Industrial Security Acronym Guide

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  1. A&A - Assessment and Authorization
  2. AC -  Access Commander 
  3. AAC - Activity Address Code
  4. ACCM - Alternative Compensatory Control Measures
  5. AFSO - Assistant Facility Security Officer
  6. AIN - Agency Identification Number
  7. ANACI - Advance National Agency Check with Inquiries
  8. ANSI - American National Standards Institute
  9. BPM - Business Process Management
  10. CAC - Common Access Card
  11. CAF - Central Adjudication Facility  
  12. CAP - Controlled Access Programs
  13. CAPCO - Controlled Access Program Coordinating Office
  14. CDSE - Center for Development of Security Excellence
  15. CI - Counterintelligence
  16. CII - Critical Infrastructure Information
  17. CMMC - Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification
  18. CNWDI - Critical Nuclear Weapon Design Information
  19. COMSEC - Communications Security
  20. COR - Contract Representative
  21. COTR - Approval Date Add dash
  22. CSA - Cognizant Security Agency
  23. CSO - Cognizant Security Office
  24. CSSO - Contractor Special Security Officer
  25. CUI - Controlled Unclassified Information
  26. DCII - Defense Clearance and Investigative Index
  27. DCS - Defense Courier Services
  28. DCSA - Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency
  29. DD254 - Department of Defense Form 254 
  30. DGR - Designated Government Representative
  31. DHS - Department of Homeland Security
  32. DIS - Defense Investigative Service
  33. DISCO - Defense Industrial Security Clearance Office
  34. DISS - Defense Information Security System
  35. DoD - Department of Defense
  36. DOHA - Defense Office of Hearings and Appeals
  37. DNI - Director of National Intelligence
  38. DTIC - Defense Technical Information Center 
  39. EO - Executive Order
  40. eMASS - Enterprise Mission Assurance Support Service 
  41. e-QIP - Electronic Questionnaire for Investigations Processing
  42. ESS - Expanded Scope Screening
  43. FCL - Facility Security Clearance
  44. FGI - Foreign Government Information
  45. FOCI - Foreign Ownership, Control or Influence
  46. FOUO - For Official Use Only
  47. FSO - Facility Security Officer 
  48. FSP - Full-Scope Polygraph
  49. GCA - Government Contracting Activity
  50. INFOSEC - Information Security
  51. ISP - Industrial Security Professional
  52. ITAR - International Traffic in Arms Regulation
  53. ITPSO - Insider Threat Program Senior Official
  54. ITSMO - Insider Threat Senior Management Official
  55. KMP - Key Management Personnel
  56. LAA - Limited Access Authorization
  57. LMS - Learning Management System
  58. MARS - Mergers, Acquisitions, Reorganizations, and Spin-offs/Splits 
  59. MBI - Moderate Risk Background investigation
  60. MISWG - Multinational Industrial Security Working Group
  61. NAC - National Agency Check
  62. NACLC - National Agency Check with Law and Credit
  63. NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
  64. NBIB - National Background Investigations Bureau
  65. NCCS - NISP Contracts Classification System
  66. NCMS - National Classification Management Society
  67. NID - National Interests Determination
  68. NISP - National Industrial Security Program
  69. NISPOM - National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual
  70. NDA - Non Disclosure Agreement
  71. OPMPOC Office of Personnel Management Point of Contact
  72. OPSEC - Operations Security
  73. PC - Portal Commander
  74. PCII - Protected Critical Infrastructure Information
  75. PCL - Personnel Security Clearance
  76. PII - Personally Identifiable Information
  77. PIV - Personal Identity Verification
  78. PoP - Period of Performance
  79. PR - Periodic Reinvestigation
  80. PPR - Phased Periodic Reinvestigation
  81. PSI - Personnel Security Investigation
  82. PSMO-I - Personnel Security Management Office for Industry
  83. RD - Restricted Data
  84. RMF - Risk Management Framework
  85. RRU - Research Re-Certify Upgrade
  86. SAP - Special Access Program
  87. SAPF - Special Access Program Facility
  88. SAR - Special Access Requirements
  89. SCI - Sensitive Compartmented Information
  90. SCIF - Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility
  91. SCR - Suspicious Contact Report
  92. SII - Security and Investigations Index
  93. SIOP-ESI - Single Integrated Operational Plan - Extremely Sensitive Information
  94. SMO - Senior Management Official
  95. SSBI - Single Scope Background Investigation
  96. SSI - Sensitive Security Information
  97. SSN - Social Security Number
  98. SPP - Standard Practice Procedure
  99. STEP Security Training Exercise Program
  100. TCP - Technology Control Plan
  101. TEMPEST - Transient Electromagnetic Pulse Emanation Surveillance Technology
  102. TS - Top Secret
  103. VC - ViSi Commander
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