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Request for Proposal (RFP) A solicitation used in negotiated acquisition to communicate government requirements to prospective contractors and to solicit proposals. 247
Request for Quotation A solicitation used in negotiated acquisition to communicate government requirements to prospective contractors and to solicit a quotation.
request-repeat (RQ) signal A signal from a receiver to a transmitter asking that a message be transmitted again. [From Weik '89]
request-response messaging A method of messaging that includes blocking until a response is received.
request-to-send signal A signal that is generated by a receiver in order to condition a remote transmitter to commence transmission. [From Weik '89]
requested execution level An attribute of an application that indicates which type of access token to use when the application is started.
requester A requester is a person who sends a request to an AWS service and asks for access to a particular resource.
Requester Pays An Amazon S3 feature that allows a bucket owner to specify that anyone who requests access to objects in a particular bucket must pay the data transfer…
requests See click-through.
Required Operational Capability (ROC) OBSOLETE. A document stating need and specific operational capability. Replaced by the Operational Requirements Document (Army, USMC).
Required Operational Characteristics System parameters that are primary indicators of the systems capability to be employed to perform the required mission functions, and to be supported.
Required Technical Characteristics Quantitative system performance parameters, approved by the DoD Component, that are selected as primary indicators of technical achievement of engineering…
Requirements Analysis An analysis to determine and document the need for resources to perform the agencys mission.
Requirements Document A document that sets forth the requirements for a system or system component; for example, a software configuration item.
reradiation Radiation, at the same or different wavelengths, i.e., frequencies, of energy received from an incident wave. 2.
rerouting Recommencement of route selection from the first point of routing control, when congestion is encountered at some intermediate switching point in the…
Res A thing; the subject matter.
RESA Research, Evaluation, and Systems Analysis simulation facility (USN), San Diego, CA.
resale carrier A company that redistributes the services of a commercial carrier and retails the services to the public.
resale service In FCC deliberations and rulings, the right of a buyer of basic telecommunication services, such as private lines, foreign exchanges, or WATS, to resell…
resampling The process of reducing image data set size by representing a group of pixels with a single pixel.
Rescission The cancellation, or “tearing-up,” of a contract. Some consumer loans (home mortgages) feature a 3-day right of rescission during which the borrower…
Research and Development Costs Those program costs primarily associated with R&D efforts including the development of a new or improved capability to the point where it is ready for use.
research center A reference service providing secure and controlled public access to the holdings of the Utah State Archives, a records management library, and a computer…
research value The usefulness of records for research by the government, business and other private organizations and by scholars in the humanities, social and physical…
Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E) Activities for the development of a new system that include basic and exploratory research, advanced and engineering development, development and…
reseller Any access customer who resells the access service obtained from an exchange carrier. [T1.251-1996]
reservation A collection of EC2 instances started as part of the same launch request.
Reservations Lands acquired for use by the Federal Government after the original founding of the city. There are presently more than 750 US Reservations in DC.
reserve capacity Installed capacity of a system which is not normally utilized but can be made available when required.
reserve keying material Key held to satisfy unplanned needs. [INFOSEC-99]
reserved circuit service In ISDN applications, a telecommunications service that establishes a communication path at a preset time (requested by the user) in response to a…
Reserved Instance A purchase option which allows users to minimize cost by purchasing instances in bulk ahead of time.
Reserved Numbers Reserved numbers are numbers that are held by service providers at the request of specific end users or customers for their future use.
reserved word A word reserved for a particular purpose in Java, such as class, int, public, etc. Such words may not be used as ordinary identifiers.
reserved words A word with a specific, built-in meaning to a "compiler", such as if or delete.
reset mode The parameters initially programmed for basic operation.
resettability A measure of the ability to duplicate controllable conditions. Note: An example of resettability is the ability to reset the frequency controls of radio…
resident Pertaining to computer programs that remain on a particular storage device.
Resident Space Object (RSO) The Cheyenne Mountain Complex maintains object, which is currently on-orbit and whose element set parameters. 248
residential server The Exchange server that contains a user's mailbox.
residual error rate Synonym undetected error ratio.
residual error ratio The ratio of (a) the number of bits, unit elements, characters, or blocks incorrectly received but undetected or uncorrected by the error-control…
residual modulation Synonym carrier noise level.
Residual Risk The remaining, potential risk after all IT security measures are applied. There is a residual risk associated with each threat.
residue 1. See: polymer. 2. Materials remaining after degradation and/or attempted removal, e.g. pesticide residues in food.
resistance hybrid A network of resistors to which four branches of a circuit may be connected to make them conjugate in pairs.
RESOL Resolution.
Resolution See DPI.
resolver Computer software that allows user programs to interface with domain name servers. Note: The user program may be, for example, an FTP client. [2382-pt.35]
resolving power A measure of the ability of a lens or optical system to form separate and distinct images of two objects with small angular separation.
resonance The state of a system in which an abnormally large vibration is produced in response to an external stimulus, occurring when the frequency of the stimulus…
resonant antenna Synonym periodic antenna.
resonant cavity See optical cavity.
resource Data, metadata, a collection of data, or a collection of metadata accessed as a content item. Examples: a document, a database table, a content class.
resource account A single security principalâusually a user accountâthat is created in Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) and used to map to a single…
resource adapter A system-level software driver that is used by an EJB container or an application client to connect to an enterprise information system.
resource adapter module A deployable unit that contains all Java interfaces, classes, and native libraries, implementing a resource adapter along with the resource adapter…
resource authority An authority recognized in a Security Domain as a trusted source of security information which relates to resources (security object) [ECMA138].
Resource Booking Attendant A calendaring feature that automatically manages resources. Resource requests are automatically accepted or denied depending on availability and policies.
resource controller (RC) The processor(s) that control access to satellite payload communications resources within an individual satellite program.
resource DLL A dynamic-link library (DLL) that contains instructions for managing one or more types of cluster resources in a failover cluster or server cluster.
resource federation server The federation server in the resource partner organization. The resource federation server typically issues security tokens to users based on a security…
resource federation server proxy The federation server proxy that is located in the perimeter network of the resource partner organization.
resource group In AD FS, a single security group, which is created in Active Directory, that incoming group claims (AD FS group claims from the account partner) are…
Resource Hosting Subsystem A cluster software component that provides a communication, monitoring, and processing layer between the Cluster service and one or more clustered…
Resource mailbox A mailbox that is associated with a resource instead of a user (such as a conference room for reservation purposes). In Exchange 5.
resource manager Provides access to a set of shared resources. A resource manager participates in transactions that are externally controlled and coordinated by a…
resource manager connection An object that represents a session with a resource manager.
resource manager connection factory An object used for creating a resource manager connection.
Resource Monitor A component of Windows Reliability and Performance Monitor that displays real-time CPU, memory, disk, and network performance information collected from…
resource partner A federation partner that trusts the Federation Service to issue claims-based security tokens for Web-based applications (that is, applications in the…
resource properties A resource is composed of zero or more resource properties which describe the resource.
resource property A value required when including an AWS resource in an AWS CloudFormation stack. Each resource may have one or more properties associated with it.
Resource Publishing The process of making an object visible and accessible to users in a Windows 2000 domain.
resource record Also called resource record set. Standard DNS terminology. See Also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System.
Resource Specification Language (RSL) Term used to describe a GRAM job for GT2 and GT3. (Note: This is not the same as RLS - the Replica Location Service)
resource type Class of resources (such as print spooler, physical disk, and file share) that is organized by a failover cluster or server cluster.
ResourceHome In Java WS Core, resources are managed and discovered via ResourceHome implementations.
respect des fonds a French, archival term for the principle that the integrity of records from one functional source must not be broken, and that records from one source…
respond opportunity In data transmission, the link level logical control condition during which a given secondary station may transmit a response.
Responder The entity that responds to the initiator of the authentication exchange.
response document A document created using a Response form, a typical component of a discussion application.
response frame In data transmission, all frames that may be transmitted by a secondary station.
response PDU A protocol data unit (PDU) transmitted by a logical link control (LLC) sublayer in which the PDU command/response (C/R) bit is equal to "1".
Response Plan Selection The continual comparison of the nature of the observed threat with the defense system capabilities and selects the best way to attack the threat in…
Response spectrum A plot of the maximum response of a series of single-degree-of-freedom damped oscillators (elastic systems) as a function of their natural periods, or…
Response Time The amount of time in which it will take a watershed to react to a given rainfall event.
response timer (TK) In multilevel precedence and preemption, the device that controls the length of time that the call receiver of the precedence call has to accept the…
Responsible Individual A trustworthy person designated by a sponsoring organization to authenticate individual applicants seeking certificates on the basis of their affiliation…
Responsible Organization (Resp Org) The entity designated to manage and administer a Customer's SMS/800 records.
Responsive Threat The threat after taking into account modernization and countermeasures introduced to offset the capabilities of the SDS.
responsiveness Ability of an entity to provide service within the required time. Note: The term timeliness is sometimes used incorrectly to mean responsiveness.
responsivity In a photodetector, the ratio of the electrical output to the optical input. Note 1: Responsivity is usually expressed in amperes per watt, or volts per…
REST-Query Also known as Query or HTTP Query. This is a type of HTTP request that generally uses only the GET or POST HTTP method and a query string with parameters.
Restart The waving of the green flag after a caution period.
Restitution Act of restoring anything to its rightful owner; the act of restoring someone to an economic position he enjoyed before he suffered a loss.
restoral limit (RL) The bound on performance that is allowed when corrective action is taken to restore a parameter after an IAL (immediate action limit) failure.
Restoration The process of returning, as nearly as possible, a building or any of its parts to its original form and condition.
Restoration Priority (RP) Describes supremacy given to some Government and National Security circuits.