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IT Abbreviations & Acronyms: Comprehensive Glossary

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There are currently 116 acronyms in this directory beginning with the letter F.
F
FA
Flexible Automation
FACTA
Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act
FAQ
Frequently-Asked Questions
FAR
Federal Acquisition Regulation
FAS
Final Assembly Schedule
FASAB
Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board
FAT
File Allocation Table
FAWN
Fast Array Of Wimpy Nodes
FBE
Framework Based Environment
FC
Windows Azure Fabric Controller
FC-AL
Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop
FC-PGA
Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array
FCA
Flip Chip Assembly
FCAPS
Fault-Management, Configuration, Accounting, Performance, and Security
FCC
Federal Communications Commission
FCIA
Fibre Channel Industry Association
FCIP or FC/IP
Fibre Channel Over Ip
FCoE
Fibre Channel Over Ethernet
FCP
Finite Capacity Planning
FCR
First Call Resolution
FCRA
Fair Credit Reporting Act
FCS
Finite Capacity Scheduling
FDCC
Federal Desktop Core Configuration
FDDI
Fiber Distributed Data Interface
FDE
Full-Disk Encryption
FDI
Foreign Direct Investment
FDIC
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
FDM
Frequency-Division Multiplexing
FDMA
Frequency Division Multiple Access
FEC
Forward Error Correction
FECN/BECN
Forward Explicit Congestion Notification/Backward Explicit Congestion Notification
FED
Field Emission Display
FedRAMP
Federal Risk and Authorization Program
FedRAMP 3PAO
Third-Party Assessment organization
FEM
Finite Elements Method
FERC
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
FERPA
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act Of 1974
FET
Field-Effect Transistor
FFIEC compliance
Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council
FG-D
Feature Group D
FHA
Federal Health Architecture
FHIE
Federal Health Information Exchange
FI
Fast Infoset
FICON
Fiber Connectivity
FIFO
First In First Out
FIM
Federated Identity Management
FinCEN
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
FINRA
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
FiOS
Fiber Optic Service
FIP
Factory Information Protocol
FIPS
Federal Information Processing Standards
FIS
Factory Information System
FISMA
Federal Information Security Management Act
FIX protocol
Financial Information Exchange Protocol
FLOPS
Floating-Point Operations Per Second
FLSA
Fair Labor Standards Act
FLSM
Fixed-Length Subnet Mask
FLT
Fermat'S Last Theorem
FM
Frequency Modulation
FMAC
Flexible Mandatory Access Control
FMC
Fixed-Mobile Convergence
FME
Feature Manipulation Engine
FMEA
Failure Mode and Effective Analysis
FMP
Filemaker
FMS
Flexible Manufacturing System
FnR
Find and Replace
FOB
Fresh Out Of The Box
FOLED
Flexible organic Light Emitting Device
FOPE
Forefront Online Protection For Exchange
ForTRAN
Formula Translation
FOSS
Free and Open Source Software
FP
Finite Planning
FP&A
Financial Planning and Analysis
FPCA
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
FPDS
Federal Procurement Data System
FPGA
Field-Programmable Gate Array
FPI
Federal Prison Industries
FPM
Federated Presence Management
FPM DRAM
Fast Page Mode Dram
FPML
Financial Products Markup Language
FPP
Full Packaged Product
fps
Frames Per Second
fps system of units
Foot-Pound-Second System Of Units
FPU
Floating Point Unit
FQA
Frequently Questioned Answers
FQDN
Fully Qualified Domain Name
FRA
Federal Railroad Administration
FRAD
Frame Relay Access Device or Frame Relay Assembler/Dissembler
FRAM
Ferroelectric Ram
FRCP
Federal Rules Of Civil Procedure
FROG
Free Roaming On Grid
FRR
Fast Retransmit and Recovery
FRT
Future Reality Tree
FRU
Field Replaceable Units
FSAN
Full Services Access Network
FSB
Frontside Bus
FSF
Free Software Foundation
FSK
Frequency-Shift Keying
FSML
Financial Services Markup Language
FSO
Free-Space Optics
FSP
Full-Service Provider
FSRM
File Server Resource Manager
FTA
Federal Transit Authority
FTAM
File Transfer Access Method
FTC
Federal Trade Commission
FTP
File Transfer Protocol
FTP cable
Foil Screened Twisted Pair Cable
FTS file
Full-Text Search File
FTTC
Fiber To The Curb
FTTH
Fiber To The Home
FTTx
Fiber To The X
FUD
Fully Undetectable
FUN
Focus On User Needs
Fwbuilder
Firewall Builder
Fx3 or FF3
Firefox 3
FYI
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