Guidance for Planning, Design, and Operations of Airport Communications Centers (2018)

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148 Guidance for Planning, Design, and Operations of Airport Communications Centers HSA Homeland Security Act of 2002 (Public Law 107.296 §301, 116 Stat. 2135/2163 (2002). Public law that provides a framework to coordinate federal government civilian efforts. HVAC Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning Hz Cycles per second ICAO International Civil Aviation Organization ICP Incident Command Post. The field location where the primary command functions during an incident are performed. The ICP may be co-located with other incident facilities or may be mobile. IROPS Irregular Operations at airports IT Information Technology JOC Joint Operations Center. The JOC combines the functions of various other operations centers (e.g., AOC and SOC) into one integrated system. A JOC could be accomplished physically by co- locating an AOC and SOC in the same location or through a virtual linkage on a common platform. LAN Local Area Network LCD Liquid Crystal Display LDCS Local departure control systems LMR Land Mobile Radio MB Megabytes (millions of bytes) MHz Megahertz Mission creep The gradual broadening/expanding of the original objectives of a mission or organization. MTBF Mean-Time-Between-Failure MUBIDS Multi-User Baggage Information Display System MUFIDS Multi-User Flight Information Display System NCIC National Crime Information Center. A computerized index of criminal justice information (e.g., criminal record information, fugitives, stolen properties, and missing persons) available to federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies.

Glossary of Terms & Acronyms 149 NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology; U.S. Department of Commerce; a primary standards development and issuance body. Noise Random spurts of interference NOC Network Operations Center NTSC National Television System Committee. Formulated the standard of broadcasting color television in the U.S. and Japan: 525 lines of resolution at 60 fields per second, 30 frames per second. NVR Network Video Recorder. A networked device for capturing digitally encoded video streams transmitted over the network, storing the video streams, and accessing stored video for viewing. OSI Open Systems Interconnection model OT Operational Testing PACS Physical Access Control System PIDS Perimeter Intrusion-Detection System PSAP Public Safety Answering Point. An airport PSAP can serve as the focal point for 911 emergency call center service to a larger geographic area outside its fence, receiving and processing emergency calls and event notifications for a specific area. These facilities dispatch public safety personnel such as police, fire, and EMS. PSFA The Public Safety Foundation of America PTZ Pan-Tilt-Zoom. A type of surveillance camera PSIM Physical Security Information Management system QoS Quality of Service RECC Regional Emergency Communications Coordination Resolution A measure of the ability of a camera, recorder, or monitor to reproduce detail. The bandwidth of the video signal relating to amount of detail that determines the quality of the picture. RFID Radio Frequency Identification. The wireless non-contact use of radio-frequency electromagnetic fields to transfer data, for automatically identifying and tracking tags attached to objects. ROM Rough order of magnitude