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A | Ampere |
A/D | Analog to Digital |
AA | Associate Administrator |
AAA | Avionics Air Assembly |
ABRS | Advanced Biological Research System |
AC | Alternating Current |
ACE | Advanced Colloids Experiment |
ACME | Advanced Combustion Microgravity Experiment |
ACS | Atmospheric Control and Supply |
ACUC | Animal Care and Use Committee |
ACWP | Actual Cost of Work Performed |
ADAS | Ambulatory Data Acquisition System |
ADM | Acquisition Decision Memorandum |
ADP | Acceptance Data Package |
AEE | Advanced Engineering Environment |
AEMC | Advanced Environmental Monitoring and Control, GFM-2 |
AEON | Advanced Engineering Operations Network Portal |
AER | Advanced Exploration Research |
AES | Anthropometric EVA Suit |
AEVA | Advanced Extra Vehicular Activity |
AFC | Auxiliary Fluids Container |
AFT | Advanced Food Technology |
AHLS | Advanced Human Life Support |
AIM | Advanced Integrated Matrix |
AL | Air Lock |
ALI | Alice-Like Insert |
ALP | Advanced Liquid Pumps |
ALS | Advanced Life Support |
AO | Announcement of Opportunity |
AoA | Analysis of Alternatives |
AOA | Annual Operating Agreement |
AOS | Acquisition of Signal |
AP | Acceleration Projects |
APB | Accounting Principles Board |
APB | Acquisition Program Baseline |
APCP | Automated Procedure Control Panel |
APG | Annual Performance Goal |
API | Application Programming Interface |
APID | Application Process Identifier |
APMC | Agency Program Management Council |
APOM | Assistant Payload Operations Manager |
APPL | Academy of Program and Project Leadership |
APS | Automated Payload Switch |
APSSP | Advanced Propulsion Systems and Space Power |
APV | Automated Procedure Viewer |
AR | Anomaly Report |
AR | Air Revitalization |
ARC | Ames Research Center |
ARD | Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate |
ARED | Advanced Resistive Exercise Device |
ARIS | Active Rack Isolation System |
ARIS | Active Rack Isolation Unit |
ARIS-ICE | Aris-Iss Characterization Experiment |
ARM | Active Risk Manager |
ARMD | Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate |
ARR | Assemble, Test, and Launch Operations (ATLO) Readiness Review |
ARS | Air Revitalization System |
AS | Ascent Stage |
AS | Acquisition Strategy |
ASBCA | Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals |
ASCB | Avionics Software Control Board |
ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
ASI | Agency Safety Initiative |
ASIC | Application-Specific Integrated Circuit |
ATCS | Air Thermal Control System |
ATCU | Air Thermal Control Unit |
ATD | Advanced Technology Development |
ATHINA | Investigation of Diffusion Flame Tip Thermo-diffusive and Hydrodynamic Instability Under Microgravity Conditions |
ATP | Authority to Proceed |
ATP | Acceptance Test Plan |
AUID | Agency Issued ID |
AWG | American Wire Gauge |
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BAA | Broad Area Announcement |
BAC | Budget at Completion |
BAD | Broadcast Ancillary Data |
BASS | Burning and Suppression Of Solids |
BCAT | Binary Colloidal Alloy Test |
BCAT-3 | Binary Colloidal Alloy Test – 3 |
BCAT-4 | Binary Colloidal Alloy Test – 4 |
BCAT-5 | Binary Colloidal Alloy Test – 5 |
BCAT-C1 | Binary Colloidal Alloy Test CSA Payload-1 |
BCDCE | Bi-Component Droplet Combustion Experiment |
BCOEL | Boiling Heat Transfer & Control of Bubble Motion in Microgravity using Electric Fields |
BCPR | Bioastronautics Critical Path Roadmap |
BCWP | Budgeted Cost for Work Performed |
BDiSL | Buoyancy Driven Instabilities in Single Bubble Sonoluminescence |
BH | Big Habitat |
BIO | Biological |
BMP | Biomass Production |
BOE | Basis-of-Estimate |
BPRAC | Biological and Physical Research Advisory Committee |
BPRR | Biological and Physical Research Rack |
BRE | Burning Rate Emulator |
BVX | Bulk Viscosity of Xenon |
BXF | Boiling Experiment Facility |
BY | Budget Year |
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C&C | Command and Control |
C&DH | Command and Data Handling |
C&T | Communications and Telemetry |
C&T | Communications and Tracking |
C&W | Caution and Warning |
C4ISP | Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Information Systems Protection |
CAD | Cost Analysis Division |
CAD | Computer Aided Design |
CADRe | Cost Analysis Data Requirement |
CAI | Communications, Avionics, and Informatics |
CAIB | Columbia Accident Investigation Board |
CAIG | Cost Analysis Improvement Group |
CAIV | Cost as an Independent Variable |
CAN | Controller Area Network |
CANSEI | Control and Network Systems, Electrical power, and ICS communication officer |
CATS | Cloud-Aerosol Transport SysteM |
CARD | Cost Analysis Requirements Document |
CBE | Current Best Estimate |
CBT | Computer Based Training |
CCA | Clinger-Cohen Act |
CCB | Configuration Control Board |
CCBD | Configuration Control Board Directive |
CCD | Charge-Coupled Device |
CCF | The Cleveland Clinic Foundation |
CCF | Critical Velocities in Open Capillary Channels |
CCIAM | Color Camera Image Acquisition Module |
CCSDS | Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems |
CCR | Central Contractor Registry |
CCRM | Continuous Cost Risk Management |
CCU | Confocal Control Unit |
CDD | Capability Development Document |
CDMS | Command and Data Management System |
CDOT | Colloidal Disorder-Order Transitions Experiment |
CDR | Critical Design Review |
CDRA | Carbon Dioxide Removal Assembly |
CDRL | Contrac Data Requirements List |
CDS | Central Data System |
CDS | Cargo Delivery System |
CE&R | Concept Exploration and Refinement |
CECE | Common Extensible Cryogenic Engine |
CERR | Critical Events Readiness Review |
CEV | Crew Exploration Vehicle |
CEVIS | Cycle Ergometer with Vibration Isolation and Stabilization |
CEVLS | Crew Exploration Vehicle Launch Segment |
CFE | Capillary Flow Experiment |
CFM | Cubic Feet per Minute |
CFM-2 | Candle Flames in Microgravity-2 |
CFO | Chief Financial Officer |
CG | Center of Gravity |
CGBA | Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus |
CGSE | Common Gas Supply Equipment |
CHAINS | CHain Aggregation INvestigation by Scattering |
CHESS | Condensing Heat Exchanger for Space Systems |
CI | Counter-Intelligence |
CIA | Chamber Insert Assembly |
CIBS | Coalescence Inhibition of Bubbly Suspensions Experiment |
CIO | Chief Information Office |
CIR | Combustion Integrated Rack |
CL | Contact Line |
Clean-Flame | Field Effects of Gravity on Lean Premixed Turbulent Flames |
CLiDE | Contact Line Dynamics Experiment |
CLV | Crew Launch Vehicle |
CM | Configuration Management |
CM-2 | Combustion Module – 2 |
CMT | Critical Mission Task |
CNC | Condensation Nuclei Counter |
COFC | Court of Federal Claims |
CoFR | Certification of Flight Readiness |
COLLIDE-2 | Collisions into Dust Experiment – 2 |
Con Ops | Concept of Operations |
COTR | Contracting Officer Technical Representative |
COTS | Commercial-Off-the-Shelf |
CP-2L | CVB/PHaSE-2/PCS-2/LFCA |
CPAF | Cost Plus Award Fee |
CPCI | Compact-Peripheral Component Interconnect |
CPAF/IF | Cost Plus Award Fee / Incentive Fee |
CPD | Capability Production Document |
CPFF | Cost Plus Fixed Fee |
CPM | Critical Path Method |
CPU | Central Processor Unit |
CR | Change Request |
CRA | Continuing Resolution Authority |
CRL | Countermeasure Readiness Levels |
CRM | Continuous Risk Management |
CRR | Crew Readiness Review |
CRT | Contingency Response Technologies |
CRWT | Containerless Ripple Wave Turbulence Experiment |
CSA | Canadian Space Agency |
CSD | Comparative Soot Diagnostics |
CSD | Computer Services Division |
CSFM | Cold Stowage Fleet Manager |
CSI | CGBA Science Insert |
CSLM | Coarsening in Solid-Liquid Mixtures |
CSLM-2 | Coarsening of Solid-Liquid Mixtures-2 |
CSM | Center for Space Medicine |
CSMT | Cold Stowage Management Team |
CTB | Cargo Transport Bag |
CTC | Crew Training Coordinator |
CTO | Chief Training Officer |
CV | Cost Variance |
CVB | Constrained Vapor bubble |
CVIT | Common Video Interface Transmitter |
CVIU | Common Video Interface Unit |
CVX-2 | Critical Viscosity of Xenon-2 |
CY | Calendar Year |
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DA | Digital Astronaut |
DAA | Deputy Associate Administrator |
DAD | Decision Action Diagram |
DAFT | Dust and Aerosol measurement Feasibility Test |
DAR | Defense Acquisition Regulation |
DAU | Defense Acquisition University |
DC | Direct Current |
DCAM | Dynamic Contact Angle Measurement Experiment |
DCE | Droplet Combustion Experiment |
DCE-2 | Droplet Combustion Experiment-2 |
DCM | Diagnostic Control Module |
DCMA | Defense Contract Management Agency |
DCR | Design Concept Review |
DCS | Digital Camera System |
DDCE | Dynamics of Droplet Combustion and Extinction Experiment |
DECLIC | DEvice for the study of Critical LIquids and Crystallization |
DFP | Data Flow Plan |
DFRC | Dryden Flight Research Center |
DID | Deliverable Item Document |
DIMS | Digital Imagery Management System |
DISC | Digital Imaging Star Camera |
dlm | Downlink Manager |
DLS | Daily Load Stimulus |
DMB | Data Management Board |
DMC | Data Management Coordinator (MSFC POIC Duty Position) |
DMO | Command and Data Management Officer (GRC FCF Duty Position) |
DMS | Data Management System |
DO | Delivery Order |
DoD | U.S. Department of Defense |
DOP | Daily Operations Plan |
DoS | U.S. Department of State |
DOT | Department of Transportation |
DP | Delivery Plan |
DPC | Daily Planning Conference |
DPIV | Digital Particle Imaging Velocimetry |
DRD | Data Requirement Delivery |
DRD | Data Requirements Document |
DRFP | Draft Request for Proposal |
DRM | Design Reference Mission |
DS | Descent Stage |
DSN | Deep Space Network |
DSO | Detailed Science Objective |
DSP | Digital Signal Processor |
DSRC | Data System Routing and Configuration |
DSS | Destination Surface Stage |
DT-IAM | Diagnostic Technologies – Integrated Autonomous Medicine |
DVD | Digital Video Disk |
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EA | Evolutionary Acquisition |
EAC | Estimate at Completion |
EAR | Export Administration Regulations |
EC | Embedded Controller |
ECL | Exercise Countermeasures Laboratory |
ECLSS | Environmental Control and Life Support System |
ECO | Engineering Change Order |
ECP | Export Control Program |
ECP | Exercise Countermeasures Project |
ECR | Engineering Change Request |
ECS | Environmental Control System |
ECU | Electronics Control Unit |
ECU | Environmental Control Unit |
ECW | Emergency, Caution and Warning |
EDCA | Entropically Driven Colloidal Assembly Experiment |
EDL | Entry Descent and Landing |
EDMS | Electronic Document Management System |
EDR | European Drawer Rack |
EDS | Enhanced Data System |
EDS | Earth Departure Stage |
EE | Electronics Enclosure |
EEU | Environmental Electronics Unit |
EGM | Electrostatics of Granular Materials Experiment |
EGSE | Experiment Ground Support Equipment |
EHR | Exploration Human Research |
EHS | Enhanced HOSC System |
EI | Entry Interface |
EIA | Electronic Industries Association |
EIRD | Exploration Investigation Requirements Document |
ELC | EXPRESS Laptop Computer |
ELM | Enhanced Light Microscope |
ELV | Expendable Launch Vehicle |
EM | Engineering Model |
EMCS | Enhanced Mission Communications System |
EMI | Electromagnetic Interference |
EMO | Environmental Management Office |
EMS | Environmental Management System |
EMS | Experiment Mounting Structure |
EO | Earth Orbit |
EPCU | Electrical Power Control Unit |
EPS | Electrical Power System |
ER# | EXPRESS Rack number |
ERB | Engineering Review Board |
ERD | Engineering Requirements Document |
ERE | Extensional Rheology Experiment |
ES | Earth Surface |
ESA | European Space Agency |
ESC | Electronic Still Camera |
ESC | Evaporative Spray Cooling |
ESD | Exploration Systems Division |
ESM | Equivalent System Mass |
ESMD | Exploration Systems Mission Directorate |
ESMD PARL | ESMD Performance Assessment Report Lead |
ESMD PPL | ESMD Performance Planning Lead |
ESMD SAMP | ESMD Single Acquisition Management Plan |
ESMD SEMP | ESMD Theme Systems Engineering Management Plan |
ESN | External Services Network |
ESR&T | Exploration Systems Research & Technology Division |
ESS | Exploration System of Systems |
ESSA | EPCU Shutoff Switch Assembly |
ETC | Estimate to Completion |
ETM | Equipment Transfer Module |
ETO | Earth-to-Orbit |
ETOV | Earth-to-Orbit Vehicle |
EV | Earned Value |
EV | Entry Vehicle |
EVA | Extra Vehicular Activity |
EVM | Earned Value Management |
EVMS | Earned Value Management System |
EVP | Exhaust Vent Package |
EWCA | Emergency, Warning, Caution, and Advisory |
EXMC | Exploration Medical Capability and Digital Astronaut |
EXPRESS | Expedite the Process of Experiments to the Space Station Rack |
eZLS | Enhanced Zero-g Locomotion Simulator |
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FAD | Formulation Authorization Document |
FAM | Familiarization (training) |
FAR | Federal Acquisition Regulations |
FCA | Functional Configuration Audit |
FCF | Fluids and Combustion Facility |
FDS | Functional Discipline Specialist |
FEANICS | Flow Enclosure Accommodating Novel Investigations in Combustion of Solids |
FFP | Firm Fixed Price |
FFRDC | Federally Funded Research and Development Center |
FHA | Flight Hardware Availability |
FICS | FOMA Instrumentation Calibration System |
FIR | Fluids Integrated Rack |
FIST | Flammability Diagrams of Combustible Materials in Microgravity |
FLEX | FLame Extinguishment eXperiment |
Flt Platform | Flight 4.1.2 |
FM | Functional Model |
FMEA/CIL | Failure Mode Effects Analysis / Critical Item List |
FMS | Food Management System |
FO | Forward Osmosis |
FOAM | Foam Optics and Mechanics Experiment |
FOC | Full Operational Capability |
FOIA | Freedom of Information Act |
FOM | Figure-of-Merit |
FOMA | Fuel Oxidizer Management Assembly |
FOOT | Lower Extremity Monitoring Suit ISS Experiment |
FPAF | Fixed Price Award Fee |
FPC | Food Preparation Capabilities |
FPDS | Fire Prevention, Detection, and Suppression |
FPI | Fixed Price Incentive |
FPSR | Fluid Physics Strategic Research |
FRR | Flight Readiness Review |
FSAP | Fluid Science Avionics Package |
FSDP | Flight Safety Data Packages |
FSL | Fluid Science Laboratory (ESA) |
FSR | Flight safety Review |
FU | Flight Unit |
FunRes | Fundamental Research |
FY | Fiscal Year |
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G&A | General and Administrative |
GAO | General Accounting Office |
GC | Gas Chromatograph |
GCR | Galactic Cosmic Ray |
GEL | Gravity Effects in Lyophilization |
GERT | Graphical Evaluation Review Technique |
GESS | GRC Engineering and Scientific Support |
GFE | Government Furnished Equipment |
GFM | Granular Flow Module |
GGM | Gravity and Granular Materials, GFM-3 |
GIU | Ground Interface Unit |
GMSF | Growth and Morphology of Supercritical Fluids Experiment |
GN&C | Guidance, Navigation and Control |
GOTS | Government-Off-The-Shelf |
GPD | Gate Product Deliverable |
GPMC | Governing Program Management Council |
GPRA | Government Performance and Results Act |
GRADFLEX | Gradient Driven Fluctuations Experiment |
GRC | Glenn Research Center |
GSDP | Ground Safety Data Package |
GSE | Ground Support Equipment |
GSP | Ground Support Personnel |
GSS | Ground Support System |
GTP | Gas Tolerant Pump |
GLIDE | Global Integrated Design Environment |
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HBCU | Historically Black Colleges and Universities |
HCA | Head of Contracting Activity |
HCL | Human Capitol Liaison |
HCR | Hardware Concept Review |
HFIT | Human Factor Integration Test |
HIPPA | Hip Investigator for Protecting Astronaut Anatomy |
HQ | Headquarters |
HRIS | Human Resources Information System |
HSR&T | Human Support Research Technology |
HUB | Historically Underutilized Business |
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IA | Independent Assessment |
IAO | International Announcement of Opportunity |
IBPD | Integrated Budget and Performance Document |
IBR | Integrated Baseline Reviews |
ICA | Independent Cost Assessment |
ICAT | Independent Cost Assessment Team |
ICD | Interface Control Document |
ICE | Independent Cost Estimate |
ICE | Interface Configuration Experiment |
ICP | Intramural Call for Proposal |
ICR | Initial Confirmation Review |
ICR | Investigation Continuation Review |
ID | Incremental Development |
IDD | Interface Definition Document |
IEEE/EIA | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers / Electronic Industries Association |
IFB | Invitation for Bid |
IGA | Inter-Governmental Agreement |
IGCE | IIndependent Government Cost Estimate |
ILS | Integrated Logistics Support |
IMS | Integrated Master Schedule |
InSPACE | Investigating the Structure of Paramagnetic Aggregates from Colloidal |
InSPACE-2 | Investigating the Structure of Paramagnetic Aggregates from Colloidal – 2 |
INSTEP | In-Space Technology Experiments Program |
IOC | Initial Operational Capability |
IOP | Input Output Package |
IPA | Independent Program Assessment |
IPAO | Independent Program Assessment Office |
IPAT | Independent Program Assessment Team |
IPO | Institutional Program Office |
IPP | Innovative Partnerships Program |
IPS | Integrated Program Summary |
IPSU | Image Processing & Storage Unit |
IPT | Integrated Product Team |
IR | Infared |
IRB | Internal Reference Base |
IRD | Interface Requirements Document |
iRED | Interim Resistive Exercise Device |
IRR | Interim Research Review |
IS3 | In-Space Support System |
ISFR | In-Situ Fabrication and Repair |
ISLSP | In-Situ Life Support Processes |
ISO | International Organization for Standardization |
ISRU | In-Situ Resource Utilization |
ISS | International Space Station |
IT | Information Technology |
ITA | Independent Technical Authority |
ITAR | International Traffic in Arms Regulations |
IVA | Intravehicular Activity |
IVGEN | Intra Venous Water GENeration |
IV&V | Independent Verification and Validation |
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JAXA | Japanese Aerospace Exploration Administration |
JIMO | Jupiter Icy Moon Orbiter |
JIT | Joint Integration Test |
JPL | Jet Propulsion Lab |
JSC | Johnson Space Center |
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KA | Key Activities |
KDP | Key Decision Point |
KPP | Key Performance Parameters |
KSC | Kennedy Space Center |
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LaRC | LaRC Langley Research Center |
LAWG | LAWG Lunar Architecture Working Group |
LCC | LCC Life Cycle Cost |
L/D | L/D Lift/Drag coefficient |
LED | LED Light Emitting Diode |
LEO | LEO Low Earth Orbit |
LEPAG | LEPAG Lunar Exploration Program Working Group |
LExSWG | LExSWG Lunar Exploration Science Working Group |
LFCA | LFCA Low Volume Fraction Colloidal Assemblies Experiment, LMM-4 |
LF-X | LF-X Logistics Flight |
LH2 | LH2 Liquid Hydrogen |
LIS | LIS Lead Increment Scientist |
LFCA | LFCA Low Volume Fraction Colloidal Assemblies Experiment, LMM-4 |
LLO | LLO Low-Lunar Orbit |
LME | LME Liquid Management Experiment |
LMM | LMM Light Microscopy Module |
LMS | LMS Lunar Mission Scenario |
LO | LO Lunar Orbit |
LOA | LOA Letter of Agreement |
LOC | LOC Lunar Orbit Capture |
LOE | LOE Level of Effort |
LOM | LOM Loss of Mission |
LOX | LOX Liquid OXygen |
LRIP | LRIP Low-Rate Initial Production |
LRL | LRL Lunar Robotic Lander |
LRO | LRO Lunar Robotic Orbiter |
LRR | LRR Launch Readiness Review |
LS | LS Lunar Surface |
LSAM | LSAM Lunar Surface Access Module |
LSH | LSH Life Support and Habitation |
LSI | LSI Landed Surface Interrogator |
LSP | LSP Laminar Soot Process |
LSPG | LSPG Life Support Power Generation System |
L1 | Libration point 1 (Earth-Moon) |
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M&S | Modeling and Simulation |
MABE | Microheater Array Boiling Experiment |
MAMS | Microgravity Acceleration Measurement System |
MCDL | Master Controlled Documents List |
MDA | Milestone Decision Authority |
MDCA | Multi-user Droplet Combustion Apparatus |
MDCA | Mission System Development Implementation Plan |
MEL | Microgravity Environment Lab |
MEPAG | Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group |
MFS | Multiphase Flow Separators |
MFT | Multiphase Flow Technology |
MGFA | Multi-user Gaseous Fuels Apparatus |
MGI | MICROSCALE Glovebox Investigation Experiment |
MGM-III | Mechanics of Granular Materials Experiment – III |
MI | Minority Institutions |
MIDAS | Miscible Interface Dynamics and Simulation Experiment |
MIST | Water Mist Fire Suppression Experiment |
MIUL | Material Identification Usage List |
MMA | Microgravity Measurement Apparatus |
MMOD | Micro-Meteoroid and Orbital Debris |
MOA | Memorandum of Agreement |
MOBI | Microgravity Observations of Bubble Interaction Experiment |
MOMM | Microscopy and Optical Manipulation Module |
MOP | Mission Operations Plan |
MOTS | Modified-Off-The-Shelf |
MOU | Memorandum of Understanding |
MRDOC | Microgravity Research, Development and Operations Contract |
MRR | Mission Readiness Review |
MS | Milestone |
MSCRE | Microgravity Smoldering Combustion Re-Flight Experiment |
MSD | Microgravity Science Division |
MSD | Mission System Development |
MSFC | Marshall Space Flight Center |
MSG | Microgravity Science Glovebox |
MST | Mission Sequence Test |
MWA | Maintenance Work Area |
μMRF | Micromechanics of Magnetorheological Fluids, LMM-5 |
μgSEG | Particle Segregation in Collisional Sheering Flows Experiment, GFM-1 |
μSCALE | Microscale Hydrodynamics Near Moving Contact Lines Experiment |
μSiGMA | Micro Solids Interacting with Gas in a Microgravity Apparatus Experiment, GFM-2 |
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N/A | Not Applicable |
NAC | NASA Advisory Committee |
NAR | Non-Advocate Review |
NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
NBX | Nucleate Boiling Experiment |
NCMR | National Center for Microgravity Research (see NCSER) |
NCRP | National Council on Radiation Protection |
NCSER | National Center for Space Exploration Research (formerly NCMR) |
NDI | Non-Developmental Items |
NEDD | Natural Environments Definition for Design |
NEP | Nuclear Electric Propulsion |
NEPA | National Environmental Policy Act |
NESC | NASA Engineering and Safety Center |
NFS | NASA FAR Supplement |
NGIT | Northrop Grumman, Information Technologies (MRDOC) |
NIST | National Institute of Standards & Technology |
NLSA | Nuclear Launch Safety Approval |
NODIS | NASA Online Directives Information System |
NP | NASA Publication |
NPBX | Nucleate Pool Boiling under Microgravity Experiment |
NPD | NASA Policy Directive |
NPD | NASA Policy Documents |
NPR | NASA Procedural Requirement (Document) |
NRA | NASA Research Announcement |
NRC | National Research Council |
NSBRI | NSBRI |
NSRS | NASA Safety Reporting System |
NSSA | National Security Space Acquisition |
NSSA | Nuclear Technology and Demonstrations |
NTR | Nuclear Thermal Rocket |
NWR | Not Worth Reporting |
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OAG | OAG Operations Advisory Group |
OASIS | OASIS Observation and Analysis of Smetic Islands in Space, LMM-7 |
OCE | OCE Office of the Chief Engineer |
OCHMO | OCHMO Office of the Chief Health and Medical Officer |
OCR | OCR Operations Change Request |
OG | OG Over guide-line |
OM | OM Orbital Module |
OMB | OMB Office of Management and Budget |
ORDT | ORDT Objectives and Requirements Definition Team |
ORR | ORR Operations Readiness Review |
ORU | ORU Orbital Replacement Unit |
OSD | OSD Office of the Secretary of Defense |
OSMA | OSMA Office of Safety and Mission Assurance |
OSP | OSP Orbital Space Plane |
OV | OV Operational View |
OZ | NASA JSC ISS Payload Integration Office |
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PA&E | Program Analysis and Evaluation |
PAH | Payload Accomodations Handbook |
PAP | Product Assurance Plan |
PAPAC | Provide Aerospace Products and Capabilities |
PAR | Performance and Accountability Report |
PaRIS | Passive Pack Isolation System |
PARL | Performance and Accountability Reporting Lead |
PARS | Payload Anomoly Report System |
PART | Program Assessment Rating Tool |
PAS | Passive and Active Gas-Liquid Separator Devices |
PASEP | Passive and Active Phase Separators |
PASLB | Passive Acoustic Stabilization of Liquid Bridges Experiment |
PBM-1 | Pool Boiling Module-1 |
PBMA | Process Based Mission Assurance |
PBRE | Packed Bed Reactor Experiment |
PBS | President’s Budget Submission |
PBS | Product Breakdown Structure |
PC PCA | Plane Change Program Commitment Agreement |
PCAD | Propulsion and Cryogenic Advanced Development |
PCB | Program / Project Control Board |
PCE | Particulate Control Experiment |
PCS | Physics of Colloids in Space Experiment, LMM-3 |
PCS+ | Physics of Colloids in Space Experiment Plus |
PCS-2 | Physics of Colloids in Space Experiment-2 |
PCS-3 | Physics of Colloids in Space-3 |
PD | Payload Developer |
PDE | Pulsed Thermal Loop Demo |
PDL | Payload Data Library |
PDR | Preliminary Design Review |
PDS | Planetary Data System |
PERT | Program Evaluation Review Technique |
PESHE | Programmatic Environmental, Safety, and Occupational Health Evaluation |
PHaSE-2 | Photo-Flight Model |
OASIS | Physics of Hard Spheres Experiment-2, LMM-2 |
PI | Principal Investigator |
PIA | Payload Integration Agreement |
PIDS | Principal Investigator Data Service |
PIM | Payload Integration Manager |
PIMS | Principal Investigator Microgravity Services |
PIRN | Preliminary Interface Revision Notice |
PKE | Plasma Krystal Experiment |
PLAR | Post-Launch Assessment Review |
PMA | President’s Management Agenda |
PMB | Performance Measurement Baseline |
PMC | Program management Council |
PMDP | Project Management Development Process |
PMF | Propellant Mass Fraction |
PMIT | Program Manger’s Handbook |
PMIT | Payload Mission Integration Team |
PNAR | Preliminary Non-Advocate Review |
POC | Point of Contact |
POIC | Payload Operations & Integration Center |
POIWG | Payload Operations & Integration Working Group |
POP | Program Operating Plan |
PP-SLD | Passive Pneumatic Subject Load Device |
PPL | Performance Planning Lead |
PRACA | Preventive and Corrective Action |
PRA | Probabilistic Risk Assessments |
PRD | Program Requirements Document |
P-SLD | Pneumatic Subject Load Device |
PSR | Pre-Ship Review |
PSRP | Payload Safety Review Panel |
PSTR | Pre-Storage Review |
PStR | Pre-Storage Review |
PTDR | Payload Training Dry Run |
PTR | Payload Technical Review |
PV | Process Verification |
PWP | Primary Water Processor |
PY | Program Year |
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QA | QA Quality Assurance |
QFD | QFD Quality Function Deployment |
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R&T | Research and Technology |
R&TD | Research and Technology Development |
RCAR | Requirements Change Assessment Report |
RCR | Research Concept Review |
RDR | Requirements Definition Review |
RED | Resistive Exercise Device |
REEFS | Radiative Enhancement Effects on Flame Spread |
RFA | Request for Action |
RFI | Request for Information |
RFP | Request for Proposal |
RFQ | Request for Quote |
RGF,GFM-4 | Regimes of Granular Flow |
RID | Review Item Discrepancy |
RLEP | Robotic Lunar Exploration Program |
RMB | Risk Management Board |
RMSAG | Risk and Mission Success Advisory Group |
RO | RO |
RP-1 | Rocket Propellant 1 |
RPS | Robotic Precursor System |
RPWG | Research Payload Working Group |
RTIP | Research and Technology Implementation Plan |
RTM | Research Team Member |
RTS | Remote Triaxial Sensor |
RTSAD | Risk Tool Suite for Advanced Design |
RWGS | Reverse Water Gas Shift |
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S&MA | Safety and Mission Assurance |
S/C | Spacecraft |
SAME | Smoke Aerosol Measurement Experiment |
SAMP | Single Acquisition Management Plan |
SAPIAD | Space Science Pending International Agreement Database |
SAMS | Space Acceleration Measurement System |
SAR | Shared Accommodations Rack |
SARG | Standard Assurance Requirements and Guidelines |
SBA | Simulation Based Acquisition |
SBIR | Small Business Innovative Research |
SCMP | Soft Condensed Matter Physics |
SCR | Science Concept Review |
SCWO | Super Critical Water Oxidation |
SDL | Structural Dynamics Laboratory |
SDP | Safety Data Package |
SDR | System Design Review |
STDO | Station Development Test Objective |
SDTO | Science Detailed Test Objective |
SDVOSB | Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Businesses |
SE | Systems Engineer |
SE&I | Systems Engineering and Integration |
SEB | Source Evaluation Board |
SEDC | Sooting and Radiation Effects in Droplet Combustion Experiment |
SEMP | Systems Engineering Management Plan |
SEP | Gas-liquid Separator Experiment |
SEP | Liquid-Gas Separator Experiment |
SEP | Solar Proton Event |
SESCDP | Senior Executive Service Candidate Development Program |
S-FLAME | Structure and Response of Spherical Diffusion Flames |
SHERE | Shear History Extensional Rheology Experiment |
SIBAL | Solid Inflammability Boundary at Low-Speed |
SICD | Spiral Initial Capabilities Document |
SiGMA | Gas-Particle Interactions in a Microgravity Flow Cell |
SLB | Stabilization of Liquid Bridges |
SLD | Subject Load Device |
SMA | Safety and Mission Assurance |
SMARR | Safety and Mission Assurance Readiness Review |
SMARTS | Safety and Mission Assurance Requirements Tracking System |
SMD | Science Mission Directorate |
SMO | System Management Office |
SMOKE | Characterization of Smoke Particulate for Spacecraft Fire Detection |
SOFBALL | Structure of Flame Balls at Low Lewis-numbers |
SOLAR | Site for Online Learning and Resources |
SOMD | Space Operations Mission Directorate |
SOW | Statement of Work |
SPAWG | Space Communications Analysis Working Group |
SPE | Solar Particle Event |
SPICE | Smoke Points in Co-flow Experiment |
SPU | Sample Processing Unit |
SRD | Systems Requirements Documents |
SRFE | Smart Fluid Rheology |
SRM&QA | Safety, Reliability, Maintainability and Quality Assurance |
SRR | System Requirements Review |
SS | Systems-of-Systems |
SSAA | System Security Authorization Agreement |
SSAS | Space System Acquisition Strategy |
SSC | Stennis Space Center |
SSPIAD | Space Science Pending International Agreements Database |
SSTAC | Space Science and Technology Advisory Committee |
STD | Standard (Document) |
STES | Single-locker Thermal Enclosure System |
STTP | Strategy to Task to Technology Process (or Panel) |
STTR | Small Business Technology Transfer |
SV | Schedule Variance |
SV | System View |
SVTL | Safety Verification Tracking Log |
SWMS | Solid Waste Management System |
sZLS | Standalone Zero-g Locomotion Simulator |
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T&E | Test & Evaluation |
T | Tank (NTR staging tank) |
T2 | Second ISS Treadmill |
TBD | To Be Decided |
TBD | To Be Determined |
TBR | To Be Resolved |
TC | Thermal Control |
TCPI | To Complete Performance Index |
TDRSS | Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System |
TEI | Trans-Earth Injection |
TEM | Transmission Electron Microscope |
TEMP | Test and Evaluation Management Plan |
TEMP | Test and Evaluation Master Plan |
TIGER-3D | Transition from Ignition to Flame Growth under External Radiation in Three Dimensions |
TIM | Technical Interchange Meetings |
TLI | Trans-Lunar Injection |
TΦFFy | Two-Phase Flow Facility |
TO | Trade Option |
TOC | Total Ownership Cost |
TPFE | Two-Phase Flow Experiment |
TPHT | Two-Phase Heat Transfer |
TPM | Technical Performance Measurement |
TPM ALS | Two-Phase Modeling |
TPS | Thermal Protection System |
TRL | Technology Readiness Level |
TRP | Transition Research Projects |
TS | Thermal Systems |
TSC | TeleScience Center |
TSH-ES | Triaxial Sensor Head-Ethernet Standalone |
TV | Technical View |
TVIS | Treadmill with Vibration Isolation and Stabilization |
TVR | Test and Verification Review |
TWH | Technical Warrant Holders |
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UF-X | Utility/Utilization Flight |
ULF | UtiLization Flight |
UML | Universal Mounting Location |
UMMC | University of Mississippi Medical Center |
UPN | Unique Project Number |
URL | Uniform Resource Locator |
UTMB | University of Texas Medical Branch |
UVIS | Ultraviolet-Visible-Infrared Spectrophotometer |
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VAR | VAR Variance Analysis Report |
VCD | VCD Vapor Compression Distillation |
VE | VE Value Engineering |
VLA | VLA Vehicle Loads Analysis |
VOSB | VOSB Veteran-Owned Small Business |
VPCAR | VPCAR Vapor Phase Catalytic Ammonia Reactor |
VPERD | VPERD Verification Plan and Engineering Requirements Document |
VRR | VRR Verification Readiness Review |
VTL | VTL Verification Tracking Log |
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WBS | Work Breakdown Structure |
WCD | Workforce Competency Dictionary |
WFCA | Water Flow Control Assembly |
WFI | Water for Injection |
WONDER | Water Offset Nutrient Delivery Experiment |
WOSB | Woman Owned Small Businesses |
WP | Water Processor |
WR | Water Reclamation |
WRS | Water Recovery System |
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XML |
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NONE |
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ZBOT | ZBOT Zero Boil-Off Tank Project |
ZBR | ZBR Zero Base Review |
ZGF | ZGF Zero Gravity Facility |
ZIN | ZIN ZIN Technologies |