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• SEPCOR — Separate Correspondence
• EA — Each (as in a unit of measurement - one each)
• UBRAT — Unfair Blame Reparations Army Territory
• EDAS — Eta Data Assimilation System
• OPS — Operations
• LAN — Local Area Network
• N/A — Not Applicable
• UNSAT — Unsatisfactory
• SSAN — Social Security Account Number
• SITEREP — Situation Report
• WARNO — Warning Order
• ETA — Estimated Time of Arrival
• SPOTREP — Spot Report
• TCTO — Time Compliance Technical Order
• TAFMS — Total Active Federal Military Service
• NHA — Next Higher Assembly
• WARNORD — Warning Order
• ARPANET — Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (early internet)
• TARFU — Things Are Really Fucked Up. A Situation Worse Than SNAFU, But Not Quite FUBAR.
• RSSI — Received Signal Strength Indicator
• USDHHS — United States Department of Health and Human Services
• VMF-214 — Marine Fighter Air Squadron 214, the Black Sheep Squadron
• RADAY — Radio Day
• VCRM — Verification Cross-Reference Matrix
• RFID — Radio Frequency Identification
• OEM — Original Equipment Manufacturer (usually in reference to car parts)
• WAYM — WayMark
• OBE — Overtaken By Events
• PPM — parts per million
• ROM — Read-Only Memory
• AIDS — Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (see also SIDS and HIV)
• MSG — Message
• TACREP — Tactical Report
• LASER — Light Amplification By Stimulated Emission Of Radiation (cf. Maser)
• LRU — Line Replaceable Unit
• T&EO — Training & Evaluation Outline
• STTE — Special to Type Test Equipment
• SAFE-CP — Selected Area for Evasion-Contact Point
• S-8 — Army Resource Management Staff at the Battalion/Brigade Level
• FCFS — First Come First Served
• UK — United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• MOS — Military Occupational Speciality
• UBACS — Under Body Armour Combat Shirt
• BTW — By The Way
• C/SSR — Cost/Schedule Status Report
• ASAP — As Soon As Possible (pronounced AY-sap)
• ANSI — American National Standards Institute, Inc.
• SS-21 — Scarab Missile
• TAC CP — Tactical Command Post
• SARDOT — Search and Rescue Point

• IT — Information Technology
• CSMA/CD — Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection
• T-AKR — Fast Logistics Ship
• TIM — Technical Interchange Meeting
• R.S.M. — Regimental Sergeant Major
• COB — close of business (End of duty day)
• MAN — Metropolitan Area Network
• CPU — Central Processing Unit
• UAV-GCS — Unmanned Aerial Vehicle - Ground Control Station
• IPCC — Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (WMO and UNEP)
• W TK — water tank
• W SUP — water supply
• SCMODS — State/County Municipal Offender Data System
• RSSIA — Regional Security Strategy Implementation Analysis
• TACLAN — Tactical Local Area Network
• SCONUM — Ship Control Number
• SAEDA — Subversion and Espionage Directed Against the Army
• S SCAN — Sector Scan
• R/EW — Radar/ Electronic Warfare
• UCOFT — Unit Conduct Of Fire Trainer
• S-7 — Army Inter-Component Integration Staff at the Battalion/Brigade Level
• IP — Internet Protocol
• R2T2 — Rapid Response Topographic Teams
• EPRDF — Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front
• T-AH — Hospital Ship
• PDR — Preliminary Design Review
• SAACONS — Standard Army Automated Contracting System
• RHRDF — Royal Hutt River Defence Forces
• UANF — United Achik National Front
• QC — Quality Control
• S/C N — Signal-to-Clutter Plus Noise
• RFP — Request For Proposal
• S&TI — Scientific & Technical Intelligence
• TACMAR — Tactical Multifunction Array Radar
• TARSS — Tactical Airborne Remote SIGINT System
• VBTM — Virtual Brigade Training Methodology
• AC — Alternating Current
• TACRON — Tactical Air Control Squadron
• WAWF-RA — Wide Area Work Flow - Receipt and Acceptance
• WAOB — World Agricultural Outlook Board
• SA-2 — Guideline Missile
• S/RTF — Search and Recovery Task Force
• SA-5 — Gammon Missile
• CY — Calendar Year
• WHO — World Health Organization
• WATCHCON — Watch Condition
• CDR — Critical Design Review
• R-AFF — Regimental Affiliation
• S-9 — Army Facilities Management Staff at the Battalion/Brigade Level
• MOU — Memorandum of Understanding (an MOU between Food & Drug Administratin and a regulatory agency in another country allows mutual recognition of inspections)

• TAC(A) — Tactical Air Coordinator (Airborne)
• T&DE — Test and Diagnostic Equipment
• RADCAD — Radar Computer-Aided Design
• Q-SHIP — Decoy Ship
• SADFRAD — Synthetic Aperture Dual Frequency Radar
• S-6 — Army Communications and Information Management Staff at the Battalion/Brigade Level
• S.530 — Super 530 Missile
• TACTRAGRULANT — Tactical Training Group, Atlantic
• RAC-OT — Readiness Assessment System - Output Tool
• RAMADCS — Reliability, Availability, Maintainability Automated Data Collection System
• WATWG — WWMCCS ADP Traffic Working Group
• SA-6 — Gainful Missile
• CCB — Change Control Board
• S-ARM — Standard-Antiradiation Missile
• WBS — Work Breakdown Structure
• SPS — Standard Positioning Service (GPS)
• S-QUAD — Silent Sound Spread Spectrum
• S/EWOC — Signals Intelligence/electronic Warfare Operations Center
• T-JTB — Theater-Joint Transportation Board
• T&A TM — Traffic and Analysis Team
• SACMFCS — Small Arms Common Module Fire Control System
• O&M — Operation and Maintenance
• RADBN — Radio Battalion
• TAFIES — Tactical Air Force Intelligence Exploitation System
• CEO — Chief Executive Officer
• SL3 — STOCK LIST
• BTU — British Thermal Unit
• TACSATCOM — Tactical Satellite Communications
• SS-20 — Saber Missile
• SA-4 — Ganef Missile
• TAIHOD — Total Army Injury and Health Outcomes Database
• MTBF — Mean Time Before Failure
• RAPOE — Regional APOE
• OECD — Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
• R.550 — Magic Misile
• RADAGS — Radar Aimpoint Guidance System
• SAFWIN — Secure Air Force Weather Information Network
• SA-8 — Gecko Missile
• QEEM — Quick Erect Expandable Mast
• RAS-OT — Readiness Assessment System - Output Tool
• RF — Radio Frequency
• SOP — Standard Operational Procedure
• T-JMC — Theater-Joint Movement Center
• TA/CP — Technology Assessment/Control Plan
• LOI — Letter Of Intent
• TACCDAS — Tactical Army Command & Control Data System
• SA-13 — Strella Missile
• WAAFB — Walker Air Force Base
• TADIXS-A — Tactical Data Information Exchange System - Data and Test Communications System
• TAFDS — Tactical Airfield Fuel Dispensing System

• S&GSLCMC — Soldier and Ground Systems Life Cycle Management Command
• VAQ-131 — Naval Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 131, The Lancers
• WAVELL — United Kingdom Command and Control System
• V-DAY — Victory Day
• TACTERM — Tactical Terminal
• VAH-8 — Heavy Attack Squadron 8, The Fireballers
• LCD — Liquid Crystal Display
• TQM — Total Quality Management
• MM — Million
• RAH-66 — Reconnaissance Attack Helicopter
• UAOBS — Upper Air Observation
• VASRD — Veterans Administration Schedule for Rating Disabilities
• WAC(I) — Women's Auxiliary Corp (India)
• VAW-124 — Naval Airborne Early Warning Squadron 124, The Bear Aces
• R&D — Research & Development
• RAFGSA — Royal Air Force Gliding and Soaring Association
• WAPJ — World Air Power Journal
• SA-3 — Goa Missile
• IV — Intravenous
• TACWAR — Tactical Warfare
• QFEA — Quartermaster Field Evaluation Agency
• WARMAPS — Wartime Manpower Planning System
• VAQ-138 — Naval Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 138, Yellow Jackets
• TAC-D — Tactical Deception
• WAQC — Western Army Training Center Aviation Qualification Course
• FET — Field Effect Transistor
• AIAA — American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc.
• RAIDES — Rapid Air Defense Evaluation System
• VAQ-137 — Naval Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 137, The Rooks
• OFP — Operational Flight Program
• ATM — Asynchronous Transfer Mode
• SA-9 — Gaskin Missile
• TACO2 — Tactical Communications Protocol 2
• QF ACFT — Quick Fix Aircraft
• TACCIMS(K) — Theater Army Command and Control Information Management System ( Korea)
• DEC — Digital Equipment Corporation
• QBGS — Queens Body Guard for Scotland
• OJT — On the Job Training
• TACSCAN — Tactical Scanner
• PPS — Precise Positioning Service
• CLIN — Contract Line Item Number
• LAOES — Laser Ablation Optical Emission Spectroscopy
• TACWARS — Tactical Air Warfare Simulation
• VAQ-129 — Naval Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 129, The New Vikings
• R.440 — Crotale Missile
• VAQ-140 — Naval Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 140, The Patriots
• CRT — Cathode Ray Tube (type of TV)
• VAQ-134 — Naval Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 134, The Garudas
• CMOS — Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
• VAW-113 — Naval Airborne Early Warning Squadron 113, The Black Eagles

• CTRL — Control
• UNCLOS — United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (policy treaty)
• RAVAF — Royal Australian Virtual Air Force
• RAMEP — RAM and Enhanced Performance
• USDA — United States Department of Agriculture
• TACSTANS — Tactical Standards
• VAQ-135 — Naval Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 135, Black Ravens
• VAQ-136 — Naval Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 136, The Gauntlets
• SA-N-3 — Goblet Missile
• VAW-120 — Naval Airborne Early Warning Squadron 120, The Greyhawks
• VPN — Virtual Private Network (ATM)
• ARPA — Advanced Research Projects Agency (made early internet)
• SA-N-1 — Naval Goa Missile 1
• SA-N-2 — Naval Guideline
• TABILS — Target and Background Information Library System
• ANFO — Ammonium Nitrate Fuel Oil Explosive
• VAQ-33 — Naval Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 33, The Firebirds
• VAQ-128 — Naval Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 128, Phoenix
• VAQ-141 — Naval Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 141, The Shadowhawks
• OTC — Over The Counter (medications not requiring a prescription)
• QVO — Qualified Vehicle Operator
• VAQ-139 — Naval Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 139, The Cougars
• UFO — Unidentified Flying Object
• VAQ-130 — Naval Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 130, The Zappers
• VAW-126 — Naval Airborne Early Warning Squadron 126, The Seahawks
• SECDEF — United States Secretary of Defense
• TAAMDCOORD — Theater Army Air and Missile Defense Coordinator
• ASME — American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• OT — Overtime
• VAQ-34 — Naval Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 34, The Flashbacks
• CCB — Configuration Control Board
• KEK — Key Encryption Key (COMSEC Key)
• EXCOM — Executive Committee
• SATURN — Second-Generation Anti-Jam Tactical UHF Radio for NATO
• BLUF — Bottom Line Up Front
• TBD — To Be Determined
• PDA — Personal Digital Assistant
• RQMTS — Requirements
• VAQ-142 — Naval Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 142, The Gray Wolves
• MIS — Management Information System (OSHA)
• CDRL — Contract Data Requirements List
• WWW — World Wide Web
• RFI — Request For Information. Sales department shorthand. Special priority when use in conjunction with RFN (see below).
• ATA — Area Transportation Authority
• SALM — Single-Anchor Leg Mooring
• OIC — Office in Charge
• APB — All Points Bulletin
• BAOR — British Army of the Rhine
• BIT — Binary Digit (either 0 Or 1)
• CIO — Chief Information Officer

• SDD — Software Design Document
• MUX — Multiplexer
• DSS — Decision Support System
• RAM — random-access memory
• FIPS — Federal Information Processing Standard
• QA — Center for Quality Assurance in International Education
• NTSB — US National Transportation Safety Board
• CAE — Computer-Aided Engineering
• SYS — System
• POP — Point Of Presence (Internet)
• ADM — Advanced Development Model
• AGC — Automatic Gain Control
• DES — Data Encryption Standard
• SS-19 — Stiletto Missile
• RDBMS — Relational Database Management System
• AM — Amplitude Modulation
• CAD — Computer Aided Designer
• EEOC — Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
• BITE — Built In Test Equipment/Battle Management Interoperability T&E Training Exercises
• SS-18 — Satan Missile
• SVEST — Suicide Vest
• SQ — Square
• WFOV — Wide Field Of View
• RIF — Reduction In Force
• EDM — Engineering Development Model
• SOPS — Standard Operating Procedures
• BT — Bhutan
• CTR — Center
• STD — Standard
• DEPT — Department
• MTTR — Mean Time To Repair
• QOS — Quality of Service
• CIS — Commonwealth of Independent States
• POTUS — President Of The United States. Acronym used by Whitehouse staff. See also FLOFTUS.
• UV-B — UltraViolet band B
• CDT — Central Daylight Time
• VIZ — Visibility
• DAC — Discretionary Access Control
• OCR — Optical Character Recognition
• DRAM — Dynamic Random Access Memory (dee-ram) (computing)
• DPKO — Department of Peacekeeping Operations
• EEC — European Economic Community (predecessor of the European Union|EU)
• CO — Company
• ADC — Air Data Computer
• CST — Central Standard Time (UTC-6 Hours)
• PRI — Primary Rate Interface (ISDN)
• ECO — Engineering Change Order
• ATC — Air traffic control
• DNS — Domain Name Service
• BVR — Beyond Visual Range

• AC — annual closing
• SQA — Software Quality Assurance
• SLIP — Serial Line Interface Protocol
• SLQ-32 — Electronic Warfare Jamming System
• DOE — United States Department of Energy (government)
• RCRA — Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (1976, 1984)
• PC — Personal computer (host)
• ECD — Estimated Completion Date
• URD — User Requirements Document
• TMI — Too Much Information (Internet Slang)
• WILCO — Will Comply
• CAM — computer aided manufacturing
• PMR — Program Management Review
• TS/SCI — Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information
• NPS — Nominal Pipe Size (sometimes NS)
• NFS — Network File System
• UDR-13 — Pocket Radiac Set
• WAN — Wide Area Network
• LAB — Laboratory
• PST — Pacific Standard Time (UTC-8 Hours)
• OMB — Office of Management and Budget (U.S.)
• MSL — Mean Sea Level
• SNAFU — Situation Normal All Fouled Up
• PM — Preventive Maintenance
• APP — Application
• AASHTO — American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
• ALT — Alternate
• MT — Metric Ton
• LNG — Liquefied Natural Gas
• LED — law enforcement desk; light emitting diode
• TB — Tuberculosis
• BPS — bits per second
• SHSM — System High Security Mode
• AOA — Angle Of Arrival
• SCIF — Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility
• NIST — National Institute of Standards and Technology
• CKO — Chief Knowledge Officer
• ATA — Actual Time of Arrival
• FFT — Fast Fourier Transform
• SQL — Structured Query Language
• BOM — Bill of Material
• COG — Continuity Of Government
• FBW — Fly By Wire
• COMSEC — Communications Security (military)
• UNODIR — Unless Otherwise Directed
• TO&E — Table of Organization and Equipment
• APU — Auxiliary Power Unit
• NTIS — National Technical Information Service Technology Administration
• UVCE — Unconfined Vapor Cloud Explosion
• BPR — Business Process Re-engineering

• UNEP — United Nations Environment Program
• UNRWA — United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
• MMIC — Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit
• SEATO — Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
• NAS — United States National Academy of Sciences
• PERT — Program Evaluation and Review Technique
• BLM — Bureau of Land Management of United States Department of the Interior
• KISS — Keep It Simple Stupid
• DOS — Disk Operating System
• DBA — Data Base Administrator
• NA — Not Applicable
• TASO — Terminal Area Security Officer
• SOHO — Small Office Home Office
• AFCS — Automatic Flight Control System
• NLT — No Later Than
• SCSI — Small Computer System Interface
• MGR — Manager
• APT — Automatic Picture Transmission
• DC — Direct Current
• COMM — Communication
• SECREL — SECret RELeasable
• AT&T — American Telephone and Telegraph (U.S. company, also known as "Ma Bell")
• DSA — Digital Signature Algorithm
• STR — Software Test Report
• TYCOM — Type Commander
• SITSUM — Situation Summary
• PROG — Program
• K — Kilo-
• DFD — Data Flow Diagram
• PM — Project Manager
• QTD — Quarter-to-Date
• BRI — Basic Rate Interface
• COTR — Contracting Officer Technical Representative
• DCN — Design Change Notice
• ACL — Access Control List
• ADPE — Automatic Data Processing Equipment
• CARIFTA — Caribbean Free Trade Association
• NZ — New Zealand
• UFN — Until Further Notice
• SAIC — Science Applications International Corporation
• CNN — Cable News Network's
• STP — Software Test Plan
• PY — Prior Year
• DOMSAT — Domestic Communications Satellite System
• EOM — End Of Month
• SQQ-89 — Undersea Warfare Combat System
• CRS — Can't Remember Stuff
• SOSTAC — Situation, Objectives and Strategy, Tactics, Action, and Control
• VHF — Very High Frequency
• PSTN — Public Switched Telephone Network

• TQJBR — Tanzim Qa'idat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn
• MBO — Management by Objective
• MIL — Military
• KBS — Knowledge-Based System
• ALT — Altitude
• AWGN — Additive White Gaussian Noise
• CAT — Category (e.g. CAT-5 cable)
• USGS — United States Geological Survey (DOI)
• TRADOC — United States Army Training and Doctrine Command
• VA — Veterans Administration
• SCF — Sectional Center Facility
• MHS — Message Handling System (electronic)
• OCR — Optical Character Reader
• KSA — Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities
• SSL — Secure Socket Layer
• WIP — Work In Progress (process)
• DBMS — Data Base Management System
• RON — Remain Overnight
• PATOLIS — Patent Online Information System
• DME — Distance Measuring Equipment
• NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (US)
• OP — Operator
• LOS — Line Of Sight
• RSPL — Recommended Spare Parts List
• BOHICA — Bend Over, Here It Comes Again
• LEO — Low Earth Orbit (satellite communications)
• NFIP — National Flood Insurance Program
• ABR — Available Bit Rate
• RPG — Report Program Generator
• UNK — Unknown
• POC — Proof Of Concept
• PBX — Private Branch eXchange (company phone system)
• ELV — Expendable Launch Vehicle
• WETSU — We Eat This Shit Up
• CAVU — Ceiling And Visibility Unlimited
• SECT — Section
• ECP — Engineering Change Proposals
• SNMP — Simple Network Management Protocol (ATM)
• DTE — Data Terminal Equipment
• DOI — Date of Injury
• MARV — Maneuverable Reentry Vehicle
• EBS — Emergency Broadcast System
• RM — Resource Management
• EMP — Electromagnetic Pulse
• USAF — United States Air Force
• DMSP — Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (U.S.)
• DJMS — Defense Joint Military Pay System
• WIMPY — When In Military Play Yankee
• STS — Space Transportation System
• RFI — Radio Frequency Interference

• FFP — Firm Fixed Priced
• CFA — Cognizant Field Activity
• USPS — United States Postal Services
• AFC — Automatic Frequency Control
• EM — Electromagnetic
• AWL — Absent Without Leave
• ROE — Rules of Engagement. The rules given to every service member on when to engage targets. Changes dependent upon the situation.
• SW — Switch
• DNA — Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid
• RIDDOR — Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations
• VDT — Video Display Terminal
• SVBIED — Suicide Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Device
• SEC — Second
• STC — Sensitivity Time Control
• TCP — Transmission Control Protocol
• CM — Configuration Management
• IPTF — International Police Task Force
• TNA — Training Needs Analysis. The TNA term is most commonly given to the process of identifying and planning personal/skills development for an individual, group, or entire workforce. This can be the responsibility of a supervisor, group leader, senior manager
• FDMA — Frequency Division Multiple Access
• SUPPO — Supply Officer
• MAINT — Maintenance
• NRC — National Research Council (Canada)
• UHF — Ultra High Frequency (300-3000 MHz; 1m-10cm)
• RAC — Resident Agent in Charge
• AE — Application Entity
• NBS — National Bureau of Standards (US)
• STAMIS — Standard Army Management Information System
• EFTA — European Free Trade Association (Geneva)
• SQR-18 — Sonar Tactical Towed Array System
• SONAR — (DOD) A sonic device used primarily for the detection and location of underwater objects.(This term is derived from the words "sound navigation and ranging.")
• AVHRR — Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer  
• ATS — applications technology satellite
• CRL — Certificate Revocation List
• NASDA — National Space Development Agency of Japan
• UNHCHR — United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
• PVC — Permanent Virtual Circuit (ATM)
• TV — Television
• LF — Low Frequency
• LWOP — Leave Without Pay
• DBMS — Defense Business Management System
• COBOL — Common Business-Oriented Language
• APHIS — U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
• VR — Virtual Reality
• CW — Continuous Wave
• VISCOM — VISual COMmunication
• AFSCN — Air Force Satellite Control Network
• N — North
• AV — Audio Visual
• COMMS — Communications
• BW — Bandwidth

• WADR — With All Due Respect
• JEC — Joint Economic Committee
• SOLAS — Safety of Life at Sea
• MODEM — Modulator-Demodulator
• LAT — Latitude
• FDDI — Fiber Distributed Data Interface
• IRS — Interface Requirements Specification
• DMA — direct memory access (computer term)
• VTC — Video Teleconference
• LANL — Los Alamos National Laboratory
• RSOI — Reception, Staging, Onward-Movement & Integration
• CBD — Commerce Business Daily (Changed To FBO)
• SCUBA — self-contained underwater breathing apparatus
• EMS — Earn Money Sleeping (joke At Expense Of Emergency Medical Service)
• STMP — Science and Technology Master Plan
• TCP/IP — transmission control protocol/internet protocol
• OS — Operating System
• SELCOM — Select Committee
• E-MAIL — Electronic Mail
• IR — Infrared
• EDP — Electronic Data Processing Plc (London Stock Exchange [LSE])
• PDU — Protocol data unit (such as segment, packet, frame, etc.)
• CE — Civil Engineer
• PPP — Point-to-Point Protocol
• SPAWAR — The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), based in San Diego, is an echelon II organization within the United States Navy and Navy's technical authority and acquisition command for C4ISR (
• VBR — Variable Bit Rate (ATM)
• TCB — Trusted Computing Base
• BER — Bit-Error Rate
• CACM — Central American Common Market
• MSA — Minimum Safe Altitude
• TOS(D) — Tactical Operations System- Division
• UNEF — United Nations Emergency Force
• EMC — Electromagnetic Compatibility
• POS — Position
• TBN — To Be Named
• CCTV — Closed Circuit Television
• POTS — Plain Old Telephone System
• UNOCHA — United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
• QAD — Quality Assurance Division
• SEQ — Sequence
• TBI — Traumatic Brain Injury
• ELF — Extremely Low Frequency
• OLA — Office of Legal Affairs
• AA — Australian Army
• ROV — Remotely Operated Vehicle
• NRL — Naval Research Laboratory
• EGA — Enhanced Graphics Adapter
• MAD — Magnetic Anomaly Detector/Detection
• RFS — Request For Service
• MF — Medium Frequency

• SGT — Sergeant
• MAC — Message Authentication Code
• WUC — Work Unit Code
• UNCIVPOL — United Nations Civilian Police
• STE — Special Test Equipment
• QBU — Qualified Business Unit
• SGML — Standard Generalized Markup Language
• NDA — Nondisclosure Agreement
• DPS — Department of Public Safety
• QBO — Quick Battle Orders
• EPROM — Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
• UYK-43 — U.S. Navy standard 32-bit computer (replacement for UYK-7)
• PIN — Personal Identification Number
• DFCS — Digital Flight Control System
• TTWG — Technology Transfer Working Group
• CAGE — Commercial and Government Entity
• RFN — Rifleman
• CDMA — Code Division Multiple Access (voice/data transmission)
• CAB — Cabinet
• SRSG — Special Representative of the Secretary-General
• RD&A — Research, Development & Acquisition
• UPS — Uninterruptible Power Supply
• EST — Estimated Starting Time
• VOCC — Vessel Operating Common Carriers
• SDVOSB — Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business
• TOEL — Time Ordered Event List
• AACB — Aeronautics & Astronautics Coordinating Board
• DSA — Directory System Agent
• PCMCIA — Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
• SW — Software (SFTWE Preferred)
• VERT — Vertical
• RECCE — Reconnaissance
• DSU — Data Service Unit
• APEC — Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
• RIP — Routing Information Protocol
• REDCON — Readiness Condition
• UNAMIR — United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda
• LPF — Low Pass Filter
• SFOR — Stabilization Force
• SCBA — Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus
• SIG — Signal
• MIB — Management Information Base (ATM)
• QBE — Query By Example
• TMDE — Test Measurement and Diagnostic Equipment
• PCP — Program Change Proposal
• NOC — Network Operations Center
• SCADA — Supervisory Control And Data Aquisition
• SL — Sea Level
• CDU — Control Display Unit
• PRF — Pulse Repetition Frequency

• CVR — Cockpit Voice Recorder
• NIS — Network Information System
• RACF — Resource Access Control Facility
• SINE — Short Interspersed Nuclear Element
• CG — Center of Gravity (DXS)
• DASD — Direct Access Storage Device
• TD — Technical Directive
• PAW — Projector Augmented-wave [ab-initio Method]
• OSPF — Open Shortest Path First (ATM)
• COS — Cosine
• RIM-66 — Standard Missile
• LT — Light
• REPL DET — Replacement Detachment
• CQC — Close Quarters Combat
• SALT — Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
• NC — No Change
• BAE — British Aerospace Systems, LTD
• USCIS — US Citizenship and Immigration Services
• DAC — Development Assistance Committee
• VOIP — Voice Over IP (Internet Protocol)
• LPI — Lines Per Inch
• SAMOC — Surface-to-Air Missile Operations Center
• COMSAT — Communications Satellite Corporation
• VOL — Volume
• UNPROFOR — United Nations Protection Force (in Former Yugoslavia)
• UNAVEM — United Nations Angola Verification Mission
• SS-17 — Spanker Missile
• ASD — Army Shipping Document
• AFWAL — Air Force Wright Aeronautical Laboratory
• STRUCE — Structure Strength, Enlisted
• AGE — Aerospace Ground Equipment
• SS-23 — Spider Missile
• LST — Local Standard Time
• VIAGRA — Vertical Installation Automated Group Receiver Antenna
• ERP — Effective Radiated Power
• VIHT — voluntary isocapnic hyperpnea training
• VLF — Very Low Frequency
• DMZ — Demilitarized Zone
• NACA — National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
• VOSB — Veteran-Owned Small Business
• JT — Joint
• UNIDIR — United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research
• SIPRNET — Secret Internet Protocol Router Network
• DREN — Defense Research and Engineering Network
• BGP — Border Gateway Protocol (routing protocol)
• TBO — Time Between Overhaul
• MBPS — Megabytes Per Second
• A/D — Analog/Digital
• AMSF — Army Maintenance Supply Facilities
• AP — Associated Press

• OA — Office Automation
• NIC — Network Information Center
• MIL STD — Military Standard
• LEP — Linear Error Probable
• BIT — Built-In Test
• EMMA — Expert Missile Maintenance Aid
• AU — Audio Unit
• DGPS — Differential Global Positioning System
• TAFCSD — Total Active Federal Commissioned Service Date
• DSN — Deep Space Network - network of large antennas and communication facilities.
• TBMCS — Theater Battle Management Core Systems
• RADAR — RAdio Detection And Ranging
• REDCOM — Readiness Command
• USV — United States Volunteers
• MVS — Multiple Virtual Storage
• R2P2 — Rapid Response Planning Process
• WG — Working Group
• BAMF — Bad Ass Mother Fucker
• CALS — Computer-Aided Acquisition and Logistics Support (CAALS)
• FCS — Flight Control System (Subsystem)
• SOTA — Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) Operational Tasking Authority
• JVM — Java Virtual Machine
• CTE — Coefficient of Thermal Expansion
• TEWT — Tactical Exercise Without Troops
• CW — Carrier Wave
• DS — Direct Sequence
• AMR — Atlantic Missile Range
• EMS — Emergency medical service
• PCM — Pulse-Code Modulation
• MAC — Mandatory Access Control
• DRS — Data Relay Satellite
• LAC — Local Area Coverage
• TEMP — Test and Evaluation Master Plan
• MTBCF — Mean Time Between Critical Failures
• RIO — Radar Intercept Officer (US Navy)
• SRW — Software Requirements Workshop
• RAD — Radiation Absorbed Dose
• SCN — Specification Change Notice
• STP — Space Test Program
• SIGACTS — Significant Activities
• WHIP — White House Invasion Prayer
• TBA — To Be Announcede
• DOS — United States Department of State
• LIDAR — Lander Light Detection and Ranging
• NIS — Network Information Service
• NMS — Network Management System
• AFSCF — Air Force Satellite Control Facility
• MEO — Medium-Earth Orbit
• NCS — National Communications System
• TWS — Track While-Scan

• RT — Real Time (R/T Preferred)
• VSWR — Voltage Standing Wave Ratio
• SUSAT — Sight Unit, Small Arms, Trilux
• TCSEC — Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria
• D — Director
• CSTC — Consolidated Space Test Center
• AOD — Administrative Officer of the Day
• ADCCP — Advanced Data Communications Control Procedures
• ABMA — Army Ballistic Missile Agency
• NRV — Non Return Valve
• ASN — Abstract Syntax Notation
• TMI — TRMM Microwave Imager
• CRT — Crisis Response Team
• BE — Beryllium
• CCAFS — Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, an air force base in Florida where NASA launches satellites from.
• FAX — Facsimile
• TJAG — The Judge Advocate General
• BNL — Brookhaven National Laboratory
• AFS — Air Force Station
• LEA — Law Enforcement Agency
• UNDAC — United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination
• RCV — Receive
• UA — User Agent
• SEM — Space Environment Monitor
• CGM — Computer Graphics Metafile
• FDX — Full Duplex
• SAPO — Subarea Petroleum Office
• TSCE — Total Ship Computing Environment
• DIB — Directory Information Base
• EC — European Community
• ERBS — Earth Radiation Budget Satellite
• EIB — European Investment Bank
• RAAF — Royal Australian Air Force
• VV&C — Verification, Validation and Certification
• SOCOM — United States Special Operations Command
• FIG — Figure
• DDCMP — Digital Data Communications Message Protocol
• TOR — terms of reference (ICAO/FAA)
• SPMIG — Standard PMS Materials Identification Guide
• ESS — Electronic Switching System
• MINURSO — United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara
• WS — Workstation
• DAR — Defense Acquisition Regulation
• RGB — red-green-blue (signal)
• VTR — Video Tape Recorder
• TLE — Target Location Error
• CD — Civil Defense
• ORNL — Oak Ridge National Laboratory's
• DOC — United States Department of Commerce
• SMA — Supply Management, Army

• FADEC — Full Authority Digital Engine Control
• MDT — Mean Down Time
• ITO — International Trade Organization
• TED — Total Energy Detector
• MPEG — Motion Picture Experts Group
• AKM — Apogee Kick Motor
• TN — Target Number
• RIK — Replacement in Kind
• WPM — speech--words per minute
• MCW — Modulated Continuous Wave
• VHS — Video Home System
• DRSN — Defense Red Switch Network
• LPC — Linear Predictive Coding
• UPS — Uninterruptible Power System
• SVD — Software Version Description
• MSU — Microwave Sounding Unit
• USRA — Universities Space Research Association
• USNO — United States Naval Observatory
• USCG — United States Coast Guard
• RLA — Repair-Level Analysis
• SQS-53 — Submarine Sonar
• TOCS — Tactical Operation Combat System
• MCS — Mesoscale Convective System
• PPI — Plan Position Indicator
• TAV — Total Asset Visibility
• ABE — ARM-Based Electronics
• RFC — River Forecast Center
• AD — airworthiness directives (FAA)
• RXU — Receiver Unit
• ODBC — Open Database Connectivity
• DDN — U.S. Defense Data Network
• NADS — Norwegian Association for Defence Suppliers
• VM — Virtual Memory
• SABA — Supplied Air Breathing Apparatus
• VLS — Vertical Launch System
• SDDD — software detailed design document
• ELT — Emergency Locator Transmitter
• SAR — synthetic aperture radar (satellite)
• SATF — Second Amendment Task Force
• SHF — Super High Frequency
• PHS — Public Health Service (U.S.)
• QIO — Quality Improvement Organization
• KDC — Kerberos Key Distribution Center
• PMS — Planned Maintenance System
• TAC — Terminal Access Controller
• EIRP — Effective Isotropic Radiated Power
• BUREC — United States Bureau of Reclamation (government)
• CFLCC — Combined Force Land Component Command
• NSIA — National Security Industrial Association (now part of NDIA)
• DPU — data processing unit

• MDA — Minimum Descent Altitude
• WCDMA — Wideband Code Division Multiple Access
• UNDP — United Nations Development Program
• TKM — Total Knowledge Management
• SB — Service Bulletin
• PAR — Perimeter Acquisition Radar
• TDMA — Time Division Multiple Access
• EMMA — Expert Missile Maintenance Aim
• SARNEG — Search and Rescue Numerical Encryption Group
• TOL — Tolerance
• OSTP — Office of Science and Technology Policy
• TWT — Traveling Wave Tube
• USMOG-W — United States Military Observer Group - Washington
• ESMC — Eastern Space And Missile Center (formerly AFETR)
• CMP — Configuration Management Plan
• BERT — Bit Error Rate Tester (telecommunication)
• ERS — Environmental Research Satellite
• MECO — Main Engine Cutoff
• CIDR — Classless Inter-Domain Routing (ATM)
• SDLC — Synchronous Data Link Control
• ROEX — rules of engagement exercise
• USA PATRIOT ACT — Uniting & Strengthening of America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism
• ERTS — Earth Resources Technology Satellite (now Landsat)
• MOS — Marine Observation Satellite
• MCC — Mission Control Center (JSC)
• NASP — National Aerospace Plane
• SGL — Small Group Leader
• TEC — Total Electron Content
• AFOTEC — Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center's
• OCD — Operational Concept Description
• TDL — Tactical Data Link
• MAG — Magnetic
• NSW — New South Wales
• OMV — Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle
• ARS — United States Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service
• LES — Lincoln Experimental Satellite
• SKE — Station-Keeping Equipment
• DAD — Dual Air Density
• DPI — Differential Pressure Indicator
• LALLS — Low-Angle Laser Light Scattering
• AOA — Angle Of Attack
• SPR — Strategic Petroleum Reserve (US)
• UYH-16 — Mass Memory Storage Device
• ATT — At This Time
• OTA — Office of Technology Assessment (U.S.; abolished by Congress, Fall 1995)
• SDLC — Software development life cycle
• SONET — Synchronous Optical Network
• QPSK — aeronautical quadrature phase shift keying
• IPO — Integrated Program Office
• MTNS — Mountains

• TNI — Trusted Network Interpretation
• E&I — Engineering & Installation
• EMS — Element Management System (ATM)
• TSIP — Task Force XXI System Integration Plan
• TOAI — Total Overall Aircraft Inventory
• VAG — VOTING ASSISTANCE GUIDE
• AUTOVON — Automatic Voice Network
• QAP — Quality Assurance Plan
• AIRS — Advanced Inertial Reference Sphere
• SRS — Software Requirements Specifications
• ECM — Electronic Counter Measures
• SSC-1 — Shaddock Missile (Coastal Defense)
• TTY — Teletype Telex Machine
• NACE — National Association of Corrosion Engineers
• PROM — Programmable Read-Only Memory
• TPF — Total Package Fielding
• TTWCS — Tactical Tomahawk Weapon Control System
• MOH — Medal Of Honor
• RECAU — Receipt Acknowledged And Understood
• ERD — Entity-Relationship Diagram
• STAAS — Surveillance & Target Acquisition Aircraft System
• TOD — Time of Day (Have Quick)
• SMB — Suck My Balls
• MSS — Multispectral Scanner System
• VGA — Video Graphics Array
• CPS — characters per second
• UFC — Unified Facilities Criteria
• LSA — Logistics Support Analysis
• W/D — Withdrawal
• TASKORD — Tasking Order
• PDL — program design language
• MCS — Master Control Station (VIS, Grumman)
• OC — Optical Carrier
• SERE — Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape
• OMARNG — Operation & Maintenance, Army National Guard
• WI — What If?
• BIU — Bus Interface Unit
• SP AMMO — Special Ammunition
• SUM — Software User's Manual
• NARA — United States National Archives And Records Administration
• TNO — Trust No One
• DECU — Digital Engine Control Unit
• VLSI — Very-Large-Scale Integration
• TOA — Time Of Arrival
• VAR — Variable
• ANDVT — Advanced Narrowband Digital Voice Terminal
• USAID — United States Agency for International Development
• TOE — Table of Organization and Equipment
• MOD — Ministry Of Defence (United Kingdom) And Various Other Countries
• S — Secret

• NCSC — National Computer Security Center (NSA)
• TED — Trunk Encryption Device
• VSAT — Very Small Aperture Terminal (satellite service)
• ARDC — Air Research and Development Command
• SBIR — Small Business Innovation Research
• MPA — Magnetospheric Plasma Analyzer
• IPR — Impulse Response
• LAGEOS — Laser Geodynamic Satellite
• TVM — Track Via Missile
• ROP — Rate of Penetration
• NRC — Nuclear Regulatory Commission (US)
• LOX — Liquid Oxygen
• RUP — Rational Unified Process
• IRAS — Infrared Reflection Absorption Spectroscopy
• SDR — System Design Review
• STRATOPS — Strategic Operations Division
• MLG — Main Landing Gear
• SAAFR — Standard Use Army Aircraft Flight Route (safer)
• FEP — Front End Processor
• AFRL — Air Force Research Laboratory
• LFC — Large Format Camera
• ODA — Open Document Architecture
• CBR — Constant Bit Rate
• TADIL-J — Tactical Data Information Link-J
• COMMO — Communications Officer
• VCJCS — Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
• BPI — bits per inch
• CBR — Case-Based Reasoning
• TRNG — Training
• TECHINT — Technical Intelligence
• MLV — Medium Launch Vehicle
• UPI — United Press International
• VMI — Virginia Military Institute
• QAE — Quality Assurance Engineer
• RCD — Residual Current Device
• EVAC — Evacuation System
• QRCT — Quick Reaction Communications Terminal
• NT — Northern Territory
• WBGTI — Wet-Bulb Globe Temperature Index
• VOR — VHF Omnidirectional Range
• SAPF — Special Access Program Facility
• SDS — Satellite Data System
• NOR — Notice Of Revision
• VMS — Virtual Memory System
• MMS — Multimission Modular Spacecraft
• DMS — Data Management System
• LDR — Leader
• SRD — System Requirements Document
• NEACP — National Emergency Airborne Command Post
• TECHCON — Technical Control

• SPIR — Spare Parts Interchangeability Report
• UTP — unshielded twisted pair
• VSLI — Veterans Special Life Insurance
• ANR — Active Noise Reduction
• SIQ — Sick In Quarters
• SQQ-32 — Variable Depth Minehunting Sonar
• LCC — Launch Control Center (KSC)
• VICE — As opposed to ....
• MTPE — Mission To Planet Earth
• SWEBOK — Software Engineering Body of Knowledge
• CDB — Central Data Base
• SLAR — Side-Looking Airborne Radar
• RAU — Radio Access Unit (Army)
• VETRONICS — Vehicle Electronics
• VT — Virtual Terminal
• VF — Voice Frequency
• B&W — Babcock & Wilcox - Black And White - Bowers & Wilkins
• DCE — Data Communication Equipment
• CRRES — Combined Release and Radiation Effects Satellite
• LNA — Low-Noise Amplifier
• MFD — Multi-Function Display
• NLP — Natural Language Processing
• PMS — Project Management System
• RESCORT — Rescue Escort
• SIMM — Single Inline Memory Module
• SPINS — Special Instructions
• DTM — Data Transfer Module
• SECAF — Secretary of the Air Force
• AFOSR — Air Force Office Of Scientific Research(USA)
• ACE — Access Control Encryption
• EMI — Electro-Magnetic Interference
• REPGEN — Reports Generator
• SOSO — State Owned, State Operated
• VDD — Version Description Document
• QI — Quality Indicator
• RIM-7 — Sea Sparrow Missile
• MEDALS — Military Engineering Data Asset Locator System
• DIDS — Defense Integrated Data System
• VQV — Voice Quality Value
• BMO — Ballistic Missile Office
• NTZ — No Transgression Zone
• RI — Routing Indicator
• PASADENA — Para-Hydrogen And Synthesis Allow Dramatically Enhanced Nuclear Alignment
• TCF — Technical Control Facility
• DUA — Directory User Agent
• RUR-4 — Weapon Alpha ( Anti-submarine Rocket Launcher)
• SMR — source, maintenance, and recoverability
• DCS — Data Collection System (NOAA Polar Orbiting Satellites)
• TEV — Travel Expense Voucher
• TVC — Total Variable Cost

• SMDS — Switched Multimegabit Data Service (ATM)
• OPS — Operations Squadron
• ACRIMSAT — Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor Satellite
• USG — United States Government
• VOCO — verbal order of the Commanding Officer
• CFE — Center For Engineering
• SRP/PDS — Stabilization Reference Package/Position Determining System
• SPM — Software Programmer's Manual
• AZ — Azimuth
• RPMA — Real Property Maintenance Activities
• SLV — Sleeve
• CSOC — Consolidated Space Operations Center
• CFSR — Contract Funds Status Report/ing
• DMSS — Defense Meteorological Satellite System
• TOMA — Technical Order Management Agency
• Q&A — Questions & Answers
• CWGC — Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• QLQ — Quality of Life Questionnaire
• OPSEC — Operational Security
• EPS — Encapsulated Postscript
• AFMPC — Air Force Military Personnel Center
• DIR — Direction Interdépartementale des Routes
• SWE — Snow Water Equivalent
• SSB — Single SideBand
• CBJB — Congressional Budget Justification Book
• NIU — Network Interface Unit
• VHSIC — Very High-Speed Integrated Circuit
• OO — On Order
• PMR — Pacific Missile Range
• MMU — Manned Maneuvering Unit
• KMP — Key Management Protocol
• MPC — Marine Prediction Center
• SDHS — Satellite Data Handling System
• SNA — System Network Architecture
• RPV — Remotely Piloted Vehicle
• WGI — Within Grade Increase
• UYK-7 — U.S. Navy standard 32-bit computer
• AFSC — Air Force Systems Command
• AMST — Advanced Medium STOL Transport
• PUA — Private Use Area (Unicode E000-F8FF)
• CARICOM — Caribbean Common Market and Community
• COMECON — Council For Mutual Economic Assistance (economic Counterpart Of The Warsaw Pact
• PZT — Piezoelectric Transducer
• RADIUS — Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service
• SLV — Space Launch Vehicle
• MT — Machine Translation
• TISA — Troop Issue Subsistence Activity
• ATP — Advanced Technology Program
• IUS — Inertial UPper Stage (was Interim UPper Stage)
• ECU — Environmental Control Unit (GSM)

• PTDO — Prepare To Deploy Order
• MIJI — Meaconing, Intrusion, Jamming and Interference
• MDT — Message Distribution Terminal
• PUP — Principal User Processor (NEXRAD)
• SXN — Section
• RPF — Raster Product Format
• OOP — Of an Object Oriented Programming
• TRD — Technical Requirements Document
• QUP — Quantity Per Unit Pack
• QALI — Quality Assurance Letter of Instruction
• RWIP — Risk Work In Progress
• SST — States Supersonic Transport
• VIN — vehicle identification number (US) (transportation)
• REMIS — Reliability & Maintainability Information System
• LAS — Land Analysis System
• VCR — video cassette recorder/player
• RECON — Reconnaissance
• TDIG — Time Division Interface Group
• WRF — Weather Research and Forecasting
• SUGG — Suggestion
• ROMO — Range of Military Operations
• SAMSTATREP — Surface-to-Air Missile Status Report
• VAX — Virtual Address Extension
• UGM-84 — Harpoon Missile
• SMSGT — Senior Master Sergeant
• MMW — Millimeter Wave
• FH — Frequency Hopping
• DAU — Data Acquisition Unit
• SL — Sick Leave
• IPX — Internet Packet Exchange
• SVC — Switched Virtual Circuit (ATM)
• ETL — Endorsed Tools List
• SKD — Schedule
• RADINT — Radar Intelligence
• ASSIST — Automated Special Security Information System Terminal
• SECNAV — United States Secretary of the Navy
• LADD — Lifetime Average Daily Dose
• SERA — Sequential Electrochemical Reduction Analysis
• PPS — Post-Production Support
• OSDPE — Office of the Secretary of Defense Program Element
• VRU — Voice Response Unit
• SWBD — Switchboard
• EKMS — Electronic Key Management System
• NII — National Information Infrastructure (USA)
• SSGT — Staff Sergeant
• ANLYS — Analysis
• ASI — Air Speed Indicator
• USMMO — United States Merchant Marine Officer
• RX — Receive
• NN — Neural Network

• TRB — Technical Review Board (MRR)
• CARDE — Canadian Armament Research and Development Establishment
• USATA — United States Army TMDE ( Test, Measurement, and Diagnostic Equipment) Activity
• VLAN — Virtual Local Area Network
• TWCF — Transportation Working Capital Fund
• SPS — Software Product Specification
• TDRSS — Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System
• AFAMPE — Air Force Automated Message Processing Exchange
• TLS — Top Level Specification
• SW — Short Wave
• TAMMS — The Army Maintenance Management System
• WGS-84 — World Geodetic System 1984
• F — Frequency
• PU — Physical Unit (IBM)
• SNACKO — SNACK Officer
• EMC — Environmental Modeling Center
• CETS — Contractor Engineering and Technical Services
• SDREN — Secure Defense Research and Engineering Network
• PRT — Personal Rapid Transit
• SVGA — Super Video Graphics Array
• RATELO — Radiotelephone Operator
• ORM — Other Regulated Materials
• DC — District Commissioner
• SSRA — System Safety Risk Assessment
• SORTS — Status of Resources and Training System
• PWS — Performance Work Statement
• SDI — Strategic Defense Initiative
• SMDC/ARSTRAT — United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command/United States Army Forces Strategic Command
• TBR — To Be Resolved
• MPP — Massively Parallel Processing/Processor
• VESA — Video Electronics Standards Association
• MTWY — Motorway
• SOJ — Stand Off Jammer
• USCMH — United States Commission on Military History
• AUTODIN — Automatic Digital Network
• SQK — Squawk
• DTU — Data Transfer Unit
• NESS — National Environmental Satellite Service (NOAA)
• SIDPERS — Standard Installation/Division Personnel System
• OSS — Operations Support System
• TEK — Traffic Encryption Key
• SMIB — Security Management Information Base
• PTL — Primary Target Line
• VDU — Video Display Unit
• SMG — Spaceflight Meteorology Group
• NPR — National Performance Review (office)
• CAS — Calibrated Air Speed
• STOW — Synthetic Theater of War
• ACAAM — Air Courses of Action Assessment Model
• AOIC — Assistant Officer in Charge

• BEF — British Expeditionary Force
• FCOC — Fuel Cooled Oil Cooler
• EIA — Electronics Industry Association (Adelaide, South Australia, Australia)
• MDT — Mobile Data Terminal
• LAP — Laboratory Accreditation Program
• SIL — System Integration Laboratory
• SUM — Software User Manual
• ECHR — European Court of Human Rights
• LAAS — Local Area Augmentation System
• QAZ — Quick Access Zone
• SGV — Self Guided Vehicle
• RESPECT — Recognizing Educational Success, Professional Excellence, and Collaborative Teaching
• APPS — Applications (software)
• SOCC — Satellite Operations Control Center
• QPQ — Quid Pro Quo
• ITS — Intelligent Transportation System
• ERDAS — Earth Resources Data Analysis System
• AP — Application Processor
• CME — Coronal Mass Ejection (usually Sun)
• CMW — Compartmented Mode Workstation
• PSN — Packet Switched Network
• TI — Texas Instruments, Inc.
• CWI — Crutch Walking Instructions
• EST — Estimated Ship Time
• SECM — Shop Equipment, Contact Maintenance
• SSTO — Single-Stage-to-Orbit
• LCM — Life Cycle Management
• PAM — Payload Assist Module
• TPN — Tactical Packet Network
• SAAF — South African Air Force
• SO/LIC — Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict
• OPF — Orbiter Processing Facility
• SODARS — Special Operations Debrief and Retrieval System
• LONG — Longitude
• PX — Post Exchange
• TOMS — Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (satellite Instrument)
• QAR — Quality Assurance Representative
• PDS — Post Design Services
• UTE — Utilization Rate
• AMPL — Amplitude
• NASICON — Na Super-ionic Conductor
• SN1 — Seaman First Class
• UVV — Upward Vertical Velocity
• OR — Operational Requirement
• AOT — Aerosol Optical Thickness
• SNJ — North American Aircraft Company TEXAN, W W II Trainer Aircraft
• ROICC — Resident Officer In Charge of Construction
• WGYN — We've Got Your Number
• SMLM — Soviet Military Liaison Mission
• AIR — American Institute for Research

• CAMS — Core Automated Maintenance System
• UCR — Unsatisfactory Condition Report
• SDIO — Strategic Defense Initiative Organization
• BIM — Ballistic Intercept Missile
• VFY — Verify
• PECP — Preliminary Engineering Change Proposal
• SEWIP — Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program
• USD(R&E) — Under Secretary of Defense For Research and Engineering
• PTR — Paper Tape Reader
• CSREES — Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service
• ROKMC — Republic Of Korea Marine Corps
• RNVC — Reference Number Variation Code
• MSS — Mission Support System
• RADM — Rear Admiral
• SLJO — Shitty Little Jobs Officer
• NM — Network Management
• CTS — communications technology satellite
• ADGE — Air Defence Ground Environment
• ASAR — Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar 
• AMGOT — Allied Military Government for Occupied Territories
• LOC — Location Number
• ESE — Earth Science Enterprise
• TT&E — Technical Test & Evaluation
• TPQ-37 — Weapon Locating Radar
• RN — Royal Navy
• CSU — Channel Service Unit
• SSR — secondary surveillance radar (ICAO/FAA)
• SITMAP — Situation Map
• SSMA — Spread-Spectrum Multiple Access
• SURPIC — Surface Picture
• SSM/I — Special Sensor Microwave/Imager
• VQO — Visual Quality Objective
• SA — Special Agent
• PDM — Pulse Duration Modulation
• QXS — Quick Access
• SQE — Software Quality Evaluation
• WFO — Weather Forecast Office
• NAV — Navigator
• RICC — Reportable Item Control Code
• REI — Restricted Entry Interval
• SPLA/M — Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement
• SIMM — Single In-line Memory Module
• UPRN — Unique Property Reference Number
• UXE — Upkeep by Exchange
• TERM — Terminal
• DT&E — Development, Test, & Evaluation
• SCPC — single channel per carrier
• TTNT — Tactical Targeting Network Technology
• TECHEVAL — Technical Evaluation
• TAPOC — Theater Army Personnel Operations Center

• PPM — Pulse Position Modulation
• LMI — Layer Management Interface
• SNT — Serial Number Tracking
• LMR — Land Mobile Radio
• SOL — Solenoid
• UV — Ultra Violet
• TYQ-69 — Commmunications Control Set
• RDBMS — Relational Data Base Management System (Oracle)
• ULSI — Ultra Large Scale Integration
• MRC — Maintenance Requirement Card
• RAR — Royal Australian Regiment
• PSYOPS — Psychological Operations
• IU — Interface Unit
• PRB — Problem Review Board
• RNAV — Random Navigation Area Navigation
• SARSS — Standard Army Retail Supply System
• RLY — Relay
• EOB — Executive Office Building
• WGS 84 — World Geodetic System 1984
• TDWR — Terminal Doppler Weather Radar
• CSR — Current Situation Room
• UJTL — Universal Joint Task List
• VASI — Visual Approach Slope Indicator
• NVG — Night Vision Goggle
• TIREM — Terrain Integrated Rough Earth Model
• UDA — Ulster Defence Association
• RTS — Remote Tracking Station
• RKH — Riyadh Armed Forces Hospital
• SPMN — Software Program Managers Network
• QAC — Quality Assurance Checklist
• SA — Selective Availability (on GPS transmissions)
• SEWS — Satellite Early Warning System
• CPE — Customer Premise Equipment
• STU — Secure Telephone Unit
• SIOP-ESI — Single Integrated Operational Plan-Extremely Sensitive Information
• RET — Retired
• TAPDB — Total Army Personnel Database
• UQL — Unacceptable Quality Level
• YAG — Yttrium Aluminum Garnet
• FAAS — Foreign Affairs Administrative Support
• DAC — Data Assembly Center
• IPM — Interpersonal Messaging
• POC/ET — Proof Of Concept/Experimental Testbed
• EO — End Office
• TSP — Telecommunications Service Priority
• NEL — National Exploitation Laboratory
• TASMO — Tactical Air Support for Maritime Operations
• AFGWC — Air Force Global Weather Central (U.S.)
• QNQ — Quality Not Quantity
• SBL — Space-Based Laser

• MAD — Message Address Directory
• NNPT — Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
• TPQ-36 — Firefinder Radar
• SECSTATE — Secretary of State
• IVD — Interactive Video Disk
• NDL — Network Data Language
• WE — With Equipment
• WIA — Wounded In Action
• WARC — World Administrative Radio Conference
• SNAFUBAR — Situation Normal, All Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition
• RMN — Royal Malaysian Navy
• SW/OS — Software/Operating System
• QAO — Quality Assurance Office
• VLSI — Very Large-Scale Integration
• RUC — Rapid Update Cycle
• RUF — Rules for the Use of Force (ROE)
• CBW — Chemical and Biological Warfare
• WFNA — White Fuming Nitric Acid
• UNMOC — United Nations Military Observers Course
• MTA — Message Transfer Agents (Internet)
• PVU — Portable Verification Unit
• RICO — Regional Interface Control Officer
• NLM — NetWare Loadable Module
• PTT — Push to Talk Taster
• DVI — Digital Video Interactive
• VBIED — Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosion Device
• WHA — Tungsten Heavy Alloy
• PTT — Push to Talk Technology
• TIROS — Television InfraRed Observation Satellite (POES)
• APNIC — Asia Pacific Network Information Center
• PTT — Push to Talk Testing
• SOFT — Strengths, Opportunities, Faults, Threats
• DITCO — Defense Information Technology Contracting Office (formerly DECCO)
• TPS — Thermal Protection System
• LF — Live Fire
• MIL-STD — Military Standard
• SIDS — Secondary Imagery Dissemination System
• RDJTF — Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force (US)
• DII — Defense Industry Initiative
• SD/D — System Development and Demonstration life cycle phase
• SBNPB — Space-Based Neutral Particle Beam
• SCCB — Software Configuration Control Board
• CITIS — Contractor Integrated Technical Information Service
• SADL — Situation Awareness Data Link
• SECARMY — Secretary of the Army
• CIHS — Classified Information Handling System
• TSOC — Theater Special Operations Command
• CPR — Cost Performance Report
• ECCM — Electronic Counter-Counter-Measures
• COMPUSEC — Computer Security

• TUH — Tactical Utility Helicopter
• SSSS — Silent Sound Spread Spectrum
• SCTS — Single Channel Transponder System
• QCP — Quality Control Program
• JTC — Joint Technical Committee (USA)
• R&R — Rest & Recuperation
• TCAE — Technical Control and Analysis Element (obsolete term)
• RPSTL — Repair Parts and Special Tools Listing
• RF/EMPINT — Radio Frequency/Electromagnetic Pulse Intelligence
• CCIL — Continuously Computed Impact Line
• QAG — Quality Assurance Group (TWG/TAT-14)
• AOSS — automated office support system
• AMCS — Alternate Master Control Station
• ECS — Environmental Control System (Subsystem)
• IRM — information resource management
• TAOR — Tactical Area Of Responsibility
• SLC — Space Launch Complex
• TACSAT — Tactical Satellite
• VERTREP — Vertical Replenishment
• TLT — Test Loop Translator
• QUADCON — Quadruple Container
• PG — Persian Gulf
• PSN — Public Switched Network
• LASIK — laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis (eye surgery)
• DCAS — Defense Contract Administration Services
• OII — Operations-Intelligence Interface
• SEO/SEP — Special Enforcement Operation/Special Enforcement Program
• QIP — Quality Improvement Program
• RIA — Rock Island Arsenal
• QOI — Quality of Information
• TOPMIS — Total Officer Personnel Management Information System
• SITP — Subsystem Integration Test Plan
• TAFIM — Technical Architecture Framework for Information Management
• WA — Western Approaches
• SWPC — Space Weather Prediction Center
• RESPROD — Responsible Production
• EI — Effectiveness Index
• LAMMA — Laser Microprobe Mass Analysis
• SFAF — Standard Frequency Action Format
• SPC — Storm Prediction Center
• SYD — Subject to Your Discretion
• SJA — Staff Judge Advocate
• OST — Outer Space Treaty
• VTAM — Virtual Telecommunication Access Method
• NSTC — National Science and Technology Council (U.S.)
• NCR — No Carbon Required
• RADIUS — Remote Authentication dial In User Service
• TOR — Tentative Operational Requirement
• AWOS — Automated Weather Observing System
• DODISS — Department of Defense Index of Specifications and Standards

• UUT — Unit Under Test
• ABET — Accreditation Board for Engineering & Technology
• PWM — pulsewidth modulation
• ITWS — Integrated Terminal Weather System
• UTA — Unit Training Assembly
• SOSCOE — System-Of-Systems Common Operating Environment
• WHOI — Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• JTWC — Joint Typhoon Warning Center
• TADS — Target Acquisition and Designation System (US)
• TM — Technical Monitor
• TELCO — Telephone Company
• SHTF — Shit Hit The Fan
• TCDL — Tactical Common Data Link
• TBU — True But Useless
• MVS — Multiple Virtual System
• RYE — Retirement Year Ending
• DCASR — Defense Contract Administration Services Region
• FA — Forward Area
• CERES — Clouds and Earth's Radiant Energy System
• TQQ — Total Quality is Questionable
• SHA — System Hazard Analysis
• TSCIF — Tactical Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility
• UIFG — User Interface Functional Group
• SECNAVINST — Secretary of the Navy Instruction
• RHIB — Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat
• QVT — Quality Verification Testing
• MILNET — Military Network
• ETF — Enhanced tactical fighter
• SDNS — Secure Data Network System
• RQS — Rescue Squadron
• SVIP — Secure Voice Improvement Program
• TCSP — Theater Consolidation and Shipping Point
• QFQ — Quest for Quality
• S-1 — Army Adjutant/Personnel Staff at the Battalion/Brigade level
• SS-14 — Scamp Missile
• DTD — Data Transfer Device
• RECCEXREP — Reconnaissance Exploitation Report
• UMPR — Unit Manpower Personnel Record
• UJC — Urgency Justification Code
• LAOS — Large Amplitude Oscillatory Shear
• RET. — Retired
• VISSR — visible and infrared spin scan radiometer (GOES)
• ETL — Environmental Technology Laboratory
• VQD — Vendor Quality Diagnosis
• USMHK — United States Military Hospital, Kuwait
• RSTN — Radio Solar Telescope Network
• NFDRS — National Fire Danger Rating System
• CRS — Community Relations Service
• SIRR — Software Integration Readiness Review
• MTBMA — Mean Time Between Maintenance Actions

• NNSA — National Nuclear Security Administration
• LC — Library of Congress
• TNP — Take No Prisoners
• PVP — Planned Value Profile
• DND — Department of National Defence
• SANDF — South African National Defence Force
• JAWF — Joint Agricultural Weather Facility
• TELEMED — Telemedicine
• CEMA — Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
• SFMS — Special Forces Medical Sergeant
• TF/TA — Terrain Following / Terrain Avoidance
• QIF — Quality Inspection Function
• IPC — Industrial Planning Committee
• PYQ-3 — COUNTER- INTELLIGENCE/ HUMAN INTELLIGENCE AUTOMATED TOOL SET
• CCITT — Consultative Committee for International Telephone and Telegraph
• CCS2 — Command and Control Subordinate System
• UXB — Unexploded Bomb
• IR&D — Independent Research & Development
• R&A — Reliability & Availability
• TGSM — Terminally Guided Submunition
• VMGR — Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron (heaVier-than-air, Marine, General, Refueling)
• CLICK — Kilometre
• USD/P — Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
• QIM — Quality Inspection Management
• RORO — Roll On, Roll Off
• BEM — British Empire Medal
• RIM-67 — Standard Missile (ER)
• RTD.COL — Retired Colonel
• SSB-SC — Single Sideband-Suppressed Carrier
• TCIM — Tactical Communications Interface Module
• TQV — Technology Qualification Vehicle
• CONFIG — Configuration
• SPL — Software Products Library
• RIU — Radio Interface Unit
• WAAS — Wide Area Augmentation System
• QPO — Quick Purchase Order
• WA — War Arranger
• VSHORAD — Very Short Range Air Defense
• CSTVRP — Computer Security Technical Vulnerability Reporting Program
• USPHS — United States Public Health Service
• OTH — Over the Horizont
• MARAD — Maritime Administration (National Defense Reserve Fleet)
• MOC — Maintenance Operational Check
• STLDD — Software Top-Level Design Document
• DTS — Dedicated Transmission Service
• SAMS-E — Standard Army Maintenance Management-Enhanced
• VHSIC — Very-High-Speed Integrated Circuit
• S/T — Short Ton
• RWIFE — Rotary Wing Instrument Flight Examiner
• SWATH — Small-Waterplane Area Twin-Hull

• FIPC — Foreign Intelligence Priorities Committee
• TAMPS — Tactical Aircraft Mission Planning System
• RRCC — Regional Response Coordination Center
• FAPC — Food and Agriculture Planning Committee
• RA — Roughness Average
• PXH — Phoenix Hawk
• UNREP CONSOL — Underway Replenishment Consolidation
• SE&I — Systems Engineering & Integration
• RC(SW) — Regional Command (Southwest)
• RADC — Rome Air Development Center (Now Rome Laboratory)
• TADIL-B — Tactical Data Information Link-B
• STARTEX — Start of Exercise
• NSCAT — Nasa Scatterometer Project
• VAS — VISSR Atmospheric Sounder
• DTD — Directorate of Technical Development
• DPD — Diffuse Pulmonary Disease
• SMT — station management (protocol)
• VRAM — Video Random Access Memory
• TAPDB-R — Total Army Personnel Database - Reserve
• SSC-2A — Salish Missile
• TT&P — Tactics, Techniques, & Procedures
• S&S — Supply & Service
• TEPP — Test and Evaluation Program Plan
• SINCGARS-SIP — Single Channel Ground and Air(borne) Radio System - System Improvement Program
• STARTLE — Surveillance and Target Acquisition Radar for Tank Location and Engagement (US)
• WDGO — War Department General Order
• QMD — Quality Management Division
• DON — Department Of the Navy
• PCS — Personal Communications Services
• PSSP — Personnel Security and Surety Program
• RLG — Ring Laser Gyro
• LADD — Lowest Acceptable Daily Dose
• RDE — Research Development and Engineering
• WARM — Wartime Reserve Mode
• RELCAN — Releasable to Canada
• ODIF — Open Document Interchange Format
• RWT — Right When Tested
• ERL — Environmental Research Laboratories (absorbed By OAR Or NOAA Research)
• TERPROM — Terrain Profile Matching
• SBY — Standby
• SSPK — Single Shot Probability of Kill
• RSTA — Reconnaissance, Surveillance, and Target Acquisition
• QPT — Quad Port Transceiver
• MOPS — Million Operations per Second
• BGN — United States Board on Geographic Names
• SON — Statement Of Need
• RKS — Record Keeping System
• RC SOUTH — NATO Regional Command SOUTH
• TDOT — Tennessee Department of Transportation's
• UYK-70 — Standard 32-bit Naval processing computer (replaces the UYK-43)

• CMAG — Cruise Missile Advanced Guidance
• NOSC — Naval Ocean Systems Center (replaced by NCCOSC and now SPAWAR Systems Center)
• RAMC — Royal Army Medical Corps
• SPM — System Program Manager
• USSR — Union of Soviet Socialist Republic
• SPETC — Solid Propellant Electro-Thermal-Chemical
• SARIR — Search and Rescue Incident Report
• RS-232 — Recommended Standard 232 (EIA standard for transmitting serial data)
• RCTA — Regional Counterdrug Training Academy
• MCS — Message Conversion System
• NHCD — National HUMINT Collection Directive
• UK(I) — United Kingdom and Ireland
• VWX — Visual Weather report
• NSDD — National Security Decision Directive
• WIDS — Wireless Intrusion Detection System
• RM3 — Radioman Third Class
• SCATANA — Security Control of Air Traffic & Navigation Aids
• SQL — Standard Query Language
• RQQ — Recommendations on Quantity and Quality Committee
• RCN — Royal Canadian Navy
• VNAV — Vertical Navigation
• SK3 — Storekeeper Third Class
• STU-III — Secure Telephone Unit III
• SS-16 — Sinner Missile
• UCA — Unenclosed Covered Area
• VRD — Virtual Retinal Display
• SBX-1 — Sea-Based X-Band Radar
• TTFACOR — Targets, Threats, Friendlies, Artillery, Clearance, Ordnance, Restrictions
• ROIC — Resident Officer In Charge
• SETH — Simulation Equipment Test Hardware
• RSQ — Rescue
• RCF — Repair Cycle Float
• UCLA — University of California, Los Angeles
• IPA — Independent-particle Approximation (in Quantum Calcns. On Solids)
• VHA — Vehicle Holding Area
• PV — Positive Vetting
• ADEOS — Advanced Earth Observing System
• RCV — Remotely Controlled Vehicle
• SVLTU — Service Line Termination Unit
• MEPED — medium energy proton and electron detector
• QMB — Quality Management Board
• RECSTA — Reception Station
• VPF — Vector Product Format
• TELAR — Transporter-Erector-Launcher & Radar
• SSAA — System Security Authorization Agreement
• MTST — Magnetic Tape Selectric Typewriter
• OEU — Operational Evaluation Unit
• RSSC-LO — regional satellite communications support center liaison officer; regional space support center liaison officer
• RQMH — Regimental Quarter Master Havildar
• SSIPF — Standard System Information Production Factory

• TERCOM — Terrain Contour Matching
• SDP — Service Delivery Point
• ASED — Assistant Secretary of Defense
• QQI — Quantitative Quality Indicator
• POS — Position Orientation Systems
• TMDE/PST — Test, Measurement and Diagnostic Equipment/Production Surveillance Test
• SSORD — Service Support Order
• RXW — Receiver Workbook
• SOMPF — Special Operations Mission Planning Folder
• TRF — Tuned Radio Frequency
• OPIC — Overseas Private Investment Corporation
• QRI — Quality and Reliability Improvement
• PSS — Packet Switched Service
• RECC — Regional Emergency Communications Coordinator
• TRANSEC — Transmission Security
• IRBM — Intermediate-range ballistic missile
• SND — Send
• LAST — Lowest Anticipated Service Temperature
• SOSCOM — Special Operations Support Command
• WHAG — Wild Half-Assed Guess
• KSOS — Kernelized Secure Operating System
• AFCC — Air Force Communications Command
• USCS — United States Customs Service
• RECAT — Residual Capability Assessment Team
• EDC — European Defence Community
• JAEIC — Joint Atomic Energy Intelligence Committee
• STOMP — Specialized Training of Military Parents
• SOPA — Senior Officer Present Afloat
• SLQ — Electronic Warfare System
• ECMC — Enhanced Crisis Management Capability
• MOTIF — Maui Optical Tracking and Identification Facility
• VHY — Very High Yield
• RECBN — Reception Battalion
• PKC — Public Key Cryptography
• REQ — Requisition
• SSL — Shop Stock List
• TADA — Terrorist And Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act
• PISA — Pharmaceutical Information Systems Association
• ETR — Eastern Test Range (ESME Preferred)
• REPSHIP — Report of Shipment
• SQUAD — Squadron
• QTA — Qualification Test Article
• RFPI — Rapid Force Projection Initiative
• SART — Search and Rescue Transponder
• ERAST — Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology
• SRL — Survival Research Laboratories
• SS-12 — Scaleboard Missile
• OPAS — Overpass
• IPSO — Internet Protocol Security Option
• SMCA — Single Manager for Conventional Ammunition

• LACE — Laser-Assisted Chemical Etching
• DU — Decision Unit
• LAXRD — Low-Angle X-Ray Diffraction
• NAVELEX — Naval Electronic Systems Command
• REW — Rewind
• MERADCOM — Mobility Equipment Research and Development Command (U.S. Army)
• DRGS — Direct Readout Ground Stations
• RWU — Research Work Unit
• SIP — Site Implementation Plan
• RLPG — Regenerative Liquid Propellant Gun
• EMA — European Monetary Agreement
• SURG — Surgeon
• STAMP — Standard Air Munitions Package (USAF)
• NF — no foreign
• SCOC — Systems Control and Operations Concept
• QEX — Quality Evaluation eXercise
• SRE — Software Risk Evaluation
• NPS — National Park Service (US)
• RMS — Remote Monitoring System
• RED HORSE — Rapid Engineers Deployable Heavy Operations Repair Squadron Engineers
• RRI — Response to Request for Information
• PVL — Priority Vehicle List
• ES — Expert System
• VTOL — Vertical Take-Off & Landing
• TSGT — Technical Sergeant
• RO/RO — Roll-On/Roll-Off (Ship)
• TRADE — Training Devices and Equipment
• SMART-AID — Special Medical Augmentation Response Team - Aeromedical Isolation Team
• SO-PECULIAR — Special Operations-Peculiar
• TOBAS — Take Out Back And Shoot
• TAAF — Test, Analyze, And Fix
• T — Training
• TRU — Transformer Rectifier Unit
• CP — Central Processor
• SHORAN — short-range navigation
• DPC — Direct Patient Care
• VMAQ — Marine Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron
• SITC — SPAWAR (Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command) Information Technology Center
• RDML — Rear Admiral Lower Half
• SMOW — Standard Mean Ocean Water
• RNZAF — Royal New Zealand Air Force
• QCA — Quality Control Analysis
• VKA — Volatile Keying Assembly
• PMSP — Preliminary Message Security Protocol
• RPQ — Request for Price Quotation
• SINS — Ship’s Inertial Navigation System
• SMIS — Security Management Information System
• VLP — Very Low Power
• SAFCS — Small Arms Fire Control System
• DPL — Degausser Products List

• TWY — Taxiway
• TSCP — Theater Security Cooperation Plan
• DIC — Defense Intelligence College
• T-AGOS — Tactical Auxiliary General Ocean Surveillance
• SHSN — Ship Serviceman Seaman
• RAN — Royal Australian Navy
• ARL — Air Resources Laboratory's
• QEAM — Quick Erect Antenna Mast
• QOT&E — Qualification Operational Test & Evaluation
• TACOM — Tank-automotive and Armaments Command (US)
• RF/SAL — Radio-Frequency Semi-Active Laser
• UNODC — United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
• SLTA — Small Laser Transmitter Assembly
• QPL — Qualified Parts List
• SAK — Swiss Army Knife
• WIST — Weather Information for Surface Transportation
• SBV — Space-Based Vehicle
• RDTU — Remote Data Transmission Unit
• VZ — Virtual Zone
• TAMA — Threat Assessment for Army Mission Areas
• T/R — Transmitter/Receiver
• STUPID — Secure Transmitter Unit Platform Integration Directorate
• USNA — United States Naval Academy
• TSCM — Technical Surveillance Countermeasures
• FFG — Federal Facilities program
• PUR — Purchase
• JOP — Joint Operating Procedure
• REEFER — Refrigerated or Cold Storage Unit
• OIA — Office of Imagery Analysis
• QY — Quarter Year
• PTP — Paper Tape Punch
• SRY — Ship Repair Yard
• SLBM — Submarine-launched ballistic missile
• UNDHA — United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs
• VTS — Vandenberg Tracking Station (AFSCN)
• DISNET — Defense Integrated Secure Network
• PUG — Push-Up Game
• SECAM — Séquentiel Couleur Avec Mémoire
• RCMP — Royal Canadian Mounted Police
• QAPP — Quality Assurance Program Plan
• USWRP — United States Weather Research Program
• ULEV — Ultra Low Emission Vehicles
• SS-N-9 — Siren Missile
• RABFAC — Radar Beacon Forward Air Controller
• DB — Data Base
• UO(S) — Uniformed Officer(s)
• QRG — Quick Response Graphic
• RADAM — Radar Detection of Agitated Metals
• USATC — United States Army Training Center
• CCMAT — Canadian Centre for Mine Action Technologies

• RB/ER — Reduced Blast/Enhanced Radiation
• FBS — Forward-Based Systems
• SSU — Stratospheric Sounding Unit (TOVS)
• WHFO — When Hell Freezes Over
• SROE — Standing Rules of Engagement
• TPC — Tropical Prediction Center
• QLP — Quadrilateral Protocol
• PIP — Project Implementation Plan (AID)
• UNC — United Nations Command
• SDIS — Switched Digital Integrated Service
• JSMB — Joint Space Management Board
• SOSI — System-Of-Systems Integration
• OPS — Operations Planning System
• TADDS — Target Alert Data Display Set
• SDLC — Systems Development Life Cycle
• IVAP — Intimate Valence Alternation Pairs (bonding Model In Electronic Structure Calcns.)
• WWOLS — World Wide on-Line System
• ER — Eastern Range
• ISLOCA — Inter-System Loss-of-Coolant Accident
• AHPS — Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Services
• SHAPE — Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (NATO)
• SARSIT — Search and Rescue Situation Summary Report
• TC ACCIS — Transportation Coordinator's Automated Command, Control, and Information System
• SRTM — Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
• PPPA — Poison Prevention Packaging Act (1970)
• VMF-312 — Marine Fighter Air Squadron 312, the Checkerboarders
• SACT — Supreme Allied Commander Transformation
• RGL — Reading Grade Level
• MILSTAMP — Military Standard Transportation & Movement Procedure
• PRB — Program Review Board
• MMU — Mass Memory Unit
• RAST — Recovery Assistance, Securing, and Traversing Systems
• TAMIS — Training Ammunition Management Information System
• VHT — Virtual Heat Treatment
• SC2S — Strategic Command and Control Software
• OGP — Office of Global Programs
• TRACON — Terminal Radar Approach Control
• TRICON — Triple Container
• QRN — Quick Response Network
• TQL — Total Quality Leadership
• USDOE — United States Department Of Energy
• PVF — Pipes, Valves, and Fittings
• QRM — Quantitative Risk Management
• RTFL — Rough Terrain Forklift
• WADS — Western Air Defense Sector
• TUA — TOW Under Armor (US)
• SPID — Strategic Power Infrastructure Defense
• SSIMU — Solid State Inertial Measurement Unit
• PPL — Preferred Products List
• RWIS — Road Weather Information System

• SZ — Surf Zone
• QTF — Quick Turnaround Facility
• USAAF — United States Army Air Forces
• SBFEL — Space-Based Free Electron Laser
• NTCB — Network Trusted Computing Base
• OSF — Operations Support Facility
• SORD — System Operational Requirements Document
• DERA — Defense Environment Restoration Account
• STANO — Surveillance, Target Acquisition, & Night Observation
• SMKLS — Smokeless
• TFLIR — Targeting Forward-Looking Infrared
• SOBER — Short of Being Entirely Ready
• SGOC — Standard Garrison Organization Chart
• SWXS — Space Weather Squadron
• PTOC — Part Time On Call
• RM1 — Radioman First Class
• RNX-62 — Epoxy Composite Propellant
• WERM — Width Equals Range times Mils
• USIA — United States Information Agency (changed To IIP)
• TNT HP — Track And Trace Hollow Point
• PDA — Phase Doppler Analysis
• DCU — Data Control Unit
• QLF — Quality Leadership Forum
• SUBOPAUTH — Submarine Operating Authority Sub-PIC Subordinate-Press Information Center
• RTAD — Relocatable Target Assessment Data
• QMF — Query Management Facility
• REMBASS — Radar and Remotely Monitored Battlefield Sensor System
• SIPRNET — Secret Ip Router Network
• SPACECON — Control of Space Information
• ROZ — Restricted Operation Zone
• P&L — Production & Logistics
• RBL — Results Based Leadership
• SSEB — Source Selection Evaluation Board
• UDI — Unique Device Identifier
• WFP — World Food Program
• USCHA — United States Colored Heavy Artillery
• TACOPS — Tactical Operations
• Q&D — Quick and Dirty
• DU — Display Unit
• SATC — Student Army Training Corps
• USD/A — Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition
• TRQ-32 — Teammate groundbased electronic warfare system
• SXC — Soldiers of Xtreme Combat
• QCI — Quality Conformance Inspections
• TACT — Tactical Aviation Control Team
• MBB — Modular Building Block
• XA — Extended Architecture (MVS)
• LACBED — Large-Angle Convergent-Beam Electron Diffraction
• JSAN — Joint Staff Automation of the Nineties
• SYNC — Synchronization

• SYG — Secretary General (UN)
• QSM — Quality System Manual
• RECBASS — Reception Battalion Automated Support System
• UYK-20 — U.S. Navy standard 16-bit computer
• LABS — laboratories
• NSTAC — National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee
• MODIS — moderate-resolution imaging spectrometer (NASA/GSFC)
• DCA — Defense Cooperation Agreements
• LRP — Long-range Plan
• ARC — Acquisition Review Committee
• SCOOP — System Concept of Operation Outline Plan
• OSO — Office of Satellite Operations
• QTB — Quarterly Training Brief
• SSES — Ships Signal Exploitation Space
• FFI — Free from Infection
• UNREP — Underway Replenishment
• TSM — TRADOC System Manager
• ROSC — Regional Operations and Security Center
• LOEP — List Of Effective Pages
• TLAMM — Theater Lead Agent for Medical Materiel
• SAROS — Synthetic Aperture Radar for Open Skies
• SQ — Super Quiet
• DCP — Decision Coordinating Paper
• DOS — Date of Surgery
• UDC — Unit Descriptor Code
• TSZ — Temporary Security Zone
• RQL — Requirements List
• STOATD — Science and Technology Objectives Advanced Technology Demonstration
• DCA — Defense Communication Agency
• ROPOS — Remotely Operated Platform for Ocean Science
• RMW — Regulated Medical Waste
• SAPR — Sexual Assault Prevention and Response
• UN-DMT — United Nations Disaster Management Team
• SYQ — Command and Control Systems
• TARCOM — Army Tank-Automotive Materiel Readiness Command, Warren, MI
• SARTU — Search and Rescue Training Unit (RAF)
• VMFA 323 — Fixed wing Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 323 Death Rattlers
• ULF — Ultra Low Frequency
• RQD — Required
• LAC — Liquid Adsorption Chromatography
• CDIP — Council of Defense Intelligence Producers
• SACEUR — Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (NATO)
• SBIRS — Space-Based Infrared System
• SAE — Service Acquisition Executive
• SASP — Special Ammunition Supply Point
• OPS — Operations Process System
• VUL — Vulnerability
• SMEC — Single Module Engine Controller
• TECHDOC — Technical Documentation
• SMTP — Simple Message Transfer Protocol

• SEATO — South East Asia Treaty Organization
• TAC — Terrain Analysis Center
• VPB-54 — Naval Patrol Bombing Squadron 54, the Black Cat Squadron
• DPC — Delayed Primary Closure
• UVC — Ultra-Violet C (250-260nm)
• TMEP — Theater Mortuary Evacuation Point
• DCTN — Defense Commercial Telecommunications Network
• NGA — NATO Guidelines Area
• SOFSA — Special Operations Forces Support Activity
• USMMA — United States Merchant Marine Academy
• WSMC — Western Space and Missile Center
• LEAF — Law Enforcement Access Field
• VQR — Vendor Quality Report
• DST — Daylight Savings Time
• QVP — Quality Verification Program
• ODCSOPS — Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans (Army)
• IVNAA — In Vivo Neutron Activation Analysis
• CAB — Cabin
• SOTF — Security Operations Training Facility
• NTISSC — National Telecommunications & Information Systems Security Committee
• SAMOS — Satellite and Missile Observation Satellite
• TADIL-A — Tactical Data Information Link-A
• WFOE — Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprise
• NAVNET — Navy Network
• RHQ — Regimental Headquarters
• PV2 — Private First Class - Army
• SLQ-48 — Mine Neutralization System
• UGF — Underground Facility
• SEPLO — State Emergency Preparedness Liaison Officer
• RNZN — Royal New Zealand Navy
• WGPU — Weapons-Grade Plutonium
• JPRS — Joint Publications Research Service
• RRE — Royal Radar Establishment
• SAAR — Strength Accounting And Reporting
• TCMD — transportation control and movement document
• SPORT — Soldier's Portable On-System Repair Tool
• SMKU — Shelter Mock-Up
• SFOD-A/B/C — Special Forces Operational Detachment-A/B/CC
• RDDS — Range Data Distribution System
• SOFME — Special Operations Forces Medical Element
• QQPRI — Qualitative and Quantitative Personnel Requirements Information
• REJASE — RE-using Junk As Something Else
• SMC — System Management Center
• USDOC — United States Department of Commerce
• RJAF — Royal Jordanian Air Force
• SABC — self aid and buddy care
• QVJ — Quality Verification Journal
• ST&E — Security Test and Evaluations
• SST — Safe Secure Transport
• ASRAAM — Advanced Short Range Air to Air Missile

• DST — Decision Support Tools
• PPA — Pollution Prevention Act
• USASSG — United States Army Special Security Group
• SPURV — Self-Propelled Underwater Research Vehicle
• RPZ — Reduced Pressure Zone
• NPN — NOAA Profiler Network
• RAE — Right of Assistance Entry
• TPQ-47 — Upgraded Weapon Locating Radar
• PNAF — Prime Nuclear Airlift Force
• TACON — Tactical Control
• SNOK — Secondary Next Of Kin
• LAPS — Local Analysis and Prediction System
• SSCP — Subsystem Service Control Point
• SIG — Signaling Channel
• SHDS — Safety and Health Data Sheet
• QJT — Quality Job Training
• WSMCR — Western Space and Missile Center Regulation
• ARMS — Automated Resource Management System
• SOMO — Suspension of Military Operations
• SQIP — Software Quality Improvement Process
• QFPN — Quick Fix Position Navigation
• QE — Quality Evaluation
• SRQ — Software Requirements Questionnaire
• SOTAS — Standoff Target Acquisition System
• SAMMS — Standard Automated Materiel Management System
• SKO — Sets, Kits, And Outfits
• UIRV — Unique Interswitch Rekeying Variable
• ACARS — ARINC Communication Addressing and Reporting System
• STKG — SturzKampfGeschwader (German dive bomber wing)
• LAAFS — Laser Ablation Atomic Fluorescence Spectroscopy
• QBZ — Qingwuqi Buqiang - Zidong
• SRV — Software Requirements Verification
• SCATMINE — Scatterable Mine
• TAPDB-AE — Total Army Personnel Database - Active Enlisted
• PWAAS — Passive Wide Area Alerting System
• QCT — Quality Control tool
• WGWV — Well Gulf War Veterans
• NISAC — National Industrial Security Advisory Committee
• RERLE — Radar Echo Return Loss Enhancement
• TISEO — Target Identification System Electro-Optical
• UVL — UltraViolet Lamp
• PZJ — Panzer JunkWagen
• SHQ — Station Head Quarters
• NLG — Nose Landing Gear
• RFG — Resource Funding Group
• ULCANS — Ultra-Lightweight CAmouflage Net System
• STAFF — Smart, Target Activated, Fire & Forget
• REMODN72C7E — Reception and Onward Movement of DoD-Sponsored Non-Combatant Evacuees
• RIRA — Real Irish Republican Army
• BMG — Browning Machine Gun

• UCS — Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set
• PLSS — Precision Location Strike System
• VZE — Virtual Zone Entrance
• QCC — Quality Control Center
• TPW — Total Precipitable Water
• SYRS — System Requirements Specification
• TDBSS — Theater Defense Blood Standard System
• LAPW — Linearized Augmented Plane Wave (for Band-structure Calcns.)
• NMC — Not Mission Capable
• USPTO — United States Patent and Trademark Office
• SKC — Chief Storekeeper
• RAMCC — Regional Air Movement Coordination Center
• QME — Quality Measurement Experiment
• IRRAS — Integrated Reliability and Risk Analysis System
• RCACA — Royal Canadian Armoured Corps Association
• SP HAWK — Self-Propelled HAWK
• ORA — Office of Research and Applications
• PNVS — Pilot Night Vision System
• SAGE — Semi Automated Ground Environment
• SWAN — Shipwide Area Network
• STREAM — Standard Tensioned Replenishment Alongside Method
• TEZ — Total Exclusion Zone
• UYK-44 — U.S. Navy standard 16-bit computer (replacement for UYK-20)
• TFM — Trusted Facility Manual
• UMIB — Urgent Marine Information Broadcast
• MCEB — Military Communications-Electronics Board
• TADSS — Training Aids, Devices, Simulators, and Simulations
• SSPP — System Safety Program Plan
• SNONI — Senior Naval Officer Northern Ireland
• MHD — Moving-Head Disk
• TARBUL — Target Bulletin
• USB — Upper Sideband
• BER — Biological & Environmental Research
• USSPACECOM — United States Space Command
• UFS — Unified File System
• RASC — Royal Army Service Corps
• UM — Unit Manager
• RAM-D — Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Dependability
• SEON — Solar Electro-Optical Network
• VADS — Vulcan Air Defense System (US)
• MISSI — Multilevel Information System Security Initiative
• UV-A — UltraViolet A
• RFL — Restrictive Fire Line (military)
• PTADS — Point Target Defense System
• SLQ-25 — Torpedo Countermeasures System
• ULLC — Unit Level Logistics Computer
• RNX — Richard Nakka Experimental Rocket Propellant
• SOF/FID — Special Operations Force/Foreign Internal Defense
• TCCCS — Tactical Command, Control, and Communications System
• SFA — Security Force Assistance

• USACIDC — United States Army Criminal Investigation Command
• SOCSOUTH — Special Operations Component, United States Southern Command
• MSPB — Merit System Protection Board
• USACE — United States Army Corps of Engineers
• THZ — TeraHertz
• CFS — Center For Standards
• SQV — Software Quality Verification
• OPS — Operations Shelter
• KSK — Kommando Spezialkräfte
• LAMS — Laser Mass Spectrometry
• DON — Demyelinating Optic Neuritis
• SIMWIN — Simulated Workstation Input
• PSMS — Personnel Status Monitoring System
• MIMS — Multimedia Integrated Modeling System
• SQN — Squadron
• VDC — Volts, Direct Current
• UFA — Until Further Advised
• PAT — Proficiency Analytical Testing (NIOSH)
• SGA — Standards of Grade Authorization
• TW/AA — Tactical Warning and Attack Assessment
• SIGSEC — Signal Security
• STOC — Special Technical Operations Coordinator
• TAOM — Tactical Air Operations Module
• VTO — Vertical Take Off
• PWOD — Proceed WithOut Delay
• LAP — Laboratory Analytical Protocol
• ULCC — Ultra Large Crude Carrier (oil)
• SOCC — Sector Operations Control Center (NORAD)
• TTHS — Trainees, Transients, Holdees, and Students
• TWPS — Tactical Water Purification System
• TRAS — Training Requirements Analysis System
• TMSA — Tanker Management and Self Assessment
• TFG — Transportation Facility Guide
• MW — Missile Warning
• UYQ — Uranium Yield Quantity
• SCF(US) — Save The Children Federation (United States)
• NCB — Nuclear Contingency Branch
• POS — Position of Strength
• USCENTCOM — United States Central Command
• RDYLD — Ready to Load Date
• QPU — Quarterly Performance Update
• DES — Digital Encryption Standard
• TCAM — Theater Army Medical Management Information System (TAMMIS) Customer Assistance Module
• ADR — Accident Data Recorder
• RHRN — Royal Hutt River Navy
• SOTSE — Special Operations Theater Support Element
• SIBYL — Synergistic Image Building Yttrium LADAR
• SPCP — State Polytechnic College of Palawan
• RO-RO — Roll On-roll Off
• RSM — Regimental Sergeant Major

• ISA — Ionic Strength Adjuster
• SHAG — Simplified High Accuracy Guidance (Honeywell)
• SWAG — Special Warfare Action Group
• SBIS — Sustaining Base Information Services (or System)
• SJS — Secretary, Joint Staff
• TADC — Tactical Air Direction Center
• PWIS — Prisoner of War Information System
• LDEF — Long Duration Exposure Facility (for Spacecraft Material Testing)
• T&E — Test and Evaluation
• SMMP — System MANPRINT Management Plan
• PXS — Project Executive System
• TREE — Transient Radiation Effects on Electronics
• USDOJ — United States Department of Justice
• RCSCC — Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corps
• SCAMM — Shaped Charge Anti- Mine Munition
• WFX — Warfighter Exercise
• VRL — Virtual Reality Laboratory
• SOMA — Status of Mission Agreement
• USAFSOC — United States Air Force, Special Operations Command
• WETM — Weather Team
• RCPAC — Reserve Components Personnel and Administrative Center
• DOE — Date of Examination
• TYQ-23 — Tactical Air Operations Command and Control Set
• REAP — Research and Engineering Apprenticeship Program
• SDVT — SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team
• USAISC — United States Army Information Systems Command
• LAS — Linear Alkylbenzene Sulfonates (anionic Surfactants)
• QIG — Quality Improvement Group
• STOMPS — Stand-Alone Tactical Operational Message Processing System
• SDRL — Sea Date Required to Load
• SMT — Simultaneous Multi-Threading
• VSW — Very Shallow Water
• EOSDIS — EOS Data and Information System (NASA)
• VP-8 — Navy Patrol Squadron Eight
• SEKP — Single Engagement Kill Probability
• T-AVB — Aviation Logistics Support Ship - MSC Manned
• VTQ — Voice Transmission Quality
• SELRES — Selected Reserve
• USAMCC — United States Army Meteorology and Calibration Center
• UUR — Unit Under Review
• WAAF — Women's Auxiliary Air Force (World WarII UK)
• RNP — Remote Network Processor
• FEDSIM — Federal Computer Performance Evaluation and Simulation Center
• TMQ-41 — Meteorological data Measuring Set
• TBQ — To Be Questioned
• ECSC — European Coal And Steel Community (distant Ancestor Of The EU)
• S-DAY — day the President authorizes selective reserve call-up
• STDN — Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network
• QSV — Quality, Service, and Value
• OSI — Open System Interconnection

• USSOUTHCOM — United States Southern Command
• WWMCCS — Worldwide Military Command and Control System (obsolete)
• SOON — Solar Observing Optical Network
• TGP — Terminally Guided Projectile
• PSRO — Passenger Standing Route Order
• SLAT — Supersonic Low-Altitude Target
• SWCD — Soil and Water Conservation District
• TASE — TAACOM (Theater Army Area COMmand) Area Support Element
• TAPDB-A — Total Army Personnel Database - Active
• VIDOC — VIsual DOCumentation program
• USTRANSCOM — United States Transportation Command
• SPQR — Senatus Populesque Romanus (the Senate and the People of Rome)
• RTFA — Ready-Team-Fire-Assist
• SCQ — Situational Confidence Questionnaire
• RBOL — Rakovski Bulgarian Officers Legion
• V — Vertical
• UR(S) — Utilization Rate(s)
• SKSN — STOREKEEPER SEAMAN
• RHOGI — Radar Homing and Guidance Interceptors
• SZM — Security Zone Management
• SRAAG — Senior Army Advisor National Guard
• RDECOM — US Army Research, Development, and Engineering Command
• RGB — Red, Green, Blue
• PXO — Prospective Executive Officer
• RPFT — Ranger Physical Fitness Test
• LACE — Lectin Affinity Capillary Electrophoresis
• RWIFEC — Rotary Wing Instrument Flight Examiner Course
• EPL — Evaluated Products List
• QNR — Quarterly Noncompliance Report
• SIG — Signaling equipment
• UBL — Unit Basic Load
• SOIDC — special operations independent duty corpsman
• RSZ — Runway Safety Zone
• IPA — Inverted Perturbation Approach (in Mol. Potential-energy Curves Calcn.)
• UGP — Unitary Guerilla Platoon (gaming group)
• THO — Target Hand-Off
• SMFG — System Management Functional Group
• SLME — Select Manual Entry
• RCIED — Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Device
• QVS — Quality, Value, and Service
• DOT — Date of Transfer
• TADCS — Tactical Airborne Digital Camera System
• TACSOP — Tactical Standard Operating Procedures
• UGM-27 — Polaris Missile
• OSE — Open System Environment
• WAFE — Wives of the Armed Forces, Emeritus
• RFDC — Radio Frequency Data Collection
• RRN — Rapid Response Network
• SMH — Society for Military History
• RCOT — Reserve Commissioned Officer Training

• RACA — Requiring Authority Competition Advocate
• TFA — Toxic Free Area
• QBL — Qualified Bidders List
• SOCS — School Of Corresponding Studies
• TIARA — Tactical Intelligence And Related Activities
• RISTA — Reconnaissance, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Target Acquisition
• QRE — Quick Reaction Element
• MSK — Minimum Shift Keying
• SAFI — Short-Term Average Failure Intensity
• SUB — Submarine
• OFCM — Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology
• VDO — Video Display Operator
• TLN — Total Logistics Network
• SQJ — Software Quality Journal
• RJTD — Reconstitution Joint Table of Distribution
• SDDCTEA — Surface Deployment and Distribution Command Transportation Engineering Agency
• RNLAF — Royal Netherlands Air Force (also KLu)
• PCS — Personal Communications System
• RCIEDS — Radio Controlled Improvised Explosive Devices
• TEHO — Tail-End-Hop-Off
• TODD — Training Observation Distribution And Documentation
• RB53 — Bantam Missile
• T/R — Transmit/Receive
• WHNS — Wartime Host-Nation Support
• QSTAG — Quadripartite Standardization Agreement (cue-stag)
• SVTP — Software Verification Test Plan
• SMILS — Sonobuoy Missile Impact Location System
• SOACMS — Special Operations Aviation Combat Mission Simulator
• SBTG — Sabotage
• SOSR — Suppress, Obscure, Secure, and Reduce
• QRS — Quick Reaction Strike
• SHORAD — Short-Range Air Defense
• USSBS — United States Strategic Bombing Survey
• URT — User Requirements Testing
• USPFO(P&C) — United States Property and Fiscal Office (Purchasing and Contracting)
• ITTFA — Iterative Target Transformation Factor Analysis
• RDTE — Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation
• RIR — Reduction In Recruitment
• VDSD — Visual Distress Signaling Device
• RTARF — Royal Thai Armed Forces
• NDIC — National Drug Intelligence Center
• QIL — Quality Inspection Line
• TACP — Tactical Air Control Party
• VVP — Versatile Voice Processing
• USPFO — United States Property and Fiscal Officer
• TESAR — Tactical Endurance Synthetic Aperture Radar
• SS-X-24 — Scalpel Missile
• REL — Reference Exposure Level
• QNE — Quick n' Easy
• QBX — Question Before eXecution

• PSNCO — Personnel Staff NCO
• REEM — Reserves Embarked
• NSARC — Navy Systems Acquisition Review Council
• RIW — Reliability Improvement Warranty
• USNORTHCOM — United States Northern Command
• VINSON — Wide-Band Secure Voice system name
• QJO — Quality Job Operations
• QWG — Quadripartite Working Group (qwig)
• SLWT — Side Loadable Warping Tug
• SECRA — Secondary Radar Data Only
• SWIT — Software Integration and Test
• PSRC — Presidential Selected Reserve Call-Up
• DOES — Disorder of Excessive Somnolence
• USARNORTH — US Army Forces North
• TRY — Today Reunites Yesterday
• RCVTP — Reserve Component Virtual Training Program
• WGQT — Working Group on Qualification Technologies
• RD&J — Radar Deception & Jamming
• URI — University Research Initiative
• QDK — Quarterdeck
• USACSC — United States Army Computer Systems Command
• LAMOFS-ETE — Laser Excited Molecular Fluorescence Spectroscopy With Electrothermal Evaporation
• KAL — Key Asset List
• SKSA — STOREKEEPER SEAMAN APPRENTICE
• QDV — Are you flying in a horizontal visibility of less than ...?
• TACTS — Tactical Aircrew Combat Training System
• ESIP — Earth Science Information Partnership
• SECORD — Secure Cord Switchboard
• PLIRRA — Pollution Liability Insurance and Risk Reduction Act
• RRDT — Rapid Response Documentation Team
• SXO — Squadron Executive Officer
• SHU — Security Housing Unit
• WDFR — Worst Damage First Repair
• CNC — Computerized Numerical Control
• QMW — Quality Management Workshop
• SADA — Standard Advanced Dewar Assembly
• DPC — Distal Palmar Crease
• ADS — Aim Down Sights
• BASC — Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate
• N-ISDN — Narrowband ISDN
• QVD — Qualified Vehicle Driver
• TPDF — Tanzania People's Defence Forces
• RM2 — Radioman Second Class
• REVTP — Reserve Components Virtual Training Program
• F — Frequency of Lifting
• TELINT — Telemetry Intelligence
• QOX — Quality of Experience
• MRCA — Multi-Role Combat Aircraft
• RESCAP — Rescue Combat Air Patrol
• TJD — Trajectory Diagram

• IPAD — Integrated Pulsed Amperometric Detection
• SPSC — System Planning & System Control
• READR — Remain in Effect After Discharge and Re-Enlistment
• QFF — Quick Fix Force
• PTRP — Physical Training and Rehabilitation Program
• SLI — Strategic List Item
• SOWT — Special Operations Weather Team
• UICIO — Unit Identification Code Information Officer
• MOPP — Mission-Oriented Protective Posture
• TC-ACCIS — Transportation Coordinator's Automated Command and Control Information System
• ROCU — Remote Orderwire Control Unit
• QAH — Quality Assurance Hold
• OCS — Operational Control Segment
• QEG — Quality Evaluation Group
• RBG — Rocket Boosted Glider
• SMAC — Scene Matching Area Correlator
• SWARM — Smart Warfighting Array of Reconfigurable Modules
• SKCS — Senior Chief Storekeeper
• VIRUS — Very Important Resource Under Siege
• SCITIS — Single Channel Transponder Injection System
• SRAM — Short Range Attack Missile
• PVNTMED — Preventive Medicine
• VVI — Verification, Validation, and Inspection
• SOFLAM — Special Operations Laser Marker
• SUSFU — Situation Unchanged - Still Fouled Up
• SPAR — Semper Paratus Always Ready
• USD — Under Secretary of Defense, Personnel and Readiness
• VMM — Virtual Machine Monitor
• SEL REL — Selective Release
• SSPH — Single Shot Probability of Hit
• SSPARS — Solid-State Phased Array Radar System
• SC EUR — NATO Strategic Command, Europe
• QAU — Quality Assurance Unit
• RDL — Required Detection Level
• SOAGS — Special Operations Air-Ground System
• QOW — Quality of Work
• OPDS — Organ on Politics Defence and Security
• TAFT — Technical Assistance Field Team
• SKV — Storekeeper, Aviation
• R&O — Repair and Overhaul
• SADC — Sector Air Defense Commander
• SOAS — Special Operations ADP System
• UWB — Ultra Wide-Band
• SAVA — Standard Army Vetronics Architecture
• QCF — Quality Control Function
• UBO — UNIFORM BUSINESS OFFICE
• SAMMC — San Antonio Military Medical Center
• ASD — Atmospheric Sciences Division
• RSTV — Real-Time Synthetic Video
• QMM — Quality Monitoring Module

• RTOS — Re-configurable Tactics Operations Simulator
• SISMS — Standard Integrated Support Management System
• SYQ-20 — Advanced Combat Direction System
• TKT — Tool KiT
• SK1 — Storekeeper First Class
• TXO — Training, Exercise, & Operations
• ROCK — Representative of Canada in Kandahar (Afghanistan)
• SAFOR — Semi Automated Forces
• TYQ — Commmunications Set AN/ series
• SPAD — Simple Plastic Airplane Design
• TADSTAND — Tactical Automation Digital STANDard
• RVC — Remount and Veterinary Corps
• SIMAIN — Simulated Automatic Digital Network Input
• PZE — Project Zero-baseline Estimate
• WSMR — White Sands Missile Range (whiz-murr)
• SECTRANS — Secretary of Transportation
• SFHD — System Functional Hierarchical Diagram
• SOSC — Special Operations Support Command
• ON — Original Negative (film)
• QOB — Quality of Business
• WHEC — US Coast Guard High Endurance Cutter
• VAC — Volts, Alternating Current
• SNCOIC — Senior Non Commissioned Officer In Charge
• STAR-21 — Strategic Technologies for the Army of the 21st Century
• SHORADEZ — Short-Range Air Defense Engagement Zone
• RALH — Raise a Little Hell
• TPVS — Third Party Verification Service
• VMF-223 — Marine Fighter Air Squadron 223, the Fighting Bulldogs
• SFCP — Shore Fire Control Party
• WWIMS — Worldwide Warning Indicator Monitoring System
• TEWLS — Theater Enterprise-Wide Logistics System
• ULS — Update of Legacy Systems
• REMUS — Remote Environmental Monitoring Unit System
• VEO — Violent Extremist Organization
• SOCJFCOM — Special Operations Command, Joint Forces Command
• QTID — Quadrilateral Technical Interface Design Plan
• RDAP — Research, Development, and Acquisition Plan
• TEED — Tactical End-to-End Encryption Device
• SWZ — Special Watch Zone
• SLQ-31 — Electronic Warfare Jamming System
• RGVTDB — Rapidly Generated Virtual Terrain Data Base
• SCIP — Supply Chain Integration Program
• RLE — Rail Liaison Element
• PWE — Primary Weapons and Equipment
• QFS — Quality Fabrication Service
• RCACS — Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron
• TLAM — Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles
• VIABLE — Vertical Installation Automation Baseline
• DSSNY — Dental Society of the State of New York
• SAINT — Strategic Artificially Intelligent Nuclear Transport

• RSAF — Royal Saudi Air Force
• TASCO — Tactical Automatic Switch Control Officer
• SEW — Shared Early Warning
• VQA — Voice Quality Analyzer
• SQG — Software Quality Group
• PSR — Polarimetric Scanning Radiometer
• RDG — Reversal Discussion Group
• RIAM — Rock Island Arsenal Museum
• TAPSTEM — Training and Personnel Systems Science and Technology Evaluation and Management (Committee)
• MRT — Minimum Resolvable Temperature
• TPRS — Towed Paratrooper Retrieval System
• TSS — Timesharing System
• RNA — Rations Not Available
• SDTC — Standard Duty Title Code
• VENOM — Vicious Evil Network of Mayhem
• TDAR — Tactical Defense Alert Radar
• SIDO — Senior Intelligence Duty Officer
• R2 — Reporting Responsibility
• UMOC — Unit Movement Officer Course
• STGR — Steam Generator Tube Rupture
• DMSA — Defense Medical Support Activity
• SSCRA — Soldiers and Sailors Civil Relief Act
• SKCM — Master Chief Storekeeper
• PIAC — Polymer Industrial Advisory Council
• SDNMC — San Diego Naval Medical Center
• TLQ — Transient Living Quarters
• DP — Displaced Person
• QQR — Quality, Quantity, Reliability
• TFMS-M — Transportation Financial Management System-Military
• UPH — Unaccompanied Personnel Housing
• SXQ — Military Secure Closed-Circuit Television
• SFSG — Special Forces Support Group
• RKVDU — Remote Keyboard Visual Display Unit
• NDWAC — National Drinking Water Advisory Council
• TREAT — Tactical Reconnaissance Engineering Assessment Team
• SOUTHCOM — (U.S.) Southern Command
• RRL — Road Research Laboratory
• TBIS — Technology Base Investment Strategy
• DFA — Defence Families of Australia
• TALCE — Tanker Airlift Control Element
• TRAC2ES — Transportation Command Regulating and Command and Control Evacuation System
• TAPDB-AO — Total Army Personnel Database - Active Officer
• RLH — Run Like Hell
• TERPES — Tactical Electronic Reconnaissance Processing and Evaluation System
• TAA — Technical Assistance Agreement
• TUO — Technology Utilization Officer
• UYQ-70 — Advanced Display System
• USPACOM — United States Pacific Command
• USSOF — United States Special Operations Forces
• SFAS — Special Forces Assessment and Selection

• NSS — National Seismic Station
• VAW — Naval Airborne Early Warning Squadron
• NWS — Nose Wheel Steering
• PC — Production Control
• VQT — Voice Quality Testing
• USAREC — United States Army Recruiting Command
• QJ — Quality Journal
• SEDS — Small Expendable Deployer System
• TCIS — Tactical Communications Interface Software
• WGM — Work Group Manager
• USAISCBD — United States Army Intelligence and Security Board
• TESS III — Tactical Environmental Surveillance System
• SQW — Software Quality Workshop
• SLBD — Sea Lite Beam Director
• DIICOE — Defense Information Infrastructure Common Operating Environment
• PWW — Planar Wing Weapon
• USLO — United States Liaison Officer
• AWIPS — Advanced Weather Interactive Processing Systems
• RTSS — Real Time Simulation System
• TDADS — Test Data Analysis and Decision System
• WBITS — Web-Based Integrated Training System
• RRPP — Rapid Response Planning Process
• RIAF — Royal Italian Air Force
• RRDB — Rapidly Reconfigurable Data Base
• OPH — Oph Ophthalmology
• SUQ — Standard Update Quantity
• DRT — dynamic regional thresholding
• REPUNIT — Reporting Unit
• LAIS — Liquid Alloy Ion Source
• UPV — Ultimate Police Vehicle
• QHDA — Qualified Hazardous Duty Area
• STGT — Second TDRSS Ground Terminal
• SQEP — Software Quality Evaluation Plan
• VKF — Variable Key Function
• TAFSM — Target Acquisition Fire Support Model
• TDDS — Tactical Data Distribution System (formerly TRAP)
• STPR — Software Test Procedure
• RGN — Retired Guys Network Of Kansas City
• STAR-T — Super High Frequency Tri-Band Advanced Range Extension Terminal
• LAH — Lithium Aluminum Hydride
• TRIADS — Tri-Wall Aerial Distribution System
• WIMT — Washington Incident Management Team
• DEZ — Desert Sun Mining Corp
• MOCE — Marine Optical Characterization Experiment
• PTAI — Primary Training Aircraft Inventory
• SCAMPI — Staff College Automated Military Periodicals Index
• USACOM — United States Atlantic Command
• SEAT — Single Engine Air Tanker
• TADIL — Tactical Data Information Link
• TASM — Tactical Air-to- Surface Missile

• WCV — Waypoint Closing Velocity
• WPC — Word Processing Center
• TII — Total Inactive Inventory
• TAACOM — U.S. Theater Army Area Command
• SNOI — Signal-Not-Of-Interest
• RYA — Risk Your Ass
• QIR — Quality Inspection Requirement
• DSV — Dog Saphenous Vein
• TA — Terrain Avoidance
• TASWC — Theater Antisubmarine Warfare Commander
• MMW — multifunction millimeter wave
• REQSTATASK — Air Mission Request Status Tasking
• QRB — Quality Requiremens Board
• S&P — Stake and Platform
• TNCC — Theater Network Operations (NETOPS) Control Center
• VKL — Vegetation Killing Liquid
• DISSEM — Dissemination
• SAMM — Security Assistance Management Manual
• SCC-WMD — United States Strategic Command Center For Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction
• NASQAN — National Stream Quality Accounting Network
• WCDO — War Consumables Distribution Objective
• LAS — Laser Absorption Spectroscopy
• SSS — Systems Science and Software
• WEZ — Weapon Engagement Zone
• UMF — User Message Format
• WIK — Water Injection Kit
• UFPM — Unit Fitness Program Manager
• VTB — Virtual Test Bed
• RTAFB — Royal Thai Air Force Base
• SICPS — Standardized Integrated Command Post Shelter
• SRS — Savannah River Site
• QSAG — Quadripartite Standardization Agreement
• SARGE — Surveillance and Reconnaissance Ground Equipment
• TOCN — Technical Order Change Notice
• R-DAY — Redeployment Day
• PWS/DS — Potable Water Storage/Distribution System
• SLRP — Strategic Long-Range Plan
• QAHN — QA Hold Notice
• LARIS — Laser Ablation and Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy
• SETAF — Southern European Task Force
• SOTEP — Software Operational Test & Evaluation Plan
• SCAPS — Site Characterization and Analysis Penetrometer System
• PSPS — psychological operations (PSYOP) studies program subsystem
• USAADASCH — United States Army Air Defense Artillery School
• SMAWT — Short-Range Manportable Antitank Weapon Technology
• UP&TT — Unit Personnel and Tonnage Table
• SPQ — Surface Surveillance and Tracking Radar
• VTL — Virtual Test Laboratory
• USAFAC&FS — United States Army Finance and Accounting Center and Fort Sill
• SUCCESS — Synthesized UHF Computer Controlled Equipment Subsystem

• SOCOORD — Special Operations Coordination Element
• TAC2IS — Theater Army Command and Control Info System
• QPD — Qualified Public Depository
• USAISEC — United States Army Information Systems Engineering Command
• NATAS — North American Thermal Analysis Society
• QMI — Queensland Mounted Infantry
• TTSM — Theater Transition and Sustainment Model
• VDB — Vulnerability DataBase
• SPBS-R — Standard Property Book System-Redesign
• QAW — Quality Assurance Work
• RSME — Royal School of Military Engineering
• SPOEALD — Sea Port Of Embarkation Available to Load Date
• CMAQ — Community Multiscale Air Quality
• USD(P&R) — Under Secretary of Defense For Personnel and Readiness
• SCTIS — Single Channel Transponder Injection System
• TIMMS — TMDE Integrated Material Management System
• WAGB — US Coast Guard Polar Icebreaker
• USNSCC — United States Naval Sea Cadet Corps
• ASDAR — Aircraft-to-Satellite Data Relay
• R&A — Research and Analysis
• U/C — Undercarriage
• TMOPS — TRADOC Mobilization and Operations Planning System
• RASPUTIN — Rapid Scenario Preparation Unit for Intelligence
• NSWP — National Space Weather Program
• TYQ-77 — Aviation Mission Planning System
• RVO — Remediation Venture Office
• SBR — Special Boat Squadron
• RWD — Rearward
• VAFB — Vandenberg Air Force Base
• RRPG RATE — Recruitment, retention progression & graduation. An academic term that refers to student attrition rate.
• TG — training group
• REFLUPS — Resuscitation Fluids Production System
• TM3 — Trade-off Mobilization Macro Model
• SNIE — Special National Intelligence Estimates
• RIM-24 — Tartar Missile
• TLOS — Target Location and Observation System
• RED — Communist
• SAL — Strategic Arms Limitation
• IRGCHAZ — Intercritically Reheated Grain-Coarsened Heat-Affected Zone
• STOW-E — Synthetic Theater Of War - Europe
• CRN — Climate Reference Network
• RDP — Radar Data Processor
• STACK — Strategy, Tactics, Attributes, Conversation, and Knowledge
• SRUF — Standing Rules for the Use of Force
• TUW — Tabletop Universal Wargame
• RC NORTH — NATO Regional Command NORTH
• ISRA — Image-space Reconstruction Algorithm
• RNM — Resource Needs Model
• WFM — Workforce Management
• DT — Drug Therapy

• SVLM — Standard Vehicle Launcher Mounted
• STDM — Synchronous Time Division Multiplexer
• STARCIPS — Standard Army Civilian Payroll System
• USDON — United States Department of the Navy
• SR-UAV — Short-Range Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
• SOTF — Special Operations Task Forces
• REGT — Regiment
• TAAA — Total Active Aircraft Authorization
• NASC — North American Shale Composite
• SOCA — Special Operations Communications Assembly
• SEMS — Standard Embarkation Management System
• QAL — Quality Assurance Liaison
• SRST — Survivable Remote Site Telephony
• USAR — United States Army Reserve
• OPS — Operations Provisioning System
• MIDS — Multifunction Information Distribution System
• TARPS — Tactical Airborne Reconnaissance Pod System
• TSSR — Tropospheric Scatter (TROPO)-Satellite Support Radio
• SAWG — Small Arms Working Group
• SOCRATES — Special Operations Command, Research, Analysis, and Threat Evaluation System
• SPARK — Smart People Always Respect Knowledge
• RGM — Submarine launched Guided Missile
• S/SU/AC — Systems/ Systems Upgrades and Advanced Concepts
• SYA — Shoot Your Ass
• SA-7 — Grail Missile
• TISG — Technical Interoperability Standards Group
• SM(S) — service member(s)
• PWDS — Protected Wire Distribution System
• PSSM — Physical Security and Stockpile Management
• USAADBD — United States Army Air Defense Board
• RFK — Rekylfri Kanon (recoilless canon, Carl Gustaf)
• USAFRICOM — United States Africa Command
• SOFPARS — Special Operations Forces Planning and Rehearsal System
• ETO — Earth-to-Orbit
• SOTIC — Strategic Operations Target Interdiction Command
• SBA — Sustaining Base Automation
• SOV — Soldiers of Valhalla
• LAMMS — Laser Micro Mass Spectrometry
• NAPP — National Aerial Photography Program
• RSSA — Regional Supply Support Activity
• RBS70 — Ray Rider Missile
• SDD — Secure Data Device
• RTLP — receiver test level point
• TSSP — Tactical Satellite Signal Processor
• RACO — Rear Area Combat Operations
• MILCOM — Military Communications
• SAFTA — South African Flight Training Academy
• IUAM — Independent United Atom Model (in Positron Scattering By Mols.)
• VAAP — Vulnerability Assessment and Assistance Program
• UHI — Ultra- High Intensity

• ATDD — Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Divisionsion
• TTPI — Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
• TRAAV — Test Range Facility for Advanced Aerospace Vulnerability
• TFCF — Theater Field Confinement Facility
• TDARDS — Truth, Data Acquisition, Recording, and Display System
• SOSG — Station Operations Support Group
• TWTA — Traveling Wave Tube Amplifier
• RVM — Remote Video Monitoring
• VVD — Visual Vessel Design
• RLO — Reduced Light Output
• SADBU — Small And Disadvantaged Business Utilization
• RRO — Resource Recovery Office
• SEES — Standard Entry-Exit Service
• DPC — disseminated peritoneal cancer
• USAJFKSWCS — United States Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School
• SAMSO — Space And Missile System Organization
• SETTER — Sensor Fusion for SHORADS
• WBTG — Wet Bulb Globe Temperature
• VSN — Vehicle Serial Number
• RESTRACEN — Reserve Training Center
• RVNAF — Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces
• SMW — Society of Military Widows
• STOD — Special Technical Operations Division
• RPG(S) — rocket propelled grenade(s)
• SPURT — Spinning Unguided Rocket Trajectory
• USEUCOM — United States European Command
• SEABEE — Navy construction engineer; sea barge
• QDH — Quantico Diamond Hall
• RIM-2 — Terrier Missile
• SZE — Security Zone Entry
• WFH — Fleet Admiral William Frederick Halsey
• ISCA — Ionization Spectroscopy For Chemical Analysis
• WDGS — War Department General Staff
• SUR — Small Unit Radio
• SOCCET — Special Operations Critical Care Evacuation Team
• TRANSCOM — United States Transportation Command
• PWF — Personnel Working File
• RWIIPMI — Rotary Wing Instrument Instructor Pilot Method of Instruction
• WEEE — Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
• UAV-C GSC — Unmanned Aerial Vehicle - Close Range - Ground Control Station
• V/STOL — Vertical/Short Take-Off And Landing (vee-stoll)
• UNOSOM — UNOSOM (disambiguation)|United Nations Operations in Somalia
• RAT — Reliability Assessment Testtmtram Air Turbine
• VCXO — voltage controlled crystal oscillator; voltage controlled oscillator
• TCCF — Tactical Communications Control Facility
• TMEC — TRADOC Materiel Evaluation Committee
• TASIP — tailored analytic intelligence support to individual electronic warfare and command and control warfare projects
• SOAF — Status of Action File
• USDOI — United States Department of the Interior (also
• TADS/PNVS — Target Acquisition Designation/Pilot Nights Vision System

• QXI — Quality, Excellence, Integrity
• SMCP — Strategic Manpower Conversion Programme
• UFF — United Frag Force
• S3I — Signatures, Sensors, & Signal Procession Integration
• SPINTCOMM — Special Intelligence Communications Handling System
• STAS — Short Term Analysis Service
• SUWC — Surface Warfare Commander
• SASSY — Supported Activities Supply Systems
• SWAK — Swing Wing Adapter Kit
• TF XXI — Task Force for the 21st Century
• USAFABD — United States Army Field Artillery Board
• LACO — Linearized Atomic Cell Orbital (in Energy-band Calcn.)
• VAQ — Naval Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron
• RWIC — Rotary Wing Instrument Course
• QRO — Queen's Regulations & Orders
• RTCH — Rough Terrain Container Handler
• TBMD — Theater Ballistic Missile Defense
• IPPA — Independent Pair-Potential Approximation
• S-HTTP — Secure Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
• REXREP — Radar Exploitation Report
• TASOSE — Theater Army Special Operations Support Element
• QRMP — Quick Response/Reaction Multi-Color(-purpose) Printer
• R/O — Receive Only
• TALO — Tactical Airlift Liaison Officer
• PCA — Preliminary Consequence Analysis
• TATRC — Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center
• TD/CMS — Technical Data/Configuration Management System
• QARNNS — Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service
• USIC — United States Interdiction Coordinator
• SASF — SIDPERS Authorized Strength File
• TS3 — Time Sensitive Support System
• OSDPD — Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution
• PWN — Psychological Warfare Noise
• STFU — Superior Tactical Fragging Unit
• SRTA — Short Range Training Ammunition
• SSSI — Site of Special Scientific Interest
• TCCS — Tactical Command and Control System
• QRWK — Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
• SOMAS — Standard Operation and Maintenance Army System
• LDR — Leadership Development Roundtable
• TAQ — Total Army Quality
• SDRT — Supply Discrepancy Reports Team
• USAFAC — United States Army Finance & Accounting Center
• SPST — Structure, Process, Strategy, Tactics
• RSAS — RAND Strategy Assessment System
• OPS — Operations Procedure Support
• VVR-1 — Laser Warning Receiver System
• USACCSA — United States Army Command and Control Support Agency
• SEMT — Signal Intelligence/ Electronic Warfare Equipment Maintenance Trainer
• TRANSMO — Transportation Model

• RBSF — Russian Black Sea Fleet
• RWPD — Radar Waveform Processor Demonstration
• TAADS-R — The Army Authorization Documentation System Redesign
• URL — Unfinanced Requirements List
• TCG-WPMU — Topical Classification Guide - Weapons Production and Military Utilization
• QDD — Quality Document Developer
• QCE — Quality Customer Experience
• QG — Quality Group
• VFMAC — Valley Forge Military Academy and College
• SARK — Small Arms Repair tool Kit
• TCGST — Tank Crew Gunnery Skills Test
• RMEC — Regional Military Emergency Coordinator
• SAAS-DAO — Standard Army Ammunition System - Division Ammunition Officer
• RXI — Receiver Input
• RZB — Regulated Zone Boundary
• QOT — Qualification Operational Test
• VGT — Variable Geometry Toroidal
• IPA — Independent-pair Approximation
• UALS — Universal Ammunition Loading System
• QFU — Query For runway Use
• RZ — Recovery Zone
• SMRI — service message routing indicator
• TDDM — Time Division Digital Multiplexing
• RQN — Reference Quotation Number
• STOW-TMD — Synthetic Theater Of War-Theater Missile Defense
• T-1 — Jayhawk twin-engine trainer aircraft
• TUOC — Tactical Unit Operation Center
• TACOPDAT — Tactical Operational Data
• STRP — Scientific Technical Review Panel
• SFF — Self-Forging Fragment
• TAEDP — Total Army Equipment Distribution Program
• VPV — Virtual Prime Vendor
• LCAO — Linear Combination Of Atomic Orbitals
• CWP — Cell Wall Protein
• PVSM — Param Vishisht Seva Medal
• RM — Requirements Management
• SEF — Sealift Enhancement Feature
• RLV — Relieve
• QYR — Queen's York Rangers
• SEDRE — Sea Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercise
• TEGFET — Two-dimensional Electron Gas FET
• RRBI — Radar Range Bearing Indicator
• SVE — Survivability, Vulnerability, Endurability
• RFSS — Radio Frequency Simulation System B
• SSWG — System Safety Working Group
• SBPO — Service Blood Program Officer
• STUAS — Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System
• UGW — Urban Guerilla Warfare
• RSIC — Redstone Scientific Information Center, Redstone Arsenal, AL
• TEREC — Tactical ELINT Reconnaissance

• DIPR — Department Industrial Plant Reserve
• MMW — Microwave Millimeter Wave
• SEWG — Special Events Working Group
• LSM — Land-Surface Model
• SPIC — Spanish Person In Control
• QVG — Quality Verification Group
• RHAW — Radar Homing And Warning
• PERALS — Photon-Electron Rejecting Alpha Liquid Scintillation
• POES — Polarorbiting Operational Environmental Satellite
• RMKS — Remarks
• TJTN — Theater Joint Tactical Network
• SBC — Single Board Computer_home
• QDE — Quality Distance Education
• VITD — Vector Interim Terrain Data
• UVU — Union Veterans Union
• REACH — Reaffirming Ethnic Awareness And Cultural Harmony
• RVK — Revoke
• TIDP — Technical Interface Design Plan
• RASCAL — Rotocraft-Aircrew Systems Concepts Airborne Laboratory
• SOPAC — South Pacific Command