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'S' Terms

This page lists government terms starting with 'S'

S&A:

Sampling and Analysis; Surveillance and Analysis

S&C:

Survey and Certification

S&E:

Staff & Equipment

S&I:

Supervision & Interpretation

S/HMO:

Social Health Maintenance Organization

S/W:

Software

SA:

Scheduled Allowance; Security Administrator; Settlement Agreement; State Agency; State Assessment; Supplemental Agreement; Systems Administrator; Systems Analyst

SAAC:

Secretarial Administrative Advisory Council

SAB:

Science Advisory Board

SAC:

Special Action Code; Statistical Analysis Contractor; Suspended and Cancelled Pesticides

SA-CMM:

Software Acquisition Capability Maturity Model

SACP:

(AHA) Society for Ambulatory Care Professionals

SAD:

Service Area Directory (SSA); Simultaneous Accretion/Deletion

SADBU:

Small and Disadvantage Business Utilization

SADBUS:

Small And Disadvantaged Business Utilization Specialist

SADMERC:

Statistical Analysis Durable Medical Equipment Regional Carrier

SAEP:

State Agency Evaluation Plan

SAEWG:

Standing Air Emissions Work Group

SAF:

Standard Analytic File

SAGE-204:

SAS interface to M204 databases

SAHD:

Staff Assisted Home Dialysis

SAI:

Special Audit Initiative

SAIC:

Science Applications International Corp. (PRISM software contractor); Special-Agents-In-Charge

SAIF:

Savings Association Insurance Fund

SAIP:

Systems Acquisition and Implementation Program

SALT:

Suspensions & Life Terminations System (MBR)

SAM:

Software Asset Management

SAMHSA:

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; Supstance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration

SAMI:

Southern Appalachian Mountains Initiative

SAMWG:

Standing Air Monitoring Work Group

SANE:

Sulfur and Nitrogen Emissions

SANSS:

Structure and Nomenclature Search System

SAP:

(1) Simplified Acquisition Procedures (2) Special Application Program ; Scientific Advisory Panel

SAR:

(microfilm) Storage & Retrieval unit; Safeguard Activity Report; Service Area Report; Start Action Request; Structural Activity Relationship (of a qualitative assessment)

SARA:

Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986

SAROAD:

Storage and Retrieval Of Aerometric Data

SAS:

Single Award Schedules; Special Analytical Service; Statistical Analysis System; Statement of Auditing Standards; Statistical Analysis Software; Statistical Analysis System

SAS/C:

SAS Compiler

SASS:

Source Assessment Sampling System

SAV:

Submerged Aquatic Vegetation

SAVE:

Society of American Value Engineers; Systematic Alien Verification of Eligibility

SB:

Standards Board

SBA:

(1) Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 637(e) (2) Small Business Administration; Small Business Administration

SBC:

School Based Clinics; Single Breath Cannister

SBCDP:

Small Business Competitiveness Demonstration Program

SBI:

Single Scope Background Investigation; State Buy In

SBIGPPP:

State BuyIn Group Practice Prepayment Plan

SBIR:

Small Business Innovation Research (Program); Small Business Innovative Research

SBO:

Senior Budget Officer

SBR:

Supplemental Budget Request

SBRS:

Senior Biomedical Research Service

SBS:

Sick Building Syndrome

SBSA:

Small Business Set Aside; Small Business SetAside

SBU:

Sensitive But Unclassified; Strategic Business Unit

SC:

Scientific Computing Staff; Sierra Club; State & County; Sub Contractor

SCA:

Service Contract Act

SCACA:

Seniors Coalition Against Catastrophic Act

SCAP:

Superfund Consolidated Accomplishments Plan

SCAR:

Significant Correspondence Assignment Report

SCBA:

Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus

SCC:

(Service Area) State/County Code; Security Control Center; Source Classification Code

SCD:

Service Computation Date

SCD/SWDC:

Soil or Soil and Water Conservation District

SCE:

Separate Cost Entity

SCFM:

Standard Cubic Feet Per Minute

SCH:

Sole Community Hospital

SCHIP:

State Child Health Insurance Program; State Children’s Health Insurance Program

SCIC:

Significant Change In Condition

SCIF:

Sensitive Compartmentalized Information Facility

SCIP:

Survey & Certification Improvement Project

SCLDF:

Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund

SCLM:

Source Code Librarian Manager

SCM:

Software Configuration Management

SCN:

Strategic Communication Network

SCOPE:

Share Cost Options for Private Employees

SCORE:

Service Corps of Retired Executives

SCP:

Secondary Communication Processors; Sole Community Provider

SCR:

Selective Catalytic Reduction

SCRAM:

State Consolidated RCRA Authorization Manual

SCRC:

Superfund Community Relations Coordinator

SCS:

Supplementary Control Strategy/System

SCSA:

Significant Change in Status Assessment; Soil Conservation Society of America

SCSI:

Small Computer System Interface

SCSP:

Storm and Combined Sewer Program

SCT:

Specialty Care Transport

SCW:

Supercritical Water Oxidation

SDA:

Software Design Activity; System Design Alternatives

SDB:

Small &Disadvantaged Business; Small Disadvantage Business

SDBU:

Small &Disadvantaged Business Utilization

SDC:

Secondary Diagnostic Category; Service Development Center (under MOSES contract); Systems Decision Plan

SDD:

Software Design & Development

SDF:

Standard Deviation Factor

SDLC:

System Development Life Cycle

SDM:

Structured Development (or Design) Methodology

SDM/S:

Systems Development Methodology / Structured

SDO:

Servicing District Office (SSA); Standards Development Organization; System Design Overview

SDP:

Service Delivery Point; Single Drug Pricer

SDPS:

(PRO) Standard Data Processing System

SDR:

System Design Review

SDWA:

Safe Drinking Water Act

SDWIS:

Safe Drinking Water Information System

SDX:

State Data Exchange

SEA:

State Enforcement Agreement; State/EPA Agreement

SEALP:

Search Alpha Program (Beneficiary Alpha Match/Reinstate) (HASEALP); State Agency Evaluation Program

SEAM:

Surface, Environment, and Mining

SEAS:

Strategic Environmental Assessment System

SEC:

(U.S.) Securities & Exchange Commission; Securities and Exchange Commission

SEDS:

State Energy Data System

SEE:

Senior Environmental Enrollee Program

SEER:

Surveillance, Epidemiology & End Results (Program)

SEF:

Separated Employee File; Software Engineering Facility

SEGIP:

State Environmental Goals and Improvement Project

SEI:

Software Engineering Institute

SEIA:

Socioeconomic Impact Analysis

SEI-CMM:

Software Engineering Institute Capability Maturity Model

SEIU:

Software Engineering Institute Union

SELF:

(HHS) Secretary's Executive Leadership Forum

SEM:

Standard Error of the Means

SEMS:

Security Management System

SEP:

Single Entry Point; Special Election Period; Special Enrollment Period; Standard Evaluation Procedures; Supplementary Environmental Project

SEPG:

Software Engineering Process Group

SEPSC:

Southeastern Program Service Center, SSA

SEPWC:

Senate Environment and Public Works Committee

SER:

Scientific, Engineering & Research; Summary Earnings Record

SERC:

State Emergency Planning Commission

SES:

Secondary Emissions Standard; Standards Enforcement Software; System External Specifications

SET:

Secure Electronic Transaction; Software Engineering Technology

SETAC:

Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

SETS:

Site Enforcement Tracking System

SEX:

Sorted Exceptions (HDSEX)

SF:

Standard Form; Standard Form; Superfund

SF-36:

Medical Outcomes Study 36 Item Short Form Health Survey

SFA:

Spectral Flame Analyzers

SFDS:

Sanitary Facility Data System

SFFAS:

Statement of Federal Financial Accounting Standards; Superfund Financial Assessment System

SFI:

Statement of Financial Information

SFIP:

Sector Facility Indexing Project

SFIREG:

State FIFRA Issues Research and Evaluation Group

SFO:

Servicing Finance Office; Solicitation for Offers (contract)

SFRO:

SanFrancisco Regional Office

SFS:

State Funding Study

SFTP:

Secure File Transfer Protocol

SG:

Surgeon General

SGA:

Substantial Gainful Activity

SGF:

State Guaranty Funds

SGL:

Standard General Ledger; U.S. Government Standard General Ledger

SH:

Systems Handbook

SHA:

Secure Hash Standard

SHC:

Select Health Care

SHCC:

State Health Coordinating Council

SHI:

Supplemental Health Insurance

SHINE:

Serving Health Information Needs of Elders

SHIP:

(AFGE) Supplemental Health Insurance Plan; (Medicare) Supplemental Health Insurance Programs; Senior Health Insurance Program; State Health Insurance Assistance Program

SHMO:

Social Health Maintenance Organization

SHN:

State Health Notes

SHORTZ:

Short Term Terrain Model

SHPDA:

State Health Planning & Development Agency

SHRM:

Society for Human Resource Management

SHS:

Society for Health Systems

SHTIP:

Secure Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

SHWL:

Seasonal High Water Level

SI:

International System of Units; Site Inspection; Surveillance Index; Spark Ignition; Single Intermediary; System Integrator; Systems Inventory

SIC:

(DOL, BLS) Standard Industrial Classification; Special Indicator Code; Standard Industrial Classification; Standard Industrial Code (replaced by the NAICS); State Insurance Commission

SICE:

Social Insurance Claims Examiner

SICEA:

Steel Industry Compliance Extension Act

SID:

(Supplemental) Security Income Data; Special Income Deduction

SIED:

(Supplemental) Security Income Entitlement Date

SIFT:

Security Income file Type

SIG:

Special Interest Group; Special Interest Groups

SIGCAT:

Special Interest Group CDROM Applications & Technology

SIGOMET:

Special Interest Group on Optical Media in Education & Training

SII:

Security/Suitability Investigation Index

SIM:

Society for Information Management

SIMS:

Secondary Ion-Mass Spectrometry; Standard Information Management System

SIN:

Special Item Number

SIP:

State Implementation Plan

SIPP:

Systems Issues, Policies & Procedures (nee HIPP, BIPP)

SIR:

(Carrier) System Improvement Request; System Implementation Roadmap

SIRLIB:

(change control for M204 user language programs software)

SIRMO:

Senior Information Resources Management Official

SIRMON:

(M204 performance monitoring & operational control tool software)

SIRT:

Security Incident Response Team

SIS:

Strategic Information Strategy; System Internal Specifications

SISC:

(Supplemental) Security Income Status Code

SISSO:

Senior Information Systems Security Officer

SITE:

Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation

SITES:

Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service

SLA:

Service Level Agreements; Service Level Agreements Attainment

SLAE:

State & Local Administration Expenditure

SLAMS:

Second Level Appeals Management System; State/Local Air Monitoring Station

SLE:

Single Loss Expectancy

SLIAG:

State Legislation Impact Assistance Grants

SLIM:

Software Life Cycle Maintenance

SLIMB:

Specified LowIncome Medicare Beneficiary

SLIP-A:

Supplemental Low Income Patient Adjustment

SLM:

Service Level Metrics

SLMB:

(see SLIMB); Special Low-Income Beneficiaries; Specified Low-income Medicare Beneficiary

SLN:

Special Local Need

SLSM:

Simple Line Source Model

SM:

Site Manager; System Manager

SMART:

Simple Maintenance of ARTS; System for MSP Automated Recovery & Tracking

SMCL:

Secondary Maximum Contaminant Level

SMCRA:

Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act

SMDA:

State Medicaid Directors Association

SME:

Subject Matter Expert

SMF:

System Measurement Facility; Systems Management Facility

SMG:

State Medicaid Group

SMI:

Standardized Medreview Instrument; Supplementary Medical Insurance (Part B of Medicare)

SMIB:

Supplementary Medical Insurance (also Part B)

S-MIME:

Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

SMIRK:

SOBER Miscellaneous Input Record

SMIS:

Safety Management Information System

SML:

Solicitation Mailing List

SMM:

State Medicaid Manual

SMO:

Sample Management Office; Sample Management Office (CLP contract)

SMOA:

Superfund Memorandum of Agreement

SMP:

Special Needs Plan; State Management Plan; System Modernization Program

SMQC:

System for Monitoring Quality of Care

SMR:

Standardized Mortality Ratio

SMRF:

State Medicaid Research Files (aka SMURF)

SMS:

Shared Maintenance System; Storage Management System; System Managed Software; System Managed Storage; Systems Management Specialist

SMS/SPS:

Shared Maintenance System / Shared Processing System

SMSA:

Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area

SMTP:

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SMURF:

State Medicaid Uniform Research File (aka SMRF)

SNA:

System Network Architecture

SNAAQS:

Secondary National Ambient Air Quality Standards

SNAP:

Significant New Alternatives Project; Significant Noncompliance Action Program; Standard National Accounting Program (BC/BS)

SNARL:

Suggested No Adverse Response Level

SNC:

Significant Noncompliers; Skilled Nursing Care

SNCRIS:

Skilled Nursing Cost Reporting Information System

SNCT:

Sensory Nerve Conduction Threshold

SNF:

Skilled Nursing Facility

SNFMDS:

SNF Minimum Data Set

SNI:

System Network Interface

SNIP:

Strategic National Implementation Process

SNMA:

Student National Medical Association

SNSP:

Safety Net Surveillance Project

SNUR:

Significant New Use Rule

SO:

Successful Offerer

SO²:

Sulfur Dioxide

SOB:

Shortness of breath; Statement of Benefits

SOC:

Start of Care; SubObject (Classification) Code; Synthetic Organic Chemicals

SOCMI:

Synthetic Organic Chemicals Manufacturing Industry

SOCO:

Southeastern Consortium (Atlanta & Dallas HIROs)

SOD:

Superintendent of Documents

SOFARS:

U.S. Special Operations Command Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement

SOFC:

Solid Oxide Fuel Cell

SOI:

Statement of Intent

SOL:

Solicitation

SOM:

SOBER Operating Month (DOE 1 or COM +1) (OBSOLETE); State Operations Manual

SON:

Submitting Office Number

SOP:

Standard Operating Procedure; Standard Operating Procedures; Status of Provider; Style of Practice

SOR:

(Carrier) Section Operating Report; System of Record

SORCES:

Service Office Record Computer Entry System (MTS)

SORS:

Systems of Records

SORT:

Seniors Organized to Restore Trust

SOTDAT:

Source Test Data

SOU:

Statement of Understanding

SOW:

Scope of Work; Statement of Work

SP:

Sample Persons; Special Project; Standard of Performance; Systems Performance

SPA:

State Plan Amendment

SPAC:

SMI Premium Amount Collectable (MBR / BCM)

SPACE:

SMI Premium Accounting, Collection & Enrollment (System)

SPACEX:

SPACE Exceptions

SPAMS:

Small Purchase Automated Management System

SPAP:

State Pharmaceutical Assistance Program

SPAR:

Status of Permit Application Report

SPARC:

Stroke Prevention Awareness Recognition Campaign

SPARCS:

Statewide Planning & Research Cooperative System

SPAS:

State Plan Amendment System

SPAW:

State Plan Amendment Waiver

SPBA:

Society of Professional Benefit Administrators

SPC:

State Program Characteristics; Supervisory Project Coordinator

SPCC:

Spill Prevention, Containment, and Countermeasure

SPD:

Standard Position Description; Summary Plan Description

SPDATA:

State Profile Data System

SPE:

Secondary Particulate Emissions

SPECT:

Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography

SPECTRUM:

State Performance Evaluation & Comprehensive Test of Reimbursement Under Medicaid

SPEDI:

Small Purchase Electronic Data Interchange

SPF:

Sequential Processing Facility; Structured Programming Facility

SPH:

Shared Processing Host

SPI:

Software Process Improvement; Strategic Planning Initiative

SPIDER:

System to Provide Immediate Data on Eligibility for Reimbursement (now CWF)

SPIES:

Shared Project & Information Exchange System

SPIN:

Standard Prescriber Identification; Supplier Profile Identification Number

SPLMD:

Soil-pore Liquid Monitoring Device

SPMS:

Storage Products Management System; Strategic Planning and Management System; Special Purpose Monitoring Stations

SPO:

Self Protection Organization (CD); Servicing Personnel Office

SPOC:

Single Point of Contact; Single Point of Contact (now CSCC)

SPOE:

Secure Point of Entry

SPOF:

Single Point of Failure

SPP:

Select Provider Program; SMI Premium Penalty

SPPS:

State Plan Profile System

SPR:

Safeguard Procedures Report; Standard Paper Remittances; Systems Performance Review

SPRDRS:

SPR Data Reporting System

SPRY:

Setting Priorities for Retirement Years

SPS:

Schedule of Providers Serviced; Standard Procurement System (DoD, aka pd2); State Permit System

SPSP:

State Payment of SMI Penalty

SPSS:

Statistical Package for the Social Sciences

SPUR:

Software Package for Unique Reports

SQA:

Software Quality Assurance

SQBE:

Small Quantity Burner Exemption

SQG:

Small Quantity Generator

SQIG:

Supplier Quality Information Group

SQL:

Structured (or System) Query Language

SQRD:

Monthly Sequential Read Program (HDSQRD)

SR:

Service Representative (SSA); Service Request; Special Review; Systems Requirements

SRA:

Significant Regulatory Actions; Systems Research Associates

SRAP:

Superfund Remedial Accomplishment Plan

SRC:

Solvent-Refined Coal; Status Report Coordinator

SRD:

Systems Requirements Definition; Systems Requirements Design; Systems Requirements Document

SRF:

State Revolving Fund

SRM:

Standard Reference Method

SRMC:

Statistical Report Medicaid Services

SRMS:

Statistical Report (HCFA2082) on Medicaid Services System

SRO:

Senior Resource Official

SRP:

Special Review Procedure

SRR:

Second Round Review; Submission Review Record

SRRPOD:

Superfund/RCRA Regional Procurement Operations Division

SRS:

Social & Rehabilitation Service

SRTS:

Service Request Tracking System

SS:

Seconds (i.e., ssmmddyyyy); Sequential Search; Settleable Solids; Superfund Surcharge; Suspended Solids; Shared Systems; Short Stay; Social Security; Standard Systems

SS1:

Selective Signaling (Equipment)

SSA:

1) Source Selection Authority (2) Substantially the same as; Social Security Act; Social Security Administration; Sole Source Aquifer; State Survey Agency; Systems Security Assessment

SSAC:

Soil Site Assimilated Capacity; Source Selection Authority Committee

SSACCS:

SSA Claims Control System

SSADO:

Social Security Administration District Office

SSAFO:

Social Security Administration Field Office

SSARA:

SSA Reform Act of 1994 (establishes SSA as independent agency)

SSB:

Social Security Board (now SSA)

SSC:

Standard Source Code; State Superfund Contracts; Systems Security Coordinator

SSD:

(GSA) Standard Solicitation Document; Standards Support Document

SSDI:

Social Security Disability Insurance

SSEB:

Source Selection Evaluation Board

SSEIS:

Standard Support and Environmental Impact Statement; Stationary Source Emissions and Inventory System

SSG:

Staffing Support Group; Standard Systems Group

SSH:

Short Stay Hospital

SSI:

Size Selective Inlet; Supplemental Security Income; Supplemental Security Income Program

SSIDUP:

SSI Duplicate Payment

SSIPML:

Second State Issuing Professional Medical License

SSL:

Secure Sockets Layer

SSM:

Standard System Maintainers; Sterling Space Monitor

SSMP:

Systems Security Management Program

SSMS:

Spark Source Mass Spectrometry

SSN:

Social Security Number

SSO:

Sanitary Sewer Overflow; Source Selection Official; Social Security Office (also DO); System Security Officer; Systems Security Officer

SSOP:

Second Surgical Opinion Program

SSP:

State Supplemental Payments; System Security Plan

SSPM:

System Security Plan Methodology

SSPML:

Second State Professional Medical License

SSR:

Social Security Rulings; Supplemental Security Income Record

SSRB:

Source Selection Review Board

SSRP:

Source Reduction Review Project

SSS:

Selective Service System; Senior Scientist Service

SSSA:

Senior Systems Security Advisor

SSSGS:

Similarly Sized Subscriber Groups

SST:

Supplemental Systems Test

SSTS:

Section Seven Tracking System

SSURO:

Stop Sale, Use and Removal Order

STAG:

System Technical Advisory Group (aka STAG)

STALAPCO:

State and Local Air-Pollution Control Officials

STAPE:

Short Format State Magnetic Tape File (HIM)

STAPPA:

State and Territorial Air Pollution

STAR:

(Medicaid) Systems Test for Alternative Reimbursement; Stability Wind Rose; State Acid Rain Projects; Standard Administrative Reporting; System for Tracking Audit & Reimbursement

STARS:

Strategic Targeted Activities for Results System

START:

Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty

Stat:

United States Statutes at Large

STD:

ShortTerm Disability

STEL:

Short Term Exposure Limit

STEM:

Scanning Transmission-Electron Microscope

STM:

Staff Time Measure

STN:

Scientific and Technical Information Network

STORET:

Storage and Retrieval of Water-Related Data

STP:

Satellite Ticket Printer; Sewage Treatment Plant; Standard Temperature and Pressure

STROBE:

(Performance Management System application monitoring tool)

STS:

Safety Tracking System

STTF:

Small Town Task Force (EPA)

STU:

System Testing Unit

STX:

Start of Text

SUBC:

State Uniform Billing Committee

SUEI:

Standard Unique Employer Identifier (HCFA0047F) (aka EIN)

SUL:

Standard User Label

SUP:

Standard Unit of Processing

SUR:

Surveillance & Utilization Review (aka S/UR)

SURE:

Sulfate Regional Experiment Program

SURS:

Surveillance & Utilization Review Subsystem (S/URS)

SUT:

System User Test

SV:

Sampling Visit; Significant Violater

SVC:

Supervisor Call

SVCS:

Services

SVES:

State Verification & Exchange System (SSA)

SVRS:

Statistically Valid Random Sample

SW:

Slow Wave; Step Weight

SW/T:

Structured Walkthrough

SWAP:

Source Water Assessment Program

SWARF:

Waste from Metal Grinding Process

SWAT:

Specialized Work Action Team

SWBI:

State Welfare BuyIn Enrollment Profile System

SWC:

Settlement With Conditions

SW-CMM:

Software - Capability Maturity Model; Software Development Capability Maturity Model

SWDA:

Solid Waste Disposal Act

SWICA:

State Wage Information Collection Agency

SWIE:

Southern Waste Information Exchange

SWMU:

Solid Waste Management Unit

SWPA:

Source Water Protection Area

SWQPPP:

Source Water Quality Protection Partnership Petitions

SWTR:

Surface Water Treatment Rule

SYS:

OCO systems support application system code

SYSOP:

Systems Operator