NATO CALS Management Board

GLOSSARY OF TERMS

AECMA : Association Europeenne des Constructeurs de Materiel Aerospatial
Business Plan : description of the result oriented tasks to be progressed by the NCMB (two year scope with annual update)
CALS : Continuous Acquisition and Lifecycle Support (previously known as Computer-aided Acquisition and Logistic Support)
CEN : European Committee for Standardization
CENELEC : European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization
CENELEC/ETSI : European Telecommunications Standards Institute
COTS : Commercial Off-The-Shelf
CNAD : Conference of National Armaments Directors
DoD : Department of Defense (USA)
EDI : Electronic Data Interchange
EDIFACT : EDI For Administration Commerce and Transport (ISO 9735)
IATA : International Air Transport Association
IIG : NIAG Industrial Interface group
Information Infrastructure : combined architecture of data, applications, information, and communications technology
IEC : International Electrotechnical Committee
ISO : International Organization for Standardization
NCMB : NATO CALS Management Board
NCS : NATO Committee for Standardization
NIAG : NATO Industrial Advisory Group
NICG : NATO Industrial CALS Group
NSLB : NATO Standardization Liaison Board
PfP : Partnership for Peace
SACEUR : Supreme Allied Command Europe
SACLANT : Supreme Allied Command Atlantic
STEP : STandard for the Exchange of Product model data
X.12 : American National Standards Institute / Accredited Standards Committee (ANSI/ASC) standard for EDI

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