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Acronyms
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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
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
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
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
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
GIS Geographic Information Systems
GLOBAL Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative
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
JTRS Joint Tactical Radio System
LMCC Land Mobile Communications Council
LMR Land mobile radio
LMTV Land Mobile TV
LPTV Low Power TV
MESA Mobility for Emergency and Safety Applications
MIMO Multiple-Input/Multiple-Output
MO&O Memorandum Opinion and Order
MOU Memorandum of Understanding
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
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 for Interoperability and Compatibility
OLES Office of Law Enforcement Standards
OMG Object Management Group
OOBE Out of band emissions
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&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
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
TA Transition Administrator
TDD Time Division Duplex
TDMA Time Division Multiple Access
TETRA Terrestrial Trunked Radio
TIA Telecommunications Industry Association
TPC Transmitter power control
UASI Urban Area Security Initiative
VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol
WTB Wireless Telecommunications Bureau
XML eXtensible Markup Language
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