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NPSTC Acronyms & Abbreviations
A
  • AASHTO American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
  • ACR Adjacent Channel Rejection
  • AES Advanced Encryption Standard
  • AFWA Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies
  • AHA American Hospital Association
  • AMSL Antenna Height Above Mean Sea Level
  • ANSI American National Standards Institute
  • APCO Association of Public Safety Communications Officials - International
  • APIC APCO Project 25 Interface Committee
  • ARC American Red Cross
  • ARD Area Reliability Degradation
  • ARINC Aeronautical Radio Incorporated
  • ARRL American Radio Relay League
  • ARS Amateur Radio Services
  • ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials
B C
  • CACP Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police
  • CALEA Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement
  • CAP Common Alert Protocol
  • CAPRAD Computer Assisted Pre-Coordination and Resource Database System
  • CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
  • CITIG Canadian Interoperability Technology Interest Group
  • CMRS Commercial Mobile Radio Service
  • COML Communications Unit Leader
  • COPS Community Oriented Policing Services
  • CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture
  • CPE Consumer Premises Equipment
  • CR Cognitive Radio
D
  • DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
  • DFS Dynamic Frequency Selection
  • DHS Department of Homeland Security
  • DIETS DoC ISSI Evaluation and Test System
  • DSRC Dedicated Short-Range Communication
E
  • EAS Emergency Alerting System
  • ECFS Electronic Comment Filing System
  • ENBW Effective Noise Bandwidth Factor
  • ERP Effective Radiated Power
  • ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute
  • EVDO Evolution Version Data Only
F
  • FACA Federal Advisory Committee Act
  • FCC Federal Communications Commission
  • FCCA Forestry Conservation Communications Association
  • FDMA Frequency Division Multiple Access
  • FEC Forward Error Correction
  • FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • FNPRM Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
  • FPIC Federal Partnership for Interoperable Communications
  • FSSP Federal Strategic Spectrum Plan
  • MERS FEMA Mobile Emergency Response System
G
  • GIS Geographic Information Systems
  • GLOBAL Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative
H I
  • IACP International Association of Chiefs of Police
  • IAEM International Association of Emergency Managers
  • IAFC International Association of Fire Chiefs
  • IC Industry Canada
  • ICC International Code Council
  • ICS Incident Command System
  • ICTAP Interoperable Communications Technical Assistance Program
  • IECGP Interoperable Emergency Communications Grant Plan
  • IEEE International Association of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  • IM Intermodulation
  • IMSA International Municipal Signal Association
  • IPAWS Integrated Public Alert and Warning System
  • IPR Intellectual Property Rights
  • ISSI Inter-Sub-System-Interface
  • ITS Institute for Telecommunication Sciences
  • ITU International Telecommunications Union
  • IWCE International Wireless Communications Expo
  • IWN Integrated Wireless Network
J
  • JTRS Joint Tactical Radio System
K L
  • LMCC Land Mobile Communications Council
  • LMR Land mobile radio
  • LMTV Land Mobile TV
  • LPTV Low Power TV
M
  • MESA Mobility for Emergency and Safety Applications
  • MIMO Multiple-Input/Multiple-Output
  • MO&O Memorandum Opinion and Order
  • MOU Memorandum of Understanding
N
  • NARPC National Association of Regional Planning Committees
  • NASCIO National Association of State Chief Information Officers
  • NASEMSO National Association of State Emergency Medical Services Officials
  • NASF National Association of State Foresters
  • NASTD National Association of State Technology Directors
  • NCC National Coordination Committee
  • NECP National Emergency Communications Plan
  • NENA National Emergency Number Association
  • NFPA National Fire Protection Association
  • NIFOG National Interoperability Field Operations Guide
  • NIIX National Interoperability Information eXchange
  • NIJ National Institute of Justice
  • NIMS National Incident Management System
  • NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology
  • NLECTC National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center
  • NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  • NOI Notice of Inquiry
  • NPAC National Planning Assistance and Coordination
  • NPCS Narrowband Personal Communication Service
  • NPOC National Planning Oversight and Coordination
  • NPRM Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
  • NPSPAC National Public Safety Planning Advisory Committee
  • NRPC National Regional Planning Council
  • NSA National Sheriffs' Association
  • NTIA National Telecommunications and Information Administration
  • NUG TIM National Unified Goal for Traffic Incident Management
  • NXDN™ Next Generation Digital Band
O
  • OASIS Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
  • OCTO Office of Chief Technology Officer
  • OEC Office of Emergency Communications
  • OET Office of Engineering and Technology
  • OFDM Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
  • OIC Office of Interoperability and Compatibility
  • OLES Office of Law Enforcement Standards
  • OMG Object Management Group
  • OOBE Out of band emissions
P Q
  • P25 Project 25
  • PEP Preposition Equipment Program
  • PFR Petition for Rulemaking
  • PHY Physical Layer
  • PIM Platform Independent Model
  • PLC Power line carrier
  • PLMRS Private Land Mobile Radio Service
  • POSIX Portable Operating System Interface
  • PSAP Public Safety Answering Point
  • PSIC Public Safety Interoperable Communications - Grant Program
  • PSM Public Platform Specific Model
  • PS SIG Public Safety Special Interest Group
  • PSST Safety Spectrum Trust
  • PSWAC Public Safety Wireless Advisory Committee
  • PSWN Public Safety Wireless Network
  • PTIG P25 Technology Interest Group
  • PTT Push to Talk
R
  • R&O Report and Order
  • RABC Radio Advisory Board of Canada
  • RFI Request for Information
  • RFP Request for Proposal
  • ROW-B Radio Over Wireless Broadband
  • RPCs Regional Planning Committees
S
  • SAA State Administrative Agency
  • SAM Scalable Adaptive Modulation
  • SCA Software Communications Architecture
  • SCADA Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
  • SCIPs Statewide Communications Interoperability Plans
  • SDOs Standards Development Organizations
  • SDR Software Defined Radio
  • SIEC State Interoperability Executive Committee
  • SoR Statement of Requirements
  • STA Special Temporary Authority
T
  • TA Transition Administrator
  • TDD Time Division Duplex
  • TDMA Time Division Multiple Access
  • TETRA Terrestrial Trunked Radio
  • TIA Telecommunications Industry Association
  • TPC Transmitter power control
U
  • UASI Urban Area Security Initiative
V
  • VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol
W
  • WTB Wireless Telecommunications Bureau
X Y Z
  • XML eXtensible Markup Language
NPSTC is a federation of organizations whose mission is to improve public safety communications and interoperability through collaborative leadership.