DRAFT SAM 2023 12 Ascend BPA Appendix XX Abbreviations and Acronyms.pdf

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This document is an appendix containing abbreviations and acronyms related to the Ascend Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) Draft Solicitation for Pool 1. It provides expansions for over 300 common abbreviations and acronyms used in federal government contracting, including terms related to cloud computing, cybersecurity, acquisition, and information technology. The key details covered include a wide range of abbreviations across topics such as access control, authorization, cloud, contracts, cybersecurity, data, information technology, and procurement. This appendix provides a comprehensive reference for the terminology used in the Ascend BPA Draft Solicitation.

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Appendix <<XX>>: Abbreviations & Acronyms

Abbreviations & Acronyms

Expansion

A

A&A Assessment & Authorization

ABAC Attribute-Based Access Control

ACA Associate Contractor Agreements

ACO Administrative Contracting Officer

ACL Access Control List

AES Advanced Encryption Standard

AI Artificial Intelligence

ANSI American National Standards Institute

AOR Area of Responsibility

API Application Programming Interface

App. Application

ATO Authorization To Operate

Auth. Authorization, Authorizing

AV Audio Visual

B

BCAP Boundary Cloud Access Point

BI Background Investigation

BIC Best In Class

BICSI Building Industry Consulting Service International

BLS United States Bureau of Labor Statistics

BOD Binding Operational Directive

BPA Blanket Purchase Agreement

Sam ple

Draf t

Abbreviations &

Expansion

BYOD Bring Your Own Device

BYOL Bring Your Own License

C

C2C Comply-to-Connect

CaC Configuration as Code

CAC Common Access Card

CAGE Commercial and Government Entity

CAP Cloud Access Point

CBT Computer Based Training

CDM Continuous Diagnostic and Mitigation

CDO Chief Data Officer

CEF Common Event Format

CFE Carbon Pollution-Free Electricity

CFR Code of Federal Regulations

CH4 Methane

CIA Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability

CIO Chief Information Officer

CIRCIA Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of

CISA Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

CISCP Cyber Information Sharing and Collaboration Program

CISO Chief Information Security Officer

CKMS Cryptographic Key Management System

CLIN Contract Line Item

CM Category Management

CMLC Category Management Leadership Council

Expansion

CO Contracting Officer

CO2 Carbon Dioxide

CONUS Continental United States

COR Contracting Officer Representative

COTS Commercial Off The Shelf

CPARS Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System

CPE Common Platform Enumeration

CPU Central Processing Unit

CS Contracting Specialist

CSRB Cyber Safety Review Board

CSO Cloud Service Offering

CSP Cloud Service Provider

CSV Comma Separated Values

CTA Contractor Team Arrangements

CUI Controlled Unclassified Information

CVD Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure

CVE Cybersecurity Vulnerability and Exposure

CVS Central Verification System

CY Calendar Year

D

DARP Data At Rest Protection

DB Database

DC District of Columbia

DC3 Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center

DCAS Department of Defense Cloud Authorization Services

Expansion

DCISE Defense Industrial Base Collaborative Information Sharing Environment

DCSA Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency

DD254 Department of Defense Contract Security Classification Specification

DEL Deliverable

DevSecOps Development, Security, and Operations

DFARS Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement

DH Diffie-Hellman

DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DHS Department of Homeland Security

DIB Defense Industrial Base

DIB CS Defense Industrial Base (DIB) Cybersecurity (CS) Program

DISA Defense Information Systems Agency

Disc. Discontinued, Discount

DISS Defense Information System for Security

DLP Data Loss Prevention

DNS Domain Name System

DoD Department of Defense

DoD CC SRG Department of Defense Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide

DoDD Department of Defense Directive

DoDI Department of Defense Instruction

DoDM Department of Defense Manual

DoE Department of Energy

DoJ Department of Justice

Expansion

DoS Denial-of-Service

DoS Department of State

DOT&E Office of the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation

DSSR Department of State Standardized Regulations

E

E1 EINSTEIN 1

E2 EINSTEIN 2

E3A EINSTEIN 3 Accelerated

ECDH Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman

ECDSA Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm

EDI Electronic Data Interchange

EDWOSB Economically Disadvantaged Women Owned Small Business

EFT Electronic Funds Transfer

EO Executive Order

EOP Executive Office of the President

EPA Environmental Protection Agency

EPEAT Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool

ERO Electric Reliability Organization etc. et cetera

EVM Earned Value Management

F

FAQ Frequently Asked Questions

FAR Federal Acquisition Regulations

FAS Federal Acquisition Service

FBI Federal Bureau of Investigations

Expansion

FCEB Federal Civilian Executive Branch

FCL Facility Clearance

FCP Federal Acquisition Service Catalog Platform

FedRAMP Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program

FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency

FFP Firm-Fixed-Price

FinOps Financial Operations

FIPS Federal Information Processing Standard

FOC Fiber Optic Cable

FOUO For Official Use Only

FP Fixed-Price

FPU Fixed Unit Price

FSLTT Federal, State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial

FSS Federal Supply Schedule

FTR Federal Travel Regulation

EVM Earn Value Management

FY Fiscal Year

G

G&A General and Administrative

GAO Government Accountability Office

Gb Gigabit

GB Gigabyte

Gbps Gigabits per second

GEC Global Electronics Council

GFI Government Furnished Information

Expansion

GFP Government Furnished Property

GHG Greenhouse Gas

GOTS Government Off The Shelf

GSA General Services Administration

GSAM General Services Acquisition Manual

GUI Graphical User Interface

H

HA High Availability

HFCs Hydrofluorocarbons

HHS Health and Human Services

HIPAA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

HSPD Homeland Security Presidential Directive

HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol

HTTPS Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure

HUBZone Historically Under-utilized Business Zones

HVAC Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning

I

IA Information Assurance

IaaS Infrastructure as a Service

IaC Infrastructure as Code

IAM Identity and Access Management

IAVA Information Assurance Vulnerability Alert

IAVM Information Assurance Vulnerability Management

IAW In Accordance With

IBAC Identity-Based Access Control

Expansion

IC Intelligence Community

ID Identification

Id. Identifier

IDIQ Indefinite-Delivery Indefinite-Quantity

IDS Intrusion Detection System

IPR In-Progress Reviews

IPS Intrusion Prevention System

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IETF Internet Engineering Task Force

IKE Internet Key Exchange

IL Impact Level

IM Instant Messaging

IP Internet Protocol

IPS Intrusion Prevention System

IPv4 Internet Protocol Version 4

IPv6 Internet Protocol Version 6

IRS Internal Revenue Service

IRTPA Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act

IS Information Systems

ISR Industrial Security Representative

IT Information Technology

ITC Office of Information Technology Category

ITS Internet Time Service

J

JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group

Expansion

JSON JavaScript Object Notation

JTR Joint Travel Regulations

K

L

LAN Local Area Network

LH Labor Hour

LI-SaaS Low Impact-Software as a Service

LOA Line of Accounting

M

MAC Media Access Control

Marketpl. Marketplace

MAS Multiple Award Schedule

MBI Moderate Risk Background Investigation

Meas. Measure

MFA Multi-Factor Authentication

ML Machine Learning

MODP More Modular Exponential

MPEG Moving Picture Experts Group

MPIN Marketing Partner Identification Number

MSA Metropolitan Statistical Area

MQV Menezes-Qu-Vanstone

MRO Midwest Reliability Organization

MTIPS Managed Trusted Internet Protocol Services

N

N2O Nitrous Oxide

Expansion

NA Not Applicable

NACI National Agency Check and Inquiries

NACLC National Agency Check with Law and Credit

NAICS North American Industry Classification System

NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NAT Network Address Translation

NCIJTF National Cyber Security Investigative Joint Task Force

NCPS National Cybersecurity Protection System

NDA Non-Disclosure Agreement

NDAA National Defense Authorization Act

NDR Network Detection and Response

NERC North American Electric Reliability Corporation

NFHL National Flood Hazard Layer

NISP National Industrial Security Program

NISPOM National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual

NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology

NLP Natural Language Processing

NLT No Later Than

NPCC Northeast Power Coordinating Council

NSA / CSS National Security Agency / Central Security Service

NSS National Security System

NTA Network Traffic Analyzer

NTIA National Telecommunications and Information Administration

NTP Network Time Protocol

Num. Number

Expansion

NVA Network Virtual Appliance

NVD National Vulnerability Database

O

O&M Operations and Maintenance

OAuth Open Authorization

OCI Organizational Conflict of Interest

OCO Ordering Contracting Officer

OCONUS Outside Continental United States

ODNI Office of the Director of National Intelligence

OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer

OFPP Office of Federal Procurement Policy

OIG Office of Inspector General

OLM Order-Level Materials

OMB Office of Management and Budget

OS Operating System

OSCAL Open Security Controls Assessment Language

OSI Open Systems Interconnection

OSS Open source software

OTP One-Time Password

OTSB Other Than Small Business

OWASP® Open Worldwide Application Security Project®

P

PA Provisional Authority

PaaS Platform as a Service

PALT Procurement Administrative Lead Time

Expansion

PBAC Policy-Based Access Control

PDF Portable Document Format

PFCs Perfluorochemicals

PHI Protected Health Information

PHE Public Health Emergency

PII Personally Identifiable Information

PIM Privileged Identity Management

PIV Personal Identity Verification

PKI Public Key Infrastructure

PM Program Manager

PMA President's Management Agenda

PMO Program Management Office

POA&M Plan of Action and Milestones

POC Point of Contact

PoLA Principle of Least Authority

PoLP Principle of Least Privilege

PoMP Principle of Minimal Privilege

PoP Period of Performance

PPD Presidential Policy Directive

PQC Post-Quantum Cryptography

Prof. Professional

PSC Product and Service Code

PSR Program Status Review

PVC Polyvinyl Chloride

PWS Performance Work Statement

Expansion

Q

QPSR Quarterly Program Status Review

QTR Quarter

QTY Quantity

R

R2 Responsible Recycling Standards for Electronic Recyclers

RAM Random Access Memory

RBAC Role-Based Access Control

RF ReliabilityFirst

RFC Request for Comment

RFID Radio Frequency Identification

RFQ Request for Quote

RM Risk Management

RSA Rivest-Shamir-Adleman

RTO Requirements Task Order

RuBAC Rule-Based Access Control

S

SaaS Software as a Service

SAM System for Award Management

SAML Security Assertion Markup Language

SAT Simplified Acquisition Threshold

SB Small Business

SBA Small Business Administration

SBOM Software Bill Of Materials

SCIF Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility

Expansion

SCR Service Contract Reporting

SCRM Supply Chain Risk Management

SDB Small Disadvantaged Business

SDVOSB Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business

SEC Securities and Exchange Commission

SERC SERC Reliability Corporation

Serv. Service

SF Standard Form

SF6 Sulfur Hexafluoride

SIEM Security Information and Event Management

SIN Special Item Number

SKU Stock Keeping Unit

SLA Service Level Agreement

SLTT State, Local, Tribal, or Territorial

SMS Short Message Service

SNI Server Name Indication

SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol

SOC Security Operations Center

SOO Statement of Objectives

SOW Statement of Work

SP Special Publication

SPDX® Software Package Data Exchange®

SSBI Single Scope Background Investigation

SSL Secure Sockets Layer

Sub-CLIN Sub-Contract Line Item

Expansion

SUM Spend Under Management

SWID Software Identification

T

T1 Tier 1 Non-Sensitive Positions - Low Risk

T2 Tier 2 Non-Sensitive Public Trust Positions - Moderate Risk

T3 Tier 3 National Security Positions - Secret / Confidential Clearance

T4 Tier 4 Non-Sensitive Public Trust Positions - High Risk

T5 Tier 5 National Security Positions - Top Secret Clearance

T&C Terms and Conditions

T&M Time and Materials

TBD To Be Determined

TCP Transmission Control Protocol

TDR Transactional Data Reporting

TEM Technical Exchange Meeting

TIA Telecommunications Industry Association

TIC Trusted Internet Connection

Texas RE Texas Reliability Entity

TLS Transport Layer Security

TO Task Order

TOA Task Order Award

TS Top Secret

U

U.S.C United States Code

UC Unified Communications

UDP User Datagram Protocol

Expansion

UEI Unique Entity Identifier

UI User Interface

UN United Nations

Univ. Universal

UOM Unit of Measure

UPC Universal Product Code

UPS Universal Power Supply

URL Uniform Resource Locator

US United States (of America)

USA United States Army

USAF United States Air Force

USCG United States Coast Guard

USG United States Government

USMC United States Marine Corps

USN United States Navy

US-CERT United States-Computer Emergency Readiness Team

V vCPU virtual Central Processing Unit

VNet Virtual Network

VOSB Veteran-Owned Small Business

VOIP Voice Over Internet Protocol

VPAT(™) Voluntary Product Accessibility Template

VPC Virtual Private Cloud

VPN Virtual Private Network

VPP Verified Products Portal

Expansion

VTC Video Teleconference

W

W Woman Owned Business

W3C World Wide Web Consortium

WAF Web Application Firewall

WAN Wide Area Network

WECC Western Electricity Coordinating Council

WOB Woman-Owned Business

WOSB Women-Owned Small Business

X

XML Extensible Markup Language

Y

Z

ZTA Zero Trust Architecture

24x7x365 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 365 days

6G Sixth Generation (Mobile system standard for wireless communications technologies.)

Expansion

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