Acronym List

AES - Advanced Encryption Standard

APPN - Advanced Peer to Peer Network

CICS - Customer Information Control System

Conduent, Inc – UI-ICON Contractor

CWC - Combined Wage Claim

DDBI - Distributed Data Base Index

DFEC – Division of Federal Employee Compensation

DISA - Data Interchange Standards Association

DOL – United States Department of Labor

DPRIS - Defense Personnel Records Information System

DRO PVC - Disaster Recovery Option Permanent Virtual Circuit

EE - Enterprise Extender Equifax – Employment Services Company for Employment Verification

ETA – Employment and Training Administration

FECA – Federal Employees Compensation Act

FCCC - Federal Claims Control Center

FISMA - Federal Information Security Management Act

GAO – Government Accounting Office

HCTC - Health Coverage Tax Credit

IB - Interstate Benefits

IBIQ - Interstate Benefits InQuiry

IB1 - Initial Interstate Claims Data

IB4 - Request Wage Transfer Data

IB4R - Response Wage Transfer Data

IB5 - Determination of Combined Wage Claim (CWC)

IB6 - Quarterly CWC Charge Data

IB13 - Free-Form Memorandum

IB14 - reconsideration on a combined wage claim when the claimant disagrees with the monetary determination or wage transfer.

INS/SAVE - Immigration Naturalization Services/Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlement

INSW - Interstate System Wide: general data maintenance software required for the IB Delivery Transactions

ITSC - Information Technology Support Center

LADT - Liable/Agent Data Transfer

OIG - Office of the Inspector General

MPLS - Multi-Protocol Label Switching

MSDES - Military/State Data Exchange System

NASWA - National Association of Workforce Agencies

NIST - National Institute of Standards and Technology

OWCP – Office of Workers’ Compensation Program

SDC - Southeast Data Center (Blythewood, SC)

SID - State Identification Inquiry

SID SCO – SID Claim and Overpayment Monthly File

SNA - Systems Network Architecture

SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol

SSA - Social Security Administration

SSL - Secure Sockets Layer Protocol

SWA - State Workforce Agency

SWIS - State Wage Interchange System

TALX - Employment Services Company for Employment Verification

TEN - Training and Employment Notice

TLS – Transport Layer Security

UCFE - Unemployment Compensation for Federal Employees Application

UCX - Unemployment Compensation for eX-military

UIDBMS – Unemployment Insurance Database Management System

UI-ICON - Unemployment Insurance-Interstate Connection Network

UIPL – Unemployment Insurance Program Letter

UIQ - Unemployment Insurance Query

USPS – United States Postal Service

VPN - Virtual Private Network

VTAM - Virtual Telecommunications Access Method

WIC2 - Withdrawal/Invalid Claim

WRIS and WRIS2 - Wage Record Interchange System

WSDL - Web Service Design Language

XML - eXtensible Markup Language