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Annex A: Acronyms and Abbreviations
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Alphabetical list of the acronyms and abbrevi abbreviations used used in the Structured Structured Information Structured Information Information Processing Processing Reference Reference Architecture Reference Architecture Information Processing Processing Information Information Processing, Reference Architecture Processing Information, and Application Programming Information across acquisition, organizational, jurisdictional, and security boundaries.
| Acronym or Abbreviation | Meaning |
|---|---|
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| BPMN | Business Process Model and Notation |
| C4I | Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence |
| CCM | CORBA Component Model |
| COM | Component Object Model |
| CORBA | Common Object Request Broker Architecture |
| DDS | Data Distribution Service (DDS) |
| DDSI | Data Distribution Service Interoperability |
| EDOC | Enterprise Distributed Object Computing |
| EJB | Enterprise JavaBeans |
| FDIS-RA | Federated Data Interpretation Systems Reference Architecture |
| GIOP | General Inter-ORB Protocol |
| GMT | Greenwich Mean Time |
| IDL | Interface Definition Language |
| IIOP | Internet Inter-ORB Protocol |
| ISO | International Organization for Standardization |
| MDA | Model Driven Architecture (MDA) |
| MPG | Model for Performance-Driven Government |
| OASIS | Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards |
| OMG | Object Management Group |
| OOXML | Office Open XML |
| OTS | Object Transaction Service |
| PIM | Platform Independent Model (PIM) |
| PSM | Platform Specific Model (PSM) |
| RA | Reference Architecture (RA) |
| RFP | Request for Proposal |
| SIP-RA | Structured Information Processing Reference Architecture |
| SNP | Single Nucleotide Polymorphism |
| TACSIT | Tactical Situation |
| UML | Unified Modeling Language |
| U.S. | United States |
Notes for Editors
Add an acronym or abbreviation when it is introduced or used in the SIP-RA document.
Maintain the entries in alphabetical order.
Spell out an acronym or abbreviation at its first substantive use in each major section unless the abbreviation is more familiar than its expanded form.
Link an expanded term to the controlling entry in the shared Terms and Definitions corpus when an entry exists. Annex A provides expansions only and does not duplicate the controlling definitions.
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