[参考：http://www.nsrp.org/]
U.S. Navyの戦艦のコスト削減およびU.S.の造船業の世界的競争力確立のために、研究開発への造船業の出資に焦点を当て、MARITECH ASEをマネージ。DARPA、The U.S. Navy、The U.S. Department of Transportationと共同。
NWI
New Work Item
O&F
Outfit and Furnishings
PDES
Product Data Exchange using STEP
PDM
Product Data Management
PLCS
Product Life-Cycle Support. EuroSTEPがSTEP担当として参加。
[参考：http://www.plcsing.org]
PLIB
Parts LIBrary, ISO 13584
PLSPD
Parts Library (and STEP) for Shipbuilding Product Dataプロジェクト。PLSSPDプロジェクトとも言う。ECRCプログラムの技術開発活動の一部。US造船業のニーズに合った製品データ国際標準の開発を加速するのが目的。
[参考：http:/www.tda.ecrc.ctc.com/plsspd/home.html]
POA & M
Plan of Action and Milestones
POC
Point of contact (連絡先)
POSC/CAESAR
European Effort for Offshore APs
ProSTEP
German STEP consortium in the automotive industry
QA
Quality Assurance
RAM
Reliability, Availability and Maintainability
SC
Subcommittee
SCM
Ship Common Model
SDAI
STEP Data Access Interface
SEASPRITE
Software Architectures for Ship Product Data Integration and Exchange
SEDS
Standards Enhancement And Discrepancy System
SEMDM
Ship Equipment and Machinery Data Model
SGML
Standard Generalize Mark-up Language, ISO 8879: 1986
SIR
Survey, Inspection, Maintenance, Repair
SOLIS
SC4 On-Line Information Service
STEP
Standard for the Exchange of Product Model Data, ISO 10303
TAIM
Technical Asset Integrity Management
TBD
To Be Determined
TC
Technical Committee
UoF
Units of Functionality
US PRO
U.S. Product Data Association
XML
EXtensible Mark-up Language (Web data extensions to SGML)
WG
Working Group
