HAL-1
Handicapped Assistance Loan; Small Business Administration
This glossary includes terms, acronyms, and definitions used by National Industries for the Blind (NIB) and its associated agencies. It is organized alphabetically and includes a linked table of contents for ease of navigation. Hold the control key and click the Table of Contents entry to navigate.
Terms starting with H
HASC
House Armed Services Committee
HAYSTACK
A Defense Department report showing contract and sales history for individual National Stock Numbers (NSNs).
HAZMAT
Hazardous Material; A Hazmat Base Supply Center is one that sells certain hazardous materials and pharmaceutical products.
HELP Committee
Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee that has jurisdiction over the JWOD Act
HHS
Department of Health and Human Services
HKI
Helen Keller International
HKNC
Helen Keller National Center for DeafBlind Youths and Adults
HSGAC
Homeland Security and Government Affairs; Senate committee with jurisdiction over AbilityOne.
HUB System
A system used to capture point-of-service data from base supply centers (BSCs); software developed by a third-party vendor who is also under contract to act as a middleman to collect data from the BSCs and provide gross results and NSN-specific data to NIB; less than 50 percent of the BSCs are supported by the HUB System.
HUBZone
Qualified small business located in a Historically Under-Utilized Business Zone
HUD
Department of Housing and Urban Development