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Acronyms
9-11 reference to the terrorist attacks on the U.S. that occurred September 11, 2001
ACE Automated Commercial Environment
ACS Automated Commercial System
ADVISE Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight, and Semantic Enhancement
All-WME all weapons of mass effect
ANFO ammonium nitrate/fuel oil
ANNM ammonium nitrate nitromethane
ANS autonomic nervous system
APS Advance Passenger Information System
AQ Al Qaeda
ARCOS Automation of Reports of Consolidated Orders System
ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency
ATF Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
ATM automated teller machine
ATS Automated Targeting System
BATS Bomb Arson Tracking System
BKC Biodefense Knowledge Center
BSA Bank Secrecy Act
CAAIOPEE (KDD application)
CAGR Compound Annual Growth Rate
CALEA Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act of 1994
CAPPS-II Computer-Assisted Passenger Prescreening System II
CART Computer Analysis and Response Team
CBP Customs and Border Protection
CCTV closed circuit television
CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CDR call data record
CDT Center for Democracy and Technology
CIA Central Intelligence Agency
CIPSEA Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act
CMIR International Transportation of Currency or Monetary Instruments Report
CMS Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
COBIT Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies
CONUS continental United States
COTS commercial off-the-shelf
CPNI Customer Proprietary Network Information
CRS Congressional Research Service
CTR Currency Transaction Report
CTRC Currency Transaction Report by Casinos
CVS Crew Vetting System
DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DARTTS Data Analysis and Research for Trade Transparency System
DEA Drug Enforcement Administration
DEP Designation of Exempt Person
DHS Department of Homeland Security
DME durable medical equipment
DMV Department of Motor Vehicles
DNA deoxyribonucleic acid
DOD Department of Defense
DOD-IG Department of Defense Inspector General
DOJ Department of Justice
DOT Department of Transportation
DT&E developmental test and evaluation
DTL Drug Theft Loss
DTO Disruptive Technology Office
ECPA Electronic Communications Privacy Act
ED emergency department
EDW Enterprise Data Warehouse
EEG electroencephlalograph
EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation
EMG electromyelogram
ETA Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (terrorist organization)
FAA Federal Aviation Administration
FACTS Factual Analysis Criminal Threat Solution
FBAR Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts Report
FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation
FCC Federal Communications Commission
FDA Food and Drug Administration
FDLE Florida Department of Law Enforcement
FDNS-DS Fraud Detection and National Security Data System
FinCEN Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
FISA Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
fMRI functional magnetic resonance imaging
FOIA Freedom of Information Act
FTC Federal Trade Commission
FTTTF Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force
GAO Government Accountability Office
HHS Department of Health and Human Services
HIPPA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
HTF High Terrorist Factor
I2F Intelligence and Information Fusion
IAO Information Awareness Office
IC3 Internet Crime Complaint Center
ICE Immigration and Customs Enforcement
ICEPIC ICE Pattern Analysis and Information Collection System
ICHAST Interagency Center for Applied Homeland Security
ICU Intensive Care Unit
ID identification
IDW Investigative Data Warehouse
IIR Institute for Intergovernmental Research
IP Internet Protocol
IRA Irish Republican Army
IRS Internal Revenue Service
IRSS Institute for Research in Social Science
ISO International Organization for Standards
ISP Internet service provider
IT information technology
ITIL IT Infrastructure Library
IV&V independent verification and validation
KDD knowledge, discovery in databases
LEA law enforcement agencies
LI lawful intercepts
LLNL Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
LTTE Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (terrorist organization)
MATRIX Multi-State Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange
MEG magneto-encephalography
MERGE-PURGE (KDD application)
MSB Money Service Business
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NCTC National Counterterrorism Center
NETLEADS Law Enforcement Analytic Data System
NIISO National Immigration Information Sharing Office
NIMD Novel Intelligence from Massive Data
NIPS Numerical Integrated Processing System
NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology
NORA Non-Obvious Relationships Awareness
NRC National Research Council
NSA National Security Administration
NW3C National White Collar Crime Center
NYC New York City
NYCDOH New York City Department of Health
OCDETF Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force
OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
OIP Online Investigative Project
OMB Office of Management and Budget
OTA Office of Technology Assessment
OTC over-the-counter
OT&E operational test and evaluation
PARC Palo Alto Research Center
PDA personal digital assistant
PET Positron Emission Tomography
PII personally identifiable information
PKK Kurdistan Workers Party (terrorist organization)
PNR Passenger Name Record
PUMS Public Use Microdata Sample
QID Questioned Identification Documents
R&D research and development
RAF Red Army Faction (terrorist organization)
RDD random-digit-dialed
RFID radio-frequency identification
RR3 response rate (category 3)1
RR4 response rate (category 4)2
RTAS Remote Threat Alerting System
S&T science and technology
SAR Suspicious Activity Report
SEC Securities and Exchange Commission
SKYCAT (KDD application)
SQL Structured Query Language
SSN Social Security number
STAR System-To-Assess Risk
SWIFT Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication
TAPAC DOD Technology and Privacy Advisory Committee
TASA Telecommunications Alarm-Sequence Analyzer (KDD application)
TB terabyte
TECS Treasury Enforcement Communications System
TIA Total/Terrorist Information Awareness program
TISS Tactical Information Sharing System
TSA Transportation Security Administration
TVIS Threat Vulnerability Integration System
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