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IAW
In Accordance With
ICD
Interface Control Documentation
ICWG
Interface Control Working Group
IEEE
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IKIWISI
I Know It When I See It
INCOSE
International Council of Systems Engineering [circa 1994]
Integrated product team
A team consisting of agency and contractor representatives working together.
Integrity
A system characteristic that means that the system’s functional, performance, physical, and enabling products are accurately documented by its requirements, design, and support specifications.
Intelligent Transportation Systems
A broad range of diverse technologies which, when applied to our current transportation system, can help improve safety, reduce congestion, enhance mobility, minimize environmental impacts, save energy, and promote economic productivity. ITS technologies are varied and include information processing, communications, control, and electronics.
Interface
The functional and physical characteristics required to exist at a common boundary - in development, a relationship among two or more entities [such as software-software, hardware-hardware, hardware-software, hardware-user, or software-user].
Interface control
Interface control comprises the delineation of the procedures and documentation, both administrative and technical, contractually necessary for identification of functional and physical characteristics between two or more configuration items that are provided by different contractors/acquiring agencies, and the resolution of the problems thereto.
International
Council of Systems Engineering [circa 1994]
IPT
Integrated Product Teams
ISO
International Organization for Standardization
IT
Information Technology
ITE
Institute of Transportation Engineers
Item
A non-specific term used to denote any product, including systems, sub-systems, assemblies, subassemblies, units, sets, accessories, computer programs, computer software, or parts.
ITIP
Interregional Transportation Improvement Plan
ITS
Intelligent Transportation System[s]
IV&V
Independent Verification and Validation
 

 

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