| A | |
| ABIS | Automated Biometric Identification System |
| ACIC | Arkansas Crime Information Center |
| ACJIC | Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center |
| Acrime | Alien Criminal Information Management System |
| AFIS | Automated Fingerprint Identification System |
| AFOSI | Air Force Office of Special Investigations |
| AISLE | Accelerated Information Sharing Law Enforcement |
| AIX | IBM's Unix Implemenation |
| AOC | Administer of Court |
| API | Application Program Interface |
| APPA | American Probation and Parole Association |
| ARJIS | Automated Regional Justice Information System |
| ASCIA | Association of State Criminal Investigative Agencies |
| ASCLD | American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors |
| ASUCRP | Association of State Uniform Crime Reporting Programs |
| ATF | Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives |
| AVl | Automated Vehicle Location system |
| B | |
| BJS | Bureau of Justice and Statistics |
| C | |
| CAD | Computer Aided Dispatch (or computer assisted dispatch) |
| CANDLE | Collaboration between AAMVA and Nlets for Drivers License Exchange |
| CBP | U.S. Customs and Border Protection |
| CCH | Computerized Criminal Histories |
| CCIPS | Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, U.S. DOJ |
| CHIEF | Criminal History Information Exchange Format |
| CHOPRS | Criminal History Online Public Records System |
| CHRI | Criminal History Record Information |
| CITA | Crime Indentification Technology Act |
| CJIN | Criminal Justice Information Network |
| CJIS | Criminal Justice Information System |
| CJIS Div. | FBI Criminal Justice Information Services Division |
| CPI | Computer Projects of Illinois |
| CPIC | Canadian Police Information Centre |
| D | |
| DHS | Department of Homeland Security |
| DOC | Department of Corrections |
| DoD | U.S. Department of Defense |
| DOJ | U.S. Department of Justice |
| F | |
| FBI | Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| FBI CJIS | FBI Criminal Justice Information Services Division |
| FEA | Federal Enterprise Architecture |
| FEMA | Federal Emergency Management Agency |
| G | |
| GIS | Geographic Information System |
| GIWG | Global Information Working Group |
| GJXDM | Global Justice XML Data Model |
| GLOBAL | Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative |
| GOWG | Global Outreach Working Group |
| GSA | General Services Administration |
| H | |
| HPD | Hawaii Police Department |
| HTML | Hypertext Markup Language |
| I | |
| ICE | Immigration and Customs Enforcement |
| IDEALS | Identification of Driver for Activities of Law and Safety |
| iDSM | Interim Data Sharing Model |
| IEPD | Information Exchange Package Documentation |
| IJIS | Integrated Justice Information Systems |
| IJIS Institute | Founded on the principal that public/private partnerships in the area of justice system information sharing would contribute to the successful implementation of integrated justice systems throughout the country. |
| INS | Immigration and Naturalization Service |
| INTERPOL | International Criminal Police Organization |
| IP | Input Processor |
| iServices | Integrated System for Electronic Retrieval of Vital Information for Crime Enforcement and Security |
| ITEP | Information Technology and Evaluation Program |
| IWG | Industry Working Group |
| J | |
| JAR | Java Archive file is a file that contains the class, image, and sound files for a Java application or applet gathered into a single file. |
| JAVA | A programming language developed by Sun Microsystems which allows World Wide Web pages to contain code that is executed on the browser. |
| L | |
| LAN | Local-area Network |
| LEAA | Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (U.S. DOJ, disbanded in early 1980s) |
| LEIN | Law Enforcement Information Network |
| LEIS | Law Enforcement Information Sharing |
| LEISP | Law Enforcement Information Sharing Program (U.S. DOJ initiative) |
| LEITSC | Law Enforcement Information Technology Standards Council |
| LEIU | Law Enforcement Intelligence Unit |
| LESC | Law Enforcement Support Center |
| LOGIC | Live Operational Geospatial Information Capability |
| M | |
| MICJIN | Michigan Criminal Justice Information Center |
| MQ Series | The IBM MQ Series family of products provides transactional message queuing for many platforms (Windows, Linux, IBM mainframe and midrange, and Unix). |
| N | |
| NCHIP | National Criminal History Improvement Program |
| NDLS | News Drivers License System |
| nexTEST | Product name for NCIC Testing software from Peak Performance Solutions |
| NIEM | National Information Exchange Model |
| NIJ | National Institute of Justice |
| NISP | Nlets Interstate Sharing of Photos |
| Nlets | National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System |
| NVPS | National Virtual Pointer System |
| O | |
| OASIS | Oklahoma Automated Secure Information Sharing |
| OP | Output Processor |
| P | |
| Portable Document Format | |
| PRC | Planning Research Corporation |
| R | |
| RAND | Random Access to Nlets Data |
| RCMP | Royal Canadian Mounted Police |
| RMDTS | Remote Data Terminal System |
| S | |
| SAM | Site Automated Monitoring |
| SAVIN | Statewide Application Victim Information and Notification System |
| SBU | Sensitive but Unclassified |
| SRFERS | State, Regional, Federal Enterprise Retrieval System |
| T | |
| TDI | Texas Department of Insurance |
| TP | Transaction Processor |
| TPWD | Texas Parks and Wildfire Department |
| U | |
| US DOJ | United State Department of Justice |
| US NCB | United States National Central Bureau |
| V | |
| VCHIP | Vermont Criminal History Information Program |
| VCIC | Vermont Criminal Information Center |
| VINE | Victim Information and Notification Everyday |
| VNS | Victim Notification System |
| VSP | Virginia State Police |
| W | |
| WVSP | West Virginia State Police |
| X | |
| XML | eXtensible Markup Language |
| XSTF | Global Justice XML Structure Task Force |
