Bill of Materials (BOM)
for FEMIS v1.4.7



Acronyms and Definitions

BOM Bill of Materials
COTS Commercial-Off-The-Shelf
CPU central processing unit
CSEPP Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program
DEI data exchange interface
E-mail electronic mail
EOC Emergency Operations Center
ESIM Evacuation SIMulation, part of Oak Ridge Evacuation Modeling System
ESMTP SMTP for E-mail
ESRI Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.
FEMIS Federal Emergency Management Information System
GB gigabyte--billion bytes
GIS geographic information system
IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol
IP Internet Protocol
IRZ Immediate Response Zone
JIC Joint Information Center
kbps kilobit per second
kVA kilovolt per ampere
LAN local area network
LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
MB megabyte--million bytes
MBps megabytes per second
MHz megahertz
MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
mm millimeter
NFS Network File Service
ODBC Open Data Base Connectivity
PAZ Protective Action Zone
PC personal computer
PNNL Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
POP Post Office Protocol
PPP Point to Point Protocol
RAID Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
RAM Random Access Memory
RAS Remote Access Service
RDBMS relational database management system
RER Remote Evacuee Registration
RPM rotations per minute
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SQL Structured Query Language
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
UPS uninterruptable power supply
UNIX Generic name for the server operating system
UUENCODE Unix-to-Unix encode
WAN wide area network
Y2K Year 2000


Last modified: 03/06/2000
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