Crossword: Why spell it out?
ACROSS
3. Brooks Act term
5. FirstGov's caretaker
8. Internet's predecessor
9. It wants out of domain biz
11. Good for poker or e-sigs
13. Defense association
15. CIA precursor
16. Navy's IT group
18. Shrink-wrapped
20. DISN's predecessor
23. Clinger-Cohen Act
24.Uncle Sam's healthy group
25.What a POW is
26.'Woodsy' Republican organization
27. Net's basic protocol
30. Storage or attack
32. SEC filing system
35. Synchronous memory
39.Former big-time protestforum
42.Agency focused on aliens
45.'50s horror film or development unit
47. Kit to deploy fault-tolerant systems
48. Old-style computing identifier
50. Federal credit card
52. Supercomputer computation count
54.App to control versions
55.It serves up apps
56.Capital computing expo
57.Zap protector
DOWN
1.Design term or bounder
2.Satellite organization
4.GSA's local-comm program
5. You're reading it
6.'She's' an embedded language
7.Defense satellite network
9. Taxing agency
10.Unclassified DOD network
12. Preferred to floppies
13. Early simple language
14. Overseas State official
17. Mark or scanning standard
19. Web's main language
21. Net lingo for 'Oh, I see'
22.Defense R&D shop
23.Net services vendor
24.Gore group or public radio
29.Storage technique or sneeze inducer
29.IT vendor group
31.Link between apps
33.'Rumor' or open systems standard
34.Hill budget analyzer
35.Statistician's language
36.Solicitation
37. Musical file format
38. Transfer rate, in thousands
40. Software pirate seeker
41. Law requiring three-bid review
43. Group for executive bureaucrats
44. Long way or buying regs
46. Not curricula vitae
49. Distributed environments standard
51. Computer's heart
52. Post-ADP, pre-IT term
53. Pre-Palm organizer