1) The DoD Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process (DIACAP) is the United States Department of Defense (DoD) process to ensure that risk management is applied on Information Systems from an enterprise view. DIACAP is a DoD-wide standard set of activities, tasks and process for the certification and accreditation of a DoD information system that will maintain the Information Assurance posture throughout the system's life cycle.

The Department of Defense Information Technology Security Certification and Accreditation Process (DITSCAP) is a process defined by the United States Department of Defense (DOD) for managing risk. DoD Instruction (DODI) 5200.40 establishes a standard DOD-wide process with a set of activities, general tasks and a management structure to certify and accredit an Automated Information System (AIS) that will maintain the Information Assurance (IA) posture of the Defense Information Infrastructure (DII) throughout the system's life cycle. DITSCAP applies to the acquisition, operation and sustainment of any DOD system that collects, stores, transmits, or processes unclassified or classified information since December 1997.

2) The Director of Central Intelligence Directive (DCID) 6/3 establishes the security policy and procedures for storing, processing, and communicating classified intelligence data in information systems. To achieve compliance with DCID 6/3, agencies must ensure that information is safeguarded at all times and that appropriate security measures are in place to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of that information.

3) It’s the process for implementing any formal process. It is a systematic procedure for evaluating describing testing and authorizing systems or activities prior to or after a systems are in operation.

DISN: defense information system network
GIG: global information grid
PAA: program activity architecture
DAA: digital/analog/analog, designated approving authority
DISA: defense information systems agency

4) Is the worldwide industrial complex that enables research and development, as well as design, production, delivery, and maintenance of military weapon systems, subsystems, and components or parts, to meet U.S. military requirements

5) DIASCAP

6) It requires all individuals possessing pillaged access to a DoD information system to be properly trained and certified in the secure operation of a computer system used throughout the DoD’s global information grid.

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