AUTOMATED INFORMATION SYSTEM (AIS)

1. An assembly of computer hardware , software , firmware , or any combination of these, configured to accomplish specific information -handling operations, such as communication, computation, dissemination, processing, and storage of information. 2. [In INFOSEC,] any equipment or interconnected system or subsystems of equipment that is used in the automatic acquisition , storage, manipulation, management, movement, control, display, switching , interchange, transmission or reception of data and includes computer software, firmware, and hardware. Note: Included are computers, word processing systems, networks, or other electronic information handling systems, and associated equipment. [ NIS ]