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An officer candidate school (OCS) is a military school which trains civilians and enlisted personnel in order for them to gain a commission as officers in the armed forces of a country. How OCS is run differs between countries and services. Typically, officer candidates have already attained post-secondary education, and sometimes a Bachelor's degree, and undergo a short duration of training (not more than a year) which focuses primarily on military skills and leadership. This is in contrast with a military academy which includes academic instruction leading to a bachelor's degree.

INFO: Full form for NSSC is Naval Sea Systems Command (non-standard) in Military and Defence category
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INFO: Full form for WOC is Wing Operations Center in Military and Defence category
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INFO: Full form for WOC is Warrant Officer Candidate in Military and Defence category
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A signature weapon or weapon of choice is a weapon commonly associated with a certain group or individual.

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INFO: Full form for CCIR is Commander Critical Information Requirement in Military and Defence category
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INFO: Full form for DRS is Deficiency Reporting System in Military and Defence category
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INFO: Full form for DRS is Detainee Reporting System in Military and Defence category
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INFO: Full form for DRS is Division Restructuring Study in Military and Defence category
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INFO: Full form for FBS is Fubar, But Stable in Military and Defence category
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INFO: Full form for FBS is Fast Beam Search in Military and Defence category
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INFO: Full form for FBS is Finance Battlefield System in Military and Defence category
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INFO: Full form for FBS is Fighter Bomber Squadron in Military and Defence category
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ACF2 (Access Control Facility 2) is a commercial, discretionary access control software security system developed for the MVS (z/OS today), VSE (z/VSE today) and VM (z/VM today) IBM mainframe operating systems by SKK, Inc. Barry Schrager, Eberhard Klemens, and Scott Krueger combined to develop ACF2 at London Life Insurance in London, Ontario in 1978. The "2" was added to the ACF2 name by Cambridge Systems (who had the North American marketing rights for the product) to differentiate it from the prototype, which was developed by Schrager and Klemens at the University of Illinois—the prototype name was ACF. The "2" also helped to distinguish the product from IBM's ACF/VTAM.

ACF2 was developed in response to IBM's RACF product (developed in 1976), which was IBM's answer to the 1974 SHARE Security and Data Management project's requirement whitepaper. ACF2's design was guided by these requirements, taking a resource-rule oriented approach. Unique to ACF2 were the concepts of "Protection by Default" and resource pattern masking.

As a result of the competitive tension between RACF and ACF2, IBM matured the SAF (Security Access Facility) interface in MVS (now z/OS), which allowed any security product to process operating system ("OS"), third-party software and application security calls, enabling the mainframe to secure all facets of mainframe operations.

SKK and ACF2 were sold to UCCEL Corporation in 1986, which in turn was purchased by Computer Associates International, Inc. in 1987. Broadcom Inc. now (2019) markets ACF2 as CA ACF2.

INFO: Full form for ACF is Air Contingency Force in Military and Defence category
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INFO: Full form for ACF is Airlift Clearance File in Military and Defence category
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INFO: Full form for CCW is United Nations Convention On Conventional Weapons of 1980 in Military and Defence category
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