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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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TA
Transition Administrator
TDD
Time Division Duplex
TDMA
Time Division Multiple Access
TETRA
Terrestrial Trunked Radio
TIA
Telecommunications Industry Association
TPC
Transmitter power control
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UASI
Urban Area Security Initiative
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VoIP
Voice over Internet Protocol
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WTB
Wireless Telecommunications Bureau
X Y Z
XML
eXtensible Markup Language
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