U.S. Department of Transportation
Federal Highway Administration
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC 20590
202-366-4000
California Division
AAA | American Automobile Association |
AASHTOA | American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials |
AIAAA | American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics |
ANSIA | American National Standards Institute |
ASTMA | American Society for Testing and Materials |
ATISA | Advanced Transportation Information System |
ATMSA | Advanced Transportation Management System |
C2CA | Center to Center |
C2FA | Center To Field |
CAIVA | Cost As an Independent Variable |
CCTVA | Closed-Circuit Television |
CDRA | Critical Design Review |
CE | Concept Exploration |
CEA | Consumer Electronics Association |
CFRA | Code of Federal Regulations |
CGA | Control Gate |
CIA | Configuration Item |
CMA | Configuration Management |
CMMA | Capability Maturity Model |
CMMIA | Capabilities Maturity Model Integrated |
CMSA | Changeable Message Sign |
COCOMOA | Constructive Cost Model |
ConOpsA | Concept of Operations |
CORBAA | Common Object Request Broker Architecture |
COTSA | Commercial Off-The-Shelf |
CRA | Change Request |
DATEXA | Data Exchange |
DBMSA | Database Management System |
DDRA | Detail Design Review |
DOTA | Department of Transportation |
ECPA | Engineering Change Proposal |
EDIA | Electronic Data Interchange |
EIAA | Electronic Industries Association |
FARA | Federal Acquisition Regulation |
FCAA | Functional Configuration Audit |
FHWAA | Federal Highway Administration |
FPAA | Function Point Analysis |
FSRA | Feasibility Study Report |
FTPA | File Transfer Protocol |
GUIA | Graphical User Interface |
IAWA | In Accordance With |
HLDA | High-Level Design |
ICDA | Interface Control Documentation |
ICWGA | Interface Control Working Group |
IEEEA | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
IKIWISIA | I Know It When I See It |
INCOSEA | International Council of Systems Engineering [circa 1994] |
IPTA | Integrated Product Teams |
ISOA | International Organization for Standardization |
ITA | Information Technology |
ITEA | Institute of Transportation Engineers |
ITIPA | Interregional Transportation Improvement Plan |
ITSA | Intelligent Transportation System[s] |
IV&VA | Independent Verification and Validation |
KPPA | Key Performance Parameter |
MOEA | Measure of Effectiveness |
MOPA | Measure of Performance |
MPOA | Metropolitan Planning Organization |
NAA | Not Applicable |
NASAA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
NCOSEA | National Council on Systems Engineering [now INCOSE] |
NDIA | Non-Developmental Item |
NEMAA | National Electrical Manufacturers Association |
NISTA | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
NTCIPA | National Transportation Communications for ITS Protocol |
O&MA | Operations & Maintenance |
ORBA | Object Request Brokers [programming middleware] |
PDA | Product Development |
PDRA | Preliminary Design Review |
PMA | Program Manager |
PMIA | Project Management Institute |
PPPA | Point-to-Point Protocol |
QFDA | Quality Function Deployment |
RFPA | Request for Proposal |
RFQA | Request for Quotation |
RTIPA | Regional Transportation Improvement Plan |
ROWA | Right Of Way |
SAEA | Society of Automotive Engineers |
SDRA | System Design Review |
SEA | Systems Engineering |
SEIA | Software Engineering Institute [Carnegie Mellon University] |
SEMPA | Systems Engineering Management Plan |
SERFA | Systems Engineering Review Form |
SETAA | Systems Engineering Technical Assistance |
SIA | Software Item |
SOWA | Statement of Work |
SRRA | System Requirements Review |
STIPA | Statewide Transportation Improvement Plan |
SWA | Software |
T & EA | Test & Evaluation |
TIPA | Transportation Improvement Plan |
TMCA | Traffic Management Center |
TRA | Technical Review |
TRRA | Test Readiness Review |
UMLA | Unified Modeling Language |
WANA | Wide Area Network |
WBSA | Work Breakdown Structure |
XMLA | Extensible Mark-up Language |