ExpertGlossary terms starting with I

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  1. ISSM Information System Security Manager.
  2. ISSO Information System Security Officer.
  3. ISSR Abbreviation for inter-simple sequence repeat.
  4. ISSSTA International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications.
  5. ISSTA International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications.
  6. Issuance Time The time the product is transmitted.
  7. Issue When a corporation offers a stock or bond for sale, or a government offers a bond, the security is known as an issue, and the company or government is the…
  8. Issue Cycle A process followed during OSD review of the POM. It begins in early June and extends into July.
  9. issue date the date that a patent application becomes a US patent. The issue date is the date that patent rights can be exercised. U.S.
  10. Issue Fee The fee paid by an applicant a patent office prior to the granting of a patent. MPEP 1306.
  11. Issue Papers OSD documents defining issues raised during review of the POM.
  12. issuer Issuer means any person who issues or proposes to issue any security. Corporations, for example, may issue stock to the public, limited partnerships may…
  13. Issues Unresolved conflicts regarding alternative uses of available resources. Subjects of public interest.
  14. IST (1) Innovative Science and Technology. (2) Integrated System Test.
  15. ISTC Integrated System Test Capability.
  16. ISTEF Innovative Science and Technology Experiment Facility.
  17. ISTF Installed System Test Facility.
  18. isthmus (iz-muhs) A narrow part inside the body that connects two larger structures.
  19. ISV Interceptor Sensor Vehicle.
  20. ISV (Independent Software Vendor) An Independent Software Vendor is an enterprise offering software solutions.
  21. ISWG Integration Support Working Group.
  22. IT information technology
  23. IT (information technology) See information systems (IS).
  24. IT (Information Technology) Infrastructure The overall makeup of business-wide technology operations, including mainframe operations, standalone systems, email, networks (WAN and LAN), internet…
  25. IT Security Architecture A description of security principles and an overall approach for complying with the principles that drive the system design; i.e.
  26. IT Security Awareness The purpose of awareness presentations is simply to focus attention on security.
  27. IT Security Awareness and Training Program Explains proper rules of behavior for the use of agency IT systems and information.
  28. IT Security Education IT Security Education seeks to integrate all of the security skills and competencies of the various functional specialties into a common body of…
  29. IT Security Goal The five security goals are confidentiality, availability, integrity, accountability, and assurance.
  30. IT Security Investment An IT application or system that is solely devoted to security. For instance, intrusion detection systems (IDS) and public key infrastructure (PKI) are…
  31. IT Security Metrics Metrics based on IT security performance goals and objectives.
  32. IT Security Policy The documentation of IT security decisions in an organization. NIST SP 800-12 categorizes IT Security Policy into three basic types: 1) Program…
  33. IT Security Training IT Security Training strives to produce relevant and needed security skills and competencies by practitioners of functional specialties other than IT…
  34. IT-Related Risk The net mission/business impact considering 1) the likelihood that a particular threat source will exploit, or trigger, a particular information system…
  35. ITAC Intelligence Threat Analysis Center.
  36. Itanium The Intel Itanium® processor architecture.
  37. ITAR International Traffic in Arms Regulations.
  38. ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations) ITAR are the regulations covering the exporting of weapons and weapons related technology from the United States.
  39. ITB (1) Integrated Test Bed. (2) Israeli Test Bed.
  40. ITCE International Traffic in Arms Regulations.
  41. ITCZ Inter-tropical Convergence Zone. The region where the northeasterly and southeasterly tradewinds converge, forming an often continuous band of clouds or…
  42. ITD Integration Technology Demonstration.
  43. ITDAP (1) Integrated Test Data Analysis Plan. (2) Integrated Test Design and Assessment Plan.
  44. item A column of information in an attribute table, for example, a single attribute of a record in an INFO data file.
  45. item indexing A means of accelerating logical queries and tabular 'relates' by creating an index on an item in a database table.
  46. Item Manager An individual within the organization of an inventory control point or other such organization assigned management responsibilities for one or more…
  47. item veto Authority to veto part rather than all of an appropriations act. The President does not now have item-veto authority.
  48. iteration Repetition of a set of statements, usually using a looping control structure, such as a while loop, for loop or do loop.
  49. iterative impedance In electrical circuits, for a four-terminal network, the impedance that, if connected across one pair of terminals, will match the impedance across the…
  50. iterator A special programming gizmo that keeps track of where you are in something that you're trying to iterate over.
  51. iterator pattern A common pattern in which the contents of a collection are iterated over in order.
  52. ITERS Improved Tactical Events Reporting System.
  53. Itinerary Travel schedule provided by a travel agent for his/her customer. A proposed or preliminary itinerary may be rather vague or specific.
  54. ITL Integrate, Transfer, Launch
  55. ITMSC Information Technology Management Systems Council.
  56. ITMT Integrated Technical Management Team.
  57. ITO Instructions-to- Offerers (FAR term).
  58. ITP A condition in which platelets (blood cells that cause blood clots to form) are destroyed by the immune system.
  59. ITPB Information Technology Policy Board.
  60. ITR Information Technology Resources.
  61. itraconazole A drug used to prevent or treat fungal infections. It belongs to the family of drugs called antifungal agents.
  62. ITS Abbreviation for internal transcribed spacer.
  63. ITS (Integrated Technology Services) Integrated Technology Services is a sub division of IBM Global Services providing technical support services for IBM and non-IBM platforms and products.
  64. ITSD Information Technology Services Directorate.
  65. ITT ITT Corporation.
  66. ITU Intent to Use -- see MORE INFO
  67. ITU-R The Radiocommunications Sector of the ITU; responsible for studying technical issues related to radiocommunications, and having some regulatory powers.
  68. ITU-T Abbreviation for International Telecommunication Union--Telecommunication Standardization Sector.
  69. ITV (1) Integrated Technology Validation. (2) Instrumented Test Vehicle
  70. ITW Integrated Tactical Warning.
  71. ITW/AA Integrated Tactical Warning and Attack Assessment.
  72. ITWAS Integrated Terminal Weather System
  73. IU A unit used to measure the activity of many vitamins, hormones, enzymes, and drugs.
  74. IUD A small, plastic T-shaped device that is placed inside the uterus (the small, hollow, pear-shaped organ in a woman's pelvis) to prevent pregnancy.
  75. IUI Integrated User Interface.
  76. IV Interceptor Vehicle.
  77. IV catheter A short flexible tube that is inserted into a vein for supplying medications or nutrients directly into the bloodstream.
  78. IV&V Independent Verification and Validation.
  79. IVA See Inventory valuation adjustment (IVA)
  80. IVDT Abbreviation for integrated voice data terminal. See integrated station.
  81. IVEP Abbreviation for in vitro embryo production.
  82. IVF Abbreviation for in vitro fertilization.
  83. IVHS Intelligent Vehicle Highway System.
  84. IVIS Inter-Vehicular Information System (USA term).
  85. IVM Abbreviation for in vitro maturation.
  86. IVP Intravenous pyelogram or intravenous pyelography (in-tra-VEE-nus PYE-el-o-gram or pye-LAH-gra-fee).
  87. IW Information Warfare.
  88. IWA (Integrated Windows Authentication) An authentication method in which the user name and password, also called credentials, are hashed before they are sent over the network.
  89. IWCD Integrated Wavefront Control Demonstration.
  90. IWEB Information Warfare Executive Board.
  91. IWG Interagency Working Group.
  92. IWS Indications and Warning System.
  93. IWSM Integrated weapons system management.
  94. ixabepilone (ix-ab-EP-ih-lone) A drug used to treat metastatic or locally advanced breast cancer that has not improved after treatment with certain other anticancer…
  95. IXC Abbreviation for interexchange carrier.
  96. Ixempra (ix-EM-pruh) A drug used to treat metastatic or locally advanced breast cancer that has not improved after treatment with certain other anticancer drugs.
  97. IXS Information Exchange System. 149