Acronym for “Federal Information Processing Standards.” Standards that are publicly recognized by the U.S. Federal Government; also for use by non-government agencies and contractors.

Federal Information Processing Standards.

Federal Information Processing Standard

  Federal Information Processing Standard (Wikipedia)

Federal Information Processing Standards.

Federal Information Processing Standard.

FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) refers to US Government technical standards published by the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology). NIST develops FIPS when there are com [..]

Federal Information Processing Standard.

Federal Information Processing Standards

Federal Information Processing Standard; a set of standards from NIST.

Federal Information Processing Standards. Series of publications edited by NIST which US industrial norms concerning information processing and information security are specified. Further information [..]

Federal Information Processing Standards.

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Federal Information Processing Standard

Federal Information Processing Standards, a set of standard codes and formats for common data fields stored in federal databases.  NIST has more about FIPS.

Federal Information Processing Standards

A five-digit code assigned by the Federal Government to every county in the U.S. The first two digits identify the state and the next three digits signify the county. For example: 48439; 48 = TX, 439 [..]

Standards published by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology, after approval by the Dept. of Commerce; used as a guideline for federal procurements. 

Federal Information Processing Standards. These are encodings defined by the U.S. government and used to encode some data (like states and counties) in U.S. data sets. Listings can be found at the NIS [..]

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