Grab your mouse pad, and check your acronyms!
- A&A - Assessment and Authorization
- AC - Access Commander
- AAC - Activity Address Code
- ACCM - Alternative Compensatory Control Measures
- AFSO - Assistant Facility Security Officer
- AIN - Agency Identification Number
- ANACI - Advance National Agency Check with Inquiries
- ANSI - American National Standards Institute
- BPM - Business Process Management
- CAC - Common Access Card
- CAF - Central Adjudication Facility
- CAP - Controlled Access Programs
- CAPCO - Controlled Access Program Coordinating Office
- CDSE - Center for Development of Security Excellence
- CI - Counterintelligence
- CII - Critical Infrastructure Information
- CMMC - Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification
- CNWDI - Critical Nuclear Weapon Design Information
- COMSEC - Communications Security
- COR - Contract Representative
- COTR - Approval Date Add dash
- CSA - Cognizant Security Agency
- CSO - Cognizant Security Office
- CSSO - Contractor Special Security Officer
- CUI - Controlled Unclassified Information
- DCII - Defense Clearance and Investigative Index
- DCS - Defense Courier Services
- DCSA - Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency
- DD254 - Department of Defense Form 254
- DGR - Designated Government Representative
- DHS - Department of Homeland Security
- DIS - Defense Investigative Service
- DISCO - Defense Industrial Security Clearance Office
- DISS - Defense Information Security System
- DoD - Department of Defense
- DOHA - Defense Office of Hearings and Appeals
- DNI - Director of National Intelligence
- DTIC - Defense Technical Information Center
- EO - Executive Order
- eMASS - Enterprise Mission Assurance Support Service
- e-QIP - Electronic Questionnaire for Investigations Processing
- ESS - Expanded Scope Screening
- FCL - Facility Security Clearance
- FGI - Foreign Government Information
- FOCI - Foreign Ownership, Control or Influence
- FOUO - For Official Use Only
- FSO - Facility Security Officer
- FSP - Full-Scope Polygraph
- GCA - Government Contracting Activity
- INFOSEC - Information Security
- ISP - Industrial Security Professional
- ITAR - International Traffic in Arms Regulation
- ITPSO - Insider Threat Program Senior Official
- ITSMO - Insider Threat Senior Management Official
- KMP - Key Management Personnel
- LAA - Limited Access Authorization
- LMS - Learning Management System
- MARS - Mergers, Acquisitions, Reorganizations, and Spin-offs/Splits
- MBI - Moderate Risk Background investigation
- MISWG - Multinational Industrial Security Working Group
- NAC - National Agency Check
- NACLC - National Agency Check with Law and Credit
- NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
- NBIB - National Background Investigations Bureau
- NCCS - NISP Contracts Classification System
- NCMS - National Classification Management Society
- NID - National Interests Determination
- NISP - National Industrial Security Program
- NISPOM - National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual
- NDA - Non Disclosure Agreement
- OPMPOC Office of Personnel Management Point of Contact
- OPSEC - Operations Security
- PC - Portal Commander
- PCII - Protected Critical Infrastructure Information
- PCL - Personnel Security Clearance
- PII - Personally Identifiable Information
- PIV - Personal Identity Verification
- PoP - Period of Performance
- PR - Periodic Reinvestigation
- PPR - Phased Periodic Reinvestigation
- PSI - Personnel Security Investigation
- PSMO-I - Personnel Security Management Office for Industry
- RD - Restricted Data
- RMF - Risk Management Framework
- RRU - Research Re-Certify Upgrade
- SAP - Special Access Program
- SAPF - Special Access Program Facility
- SAR - Special Access Requirements
- SCI - Sensitive Compartmented Information
- SCIF - Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility
- SCR - Suspicious Contact Report
- SII - Security and Investigations Index
- SIOP-ESI - Single Integrated Operational Plan - Extremely Sensitive Information
- SMO - Senior Management Official
- SSBI - Single Scope Background Investigation
- SSI - Sensitive Security Information
- SSN - Social Security Number
- SPP - Standard Practice Procedure
- STEP Security Training Exercise Program
- TCP - Technology Control Plan
- TEMPEST - Transient Electromagnetic Pulse Emanation Surveillance Technology
- TS - Top Secret
- VC - ViSi Commander
