| AB - Assembly Bill |
| ACF - Federal Administration For Children And Families |
| ACH - Automated Clearing House |
| ACIN - All County Information Notice (Issued by CDSS) |
| ACL - All County Letter (Issued by CDSS) |
| ACL - Acquisition Life Cycle |
| ADA - Americans With Disabilities Act Of 1990 |
| AFCARS - Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System |
| AGA - Association of Government Auditors |
| AIMS - Agency Information Management Strategy |
| ALERT - Antifraud Locator of EBT Retailer Transactions |
| ANSI - American National Standards Institute |
| APD - Advance Planning Document |
| APDU - Advance Planning Document Update |
| ARM - Acquisition Risk Management |
| ASAP - As Soon As Possible |
| ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| ATM - Automated Teller Machine |
| ATP - Acceptance Test Plan |
| BA - Business Area |
| BArc - Business Architecture |
| BCC - Blind Carbon Copy |
| BCC - Budget Change Concept |
| BCP - Budget Change Proposal |
| BL - Budget Letter |
| BP - Best Practices |
| BPEL - Business Process Execution Language |
| BPMN - Business Process Modeling Notation |
| BPR - Business Process Re-engineering |
| BPSG - Best Practices Support Group |
| BRELM - Business Relationship Model |
| BRM - Business Reference Model |
| BSA - California Bureau Of State Audits |
| CalBRM - California Business Reference Model |
| CalOHI - California Office of HIPAA Implementation |
| CalSERV - California Statewide Automated Welfare Information Broker project |
| CalWIN - CalWORKs Information Network (part of WCDS) |
| CalWORKs - California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids |
| CAM - California Acquisition Manual (in work by DGS) |
| CAP - Corrective Action Plan |
| CAP - Cost Account/Allocation Plan |
| CAPI - California Assistance Program for Immigrants |
| CBT - Computer Based Training |
| CC - Carbon Copy |
| CCP - Change Control Process |
| CCQS - California Council on Quality and Service |
| CCR - California Code Of Regulations |
| CCSAS - California Child Support Automated Systems |
| CDAA - California District Attorneys Association |
| CDE - California Department of Education |
| CDPH - California Department of Public Health |
| CDSS - California Department Of Social Services |
| CEAP - California Enterprise Architecture Program |
| CFAP - California Food Assistance Program |
| CFR - Code of Federal Regulations |
| CHHS - California Health and Human Services Agency |
| CHHSA - California Health and Human Services Agency |
| CI - Configuration Item. A hardware, software or interface item which is formally controlled and managed through the project's management plan and processes. |
| CIN - Client Index Number |
| CIO - Chief Information Officer |
| C-IV - Consortium IV (of SAWS) |
| CLIN - Contract Line Item Number |
| CMAS - California Multiple Award Schedule |
| CMIPS - Case Management Information and Payrolling System |
| CMM - SEI's Capability Maturity Model |
| CMM-I - Capability Maturity Model - Integrated |
| COCOMO - Constructive Cost Model |
| ConOp - Concept of Operations document |
| COTS - Commercial Off The Shelf |
| CPA - Certified Public Accountant |
| CPAF - Cost Plus Award Fee |
| CPFF - Cost Plus Fixed Fee |
| CPIF - Cost Plus Incentive Fee |
| CPM - Contract Performance Management (CMM) |
| CPU - Central Processing Unit |
| CR - Cost Reimbursable |
| CS - Child Support |
| CS - Cost-Sharing |
| CSAC - California State Association of Counties |
| CSAM - Conceptual Solution Architecture Model |
| CSS - DTS's Customer Service System (tool) |
| CSU/DSU - Channel Service Unit/Data Service Unit |
| CTO - Contract Tracking and Oversight (CMM) |
| CWD - County Welfare Departments |
| CWDA - California Welfare Directors Association |
| CWS/CMS - Child Welfare Services/Case Management System |
| DACS - Federal Data and Analysis Center for Software |
| DB - Database |
| DBDD - Database Design Description |
| DBMS - Database Management System |
| DCSS - Department of Child Support Services |
| DD - Database Design |
| DD - Design Document |
| DDE - Deliverable Document Evaluation |
| DDS - Detailed Design Specification |
| DED - Deliverable Expectation Document |
| DGS - California Department Of General Services |
| DGS/OLS - DGS/Office of Legal Services |
| DGS/PD - DGS/Procurement Division |
| DGS/PD - TAS - DGS/Procurement Division - Technology Acquisition Section |
| DHCS - California Department of Health Care Services |
| DI - Disability Insurance |
| DID - Data Item Description |
| DoD - U.S. Department of Defense |
| DOF - California Department of Finance |
| DOIT - California Department Of Information Technology (now defunct) |
| DPA - Department of Personnel Administration |
| DRM - Data Reference Model |
| DSD - Detailed Systems Design |
| DTS - Department of Technology Services |
| DVBE - Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise |
| EA - Enterprise Architecture |
| EAO - Enterprise Architecture Office |
| EAW - Economic Analysis Worksheet/Workbook |
| EBT - Electronic Benefit Transfer |
| ECP - Engineering Change Proposal |
| EDD - California Employment Development Department |
| EDI - Electronic Data Interchange |
| EDP - Electronic Data Processing |
| EFT - Electronic Funds Transfer |
| EIA - Electronic Industries Alliance |
| ESB - Enterprise Service Bus |
| ESC - Enterprise Service Center |
| ESP - Evaluation and Selection Plan |
| ESR - Evaluation and Selection Report |
| ETL - Extract, Transform, Load |
| EZA - Enterprise Zone Act |
| FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions |
| FAR - Federal Acquisition Regulation |
| FEA - Federal Enterprise Architecture |
| FEAF - Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework |
| FEAP - Federal Enterprise Architecture Program |
| FFP - Federal Financial Participation |
| FFP - Firm Fixed Price |
| FFPLOE - Firm Fixed Price Level of Effort Contract |
| FG - Focus Group |
| FIPS - Federal Information Processing Standards |
| FM - Functional Manager |
| FNS - Food and Nutrition Service |
| FP - Fixed Price |
| FP - Function Point |
| FPAF - Fixed Price Award Fee |
| FPEPA - Fixed Price Economic Price Adjustment |
| FPIF - Fixed Price plus Incentive Fee |
| FPIS - Fixed Price Incentive with Successive Targets |
| FPRP - Fixed Price Contract with Prospective Price Redetermination |
| FPRR - Fixed Ceiling Price Contract with Retroactive Price Redetermination |
| FS - Food Stamp |
| FSP - Food Stamp Program |
| FSR - Feasibility Study Report |
| FTB - California Franchise Tax Board |
| FY - Fiscal Year |
| GAO - Federal General Accounting Office |
| GC - Government Code |
| GCW - Getting Connected Workshop |
| GR - General Relief |
| GSA - Federal General Services Administration |
| GSD - General Systems Design |
| GTC - Government Technology Conference |
| H/W - Hardware |
| HD - Help Desk |
| HHS - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
| HIPAA - Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act |
| HR - Human Resources |
| HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language |
| HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
| HTTPS - Hypertext Transfer Protocol using 128-bit Secure Sockets |
| HW - Hardware |
| IA - Inter-Agency Agreement |
| IAA - Inter-Agency Agreement |
| IAPD/U - Implementation Advanced Planning Document/Update |
| ICD - Interface Control Document |
| ICWG - Interface Control Working Group |
| IDD - Interface Design Document |
| IDEF - Integration Definition (design modeling) |
| IDM - Identity Management |
| IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| IEVS - Income Eligibility and Verification System |
| IFB - Invitation for Bid |
| IHSS - In-Home Supportive Services |
| INCOSE - International Council on Systems Engineering (organization) |
| IPOC - Independent Project Oversight Consultant |
| IRD - Interface Requirements Document |
| IRS - Internal Revenue Service |
| IRS - Interface Requirements Specification |
| ISAWS - Interim Statewide Automated Welfare System |
| ISO - Information Security Office |
| ISO - International Organization for Standardization |
| IT - Information Technology |
| ITCU - Information Technology Consulting Unit |
| ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library |
| ITP - Invitation to Partner |
| ITPP - Information Technology Procurement Plan |
| ITSM - IT Service Management |
| IV&V - Independent Verification & Validation |
| JAD - Joint Application Development |
| JAD - Joint Application Design |
| JLBC - Joint Legislative Budget Committee |
| JRP - Joint Requirements Planning |
| KPA - Key Process/Practice Area (CMM) |
| LAN - Local Area Network |
| LAO - Legislative Analyst's Office |
| LD - Liquidated Damage(s) |
| LDM - Logical Data Model |
| LEADER - Los Angeles Eligibility, Automated Determination, Evaluation and Reporting |
| LH - Labor Hour |
| LL - Lessons Learned |
| LOBs - Lines of Business |
| LOC - Lines of Code |
| LOE - Level of Effort |
| LRS - LEADER Replacement System |
| LSM - Logical Service Model |
| LTM - Logical Technology Model |
| M&O - Maintenance and Operations |
| MAC - Move, Add, and/or Change |
| MBE/WBE - Minority Owned Business Enterprise/ Woman-Owned Business Enterprise |
| MEDS - Medi-Cal Eligibility Data System |
| MIL-STD - Military Standard |
| MM - Management Memo |
| MOTS - Modified Off The Shelf (i.e., a customized COTS) |
| MOU - Memorandum of Understanding |
| MPP - Master Project Plan |
| MQ - Minimum Qualifications |
| MS - Microsoft |
| MSA - Master Services Agreement |
| MSC - Management Steering Council |
| MTS - Management Tracking System (tool) |
| N/A - Not Applicable |
| NASCIO - National Association of State Chief Information Officers |
| NIST - National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| NLT - No Later Than |
| NOA - Notice of Action |
| O&M - Operations and Maintenance |
| OASIS - Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards |
| OCIO - Office of the State Chief Information Officer |
| OCSE - Office Of Child Support Enforcement |
| OE&E - Operating Expenses and Equipment |
| OFPP - Office of Federal Procurement Policies |
| OISSP - Office of Information Security and Privacy Protection |
| OJT - On-the-Job-Training |
| OMB - Office of Management and Budget |
| OPR - Office of Primary Responsibility |
| OSHPD - Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development |
| OSI - Office of Systems Integration |
| OSI Model - Open Systems Interconnection Basic Reference Model |
| OSIBRM - Office of Systems Integration Business Reference Model |
| PAPD/U - Planning Advance Planning Document/Update |
| PAT - Process Action Team |
| PC - Procurement Center |
| PCC - Public Contract Code |
| PCO - Procurement and Contracting Officer |
| PD - Position Description |
| PDA - Personal Digital Assistant (such as Palm, Handspring, etc.) |
| PDF - Adobe's Portable Document Format |
| PDM - Process Definition and Maintenance (CMM) |
| PDM - Physical Data Model |
| PE - Planning Estimate |
| PIER - Post Implementation Evaluation Report |
| PM - Project Management |
| PMBOK - PMI's Project Management Body of Knowledge |
| PMI - Project Management Institute |
| PMLC - Project Management Life Cycle |
| PMM - Project Management Methodology (originally DOIT's, now kept by DOF) |
| PMO - Project Management Office |
| PMP - Project Management Plan |
| PMP - PMI's Project Management Professional certification |
| PO - Purchase Order |
| POC - Point of Contact |
| POST - Project Office Support Tool(s) |
| PPM - Project Performance Management (CMM) |
| PRISM - Child Support Pre-Statewide Interim Systems Management (project) |
| PSM - Practical Software Measurement |
| PSM - Physical Service Model |
| PTM - Physical Technology Model |
| PY - Personnel Year |
| QA - Quality Assurance |
| QAP - Quality Assurance Plan |
| QAWG - Quality Assurance Working Group |
| R&D - Research and Development |
| R&R - Roles and Responsibilities |
| RACF - Resource Access Control Facility |
| RAD - Rapid Application Development |
| RAM - Responsibility Assignment Matrix |
| RAM - Risk Assessment Model |
| RDM - Requirements Development and Management |
| RFI - Request for Information |
| RFO - Request for Offer |
| RFP - Request For Proposal |
| RMP - Risk Management Plan |
| RTM - Requirements Traceability Matrix |
| S/W - Software |
| SA-CMM - Software Acquisition Capability Maturity Model |
| SADD - System Architecture Design Document |
| SAF - Solution Architecture Framework |
| SAIDD - Software Architecture Interface Design Document |
| SAM - State Administrative Manual |
| SAP - Software Acquisition Planning |
| SARS - Statewide Automated Reconciliation System |
| SAWS - Statewide Automated Welfare System |
| SB - Senate Bill |
| SB - Small Business (California State Certified |
| SCI - Statewide Client index |
| SCM - State Contracting Manual |
| SCM - Software Configuration Management |
| SCMP - Software Configuration Management Plan |
| SCO - State Controller's Office |
| SD - Systems Development |
| SDD - Software Design Document |
| SDF - Software Development File |
| SDLC - Software Development Life Cycle |
| SDLC - System Development Life Cycle |
| SDP - Software Development Plan |
| SE - Software Engineering |
| SEI - Software Engineering Institute |
| SEL - NASA's Software Engineering Laboratory |
| SFIS - Statewide Fingerprint Imaging System |
| SFL - Spring Finance Letter |
| SFY - State Fiscal Year |
| SI - System Implementation |
| SIDD - System Interface Design Document |
| SIMM - Statewide Information Management Manual |
| SLA - Service Level Agreement |
| SLOC - Source Line of Code |
| SME - Subject Matter Expert |
| SOA - Service Oriented Architecture |
| SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol |
| SOL - Solicitation (CMM) |
| SOP - Standard Operating Procedure |
| SOW - Statement Of Work |
| SPB - State Personnel Board |
| SPI - Supplementary Premise Information |
| SPMN - Software Program Manager's Network (organization) |
| SPOC - Single Point of Contact |
| SPR - Software Productivity Research (company) |
| SPR - Special Project Report |
| SQAP - Software Quality Assurance Plan |
| SQL - Structured Query Language |
| SRE - Software Risk Evaluation |
| SRM - Service Reference Model |
| SRS - Software Requirements Specification |
| STD - Software Test Description |
| Std. or STD - Standard |
| STP - Software Test Plan |
| STR - Software Test Report |
| SUM - Software User Manual |
| SVD - Software Version Document |
| SW - Software |
| SW-CMM - Software (Development) Capability Maturity Model |
| SyRS - System Requirements Specification |
| T&C - Terms and Conditions |
| T&E - Test and Evaluation |
| T&M - Time and Materials |
| TANF - Temporary Assistance to Needy Families |
| TAP - Task Accomplishment Plan |
| TBD - To Be Determined |
| TCP/IP - Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol |
| TOA - Time-on-Aid |
| TOC - Table of Contents |
| TOSU - DOF's Technology Oversight and Security Unit |
| TP - Training Program |
| TRM - Technical Reference Model |
| TTS - Transition To Support |
| UAT - User Acceptance Test |
| UI - Unemployment Insurance |
| UIMOD - Unemployement Insurance Modernization |
| UML - Unified Modeling Language |
| USCIS - United States Citizenship and Immigration Services |
| USDA - United States Department of Agriculture |
| UT - Unit Test |
| V&V - Verification and Validation |
| VDD - Version Description Document |
| W3C - World Wide Web Consortium |
| WAN - Wide Area Network |
| WBS - Work Breakdown Structure |
| WCDS - Welfare Client Data System |
| WDTIP - Welfare Data Tracking Implementation Project |
| WIC - Welfare and Institutions Code |
| WO - Work Order |
| XML - Extensible Markup Language |
