The following table contains definitions for frequently used acronyms related to the processing of warrant and disposition records. Where appropriate, links to websites containing additional information are included.
| Acronym | Name |
| ACA | American Correctional Association |
| ACH | Automated Clearing House |
| ACS | Automated Case Support or Automated Casefile System |
| AES | Advanced Encryption Standard |
| AFIS | Automated Fingerprint Identification System |
| AFIT | Advanced Fingerprint Identification Technology |
| a-id | Automatic IDs |
| ANS | Alert and Notification System |
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
| APA | Association of Prosecuting Attorneys |
| AOC | Administrative Office of the Courts |
| APB (or CJIS APB) | Advisory Policy Board (of the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services Division) |
| APPA | American Probation and Parole Association |
| ATF | Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives |
| ATIX | Automated Trusted Information Exchange |
| ATN | Arrest Tracking Number |
| BAM | Business Activity Monitoring |
| BJA | Bureau of Justice Assistance, U.S. DOJ BJA National Training and Technical Assistance Center (NTTAC) |
| BJS | Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. DOJ |
| BPEL | Business Process Execution Language |
| BPR | Business Process Re-engineering |
| CAD | Computer Aided Dispatch (or computer assisted dispatch) |
| CAP | Corrective Action Program |
| CC | National Crime Prevention and Privacy Compact Council (Compact Council) |
| CCH | Computerized Criminal History |
| CCJ | Conference of Chief Justices |
| CFR | Code of Federal Regulations (Annual Edition) |
| CHRI | Criminal History Record Information (as in CHRI system) |
| CITA | Crime Identification Technology Act |
| CJIS | Criminal Justice Information System or Criminal Justice Information Services |
| CJIS Division | FBI Criminal Justice Information Services Division |
| CJRI | Criminal Justice Records Information |
| CODIS | Combined DNA Information System, FBI |
| CONOPS | Concept of Operations |
| CORI | Criminal Offender Record Information Act (Massachusetts, MGL c. 6 s. 167-178B) |
| COSCA | Conference of State Court Administrators |
| COTS | Commercial-Of-The-Shelf, as in COTS software |
| CMS | Case Management System |
| CSA | Criminal Justice Information Systems Agency |
| DC | Drug Court |
| DCT | Data Collection Tool |
| DHS | U.S. Department of Homeland Security |
| DOC | Department/Deployment Operations Center or Department of Corrections |
| DOJ | U.S. Department of Justice |
| DPS | Department of Public Safety |
| EBTS | Electronic Biometric Transmissions Standard |
| eCFR | Electronic Code of Federal Regulations |
| EDI | Electronic Data Interchange |
| EFTS | Electronic Fingerprint Transmission Standard |
| EIN | Employee Identification Number |
| FBI | Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| FBI CJIS | FBI Criminal Justice Information Services Division |
| FIFS | Felon Identification for Firearms Sales |
| GAC | Global Advisory Committee |
| GFIPM | Global Federated Identity & Privilege Management (GFIPM.net) |
| GIST | Global Information Sharing Toolkit |
| GISWG | Global Infrastructure/Standards Working Group |
| GJXDD | Global Justice XML Data Dictionary |
| GJXDM | Global Justice XML Data Model |
| Global | Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative (Global) |
| GRA* | Global Reference Architecture (formerly referred to as JRA, Justice Reference Architecture) |
| GSC | Global Standards Council |
| GSP | Global Standards Package |
| GXSTF | Global XML Structure Task Force |
| HTML | Hypertext Markup Language |
| IACP | International Association of Chiefs of Police |
| IAFIS | Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System, FBI |
| IBIS | Integrated Biometric Identification System (hand-held fingerprinting) |
| IBR | Incident-based Reporting |
| ICJIS | Integrated Criminal Justice Information System |
| ID | Identification |
| IEPD | Information Exchange Package Documentation |
| III or "triple I" | Interstate Identification Index |
| IIR | Institute for Intergovernmental Research |
| IJIS | Integrated Justice Information Systems |
| IJIS Institute | Integrated Justice Information Systems Institute |
| ISE | Information Sharing Environment |
| ISO | International Organization for Standardization |
| ISS | Identification Services Subcommittee of the CJIS APB |
| IT | Information Technology |
| ITN | Incident Tracking Number |
| JAG | Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant |
| JIC | Justice Information Center |
| JIEM | Justice Information Exchange Model |
| JIPA | Justice Information Policy Assistance |
| JIS | Justice Information Sharing |
| JISP | Justice Information Sharing Practitioners Network |
| JMS | Jail Management System |
| JRA* | Justice Reference Architecture (now referred to as GRA, Global Reference Architecture) |
| JSC | Justice Standards Clearinghouse |
| JTF | Joint Task Force on Rap Sheet Standardization |
| JUSTNET | Justice Technology Information Network |
| JXDD | Global Justice XML Data Dictionary |
| JXDM | Global Justice XML Data Model |
| LAN | Local-area network |
| LEIS | Law Enforcement Information Sharing |
| LEO | Law Enforcement Online |
| LLIS | Lessons Learned Information Sharing (FEMA) |
| MAC | Multiagency coordination |
| MACS | Multiagency coordination systems |
| MHC | Mental Health Court |
| MNI | Master Name Index |
| MOA | Memorandum of Agreement |
| MOBIS | Mission Oriented Business Integrated Services |
| MOU | Memorandum of Understanding |
| MRD | Machine Readable Data |
| NACM | National Association for Court Management |
| NAJIS | National Association for Justice Information Systems |
| NARIP | NICS Act Record Improvement Program |
| NASCIO | National Association of State Chief Information Officers |
| NCHIP | National Criminal History Improvement Program, BJS |
| NCIC | National Crime Information Center, FBI |
| NCJRS | National Crime Justice Reference Service |
| NCSC | National Center for State Courts |
| NDAA | National District Attorneys Association |
| N-DEx | FBI's Law Enforcement National Data Exchange Initiative |
| NDR | Naming and Design Rules |
| NFF | National Fingerprint File |
| NGI | Next Generation Identification (FBI) |
| NGO | Non-Governmental Organization |
| NIAA | NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 (BJS web site) NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 (GovTrack - legislation) |
| NIBRS | National Incident-Based Reporting System |
| NICS | National Instant Criminal Background Check System |
| NIEM | National Information Exchange Model |
| NIJ | National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice |
| NIST | National Institute for Standards and Technology |
| NLETS | National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (now renamed "Niets, The International Justice & Public Safety Information Sharing Network") |
| NSA | National Sheriffs' Association |
| NSOPR | National Sex Offender Public Registry (BJA program provides one-step access to all states' sex offender registry information) |
| NSOR | National Sex Offender Registry |
| NTTAC | National Training and Technical Assistance Center (BJA site that facilitates the delivery of technical assistance and training) |
| OASIS | Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards |
| OCA | Office of Court Administration or Office of Congressional Affairs |
| OJJDP | Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention |
| OJP | Office of Justice Programs (office within U.S. Department of Justice that oversees Bureau of Justice Assistance, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, etc.) |
| OJP IT | Office of Justice Programs Information Technology Initiatives Web site |
| OOP | Object-oriented programming |
| ORI | Originating Agency Identifier (used by FBI to route NCIC and III messages) |
| OSCA | Office of the State Courts Administrator |
| OVC | Office of Victims of Crime |
| OVW | Office on Violence Against Women |
| PII | Personally Identifiable Information |
| PIN | Personal Identification Number |
| PM-ISE | Project Management Information Sharing Environment |
| POC | Point of Contact or Proof of Concept |
| R84 | Final Disposition Reporting Form |
| RISS | Regional Information Sharing Systems |
| RMS | Records Management System |
| RQI | Records Quality Index |
| SAML | Security Assertion Markup Layer |
| SCA | State Courts Administrator |
| SEARCH | The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics, SEARCH (formerly stood for System for the Electronic Analysis and Retrieval of Criminal Histories) |
| SID | State Identification Number |
| SME | Subject-matter expert |
| SOA | Service Oriented Architecture |
| SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol |
| SORNA | Sex Offender Registry and Notification Act |
| SRM | Service Reference Model |
| SSGT | Schema Subset Generation Tool |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer |
| STE | Secure Terminal Equipment |
| STT | Services Task Team |
| TCP/IP | Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol |
| TLS | Transport Layer Security |
| TRM | Technical Reference Model |
| UCR | Uniform Crime Reporting |
| USC | United States Code |
| WAN | Wide-area network |
| WPF | NCIC Wanted Person File |
| WS | Web Services |
| WSDL | Web Services Description Language |
| WS-I BSP | Web Services-I Basic Security Profile |
| WS-SIP | Web Services Service Interaction Profile |
| XMI | XML Metadata Interchange |
| XML | eXtensible Markup Language |
| XSTF | Global XML Structure Task Force |