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Federal Information Processing Standard

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A standard for adoption and use by federal departments and agencies that has been developed within the Information Technology Laboratory and published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a part of the U.S. Department of Commerce. A FIPS covers some topic in information technology in order to achieve a common level of quality or some level of interoperability.

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Attested in

NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 - Protecting CUI in Nonfederal Systems6 citations · 6 defined by this document · observed 2026-09-01 under anchor/0.9/36451/2026-09-01
03.13.11 ¶ 23.2.1 ¶ 173.2.1 ¶ 183.2.2 ¶ 583.2.2 ¶ 593.2.2 ¶ 126

Classifications

Entity Type

Framework0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1

Sensitivity

Regulated90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Information Class

Cui70%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Variants

acronym
FIPS
plural
Federal Information Processing Standards
possessive
Federal Information Processing Standard's
pluralpossessive
Federal Information Processing Standards'

Framework definitions

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 21 senseview framework →
§1
A standard for adoption and use by federal departments and agencies that has been developed within the Information Technology Laboratory and published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a part of the U.S. Department of Commerce. A FIPS covers some topic in information technology in order to achieve a common level of quality or some level of interoperability.
FIPS PUB 2011 senseview framework →
§1
A standard for adoption and use by federal departments and agencies that has been developed within the Information Technology Laboratory and published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a part of the U.S. Department of Commerce. A FIPS covers some topic in information technology in order to achieve a common level of quality or some level of interoperability.
NIST SP 800-172r31 senseview framework →
§1 · acronym list
FIPS: Federal Information Processing Standards
Attribution from the CKI glossary mapping stage (acronym list)
NIST SP 800-171r31 senseview framework →
§1 · acronym list
FIPS: Federal Information Processing Standards
Attribution from the CKI glossary mapping stage (acronym list)
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
A standard for adoption and use by federal departments and agencies that has been developed within the Information Technology Laboratory and published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a part of the U.S. Department of Commerce. A FIPS covers some topic in information technology in order to achieve a common level of quality or some level of interoperability.
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