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GLOSSARY DEFENSE ACQUISITION ACRONYMS AND TERMS Sixteenth Edition September 2015 Department of Defense Defense Acquisition University Learning Capabilities Integration Center Center for Acquisition and Program Management Fort Belvoir, Virginia PUBLISHED BY THE DEFENSE ACQUISITION UNIVERSITY PRESS FORT BELVOIR, VIRGINIA 22060-5565 iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors appreciate the assistance of the staff and faculty of the Defense Acquisition University (DAU) in providing acronyms and definitions for consideration in this Sixteenth Edition of the GLOSSARY : Defense Acquisition Acronyms and Terms and offer our special thanks to members of the DAU Visual Arts and Press staff, Benjamin Tyree for editing, and especially Debbie Gonzalez, for her expert proofreading and innovative cover design.

Many of the terms in the Glossary may be defined in other documents in a different fashion. For example, the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) contains upwards of 600 definitions of words and terms. Definitions that are applicable to all parts of the FAR are contained in FAR Part 2, Definitions of Words and Terms, which contains close to 250

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