Federal Information Processing Standard
nounid
2570·updated Aug 28, 2026verified
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.
MWE
Attested in
NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 - Protecting CUI in Nonfederal Systems
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
- §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.
- §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.
- §1 · acronym list
- FIPS: Federal Information Processing StandardsAttribution from the CKI glossary mapping stage (acronym list)
- §1 · acronym list
- FIPS: Federal Information Processing StandardsAttribution from the CKI glossary mapping stage (acronym list)
- §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.DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
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