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Topics: FIPS Place Code, FIPS State Code, FIPS County Code, FIPS 140 2...

FIPSFIPS could mean Federal Information Processing Standard, publicly announced standards developed by the U. Federal government. FIPS, a computer program for splitting harddisk partitions.FIPS place codeFIPS place codes are a U. Federal Information Processing Standard for geographic coding of human settlements in the United States. They are used in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and are also used in this encyclopedia. Please note that FIPS codes aFIPS state codeA two-digit Federal Information Processing Standard FIPS code (FIPS 5-2) uniquely identifies a state, territory, or commonwealth within or of the U. These codes are used by the U. Census Bureau, and in the Emergency Alert System, and were assigned by NIST
FIPS county codeFIPS county codes are a Federal Information Processing Standard for five-digit codes used to uniquely identify counties and county equivalents in the United States, certain U. possessions, and certain freely associated states. The first two digits are theFIPS 140-2FIPS 140-2 F ederal I nformation P rocessing S tandard (FIPS) Publication 140-2 (2001) The Cryptographic Module Validation Program was established by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Communications Security Establishment of thFIPS (computer program)FIPS is a DOS program for non-destructive splitting of harddisk partitions. Splitting partitions is an alternative to deleting and then creating new partitions using for example fdisk. FIPS is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License (
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