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Acronyms
ACT Allied Command Transformation
ACTD Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration
BCNPS BattleSpace Communications Network Planner and Simulator
CAS complex adaptive system
CASTFOREM Combined Arms and Support Task Force Evaluation
CBP capabilities-based planning
COA course of action
COTS commercial off-the-shelf
DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DDDAS Dynamic Data-Driven Application System
DEVS discrete event specification
DIME diplomatic, intelligence, military, and economic
DMSO Defense Modeling and Simulation Office, now called the Modeling and Simulation Coordination Office (M&SCO)
DNA Defense Nuclear Agency; dynamic network analysis
DoD Department of Defense
EADSIM Extended Air Defense Simulation
EBO effects-based operations
EBP effects-based planning
EMAST End-to-End Modeling and Simulation Testbed
FAR flexible, adaptive, and robust
FCRT Future Capabilities, Research, and Technology
FP fictitious play
GAO General Accounting Office
HLA High-Level Architecture
ICCRTS International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
ISAAC Irreducible Semi-Autonomous Adaptive Combat Model
ITAR International Traffic in Arms Regulations
JICM Joint Integrated Contingency Model
JSAF Joint Semi-Automated Forces
JSIMS Joint Simulation System
JTF Joint Task Force
JTIDS Joint Tactical Information Distribution System
JTRC Joint Total Relevant Cost
JWARS Joint Warfare System
M&S modeling and simulation
M&SCO Modeling and Simulation Coordination Office (formerly DMSO)
MDA Model-Driven Architecture
MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MMOG massively multiplayer online game
MORS Military Operations Research Society
MOVES Modeling, Virtual Environments, and Simulation
MPARS Multifunction Phased Array System
MRM multiresolution model
MS&A modeling, simulation, and analysis
MSIAC Modeling and Simulation Information Analysis Center
MSRR Modeling and Simulation Resource Repository
NAS National Academy of Sciences
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NCO network-centric operations
NCW network-centric warfare
NETWARS network warfare simulation
NRC National Research Council
NSF National Science Foundation
NSS Navy Simulation System
OEF Operation Enduring Freedom
OFT Office of Force Transformation
OIF Operation Iraqi Freedom
PCAS preconflict anticipation shaping
PMESII political, military, economic, social, infrastructure, and information
PSYOPS psychological operations
QDR Quadrennial Defense Review
R&D research and development
R&S reconstruction and stabilization
RAID real-time adversarial intelligence and decision making
RDT&E research, development, technology, and engineering
ROI return on investment
RSAS RAND Strategy Assessment System
SBIR Small Business Innovative Research
SEU subjected expected utility
SNA social network analysis
SOA service-oriented architecture
SoS system of systems
STTR Small Business Technology Transfer
SysML Systems Modeling Language
TACWAR Tactical Warfare Model
TENA Test and Training Enabling Architecture
UARC university-affiliated research center
UAV unmanned air vehicle
UGV unmanned ground vehicle
UML Unified Modeling Language
USAF United States Air Force
USC ICT University of Southern California, Institute for Creative Technologies
UxV unmanned (air or ground) vehicle
VAST virtual at-sea training
VIC vector in commander
VV&A verification, validation, and accreditation
WOL Web Ontology Language
XMSF Extensible Modeling and Simulation Framework
