Observation

(

s

)

OC Operations Center
1

06

OCD Office of Community Development

OCDETF Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force

OCGFC Office of Cerro Grande Fire Claims

OCHAMPUS Office of Civilian Health and Medical Program of 

the Uniformed Services

OCIO Office of the Chief Information Officer

OCIPEP Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection and 

Emergency Preparedness

OCLUS Outside the Continental Limits of the United States

OCN Optimal Climate Normals

OCOG Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games

OCONUS Outside the Continental United States

OCPM Office of Crisis Planning and Management

OCR

1

) Office of Collateral Responsibility

2

) Optical Character Reader

OCRWM Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management

OCS

1

) Officer Candidate School

2

) Outer Continental Shelf

OCTEL Operations Center Telephone

OCZM Office of Coastal Zone Management

ODAM Offsite Dose Assessment Manual

ODBC Open Database Connectivity

ODC Other Direct Cost

ODCEM Oklahoma Department of Civil Emergency 

Management

ODEM Oklahoma Department of Emergency Managemen

ODP Office for Domestic Preparedness

ODRO Office of Detention and Removal Operations

ODS Operation Desert Safeguard

OE

1

) Operational Environment

2

) Operating Expenses

3

) Organizational Elements

OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation & 

Development
1

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OEMP Office of Emergency Medical Preparedness

OEP

1

) Occupant Emergency Plan

2

) Office of Emergency Preparedness

OER Office of Emergency Response

OES Office of Emergency Services

OET Office of Emergency Transportation 

(DOT)

OF

1

) Office of Finance

2

) Over-water Fetch (Line)

OFA

1

) Office of Family Assistance

2

) Other Federal Agency(ies)

OFAC Office of Foreign Assets Control

OFDA Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance

OFF Offshore Forecast

OFM Office of Financial Management

OFMA Oklahoma Floodplain Management Association

OFO Office of Field Operations

OFSEP Office of Food Security and Emergency Preparedne

OGAT Official Government Acceptance Test

OGC Office of General Counsel

OGE Office of Government Ethics

OHRM Office of Human Resources Management

OHS Office of Homeland Security 

(now HSC)

OI Office of Investigations

OIA Office of International Affairs

OIC

1

) Office of Interoperability & Compatibility

2

) Officer in Charge

OIE Office of International Enforcement

OIG Office of the Inspector General

OIM Office of Incident Management

OIWG Operational Intelligence Working Group

OJCS Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

OJP Office of Justice Programs

OJT On-the-Job Training

OLA Office of Legislative Affairs
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OMNCS Office of the Manager, National Communications 

System

OMS Operations Management Systems

OMTPE Office of Mission to Planet Earth

ONA Other Needs Assistance

ONDCP Office of National Drug Control Policy

ONP Office of National Preparedness

ONRA Office of National Risk Assessment

OPA

1

) Office of Public Affairs

2

) Oil Pollution Act

3

) Otherwise Protected Area

OPAC On-Line Payments and Collection

OPC Organizational Program Coordinators

OPCOM Operational Command

OPCON Operational Control

OPDAT Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance 

and Training

OPERIOD Operational Period

OPHS Office of Public Health and Science

OPLAN Operations Plan

OPM Office of Personnel Management

OPPRED Operation Predator

OPR Office of Primary Responsibility

OPREP Operational Report

OPS

1

) Office of Pipeline Safety

2

) Office of Private Sector Liaison (formerly PSL)

3

) Operational Planning System

4

) Operations

OPSEC Operations/Operational Security

OPT Operations and Planning Team

OPUS Olympic Properties of the United States

OPW Operational Planning Worksheet

ORCA Operational Readiness Capability Assessment
1

09

OREMS Oak Ridge Evacuation Modeling System

ORIA Office of Radiation and Indoor Air

ORISE Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education

ORM Other Regulated Materials

ORNL Oak Ridge National Laboratory

ORO Offsite Response Organization

OR&R Office of Regulations and Rulings

OS

1

) Operating System

2

) Operations Support

OSC

1

) On-Scene Coordinator (or Commander)

2

) Operation Safe Commerce

3

) Operations or Operational Support Center

OSCE Organization for Security and Cooperation in 

Europe

OSD

1

) Office of the Secretary of Defense

2

) Operations Support Division

3

) Operational Systems Document

OSDBU Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business 

Utilization

OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration

OSINT Open-Source Intelligence

OSLGC&P Office of State and Local Government Coordination 

and Preparedness

OSLTF Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund

OSOCC On-Site Operations Coordination Center

OST

1

) Office of the Secretary for Transportation

2

) Operation Support Team

OSTC On-Scene Tactical Commander

OSTP Office of Science and Technology Policy

OTAN Organisation du Traité de l’Atlantlique Nord 

(NATO

OTAR Over-The-Air Rekeying

OTBE Overtaken by events

OTD Office of Training & Development

OTE or OT&E Operational Test and Evaluation

OTR Office of Trade Relations
11

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OUC Orlando Utilities Company

OVC Office for Victims of Crime

OVI Office of Volunteerism Initiatives

OVP Office of the Vice President

OWMD Office of Weapons of Mass Destruction

P&A

1

) Price and Availability

2

) Planning and Assessment

PA

1

) Principal Advisor

2

) Programmatic Agreement

3

) Public Address

4

) Public Affairs

5

) Public Assistance

PABX Private Automatic Branch Exchange

PAC

1

) Political Action Committee

2

) Primary Agency Committee

3

) Public Assistance Coordinator

PACAREA Pacific Area

PACC Patient Airlift Control Center

PACOM U.S. Pacific Command

PAD Protective Action Decision

PADC Patch Authentication and Dissemination Capability

PADRE Protective Action Dosage Reduction Estimator

PA&E Program Analysis and Evaluation

PAECE Protective Action Evaluator for Chemical 

Emergencies

PAG Protective Action Guide

PAH Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons

PAHO Pan American Health Organization 

PAM Pamphlet

PA-NST Public Affairs - National Support Team

PANYNJ Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

PAO

1

) Pacific Area Office

2

) Public Affairs Officer

3

) Public Assistance Officer
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PAR

1

) Performance & Accountability Report

2

) Population at Risk

3

) Protective Action Recommendation

4

) Public Administration Review

PARADE Prevention, Advocacy, Resources and Data Exchan

PARDOS Partial Dosage

PART Program Assessment Rating Tool 

(OMB)

PAs Protective Actions

PASS Partners Assuring Safer Schools

PAT Process Action Team

PATRIOT

(see USA PATRIOT 

[Act]

)

PAX Passengers

PAZ Protective Action Zone

PBA Pine Bluff Arsenal

PBCA Pine Bluff Chemical Activity

PBD Program Budget Decision 

PBDS Prototype Biological Detection System

PBRB Program Budget Review Board 

PBS

1

) Public Building Service

2

) Public Broadcasting System

PBSIS Public Building Service Information System

PBX Phone 

(or Private) Bank Exchange

PC Personal Computer

PCC Policy Coordinating Committee

PCCIP President’s Commission on Critical Infrastructure 

Protection

PCE Programmatic Categorical Exclusion

PCERT Preliminary Computer Evidence Recovery Training

PCF Patient Care Form

PCII Protected Critical Infrastructure Information

PCIIMS PCII Management System

PCIS Partnership for Critical Infrastructure Security

PCPT Pasco County Public Transportation 

(Florida)

PCR polymerase chain reaction
11

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PCT

2

) Program Control Team

PCTARE Personal Computer Time and Attendance Remote 

Entry

P&D Production and Development

PD

1

) Paid

2

) Per Diem

3

) Police Department

4

) Policy Directive

5

) Position Description

6

) Presidential Declaration

PDA

1

) Personal Data Assistant

2

) Preliminary Damage Assessment

3

) Pueblo Depot Activity

PDASH Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health

PDC

1

) Pacific Disaster Center

2

) Personnel Data Card

PDD Presidential Decision Directive

PDF

1

) Probability Density Function

2

) Portable Document Format

PDM Pre-Disaster Mitigation 

(including Grant Program)

PDOP Position Dilution of Precision

PDS Personnel Decontamination Station

PDSI Palmer Drought Severity Index

PDT Pacific Daylight Time 

(GMT - 7)

PE Professional Engineer

PEA Programmatic Environmental Assessment

PEAD Presidential Emergency Action Document

PEDS Portable Emergency Data System

PEF Progress Energy Florida

PEG

1

) Performance Evaluation Group

2

) Performance Evaluation Guide

PEL Permissible Exposure Limit

PEMA Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency

PEO Public Education and Outreach
113

PEP

) 

pqpg

2

) Primary Entry Point

3

) Professional Excellence Program

PEPAC Primary Entry Point Advisory Committee

PERI Public Entity Risk Institute

PERT Program Evaluation and Review Technique

PFA

1

) Primary Federal Agency

2

) Procurement Funding Authority

PFO Principal Federal Official

PFOR Principal Federal Official’s Representative

PFT Permanent Full-Time

PG Planning Group

PH Public Health

PHILIS Portable High-Throughput Integrated Laboratory 

Identification System

PHRBAE Public Health Readiness for Biological Agent Event

PHS Public Health Service

P&I Protection and Indemnity

PI Project Inspector

PIA Privacy Impact Assessment

PIADC Plum Island Animal Disease Center

PIAT Public Information Assist Team

PIC

1

) Pilot In Charge

2

) Pressurized Ion Chamber

PIF Policies In Force

PIN Personal Identification Number

PINS Personnel In Need of Supervision

PIO Public Information Officer

PIPS Pre-Incident Planning System

PIR

1

) Post Implementation Review

2

) Priority Intelligence Requirement

Pkg Package

PKI Public Key Infrastructure

PL

1

) Preparedness Level

2

) Public Law (also abbreviated as P.L.)
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PLC Pacific Logistics Center

PLSS

[United States] Public Land Survey System

PLUMIS

(See PIADC 

[Plum Island]

)

PM

1

) Postmaster

2

) Post Meridiem

3

) Program Manager

4

) Project Monitor

PMA President’s Management Agenda

PMCS Preventive Maintenance Checks and Services

PMG Program Monitoring Group

PMO Property Management Officer

PMP Performance Monitoring Plan

PMR

1

) Patient Movement Request

2

) Physical Map Revision

PMS

1

) Payments Management System

2

) Program Management System

PN

1

) Part Number

2

) Project Number

PNE Peaceful Nuclear Explosion

PNOV Preliminary Notice of Violation

PNP Private Non-Profit

PNR Passenger Name Record

PNV Present Net Value

PO

1

) Personnel Office

2

) Privacy Office

3

) Post Office

4

) Project Officer

5

) Purchase Officer

6

) Purchase Order

POA Point of Arrival

POC Point of Contact

POD

1

) Point of Departure

2

) Point of Distribution
11

5

POES Polar-Orbiting Environmental Satellite

POI

1

) Plan of Instruction

2

) Program of Instruction

POL Petroleum, Oil, and Lubricants

POLF Points of Light Foundation

POLREP Pollution Report

POR Point

(

s

) of Review

POTS Plain Old Telephone Service

POTUS President of the United States

POV Personal/Privately Owned Vehicle

PP

1

) Pay Period

2

) Personal Property

3

) Personal Protection

PPA Performance Partnership Agreement

PPB Plans, Programs and Budget

PPBES Planning, Programming and Budgeting Execution 

System

PPBM Positive Passenger Baggage Match

PPBS Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System

PPC Prevention and Preparedness Council

PPCBP Prickly Pear Cactus Burning Program

PPDS Pre-Positioned Disaster Supplies

PPE

1

) Pay Period Ending

2

) Personal Protective Equipment

PPFRP Prepared and Perishable Food Rescue Program

PPG Program Planning Guidance 

PPI Preliminary 

(or Pre-) Placement Interview

PPM

1

) Parts Per Million

2

) Printer/Plotter Module

3

) Program Performance Monitoring

PPN Passport Number

PPR Prior Permission Required

PR Public Relations

PRA

1

) Paperwork Reduction Act

2

) Patient Reporting Activity
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3) Presidential Reserve Call-up

PRER Peacetime Radiological Emergency Response

PRIME POWER USACE Engineer Battalion

PRISM Performance and Registration Information System

Management

PROFLOW Procedural Flow

PROTECT Program for Response Options and Technology 

Enhancements for Chemical/Biological Terrorism

PRP 1) Personnel Reliability Program

2) Preferred Risk Policy

PRS Primary Receiving Site

PRT Planning and Response Team

PS Program Support

PSA

1) Patient Staging Area

2) Port Security Assessment

3) Public Service Announcement

PSAMS Personnel Security Activity Management System

PSAPs Public Safety Answering Points

PSAT Protective Security Assistance Teams

PSB Planning Support Branch

PSD 1) Plastic Sphere Dispenser

2) Protective Security Division

PSEPC Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada

PSGP Port Security Grant Program

PSI 1) Pounds (of pressure) per Square Inch

2) Proliferation Security Initiative

PSIA Pounds per Square Inch Absolute

PSIG Pounds per Square Inch Gauge

PSL Private Sector Liaison 

PSMA Pre-Scripted Mission Assignment

PSN Public Switched Network

PSO Private Sector (Liaison) Office

PSR 1) Personal Service Radio

2) Power Soft Report
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PST Pacific Standard Time 

(GMT - 8)

PSTA Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority 

(Florida)

PSU Port Security Unit

(

s

)

PSWAC Public Safety Wireless Advisory Committee

PSWN Public Safety Wireless Network

PT Part-Time

PT&E Preparedness, Training, and Exercises [Directorate] (obsolete)

PTI

1

) Positive Threat Identification

2

) Public Technology, Inc.

PTR Property Transfer Report

PTSD Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

PTWC Pacific Tsunami Warning Center

PUCA Pueblo Chemical Activity

PUCD Pueblo Chemical Depot

PUD Planned Unit Development

PUDA Pueblo Depot Activity

PUP Principal User Processor

PUREX Plutonium Uranium Extraction

PVA Port Vulnerability Assessment

PVCS Polyton Version Configuration System

PVO Private Voluntary 

(or Volunteer) Organization

PW Project Worksheet

PWD Persons with Disabilities

PWR

1

) Power

2

) Pressurized Water Reactor

PZ Precautionary Zone

Q3

Quality Level 3; refers to a digital version of a Flood 

Insurance Rate Map 

(note: Q3 Data refers to the 

flood zone information represented on the map

)

QA Quality Assurance

Q&A Question

(

s

) and Answer(

s

)

QA/QC Quality Assurance/Quality Control

QAPP Quality Assurance Project Plan
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Q

Qy 

QD Quantity/Distance

QFR Questions for the Record 

(affiliated with OLA)

QRC Quick Reaction Checklist

QRS Quick Response System

QRT Quick Response Team

QSI Quality Step Increase

QT Total Activity Released

QTF Quantitative Temperature Forecast

QTY Quantity

QUF6 Uranium Hexafluoride Inventory R Roentgen

RA

1

) Risk Assessment

2

) Regional Administrator

RAA

1

) Radiological Accident Assessment 

2

) Regional Airline Association 

3

) Request for Allocation Advice

RAAW Request for Allocation Advice Worksheet

RAC

1

) Reception and Care

2

) Regional Assistance Committee

3

) Remedial Action Coordinator

RAC AC Regional Assistance Committee Advisory Council

RACES Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Services

RAD

1

) Radiation-Absorbed Dose 

2

) Radiological

3

) Resource Allocation Decision

RADCON Radiological Control 

(Team)

RADEF Radiological Defense

RADIAC Radioactivity Detection, Indication, and 

Computation

RADID Radar Information Display

RADLAB Radiological Laboratory

Rad/Nuc Radiological/Nuclear

RADNUC Radiological/ Nuclear Enforcement
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RAID

) 

p

2

) Redundant Array of Independent Disks

RAM

1

) Radiological/Radioactive Material

2

) Random-Access Memory

3

) Remedial Action Manager

RAMAC Random Access Method Accounting Control

RAMCAP Risk Analysis and Management for Critical Asset 

Protection 

RAM-D Risk Assessment Methodology for Dams

RAMOS Remote Automated Meteorological Observing 

System

RAMP Remedial Action Management Program

RAMPID Remedial Action Management Program Issue 

Database

RAMPREP Remedial Action Management Program Report

RAMT Radiological Assessment Medical Team

RAMTAR Radiological Material Transportation Accident 

Response

RAP

1

) Radiological Assistance Program

2

) Remedial Action Project

3

) Resource Allocation Plan 

RAPID Recovery Assistance Programs Information and 

Delivery

RAPS Refugees, Asylum and Parole System 

(DHS 

program, affiliated with CIS

)

RAPTAD Random Particle Transport And Diffusion

RAR Regional Analysis and Recommendation

RARE Roadless Area Review and Evaluation

RART Regional Assessment and Response Team

RASCAL Radiological Assessment System for Consequence 

Analysis

RASS Radio Acoustic Sounding System

RAT Radiological Assistance Team

RAWG Rapid Assessment Work Group

RAWN Radar Wind Sounding

RAWS

1

) Remote Automated Weather Station

2

) Remote Automated Weather System
120

RBCS Rural Business Cooperative Service

RC

1

) Reception Center

2

) Recovery Center

3

) Red Cross (also ARC)

4

) Reserve Component

RCA

1

) Radiological Control Area

2

) Riparian Conservation Area

3

) Rural Community Assistance

RCAC Red Cross Assistance Center

RCBAP Residential Condominium Building Association 

Policy

RCC

1

) Reception and Congregate Care

2

) Regional Climate Center

3

) Rescue Coordination Center 

RC&D Resource Conservation and Development

RCDCB Regional Civil Defense Coordinating Board

RCF Release Conversion Factor

RCM Radar-Coded Message

RCP

1

) Regional Contingency Plan

2

) Regional Oil and Hazardous Substances 

Pollution Contingency Plan

RCRA Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

RCS

1

) Reports Control System

2

) Reactor Coolant System

RCT Response Coordination Team

RCV Replacement Cost Value

R&D Research and Development

RD

1

) Regional Director

2

) Restricted Data

RDB Resource Database

RDBMS Relational Database Management System

RDC Regional Disaster Coordinator

RDD Radiological Dispersion/Dispersal Device 
1

21

RDO

3

) Regional Disaster Office

4

) Regional Duty Officer

5

) Regular Day Off 

RDOS Real-Time Disk Operating System

RDS Remote Delivery Site

RDT Rapid Deployment Team

RDTE Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation

RE Real Estate

REA

1

) Radioactive Emergency Area

2

) Rural Electrification Administration

REAC Radiation or Radiological Emergency Assistance 

Center 

REACT Radio Emergency Assistance 

(or associated)

Communications Team

REAC/TS Radiological 

(or Radiation) Emergency Assistance 

Center - Training Site

READI Response to Emergencies and Disasters Institute 

REC Regional Emergency Coordinator

RECA Residual Capability Assessment

RECAT Residential Capability Assessment Team

RECC Regional Emergency Communications Coordinator

RECD Rural Economic and Community Development

RECON

1

) Reconnaissance

2

) Reconsideration

RECP Regional Emergency Communications Plan/Planne

RECS Radiological Emergency Communications System 

REDI Regional Emergency Disaster Inventory

REDAM Radiological Emergency Dose Assessment Model

REDCAP Readiness and Capability Exercise 

REL Recommended Exposure Limit

REM Roentgen equivalent man/mammal

REMS Remote Environmental Monitoring System

REMT Regional Emergency Management Team

RENC Regional Emergency Notification Center

REO Regional Environmental Officer
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RER Record of Environmental Review

RERO Radiological Emergency Response Operations

RERP Radiological Emergency Response Plan

RERT Radiological Emergency Response Team

RESTAT Resources Status 

RET Regional Emergency Transportation

RETCO Regional Emergency Transportation Coordinator

RETREP Regional Emergency Transportation Representativ

REX Readiness Exercise

RF Radio Frequency

RFA Request for Federal Assistance

RFC River Forecast Center

RFI

1

) Radio Frequency Interference 

2

) Request For Information 

RFID Radio Frequency Identification 

RFIS Flood Insurance Restudy

RFO

1

) Ready For Occupancy

2

) Regional Field Office

RFP Request for Proposal

RFS Request for Service

RG Review Guide

R/h Roentgens per hour

RHA

1

) Reduced Hazard Ammunition

2

) Regional Health Administrator

3

) Rural Housing Agency 

RHS Rural Housing Service

RI

1

) Registration Intake

2

) Remedial Investigation

RIA Requiring Immediate Action

RIAT Rapid Impact Assessment Team

RIC Recovery Information Center

RICCS Regional Incident Communication and 

Coordination System
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RIF Reduction-in-Force

RISC Regional Interagency Steering Committee

RISS or RISSNET Regional Information Sharing System 

RLE Run Length Encoding

RLP Repetitive Loss Property

RLTG Repetitive Loss Target Group

RLS Registered Land Surveyor

RM

1) Risk Management

2) Records Management

3) Radiological Monitor

RMA Risk Management Agency

RMEC Regional Military Emergency Coordinator

RMG Resource Management Group

RMI Republic of the Marshall Islands

RMM River Mile Marker

RMNCS Regional Manager National Communications Syste

RMRIWFCG Rocky Mountain Regional Interagency Wildland 

Fire Communications Group

RMS Root Mean Square

RMSE Root Mean Square Error

RMSI Regional Maritime Security Initiative 

(DHS program, affiliated with USCG)

RMT Radiological Monitoring Team

RMTN Regional Meteorological Telecommunications 

Network

RMTO Resources Management Transformation Office

RN Registered Nurse

RNA Rapid Needs Assessment

RNAT Rapid Needs Assessment Team

RNCSAA Radiological & Nuclear Countermeasure System 

Architectures Analysis

RNMCB Reserve Naval Mobile Construction Battalion
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RO

4

) Regional Office

5

) Reports Officer

6

) Responsible Officer

ROB Regional Office Building

ROC Regional Operations Center (replaced by RRCC; affiliated with EPR)

ROD Record of Decision

ROI Report of Investigation 

(affiliated with BTS/ICE)

ROM Read-Only Memory

RON Remain Overnight

RORO Roll On/Roll-Off

ROS Response Operating System

ROSS Resource Ordering and Status System

ROST

1

) Regional Office Support Team

2

) Regional Operations Support Team

ROTHR Relocateable Over the Horizon Radar 

ROWPU Reverse Osmosis Water Purification Unit

RP Real Property

RPA

1

) Regional Planning Agent

2

) Request for Public Assistance

3

) Resources Planning Act

RPC Regional Preparedness Committee 

(obsolete)

RPG Response Planning Guide

RPM

1

) Remedial Project Manager

2

) Revolutions Per Minute 

RPO Regional Project Officer

RPOC Regional Point of Contact

RPPO Radiological Pilot Program Office (DHS program, affiliated with BTS

)

RPS Radiological Protection System

RPT Radiation Protection Technician

RPV Remotely Piloted Vehicle (affiliated with BTS/CBP, BTS/ICE, EPR)

RQ Reportable Quantity
125

RR

) 

2

) Response & Recovery (also R&R)

3

) Rest and Relaxation

4

) Rural Route

RRAC Regional Radiological Assistance Committee

RRCC Regional Response Coordination Center (replacing ROC)

RRF Regional Response Force

RRIS Rapid Response Information System

RRP Regional Response Plan

RRRV Regional Rapid Response Vehicle

RRT

1

) Radiological Response Team

2

) Regional Response Team

RRWG Reward and Recognition Working Group

RS

1

) Regional Summary

2

) Remote Sensing

3

) Response Support

RSC Remote Sensing Coordinator

RSD Remote Sensing Data

RSI Repetitive Stress Injury

RSP Regular Services Program

RSPA Research and Special Programs Administration

RSS Remote Storage Site

RSSC Remote Sensing Support Coordinator

RST

1

) Regional Support Team

2

) Reference Standard Time

3

) Remote Sensing Team

RSTA Reconnaissance, Surveillance, and Target 

Acquisitions

RSU Response Support Unit

RSVP Retired Senior Volunteer Program

RT Resource Tracking 

(or Tracker)

RTAP Real-Time Analytical Platform

RTF

1

) Response Task Force

2

) Rich Text Format

RTF-E Response Task Force - East
1

26

RTM Regional Training Manager

RTS Regional Transit System

RUS Rural Utilities Service

(

s

)

RVT Remote Video Terminal

RWA Reimbursable Work Authorization

RWP Regional Work Plan

RWS Revised Work Schedule

RX

1

) Prescribed (fire)

2

) Prescription (medical)

3

) Reactor

S

1

) Staging Area

2

) State agency

S-60 DOT Office of Intelligence Security

SA

1

) Salvation Army

2

) Special Agent

3

) Support Agency

SAA State Administrative Agency 

SAAM Special Airlift Assignment Mission

SAAR Secretary’s After Action Report

SABA Supplied Air Breathing Apparatus 

SABT Special Agent Bomb Technician

SAC

1

) Special Agency in Charge

2

) Special Agent-in-Charge (FBI)

SAD Southern Area District 

SAE

1

) Site Area Emergency

2

) Stafford Act Employee (also DAE)

SAFECOM

1

) Safe Community (DHS program)

2

) Safety Communique

SAFE TEA Safer, Accountable, Flexible Transportation 

Efficiency Act 

(affiliated with USCG)

SAFETY ACT Support Anti-Terrorism by Fostering Effective 

Technologies Act of 2002 

SAFTI Secure and Facilitated International Travel Initiativ
1

27

SALEMDUG State and Local Emergency Managers Data Users 

Group

SAM Surface to Air Missile 

(affiliated with BTS/TSA)

SAME Specific Area Message Encoding

SAMHSA Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services 

Administration

SAMP Special Area Management Plan

SANS SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security 

(SANS Institute

SAO

1

) Security Advisory Opinions (DHS program, affiliated with BTS

)

2

) State Approving Official/Officer (affiliated with EPR)

SAP

1

) Special Access Program

2

) State Administrative Plan

SAR

1

) Safety Analysis Report

2

) Search and Rescue 

3

) Special Access Required 

4

) Synthetic Aperture Radar

SARA Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act

SARDA State Airborne Reconnaissance for Damage 

Assessment

SAREX Search and Rescue Exercise 

SARS

1

) Security Activities Reporting System

2

) Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome 

SARSAT Search and Rescue Satellite-Aided Tracking

SART State Animal Response Team

SAS Secondary Antenna System

SAST Scientific Assessment and Strategy Team

SAT

1

) Satellite

2

) Simplified Acquisition Threshold

SATCOM Satellite Communications

SATERN Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network

SATO Scheduled Airline Ticket Office

SAV

1

) Site Assist Visit (affiliated with IAIP)

2

) Staff Assistance Visit
1

28

SBCCI Southern Building Code Congress International

SBCCOM Soldier and Biological Chemical Command 

(U.S. Arm

SBD Smart Border Declaration

SBI Special Background Investigation

SBIR Small Business Innovation Research 

SBL Straight Bill-of-Lading 

(also SBOL)

SBOL Straight Bill-Of-Lading

S-BOSS Scenario-Based Orientation for Senior Staff

SBU Sensitive But Unclassified 

SC

1

) Section Chief

2

) Study Contractor

SCADA Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition System 

SCAT

1

) Security Control of Air Traffic

2

) Space Coast Area Transit (Florida)

SCATANA Security Control of Air Traffic and Air Navigation Ai

SCBA Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus

SCC Secretary’s Command Center

SCD Service Computation Date

SCEC Southern California Earthquake Center

SCEPC Senior Civil Emergency Planning Committee 

(NATO

SCG Security Classification Guide

SCI Sensitive Compartmented Information

SCIC Software Control Integration Center

SCIF Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility

SCM Survivable Crisis Management

SCO State Coordinating Officer

SCOTUS Supreme Court of the United States

SCP Security Control Point 

SCR Software 

(or System) Change Request

SCRAG Senior Civilian Representative of the Attorney 

General

SCRR Special Conversion Recommendation Report

SCS Soil and Conservation Service
1

29

SD Security Directive

SDA Seventh Day Adventist

SDD Software Development Division

SDF Special Direct Facility

SDLO Senior Disaster Logistics Official/Officer

SDO

1

) Staff Duty Officer

2

) Standards Development Organizations

SDP

1

) Secretarial Development Program

2

) Service Delivery Point

SDTS

1

) Spatial Data Transfer Standard(

s

)

2

) Spatial Data Transfer System

SDWIS Safe Drinking Water Information System

S&E Salaries and Expenses

SEAT Single Engine Airtankers

SEB Staphylococcus Enterotoxin type B

SEC Securities and Exchange Commission 

SECARMY Secretary of the Army

SECC State Emergency Coordination Center

SECDEF Secretary, Department of Defense

SECDHS Secretary, Department of Homeland Security

SECHHS Secretary, Department of Health and Human 

Services

SECLAN Secure Local Area Network

SECURE Strategic Communications Resources Effort 

SED Shippers Export Declaration 

SEI Software Engineering Institute

SEL Standardized Equipment List

SELS Severe Local Storms

SEMA State Emergency Management Agency

SEMO State Emergency Management Office

SEMS Standardized Emergency Management System

SENTINEL Securing the Nation through Infrastructure 

Enhancements Locally
13

0 

through a dedicated lane at the U.S./Mexico 

border with minimal or no delay

)

SEOC State Emergency Operations Center 

SEPLO State Emergency Preparedness Liaison Officer

SERC State Emergency Response Commission

SERF Standard Exercise Report Form/Format

SERL Special Events Readiness Level 

(see below)

SERL I Unique event requiring full support of US 

Government

SERL II

Primary event requiring local resource 

augmentation and limited predeployment of US 

Government assets

SERL III

Secondary event requiring limited local resource 

augmentation and limited predeployment of US 

Government assets 

SERL IV Minor event generally requiring no US Government 

asset support

SERT

1

) Secretary’s Emergency Response Team (DHHS)

2

) State Emergency Response Team (DHS program, affiliated with EPR)

SES Senior Executive Service

SET Source Evaluation Team

SEUS Snow Estimation and Updating System

SEVIS Student and Exchange Visitor Information System

SEVP Student and Exchange Visitor Program

SF

1

) Special Facility

2

) Standard Form

SFAR Special Federal Aviation Regulation

SFHA Special Flood Hazard Area

SFIP Standard Flood Insurance Policy

SFO

1

) Senior Federal Official

2

) Senior FEMA Official

3

) State Field Office(

r)

SFP Supplementary Feeding Program
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SGTR Steam Generator Tube Rupture

SGTS Standard Gas Treatment System

SHARES Shared Resources (NCS high frequency radio network)

SHMO State Hazard Mitigation Officer

SHMP State Hazard Mitigation Program

SHO State Health Officer

SHPO State Historic Preservation Office

SHSAS State Homeland Security Assessment and Strategy

SHSGP State Homeland Security Grant Program 

SHSI Sensitive Homeland Security Information 

SICG Senior Interagency Coordination Group

SID Station Identifier

SIDA Security Identification Display Area 

SIED Special Improvised Explosive Device

SIES Strategic Industries and Economic Security, Office 

SIF Standard Interchange Format

SIGINT Signals Intelligence

SIGMET Significant Meteorological Information

SIMBAD Sensor Integration and Modeling for Biological 

Agent Detection

SIMCELL Simulation Cell

SIOC Strategic Information 

(or Intelligence) and 

Operations Center 

SIOP Single Integrated Operational Plan

SIP

1

) Shelter-In-Place

2

) Streamlined Inspection Program

SIT Situation Reporting System

SITREP Situation Report

SITROOM Situation Room

SITSTAT Situation Status

S&L

1

) Savings and Loan

2

) State and Local

SLA State and Local Assistance
132 

SLC 

) 

y

2) Subscriber Line Carrier

SLE State and Local Exercise

Sleeping Dragon Term used to identify a barrier of protesters who 

have linked themselves to one another

SLEP State and Local Exercise Program

SLG State and Local Guide

SLGCP State and Local Government Coordination & 

Preparedness, Office of

SLO State Liaison Officer

SLOSH Sea, Lake and Overland Surges from Hurricanes

SLPA Sea Level Pressure Anomaly

SLSAC State and Local Officials Senior Advisory Committe

SLUDGEM Salivation, Lacrimation, Urination, Defecation, 

Gastric Distress, Emesis and Miosis

SM 1) Shelter Management

2) Student Manual

SMAC State Mapping Advisory Committee

SMC Specialty/Specialized Management Center

SMCC System Management Control Center

SME Subject-Matter Expert

SMG Specialty Management Group

SMHA State Mental Health Agency

SMI 1) Safety Management Institute

2) Smithsonian Institute 

SMMA Standard Mitigation Measures Agreement

SMO Security Management Office 

(DHS subdivision, affiliated with MGMT)

SMS Short Message Service

SMSA Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area

SMSD State-Managed Small Disaster

SMU Special Mission Unit (affiliated with EPR)

SN Serial Number

SNA Survivable Network Analysis
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SNS Strategic National Stockpile

SO

1

) Safety Officer 

2

) Sheriff’s Office

SOB Souls On Board

SOC

1

) Statement of Concern

2

) State or Security Operations Center 

SOE

1

) Senior Officials Exercise(

s

)

2

) Summary of Expenses

SOF Special Operations Forces

SOFA Status of Forces Agreement

SOG Seat of Government

SOI Southern Oscillation Index

SOLAS Safety of Life at Sea

SOLIC Special Operations-Low Intensity Conflict

SOLRAD Solar Radiation

SOMA Summary of Map Actions

SON Statement of Need

SONET Synchronous Optical Network

SONS Spill of National Significance

SOP Standard Operating Procedure

(

s

)

SOPEP Shipboard Oil Pollution Emergency Plan

SOR Statement of Requirement

SOS Status of Studies

SOSC State On-Scene Coordinator

SOW Statement of Work

SPC Storm Prediction Center

SPCA Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

SPDC Small Business Development Center

SPE

1

) Skill Performance Evaluation

2

) Strategic Planning and Evaluation

SPEGL Short-term Public Emergency Guidance Level

SPG

1

) Senior Policy Group 

2

) Strategic Planning Guide 
13

4 

SPLASH 

from Hurricanes

SPOD Seaport of Debarkation

SPOE Seaport of Embarkation

SPOT

1

) Satellite Positioning and Tracking

2

) Systeme Probatoire d’Observation de la Terre (French satellite system)

SPP

1

) Screener Partnership Program 

2

) Secure Passage Program 

SPR Special Problem Report

SPRB Senior Performance Review Board

SQL Structured Query Language

SRA

1

) Safe Refuge Area

2

) Society for Risk Analysis

SRD Self-Reading Dosimeter

SRF Service Response Force

SRFC Service Response Force Commander

SRFX Service Response Force Exercise

SRSC Strategic Review Steering Committee

SRV Safety Relief Value

SSA

1

) Self Storage Association 

2

) Social Security Administration

3

) Survivable Systems Analysis 

SSAN Social Security Account Number

SSB Single Side Band

SSBI Single-Scope Background Investigation

SSC

1

) Scientific Support Coordinator

2

) Strategic Storage Center

SSE Safe Shutdown Earthquake

SSFSD Secret Service Forensic Sciences Division 

SSG Strategic Sourcing Group

SSHS Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale

SSI Supplemental Security Income

SSL Secure Socket Layer

(

s

)
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SSS 1) Selective Service System

2) Small Structure Survey 

SSSE State Support Service Element

SST

1) Safe Secure Transport

2) Sea-Surface Temperature

3) Shelter Survey Technician

4) Supersonic Transport

S&T Science and Technology 

STA Special Temporary Authority

STAFFORD ACT - OUTLINE

TITLES and SECTION NUMBERS

(42 U.S.C. counterpart number in parenthesis)

TITLE I Findings, Declarations, and Definitions

101 (§ 5121) Findings and Declarations

102 (§ 5122) Definitions

TITLE II Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation Assistance

201 (§ 5131) Federal and State Disaster Preparedness Programs

202 (§ 5132) Disaster Warnings

203 (§ 5133) Predisaster Hazard Mitigation

204 (§ 5134) Interagency Task Force

TITLE III Major Disaster and Emergency Assistance 

Administration

301 (§ 5141) Waiver of Administrative Conditions

302 (§ 5143) Coordinating Officers

303 (§ 5144) Emergency Support Teams

304 (§ 5147) Reimbursement

305 (§ 5148) Non-liability of Federal Government

306 (§ 5149) Performance of Services

307 (§ 5150) Use of Local Firms and Individuals

308 (§ 5151) Nondiscrimination in Disaster Assistance

309 (§ 5152) Use and Coordination of Relief Organizations

310 (§ 5153) Priority for Public Housing

311 (§ 5154) Insurance

312 (§ 5155) Duplication of Benefits
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y 

316 (§ 5159) Protection of Environment

317 (§ 5160) Recovery of Assistance

318 (§ 5161) Audits and Investigations

319 (§ 5162) Advance of Non-Federal Share

320 (§ 5163) Limitation on Use of Sliding Scales

321 (§ 5164) Rules and Regulations

322 (§ 5165) Mitigation Planning

323 (§ 5165a) Minimum Standards for Public and Private 

Structures

324 (§ 5165b) Management Costs

325 (§ 5165c) Public Notice, Comment, and Consultation 

Requirements

TITLE IV Major Disaster Assistance Programs

401 (§ 5170) Procedure for Declaration

402 (§ 5170a) General Federal Assistance

403 (§ 5170b) Essential Assistance

404 (§ 5170c) Hazard Mitigation

405 (§ 5171) Federal Facilities

406 (§ 5172) Repair, Restoration, and Replacement of Damaged 

Facilities

407 (§ 5173) Debris Removal

408 (§ 5174) Federal Assistance to Individuals and Households

410 (§ 5177) Unemployment Benefit Assistance

412 (§ 5179) Food Coupons and Distribution

413 (§ 5180) Food Commodities

414 (§ 5181) Relocation Assistance

415 (§ 5182) Legal Services

416 (§ 5183) Crisis Counseling Assistance and Training

417 (§ 5184) Community Disaster Loans

418 (§ 5185) Emergency Communications

419 (§ 5186) Emergency Public Transportation

420 (§ 5187) Fire Management Assistance
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423 (§ 5189a) Appeals of Assistance Decisions

424 (§ 5189b) Date of Eligibility; Expenses Incurred Before Date 

of Disaster

TITLE V Emergency Assistance Programs

501 (§ 5191) Procedure for Declaration

502 (§ 5192) Federal Emergency Assistance

503 (§ 5193) Amount of Assistance

TITLE VI Emergency Preparedness

601 (§ 5195) Declaration of Policy

602 (§ 5195a) Definitions

603 (§ 5195b) Administration of Title

611 (§ 5196) Detailed Functions of Administration

612 (§ 5196a) Mutual Aid Pacts Between States and Neighboring 

Countries

613 (§ 5196b) Contributions for Personnel and Administrative 

Expenses

614 (§ 5196c) Requirement for State Matching Funds for 

Construction of Emergency Operating Centers

615 (§ 5196d) Use of Funds to Prepare for and Respond to Hazard

621 (§ 5197) Administrative Authority

622 (§ 5197a) Security Regulations

623 (§ 5197b) Use of Existing Facilities

624 (§ 5197c) Annual Report to Congress

625 (§ 5197d) Applicability of Title

626 (§ 5197e) Authorization of Appropriations and Transfers of 

Funds

627 (§ 5197f) Relation to Atomic Energy Act of 1954

628 (§ 5197g) Federal Bureau of Investigation

TITLE VII Authority to Prescribe Rules and Accept Gifts

701 (§ 5201) Authority to Prescribe Rules and Accept Gifts

705 (§ 5205) Disaster Grant Closeout Procedures

STAR

1) Science-based Threat Analysis and Response 

Programs

2) Studies, Training, Analysis, and Research 
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START

2

) Scientific and Technical Analysis and Response 

Team

3

) Security Through Advanced Research & 

Technology 

(NY State Program)

4

) Superfund Technical Assessment and Response 

Team

STARTEAM Specialized Target Area Registration Team

STARTEX Start of Exercise

STATEX Statutory Exclusion

STATREP Status Report

STB Surface Transportation Board

STC

1

) Satellite Teleregistration Center

2

) State Coordinator

STCC Standard Transportation Commodity Code

STDO Security Technology Deployment Office

ST-DOSE Source Term to Dose

STEP State Tribal Education Program

ST ISAC Surface Transportation Information Sharing and 

Analysis Center

STO Special Technical Operations

STOC Sniper Tactical Operations Center

STOLS System To Locate Survivors

STR Suspicious Transaction Report

STSC Student and Schools System 

STU

1

) Satellite Transmission Unit

2

) Secure Telephone Unit 

STU-III Secure Telephone Unit – Third Generation

STU-IV Secure Telephone Unit – Fourth Generation

SUA

1

) Specified Unlawful Activities

2

) Special Use Airspace

SUI Sensitive Unclassified Information

SUM Software User’s Manual

SUMA Supply Management

SUPREPS Supplemental Reports Created by OIC
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SVIS Secure Video System

SVOS Secure Voice System

SVTC Secure Video Teleconference

SVTS Secure Video Teleconferencing System

SW Soil and Water

SWAT Special Weapons and Tactics

SWC Severe Weather Center

SWEL Stillwater Flood Elevation

SWFL Stillwater Flood Level

SWG Security Working Group 

SWGDE Scientific Working Group on Digital Evidence 

SWIS Satellite Weather Information System

SWP

1

) State Warning Point

2

) State Weekends Program

SWS Severe Weather Statement

T2 Top Officials Exercise/TOPOFF 2

T&A Time and Attendance

TA

1

) Table of Allowances

2

) Technical Assistance

3

) Time and Attendance

4

) Travel Authorization

TAC

1

) Technical Advisory Committee

2

) Technical Assistance Contractor

TACACS Terminal Access Controller Access Control System

TAC-DESK Tactical Desk

TACLET Tactical Law Enforcement Team 

TAC-SMC Tactical Specialized Management Center

TADS

1

) Threat Assessment Database System

2

) Training Aids for Dam Safety

TAES Tactical Aeromedical Evacuation System

TAFA Terrorism and Foreign Assassination 

TAFT Test, Analyze, Fix and Test

TAG

1

) Technology & Architecture Group

2

) The Adjutant General

3

) Threat Advisory Group
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TARS Tethered Aerostat Radar System

TAVISS Targeted Violence Information Sharing System 

TBA

1

) To Be Announced

2

) Thyroid Blocking Agent (see KI)

TBD To Be Determined

TBM Temporary Bench Mark

TBP To be published 

TBR Travel Business Roundtable 

T&C Time and Cost

TC Technical Committee

T-CAR Tribal Capability Assessment for Readiness

TCC

1

) Telecommunications Center

2

) Transportable Communications Center 

3

) Telephone Contact Center 

TCD Tropical Cyclone Discussion

TCO Territorial Coordinating Officer

TCP

1

) Traffic Control Point

2

) Telecommunications Priorities

TCS

1

)(Standard Flood Hazard) Tracking and 

Correspondence System

2

) Tactical Control System(

s

)

TCU

1

) Threat Containment Unit

2

) Transportation Coordination Unit 

TDD Telecommunications or Teletype Device for the Dea

TDFM Traffic Demand Forecast Model

TDO Typhoon Duty Officer

TDS Time, Distance, and Shielding

TDY Temporary Duty

T&E Threatened and Endangered

TEAM-CPR Thermal, Etiological, Asphyxiation, Mechanical, 

Chemical, Psychological, and Radioactive

TECS Treasury Enforcement Communications System

TED Total Effective Dose
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TEL Transporter-Erector-Launcher

TELNET Teleconference Network

TEMA Tennessee Emergency Management Agency

TEMP

1

) Temporary Employee

2

) Test and Evaluation Master Plan

TEOAF Treasury Executive Office of Asset Forfeiture 

TEOC Transportation Emergency Operations Center

TEU Technical Escort Unit 

TEW Terrorist Early Warning 

(Group)

TF Task Force

TFCC Task Force Control Center

TFL Task Force Leader

TFR Temporary Flight Restriction 

TFT Temporary Full Time

TH

1

) Temporary Housing

2

) Technological Hazards

THA Temporary Housing Assistance

THAMIC Toxic Hazard Analysis Model for Industrial 

Chemicals

THO Temporary Housing Officer

THP Temporary Housing Program

THREATCON Threat Condition

TIA

1

) Telecommunications Industry Association

2

) Terrorism Information Awareness

TIARA Tactical Intelligence and Related Activities 

TIAS Training Information Access System

TIER Treasury Information Executive Repository

TIFF Tagged Image File Format

TIGER Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and 

Reference 

(System)

TIMACS Telecommunications Inventory Management and 

Control System

TIN

1

) Taxpayer Identification Number

2

) Triangular Irregular Network

TIOC Transportation Information Operations Center
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TISP The Infrastructure Security Partnership 

TL

1

) Team Leader

2

) Truckload

TLC Territory Logistics Centers

TLC-C Territory Logistics Center- Central

TLC-E Territory Logistics Center- East

TLC-W Territory Logistics Center-West

TLD Thermoluminescent Dosimeter 

TLV Threshold Limit Value

TM Trademark

TMARS Team Management and Rostering System

TMC

1

) Transportation Management Center

2

) Travel Management Center

TMI Three Mile Island 

(Nuclear Power Plant)

TMS

1

) Training Management System

2

) Traffic Management Specialist

TMT

1

) Traffic Management Team

2

) Training Management Team

TNC Terminal Node Controller

TNT Trinitrotoluene

TOA

1

) Time of Arrival

2

) Transportation Operating Agency(ies)

TOC

1

) Table of Contents

2

) Tactical Operations Center

3

) Traffic Operations Center

TOCDF Tooele Chemical Disposal Facility

TOPOFF Top Officials 

(exercise series)

TOSC Tactical On-Scene Commander

TOT Time on Target

TPC Tropical Prediction Center

TPED Tasking, Processing, Exploitation and Disseminatio

TPFDD Time-Phased Force Deployment Data

TPFDL Time-Phased Force Deployment List
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TPS Temporary Protected Status 

TR Transportation Request

TRACEM Thermal, Radioactive, Asphyxiation, Chemical, 

Etiological, and Mechanical

TRAC2ES TRANSCOM’s Regulating and Command and Contro

Evacuation System

TRADE Training Resources And Data Exchange 

TransCAER Transportation Community Awareness Emergency 

Response

TRC

1

) Telephone Response Center

2

) Technology Review Committee

Treas Department of the Treasury

TRES Department of Treasury 

(Federal Government, 

affiliated with EPR)

TRIA Terrorism Risk Insurance Act 

(affiliated with PSO)

TRICS Telephone-to-Radio Interface Communications 

System

TRIP Transit 

(and) Rail Inspection Pilot (DHS program, 

affiliated with BTS/TSA)

TRIPS Travel Reporting and Information Processing 

System

TRO Transient Accommodations Only

TROPAN Tropical Analysis Facsimile Network

TROR Treasury Report on Receivables

TRP Tactical Response Plan

TRT Tactical Response Team

TS

1

) Thunderstorm

2

) Top Secret

3

) Tropical Storm

TSA

1

) The Salvation Army

2

) Transportation Security Administration 

TSAC Towing Safety Advisory Committee 

TSAR Transportation Security Administration 

Representative

TSARM TSA Self-Assessment Risk Module
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TSC

2

) Terrorist Screening Center (affiliated with DHS/BTS, DOS, FBI, CIA, DOJ

)

TSCA Toxic Substance Control Act

TSCC Transportation Security Command Center (affiliated with BTS)

TSCM

1

) Technical Security Countermeasure 

2

) Technical Surveillance Countermeasures 

TSCO Top Secret Control Officer

TSD Technical Services Division

TSDN Technical Support Data Notebook

TSDR Toxic Substance and Disease Registry

TSIS Transportation Security Intelligence Service 

TSN Trade Support Network

TSP

1

) Telecommunications Service Priority

2

) Thrift Savings Plan

3

) Total Suspended Particulates

4

) Transit Security Program 

TSPSOC Telecommunications Service Priority/System 

Oversight Committee 

TSR

1

) Telecommunications Service Request

2

) Teleregistration Service Representative

TSWG Technical Support Working Group

TT Travel Trailer

TTC Technical Training Center

TT&E Training, Testing and Exercising

TTIC Terrorism/Terrorist Threat Integration Center 

TTPP Transportation Threat Protection Program

TTT Train-the-Trainer

TTWS Terrorist Threat Warning System (DHS program, affiliated with HSOC

)

TTX Tabletop Exercise 

TTY Teletypewriter

TUAV Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

TUTT Tropical Upper Tropospheric Trough
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TVA Tennessee Valley Authority

TVTA Threat and Vulnerability, Testing and Assessment 

TWA Time Weighted Average

TWD Tropical Weather Discussion

TWIC Transportation Workers Identification Credential 

TWOV Transit Without Visa Program 

TWVP

(see TWOV)

UA

1

) Unauthorized Absence

2

) Upper Air

UAC Unified Area Command

UASI Urban Area Security Initiative 

UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicle 

UC

1

) Unemployment Compensation

2

) Unified Command

UC/IC Unified Command / Incident Command

UCGIS University Consortium for Geographic Information 

Science

UCP

1

) Unified Command Plan

2

) Unified Command Post

UCT

1

) Universal Coordinated Time 

2

) Unified Command Team

UD Unified Defense

UDA Undocumented Aliens

UEL Upper Explosive Limit

UF6 Uranium Hexafluroide

UGC Universal Generic Code

UHF Ultra High Frequency

UI Unemployment Insurance

ULF Ultra Low Frequency

ULN Unit Line Number

(

s

)

ULO Unliquidated Obligation

ULP Unfair Labor Practice

UMCA Umatilla Chemical Activity

UMCD Umatilla Chemical Depot
1

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p

UMP Upward Mobility Program

UN United Nations 

(foreign, affiliated with EPR, OIA)

UNCLAS Unclassified

UNDRO United Nations Disaster Relief Organization

UNHCR United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

UNP Unmet Needs Program

UNSCOM United Nations Special Commission

UOC USACE Operations Center

UO2F2 Uranyl Fluoride

UBC Uniform Building Code

UPC Universal Product Code

UPS

1

) Uninterruptable Power Supply

2

) United Postal Service

URA Uniform Relocation Act

URISA Urban and Regional Information Systems Associati

URL Uniform Resource Locator 

US

1

) Under Secretary (also U/S)

2

) United States

USA

1

) United States of America

2

) United States Army 

USACBDC United States Army Chemical and Biological 

Defense Command

USACDA US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

USACDRA United States Army Chemical Demilitarization and 

Remediation Activity

USACE United States Army Corps of Engineers 

(ESF 3)

USACHPPM United States Army Center for Health Promotion 

and Preventive Medicine

USACMDA United States Army Chemical Material Destruction 

Agency

USACOM United States Atlantic Command (obsolete; see USJFCOM)

USADACS United States Army Defense Artillery Center and 

School
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USAID United States Agency for International 

Development 

USA-ITA

U.S. Association for Importers of Textiles and 

Apparel (private sector association, affiliated with 

BTS/CBP)

USAMRAA US Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity

USAMRICD

United States Army Medical Research Institute of 

Chemical Defense (DOD program, affiliated with 

EPR, S&T)

USAMRIID United States Army Medical Research Institute for 

Infectious Disease 

USANCA United States Army Nuclear and Chemical Agency

USA PATRIOT [Act]

Uniting & Strengthening America by Providing 

Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept & Obstruc

Terrorism

US&R Urban Search & Rescue 

USAR United States Army Reserve

USBP United States. Border Patrol

USBR United States Bureau of Reclamation

USC 1) United States Citizen 

2) United States Code 

USCERT United States Computer Emergency Response Team 

USCG United States Coast Guard 

USCGR United States Coast Guard Reserve

USCIS United States Citizenship and Immigration Services 

(aka CIS)

USCOLD United States Committee On Large Dams 

USCS United States Customs Service 

USCSCFAC U.S. Customs Service COBRA Fees Advisory 

Committee 

USDA United States Department of Agriculture 

USDA/CSREES

United States Department of Agriculture/

Cooperative State Research, Education and 

Extension Service (aka the Extension Service)

USDOI United States Department of the Interior

USDOL United States Department of Labor
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]

USFWS United States Fish and Wildlife Service

USG United States Government 

USGS United States Geological Survey

USGS-DLG United States Geological Survey Digital Line Graph 

(Format)

USIA United States Information Agency 

USIC United States Interdiction Coordinator 

USJFCOM United States Joint Forces Command 

USMC United States Marine Corps 

USMCR United States Marine Corps Reserve

USML United States Munitions List

USMRICD United States Army Medical Research Institute of 

Chemical Defense

USMS United States Marshals Service 

USMTF United States Message Text Format

USN United States Navy 

USNR United States Naval Reserve

USNORTHCOM United States Northern Command 

USOC United States Olympic Committee

USPACOM United States Pacific Command

USPHS United States Public Health Service 

USPIS United States Postal Inspection Service 

USPP United States Park Police 

USPS United States Postal Service 

US&R Urban Search and Rescue 

USS 1) United States Senate

2) United States Ship

USSOCOM United States Special Operations Command

USSOUTHCOM United States Southern Command

USSPACECOM United States Space Command

USSS United States Secret Service 

USSTRATCOM United States Strategic Command
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USTR United States Trade Representative Office 

USTRANSCOM United States Transportation Command

USVI United States Virgin Islands

US-VISIT United States Visitor and Immigrant Status 

Indicator Technology 

UTC

1) Unit Type Code

2) Universale Temps Coordinaire 

(i.e., Coordinated Universal Time)

UTCP Unified Tactical Communications Program 

UTM Universal Transverse Mercator

UV Ultraviolet

UVI Ultraviolet Index

v volt

VA 1) Vulnerability Assessment

2) Department of Veteran’s Affairs 

VACIS Vehicle and Cargo Inspection System 

VAERS Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System

VAL Voluntary Agency Liaison

VAMC Veteran’s Administration Medical Center

VAX Virtual Address Extension

VBIED Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Device

VCC Venue Control Cell (affiliated with EPR)

VCR Video Cassette Recorder

VCU VOLAG Coordination Unit

VDEM Virginia Department of Emergency Management

VDU 1) Visual Display Unit

2) Visual Docking Unit

VEE Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis

VEI Volcanic Explosivity Index

VERA Voluntary Early Retirement Authority

VFD Volunteer Fire Department

VFR Visual Flight Rules

VGA Video Graphics Adapter

VHA Veterans Health Administration 
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VIG Vaccinia Immuno Globulin

VIK Value-In-Kind

VIP

1

) Very Important Person

2

) Volunteer Incentive Program 

VIPS Volunteers In Police Service 

VISC Visual Information Support Center

VISIT Visitor & Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (affiliated with BTS/CIS)

VISN Veterans Integrated Services Network

VISTA Volunteers In Service To America

VITA Volunteers In Technical Assistance

VITEMA Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management 

Agency

VLF Very Low Frequency

VMAS Vertical Map Accuracy Standard

VMAT Veterinary Medical Assistance Team

VMS Virtual Memory System

VNPSC Virginia National Processing Service Center

VOA Volunteers of America

VOAD Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster

VoID Voice over Internet Protocol

VOLAG Voluntary Agency

VOR Visual Omni Ranger

VORTEX Verification of the Origin of Rotation in Tornadoes 

Experiment

VOSS Vessel of Opportunity Skimming System 

VPS Vector Product Format

VRC Volunteer Reception Center

VRP Vessel Response Plan

VS Victim Support

VSAB Vehicle Storage Administration Building

VSP Visa Security Program
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VTC Video Tele-Conference

VWPPA Visa Waiver Permanent Program Act of 2000 

V-Zone Coastal High Hazard Area

W watt

WAE When Actually Employed

WAN Wide Area Network

WAR Weekly Activity Report

WARNO Warning Order

WATS Wide Area Telecommunications Service

WAWAS or WAWS Washington Area Warning System 

WAWTAP Wind And Water Technical Assistance Program

WB 1) Whole Body

2) Wideband

WCATWC West Coast & Alaska Tsunami Warning Center

WCO World Customs Organization

WCRP World Climate Research Program

WEE Western Equine Encephalitis

WELP Women’s Executive Leadership Program

WEM Workshop in Emergency Management

WER Weapons-Effect Reporting

WESTPAC Western Pacific

WFSA Wildland Fire Situation Analysis

WFU Wildland Fire Use 

WGI Within-Grade Increase

WH 1) Warehouse

2) White House

WHCA White House Communications Agency

WHLO White House Liaison Office

WHMO White House Military Office

WHO World Health Organization 

WHS Washington Headquarters Services

WHSR White House Situation Room 

WIFLE Women in Federal Law Enforcement
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WITS 

ggy 

System

WMA Washington Metropolitan Area 

WMATA Washington Metropolitan Area Transport Authorit

WMD

1

) Water Management District

2

) Weapon(

s

) of Mass Destruction 

WMD-DAC WMD Decision Analysis Center 

WMDO-IM Weapons of Mass Destruction Office & Incident 

Management 

WMO World Meteorological Organization 

WO

1

) Warrant Officer

2

) Work Order

WORM Write Once - Read Many 

(CD-ROM Drive)

WP

1

) Warning Point

2

) White Phosphorus

3

) Word Processing

WPS

1

) Water Purification System 

2

) Wireless Priority Service/System 

3

) Word Processing System

WPT Workforce Performance Training 

WRDA Water Resources Development Act

WRIST Weather Radar Identification of Severe 

Thunderstorms

WRM War Reserve Material

WSEL Water-Surface Elevation

WSR Weather Surveillance Radar

WSSPC Western States Seismic Policy Council

Wt Weight

WG

1

) Wage Grade

2

) Working Group

WTC World Trade Center 

(obsolete)

WTO World Trade Organization 

WVOES West Virginia Office of Emergency Services

WWL Wind/Water Line
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WWW World Wide Web

WYO Write Your Own (Insurance, e.g., NFIP)

WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get

XDA Existing Data Study

XEDO Xedar Heat Detection Unit

XPA Extent of Play Agreement

YCC Youth Conservation Corps

yd yard

YLD 1) Yield

2) Young Lawyers Division

yr year

Z Zulu (UTC)

ZBB Zero-Based Budgeting

ZECP Zone Emergency Communications Planner

ZFP Zone Forecast Product

ZONE A

Special Flood Hazard Area inundated by the 

100-year flood; base flood elevations are not 

determined

ZONE A1 to A30 Special Flood Hazard Area inundated by the 100-

year flood; base flood elevations are determined

ZONE AE Special Flood Hazard Area inundated by the 100-

year flood; base flood elevations are determined

ZONE AH

Special Flood Hazard Area inundated by the 

100-year flood; flood depths of 1 to 3 feet (usually 

areas of ponding); base flood elevations are 

determined

ZONE AO

Special Flood Hazard Area inundated by the 100-

year flood; with flood depths of 1 to 3 feet (usually 

sheet flow on the sloping terrain); average depths 

are determined. For areas of alluvial fan flooding, 

velocities are also determined

ZONE AR

Special Flood Hazard Area that results from the 

decertification of a previously accredited flood 

protection system that is in the process of being 

restored to provide a 100-year or greater level of 

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construction; base flood elevations are not 

determined

ZONE B

Area of 500-year flood; area subject to the 100-

year flood with average depths of less than 1 foot 

or with contributing drainage area less than one 

square mile; and areas protected by levees from 

the base flood

ZONE C Area determined to be outside the 500-year 

floodplain

ZONE D Area in which flood hazards are undetermined

ZONE V

Special Flood Hazard Area inundated by the 100-

year flood; coastal floods with velocity hazards 

(wave action); base flood elevations are not 

determined

ZONE VE

Special Flood Hazard Area inundated by the 

100-year flood; coastal floods with velocity 

hazards (wave action); base flood elevations are 

determined

ZONE V1 to V30

Special Flood Hazard Area inundated by the 

100-year flood; coastal floods with velocity 

hazards (wave action); base flood elevations are 

determined

ZONE X If unshaded: Area determined to be outside the 

500-year floodplain

If shaded: Area of 500-year flood; area subject to 

the 100-year flood with average depths of less than 

1 foot or with contributing drainage area less than 

one square mile; and areas protected by levees 

from the base flood

ZULU Indicates use of Universal Coordinated Time 

(Greenwich Mean Time) [affiliated with EPR, IAIP]

ZWA Zonal Wind Anomaly
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