Jargon of seemingly General MBA-ish nature existing in DOD-centric IT

BLUF: Stuff from my few years of Information Technology that's caught my ear and eye which I figure to those on the outside, would be categorized as jargon. It's far from all straight DOD, but some of the weirder ones are.

Last update: 30 Apr 2009

OOF

Not Enough Bandwidth / Don't have the Bandwidth

Pushback

It is what it is.

Work Life Balance

Run it up the Flagpole (and see who salutes)

 

Last update: 10 FEB 2006

offline

tracking

due-out

 

on the same page” or “on the same sheet of music”

proactive

keep you in the loop

up to speed

out of scope

OBE

COB

drop dead date

double edged sword

in front of the curve

[steep] learning curve

SWAG

BLUF

 

KISS

 

FYA

 

...lane...

More DOD-ish, Nomenclature

nit noid

down in the weeds

hand-jam or hand-gen

stand up

stir the pot

COA

Added 4/2008, from email dated 12/2006 with subject: acronyms and abbreviations dictionary