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M&S Acronyms<\/h1><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Acronym<\/td>Meaning<\/td><\/tr>
%<\/td>percent<\/td><\/tr>
\u00ae<\/td>registered trademark<\/td><\/tr>
AFRC<\/td>Armstrong Flight Research Center<\/td><\/tr>
AHS<\/td>The American Helicopter Society International<\/td><\/tr>
AIAA<\/td>American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics<\/td><\/tr>
ANSI<\/td>American National Standards Institute<\/td><\/tr>
ARC<\/td>Ames Research Center<\/td><\/tr>
ASAP<\/td>Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel<\/td><\/tr>
ASC<\/td>American Standards Committee<\/td><\/tr>
ASCE<\/td>American Society of Civil Engineers<\/td><\/tr>
ASME<\/td>American Society of Mechanical Engineers<\/td><\/tr>
CA<\/td>California<\/td><\/tr>
CAD<\/td>Computer-Aided Design<\/td><\/tr>
CAE<\/td>Computer-Aided Engineering<\/td><\/tr>
CAM<\/td>Computer-Aided Manufacturing<\/td><\/tr>
CM<\/td>configuration management<\/td><\/tr>
COTS<\/td>commercial off the shelf<\/td><\/tr>
CRM<\/td>continuous risk management<\/td><\/tr>
DoD<\/td>Department of Defense<\/td><\/tr>
DOF<\/td>degree of freedom<\/td><\/tr>
EPA<\/td>Environmental Protection Agency<\/td><\/tr>
FEM<\/td>finite element model<\/td><\/tr>
FEMCI<\/td>Finite Element Modeling Continuous Improvement<\/td><\/tr>
FFRDC<\/td>Federally Funded Research and Development Center<\/td><\/tr>
GNC<\/td>Guidance, Navigation, & Control<\/td><\/tr>
GOTS<\/td>government off the shelf<\/td><\/tr>
GRC<\/td>Glenn Research Center<\/td><\/tr>
GSFC<\/td>Goddard Space Flight Center<\/td><\/tr>
GUI<\/td>Graphical User Interface<\/td><\/tr>
HI<\/td>Hawaii<\/td><\/tr>
I&T<\/td>Integration and Test<\/td><\/tr>
I\/O<\/td>Input\/Output<\/td><\/tr>
IEC<\/td>International Electrotechnical Commission<\/td><\/tr>
IEEE<\/td>Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers<\/td><\/tr>
ISO<\/td>International Organization for Standardization<\/td><\/tr>
ISS<\/td>International Space Station<\/td><\/tr>
JPL<\/td>Jet Propulsion Laboratory<\/td><\/tr>
JSC<\/td>Johnson Space Center<\/td><\/tr>
JWST<\/td>James Webb Space Telescope<\/td><\/tr>
KSC<\/td>Kennedy Space Center<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Acronym<\/td>Meaning<\/td><\/tr>
LaRC<\/td>Langley Research Center<\/td><\/tr>
M&S<\/td>Models and Simulations
(See usage note in section 4 of this NASA Technical Handbook.)<\/td><\/tr>
M&SCO<\/td>Modeling and Simulation Coordination Office<\/td><\/tr>
MIL<\/td>Military<\/td><\/tr>
MOS<\/td>Margin of Safety<\/td><\/tr>
MOTS<\/td>modified off the shelf<\/td><\/tr>
MSFC<\/td>Marshall Space Flight Center<\/td><\/tr>
MSL<\/td>Mars Science Laboratory<\/td><\/tr>
MUF<\/td>Model Uncertainty Factor<\/td><\/tr>
NASA<\/td>National Aeronautics and Space Administration<\/td><\/tr>
NASTRAN<\/td>NASA structural analysis system<\/td><\/tr>
NCSL<\/td>National Conference of Standards Laboratories<\/td><\/tr>
NESC<\/td>NASA Engineering and Safety Center<\/td><\/tr>
NIST<\/td>National Institute of Standards and Technology<\/td><\/tr>
NM<\/td>New Mexico<\/td><\/tr>
NPD<\/td>NASA Policy Directive<\/td><\/tr>
NPR<\/td>NASA Procedural Requirements<\/td><\/tr>
ODE<\/td>ordinary differential equation<\/td><\/tr>
OMB<\/td>Office of Management and Budget<\/td><\/tr>
PDE<\/td>partial differential equation<\/td><\/tr>
pdf<\/td>probability density function<\/td><\/tr>
PIRT<\/td>Phenomena Identification and Ranking Table<\/td><\/tr>
PLD<\/td>Programmable Logic Devices<\/td><\/tr>
R\/r<\/td>Requirements or recommendations<\/td><\/tr>
Req\u2019t<\/td>Requirement<\/td><\/tr>
RIDM<\/td>risk informed decision making<\/td><\/tr>
RWS<\/td>Real World System<\/td><\/tr>
S\/W<\/td>Software<\/td><\/tr>
SI<\/td>System Internationale<\/td><\/tr>
SME<\/td>Subject Matter Expert<\/td><\/tr>
SP<\/td>Special Publication<\/td><\/tr>
SPIE<\/td>The International Society for Optical Engineering<\/td><\/tr>
SRQ<\/td>System Response Quantities<\/td><\/tr>
SSC<\/td>Stennis Space Center<\/td><\/tr>
STD<\/td>Standard<\/td><\/tr>
SWE<\/td>Software Engineering<\/td><\/tr>
V&V<\/td>Verification and Validation<\/td><\/tr>
VCS<\/td>Voluntary Consensus Standards<\/td><\/tr>
VV&A<\/td>Verification, Validation, and Accreditation<\/td><\/tr>
w.r.t.<\/td>with respect to<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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