Digital Transformation in the Department of the Air Force (2025)
Chapter: Appendix D: Acronyms and Abbreviations
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Suggested Citation:
"Appendix D: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Digital Transformation in the Department of the Air Force. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/29198.
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Acronyms and Abbreviations
| AFLCMC | Air Force Life Cycle Management Center |
| AFMC | Air Force Materiel Command |
| AFNet | Air Force Network |
| AF-PLM | Air Force Product Lifecycle Management |
| AFSC | Air Force Sustainment Center |
| AI | artificial intelligence |
| ALC | air logistic center |
| AoA | angles of attack |
| APT | Advanced Pilot Training |
| BOM | bill of material |
| DAF | Department of the Air Force |
| DE | digital engineering |
| DEP | digital engineering platform/program |
| DevOps | Development Operations |
| DMM | Digital Materiel Management |
| DoD | U.S. Department of Defense |
| DT | digital transformation |
| DTO | Digital Transformation Office |
| EMD | Engineering and Manufacturing Development |
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix D: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Digital Transformation in the Department of the Air Force. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/29198.
| FAIR | findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reuse |
| FOC | Full Operational Capacity |
| FY | fiscal year |
| GAO | Government Accountability Office |
| IOC | Initial Operational Capacity |
| IP | intellectual property |
| IPS | integrated product structure |
| IT | information technology |
| KPI | key performance indicator |
| MBD | model-based definition |
| MBSE | model-based systems engineering |
| ML | machine learning |
| MOE | measures of effectiveness |
| MOP | measures of performance |
| MOSA | Modular Open Systems Approach |
| MSA | Materiel Solutions Analysis |
| NGC | Northrop Grumman Corporation |
| OC-ALC | Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex |
| OEM | original equipment manufacture |
| OML | outer mold line |
| OO-ALC | Ogden Air Logistics Complex |
| OSD | Office of the Secretary of Defense |
| OT | operational technology |
| OUSD(R&E) | Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering |
| P&D | production and deployment |
| PLM | product life-cycle management |
| POM | program objective memorandum |
| PRC | People’s Republic of China |
| REACT | Reverse Engineering and Critical Tooling |
| ROI | return on investment |
| SysML | Systems Modeling Language |
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix D: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Digital Transformation in the Department of the Air Force. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/29198.
| TDP | Technical Data Package |
| TMRR | Technology Maturity and Risk Reduction |
| USAF | U.S. Air Force |
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