Acronym |
Description |
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F1F2 |
Frequency designations that permit a type of modem
to operate over a half-duplex line |
|
FAC |
Forced Authorization Code |
|
FACDAT |
Facility
Database |
|
FACS |
Facsimile |
|
FACSTAT |
Facility
Status Report |
|
FAD |
Facilities
Access Digroup |
|
FADS |
Force Administration Data System |
|
FAM |
Federal Account Manager |
|
FANASD |
Federal
and National Accounts Systems Development |
|
FANASID |
Federal and National Account System Development |
|
FAP |
Facility Analysis Plan |
|
FAP |
Fortran Assembly Program |
|
FAR |
Federal Acquisition Regulation |
|
FARM |
Facilities
Access Routing Model |
|
FAST |
Field Assistance Support Team |
|
FAX |
Facsimile |
|
FBI |
Federal Bureau of Investigation |
|
FC |
Facility Code |
|
FC |
Facility
Code |
|
FC |
Feature Control |
|
FCA |
Farm Credit Administration |
|
FCC |
Federal Communications Commission |
|
FCFS |
First Come First Served |
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FCG |
False Cross and Ground |
|
FCN |
Facility
Completion Notice |
|
FCO |
Field Change Order |
|
FCR |
Facilities
Change Request |
|
FCS |
Financial
Control System |
|
FCS |
Frame Check Sequence |
|
FD |
Functional Description |
|
FDA |
Food and Drug Administration |
|
FDDI |
Fiber Distributed Data Interface |
|
FDL |
Facility Data Link |
|
FDM |
Frequency Division Multiplexing |
|
FDMA |
Frequency Division Multiple Access |
|
FDX |
Full Duplex (transmission) |
|
FE |
Format Effectuation |
|
FEC |
Forward Error Correcting |
|
FECN |
Forward Explicit Congestion Notification |
|
FED-STD |
Federal Standard |
|
FEL |
Facility
Engineering Letter |
|
FEMA |
Federal Emergency Management Agency |
|
FEP |
Front End Processor |
|
FET |
Field-Effect Transistor |
|
FET photodetector |
A photodetector employing photogeneration of
carriers in the channel region of an FET structure to provide
photodetection with current gain |
|
FF |
Flip-Flop |
|
FFP |
Firm
Fixed Pricing |
|
FFT |
Fast Fourier Transform |
|
FFU |
Fuse/Filter Unit |
|
FG |
Feature Group |
|
FGA |
Feature Group A |
|
FGB |
Feature Group B |
|
FGC |
Feature Group C |
|
FGND |
Frame Ground |
|
FHD |
Fixed-Head Disk |
|
FIDB |
Facilities Interface Data Bus |
|
FIFO |
First In/First Out |
|
FIG |
Ignore Flash |
|
FIINA |
Forum for Irregular International Network Access |
|
FIN |
Finance
Department |
|
FIPS |
Federal Information Processing Standard |
|
FIPS PUB |
Federal Information Processing Standards
Publications |
|
FIR |
Fault Indication Register |
|
FIRMR |
Federal Information Resources Management
Regulation(s) |
|
FIRST |
Forum for Incident and Response Security Teams |
|
FIS |
Fault
Isolation System |
|
FIS |
Field Information System (Food and Drug
Administration) |
|
FIT |
Failure in Time (1 FIT = 1 failure in 109
component operating hours) |
|
FIU |
Facilities Interface Unit |
|
FIVE |
Feature Interactive Verification Environment |
|
FL |
Fault
Location |
|
FM |
Frequency Modulation |
|
FMC |
Federal Maritime Commission |
|
FMR |
Force Management Reports |
|
FMS |
Facilities Management System |
|
FMS |
Facilities
Management System |
|
FMS |
Fortran Monitor System |
|
FMSC |
Foreign Military Sales Contracts |
|
FNCC |
Fiber Network Control Center |
|
FNPA |
Foreign Numbering Plan Area |
|
FNPACONT |
Foreign Numbering Plan Area Control (Software) |
|
FNT |
Free Number Terminating |
|
FO |
Fiber Optics |
|
FOB |
Federal Office Building |
|
FOB |
Freight on Board |
|
FOC |
Fiber Optic Communications |
|
FON |
Fiber
Optic Network |
|
FORTRAN |
Formula Translation (language) |
|
FOS |
Foreign
Operating System |
|
FOSDIC |
Film Optical Sensing Device for Input to Computers |
|
FOSM |
Foreign
Operating System Manager |
|
FOT |
Fiber Optic Terminal |
|
FOTS |
Fiber Optic Transmission System |
|
FOX |
Fiber Optic Extender |
|
FPAP |
Floating Point Array Processor |
|
FPC |
Foundation Peripheral Control |
|
FPIS |
Forward Propagation Ionospheric Scatter |
|
FPLA |
Field Programmable Logic Array |
|
FPM |
Foundations
of Effective Project Management |
|
FPMR |
Federal Property Management Regulations |
|
FPR |
Federal Procurement Regulations |
|
FPS |
Feature
Planning Specification |
|
FPS |
Floating Point Systems |
|
FPS |
Forms Processing System |
|
FR |
Flat Rate |
|
FRAC |
Frame Relay Access Code |
|
FRAF |
Frame Relay Access Facility |
|
FRD |
Final
Requirements Document (IS) |
|
FRDC |
Florida
Regional Data Center |
|
FRIC |
Frame Relay Interface Code |
|
FRL |
Facility Restriction Level |
|
FRR |
Field
Receiving Report |
|
FRSI |
Frame Relay Switching Interface |
|
FS |
Functional Schematics |
|
FSAC |
Field Service Administration Center |
|
FSD |
Feature Specification Document |
|
FSD |
Feature
Specification Document |
|
FSG-xx |
Federal Supply Catalog Group |
|
FSK |
Frequency Shift Keying |
|
FSM |
Field
Service Manager |
|
FSM |
Finite State Machine |
|
FSO |
Field Support Operations |
|
FSP |
Frame Supervisory Panel |
|
FSP |
Frequency Shift Pulsing |
|
FSR |
Frequency Selective Ringing |
|
FSS |
Federal Supply Service (GSA) |
|
FST |
Factory System Testing |
|
FSTS |
Federal Secure Telephone Service |
|
FSWC |
Field Service Work Center |
|
FTAC |
Federal Technical Assistance Center |
|
FTAC |
Fiber
Technical Assistance Center (NOCC) |
|
FTAM |
File Transfer and Access Methods |
|
FTAS |
Fiber
Technical Assistance Support (NOCC) |
|
FTMP |
Fault Tolerant Multiprocessor System |
|
FTMS |
FTS-2000
Translations Management System |
|
FTP |
File Transfer Protocol |
|
FTR |
Files
Referenced |
|
FTS |
Federal Telecommunications System |
|
FTS |
Federal
Telephone System |
|
FTS |
File
Transfer System |
|
FTS
2000 |
Federal
Telecommunications System 2000 |
|
FTSC |
Fault Tolerant Spaceborne Computer |
|
FVO |
Field
Verification Office |
|
FWHM |
Full width at half maximum |
|
FX |
Foreign Exchange |
|
FXO |
Foreign Exchange Office |