APPENDIX D
Selected Acronyms and Abbreviations
A&M Agricultural & Mechanical
AMS American Mathematical Society
ALMA Atacama Large Millimeter Array
ALMA/MMA ALMA/ Millimeter Array
ASCI Accelerated Strategic Computing
Initiative
BIO Biological Sciences Directorate
CERN European Organization for Nuclear
Research
CESR Cornell Electron Storage Ring
CISE Computer & Information Science
& Engineering Directorate
CPP Committee on Programs and Plans
DoC U.S. Department of Commerce
DoD U.S. Department of Defense
DoE U.S. Department of Energy
DoI U. S. Department of the Interior
EHR Education and Human Resources Directorate
ENG Engineering Directorate
EU European Union
F&A facilities and administration
FY fiscal year
GAO U.S. General Accounting Office
GEO Geosciences Directorate
HEPAP High Energy Physics Advisory Panel
HIAPER High-Performance Instrumented Airborne
Platform for
Environmental Research
IA Integrative Activities
INF Task Force on Science and Engineering
Infrastructure
IT information technology
K-12 kindergarten through grade 12
LHC Large Hadron Collider
LIGO Laser Interferometer Gravitational
Wave Observatory
MPS Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Directorate
MREFC Major Research Equipment and Facilities
Construction
MRI Major Research Instrumentation
MSU Michigan State University
NAS National Academy of Sciences
NASA U. S. National Aeronautics and Space
Administration
NASF net assignable square feet
NEES Network for Earthquake Engineering
Simulation
NEON National Ecological Observatory Network
NHMFL National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
NIH U.S. National Institutes of Health
NNUM National Nanofabrication Users Network
NRC National Research Council
NSB National Science Board
NSDL National Science, Technology, Engineering,
and Mathematics
Education Digital Library
NSF National Science Foundation
NSTC National Science and Technology Council
OMB Office of Management and Budget
OPP Office of Polar Programs
OSTP Office of Science and Technology
Policy
PACI Partnerships for Advanced Computational
Infrastructure
R&D research and development
R&RA Research and Related Activities
RSVP Rare Symmetry Violating Processes
S&E science and engineering
S&T science and technology
SBE Social, Behavioral, and Economic
Sciences Directorate
SMETE science, mathematics, engineering,
and technology education
SPARC Space and Aeronomy Collaboratory
SRS Science Resources Statistics
STPI Science and Technology Policy Institute
TAIR The Arabidopsis Information Resources
TCS Terascale Computing Systems
UCLA University of California at Los Angeles
UK United Kingdom
U.S. United States
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