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• EDAS — Eta Data Assimilation System
• UBRAT — Unfair Blame Reparations Army Territory
• SEPCOR — Separate Correspondence
• USDHHS — United States Department of Health and Human Services
• LAN — Local Area Network
• TIM — Technical Interchange Meeting
• WARNO — Warning Order
• ETA — Estimated Time of Arrival
• RSSI — Received Signal Strength Indicator
• CSMA/CD — Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection
• RFID — Radio Frequency Identification
• WARNORD — Warning Order
• ROM — Read-Only Memory
• RADAY — Radio Day
• SPS — Standard Positioning Service (GPS)
• ARPANET — Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (early internet)
• S-8 — Army Resource Management Staff at the Battalion/Brigade Level
• TAFMS — Total Active Federal Military Service
• RSSIA — Regional Security Strategy Implementation Analysis
• NHA — Next Higher Assembly
• C/SSR — Cost/Schedule Status Report
• PPS — Precise Positioning Service
• OPS — Operations
• UAV-GCS — Unmanned Aerial Vehicle - Ground Control Station
• EPRDF — Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front
• IPCC — Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (WMO and UNEP)
• FCFS — First Come First Served
• T&EO — Training & Evaluation Outline
• ANFO — Ammonium Nitrate Fuel Oil Explosive
• BAOR — British Army of the Rhine
• MUX — Multiplexer
• TARSS — Tactical Airborne Remote SIGINT System
• UNSAT — Unsatisfactory
• RHRDF — Royal Hutt River Defence Forces
• SAEDA — Subversion and Espionage Directed Against the Army
• T-AKR — Fast Logistics Ship
• TACREP — Tactical Report
• LASER — Light Amplification By Stimulated Emission Of Radiation (cf. Maser)
• MAN — Metropolitan Area Network
• UV-B — UltraViolet band B
• AIDS — Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (see also SIDS and HIV)
• ASAP — As Soon As Possible (pronounced AY-sap)
• W SUP — water supply
• S/RTF — Search and Recovery Task Force
• SAFE-CP — Selected Area for Evasion-Contact Point
• ANSI — American National Standards Institute, Inc.
• SADFRAD — Synthetic Aperture Dual Frequency Radar
• TAC CP — Tactical Command Post
• S&TI — Scientific & Technical Intelligence
• S SCAN — Sector Scan

• R2T2 — Rapid Response Topographic Teams
• SPOTREP — Spot Report
• S/C N — Signal-to-Clutter Plus Noise
• IT — Information Technology
• W TK — water tank
• UBACS — Under Body Armour Combat Shirt
• UNCLOS — United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (policy treaty)
• OBE — Overtaken By Events
• RADCAD — Radar Computer-Aided Design
• WATCHCON — Watch Condition
• SAACONS — Standard Army Automated Contracting System
• TACRON — Tactical Air Control Squadron
• UCOFT — Unit Conduct Of Fire Trainer
• S-9 — Army Facilities Management Staff at the Battalion/Brigade Level
• R.S.M. — Regimental Sergeant Major
• SS-18 — Satan Missile
• CPU — Central Processing Unit
• WAYM — WayMark
• RAC-OT — Readiness Assessment System - Output Tool
• RAPOE — Regional APOE
• MOS — Military Occupational Speciality
• IV — Intravenous
• RADAGS — Radar Aimpoint Guidance System
• RADBN — Radio Battalion
• SA-6 — Gainful Missile
• R-AFF — Regimental Affiliation
• UK — United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• UANF — United Achik National Front
• RAMADCS — Reliability, Availability, Maintainability Automated Data Collection System
• AIAA — American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc.
• T-JTB — Theater-Joint Transportation Board
• S-7 — Army Inter-Component Integration Staff at the Battalion/Brigade Level
• S.530 — Super 530 Missile
• T&DE — Test and Diagnostic Equipment
• WAWF-RA — Wide Area Work Flow - Receipt and Acceptance
• S/EWOC — Signals Intelligence/electronic Warfare Operations Center
• WATWG — WWMCCS ADP Traffic Working Group
• S-ARM — Standard-Antiradiation Missile
• TAIHOD — Total Army Injury and Health Outcomes Database
• SACMFCS — Small Arms Common Module Fire Control System
• SA-2 — Guideline Missile
• RAS-OT — Readiness Assessment System - Output Tool
• Q-SHIP — Decoy Ship
• SAFWIN — Secure Air Force Weather Information Network
• S&GSLCMC — Soldier and Ground Systems Life Cycle Management Command
• SA-8 — Gecko Missile
• WAOB — World Agricultural Outlook Board
• S-QUAD — Silent Sound Spread Spectrum
• SA-4 — Ganef Missile
• SA-5 — Gammon Missile

• TACLAN — Tactical Local Area Network
• S-6 — Army Communications and Information Management Staff at the Battalion/Brigade Level
• TACCDAS — Tactical Army Command & Control Data System
• OEM — Original Equipment Manufacturer (usually in reference to car parts)
• VBTM — Virtual Brigade Training Methodology
• VASRD — Veterans Administration Schedule for Rating Disabilities
• T-AH — Hospital Ship
• NTSB — US National Transportation Safety Board
• TACTRAGRULANT — Tactical Training Group, Atlantic
• SA-13 — Strella Missile
• R/EW — Radar/ Electronic Warfare
• RF — Radio Frequency
• TAFIES — Tactical Air Force Intelligence Exploitation System
• T-JMC — Theater-Joint Movement Center
• R.550 — Magic Misile
• SA-3 — Goa Missile
• T&A TM — Traffic and Analysis Team
• TACWAR — Tactical Warfare
• BTW — By The Way
• RAH-66 — Reconnaissance Attack Helicopter
• VAW-124 — Naval Airborne Early Warning Squadron 124, The Bear Aces
• TCTO — Time Compliance Technical Order
• TACSATCOM — Tactical Satellite Communications
• UAOBS — Upper Air Observation
• LAOES — Laser Ablation Optical Emission Spectroscopy
• TA/CP — Technology Assessment/Control Plan
• TARFU — Things Are Really Fucked Up. A Situation Worse Than SNAFU, But Not Quite FUBAR.
• RAFGSA — Royal Air Force Gliding and Soaring Association
• WWW — World Wide Web
• QEEM — Quick Erect Expandable Mast
• QFEA — Quartermaster Field Evaluation Agency
• VAQ-131 — Naval Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 131, The Lancers
• RAIDES — Rapid Air Defense Evaluation System
• TACSCAN — Tactical Scanner
• TACWARS — Tactical Air Warfare Simulation
• VAH-8 — Heavy Attack Squadron 8, The Fireballers
• WAVELL — United Kingdom Command and Control System
• TACMAR — Tactical Multifunction Array Radar
• RAVAF — Royal Australian Virtual Air Force
• CDR — Critical Design Review
• WHO — World Health Organization
• WAPJ — World Air Power Journal
• QF ACFT — Quick Fix Aircraft
• QBGS — Queens Body Guard for Scotland
• TACTERM — Tactical Terminal
• SA-N-3 — Goblet Missile
• SA-9 — Gaskin Missile
• WAQC — Western Army Training Center Aviation Qualification Course
• TAFDS — Tactical Airfield Fuel Dispensing System
• R.440 — Crotale Missile

• WARMAPS — Wartime Manpower Planning System
• WAAFB — Walker Air Force Base
• OFP — Operational Flight Program
• SA-N-2 — Naval Guideline
• TAC-D — Tactical Deception
• DAC — Discretionary Access Control
• VAQ-134 — Naval Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 134, The Garudas
• RAMEP — RAM and Enhanced Performance
• WAC(I) — Women's Auxiliary Corp (India)
• BVR — Beyond Visual Range
• V-DAY — Victory Day
• VAQ-128 — Naval Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 128, Phoenix
• VAQ-138 — Naval Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 138, Yellow Jackets
• VAQ-140 — Naval Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 140, The Patriots
• VAQ-135 — Naval Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 135, Black Ravens
• TACSTANS — Tactical Standards
• TACCIMS(K) — Theater Army Command and Control Information Management System ( Korea)
• TACO2 — Tactical Communications Protocol 2
• VAQ-129 — Naval Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 129, The New Vikings
• LCD — Liquid Crystal Display
• QC — Quality Control
• SA-N-1 — Naval Goa Missile 1
• TQJBR — Tanzim Qa'idat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn
• UFO — Unidentified Flying Object
• VAQ-137 — Naval Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 137, The Rooks
• TADIXS-A — Tactical Data Information Exchange System - Data and Test Communications System
• TAC(A) — Tactical Air Coordinator (Airborne)
• IP — Internet Protocol
• VAQ-136 — Naval Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 136, The Gauntlets
• PDR — Preliminary Design Review
• VAQ-33 — Naval Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 33, The Firebirds
• MSG — Message
• ADC — Air Data Computer
• VAQ-141 — Naval Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 141, The Shadowhawks
• VAW-113 — Naval Airborne Early Warning Squadron 113, The Black Eagles
• TABILS — Target and Background Information Library System
• PATOLIS — Patent Online Information System
• VAW-120 — Naval Airborne Early Warning Squadron 120, The Greyhawks
• VAW-126 — Naval Airborne Early Warning Squadron 126, The Seahawks
• VAQ-139 — Naval Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 139, The Cougars
• AC — Alternating Current
• FET — Field Effect Transistor
• COB — close of business (End of duty day)
• SHSM — System High Security Mode
• VAQ-34 — Naval Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 34, The Flashbacks
• VAQ-130 — Naval Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 130, The Zappers
• SALM — Single-Anchor Leg Mooring
• TAAMDCOORD — Theater Army Air and Missile Defense Coordinator
• CCB — Change Control Board
• PPM — parts per million

• LRU — Line Replaceable Unit
• CY — Calendar Year
• VAQ-142 — Naval Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 142, The Gray Wolves
• BLUF — Bottom Line Up Front
• CCB — Configuration Control Board
• TQM — Total Quality Management
• APB — All Points Bulletin
• ELV — Expendable Launch Vehicle
• ADM — Advanced Development Model
• BTU — British Thermal Unit
• CEO — Chief Executive Officer
• RFP — Request For Proposal
• USDA — United States Department of Agriculture
• CMOS — Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
• ATA — Area Transportation Authority
• NFS — Network File System
• PDA — Personal Digital Assistant
• ASME — American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• SATURN — Second-Generation Anti-Jam Tactical UHF Radio for NATO
• CDRL — Contract Data Requirements List
• R&D — Research & Development
• MARV — Maneuverable Reentry Vehicle
• MOU — Memorandum of Understanding (an MOU between Food & Drug Administratin and a regulatory agency in another country allows mutual recognition of inspections)
• SCIF — Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility
• SOP — Standard Operational Procedure
• ATM — Asynchronous Transfer Mode
• WBS — Work Breakdown Structure
• DFD — Data Flow Diagram
• USAF — United States Air Force
• SELCOM — Select Committee
• SEATO — Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
• STS — Space Transportation System
• SQR-18 — Sonar Tactical Towed Array System
• TB — Tuberculosis
• APU — Auxiliary Power Unit
• APT — Automatic Picture Transmission
• DSA — Digital Signature Algorithm
• N/A — Not Applicable
• WAN — Wide Area Network
• MTBF — Mean Time Before Failure
• MMIC — Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit
• AFCS — Automatic Flight Control System
• DEC — Digital Equipment Corporation
• SOPS — Standard Operating Procedures
• OTC — Over The Counter (medications not requiring a prescription)
• CIO — Chief Information Officer
• CAE — Computer-Aided Engineering
• BT — Bhutan
• ARPA — Advanced Research Projects Agency (made early internet)
• RPG — Report Program Generator

• EMP — Electromagnetic Pulse
• DMSP — Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (U.S.)
• LNG — Liquefied Natural Gas
• OECD — Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
• TS/SCI — Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information
• EEOC — Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
• SEQ — Sequence
• CARIFTA — Caribbean Free Trade Association
• SCSI — Small Computer System Interface
• DPKO — Department of Peacekeeping Operations
• BITE — Built In Test Equipment/Battle Management Interoperability T&E Training Exercises
• DME — Distance Measuring Equipment
• ABR — Available Bit Rate
• OT — Overtime
• RDBMS — Relational Database Management System
• AM — Amplitude Modulation
• VHF — Very High Frequency
• RAM — random-access memory
• VCRM — Verification Cross-Reference Matrix
• ALT — Alternate
• SS-17 — Spanker Missile
• STTE — Special to Type Test Equipment
• AOA — Angle Of Arrival
• CTR — Center
• ACL — Access Control List
• SYS — System
• TCB — Trusted Computing Base
• DES — Data Encryption Standard
• SS-19 — Stiletto Missile
• SL3 — STOCK LIST
• VR — Virtual Reality
• CIS — Commonwealth of Independent States
• AVHRR — Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer  
• CE — Civil Engineer
• TO&E — Table of Organization and Equipment
• SARDOT — Search and Rescue Point
• UVCE — Unconfined Vapor Cloud Explosion
• RIF — Reduction In Force
• SLIP — Serial Line Interface Protocol
• TCP — Transmission Control Protocol
• DPS — Department of Public Safety
• SAPO — Subarea Petroleum Office
• SQ — Square
• DTE — Data Terminal Equipment
• AWGN — Additive White Gaussian Noise
• RAC — Resident Agent in Charge
• QOS — Quality of Service
• CRT — Cathode Ray Tube (type of TV)
• EDM — Engineering Development Model
• RM — Resource Management

• SQA — Software Quality Assurance
• DFCS — Digital Flight Control System
• EA — Each (as in a unit of measurement - one each)
• SOTA — Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) Operational Tasking Authority
• TBD — To Be Determined
• MIL — Military
• VTR — Video Tape Recorder
• BIT — Binary Digit (either 0 Or 1)
• ATA — Actual Time of Arrival
• MSL — Mean Sea Level
• CLIN — Contract Line Item Number
• MSA — Minimum Safe Altitude
• SVBIED — Suicide Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Device
• VIAGRA — Vertical Installation Automated Group Receiver Antenna
• LAB — Laboratory
• NLT — No Later Than
• SLQ-32 — Electronic Warfare Jamming System
• STD — Standard
• ATS — applications technology satellite
• FDMA — Frequency Division Multiple Access
• CTRL — Control
• APP — Application
• TOCS — Tactical Operation Combat System
• CM — Configuration Management
• FFT — Fast Fourier Transform
• RCRA — Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (1976, 1984)
• LPI — Lines Per Inch
• BW — Bandwidth
• CRL — Certificate Revocation List
• SSAN — Social Security Account Number
• SGT — Sergeant
• NIS — Network Information System
• BAE — British Aerospace Systems, LTD
• LWOP — Leave Without Pay
• CVR — Cockpit Voice Recorder
• ADPE — Automatic Data Processing Equipment
• PM — Preventive Maintenance
• VTC — Video Teleconference
• TKM — Total Knowledge Management
• UHF — Ultra High Frequency (300-3000 MHz; 1m-10cm)
• WILCO — Will Comply
• DNA — Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid
• TSIP — Task Force XXI System Integration Plan
• ATC — Air traffic control
• MIS — Management Information System (OSHA)
• POTUS — President Of The United States. Acronym used by Whitehouse staff. See also FLOFTUS.
• DSU — Data Service Unit
• POC — Proof Of Concept
• DRAM — Dynamic Random Access Memory (dee-ram) (computing)
• ERP — Effective Radiated Power

• VAG — VOTING ASSISTANCE GUIDE
• SDD — Software Design Document
• MAC — Message Authentication Code
• LEO — Low Earth Orbit (satellite communications)
• PMR — Program Management Review
• CFA — Cognizant Field Activity
• SATF — Second Amendment Task Force
• EEC — European Economic Community (predecessor of the European Union|EU)
• DC — Direct Current
• UNDAC — United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination
• N — North
• AE — Application Entity
• UNRWA — United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
• ALT — Altitude
• EXCOM — Executive Committee
• KEK — Key Encryption Key (COMSEC Key)
• FCS — Flight Control System (Subsystem)
• MT — Metric Ton
• AGC — Automatic Gain Control
• SNAFU — Situation Normal All Fouled Up
• QVO — Qualified Vehicle Operator
• SGML — Standard Generalized Markup Language
• OP — Operator
• DSS — Decision Support System
• QA — Center for Quality Assurance in International Education
• CAD — Computer Aided Designer
• OCR — Optical Character Recognition
• VPN — Virtual Private Network (ATM)
• MTTR — Mean Time To Repair
• NACA — National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
• UPS — Uninterruptible Power System
• CAVU — Ceiling And Visibility Unlimited
• RFI — Request For Information. Sales department shorthand. Special priority when use in conjunction with RFN (see below).
• SCONUM — Ship Control Number
• LOS — Line Of Sight
• CFLCC — Combined Force Land Component Command
• MM — Million
• FDDI — Fiber Distributed Data Interface
• APEC — Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
• DSA — Directory System Agent
• TV — Television
• AFWAL — Air Force Wright Aeronautical Laboratory
• POP — Point Of Presence (Internet)
• EGA — Enhanced Graphics Adapter
• CAM — computer aided manufacturing
• APHIS — U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
• CD — Civil Defense
• SEC — Second
• AFC — Automatic Frequency Control
• VLS — Vertical Launch System

• BOM — Bill of Material
• CDU — Control Display Unit
• TAC — Terminal Access Controller
• O&M — Operation and Maintenance
• RFI — Radio Frequency Interference
• TAFCSD — Total Active Federal Commissioned Service Date
• UNEP — United Nations Environment Program
• CTE — Coefficient of Thermal Expansion
• SAMOC — Surface-to-Air Missile Operations Center
• COMSEC — Communications Security (military)
• NC — No Change
• OSPF — Open Shortest Path First (ATM)
• ROV — Remotely Operated Vehicle
• MF — Medium Frequency
• DIB — Directory Information Base
• ECO — Engineering Change Order
• PDU — Protocol data unit (such as segment, packet, frame, etc.)
• CW — Continuous Wave
• RIP — Routing Information Protocol
• LOI — Letter Of Intent
• COTR — Contracting Officer Technical Representative
• AFSCN — Air Force Satellite Control Network
• MHS — Message Handling System (electronic)
• AGE — Aerospace Ground Equipment
• LF — Low Frequency
• STP — Space Test Program
• DS — Direct Sequence
• LEA — Law Enforcement Agency
• AASHTO — American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
• STC — Sensitivity Time Control
• TNI — Trusted Network Interpretation
• BE — Beryllium
• SVEST — Suicide Vest
• DAR — Defense Acquisition Regulation
• EM — Electromagnetic
• DAC — Development Assistance Committee
• ECD — Estimated Completion Date
• SEM — Space Environment Monitor
• SB — Service Bulletin
• TWS — Track While-Scan
• TED — Total Energy Detector
• SQL — Structured Query Language
• PAR — Perimeter Acquisition Radar
• FIPS — Federal Information Processing Standard
• PC — Personal computer (host)
• PRI — Primary Rate Interface (ISDN)
• LAT — Latitude
• NA — Not Applicable
• BIT — Built-In Test
• BER — Bit-Error Rate

• CSTC — Consolidated Space Test Center
• MOS — Marine Observation Satellite
• SAIC — Science Applications International Corporation
• RFS — Request For Service
• MVS — Multiple Virtual Storage
• AMR — Atlantic Missile Range
• SIG — Signal
• RFC — River Forecast Center
• PSTN — Public Switched Telephone Network
• PY — Prior Year
• K — Kilo-
• SL — Sea Level
• PERT — Program Evaluation and Review Technique
• WS — Workstation
• NAS — United States National Academy of Sciences
• BPR — Business Process Re-engineering
• NIST — National Institute of Standards and Technology
• LED — law enforcement desk; light emitting diode
• MBO — Management by Objective
• DOE — United States Department of Energy (government)
• E-MAIL — Electronic Mail
• STR — Software Test Report
• SOHO — Small Office Home Office
• OCR — Optical Character Reader
• LEP — Linear Error Probable
• DOS — Disk Operating System
• LES — Lincoln Experimental Satellite
• DMA — direct memory access (computer term)
• CDT — Central Daylight Time
• LPF — Low Pass Filter
• KISS — Keep It Simple Stupid
• TBN — To Be Named
• DMZ — Demilitarized Zone
• NFIP — National Flood Insurance Program
• CCAFS — Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, an air force base in Florida where NASA launches satellites from.
• EOM — End Of Month
• PRF — Pulse Repetition Frequency
• CKO — Chief Knowledge Officer
• DBA — Data Base Administrator
• TASO — Terminal Area Security Officer
• COG — Continuity Of Government
• CW — Carrier Wave
• CO — Company
• SCN — Specification Change Notice
• COMSAT — Communications Satellite Corporation
• MAC — Mandatory Access Control
• LAC — Local Area Coverage
• TED — Trunk Encryption Device
• WADR — With All Due Respect
• VMF-214 — Marine Fighter Air Squadron 214, the Black Sheep Squadron

• WFOV — Wide Field Of View
• SECAF — Secretary of the Air Force
• OS — Operating System
• CMP — Configuration Management Plan
• DRS — Data Relay Satellite
• MODEM — Modulator-Demodulator
• ESMC — Eastern Space And Missile Center (formerly AFETR)
• SOLAS — Safety of Life at Sea
• NASP — National Aerospace Plane
• PIN — Personal Identification Number
• TCP/IP — transmission control protocol/internet protocol
• CDMA — Code Division Multiple Access (voice/data transmission)
• UPI — United Press International
• UNODIR — Unless Otherwise Directed
• AU — Audio Unit
• NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (US)
• LIDAR — Lander Light Detection and Ranging
• RACF — Resource Access Control Facility
• CACM — Central American Common Market
• TEC — Total Electron Content
• ERS — Environmental Research Satellite
• DEPT — Department
• UDR-13 — Pocket Radiac Set
• MSU — Microwave Sounding Unit
• UA — User Agent
• NZ — New Zealand
• VOL — Volume
• SALT — Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
• AA — Australian Army
• MDA — Minimum Descent Altitude
• DASD — Direct Access Storage Device
• MLV — Medium Launch Vehicle
• FIG — Figure
• OMV — Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle
• TPF — Total Package Fielding
• AFSCF — Air Force Satellite Control Facility
• SW — Switch
• OMB — Office of Management and Budget (U.S.)
• LPC — Linear Predictive Coding
• NIC — Network Information Center
• IR — Infrared
• DBMS — Defense Business Management System
• MCW — Modulated Continuous Wave
• DOMSAT — Domestic Communications Satellite System
• MLG — Main Landing Gear
• NIS — Network Information Service
• QIO — Quality Improvement Organization
• RCV — Receive
• IPO — Integrated Program Office
• WG — Working Group

• VSWR — Voltage Standing Wave Ratio
• SDS — Satellite Data System
• OJT — On the Job Training
• KBS — Knowledge-Based System
• NTIS — National Technical Information Service Technology Administration
• VMI — Virginia Military Institute
• SINE — Short Interspersed Nuclear Element
• COMM — Communication
• FBW — Fly By Wire
• CST — Central Standard Time (UTC-6 Hours)
• AACB — Aeronautics & Astronautics Coordinating Board
• WUC — Work Unit Code
• USG — United States Government
• SCF — Sectional Center Facility
• AT&T — American Telephone and Telegraph (U.S. company, also known as "Ma Bell")
• VM — Virtual Memory
• OA — Office Automation
• WBGTI — Wet-Bulb Globe Temperature Index
• AC — annual closing
• VLF — Very Low Frequency
• ERBS — Earth Radiation Budget Satellite
• BPS — bits per second
• PPI — Plan Position Indicator
• AUTOVON — Automatic Voice Network
• SNMP — Simple Network Management Protocol (ATM)
• NASDA — National Space Development Agency of Japan
• FFP — Firm Fixed Priced
• 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.")
• PBX — Private Branch eXchange (company phone system)
• CCTV — Closed Circuit Television
• OCD — Operational Concept Description
• USV — United States Volunteers
• VA — Veterans Administration
• BRI — Basic Rate Interface
• TWT — Traveling Wave Tube
• SSL — Secure Socket Layer
• NMS — Network Management System
• PDL — program design language
• BGP — Border Gateway Protocol (routing protocol)
• EPROM — Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
• NCS — National Communications System
• EMC — Electromagnetic Compatibility
• IPTF — International Police Task Force
• NEACP — National Emergency Airborne Command Post
• CAB — Cabinet
• ESS — Electronic Switching System
• ABMA — Army Ballistic Missile Agency
• RAAF — Royal Australian Air Force
• TMI — Too Much Information (Internet Slang)
• TCSEC — Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria

• TNO — Trust No One
• NRC — National Research Council (Canada)
• SHF — Super High Frequency
• OC — Optical Carrier
• PMR — Pacific Missile Range
• EFTA — European Free Trade Association (Geneva)
• ELF — Extremely Low Frequency
• 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 (
• LALLS — Low-Angle Laser Light Scattering
• MSS — Multispectral Scanner System
• MOH — Medal Of Honor
• NBS — National Bureau of Standards (US)
• LFC — Large Format Camera
• BLM — Bureau of Land Management of United States Department of the Interior
• TBO — Time Between Overhaul
• BNL — Brookhaven National Laboratory
• BAMF — Bad Ass Mother Fucker
• COBOL — Common Business-Oriented Language
• TD — Technical Directive
• MBPS — Megabytes Per Second
• DOI — Date of Injury
• QBE — Query By Example
• ERTS — Earth Resources Technology Satellite (now Landsat)
• EDP — Electronic Data Processing Plc (London Stock Exchange [LSE])
• DMSS — Defense Meteorological Satellite System
• ASN — Abstract Syntax Notation
• TISA — Troop Issue Subsistence Activity
• CRS — Can't Remember Stuff
• LCC — Launch Control Center (KSC)
• SOSTAC — Situation, Objectives and Strategy, Tactics, Action, and Control
• RECCE — Reconnaissance
• PPP — Point-to-Point Protocol
• PVC — Permanent Virtual Circuit (ATM)
• PM — Project Manager
• FDX — Full Duplex
• TOR — terms of reference (ICAO/FAA)
• ITO — International Trade Organization
• MDT — Mean Down Time
• ADCCP — Advanced Data Communications Control Procedures
• TOL — Tolerance
• BERT — Bit Error Rate Tester (telecommunication)
• SGL — Small Group Leader
• USCG — United States Coast Guard
• LAGEOS — Laser Geodynamic Satellite
• IPR — Impulse Response
• PASADENA — Para-Hydrogen And Synthesis Allow Dramatically Enhanced Nuclear Alignment
• D — Director
• JVM — Java Virtual Machine
• SST — States Supersonic Transport
• SDHS — Satellite Data Handling System

• IUS — Inertial UPper Stage (was Interim UPper Stage)
• QBO — Quick Battle Orders
• OSTP — Office of Science and Technology Policy
• DBMS — Data Base Management System
• RPF — Raster Product Format
• MCS — Mesoscale Convective System
• UFC — Unified Facilities Criteria
• MFD — Multi-Function Display
• AFOTEC — Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center's
• E&I — Engineering & Installation
• R2P2 — Rapid Response Planning Process
• SMG — Spaceflight Meteorology Group
• DAD — Dual Air Density
• MMS — Multimission Modular Spacecraft
• DSN — Deep Space Network - network of large antennas and communication facilities.
• SL — Sick Leave
• MIB — Management Information Base (ATM)
• QPSK — aeronautical quadrature phase shift keying
• CRRES — Combined Release and Radiation Effects Satellite
• SAMSTATREP — Surface-to-Air Missile Status Report
• MECO — Main Engine Cutoff
• AFRL — Air Force Research Laboratory
• POS — Position
• AFS — Air Force Station
• TDL — Tactical Data Link
• QTD — Quarter-to-Date
• LANL — Los Alamos National Laboratory
• TPN — Tactical Packet Network
• TEMP — Test and Evaluation Master Plan
• CNN — Cable News Network's
• TYCOM — Type Commander
• PST — Pacific Standard Time (UTC-8 Hours)
• NSW — New South Wales
• SDLC — Software development life cycle
• NOR — Notice Of Revision
• VOIP — Voice Over IP (Internet Protocol)
• VDT — Video Display Terminal
• SCADA — Supervisory Control And Data Aquisition
• COMMS — Communications
• SUPPO — Supply Officer
• SLAR — Side-Looking Airborne Radar
• EIRP — Effective Isotropic Radiated Power
• MINURSO — United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara
• TBMCS — Theater Battle Management Core Systems
• S — Secret
• BOHICA — Bend Over, Here It Comes Again
• MTBCF — Mean Time Between Critical Failures
• MTNS — Mountains
• RADAR — RAdio Detection And Ranging
• EMMA — Expert Missile Maintenance Aid

• POTS — Plain Old Telephone System
• CBR — Case-Based Reasoning
• SRS — Software Requirements Specifications
• TMI — TRMM Microwave Imager
• RWIP — Risk Work In Progress
• UFN — Until Further Notice
• SLV — Space Launch Vehicle
• AKM — Apogee Kick Motor
• COS — Cosine
• SCUBA — self-contained underwater breathing apparatus
• VAR — Variable
• ECP — Engineering Change Proposals
• VOR — VHF Omnidirectional Range
• CSOC — Consolidated Space Operations Center
• OPSEC — Operational Security
• NT — Northern Territory
• RIM-66 — Standard Missile
• FAX — Facsimile
• MDT — Message Distribution Terminal
• CGM — Computer Graphics Metafile
• PCM — Pulse-Code Modulation
• CRT — Crisis Response Team
• CWGC — Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• REDCOM — Readiness Command
• ETL — Endorsed Tools List
• CG — Center of Gravity (DXS)
• SDR — System Design Review
• BIU — Bus Interface Unit
• NOC — Network Operations Center
• WPM — speech--words per minute
• VGA — Video Graphics Array
• WI — What If?
• MMU — Manned Maneuvering Unit
• STP — Software Test Plan
• SLV — Sleeve
• USGS — United States Geological Survey (DOI)
• SUM — Software User's Manual
• VIHT — voluntary isocapnic hyperpnea training
• ACRIMSAT — Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor Satellite
• OPS — Operations Squadron
• PTR — Paper Tape Reader
• SERE — Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape
• DTM — Data Transfer Module
• SIMM — Single Inline Memory Module
• LAS — Land Analysis System
• SBIR — Small Business Innovation Research
• ATT — At This Time
• MDT — Mobile Data Terminal
• UPS — Uninterruptible Power Supply
• MTPE — Mission To Planet Earth

• VT — Virtual Terminal
• RAD — Radiation Absorbed Dose
• RON — Remain Overnight
• MIL STD — Military Standard
• MPC — Marine Prediction Center
• PDS — Post Design Services
• SSB — Single SideBand
• BMO — Ballistic Missile Office
• FEP — Front End Processor
• MOD — Ministry Of Defence (United Kingdom) And Various Other Countries
• STE — Special Test Equipment
• RECAU — Receipt Acknowledged And Understood
• MT — Machine Translation
• SKE — Station-Keeping Equipment
• RSPL — Recommended Spare Parts List
• TVM — Track Via Missile
• SW — Short Wave
• EMS — Earn Money Sleeping (joke At Expense Of Emergency Medical Service)
• KSA — Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities
• NN — Neural Network
• ELT — Emergency Locator Transmitter
• ECM — Electronic Counter Measures
• LT — Light
• SCBA — Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus
• DPI — Differential Pressure Indicator
• MAINT — Maintenance
• CAT — Category (e.g. CAT-5 cable)
• SWEBOK — Software Engineering Body of Knowledge
• IRS — Interface Requirements Specification
• VSAT — Very Small Aperture Terminal (satellite service)
• ANR — Active Noise Reduction
• USPS — United States Postal Services
• SVD — Software Version Description
• TAV — Total Asset Visibility
• DIDS — Defense Integrated Data System
• NCSC — National Computer Security Center (NSA)
• TTY — Teletype Telex Machine
• PCMCIA — Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
• PG — Persian Gulf
• USAID — United States Agency for International Development
• A/D — Analog/Digital
• NPS — Nominal Pipe Size (sometimes NS)
• ASI — Air Speed Indicator
• ODA — Open Document Architecture
• ASD — Army Shipping Document
• MPA — Magnetospheric Plasma Analyzer
• SAAF — South African Air Force
• TOA — Time Of Arrival
• REPGEN — Reports Generator
• SOCOM — United States Special Operations Command

• CBD — Commerce Business Daily (Changed To FBO)
• SSTO — Single-Stage-to-Orbit
• OR — Operational Requirement
• AOA — Angle Of Attack
• NM — Network Management
• OPF — Orbiter Processing Facility
• ACE — Access Control Encryption
• QLQ — Quality of Life Questionnaire
• LAP — Laboratory Accreditation Program
• SDLC — Synchronous Data Link Control
• ODBC — Open Database Connectivity
• RAR — Royal Australian Regiment
• AIRS — Advanced Inertial Reference Sphere
• QAD — Quality Assurance Division
• PU — Physical Unit (IBM)
• SIQ — Sick In Quarters
• SUM — Software User Manual
• IPX — Internet Packet Exchange
• DREN — Defense Research and Engineering Network
• SIDPERS — Standard Installation/Division Personnel System
• WIP — Work In Progress (process)
• SECT — Section
• ROE — Rules of Engagement. The rules given to every service member on when to engage targets. Changes dependent upon the situation.
• NASICON — Na Super-ionic Conductor
• MGR — Manager
• B&W — Babcock & Wilcox - Black And White - Bowers & Wilkins
• AMSF — Army Maintenance Supply Facilities
• SIDS — Secondary Imagery Dissemination System
• CBR — Constant Bit Rate
• DC — District Commissioner
• SCTS — Single Channel Transponder System
• NRL — Naval Research Laboratory
• VHS — Video Home System
• QAZ — Quick Access Zone
• PX — Post Exchange
• TSOC — Theater Special Operations Command
• DJMS — Defense Joint Military Pay System
• DCN — Design Change Notice
• NESS — National Environmental Satellite Service (NOAA)
• UNHCHR — United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
• USMOG-W — United States Military Observer Group - Washington
• JEC — Joint Economic Committee
• AFSC — Air Force Systems Command
• MPEG — Motion Picture Experts Group
• TBR — To Be Resolved
• MRC — Maintenance Requirement Card
• PTDO — Prepare To Deploy Order
• ARDC — Air Research and Development Command
• LST — Local Standard Time
• NRV — Non Return Valve

• UDA — Ulster Defence Association
• ITS — Intelligent Transportation System
• AOD — Administrative Officer of the Day
• AV — Audio Visual
• SBNPB — Space-Based Neutral Particle Beam
• LMI — Layer Management Interface
• SQQ-32 — Variable Depth Minehunting Sonar
• TBI — Traumatic Brain Injury
• EC — European Community
• DDN — U.S. Defense Data Network
• PROM — Programmable Read-Only Memory
• CALS — Computer-Aided Acquisition and Logistics Support (CAALS)
• RI — Routing Indicator
• FADEC — Full Authority Digital Engine Control
• ECHR — European Court of Human Rights
• KMP — Key Management Protocol
• CTS — communications technology satellite
• MAG — Magnetic
• VRU — Voice Response Unit
• AFAMPE — Air Force Automated Message Processing Exchange
• DMS — Data Management System
• PMS — Project Management System
• SNT — Serial Number Tracking
• PDM — Pulse Duration Modulation
• NLP — Natural Language Processing
• LNA — Low-Noise Amplifier
• DCE — Data Communication Equipment
• CAS — Calibrated Air Speed
• UNCIVPOL — United Nations Civilian Police
• RIDDOR — Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations
• WE — With Equipment
• AMST — Advanced Medium STOL Transport
• VBIED — Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosion Device
• EST — Estimated Starting Time
• TMDE — Test Measurement and Diagnostic Equipment
• TIREM — Terrain Integrated Rough Earth Model
• TOE — Table of Organization and Equipment
• RIO — Radar Intercept Officer (US Navy)
• WGS-84 — World Geodetic System 1984
• DAC — Data Assembly Center
• DGPS — Differential Global Positioning System
• PTL — Primary Target Line
• SQQ-89 — Undersea Warfare Combat System
• UYK-43 — U.S. Navy standard 32-bit computer (replacement for UYK-7)
• TJAG — The Judge Advocate General
• VF — Voice Frequency
• SW — Software (SFTWE Preferred)
• IVD — Interactive Video Disk
• CQC — Close Quarters Combat
• TDMA — Time Division Multiple Access

• AFOSR — Air Force Office Of Scientific Research(USA)
• SWE — Snow Water Equivalent
• RSOI — Reception, Staging, Onward-Movement & Integration
• VMS — Virtual Memory System
• CIDR — Classless Inter-Domain Routing (ATM)
• PAW — Projector Augmented-wave [ab-initio Method]
• TTWCS — Tactical Tomahawk Weapon Control System
• AFMPC — Air Force Military Personnel Center
• CPS — characters per second
• LDR — Leader
• DNS — Domain Name Service
• PRT — Personal Rapid Transit
• VV&C — Verification, Validation and Certification
• VDD — Version Description Document
• DOS — United States Department of State
• PPS — Post-Production Support
• SAR — synthetic aperture radar (satellite)
• VERT — Vertical
• SHA — System Hazard Analysis
• RLY — Relay
• TTWG — Technology Transfer Working Group
• CBJB — Congressional Budget Justification Book
• SMA — Supply Management, Army
• QBU — Qualified Business Unit
• LOX — Liquid Oxygen
• OSS — Operations Support System
• CLICK — Kilometre
• UNOCHA — United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
• ABE — ARM-Based Electronics
• UNEF — United Nations Emergency Force
• WETSU — We Eat This Shit Up
• RCD — Residual Current Device
• QPT — Quad Port Transceiver
• DAU — Data Acquisition Unit
• WHA — Tungsten Heavy Alloy
• USA PATRIOT ACT — Uniting & Strengthening of America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism
• VLSI — Very-Large-Scale Integration
• RTS — Remote Tracking Station
• EMMA — Expert Missile Maintenance Aim
• FH — Frequency Hopping
• QAR — Quality Assurance Representative
• OTA — Office of Technology Assessment (U.S.; abolished by Congress, Fall 1995)
• QXS — Quick Access
• APPS — Applications (software)
• SMSGT — Senior Master Sergeant
• SDVOSB — Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business
• VBR — Variable Bit Rate (ATM)
• EOB — Executive Office Building
• CAGE — Commercial and Government Entity
• STAMIS — Standard Army Management Information System

• RADIUS — Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service
• RADM — Rear Admiral
• DUA — Directory User Agent
• REI — Restricted Entry Interval
• SVGA — Super Video Graphics Array
• OOP — Of an Object Oriented Programming
• SECSTATE — Secretary of State
• SEWS — Satellite Early Warning System
• KDC — Kerberos Key Distribution Center
• OMARNG — Operation & Maintenance, Army National Guard
• RUR-4 — Weapon Alpha ( Anti-submarine Rocket Launcher)
• SSGT — Staff Sergeant
• AD — airworthiness directives (FAA)
• IPM — Interpersonal Messaging
• FA — Forward Area
• NIU — Network Interface Unit
• PCP — Program Change Proposal
• TWCF — Transportation Working Capital Fund
• LMR — Land Mobile Radio
• RUP — Rational Unified Process
• PROG — Program
• NARA — United States National Archives And Records Administration
• DPU — data processing unit
• UTA — Unit Training Assembly
• SA — Special Agent
• PUP — Principal User Processor (NEXRAD)
• SNA — System Network Architecture
• AUTODIN — Automatic Digital Network
• OLA — Office of Legal Affairs
• SIL — System Integration Laboratory
• UQL — Unacceptable Quality Level
• RIK — Replacement in Kind
• ROP — Rate of Penetration
• QI — Quality Indicator
• ETL — Environmental Technology Laboratory
• NDL — Network Data Language
• SFOR — Stabilization Force
• OII — Operations-Intelligence Interface
• AP — Application Processor
• SOCC — Satellite Operations Control Center
• RGB — red-green-blue (signal)
• JAWF — Joint Agricultural Weather Facility
• TLE — Target Location Error
• EIB — European Investment Bank
• VICE — As opposed to ....
• DCS — Data Collection System (NOAA Polar Orbiting Satellites)
• ROICC — Resident Officer In Charge of Construction
• SMLM — Soviet Military Liaison Mission
• NDA — Nondisclosure Agreement
• DDCMP — Digital Data Communications Message Protocol

• TPQ-37 — Weapon Locating Radar
• SRSG — Special Representative of the Secretary-General
• EPS — Encapsulated Postscript
• ANDVT — Advanced Narrowband Digital Voice Terminal
• UNAMIR — United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda
• LF — Live Fire
• TCF — Technical Control Facility
• BIM — Ballistic Intercept Missile
• WARM — Wartime Reserve Mode
• NACE — National Association of Corrosion Engineers
• CDB — Central Data Base
• LADD — Lifetime Average Daily Dose
• PAM — Payload Assist Module
• SMDS — Switched Multimegabit Data Service (ATM)
• VOCC — Vessel Operating Common Carriers
• SSM/I — Special Sensor Microwave/Imager
• TECHCON — Technical Control
• MAD — Message Address Directory
• DRSN — Defense Red Switch Network
• CSR — Current Situation Room
• SABA — Supplied Air Breathing Apparatus
• TI — Texas Instruments, Inc.
• ARS — United States Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service
• VNAV — Vertical Navigation
• NEL — National Exploitation Laboratory
• SIPRNET — Secret Internet Protocol Router Network
• EKMS — Electronic Key Management System
• VAX — Virtual Address Extension
• QRCT — Quick Reaction Communications Terminal
• SAPF — Special Access Program Facility
• SLC — Space Launch Complex
• PUA — Private Use Area (Unicode E000-F8FF)
• TLS — Top Level Specification
• WRF — Weather Research and Forecasting
• JT — Joint
• RFN — Rifleman
• ERD — Entity-Relationship Diagram
• W/D — Withdrawal
• SVLTU — Service Line Termination Unit
• EMI — Electro-Magnetic Interference
• EMS — Element Management System (ATM)
• SORTS — Status of Resources and Training System
• OST — Outer Space Treaty
• URD — User Requirements Document
• VETRONICS — Vehicle Electronics
• SBL — Space-Based Laser
• RLA — Repair-Level Analysis
• ACAAM — Air Courses of Action Assessment Model
• SPL — Software Products Library
• CETS — Contractor Engineering and Technical Services

• RAU — Radio Access Unit (Army)
• MCC — Mission Control Center (JSC)
• VLAN — Virtual Local Area Network
• SPS — Software Product Specification
• SCPC — single channel per carrier
• RPV — Remotely Piloted Vehicle
• RADAM — Radar Detection of Agitated Metals
• CAMS — Core Automated Maintenance System
• RM3 — Radioman Third Class
• FAAS — Foreign Affairs Administrative Support
• ORNL — Oak Ridge National Laboratory's
• NII — National Information Infrastructure (USA)
• TECHINT — Technical Intelligence
• WIA — Wounded In Action
• DIR — Direction Interdépartementale des Routes
• ANLYS — Analysis
• IRAS — Infrared Reflection Absorption Spectroscopy
• MEO — Medium-Earth Orbit
• UNMOC — United Nations Military Observers Course
• RDJTF — Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force (US)
• DOC — United States Department of Commerce
• TUH — Tactical Utility Helicopter
• TAPDB — Total Army Personnel Database
• SUSAT — Sight Unit, Small Arms, Trilux
• QUP — Quantity Per Unit Pack
• CMW — Compartmented Mode Workstation
• SPM — Software Programmer's Manual
• ASAR — Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar 
• VRD — Virtual Retinal Display
• STRATOPS — Strategic Operations Division
• SEWIP — Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program
• USRA — Universities Space Research Association
• SAAFR — Standard Use Army Aircraft Flight Route (safer)
• QLP — Quadrilateral Protocol
• SIGACTS — Significant Activities
• EIA — Electronics Industry Association (Adelaide, South Australia, Australia)
• SVC — Switched Virtual Circuit (ATM)
• RSSC-LO — regional satellite communications support center liaison officer; regional space support center liaison officer
• RMN — Royal Malaysian Navy
• SECM — Shop Equipment, Contact Maintenance
• SDI — Strategic Defense Initiative
• SWBD — Switchboard
• STOW — Synthetic Theater of War
• BEF — British Expeditionary Force
• PHS — Public Health Service (U.S.)
• MAD — Magnetic Anomaly Detector/Detection
• UPRN — Unique Property Reference Number
• BPI — bits per inch
• ROMO — Range of Military Operations
• VESA — Video Electronics Standards Association

• USD/P — Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
• TM — Technical Monitor
• CFE — Center For Engineering
• NAV — Navigator
• TRB — Technical Review Board (MRR)
• SECNAVINST — Secretary of the Navy Instruction
• VHSIC — Very High-Speed Integrated Circuit
• WARC — World Administrative Radio Conference
• AZ — Azimuth
• SOSCOE — System-Of-Systems Common Operating Environment
• VISCOM — VISual COMmunication
• MCS — Master Control Station (VIS, Grumman)
• UVV — Upward Vertical Velocity
• AP — Associated Press
• RNVC — Reference Number Variation Code
• TSCE — Total Ship Computing Environment
• VKA — Volatile Keying Assembly
• AWL — Absent Without Leave
• TOMS — Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (satellite Instrument)
• SMB — Suck My Balls
• ROEX — rules of engagement exercise
• CWI — Crutch Walking Instructions
• SPR — Strategic Petroleum Reserve (US)
• TRF — Tuned Radio Frequency
• RWIFE — Rotary Wing Instrument Flight Examiner
• QAE — Quality Assurance Engineer
• PPM — Pulse Position Modulation
• TELAR — Transporter-Erector-Launcher & Radar
• DRGS — Direct Readout Ground Stations
• EMC — Environmental Modeling Center
• RICC — Reportable Item Control Code
• TGSM — Terminally Guided Submunition
• RUF — Rules for the Use of Force (ROE)
• QPQ — Quid Pro Quo
• EVAC — Evacuation System
• CME — Coronal Mass Ejection (usually Sun)
• Q&A — Questions & Answers
• IPC — Industrial Planning Committee
• OSDPE — Office of the Secretary of Defense Program Element
• RDBMS — Relational Data Base Management System (Oracle)
• VTOL — Vertical Take-Off & Landing
• TN — Target Number
• EI — Effectiveness Index
• AMPL — Amplitude
• VLSI — Very Large-Scale Integration
• SSMA — Spread-Spectrum Multiple Access
• AOIC — Assistant Officer in Charge
• STUPID — Secure Transmitter Unit Platform Integration Directorate
• SSB-SC — Single Sideband-Suppressed Carrier
• PMS — Planned Maintenance System

• SONET — Synchronous Optical Network
• TACSAT — Tactical Satellite
• UNIDIR — United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research
• VTAM — Virtual Telecommunication Access Method
• ABET — Accreditation Board for Engineering & Technology
• CARICOM — Caribbean Common Market and Community
• MOC — Maintenance Operational Check
• EBS — Emergency Broadcast System
• 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
• SPINS — Special Instructions
• VOSB — Veteran-Owned Small Business
• PSN — Packet Switched Network
• SRY — Ship Repair Yard
• RX — Receive
• ECU — Environmental Control Unit (GSM)
• PWM — pulsewidth modulation
• VDU — Video Display Unit
• CARDE — Canadian Armament Research and Development Establishment
• UNAVEM — United Nations Angola Verification Mission
• CSU — Channel Service Unit
• TLT — Test Loop Translator
• DTU — Data Transfer Unit
• UNPROFOR — United Nations Protection Force (in Former Yugoslavia)
• RADIUS — Remote Authentication dial In User Service
• F — Frequency
• MTWY — Motorway
• USCIS — US Citizenship and Immigration Services
• USNO — United States Naval Observatory
• CPE — Customer Premise Equipment
• PTT — Push to Talk Technology
• MIJI — Meaconing, Intrusion, Jamming and Interference
• WFNA — White Fuming Nitric Acid
• ROKMC — Republic Of Korea Marine Corps
• RSTN — Radio Solar Telescope Network
• QEX — Quality Evaluation eXercise
• OO — On Order
• SDIO — Strategic Defense Initiative Organization
• NPR — National Performance Review (office)
• TOAI — Total Overall Aircraft Inventory
• RCV — Remotely Controlled Vehicle
• DITCO — Defense Information Technology Contracting Office (formerly DECCO)
• LSA — Logistics Support Analysis
• NTZ — No Transgression Zone
• TEPP — Test and Evaluation Program Plan
• TELEMED — Telemedicine
• MMW — Millimeter Wave
• MEDALS — Military Engineering Data Asset Locator System
• S/T — Short Ton
• RLG — Ring Laser Gyro
• USD/A — Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition

• EMS — Emergency medical service
• EO — End Office
• TSCP — Theater Security Cooperation Plan
• S&S — Supply & Service
• SACT — Supreme Allied Commander Transformation
• MCS — Message Conversion System
• BUREC — United States Bureau of Reclamation (government)
• R&R — Rest & Recuperation
• UNK — Unknown
• NAVELEX — Naval Electronic Systems Command
• UDI — Unique Device Identifier
• VASI — Visual Approach Slope Indicator
• LAMMA — Laser Microprobe Mass Analysis
• QTA — Qualification Test Article
• OIC — Office in Charge
• AMCS — Alternate Master Control Station
• USMMA — United States Merchant Marine Academy
• DTS — Dedicated Transmission Service
• RABFAC — Radar Beacon Forward Air Controller
• SRL — Survival Research Laboratories
• TPS — Thermal Protection System
• SZ — Surf Zone
• CIHS — Classified Information Handling System
• TRADOC — United States Army Training and Doctrine Command
• MPP — Massively Parallel Processing/Processor
• QQI — Quantitative Quality Indicator
• SMCA — Single Manager for Conventional Ammunition
• UXB — Unexploded Bomb
• ETF — Enhanced tactical fighter
• MSS — Mission Support System
• SERA — Sequential Electrochemical Reduction Analysis
• VMF-312 — Marine Fighter Air Squadron 312, the Checkerboarders
• ATP — Advanced Technology Program
• PKC — Public Key Cryptography
• LONG — Longitude
• USDOJ — United States Department of Justice
• PZT — Piezoelectric Transducer
• SANDF — South African National Defence Force
• RECON — Reconnaissance
• PXH — Phoenix Hawk
• UMPR — Unit Manpower Personnel Record
• STAAS — Surveillance & Target Acquisition Aircraft System
• COMMO — Communications Officer
• TEWT — Tactical Exercise Without Troops
• CFSR — Contract Funds Status Report/ing
• MTA — Message Transfer Agents (Internet)
• OPAS — Overpass
• SECARMY — Secretary of the Army
• YAG — Yttrium Aluminum Garnet
• SK3 — Storekeeper Third Class

• NSIA — National Security Industrial Association (now part of NDIA)
• RCTA — Regional Counterdrug Training Academy
• UXE — Upkeep by Exchange
• TYQ-69 — Commmunications Control Set
• VCR — video cassette recorder/player
• DT&E — Development, Test, & Evaluation
• RIM-67 — Standard Missile (ER)
• AFGWC — Air Force Global Weather Central (U.S.)
• FAPC — Food and Agriculture Planning Committee
• CSREES — Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service
• LCM — Life Cycle Management
• RA — Roughness Average
• TCDL — Tactical Common Data Link
• SIP — Site Implementation Plan
• TDWR — Terminal Doppler Weather Radar
• DCASR — Defense Contract Administration Services Region
• SORD — System Operational Requirements Document
• PECP — Preliminary Engineering Change Proposal
• TDRSS — Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System
• SECNAV — United States Secretary of the Navy
• VERTREP — Vertical Replenishment
• NADS — Norwegian Association for Defence Suppliers
• IVAP — Intimate Valence Alternation Pairs (bonding Model In Electronic Structure Calcns.)
• PTT — Push to Talk Taster
• SMIB — Security Management Information Base
• VQV — Voice Quality Value
• USCMH — United States Commission on Military History
• RRCC — Regional Response Coordination Center
• SPMN — Software Program Managers Network
• REMIS — Reliability & Maintainability Information System
• SDIS — Switched Digital Integrated Service
• DVI — Digital Video Interactive
• ECS — Environmental Control System (Subsystem)
• QIP — Quality Improvement Program
• SOL — Solenoid
• TOPMIS — Total Officer Personnel Management Information System
• COMPUSEC — Computer Security
• SIMM — Single In-line Memory Module
• SDNS — Secure Data Network System
• SMR — source, maintenance, and recoverability
• WA — War Arranger
• SITP — Subsystem Integration Test Plan
• POC/ET — Proof Of Concept/Experimental Testbed
• DODISS — Department of Defense Index of Specifications and Standards
• TSCIF — Tactical Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility
• ADGE — Air Defence Ground Environment
• EST — Estimated Ship Time
• LAAS — Local Area Augmentation System
• RATELO — Radiotelephone Operator
• SQE — Software Quality Evaluation

• WHOI — Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• UYK-7 — U.S. Navy standard 32-bit computer
• LAXRD — Low-Angle X-Ray Diffraction
• SWPC — Space Weather Prediction Center
• TERM — Terminal
• MOPS — Million Operations per Second
• RN — Royal Navy
• RXW — Receiver Workbook
• ERDAS — Earth Resources Data Analysis System
• TEV — Travel Expense Voucher
• VP-8 — Navy Patrol Squadron Eight
• APNIC — Asia Pacific Network Information Center
• TNP — Take No Prisoners
• SOFT — Strengths, Opportunities, Faults, Threats
• SPC — Storm Prediction Center
• WCDMA — Wideband Code Division Multiple Access
• TERCOM — Terrain Contour Matching
• MVS — Multiple Virtual System
• RICO — Regional Interface Control Officer
• VSLI — Veterans Special Life Insurance
• SQ — Super Quiet
• FIPC — Foreign Intelligence Priorities Committee
• IRM — information resource management
• WA — Western Approaches
• CONFIG — Configuration
• ODIF — Open Document Interchange Format
• VPF — Vector Product Format
• UYH-16 — Mass Memory Storage Device
• RET — Retired
• VAS — VISSR Atmospheric Sounder
• RADINT — Radar Intelligence
• NRC — Nuclear Regulatory Commission (US)
• SPM — System Program Manager
• VHSIC — Very-High-Speed Integrated Circuit
• COMECON — Council For Mutual Economic Assistance (economic Counterpart Of The Warsaw Pact
• SOSI — System-Of-Systems Integration
• IU — Interface Unit
• RECC — Regional Emergency Communications Coordinator
• CBW — Chemical and Biological Warfare
• NHCD — National HUMINT Collection Directive
• RUC — Rapid Update Cycle
• VIN — vehicle identification number (US) (transportation)
• REMBASS — Radar and Remotely Monitored Battlefield Sensor System
• QRM — Quantitative Risk Management
• PWS — Performance Work Statement
• CCIL — Continuously Computed Impact Line
• STARTLE — Surveillance and Target Acquisition Radar for Tank Location and Engagement (US)
• WGWV — Well Gulf War Veterans
• SVIP — Secure Voice Improvement Program
• TAMPS — Tactical Aircraft Mission Planning System

• NF — no foreign
• SRP/PDS — Stabilization Reference Package/Position Determining System
• PTT — Push to Talk Testing
• VISSR — visible and infrared spin scan radiometer (GOES)
• DIC — Defense Intelligence College
• RED HORSE — Rapid Engineers Deployable Heavy Operations Repair Squadron Engineers
• VMAQ — Marine Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron
• UM — Unit Manager
• RAMC — Royal Army Medical Corps
• CEMA — Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
• RCN — Royal Canadian Navy
• TRNG — Training
• PVU — Portable Verification Unit
• STARTEX — Start of Exercise
• STU — Secure Telephone Unit
• AMGOT — Allied Military Government for Occupied Territories
• SA — Selective Availability (on GPS transmissions)
• SITSUM — Situation Summary
• RQMH — Regimental Quarter Master Havildar
• RCF — Repair Cycle Float
• SNAFUBAR — Situation Normal, All Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition
• PSS — Packet Switched Service
• RQMTS — Requirements
• AOSS — automated office support system
• ESE — Earth Science Enterprise
• SBX-1 — Sea-Based X-Band Radar
• TBA — To Be Announcede
• CRS — Community Relations Service
• ITWS — Integrated Terminal Weather System
• IPSO — Internet Protocol Security Option
• DECU — Digital Engine Control Unit
• TOR — Tentative Operational Requirement
• TSM — TRADOC System Manager
• MTBMA — Mean Time Between Maintenance Actions
• SDDD — software detailed design document
• SP AMMO — Special Ammunition
• DTD — Data Transfer Device
• VFY — Verify
• JTC — Joint Technical Committee (USA)
• PPA — Pollution Prevention Act
• MTST — Magnetic Tape Selectric Typewriter
• OEU — Operational Evaluation Unit
• SS-16 — Sinner Missile
• RADC — Rome Air Development Center (Now Rome Laboratory)
• NFDRS — National Fire Danger Rating System
• TACT — Tactical Aviation Control Team
• SSR — secondary surveillance radar (ICAO/FAA)
• TMDE/PST — Test, Measurement and Diagnostic Equipment/Production Surveillance Test
• NSDD — National Security Decision Directive
• TCSP — Theater Consolidation and Shipping Point

• SAPR — Sexual Assault Prevention and Response
• STU-III — Secure Telephone Unit III
• RWU — Research Work Unit
• NLM — NetWare Loadable Module
• PCS — Personal Communications Services
• RDDS — Range Data Distribution System
• AWOS — Automated Weather Observing System
• REPSHIP — Report of Shipment
• QMB — Quality Management Board
• RM1 — Radioman First Class
• IR&D — Independent Research & Development
• QAO — Quality Assurance Office
• RT — Real Time (R/T Preferred)
• QOI — Quality of Information
• SMDC/ARSTRAT — United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command/United States Army Forces Strategic Command
• OSO — Office of Satellite Operations
• RFPI — Rapid Force Projection Initiative
• PDA — Phase Doppler Analysis
• TAMIS — Training Ammunition Management Information System
• RPMA — Real Property Maintenance Activities
• SOMO — Suspension of Military Operations
• SE&I — Systems Engineering & Integration
• TELCO — Telephone Company
• SST — Safe Secure Transport
• ERL — Environmental Research Laboratories (absorbed By OAR Or NOAA Research)
• RNAV — Random Navigation Area Navigation
• MOTIF — Maui Optical Tracking and Identification Facility
• ODCSOPS — Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans (Army)
• SWATH — Small-Waterplane Area Twin-Hull
• UGF — Underground Facility
• TVC — Total Variable Cost
• RQS — Rescue Squadron
• WFX — Warfighter Exercise
• SASP — Special Ammunition Supply Point
• TADIL-B — Tactical Data Information Link-B
• SBFEL — Space-Based Free Electron Laser
• JSMB — Joint Space Management Board
• STLDD — Software Top-Level Design Document
• LC — Library of Congress
• UNDP — United Nations Development Program
• TADS — Target Acquisition and Designation System (US)
• SACEUR — Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (NATO)
• AIR — American Institute for Research
• DPD — Diffuse Pulmonary Disease
• TSGT — Technical Sergeant
• DISNET — Defense Integrated Secure Network
• CCMAT — Canadian Centre for Mine Action Technologies
• QEAM — Quick Erect Antenna Mast
• WFO — Weather Forecast Office
• SECDEF — United States Secretary of Defense

• TAOR — Tactical Area Of Responsibility
• VSHORAD — Very Short Range Air Defense
• TASKORD — Tasking Order
• LAOS — Large Amplitude Oscillatory Shear
• WIST — Weather Information for Surface Transportation
• UYK-70 — Standard 32-bit Naval processing computer (replaces the UYK-43)
• SNJ — North American Aircraft Company TEXAN, W W II Trainer Aircraft
• CMAG — Cruise Missile Advanced Guidance
• PSN — Public Switched Network
• TAAF — Test, Analyze, And Fix
• USSBS — United States Strategic Bombing Survey
• UO(S) — Uniformed Officer(s)
• SODARS — Special Operations Debrief and Retrieval System
• TF/TA — Terrain Following / Terrain Avoidance
• QUADCON — Quadruple Container
• DCTN — Defense Commercial Telecommunications Network
• TADDS — Target Alert Data Display Set
• NOSC — Naval Ocean Systems Center (replaced by NCCOSC and now SPAWAR Systems Center)
• MILNET — Military Network
• VRAM — Video Random Access Memory
• NAVNET — Navy Network
• T-AGOS — Tactical Auxiliary General Ocean Surveillance
• OPIC — Overseas Private Investment Corporation
• VQD — Vendor Quality Diagnosis
• WGS 84 — World Geodetic System 1984
• CSTVRP — Computer Security Technical Vulnerability Reporting Program
• SIRR — Software Integration Readiness Review
• TRADE — Training Devices and Equipment
• SSAA — System Security Authorization Agreement
• LAP — Laboratory Analytical Protocol
• TJD — Trajectory Diagram
• PNAF — Prime Nuclear Airlift Force
• WHFO — When Hell Freezes Over
• OGP — Office of Global Programs
• DCP — Decision Coordinating Paper
• QFPN — Quick Fix Position Navigation
• CCS2 — Command and Control Subordinate System
• NVG — Night Vision Goggle
• QALI — Quality Assurance Letter of Instruction
• RRI — Response to Request for Information
• ECMC — Enhanced Crisis Management Capability
• JSAN — Joint Staff Automation of the Nineties
• DND — Department of National Defence
• QCI — Quality Conformance Inspections
• STREAM — Standard Tensioned Replenishment Alongside Method
• TC ACCIS — Transportation Coordinator's Automated Command, Control, and Information System
• IRBM — Intermediate-range ballistic missile
• MERADCOM — Mobility Equipment Research and Development Command (U.S. Army)
• CP — Central Processor
• SQK — Squawk

• TDBSS — Theater Defense Blood Standard System
• JAEIC — Joint Atomic Energy Intelligence Committee
• USCS — United States Customs Service
• TEK — Traffic Encryption Key
• SINCGARS-SIP — Single Channel Ground and Air(borne) Radio System - System Improvement Program
• NNSA — National Nuclear Security Administration
• VTO — Vertical Take Off
• TTNT — Tactical Targeting Network Technology
• WADS — Western Air Defense Sector
• QBZ — Qingwuqi Buqiang - Zidong
• FCOC — Fuel Cooled Oil Cooler
• IVNAA — In Vivo Neutron Activation Analysis
• MILSTAMP — Military Standard Transportation & Movement Procedure
• UJTL — Universal Joint Task List
• QIF — Quality Inspection Function
• LAST — Lowest Anticipated Service Temperature
• LACBED — Large-Angle Convergent-Beam Electron Diffraction
• RAMCC — Regional Air Movement Coordination Center
• NSTC — National Science and Technology Council (U.S.)
• SQUAD — Squadron
• SOSO — State Owned, State Operated
• TWY — Taxiway
• QFQ — Quest for Quality
• RECBASS — Reception Battalion Automated Support System
• ULSI — Ultra Large Scale Integration
• OPS — Operations Shelter
• IPA — Independent-particle Approximation (in Quantum Calcns. On Solids)
• WSMCR — Western Space and Missile Center Regulation
• NTISSC — National Telecommunications & Information Systems Security Committee
• REDCON — Readiness Condition
• AFCC — Air Force Communications Command
• EMA — European Monetary Agreement
• DON — Department Of the Navy
• TRD — Technical Requirements Document
• RB/ER — Reduced Blast/Enhanced Radiation
• RDML — Rear Admiral Lower Half
• ROSC — Regional Operations and Security Center
• AHPS — Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Services
• NPN — NOAA Profiler Network
• LOC — Location Number
• ASED — Assistant Secretary of Defense
• WDGO — War Department General Order
• RKS — Record Keeping System
• SSC-2A — Salish Missile
• RDTU — Remote Data Transmission Unit
• RBL — Results Based Leadership
• KSOS — Kernelized Secure Operating System
• CAB — Cabin
• SARTU — Search and Rescue Training Unit (RAF)
• SIPRNET — Secret Ip Router Network

• DST — Decision Support Tools
• SFMS — Special Forces Medical Sergeant
• STOATD — Science and Technology Objectives Advanced Technology Demonstration
• QVT — Quality Verification Testing
• USNA — United States Naval Academy
• PISA — Pharmaceutical Information Systems Association
• RCOT — Reserve Commissioned Officer Training
• WGI — Within Grade Increase
• TERPROM — Terrain Profile Matching
• TAMMS — The Army Maintenance Management System
• TAPOC — Theater Army Personnel Operations Center
• SMEC — Single Module Engine Controller
• USPHS — United States Public Health Service
• LAPW — Linearized Augmented Plane Wave (for Band-structure Calcns.)
• ASSIST — Automated Special Security Information System Terminal
• LAPS — Local Analysis and Prediction System
• VUL — Vulnerability
• TPQ-36 — Firefinder Radar
• PRB — Problem Review Board
• CITIS — Contractor Integrated Technical Information Service
• TACTS — Tactical Aircrew Combat Training System
• SMTP — Simple Message Transfer Protocol
• SHTF — Shit Hit The Fan
• TFG — Transportation Facility Guide
• TOMA — Technical Order Management Agency
• DPL — Degausser Products List
• ORM — Other Regulated Materials
• SO/LIC — Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict
• ROIC — Resident Officer In Charge
• AOT — Aerosol Optical Thickness
• SJA — Staff Judge Advocate
• TACON — Tactical Control
• RPSTL — Repair Parts and Special Tools Listing
• SDVT — SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team
• MEPED — medium energy proton and electron detector
• TSZ — Temporary Security Zone
• SBIRS — Space-Based Infrared System
• QAG — Quality Assurance Group (TWG/TAT-14)
• UV — Ultra Violet
• TASMO — Tactical Air Support for Maritime Operations
• UNC — United Nations Command
• RIU — Radio Interface Unit
• RORO — Roll On, Roll Off
• SMT — station management (protocol)
• PV — Positive Vetting
• UGM-84 — Harpoon Missile
• RECCEXREP — Reconnaissance Exploitation Report
• MARAD — Maritime Administration (National Defense Reserve Fleet)
• RXU — Receiver Unit
• MMU — Mass Memory Unit

• PNVS — Pilot Night Vision System
• SSL — Shop Stock List
• TAPDB-AE — Total Army Personnel Database - Active Enlisted
• UTP — unshielded twisted pair
• DCA — Defense Cooperation Agreements
• PMSP — Preliminary Message Security Protocol
• UCA — Unenclosed Covered Area
• CPR — Cost Performance Report
• ISA — Ionic Strength Adjuster
• JOP — Joint Operating Procedure
• SCMODS — State/County Municipal Offender Data System
• NTCB — Network Trusted Computing Base
• TAOM — Tactical Air Operations Module
• SAFCS — Small Arms Fire Control System
• PAT — Proficiency Analytical Testing (NIOSH)
• TIROS — Television InfraRed Observation Satellite (POES)
• SARIR — Search and Rescue Incident Report
• QRG — Quick Response Graphic
• SADL — Situation Awareness Data Link
• DCAS — Defense Contract Administration Services
• PTP — Paper Tape Punch
• SSC-1 — Shaddock Missile (Coastal Defense)
• DOT — Date of Transfer
• LAAFS — Laser Ablation Atomic Fluorescence Spectroscopy
• USD(R&E) — Under Secretary of Defense For Research and Engineering
• BEM — British Empire Medal
• SLQ — Electronic Warfare System
• STUAS — Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System
• DTD — Directorate of Technical Development
• SAROS — Synthetic Aperture Radar for Open Skies
• VTS — Vandenberg Tracking Station (AFSCN)
• SART — Search and Rescue Transponder
• RRE — Royal Radar Establishment
• SXN — Section
• NSCAT — Nasa Scatterometer Project
• RCPAC — Reserve Components Personnel and Administrative Center
• UIFG — User Interface Functional Group
• OIA — Office of Imagery Analysis
• UCLA — University of California, Los Angeles
• SPCP — State Polytechnic College of Palawan
• RHIB — Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat
• SWCD — Soil and Water Conservation District
• SRD — System Requirements Document
• SETH — Simulation Equipment Test Hardware
• MIL-STD — Military Standard
• WWOLS — World Wide on-Line System
• USASSG — United States Army Special Security Group
• TRACON — Terminal Radar Approach Control
• SAMMS — Standard Automated Materiel Management System
• SSPK — Single Shot Probability of Kill

• RCSCC — Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corps
• XA — Extended Architecture (MVS)
• PRB — Program Review Board
• UUT — Unit Under Test
• USSR — Union of Soviet Socialist Republic
• DU — Decision Unit
• QOT&E — Qualification Operational Test & Evaluation
• OPS — Operations Planning System
• SWAN — Shipwide Area Network
• SARSS — Standard Army Retail Supply System
• SGV — Self Guided Vehicle
• ISLOCA — Inter-System Loss-of-Coolant Accident
• ERAST — Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology
• TASM — Tactical Air-to- Surface Missile
• RPFT — Ranger Physical Fitness Test
• WHNS — Wartime Host-Nation Support
• SECAM — Séquentiel Couleur Avec Mémoire
• QQPRI — Qualitative and Quantitative Personnel Requirements Information
• CCITT — Consultative Committee for International Telephone and Telegraph
• SINS — Ship’s Inertial Navigation System
• ETR — Eastern Test Range (ESME Preferred)
• UNREP — Underway Replenishment
• NNPT — Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
• RWT — Right When Tested
• STANO — Surveillance, Target Acquisition, & Night Observation
• SBY — Standby
• SDP — Service Delivery Point
• DCU — Data Control Unit
• TBU — True But Useless
• RAN — Royal Australian Navy
• NCB — Nuclear Contingency Branch
• SMILS — Sonobuoy Missile Impact Location System
• LACE — Lectin Affinity Capillary Electrophoresis
• OSF — Operations Support Facility
• S-DAY — day the President authorizes selective reserve call-up
• T/R — Transmitter/Receiver
• USNSCC — United States Naval Sea Cadet Corps
• RJAF — Royal Jordanian Air Force
• TFM — Trusted Facility Manual
• CERES — Clouds and Earth's Radiant Energy System
• MHD — Moving-Head Disk
• TFA — Toxic Free Area
• SNOK — Secondary Next Of Kin
• SCITIS — Single Channel Transponder Injection System
• LEAF — Law Enforcement Access Field
• CDIP — Council of Defense Intelligence Producers
• SPETC — Solid Propellant Electro-Thermal-Chemical
• TADCS — Tactical Airborne Digital Camera System
• IRRAS — Integrated Reliability and Risk Analysis System
• F — Frequency of Lifting

• SECREL — SECret RELeasable
• URI — University Research Initiative
• SOPA — Senior Officer Present Afloat
• TCIS — Tactical Communications Interface Software
• SYNC — Synchronization
• SABC — self aid and buddy care
• SHAPE — Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (NATO)
• RTAD — Relocatable Target Assessment Data
• RGVTDB — Rapidly Generated Virtual Terrain Data Base
• DERA — Defense Environment Restoration Account
• POS — Position Orientation Systems
• VHY — Very High Yield
• UYQ — Uranium Yield Quantity
• RAE — Right of Assistance Entry
• SHORAN — short-range navigation
• RCACS — Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron
• PSMS — Personnel Status Monitoring System
• RELCAN — Releasable to Canada
• QSTAG — Quadripartite Standardization Agreement (cue-stag)
• TAPDB-R — Total Army Personnel Database - Reserve
• RCMP — Royal Canadian Mounted Police
• SDLC — Systems Development Life Cycle
• USSPACECOM — United States Space Command
• RDECOM — US Army Research, Development, and Engineering Command
• USTRANSCOM — United States Transportation Command
• RIM-7 — Sea Sparrow Missile
• SUB — Submarine
• REPL DET — Replacement Detachment
• UBL — Unit Basic Load
• RYE — Retirement Year Ending
• RET. — Retired
• PVL — Priority Vehicle List
• TRU — Transformer Rectifier Unit
• WIMPY — When In Military Play Yankee
• SPURV — Self-Propelled Underwater Research Vehicle
• RQL — Requirements List
• VQO — Visual Quality Objective
• SEO/SEP — Special Enforcement Operation/Special Enforcement Program
• RNZAF — Royal New Zealand Air Force
• SS-20 — Saber Missile
• PSYOPS — Psychological Operations
• WBITS — Web-Based Integrated Training System
• TAC — Terrain Analysis Center
• SURG — Surgeon
• SPQR — Senatus Populesque Romanus (the Senate and the People of Rome)
• TACP — Tactical Air Control Party
• QMF — Query Management Facility
• TPW — Total Precipitable Water
• SS-14 — Scamp Missile
• RO/RO — Roll-On/Roll-Off (Ship)

• SSIMU — Solid State Inertial Measurement Unit
• RS-232 — Recommended Standard 232 (EIA standard for transmitting serial data)
• UJC — Urgency Justification Code
• SITC — SPAWAR (Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command) Information Technology Center
• TDOT — Tennessee Department of Transportation's
• TNT HP — Track And Trace Hollow Point
• MBB — Modular Building Block
• TACOM — Tank-automotive and Armaments Command (US)
• SDDCTEA — Surface Deployment and Distribution Command Transportation Engineering Agency
• RD&J — Radar Deception & Jamming
• VLP — Very Low Power
• SMKU — Shelter Mock-Up
• STOMP — Specialized Training of Military Parents
• DOE — Date of Examination
• PSRO — Passenger Standing Route Order
• T-AVB — Aviation Logistics Support Ship - MSC Manned
• KAL — Key Asset List
• EDC — European Defence Community
• T — Training
• MCEB — Military Communications-Electronics Board
• RISTA — Reconnaissance, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Target Acquisition
• PVNTMED — Preventive Medicine
• OSI — Open System Interconnection
• VKF — Variable Key Function
• RSTA — Reconnaissance, Surveillance, and Target Acquisition
• SRW — Software Requirements Workshop
• TSSP — Tactical Satellite Signal Processor
• UMOC — Unit Movement Officer Course
• TPQ-47 — Upgraded Weapon Locating Radar
• SMOW — Standard Mean Ocean Water
• TT&E — Technical Test & Evaluation
• USAFRICOM — United States Africa Command
• SON — Statement Of Need
• USATC — United States Army Training Center
• QPL — Qualified Parts List
• WGPU — Weapons-Grade Plutonium
• NGA — NATO Guidelines Area
• OSE — Open System Environment
• WAAS — Wide Area Augmentation System
• SYRS — System Requirements Specification
• SSRA — System Safety Risk Assessment
• SDREN — Secure Defense Research and Engineering Network
• RNP — Remote Network Processor
• WFOE — Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprise
• VZ — Virtual Zone
• USACIDC — United States Army Criminal Investigation Command
• SLBM — Submarine-launched ballistic missile
• SAE — Service Acquisition Executive
• STOMPS — Stand-Alone Tactical Operational Message Processing System
• SGA — Standards of Grade Authorization

• QWG — Quadripartite Working Group (qwig)
• RWIS — Road Weather Information System
• ACARS — ARINC Communication Addressing and Reporting System
• ADEOS — Advanced Earth Observing System
• USCENTCOM — United States Central Command
• RLPG — Regenerative Liquid Propellant Gun
• USACOM — United States Atlantic Command
• MSPB — Merit System Protection Board
• UNDHA — United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs
• DCA — Defense Communication Agency
• QAP — Quality Assurance Plan
• DII — Defense Industry Initiative
• UTE — Utilization Rate
• MOCE — Marine Optical Characterization Experiment
• TETS — Third Echelon Test System
• PPPA — Poison Prevention Packaging Act (1970)
• SEATO — South East Asia Treaty Organization
• QLF — Quality Leadership Forum
• SOACMS — Special Operations Aviation Combat Mission Simulator
• QCP — Quality Control Program
• WGM — Work Group Manager
• SHQ — Station Head Quarters
• RIA — Rock Island Arsenal
• PCS — Personal Communications System
• TJTN — Theater Joint Tactical Network
• VVP — Versatile Voice Processing
• TSP — Telecommunications Service Priority
• SQN — Squadron
• TAPDB-AO — Total Army Personnel Database - Active Officer
• USAMCC — United States Army Meteorology and Calibration Center
• TARBUL — Target Bulletin
• USSOUTHCOM — United States Southern Command
• MODIS — moderate-resolution imaging spectrometer (NASA/GSFC)
• REAP — Research and Engineering Apprenticeship Program
• USPACOM — United States Pacific Command
• TLAM — Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles
• USAFAC&FS — United States Army Finance and Accounting Center and Fort Sill
• WAAF — Women's Auxiliary Air Force (World WarII UK)
• TWSTIAC — Tactical Warfare Simulation and Technology Info Analysis Center
• VTL — Virtual Test Laboratory
• FBS — Forward-Based Systems
• TECHEVAL — Technical Evaluation
• QNQ — Quality Not Quantity
• TADIL-J — Tactical Data Information Link-J
• RDE — Research Development and Engineering
• MISSI — Multilevel Information System Security Initiative
• TDAR — Tactical Defense Alert Radar
• SQL — Standard Query Language
• RASC — Royal Army Service Corps
• SJS — Secretary, Joint Staff

• SFAF — Standard Frequency Action Format
• UYK-20 — U.S. Navy standard 16-bit computer
• WWMCCS — Worldwide Military Command and Control System (obsolete)
• RECBN — Reception Battalion
• VHT — Virtual Heat Treatment
• SHAG — Simplified High Accuracy Guidance (Honeywell)
• QIG — Quality Improvement Group
• STAFF — Smart, Target Activated, Fire & Forget
• P&L — Production & Logistics
• MSK — Minimum Shift Keying
• TFMS-M — Transportation Financial Management System-Military
• SLME — Select Manual Entry
• RRDT — Rapid Response Documentation Team
• SOMA — Status of Mission Agreement
• ULF — Ultra Low Frequency
• DST — Daylight Savings Time
• SRAM — Short Range Attack Missile
• ASRAAM — Advanced Short Range Air to Air Missile
• STGR — Steam Generator Tube Rupture
• REMODN72C7E — Reception and Onward Movement of DoD-Sponsored Non-Combatant Evacuees
• STAT — Security Threat Avoidance Technology
• USAADBD — United States Army Air Defense Board
• TPC — Tropical Prediction Center
• SSCRA — Soldiers and Sailors Civil Relief Act
• SARSIT — Search and Rescue Situation Summary Report
• VCNOG — Vice Chairman, Nuclear Operations Group
• TISG — Technical Interoperability Standards Group
• RF-84F — Republic FICON reconnaissance fighter
• TAPDB-A — Total Army Personnel Database - Active
• TAFIM — Technical Architecture Framework for Information Management
• STOW-E — Synthetic Theater Of War - Europe
• LRP — Long-range Plan
• RDYLD — Ready to Load Date
• TADC — Tactical Air Direction Center
• PLIRRA — Pollution Liability Insurance and Risk Reduction Act
• UIRV — Unique Interswitch Rekeying Variable
• RTFA — Ready-Team-Fire-Assist
• SEAT — Single Engine Air Tanker
• SAK — Swiss Army Knife
• NSTAC — National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee
• QVJ — Quality Verification Journal
• DIICOE — Defense Information Infrastructure Common Operating Environment
• VSW — Very Shallow Water
• OTH — Over the Horizont
• TEREC — Tactical ELINT Reconnaissance
• USNORTHCOM — United States Northern Command
• VADS — Vulcan Air Defense System (US)
• RBOL — Rakovski Bulgarian Officers Legion
• TNCC — Theater Network Operations (NETOPS) Control Center
• USAFABD — United States Army Field Artillery Board

• RNZN — Royal New Zealand Navy
• BGN — United States Board on Geographic Names
• TEHO — Tail-End-Hop-Off
• QHDA — Qualified Hazardous Duty Area
• ROPOS — Remotely Operated Platform for Ocean Science
• SOCSOUTH — Special Operations Component, United States Southern Command
• TALCE — Tanker Airlift Control Element
• SKC — Chief Storekeeper
• SAAR — Strength Accounting And Reporting
• R/O — Receive Only
• RALH — Raise a Little Hell
• PSRC — Presidential Selected Reserve Call-Up
• RMW — Regulated Medical Waste
• SLAT — Supersonic Low-Altitude Target
• SLJO — Shitty Little Jobs Officer
• SLTA — Small Laser Transmitter Assembly
• N-ISDN — Narrowband ISDN
• RF/SAL — Radio-Frequency Semi-Active Laser
• DT — Drug Therapy
• ULS — Update of Legacy Systems
• PWDS — Protected Wire Distribution System
• WAE — Wargaming the Asymmetric Environment
• TXO — Training, Exercise, & Operations
• TOD — Time of Day (Have Quick)
• WSMC — Western Space and Missile Center
• RBG — Rocket Boosted Glider
• RGL — Reading Grade Level
• UCR — Unsatisfactory Condition Report
• USAAF — United States Army Air Forces
• DB — Data Base
• TIMMS — TMDE Integrated Material Management System
• REL — Reference Exposure Level
• SKCM — Master Chief Storekeeper
• DSSNY — Dental Society of the State of New York
• T/R — Transmit/Receive
• RTLP — receiver test level point
• SELRES — Selected Reserve
• TAAA — Total Active Aircraft Authorization
• RAM-D — Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Dependability
• RWIFEC — Rotary Wing Instrument Flight Examiner Course
• SOCCET — Special Operations Critical Care Evacuation Team
• DU — Display Unit
• SNONI — Senior Naval Officer Northern Ireland
• TOPPSS — Transportation Operational Personal Property Standard System
• SLQ-25 — Torpedo Countermeasures System
• QCA — Quality Control Analysis
• VRL — Virtual Reality Laboratory
• DES — Digital Encryption Standard
• NISAC — National Industrial Security Advisory Committee
• RESCAP — Rescue Combat Air Patrol

• SSSS — Silent Sound Spread Spectrum
• SOTEP — Software Operational Test & Evaluation Plan
• PYQ-3 — COUNTER- INTELLIGENCE/ HUMAN INTELLIGENCE AUTOMATED TOOL SET
• VSTOL — Vertical/Short Takeoff & Landing
• PUG — Push-Up Game
• SSU — Stratospheric Sounding Unit (TOVS)
• LAC — Liquid Adsorption Chromatography
• SDTC — Standard Duty Title Code
• SKV — Storekeeper, Aviation
• SAFI — Short-Term Average Failure Intensity
• TASWC — Theater Antisubmarine Warfare Commander
• QAPP — Quality Assurance Program Plan
• SOJ — Stand Off Jammer
• SFHD — System Functional Hierarchical Diagram
• NLG — Nose Landing Gear
• THZ — TeraHertz
• TT&P — Tactics, Techniques, & Procedures
• IRGCHAZ — Intercritically Reheated Grain-Coarsened Heat-Affected Zone
• REMUS — Remote Environmental Monitoring Unit System
• LAIS — Liquid Alloy Ion Source
• USNB — United States Navy Band
• WHNRS — Wartime Host-Nation Religious Support
• DPC — Delayed Primary Closure
• SEON — Solar Electro-Optical Network
• RF/EMPINT — Radio Frequency/Electromagnetic Pulse Intelligence
• SARGE — Surveillance and Reconnaissance Ground Equipment
• BMG — Browning Machine Gun
• TRAAV — Test Range Facility for Advanced Aerospace Vulnerability
• TYQ — Commmunications Set AN/ series
• MW — Missile Warning
• ST&E — Security Test and Evaluations
• DPC — Distal Palmar Crease
• USAFSOC — United States Air Force, Special Operations Command
• RCIED — Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Device
• ASD — Atmospheric Sciences Division
• SEKP — Single Engagement Kill Probability
• RESPROD — Responsible Production
• KSK — Kommando Spezialkräfte
• SBPO — Service Blood Program Officer
• SKO — Sets, Kits, And Outfits
• NMC — Not Mission Capable
• UDC — Unit Descriptor Code
• SROE — Standing Rules of Engagement
• SIGSEC — Signal Security
• TPVS — Third Party Verification Service
• UNODC — United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
• TARPS — Tactical Airborne Reconnaissance Pod System
• QPU — Quarterly Performance Update
• RC SOUTH — NATO Regional Command SOUTH
• RASCAL — Rotocraft-Aircrew Systems Concepts Airborne Laboratory

• REW — Rewind
• TECHDOC — Technical Documentation
• SKSN — STOREKEEPER SEAMAN
• SPACECON — Control of Space Information
• CMAQ — Community Multiscale Air Quality
• VFMAC — Valley Forge Military Academy and College
• QME — Quality Measurement Experiment
• SCCB — Software Configuration Control Board
• TSM-ABCS — TRADOC Systems Manager - Army Battle Command Systems
• USMD — United States Military District
• QFF — Quick Fix Force
• SAFOR — Semi Automated Forces
• SMART-AID — Special Medical Augmentation Response Team - Aeromedical Isolation Team
• UFPM — Unit Fitness Program Manager
• IPA — Independent-pair Approximation
• SRE — Software Risk Evaluation
• SOCOORD — Special Operations Coordination Element
• NDIC — National Drug Intelligence Center
• UNREP CONSOL — Underway Replenishment Consolidation
• TARGET — Time for Audit Review Guidelines Education and Training
• QCT — Quality Control tool
• TAIM — Total Army Inventory Management
• PTAI — Primary Training Aircraft Inventory
• PWIS — Prisoner of War Information System
• T-NET — Training Net
• RESPECT — Recognizing Educational Success, Professional Excellence, and Collaborative Teaching
• IPAD — Integrated Pulsed Amperometric Detection
• T&T — Transportation & Transportability
• RIR — Reduction In Recruitment
• ULEV — Ultra Low Emission Vehicles
• VDB — Vulnerability DataBase
• SEABEE — Navy construction engineer; sea barge
• TKT — Tool KiT
• RACO — Rear Area Combat Operations
• QAC — Quality Assurance Checklist
• TMEP — Theater Mortuary Evacuation Point
• MIMS — Multimedia Integrated Modeling System
• LACE — Laser-Assisted Chemical Etching
• SOMPF — Special Operations Mission Planning Folder
• SQIP — Software Quality Improvement Process
• LADD — Lowest Acceptable Daily Dose
• TESAR — Tactical Endurance Synthetic Aperture Radar
• SQS-53 — Submarine Sonar
• USACE — United States Army Corps of Engineers
• VTQ — Voice Transmission Quality
• OCS — Operational Control Segment
• REVTP — Reserve Components Virtual Training Program
• TC-ACCIS — Transportation Coordinator's Automated Command and Control Information System
• LASIK — laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis (eye surgery)
• QBL — Qualified Bidders List

• RC NORTH — NATO Regional Command NORTH
• CNC — Computerized Numerical Control
• TOS(D) — Tactical Operations System- Division
• RLE — Rail Liaison Element
• TIARA — Tactical Intelligence And Related Activities
• UVU — Union Veterans Union
• RERLE — Radar Echo Return Loss Enhancement
• SHDS — Safety and Health Data Sheet
• SHORAD — Short-Range Air Defense
• USWRP — United States Weather Research Program
• QPO — Quick Purchase Order
• SPSC — System Planning & System Control
• SVTP — Software Verification Test Plan
• AWIPS — Advanced Weather Interactive Processing Systems
• TCEM — Theater Contingency Engineering Management
• SADC — Sector Air Defense Commander
• SMIS — Security Management Information System
• TALO — Tactical Airlift Liaison Officer
• USB — Upper Sideband
• UV-A — UltraViolet A
• USIC — United States Interdiction Coordinator
• SURPIC — Surface Picture
• THO — Target Hand-Off
• TLN — Total Logistics Network
• SCATMINE — Scatterable Mine
• RSPA — Research and Special Projects Administration
• THW — The Hidden Wars
• ARC — Acquisition Review Committee
• LAS — Laser Absorption Spectroscopy
• SERER — survival, evasion, resistance, escape, recovery
• SOON — Solar Observing Optical Network
• TRAM — Target Recognition Attack Multisensor
• SXC — Soldiers of Xtreme Combat
• JPRS — Joint Publications Research Service
• ON — Original Negative (film)
• RCRPL — Reserve Component Resource Priority List
• QSV — Quality, Service, and Value
• TLAMM — Theater Lead Agent for Medical Materiel
• TCIM — Tactical Communications Interface Module
• WHIP — White House Invasion Prayer
• UCS — Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set
• RXA — Repairable Exchange Activity
• RDAP — Research, Development, and Acquisition Plan
• QEG — Quality Evaluation Group
• SMAC — Scene Matching Area Correlator
• RWPD — Radar Waveform Processor Demonstration
• PWS/DS — Potable Water Storage/Distribution System
• RCEM — Regional Contingency Engineering Management
• WIK — Water Injection Kit
• ES — Expert System

• VZE — Virtual Zone Entrance
• RNLAF — Royal Netherlands Air Force (also KLu)
• SEL REL — Selective Release
• TEED — Tactical End-to-End Encryption Device
• QRN — Quick Response Network
• TCCF — Tactical Communications Control Facility
• RKH — Riyadh Armed Forces Hospital
• RRN — Rapid Response Network
• RECSTA — Reception Station
• MRCA — Multi-Role Combat Aircraft
• RCIEDS — Radio Controlled Improvised Explosive Devices
• SLRP — Strategic Long-Range Plan
• RKVDU — Remote Keyboard Visual Display Unit
• ESIP — Earth Science Information Partnership
• VAAP — Vulnerability Assessment and Assistance Program
• TASOSE — Theater Army Special Operations Support Element
• RRPP — Rapid Response Planning Process
• TMOPS — TRADOC Mobilization and Operations Planning System
• SWIT — Software Integration and Test
• RBSF — Russian Black Sea Fleet
• TFCF — Theater Field Confinement Facility
• TISEO — Target Identification System Electro-Optical
• UALS — Universal Ammunition Loading System
• RHOGI — Radar Homing and Guidance Interceptors
• SPMIG — Standard PMS Materials Identification Guide
• OFCM — Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology
• SZM — Security Zone Management
• TUOC — Tactical Unit Operation Center
• QMD — Quality Management Division
• UMCC — Unit Movement Control Center
• SGOC — Standard Garrison Organization Chart
• QRE — Quick Reaction Element
• WFP — World Food Program
• WETM — Weather Team
• RAPT — Retractable Amphibious Pontoon Technology
• PSNCO — Personnel Staff NCO
• STGT — Second TDRSS Ground Terminal
• TSS — Timesharing System
• QRS — Quick Reaction Strike
• USAAVNBD — United States Army Aviation Board
• SCOOP — System Concept of Operation Outline Plan
• USD(A&T) — Under Secretary of Defense For Acquisition and Technology
• SWAK — Swing Wing Adapter Kit
• ECCM — Electronic Counter-Counter-Measures
• POES — Polarorbiting Operational Environmental Satellite
• RAST — Recovery Assistance, Securing, and Traversing Systems
• OPS — Operations Provisioning System
• NPS — National Park Service (US)
• SDRL — Sea Date Required to Load
• TESS III — Tactical Environmental Surveillance System

• TADSTAND — Tactical Automation Digital STANDard
• QIM — Quality Inspection Management
• SXQ — Military Secure Closed-Circuit Television
• REJASE — RE-using Junk As Something Else
• SQJ — Software Quality Journal
• UN-DMT — United Nations Disaster Management Team
• ER — Eastern Range
• TII — Total Inactive Inventory
• UVC — Ultra-Violet C (250-260nm)
• TCCCS — Tactical Command, Control, and Communications System
• SWOD — Special Weapons Ordnance Device
• SAM-D — Surface to Air Missile Defense
• NCR — No Carbon Required
• UGP — Unitary Guerilla Platoon (gaming group)
• SPIR — Spare Parts Interchangeability Report
• PPL — Preferred Products List
• DP — Displaced Person
• TACDAR — Tactical Detection And Reporting
• UBO — UNIFORM BUSINESS OFFICE
• VTB — Virtual Test Bed
• RJTD — Reconstitution Joint Table of Distribution
• STFU — Superior Tactical Fragging Unit
• SOCC — Sector Operations Control Center (NORAD)
• SSES — Ships Signal Exploitation Space
• TDATD — Total Distribution Advanced Technology Demonstration
• SHU — Security Housing Unit
• LDEF — Long Duration Exposure Facility (for Spacecraft Material Testing)
• RFL — Restrictive Fire Line (military)
• UDLP — United Defense-Limited Partnership
• RSME — Royal School of Military Engineering
• RM2 — Radioman Second Class
• V — Vertical
• WFM — Workforce Management
• SOTF — Security Operations Training Facility
• SOCA — Special Operations Communications Assembly
• SCATANA — Security Control of Air Traffic & Navigation Aids
• SPAD — Simple Plastic Airplane Design
• SUWC — Surface Warfare Commander
• SOCJFCOM — Special Operations Command, Joint Forces Command
• PXS — Project Executive System
• USPTO — United States Patent and Trademark Office
• SUGG — Suggestion
• NCLAP — National Crop Loss Assessment Program
• USAFAS — United States Army Field Artillery School
• USEUCOM — United States European Command
• SEMT — Signal Intelligence/ Electronic Warfare Equipment Maintenance Trainer
• SAMM — Security Assistance Management Manual
• STRUCE — Structure Strength, Enlisted
• UP&TT — Unit Personnel and Tonnage Table
• SSIPF — Standard System Information Production Factory

• UARM — Unconventional Assisted Recovery Mechanism
• DOS — Date of Surgery
• QCC — Quality Control Center
• TGP — Terminally Guided Projectile
• SN1 — Seaman First Class
• TCG-WPMU — Topical Classification Guide - Weapons Production and Military Utilization
• TADS/PNVS — Target Acquisition Designation/Pilot Nights Vision System
• RAPMA — R.A. Pandey Maritime Academy (India)
• PV2 — Private First Class - Army
• SOWT — Special Operations Weather Team
• MOPP — Mission-Oriented Protective Posture
• ECSC — European Coal And Steel Community (distant Ancestor Of The EU)
• VITD — Vector Interim Terrain Data
• SOUTHCOM — (U.S.) Southern Command
• VDC — Volts, Direct Current
• UMF — User Message Format
• SASF — SIDPERS Authorized Strength File
• SC EUR — NATO Strategic Command, Europe
• RTARF — Royal Thai Armed Forces
• SOF/FID — Special Operations Force/Foreign Internal Defense
• SICO — Sector Interface Control Officer
• TOCN — Technical Order Change Notice
• DFA — Defence Families of Australia
• EPL — Evaluated Products List
• SCAMPI — Staff College Automated Military Periodicals Index
• USIA — United States Information Agency (changed To IIP)
• PSSM — Physical Security and Stockpile Management
• UWB — Ultra Wide-Band
• TOJ — Track-on-Jam
• VMFA 323 — Fixed wing Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 323 Death Rattlers
• VBTP — Virtual Battle Training Plan
• TBMS — Theater Battle Management System
• SWXS — Space Weather Squadron
• STWC — Strike Warfare Commander
• RCMDV — Remote Controlled Mine Disposal Vehicle
• SPBS-R — Standard Property Book System-Redesign
• SKCS — Senior Chief Storekeeper
• VIRUS — Very Important Resource Under Siege
• UAV-MPCS — Unmanned Aerial Vehicle - Mission Planning and Control Station
• TG — training group
• WGYN — We've Got Your Number
• DEZ — Desert Sun Mining Corp
• ULCC — Ultra Large Crude Carrier (oil)
• SSTATS — System Statistics Data
• RGN — Retired Guys Network Of Kansas City
• SOTSE — Special Operations Theater Support Element
• SS-N-9 — Siren Missile
• TASE — TAACOM (Theater Army Area COMmand) Area Support Element
• ULCANS — Ultra-Lightweight CAmouflage Net System
• NDWAC — National Drinking Water Advisory Council

• QDK — Quarterdeck
• TASOSC — Theater Army Special Operations Support Command
• RDTE — Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation
• UTV — Uninspected Towing Vessel
• SECTRANS — Secretary of Transportation
• SPLA/M — Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement
• PWE — Primary Weapons and Equipment
• SETAF — Southern European Task Force
• TA — Terrain Avoidance
• SP HAWK — Self-Propelled HAWK
• QEP — Quality Evaluation Plan
• RFDC — Radio Frequency Data Collection
• IUAM — Independent United Atom Model (in Positron Scattering By Mols.)
• SAMOS — Satellite and Missile Observation Satellite
• RTOS — Re-configurable Tactics Operations Simulator
• SEMS — Standard Embarkation Management System
• TREE — Transient Radiation Effects on Electronics
• PZL — Aircraft produced by the Panstwowe Zaklady Lotnicze (Polish National Aero Factory)
• SMH — Society for Military History
• VCJCS — Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
• TYQ-77 — Aviation Mission Planning System
• ARL — Air Resources Laboratory's
• SATC — Student Army Training Corps
• TBMD — Theater Ballistic Missile Defense
• RMS — Remote Monitoring System
• TRIADS — Tri-Wall Aerial Distribution System
• SSPH — Single Shot Probability of Hit
• UNAS — Universal Network Architecture Services
• NSARC — Navy Systems Acquisition Review Council
• TAFT — Technical Assistance Field Team
• RTAFB — Royal Thai Air Force Base
• SFA — Security Force Assistance
• BASC — Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate
• SMKLS — Smokeless
• SFCP — Shore Fire Control Party
• TUA — TOW Under Armor (US)
• TQV — Technology Qualification Vehicle
• RDCFP — Regional Defense Counterterrorism Fellowship Program
• LOEP — List Of Effective Pages
• TM3 — Trade-off Mobilization Macro Model
• USACCSA — United States Army Command and Control Support Agency
• SJPO — Systems Joint Project Officer
• UFS — Unified File System
• STRP — Scientific Technical Review Panel
• WEZ — Weapon Engagement Zone
• SITLM — Single Integrated Theater Logistic Manager
• SRS — Savannah River Site
• TENET — Theater Extension Network
• TADIL — Tactical Data Information Link
• TNC — Theater Network Operations (NETOPS) Center

• EOSDIS — EOS Data and Information System (NASA)
• ISCA — Ionization Spectroscopy For Chemical Analysis
• VQT — Voice Quality Testing
• UVL — UltraViolet Lamp
• SOBER — Short of Being Entirely Ready
• SS-12 — Scaleboard Missile
• RESCORT — Rescue Escort
• RPZ — Reduced Pressure Zone
• ADR — Accident Data Recorder
• STARDOCS — Standard Automated Retrieval Documentation System
• LARIS — Laser Ablation and Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy
• LAMOFS-ETE — Laser Excited Molecular Fluorescence Spectroscopy With Electrothermal Evaporation
• VIFF — Vector In Forward Flight
• PWW — Planar Wing Weapon
• ULLC — Unit Level Logistics Computer
• JTWC — Joint Typhoon Warning Center
• UUR — Unit Under Review
• WFB — CIA World Fact Book
• DMSA — Defense Medical Support Activity
• WCV — Waypoint Closing Velocity
• SYD — Subject to Your Discretion
• RDP — Radar Data Processor
• SAINT — Strategic Artificially Intelligent Nuclear Transport
• PTADS — Point Target Defense System
• CSD — Climate Services Division
• UFA — Until Further Advised
• SEW — Shared Early Warning
• TAC2IS — Theater Army Command and Control Info System
• VOTS — Variable Optical Target Simulator
• SPAR — Semper Paratus Always Ready
• ATDD — Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Divisionsion
• TATRC — Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center
• SOFSA — Special Operations Forces Support Activity
• UIE — User Interface Engineering
• RASPUTIN — Rapid Scenario Preparation Unit for Intelligence
• RVNAF — Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces
• SCIPMIS — Standard Civilian Personnel Management Information System
• CFS — Center For Standards
• RNX — Richard Nakka Experimental Rocket Propellant
• TCAM — Theater Army Medical Management Information System (TAMMIS) Customer Assistance Module
• RTFL — Rough Terrain Forklift
• WSMR — White Sands Missile Range (whiz-murr)
• SIG — Signaling Channel
• UXDC — Un- eXploded Depth Charge
• SPORT — Soldier's Portable On-System Repair Tool
• SAAS-DAO — Standard Army Ammunition System - Division Ammunition Officer
• SSORD — Service Support Order
• RWCM — Regional Wartime Construction Manager
• DOES — Disorder of Excessive Somnolence
• TRAC2ES — Transportation Command Regulating and Command and Control Evacuation System

• WCDO — War Consumables Distribution Objective
• PVSM — Param Vishisht Seva Medal
• SPAL — Stabilized Platform Airborne Laser
• USAISEC — United States Army Information Systems Engineering Command
• TAPSTEM — Training and Personnel Systems Science and Technology Evaluation and Management (Committee)
• RECAT — Residual Capability Assessment Team
• IPA — Inverted Perturbation Approach (in Mol. Potential-energy Curves Calcn.)
• TUO — Technology Utilization Officer
• SARNEG — Search and Rescue Numerical Encryption Group
• PWF — Personnel Working File
• READR — Remain in Effect After Discharge and Re-Enlistment
• TADMS — Tactical Automated Data Manipulation System
• SDNRIU — Secure Digital Net Radio Interface Unit
• SOFPARS — Special Operations Forces Planning and Rehearsal System
• REQ — Requisition
• WASSO — WWMCCS ADP System Security Officer
• SFOD-A/B/C — Special Forces Operational Detachment-A/B/CC
• SICPS — Standardized Integrated Command Post Shelter
• SITMAP — Situation Map
• USDOE — United States Department Of Energy
• SSEB — Source Selection Evaluation Board
• USSOUTHAF — United States Air Force, Southern Command
• STARFIARS — Standard Army Financial Inventory Accounting & Reporting System
• TASCID — tactical Automatic Digital Network (AUTODIN) satellite compensation interface device
• TRQ-32 — Teammate groundbased electronic warfare system
• UHV — Upper Huallaga Valley (drug trafficking area in Peru)
• IPPA — Independent Pair-Potential Approximation
• QTID — Quadrilateral Technical Interface Design Plan
• VSII — Very Seriously Ill or Injured
• SKSA — STOREKEEPER SEAMAN APPRENTICE
• TASIP — tailored analytic intelligence support to individual electronic warfare and command and control warfare projects
• TRQ-36 — Microwave Scanning Beam Landing System Ground Station
• QNE — Quick n' Easy
• SQG — Software Quality Group
• STDN — Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network
• PSR — Polarimetric Scanning Radiometer
• SBTG — Sabotage
• VMM — Virtual Machine Monitor
• VOY — Voices of Youth
• QBX — Question Before eXecution
• TACATA — TRADOC Combined Arms Test Activity, Ft. Hood,TX
• STAMP — Standard Air Munitions Package (USAF)
• SOCRATES — Special Operations Command, Research, Analysis, and Threat Evaluation System
• OSDPD — Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution
• R&O — Repair and Overhaul
• MOC — Mission Operations Center
• QFS — Quality Fabrication Service
• RSOC — Regional Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) Operations Center
• SSCP — Subsystem Service Control Point
• TEGFET — Two-dimensional Electron Gas FET

• SEDRE — Sea Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercise
• R2 — Reporting Responsibility
• POS — Position of Strength
• SSTB — Salton Sea Test Base
• ORA — Office of Research and Applications
• USAIC&FH — United States Army Intelligence Center And Fort Huachuca
• SFAS — Special Forces Assessment and Selection
• ADS — Aim Down Sights
• SSPARS — Solid-State Phased Array Radar System
• SPID — Strategic Power Infrastructure Defense
• ARMS — Automated Resource Management System
• SECORD — Secure Cord Switchboard
• RDG — Reversal Discussion Group
• SB2C — Curtiss Helldiver Dive Bomber, World War I I
• SURVIAC — Survivability/Vulnerability Information Analysis Center
• RFETS — Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site
• TDBMS — Tactical Database Management System
• NECAC — National Environmental Compliance Assistance Center
• TLSP — Transport Layer Security Protocol
• UTES — Unit Training Equipment Site
• BER — Biological & Environmental Research
• WIAO — Wing Information Assurance Office
• DP — Distal Pulses
• RO-RO — Roll On-roll Off
• SMMP — System MANPRINT Management Plan
• VCOPG — Vice Chairman, Operations Planners Group
• STARCIPS — Standard Army Civilian Payroll System
• TACMIS — Tactical Management Information System
• NSS — National Seismic Station
• RIM-2 — Terrier Missile
• SZE — Security Zone Entry
• LSM — Land-Surface Model
• TARPMMS — Theater Army Repair Program Maintenance Management System
• TWTA — Traveling Wave Tube Amplifier
• VX-1 — Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 1
• VZF — Minimum Safe maneuvering Velocity with Zero Flaps
• UARCC — Unconventional Assisted Recovery Coordination Cell
• VMGR — Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron (heaVier-than-air, Marine, General, Refueling)
• TAAV — Total Army Asset Visibility
• REPTOF — Reporting Officer
• REEM — Reserves Embarked
• URL — Unfinanced Requirements List
• RBS70 — Ray Rider Missile
• QTG — Quarterly Training Guidance
• RDCO — Regional Document Control Officer
• OPS — Operations Procedure Support
• RCCPDS — Reserve Component Common Personnel Data System
• REXREP — Radar Exploitation Report
• SHC — Chief Ship Serviceman
• QDV — Are you flying in a horizontal visibility of less than ...?

• REPUNIT — Reporting Unit
• PXO — Prospective Executive Officer
• RFSS — Radio Frequency Simulation System B
• PIAC — Polymer Industrial Advisory Council
• DIPR — Department Industrial Plant Reserve
• PLSS — Precision Location Strike System
• SCIP — Supply Chain Integration Program
• TLQ — Transient Living Quarters
• REGT — Regiment
• TERINT — Terrain Intelligence
• SAOC — Sector Air Operations Center
• TOCR — Total Ownership Cost Reduction
• TAFSM — Target Acquisition Fire Support Model
• QRO — Queen's Regulations & Orders
• SLQ-31 — Electronic Warfare Jamming System
• STIR — Strategy, Tactics, Implementation, and Review
• QIR — Quality Inspection Requirement
• USASA — United States Army Security Agency
• SMCP — Strategic Manpower Conversion Programme
• OPS — Operations Provides Strategic
• LAH — Lithium Aluminum Hydride
• ITTFA — Iterative Target Transformation Factor Analysis
• REFLUPS — Resuscitation Fluids Production System
• STKG — SturzKampfGeschwader (German dive bomber wing)
• RC(SW) — Regional Command (Southwest)
• RNA — Rations Not Available
• FFI — Free from Infection
• TEPS — Test & Evaluation Plan Summary
• WBII — R/V Weatherbird II
• FEDSIM — Federal Computer Performance Evaluation and Simulation Center
• SMC — System Management Center
• SFF — Self-Forging Fragment
• SPAH — Satellite Process Assurance Hub
• SNACKO — SNACK Officer
• USAISCBD — United States Army Intelligence and Security Board
• SRV — Software Requirements Verification
• REJN — Rejoin
• SRTM — Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
• SLQ-48 — Mine Neutralization System
• TASCO — Tactical Automatic Switch Control Officer
• VFDMIS — Vertical Force Development Management Information System
• QCF — Quality Control Function
• SMRI — service message routing indicator
• U/C — Undercarriage
• CSRA — Central Savannah River Area's
• QE — Quality Evaluation
• SOTAS — Standoff Target Acquisition System
• SAMSO — Space And Missile System Organization
• SEDS — Small Expendable Deployer System
• QSM — Quality System Manual

• WDFR — Worst Damage First Repair
• RFDL — Radio Frequency Data Link
• SRUF — Standing Rules for the Use of Force
• USAMMDA — United States Army Medical Materiel Development Activity
• SA3 — Security Assistance Automation, Army
• USDON — United States Department of the Navy
• WWIMS — Worldwide Warning Indicator Monitoring System
• LAMMS — Laser Micro Mass Spectrometry
• UGM-84A — Harpoon
• WDGS — War Department General Staff
• VDCPAD — Vehicular Data Communications and Positional Awareness Demonstration
• QDH — Quantico Diamond Hall
• TOBAS — Take Out Back And Shoot
• RIRA — Real Irish Republican Army
• SFADS — San Fransisco Air Defense Sector
• VQA — Voice Quality Analyzer
• VKL — Vegetation Killing Liquid
• USATSC — United States Army Training Support Center
• SOSCOM — Special Operations Support Command
• PTOC — Part Time On Call
• VSL — Vessel
• VNB — Violent New Breed
• WBT — Wait Before Transmitting
• NASQAN — National Stream Quality Accounting Network
• USPACFLT — United States Pacific Fleet
• SLWT — Side Loadable Warping Tug
• UPH — Unaccompanied Personnel Housing
• SS-L — Scud Missile
• RSAF — Royal Saudi Air Force
• SAL-IR — Semiactive Laser-Infrared
• QMM — Quality Monitoring Module
• LABS — laboratories
• VMF-223 — Marine Fighter Air Squadron 223, the Fighting Bulldogs
• REQCONF — Request Confirmation
• QUH-1 — Helicopter Target
• TSCM — Technical Surveillance Countermeasures
• QOB — Quality of Business
• TRAS — Training Requirements Analysis System
• QJO — Quality Job Operations
• RCVTP — Reserve Component Virtual Training Program
• NAPP — National Aerial Photography Program
• USAREC — United States Army Recruiting Command
• SOAS — Special Operations ADP System
• TSOT — Total System Operational Test
• UAV-MR — Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Medium Range
• TREAT — Tactical Reconnaissance Engineering Assessment Team
• S/EWCC — Signals Intelligence/electronic Warfare Coordination Center
• SIAM — Self-Initiated Antiaircraft Missile
• QTB — Quarterly Training Brief
• QYR — Queen's York Rangers

• SQPP — Software Quality Program Plan
• SLI — Strategic List Item
• USD(AT&L) — Under Secretary of Defense For Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics
• OPDS — Organ on Politics Defence and Security
• PIP — Project Implementation Plan (AID)
• SSS — Systems Science and Software
• TRANSEC — Transmission Security
• SONMET — Special Operations Naval Mobile Environment Team
• SCC-WMD — United States Strategic Command Center For Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction
• SEF — Sealift Enhancement Feature
• TLOS — Target Location and Observation System
• TAMCO — Theater Army Movement Control Center
• STARBET — Structures/Airframes for Rotorcraft in Battlefield Environment Technology
• RTAP — Reserve Transition Assistance Program
• TCMC — total care medical center
• TLX — Teletype
• VEO — Violent Extremist Organization
• PWOD — Proceed WithOut Delay
• RXQ — Quick Requisition
• TTFACOR — Targets, Threats, Friendlies, Artillery, Clearance, Ordnance, Restrictions
• SBNPBS — Space Based Neutral Particle Beam System
• UTT — Utility Tactical Transport
• USCGCPOA — United States Coast Guard Chief Petty Officers Association
• LASTO — Linear Augmented Slater-type Orbital (for Electronic Structure)
• PSSP — Personnel Security and Surety Program
• RDMS — Range Data Management/Measurement Subsystem
• SOFME — Special Operations Forces Medical Element
• SADBU — Small And Disadvantaged Business Utilization
• RREP — Radio Reconnaissance Equipment Program
• VAS — Volunteer Army Strategist
• USCINC TRANS — Commander IN Chief United States Transportation Command
• TAQ — Total Army Quality
• SQW — Software Quality Workshop
• VAQ — Naval Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron
• TYQ-23 — Tactical Air Operations Command and Control Set
• SCNE — self-contained navigation equipment
• QRWK — Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
• MIDS — Multifunction Information Distribution System
• TPRS — Towed Paratrooper Retrieval System
• WAFE — Wives of the Armed Forces, Emeritus
• WPC — Word Processing Center
• VCXO — voltage controlled crystal oscillator; voltage controlled oscillator
• WESU — Weapons Elevator Support Unit
• QSAG — Quadripartite Standardization Agreement
• RMEC — Regional Military Emergency Coordinator
• STIP — Small Terminal Interoperability Platform
• SEES — Standard Entry-Exit Service
• S&P — Stake and Platform
• SECRA — Secondary Radar Data Only
• MRT — Minimum Resolvable Temperature

• QIL — Quality Inspection Line
• TADIL-A — Tactical Data Information Link-A
• NAWQA — National Water Quality Assessment (US Geological Survey)
• NSWP — National Space Weather Program
• SK2 — Storekeeper Second Class
• RACG — Radiometric Area Correlation Guidance
• SYQ-20 — Advanced Combat Direction System
• STAP — Science and Technology Advisory Panel
• TIDP — Technical Interface Design Plan
• QARNNS — Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service
• SOPAC — South Pacific Command
• SITEREP — Situation Report
• VOQ — Visiting Officers Quarters
• SSPP — System Safety Program Plan
• WGRM — Working Group on Risk Management
• USPFO(P&C) — United States Property and Fiscal Office (Purchasing and Contracting)
• SND — Send
• SCTIS — Single Channel Transponder Injection System
• MMW — multifunction millimeter wave
• RLO — Reduced Light Output
• SWW — Soldat World War
• SAAM — Special Assignment Airlift Mission
• SOER — Specail Operations Emergency Radio
• TVTI — Tactical Video Teleconferencing Interface
• SQEP — Software Quality Evaluation Plan
• SIOP-ESI — Single Integrated Operational Plan-Extremely Sensitive Information
• TALCM — Tomahawk Air-Launched Cruise Missile
• RSM — Regimental Sergeant Major
• SMITHS — Spinning Mass Implemented Terminal Homing Seeker
• SOSB — Special Operations Support Battalion
• VGT — Variable Geometry Toroidal
• TPDF — Tanzania People's Defence Forces
• USATA — United States Army TMDE ( Test, Measurement, and Diagnostic Equipment) Activity
• VMF-323 — Fixed wing Marine fighter squadron 323. See also VMFA-323
• WIDS — Wireless Intrusion Detection System
• TMACS-D — Training Management Control System - Division
• SAVA — Standard Army Vetronics Architecture
• RVO — Remediation Venture Office
• TAEDP — Total Army Equipment Distribution Program
• RD&E — Research, Development & Engineering
• USAFISA — United States Army Force Integration Support Agency
• VPV — Virtual Prime Vendor
• VAFB — Vandenberg Air Force Base
• SEPM — Special Emphasis Program Manager
• SIPG — Service in Paygrade
• SMWG — Software Management Working Group
• USACSC — United States Army Computer Systems Command
• UCLASS — Unmanned Carrier-Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike
• PUR — Purchase
• SWCCD — Standard Work Center Codes

• SSSI — Site of Special Scientific Interest
• TADSS — Training Aids, Devices, Simulators, and Simulations
• UMCP — Unit Maintenance Collection Point
• RFAAP — Radford Army Ammunition Plant
• RSTV — Real-Time Synthetic Video
• ROH — Regular Overhaul
• TILO — Technical and Industrial Liaison Office
• VDO — Video Display Operator
• STADSS — Strategic Transportation Analysis Decision Support System
• STRADS — Strategic Deployment System
• TSSAM — Tri-Service Standoff Attack Missile
• SIMWIN — Simulated Workstation Input
• TDARDS — Truth, Data Acquisition, Recording, and Display System
• QPD — Qualified Public Depository
• TAMCC — Theater Army Movement Control Center
• TDADS — Test Data Analysis and Decision System
• PWN — Psychological Warfare Noise
• TELIC — Tell Everyone Leave Is Cancelled
• STAR-T — Super High Frequency Tri-Band Advanced Range Extension Terminal
• NCESGR — National Committee for Employer Support of Guard and Reserve
• ETO — Earth-to-Orbit
• RITA — Retention Incentive Training Account
• SIRCUS — Standard Information Retrieval Capability for Users
• USLO — United States Liaison Officer
• UMIB — Urgent Marine Information Broadcast
• SUIC — Service Unit Identification Code
• REQUEST — Recruit Quota System
• TDSG — Time Division Switching Group
• QVP — Quality Verification Program
• POM — Program Operations Memorandum
• THAADS — Theater High Altitude Area Defense System
• SEPLO — State Emergency Preparedness Liaison Officer
• TAACOM — U.S. Theater Army Area Command
• RNM — Resource Needs Model
• LAMS — Laser Mass Spectrometry
• WERM — Width Equals Range times Mils
• TSSR — Tropospheric Scatter (TROPO)-Satellite Support Radio
• PATOS — Patent-Online-System
• USAFAD — United States Army Field Artillery Detachment
• TLMC — Time Limits Maintenance Check
• RD&A — Research, Development & Acquisition
• TORB — Technical Order Review Board
• SFSG — Special Forces Support Group
• R&A — Reliability & Availability
• RESTRACEN — Reserve Training Center
• TE/IR — Tactical Engagement/Instrumentation Range
• TW/AA — Tactical Warning and Attack Assessment
• QYM — Quantico Young Marines
• RFSU — Regional Force Surveillance Units
• UGW — Urban Guerilla Warfare

• RDTST — Rapid Data Transmisstion System for Requisitioning
• SWSOCC — Southwest Sector Operation Control Center North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)
• SHSN — Ship Serviceman Seaman
• SMOOS — Shipboard Meteorological & Oceanographic Observing System
• RTCH — Rough Terrain Container Handler
• TBIS — Technology Base Investment Strategy
• RPQ — Request for Price Quotation
• SJFHQ — Standing Joint Force Headquarters
• SC2S — Strategic Command and Control Software
• RCO-AK — Regional Contracting Office - Alaska
• TTIL — Theater Tracked Item List
• SIRCS — Shipboard Intermediate Range Combat System
• UCCIS — USAREUR Command & Control Information System
• RHRN — Royal Hutt River Navy
• QG — Quality Group
• UAM — Underwater-to-Air Missile
• RFDS — Royal Flying Doctor Service
• RIVRON — Riverine Squadron
• USD(A) — Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition
• TCU V1 — Terminal Control Unit - Commercial Version
• RDSS — Regional Development Simulation System
• RCIO — Regional Chief Information Officer
• SEAF — STOW-E Evaluation and Analysis Facility
• PVF — Pipes, Valves, and Fittings
• SIDO — Senior Intelligence Duty Officer
• QVG — Quality Verification Group
• SMFG — System Management Functional Group
• PZE — Project Zero-baseline Estimate
• TERMS — Terminal Management System
• USAR — United States Army Reserve
• USAAVNC — United States Army Aviation Center
• RACA — Requiring Authority Competition Advocate
• SIG — Signaling equipment
• TAFC — Tactical Air Force Command
• TRANSCOM — United States Transportation Command
• RVI — Remote Visual Inspection
• TFLIR — Targeting Forward-Looking Infrared
• SIRADS — Stored Imagery Repository and Dissemination System
• QJ — Quality Journal
• TOEL — Time Ordered Event List
• S&A — Safety & Arming
• SC LANT — NATO Strategic Command, Atlantic
• PWAAS — Passive Wide Area Alerting System
• RSSA — Regional Supply Support Activity
• UMCT — Unit Maintenance Collection Team
• SCQ — Situational Confidence Questionnaire
• SDD — Secure Data Device
• T-DAY — effective day coincident with Presidential declaration of a national emergency and authorization of partial mobilization
• QOLVR — Queen's Own Loyal Virginia Regiment
• SK1 — Storekeeper First Class

• SDMP — System Development Master Plan
• SWARM — Smart Warfighting Array of Reconfigurable Modules
• SAIS — Secretary of the Army, Information Systems
• TERPES — Tactical Electronic Reconnaissance Processing and Evaluation System
• SCAPP — Standardized Camouflage Pattern Plan
• SOFLAM — Special Operations Laser Marker
• RADAC — Radar Area Correlation
• THAD — Terminal Homing Accuracy Demonstration
• RAB — Ramstein Air Base
• WAGB — US Coast Guard Polar Icebreaker
• VKB — Virtual Knowledge Base
• SHARPS — Ships/Helicopter Acoustic Range Prediction System
• TMBS — Turret Motion Base Simulator
• S3I — Signatures, Sensors, & Signal Procession Integration
• TAMD — Theater Air and Missile Defense
• TTPI — Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
• S2E — Seamless Synthetic Environment
• TQL — Total Quality Leadership
• PVP — Planned Value Profile
• TCDIS — Transportation Coordination Deployment Information System
• SADF — South African Defense Force
• DPC — Direct Patient Care
• RFG — Resource Funding Group
• PUL — parent unit level
• TPIO — TRADOC Program Integration Officers
• TTZ — Target Training Zone
• SRQ — Software Requirements Questionnaire
• TCMP — TMD (Theater Missile Defense) Countermeasure Mitigation Program
• RM — Requirements Management
• TELINT — Telemetry Intelligence
• USAMRDC — United States Army Medical Research & Development Command
• V/STOL — Vertical/Short Take-Off And Landing (vee-stoll)
• TRAMOD — Training Module
• RSVPS — Reverse Screen Projection System
• TMMMC — Theater Medical Materiel Management Center
• SYQ — Command and Control Systems
• TARCOM — Army Tank-Automotive Materiel Readiness Command, Warren, MI
• ISRA — Image-space Reconstruction Algorithm
• SOUTHROC — Southern Region Operational Center (USSOUTHCOM)
• STIG — Space Technology Interdependency Group
• OPS — Operations Process System
• RHAW — Radar Homing And Warning
• QBS — Qualifications Based Selection
• VATLS — Visual Airborne Target Locating System
• DON — Demyelinating Optic Neuritis
• SOAF — Status of Action File
• STANFINS — Standard Army Finance System
• SSAC — Source Selection Advisory Council
• SEWG — Special Events Working Group
• REBAR — Re- Inforcing Bar

• RECMOB — Reconstitution-Mobilization
• PMA — Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association
• RIS — Reconnaissance Information System
• RTSS — Real Time Simulation System
• TMDCC — Theater Missile Defense Coordination Cell
• SOSR — Suppress, Obscure, Secure, and Reduce
• RELMS — Rapidly Erectable Light Mobilization Structures
• VLZ — Vertical Landing Zone
• PZD — PostZeitungsDienst
• QXI — Quality, Excellence, Integrity
• QMW — Quality Management Workshop
• LACO — Linearized Atomic Cell Orbital (in Energy-band Calcn.)
• SSLSM — Single Service Logistic Support Manager
• WBL — Weird Blinking Lights
• RAPIDSIM — Rapid Intertheater Deployment Simulation Model
• SPIC — Spanish Person In Control