Empowering the Defense Acquisition Workforce to Improve Mission Outcomes Using Data Science (2021)
Chapter: Appendix E: Glossary of Terms, Abbreviations, and Acronyms
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Suggested Citation:
"Appendix E: Glossary of Terms, Abbreviations, and Acronyms." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Empowering the Defense Acquisition Workforce to Improve Mission Outcomes Using Data Science. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/25979.
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Glossary of Terms, Abbreviations, and Acronyms
| A&S | Acquisition and Sustainment |
| AFIT | Air Force Institute of Technology |
| AI | artificial intelligence |
| ASA(ALT) | Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology |
| AWF | Acquisition Workforce |
| BICC | Business Intelligence Competency Cell |
| CADE | Cost Assessment Data Enterprise |
| CAPE | Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation |
| CBO | Congressional Budget Office |
| CDO | chief data officer |
| CONOPS | concept of operations |
| Data acumen | The mastery of key concepts in data science, real-world data and problems that can reinforce the limitations of tools, and ethical considerations that permeate many applications. |
| Data literacy | Data literacy concepts include data questions; assessment of data sources and quality; margin of error and uncertainty; concerns related to ethics, security, and privacy; basic tools and techniques for visualizing data; interpreting visualizations and results; and best practices for communication. |
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix E: Glossary of Terms, Abbreviations, and Acronyms." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Empowering the Defense Acquisition Workforce to Improve Mission Outcomes Using Data Science. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/25979.
| Data science | The science and technology of extracting value from data and is characterized by the data life cycle—shown here. |
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| Data strategy | A data strategy for an organization is a guide for how data should be collected, stored, managed, shared, and used within the data life cycle. |
| DAU | Defense Acquisition University |
| DAWIA | Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act |
| Defense acquisition | The conceptualization, initiation, design, development, test, contracting, production, deployment, integrated product support, modification, and disposal of weapons and other systems, supplies, or services (including construction) to satisfy DoD needs, intended for use in, or in support of, military missions. (Department of Defense, 2020, Directive 5135.02. Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment (USD(A&S)). https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodd/513502p.pdf?ver=2020-07-15-133537-05) |
| DoD | Department of Defense |
| DON | Department of the Navy |
| DOT&E | Director of Operational Test and Evaluation |
| ETL | extract, transform, and load |
| FTC | Federal Trade Commission |
| GSA | General Services Administration |
| IDA | Institute for Defense Analyses |
| MOOC | Massive Open Online Course |
| NASEM | National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
| NAVAIR | Naval Air System Command |
| NDU | National Defense University |
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix E: Glossary of Terms, Abbreviations, and Acronyms." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Empowering the Defense Acquisition Workforce to Improve Mission Outcomes Using Data Science. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/25979.
| NPS | Naval Postgraduate School |
| NRC | National Research Council |
| OSD | Office of the Secretary of Defense |
| PQM | production, quality, and manufacturing |
| R&D | research and development |
| STEM | science, technology, engineering, and mathematics |
| T&E | test and evaluation |
| USD(A&S) | Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment |
| USD(AT&L) | Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics |
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix E: Glossary of Terms, Abbreviations, and Acronyms." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Empowering the Defense Acquisition Workforce to Improve Mission Outcomes Using Data Science. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/25979.
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix E: Glossary of Terms, Abbreviations, and Acronyms." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Empowering the Defense Acquisition Workforce to Improve Mission Outcomes Using Data Science. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/25979.
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix E: Glossary of Terms, Abbreviations, and Acronyms." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Empowering the Defense Acquisition Workforce to Improve Mission Outcomes Using Data Science. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/25979.
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