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  1. FCC Federal Communications Commission.
  2. FCC registration program The Federal Communications Commission program and associated directives intended to assure that all connected terminal equipment and protective circuitry…
  3. FCCM Facilities Capital Cost of Money.
  4. FCIA Fibre Channel Industry Association. A trade association devoted to promoting Fibre Channel technology.
  5. FCIP (Fibre Channel over IP) Fibre Channel over IP. A proposal advanced by the IETF's IP Storage Working Group for mapping Fibre Channel traffic directly onto IP, in order to…
  6. FCN Fully Connected Network.
  7. FCO Field Change Order.
  8. FCRC OBSOLETE. Federal Contract Research Center.
  9. FCS Fire Control Section.
  10. FCT Foreign comparative testing.
  11. FD First Deployment.
  12. FDA An agency in the U.S. federal government whose mission is to protect public health by making sure that food, cosmetics, and nutritional supplements are…
  13. FDC Final Data Capture Once the fee, any correspondence, and/or drawings are matched with the application and all requirements have been met for issuance as a…
  14. FDDI Fiber Distributed Data Interface. An ANSI standard LAN architecture that uses optical fiber cable for high-speed transmission.
  15. FDDI adapter An adapter for connecting devices to an FDDI network.
  16. FDDI-2 See fiber distributed data interface.
  17. FDDI-fiber An FDDI adapter that supports fiber-optic cable.
  18. FDDI-TP An FDDI adapter that supports twisted-pair cable.
  19. FDG Foreign Disclosure Guide.
  20. FDHM See full width at half maximum.
  21. FDM Common abbreviation for Financial Disclosure Management, the online program to electronically file and manage financial disclosure reports.
  22. FDMA Abbreviation for frequency-division multiple access.
  23. FDMA (Frequency-division multiple-access) Frequency-division multiple-access (FDMA) is a mechanism for sharing a radio frequency band among multiple users by dividing it into a number of smaller…
  24. FDO Friant Dam Office (Friant, CA).
  25. FDP Flight Demonstration Program.
  26. FDR The parents, brothers, sisters, or children of an individual. Also called first-degree relative .
  27. FDRU Final Design Review Update (MDA PAC term).
  28. FDS (1) Flight Demonstration System. (2) Fault Detection System.
  29. FDSV Flight Demonstration Space Vehicle.
  30. FDT&E See Force Development Test and Experimentation (US Army).
  31. FDX Full Duplex (Telecomm/Computer term).
  32. FEA Federal Enterprise Architecture -- see Federal Enterprise Architecture for more
  33. Feasibility Study A study of the applicability or desirability of any management or procedural system from the standpoint of advantages versus disadvantages in any given…
  34. Feature A large, complex artifact, or part of a site, such as a hearth, cairn, housepit, rock alignment, or activity area.
  35. feature attribute table A table used to store attribute information for a specific coverage feature class. ARC/INFO maintains the first several items of these tables.
  36. feature class A collection of geographic features with the same geometry type (such as point, line or polygon), the same attributes, and the same spatial reference.
  37. feature code A code (or codes) used to select/activate a service feature (e.g., forwarding, using two- or three-digit codes preceded by * or 1 1 or #, and which may…
  38. Feature Extraction See extraction.
  39. feature path A path that is used to access the value of a feature in a UIMA feature structure.
  40. feature selection by attribute See logical selection.
  41. feature structure The underlying data structure that represents the result of text analysis. A feature structure is an attribute-value structure.
  42. Feature-ID Synonymous term for Cover-ID and User-ID.
  43. FEBA Forward Edge of the Battle Area.
  44. FEC Abbreviation for forward error correction.
  45. FECA Front-End Cost Analysis
  46. FED Federal.
  47. FEDAC Federal Computer Acquisition Center.
  48. FEDCAC Federal Computer Acquisition Center.
  49. Federal Acquisition Regulation The primary regulation for use by federal executive agencies for acquisition of supplies and services with appropriated funds.
  50. Federal Agency SEE Agency.
  51. Federal Bridge Certification Authority (FBCA) The Federal Bridge Certification Authority consists of a collection of Public Key Infrastructure components (Certificate Authorities, Directories…
  52. Federal Bridge Certification Authority Membrane The Federal Bridge Certification Authority Membrane consists of a collection of Public Key Infrastructure components including a variety of Certification…
  53. Federal Bridge Certification Authority Operational Authority The Federal Bridge Certification Authority Operational Authority is the organization selected by the Federal Public Key Infrastructure Policy Authority to…
  54. Federal Communications Commission See FCC.
  55. Federal Geodetic Control Committee (FGCC) (FGCC) a standards committee concerned with accuracy levels in geodetic control. Within the United States, coordinate control is based on the National Geodetic…
  56. Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) A standard for adoption and use by Federal agencies that has been developed within the Information Technology Laboratory and published by the National…
  57. Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) (FIPS) FIPS deals with a wide range of computer system components including the components of most GISs: hardware, storage media, data files, codes, interfaces…
  58. Federal Information System An information system used or operated by an executive agency, by a contractor of an executive agency, or by another organization on behalf of an…
  59. Federal Information Systems Security Educators Association (FISSEA) An organization whose members come from federal agencies, industry, and academic institutions devoted to improving the IT security awareness and knowledge…
  60. Federal Networking Council (FNC) The body responsible for coordinating networking needs among U.S. Federal agencies.
  61. Federal Public Key Infrastructure Policy Authority (FPKI PA) The Federal PKI Policy Authority is a federal government body responsible for setting, implementing, and administering policy decisions regarding…
  62. Federal Telecommunications System (FTS) A switched long-distance telecommunications service formerly provided for official Federal Government use.
  63. Federal Telecommunications System 2000 service See FTS2000.
  64. federated application A Web-based application that is AD FS-enabled, meaning that it can be accessed by federated users.
  65. federated identity management (FIM) (FIM) Allows individuals to sign in to different networks or services, using the same group or personal credentials to access data across all networks.
  66. Federated search In a federated search, users receive results from multiple search and retrieval systems - for example, from other search engines, commercial information…
  67. federated user A user whose account resides in an account partner organization and who can access federated applications that reside in a resource partner organization.
  68. federation A pair of realms or domains that have established a federation trust.
  69. federation server A computer that has been configured to host the Federation Service component of Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS).
  70. federation server proxy A computer that has been configured to host the Federation Service Proxy component of Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS).
  71. Federation Service An installable role service of Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) that is used to create a federation server.
  72. Federation Service Proxy An installable role service of Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) that is used to create a federation server proxy.
  73. FEDSIM Federal System Integration and Management.
  74. Feed A component that "feeds" the signal from the optical system to the amplification electronics. Also called a "feed horn" or "horn".
  75. Feed Reader Software or website used to subscribe to feed update notifications. See also: Bloglines - popular web based feed reader Google Reader - popular web based…
  76. feed-forward path In the encoder, the signal path from the input of the PCM-to-uniform-PCM converter to the output of the adaptive quantizer.
  77. feedback the process by which an initial change brings about additional change that either reinforces or counteracts the initial change.
  78. Feedback Control A process by which output or behavior of a machine or system is used to change its operation in order to constantly reduce the difference between the…
  79. feedback path The signal path from the input of the bit-masking block to the output of the adaptive predictor. [T1.310-1991]
  80. feeder echo noise Signal distortion resulting from reflected waves in a transmission line that is many wavelengths long and mismatched at both the generator and the load…
  81. feeder link A radio link from an Earth station at a given location to a space station, or vice versa, conveying information for a space radiocommunication service…
  82. feeder server The component of a news server that accepts news feeds from other news servers.
  83. FEL Free Electron Laser.
  84. FEMA - Federal Emergency Management Agency.
  85. Fence The boundary of a trusted region [CESG].
  86. fence penetrability The ability of features outside a trusted region to penetrate a fence - thus leading to a potential or actual breach of the System Security Policy [CESG].
  87. Fenced Funding An identified aggregation of resources reviewed, approved, and managed as a distinct entity.
  88. FEP Abbreviation for front-end processor.
  89. FER Financial Execution Review.
  90. FERET (FacE REcognition Technology program) A face recognition development and evaluation program sponsored by the U.S. Government from 1993 through 1997. For more information visit www.frvt.
  91. Fermat's principle A principle stating that a ray of light follows the path that requires the least time to travel from one point to another, including reflections and…
  92. FES Facility Engineering Surveillance Plan.
  93. FET Field Effect Transistor.
  94. FET photodetector A photodetector using photogeneration of carriers in the channel region of a field-effect transistor structure to provide photodetection with current gain.
  95. fetch protection [An] AIS-provided restriction to prevent a program from accessing data in another user's segment of storage. [NIS] 2.
  96. fetch-execute cycle The simple set of steps that are endlessly repeated by a computer's Central Processing Unit for each program instruction: `Fetch the next instruction…
  97. FEU Flight Evaluation Unit.
  98. FEWS Follow-on Early Warning System.
  99. FF Fire Finder Radar (US Army. 106
  100. FFA Free for all pages are pages which allow anyone to add a link to them. Generally these links do not pull much weight in search relevancy algorithms…