Compliance
Every 3 years the ATO process must be repeated for each system to retain permission to exist — it's the circle of life and it moves us all.
What is Authority to Operate?
The government circulates an RFP when it has identified a scope of work and wants to ask vendors to submit bids.
What is a Request for Proposal?
I know HTML - How To Make Lady Gaga fansites.
What is Hypertext Markup Language?
I don't know what you heard about me, but due to my extensive expertise as an agile coach and scrum master, I am, without question, a PMP.
What is a Project Management Professional?
The National Security Act of 1947 made the CIA the country's main entity tasked with gathering information on foreign powers.
What is the Central Intelligence Agency?
Moving on is hard to do. If you file a CR it will be easier for you.
What is a Change Request?
To ensure our government is somewhat reflective and self-critical, the GAO adjudicates bid protests.
What is the Government Accountability Office?
HTTP is the backbone of the World Wide Web.
What is the HyperText Transfer Protocol?
If knowledge is power, then our SME is like Catherine the Great.
What is a Subject Matter Expert?
The HUD office is one of the prime examples of Brutalist office architecture in DC.
What is the Department of Housing and Urban Development?
I believe your proposal is noncompliant — we'll see what OGC thinks.
BPA isn't just something that terrifyingly leaches into water — it also refers to this acquisition method for the government to buy a stream of work.
What is a Blanket Purchase Agreement?
Before BitTorrent, plain old FTP servers were the standby for digital pirates
What is the File Transfer Protocol?
Features? What features? It's NFRs all the way down.
What is a non-functional requirement?
Although NOAA seems like it's been around as long as the oceans, the arc of its existence began only in 1970.
What is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration?
NIST's mission is to "promote U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance economic wellbeing"
What is the National Institute for Standards and Quality?
IDIQ is yet another acronym to describe some way the government buys things, but at least this one sort of explains itself.
What is Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity?
TCP is a standard that defines how to establish and maintain a network conversation via which application programs can exchange data.
What is the Transmission Control Protocol?
PMOs exist in both CMS and VA to standardize and introduce economies of repetition in the execution of projects.
What is a Project Management Office?
The BEP rules everything around me — or at least, the money it produces does.
What is the Bureau of Engraving and Printing?
From LOA1 to LOA2, this method of classifying user verification helps me and you.
What is Level of Assurance?
There have been over 300 million DUNS numbers created since this system for assigning businesses a numeric identifier was created in 1963.
What is the Data Universal Numbering System?
LDAP is a software protocol for enabling anyone to locate organizations, individuals, and other resources such as files and devices in a network, whether on the public Internet or on a corporate intranet.
What is the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol?
Agencies are increasingly looking to SAFe to help them manage large scary projects.
What is the Scaled Agile Framework?
It's not just whiskey, guns, and smokes: the ATF has a fourth item under its jurisdiction that needs to be mentioned when expanding the acronym.
What is the Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Bureau?