FAB Field Advisory Board
07/09/04
FAC Field Advisory Committee 07/09/04
FAC Federal
Acquisition Circular or Field Advisory Council
Accounting and
Procurement
FACCT Foundation for Accountability Has developed
consumer focused quality measures and
tools that help people
understand and use quality
information.
06/25/07
FACNET Federal
Acquisition Computer Network 07/09/04
FAP Fixed Assets Package
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions 06/13/07
FAR Federal Acquisition
Regulations 07/09/04
FAR Federal Acquisition Regulation
FASAB
Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board
FASB Financial Accounting
Standards Board
FATO Final Authority to Operate Accreditation
process that should be completed on a
new system prior to operation.
06/20/07
FBS
Fiduciary Beneficiary System A centralized national database and is
housed at the
Network Systems Division in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
06/25/07
FC
Finance Center 07/09/04
FCDM Financial and Clinical Data Mart
06/13/07
FCG First Consulting Group 07/09/04
FCP Federal
Credentialing Program 07/09/04
FCP Fund Control Point 07/09/04
FCW
Federal Computer Week 07/09/04
FDA Food and Drug Administration
07/09/04
FDDI Fiber Distributed Data Interchange A local area network
that serves as many as thousands
of users.
06/20/07
Acronym
Full Term Description
Date
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Glossary of Acronyms
We
in the Federal Government tend to use terms and abbreviations a great
deal in our conversations or correspondence and sometimes we forget that
not everyone knows what the
mean! Here are some commonly used terms
and acronyms in Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans
Affairs that may be unfamiliar to you.
FDP Facility Development Plan
07/09/04
FEA Federal Enterprise Architecture 06/22/07
FED STRIP
Federal Standard and Issues Procedures
FEDSIM Federal Systems
Integration and Management Center A Contracting Activities’ Contracting
Officer 06/20/07
FEDSMR Office of Operations, Security and
Preparedness 07/09/04
FEE Fee Basis Medical and Pharmacy System
07/09/04
FEHBP Federal Employee Health Benefit Plan
FEMA Federal
Emergency Management Agency 07/09/04
FEP Federal Employee Program
FEPAC
Facility Engineering, Planning and Construction Office 07/09/04
FFP
Falsification, Fabrication, and Plagiarism 07/09/04
FFP Firm-Fixed
Price (contract) (formerly ISO
FFS Federal Supply Schedule FFS is a
set of federal contracts for supplies, including
medical supplies and
pharmaceuticals. FSS prices are
available to any federal agency.
Additional quantity and
tier discounts are available for certain
products; these
appear on the "FSS Tier" schedules.
FFS Fee For
Service
FHCRS Federal Health Care Resources Sharing 07/09/04
FHIE
Federal Health Information Exchange (formerly GCPR) Facilitates the
secure electronic one-way exchange of
patient medical information
between Government
health organizations.
06/27/07
FHP&R
Force Health Protection & Readiness This website provides Service
members and families,
DoD Leaders, and Health Care Planners with
deployment
related information.
07/12/07
FI Fiscal Intermediary 07/09/04
FICA
Head of Contracting Activity
FIFO Firsts In/First Out
FIM
Functional Independence Measure A method to assess the rehabilitation of
patients. 06/20/07
FIN FIN Employer Identification Number
FIP
Federal Information Processing 07/09/04
FIPS Federal Information
Processing Standards Standards published by the U.S. National Institute
of
Standards and Technology, after approval by the
Department of
Commerce; used as a guideline for
federal procurements.
06/27/07
FIPS
Facility Implementation Plan System
FIPSP Federal Information
Processing Standards Publication 07/09/04
FIRMAC Field Information
Resources Management Advisory
Council
This committee is
responsible for providing advice and
guidance to the Director of
MIRMO concerning issues
related to IRM operations and resource
utilization at the
health care facility level.
06/27/07
FIRMR
Federal Information Resources Management
Regulations
07/09/04
FIRSWG
Federal Information Resources Sharing Work Group 07/09/04
FISA Fair
Labor Standards Act
FITSAF Federal IT Security Assessment Framework
07/09/04
FLIS Federal Logistics Information System
FLRA Federal
Labor Relafions Authority
FLTCI Federal Long Term Care Insurance
07/09/04
FMS Financial Management System An accounting system for
budget, fund control, and
general operating funds.
06/27/07
Acronym
Full Term Description
Date
Updated
Glossary of Acronyms
We
in the Federal Government tend to use terms and abbreviations a great
deal in our conversations or correspondence and sometimes we forget that
not everyone knows what the
mean! Here are some commonly used terms
and acronyms in Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans
Affairs that may be unfamiliar to you.
FMS Financial Management
System FMS is the electronic general ledger for VA. Its purpose
is to
track obligations and expenditures by facility and
time period
(month, quarter and fiscal year). Cost
centers and subaccounts
(budget object codes) are
used to organize the data by purpose, such
as labor
costs, medical supplies, and overhead.
FMS Financial
Management System Hospitals Organization
FMS Foreign Military Sales
FOAG
Fiscal Officers Advisory Group
FOB Free On Board
FOH Federal
Occupational Health 07/09/04
FOI Field Office of Investigation
07/09/04
FOIA Freedom of Information Act Act states that virtually
every record possessed by a
federal agency must be made available to
the public in
one form or another, unless it is specifically exempted
from
disclosure.
06/20/07
FOO Family of Origin Descriptor of an
individual's biological family as source,
reference, or current
relational involvement.
06/24/08
FORUM The name of a VHA
electronic mail system 07/09/04
FPDC Federal Procurement Data Center
FPDS
Federal Procurement Data System
FPI Fixed Price Incentive (contract)
FPI
Fixed Price Incentive (contract)
FPLOE Fixed Price Level of Effort
07/09/04
FPMR Federal Property Management Regulations 07/09/04
FPMR
Federal Property Management Regulations Operating
Expenses
FPR
Fixed Price Redeterminable (contract)
FPRA Forward Pricing Rate
Agreement
FR Federal Register
FRD Functional Requirements Document
07/09/04
FRP Federal Response Plan 07/09/04
FSAG Financial System
Advisory Group 07/09/04
FSC Federal Supply Classification
FSG
Federal Supply Group
FSMB Federation of State Medical Boards 07/09/04
FSN
Federal Stock Number
FSOD Functional Status and Outcomes Database
06/22/07
FSS Federal Supply Schedule (Memphis, TN)
FSS Federal
Supply Schedule Programming System, an
ADP programming language
FST
Functional System Testing 07/09/04
FTE Full-time Equivalent 07/09/04
FTEE
Full-time Employee Equivalent An expression of personnel resource
utilization. The
expression refers to the amount of hours paid to one
employee
in one business year (2,087 hours).
06/27/07
FTP Facility
Development Process 07/09/04
FTP File Transfer Protocol 07/09/04
FTS
Federal Telecommunications System 07/09/04
FTS2000 Federal Telephone
System 2000 07/09/04
FUBAR Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition
FWA
Federal-Wide Assurance Program 07/09/04
Acronym Full Term Description
Date
Updated
Glossary
of Acronyms
We in the Federal Government tend to use terms and
abbreviations a great deal in our conversations or correspondence and
sometimes we forget that not everyone knows what the
mean! Here are
some commonly used terms and acronyms in Department of Defense and the
Department of Veterans Affairs that may be unfamiliar to you.
FY
Fiscal Year 07/09/04
FYDP FYDP Future Year Defense Plan
FYPD
Future Year Defense Plan
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