NICS
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NICS is a four-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, such as:
- Network of International Christian SchoolsNetwork of International Christian SchoolsThe Network of International Christian Schools is an organization that consists of 17 schools located in 13 different countries in Asia, Africa, South America, and includes an online school in North America...
- National Instant Criminal Background Check System in the United StatesUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
- Northern Ireland Civil ServiceNorthern Ireland Civil ServiceThe Northern Ireland Civil Service is the permanent bureaucracy of Crown employees that supports the Northern Ireland Executive, the devolved government of Northern Ireland....
in Northern IrelandNorthern IrelandNorthern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west... - Nucleus-independent chemical shift
- National InsuranceNational InsuranceNational Insurance in the United Kingdom was initially a contributory system of insurance against illness and unemployment, and later also provided retirement pensions and other benefits...
Contributions (NICs) in the United KingdomUnited KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages... - Newly Industrialized Countries
- National Institute for Computational SciencesNational Institute for Computational SciencesThe National Institute for Computational Sciences is funded by the National Science Foundation and managed by the University of Tennessee. NICS is home to Kraken, the most powerful computer in the world managed by academia and the world's fourth overall most powerful supercomputer...
, a supercomputing center at Oak Ridge National LaboratoryOak Ridge National LaboratoryOak Ridge National Laboratory is a multiprogram science and technology national laboratory managed for the United States Department of Energy by UT-Battelle. ORNL is the DOE's largest science and energy laboratory. ORNL is located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, near Knoxville... - Neo Institute of Computer Science in the Bangalore, India
- Next-Generation Incident Command System, a software system developed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory in partnership with the California Department of Forestry and Fire ProtectionCalifornia Department of Forestry and Fire ProtectionThe California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection is the State of California's agency responsible for fire protection in State Responsibility Areas of California as well as the administration of the state's private and public forests. It is often referred to as The California Department of...
(CAL FIRE) and sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate