# Army AL&T

# Acronyms and Abbreviations List

(Capitalization and lowercasing should not be considered absolute.)

1AD First Armored Division

2-D two-dimensional

2GTI second generation thermal imager

2ID 2nd Infantry Division

2nd GEN FLIR Second Generation FLIR

3-D three-dimensional

3-D CAE three-dimensional computer-aided engineering

3ID Third Infantry Division

4ID 4th Infantry Division

9th ASC 9th Army Signal Corps

A

A2C2 Army Airspace Command and Control

A2C2S Army Airborne Command and Control System

A&LE Acquisition and Logistics Excellence

A&LR Acquisition and Logistics Reform

AAA Army Audit Agency

anti-aircraft artillery

AAC Army Acquisition Corps

AAD Air Assault Division

AAE Army Acquisition Executive

AAESA Army Acquisition Executive Support Agency

AAAF Advanced Attack Airframe

AAAV Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle

AAN the Army After Next

AAO authorized acquisition objective

AAP Advanced Acquisition Program

AAPB Advanced Acquisition Planning Board

AAPERS Army Acquisition Program Executive Review System

AAQC Army Acquisition Qualification Course

AARs after action reports

after action reviews

(no hyphen per Acronym Finder)

AART Advanced Acquisition Reform Training

AATD Aviation Applied Technology Directorate (Fort Eustis, VA)

~~AAW Army Acquisition Workforce~~ (replaced by AL&T Workforce)

AAWS-H Anti-Armor Weapon System-Heavy

AAWS-M Anti-Armor Weapon System-Medium

ABC activity-based costing

ABCA America-Britain-Canada-Australia Agreement (1964)

ABCCC Airborne Battlefield Command and Control Center

ABCDF Aberdeen Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (per Bob Cavallo,\
12/10/01)

ABCL as-built configuration list

ABCS Army Battle Command System

ABEM Agent Based Evidence Marshaling

ABL authorized basic load

ABM Agent-Based Modeling

Anti-Ballistic Missile

ABMA Army Ballistic Missile Agency

ABN Airborne

ABNSOTD Airborne and Special Operations Test Directorate

ABO Army Budget Office

ABQ acquisition branch qualification

ABS Antilock Braking System

American Bureau of Shipping

ABT air breathing threat system

AC acquisition command

acquisition commander

ACA ATEC Contracting Activity

> Army Contracting Agency

Airspace Control Authority

ACADA Automatic Chemical Agent Detector Alarm

ACALA U.S. Army Armament and Chemical Acquisition and\
Logistics Agency

ACAT acquisition category

ACC Army Competitive Category

ACCES Army Civilian Career Evaluation System

ACDB ABCS common database

ACDP Acquisition Career Development Plan

ACE Armored Combat Earthmover

Advanced Concept Excursion

Acquisition Career Experience (Program)

Advanced Collaborative Environment

ACEIT Automated Cost Estimating Integrated Tools

ACERT Army Computer Emergency Response Team

ACERT/CC Army Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination\
Center

ACF acquisition career field

ACI American Competitiveness Institute

ACIS Aircrew Integrated Systems

ACL acquisition command list

access control list

acquisition career level

ACLS Autogenic Clinical Laboratory System

ACM Acquisition Career Manager

ACMA Acquisition Career Management Advocate

ACMO Acquisition Career Management Office

ACMP3 Acquisition Career Management Plans, Programs,\
and Policy

ACO administrative contracting officer

Airspace Control Order

ACOM above center of mass

ACP Assault Command Post

ACPI Advanced Configuration Power Interface

ACPM Activity Career Program Manager

ACR advanced concepts and requirements

Armored Cavalry Regiment

ACRB Acquisition Career Record Brief

AcqDemo DOD Civilian Acquisition Workforce Personnel\
Demonstration Project

ACS Aerial Common Sensor

Army Chief of Staff

advanced civil schooling

antenna control subsystem

ACSA Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreement

ACSAM Assistant Chief of Staff for Acquisition Management

ACSIM Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management

ACT accelerated corrosion test

#######  Analytical Control Team 

######## ACT II Advanced Concepts and Technology II Program

ACTD Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration

ACTEDS Army Civilian Training, Education and Development System

ACTF Accelerated Corrosion Test Facility

##### ACU AFCS XXI Computer Unit

Acquisition Center University

#####  AFCS Computer Unit

ACUS Area Common User System

#### ACWP actual cost of work performed

AD 1st Armored Division

Active Dictionary

##### ADA air defense artillery

ADAM Area Denial Artillery Munition

ADATD Air Defense Artillery Test Directorate

#### ADATS Air Defense/Anti-Tank System

ADBs Acquisition Databases

ADCCS Air Defense Command and Control System

ADCSOPS-FD Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and
Plans-Force Development

#### ADCSPER Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel

##### ADIP Army Diagnostics Improvement Program

ADIS Aggressive Driver Imaging System

#### ADL advanced distributed learning

Authorized Distribution List

ADLI Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative

#### ADLP Army Distance Learning Program

ADMAS Advanced Distributed Modular Acquisition System

ADMP Army Digitization Master Plan

#### ADMS Army Digitization Master Schedule

ADO Army Digitization Office

ADPE automated data processing equipment

ADR Alternative Dispute Resolution

ADRG ARC Digitized Raster Graphics

ADRS Acquisition Data Review System

ADSO active duty service obligation

######## ADSS ATEC Decision Support System

ADTC U.S. Army Developmental Test Command,

> Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD (new name of TECOM as of 10/1/99; a
> subordinate command of ATEC)

#### ADTDL Army Doctrine and Training Digital Library

##### ADVICE Acquisition Domain Virtual Integrated Collaborative Environment

#### A/E Architect/Engineer

AE5 Army Experiment 5

#### AE Alliance Executive

AEA Army Enterprise Architecture

AEC Army Evaluation Center, Alexandria, VA

########  Army Environmental Center

######## AECP Army Experimentation Campaign Plan

######## AEF American Expeditionary Force

AEGIS Airborne Early Warning Ground Integration Segment

AEI Army Enterprise Infostructure

##### AELC Acquisition Education Learning Center

#### AEO Alliance Executive Office

#### AEPS Army Electronic Product Support

AER Academic Efficiency Report

Academic Evaluation Report

AETE Acquisition Education, Training and Experience (confirmed by Cindy
Stark, ACMO, 3/13/00)

AETP Acquisition Education and Training Program

######## AF Air Force

######## AFAR Army Federal Acquisition Regulation

AFATDS Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System

AFCEA Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association

AFCS active federal commissioned service

#####  Automatic Fire Control System

#### AFDD U.S. Army Aeroflightdynamics Directorate

##### AFGE American Federation of Government Employees

AFIT Air Force Institute of Technology

#### AFM Army Flow Model

#### AFMP Aviation Force Modernization Plan

#### AFOTEC Air Force OT&E Center

AFP award fee plan

AFRIMS Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences

#### AFRL Air Force Research Laboratory

AFS Active Federal Service

#### AFS-2 Autogenic-Feedback System-2

#### AFSC Advanced Food Sanitation Center

#####  Armed Forces Staff College

AFSS Advanced Fire Support System

#### AFTE Autogenic-Feedback Training Exercise

#### AFV armored fighting vehicle

#### AG Adjutant General

#### AGDM average grade distribution matrix

AGDP Acquisition Graduate Degree Program

AGMD advanced guard main body

######## AGP accelerated graphics port

AGR Active Guard and Reserve (the designator for National Guard and
Reserve soldiers who are serving active duty; per Ray Gall, PAO,
AR-PERSCOM)

#### AGS Armored Gun System

#### AGSE Aviation Ground Support Equipment

AH-64D Longbow Apache Attack Helicopter

#### AHAS Automated Historical Archives System

AHP analytical hierarchy process

advanced humionics platform

AHPCRC Army High Performance Computing Research Center

AHR Army Human Resources

AHRS Army Human Resource Systems

AI artificial intelligence

airborne-intercept

AIA Aerospace Industries Association

AIAA American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

AIAG Automotive Industry Action Group

AILSEC Army Integrated Logistics Support Executive Committee

AIM Acquisition Information Management

#######  Abrams Integrated Management (Program)

AIMSS Advanced Integrated Maintenance Support System

AIN Army Information Network

#### AIRCMM Advanced Infrared Countermeasures Munitions

AIS Automated Information System

#### AISU Advanced Integrated Sight Unit

#### AIT Automatic Identification Technology

#####  Advanced Infantry Training

Advanced Individual Training

#### AITAS ATRRS Internet Training Application System

#### AKEA Army Knowledge Enterprise Architecture

#### AKM Army knowledge management

#### AKMS ARL Knowledge Management System

#### AKN Army Knowledge Network

#### AKO Army Knowledge Online

AL&T Workforce Acquisition, Logistics and Technology Workforce (formerly
called the Army Acquisition Workforce)

#### ALEI Acquisition Leadership Effectiveness Inventory

ALERT Attack Launch Early Reporting Theater (Program)

ALMC Army Logistics Management College

ALO Acquisition Liaison Office

#### ALP advanced logistics project

#### ALR Acquisition and Logistics Reform

#### ALSE Aviation Life Support Equipment

ALT administrative lead time

ALTAIR ARPA Long Range Tracking and Instrumentation Radar

ALTESS Acquisition, Logistics and Technology Enterprise Systems and
Services

AMB Acquisition Management Branch

AMBL Air Maneuver Battle Lab

##### AMC U.S. Army Materiel Command

AMC CG Army Materiel Command Commanding General

AMC-FAST U.S. Army Materiel Command Field Assistance in Science and
Technology

##### AMCISS AMC Installation Supply System

##### AMCOM U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command (Redstone Arsenal, AL)

AMD air and missile defense

AMDWS Air and Missile Defense Workstation

##### AMEDD Army Medical Department

#### AMEV Armored Evacuation Vehicle

#### AMP Advanced Management Program

#### AMPD Advanced Multi-Purpose Display

#### AMPS Aviation Mission Planning System

#### AMRAAM Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile

AMRDEC U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and
Engineering Center (U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command)

#### AMRICD U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense

#### AMS Army Modernization Schedule

#####  Automated Manifest System

AMSC Army Management Staff College

#### AMSEC Army Model and Simulation Executive Council

AMSO U.S. Army Model and Simulation Office

#### AMTEC alkali thermal-to-electric conversion

AMUST Airborne Manned-Unmanned System Technology

#### AMTV Armored Treatment Vehicle

ANAD Anniston Army Depot (Alabama)

#### ANCDF Anniston Chemical Agent Disposal Facility

#### ANCOC Advanced Noncommissioned Officers Course

#### ANID Advanced Network Intrusion Defense

ANMD PO Army NMD Program Office

ANR active noise reduction

######## ANSR Affordable Near-Term Support Round

######## ANVIL Army-NASA Virtual Innovations Laboratory

ANVIS/HUD aviator's night vision imaging system/heads-up display

######## Ao operational availability

AO action officer

####### AO LLC American Ordnance Limited Liability Corporation

AOC area of concentration

Army Operations Center

AOE Army of Excellence

######## AOI area of interest

######## AOMC Army Ordnance Missile Command

######## AOP Army Orders of Precedence

####### AOR area of responsibility

AORS XXXVIII 38^th^ annual U.S. Army Operations Research Symposium

AORS XXXIX 39^th^ annual U.S. Army Operations Research Symposium

#### AP anti-personnel

APA Aircraft Procurement Army

######## APB Acquisition Program Baseline

####### APBIs Advance Planning Briefings to Industry

APC acquisition position category

APDF automated product development framework

######## APFT Army Physical Fitness Test

APG Aberdeen Proving Ground

####### API application programming interface

APL antipersonnel landmine

acquisition position list

APLA Anti-Personnel Landmine Alternative

######## APM assistant program manager

APM WIN-T Assistant Program Manager, Warfighter Information
Network-Terrestial

APMC Advanced Program Management Course (confirmed by DSMC Registrar
5/26/99)

APMO Acquisition Personnel Management Office (located at AR-PERSCOM)

######## APO assistant project officer

######## APPS Army Personnel Proponent System

####### APQC American Productivity and Quality Center

####### APS Army Prepositioned Stocks

active protection system

APU auxiliary power unit

####### AQS airworthiness qualification specification

####### AR Acquisition Reform

Army Regulation

AR-PERSCOM U.S. Army Reserve Personnel Command (hyphen confirmed
4/18/00)

######## ARACMIS Acquisition Corps Management Information System

######## ARAMS Army Risk Assessment Modeling System

####### ARB Army Resources Board

##### ARBSG Army Resources Board Support Group

######## ARCC Acquisition Reform Communications Center

####### ARCENT U.S. Army Forces Central Command

ARDEC U.S. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center
(Picatinny Arsenal, NJ) (HB confirmed 10/27/98)

######## ARFF aircraft rescue and fire fighting

ARFOR Army force

######## ARGMA Army Rocket and Guided Missile Agency

ARI The U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social
Sciences (Alexandria, VA)

######## ARI U.S. Army Research Institute

acquisition reform initiative

ARIAT Acquisition Reform Implementation Assessment Team

######## ARISS Army Recruiting Information Support System

####### ARL U.S. Army Research Laboratory

#######  Airborne Reconnaissance Low

#######  Army Reconnaissance Low

ARL-HRED Army Research Laboratory, Human Research and Engineering
Directorate

ARL-SLAD Army Research Laboratory, Survivability and Lethality Analysis
Directorate

####### ARM antiradiation missile

ARNG Army National Guard

####### ARO Army Research Office

######## ARO-W Army Research Office-Washington

######## AROC Army Requirements Oversight Council

ARP acquisition requirements package

ARPA Advanced Research Project Agency (no longer exists)

ARPERSCOM U.S. Army Reserve Personnel Command (St. Louis, MO; per COL
Robert Corlew, ASAALT 2/4/00)

ARRL Acquisition Reform Reinvention Lab

######## ARRTC Army Reserve Readiness and Training Center

ARSPACE U.S. Army Space Command (Colorado Springs, CO)

ARSTAF Army Staff

######## ARTOC Army Tactical Operations Center

######## AS acquisition strategy

ASA Assistant Secretary of the Army

ASAALT Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and
Technology. When referencing both AAE and ASAALT, the order is
AAE/ASAALT (April 2004).

ASAFM&C Assistant Secretary of the Army for Financial Management and
Comptroller

ASAIE Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations and Environment

~~ASA-ILE Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Logistics
and Environment~~ (replaced by ASAIE 2/16/99)

ASA(M&RA) Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve
Affairs

######## ASAP Advanced Strategic Art Program

ASARC Army Systems Acquisition Review Council

~~ASARDA Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research, Development and
Acquisition~~

> (replaced by ASAALT 2/16/99)

####### ASARS-2 Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar System-2

ASAS All Source Analysis System

####### ASAS-L All Source Analysis System-Light

ASB Army Science Board

ASC Army Signal Command

####### ASC Army Safety Center

####### ASC Army Science Conference

######## ASCC Army Service Component Command

##### ASCP Army Small Computer Program

##### ASE Aviation Survivability Equipment

ASFI Army Single Face to Industry

ASI additional skill identifier

####### ASIOE Associated Support Items of Equipment

######## ASIP Advanced SINCGARS Improved Product

ASIP w/NC Advanced System Improvement Program/With Internet Controller

######## ASL authorized stockage list

ASLMS authorized stockage list mobility system

####### ASLT CP Assault Command Post

######## ASM air-to-surface missile

ASOAR Achieving a System Operational Availability Requirement

ASOC Air Support Operations Center

######## ASOS Army Support to Other Services

ASPO The Army Space Program Office

ASPRDEC Advanced Systems Planning, Research, Development and Engineering
Course

######## ASQ American Society for Quality

Acq Spt Ctr Acquisition Support Center

ASRT Autonomous Scout Rotorcraft Testbed

ASSIST Acquisition Source Selection Interactive Support Tool

ASSTC Advanced Surgical Suite for Trauma Casualties

######## AST ATEC System Team

######## ASTAG Army Science and Technology Advisory Group

ASTARS Army Standards Repository System

ASTMP Army Science and Technology Master Plan

ASTWG Army Science and Technology Working Group

######## ASVAB Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery

######## AT anti-terrorist

######## AT Planner Anti-Terrorism Planner

ATA Alternative Technologies and Approaches

ATAP Army Tuition Assistance Program

ATACMS Army Tactical Missile System

Army Tactical Advanced Conventional Munitions System (Acronymfinder)

######## ATAV Army total asset visibility

######## ATB/TB Aircrew/Maintenance Training Device and Testbed

ATBM Antitactical Ballistic Missile

ATC Aberdeen Test Center

Army tank contractor

air traffic control

#######  Army Training Command

ATCCIS Allied Tactical Command and Control Information System

ATCCS Army Tactical Command and Control System

ATCOM Aviation-Troop Command

U.S. Army Aviation and Troop Command

ATD Advanced Technology Demonstration/Demonstrator

######## ATD/C Aided Target Detection/Classification

##### ATE automatic test equipment

ATEC U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command (consolidation of TECOM and
OPTEC on 10/1/99)

######## ATF Armament Technology Facility

ATG-FIT antenna transceiver group fault isolation test

######## ATGM Anti-Tank Guided Missile

######## ATI Advanced Technology Initiative

ATIRCM/CMWS/ASE Advanced Threat Infrared Countermeasures/Common Missile
Warning System/Aircraft Survivability Equipment

ATIRS Army Test Incident Reporting System

######## ATLDP Army Training and Leader Development Panel

ATM Anti-Tactical Missile

asynchronous transfer mode

ATM/FSEN Asynchronous Transfer Mode/Future Small Extension Node

ATNAVICS Air Traffic Navigation, Integration and Coordination System

####### ATO Advanced Technology Office

########  Air Tasking Order

######## ATPS Advanced Tactical (Personnel) Parachute System

####### ATR aided target recognition

##### ATRIP Army Transformation Reliability Improvement Program

######## ATRJ Advanced Threat Radar Jammer

ATRRS Army Training Requirements and Resources System

######## ATRWR Advanced Threat Radar Warning Receiver

######## ATS Automatic-target Tracker Simulation

#######  Air Traffic Services

ATSA ATEC Threat Support Activity

ATSC Army Training Support Center

####### ATTACC Army Training & Testing Area Carrying Capacity

####### ATTC U.S. Army Aviation Technical Test Center

##### ATV all-terrain vehicle

Au gold

AUSA Association of the United States Army

######## AUTODIN automatic digital network

######## AV air vehicle

####### AVCATT-A Aviation Combined Arms Tactical Trainer-Aviation

AVLB Armored Vehicle Launched Bridge

AVRDEC U.S. Army Aviation Research, Development and Engineering Center
(AMCOM)

AW Air Warrior

AWACS Airborne Warning and Control Station

######## AWARE Acquisition Workbook Analysis and Readiness Evaluation

######## AWC Army War College

AWCCSC Army War College Corresponding Studies Course

AWCF Army Working Capital Fund

AWCF-SMA Army Working Capital Fund-Supply Management Army

AWE Advanced Warfighting Experiment

AWOC Acquisition Workforce Oversight Council

#### AWS Airspace Workstation

AWSS Acquisition Workforce Support Specialist

####### AWTP Automated Weapon Target Pairing

AY academic year

####### B

BA budget activity

BAA Broad Agency Announcement

BADD battlefield awareness and data dissemination

BAIS Battlefield Anti-Intrusion System

####### BART Basic Acquisition Reform Training

######## BAS Battlefield Automation System

BAT P3I BAT preplanned product improvement (BAT never gets defined)

####### BATS Bradley Advanced Training System

BBS Bulletin Board System

#######  Battalion Battle Simulation

######## BBSU Basic Biosuite Unit

######## BCA business case analysis

BCBL Battle Command Battle Laboratory

BCBL-L Battle Command Battle Laboratory-Leavenworth, KS

####### BCEFM Business, Cost Estimating, and Financial Management

####### BCIS Battlefield Combat Identification System

BCOTM Battle Command on the Move

BCS Battery Computer System

BCS3 Battle Command Sustainment Support System

####### BCT Brigade Combat Team

BCTP Battle Command Training Program (Fort Leavenworth, KS)

######## BCWP budgeted cost of work performed

BCWS budgeted cost of work scheduled

BD biological defense

######## BDA battle damage assessment

######## BDAR battlefield damage assessment and repair

BDE FSO Brigade Fire Support Officer

####### BDE TAC Brigade Tactical Control Party

######## BDI Balkans Digitization Initiative

######## BDK Biological Detection System

######## BDO Battledress Overgarment

business development office

BDS-D battlefield distributed simulation-developmental

BDU battle dress uniform

######## BEEM Blast Effects Estimation Model

######## BESV Bradley Engineer Squad Vehicle

BFA battlefield functional area

######## BFI Brigade Force Initiative

####### BFIST Bradley Fire Support Team

BFVS Bradley Fighting Vehicle System

BFVS PMO Bradley Fighting Vehicle System Program Management Office

BHTI Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.

######## BIDS Army Biological Integrated Detection System

BIP Battlefield Interoperability Program

BIR benefit investment ratio

BISEPS Battlefield Identification System Environment Performance
Simulation

BIT Built-In Test

######## BIT/FIT Built-In Test/Fault Isolation Test

BITE built-in test equipment

####### BK Battlefield Kitchen

####### BLA Biologic License Application

BLAST Building Loads Analysis and System Thermodynamics (Program)

####### BLOS beyond line of sight

######## BLUEFOR blue force

BM/C3 battle management/command, control, and communications

BM/C4I battle management/command, control, communications, computers,
and intelligence

BM/TA Battlefield Mobility/Target Acquisition

BMDO Ballistic Missile Defense Organization

######## BMDS Ballistic Missile Defense System

BN TOC Battalion Tactical Operations Center

######## BNCOC Basic Noncommissioned Officer Course

##### BPI Business Process Initiative

BOA basic order agreement

######## BOIP Basis of Issue Plan

######## BOLC Basic Officer Leaders' Course

BOS Budget Operating System

battlefield operating system

######## BP battle position

######## BPS Business Process Server

BQ Best-Qualified (as in \"Best-Qualified Board\")

BRAC Base Realignment and Closure

######## BRM biological recognition molecule

BRS Brown and Root Services

######## BRT Bond-Relationship Targeting

Brigade Reconnaissance Troop

######## BSA Brigade Support Area

####### BSEE Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering

BSMET Bachelor of Science in Material Engineering and Technology

######## BVP blood volume pulse

BVP/T blood volume pulse/transducer

####### BVTC battlefield video teleconferencing

BW biological weapon

biological warfare

####### C

C Ration Meal, Combat, Individual (per Jerry Whitaker, Natick, 8/11/99)

C2 command and control

C2D Command and Control Directorate

C2V command and control vehicle

C2SIP Command and Control Systems Interoperability Program

C3 customer, contracting, and commerce

command, control and communications

C3EES Communications, Control, and Command Engineering Environment
System

C3I command, control, communications and intelligence

######## C3S command, control and communications systems

C4 command, control, communications, and computers

C4I command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence

C4ISP Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence
Support

C4I&S command, control, computers, communications, intelligence, and
simulation

C4/IT command, control, communications, computers/information technology

C4IEWS command, control, communications, computers, intelligence,
electronic warfare, and sensors

C4ISR command, control, communications, computers, intelligence,
surveillance, and reconnaissance

C4ISR/M command, control, communications, computers, intelligence,
surveillance, and reconnaissance/mobility

CA Canadian

Commercial Activities

contribution award

CAAT Combined Army Assessment Team

CAC Combined Arms Center

Citizens Advisory Commission

common access card

CACPAC Contracting and Acquisition Career Program Advisory Council

CAD computer-aided design

####  Component Advanced Development

cartridge-actuated devices

#### CADD computer-aided drafting and design

CAE computer-aided engineering

CAE/X-Fab Computer Aided Engineering and Experimental Fabrication (Team)

CAI Composites Affordability Initiative

CAIPT Cost Analysis Integrated Process Team

CAISI Combat Service Support Automated Information System Interface

CAIV Cost as an Independent Variable

CAL Client Access License

######## CALL Center for Army Lessons Learned

CALS continuous acquisition and life-cycle support

CAM computer-aided manufacturing

cost account manager

CAP critical acquisition position

CAPL Civilian Acquisition Position List

CAPPMIS Career Acquisition Personnel & Position Management Information
System (ampersand confirmed)

######## CAPS Counter Active Protection System

######## C.A.R.E. Customer Automation and Reporting Environment

CARL Combined Arms Research Library (Fort Leavenworth, KS)

####### CARS Consolidated Acquisition Reporting System

CAS contract administration services

CAS3 Combined Armed Services Staff School

######## CASA Cost Analysis Strategy Assessment

CASCOM Combined Arms Support Command

CASTFOREM Combined Arms And Support Task Force Evaluation Model
(confirmed 3/11/99)

####### CAT Center for Advanced Technologies

#######  Crisis Action Team

CATIA Computer-Aided Three-dimensional Interactive Application

######## CATT Computer Automated Transportation Tool

CAU Clark Atlanta University

CAV Composite Armored Vehicle

Command Assault Vehicle

#######  Combat Assault Vehicle

> Cavalry

CAVATD Composite Armored Vehicle Advanced Technology Demonstrator

CAVE Core Automated Virtual Environment

CB chemical and biological

####  collaborative biome

#### CBC Cargo Bed Cover

CBD chemical and biological defense

*Commerce Business Daily*

######## CBDP Chemical and Biological Defense Program

CBPS Chemically and Biologically Protected Shelter

######## CBR chemical, biological,and radiological

CBRIDS Chemical, Biological and Radiological Integrated Reconnaissance
System

#### CBRN chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear

CBS Corps Battle Simulation

#### CBT computer-based training

#### CBTDEV combat developer

#### CBU commodity business unit

cluster bomb units

CBWs chemical and/or biological weapons

CC contingency contracting

CCA circuit card assembly

#####  Clinger-Cohen Act

CCAD Corpus Christi Army Depot

CCAS Contingency Contract Administration Service

> Contribution-based Compensation and Appraisal System (per Jerry Lee,
> 6/29/00)

CCAWS Close Combat Anti-Armor Weapon Systems

CCB Configuration Control Board

######## CCC combat casualty care

######## CCIU Computer Crime Investigative Unit

######## CCL Combat Configured Load

CCLINC Common Coalition Language System at Lincoln Laboratory

CCMS Close Combat Missile Systems (Project Office)

CCO contingency contracting officer

CCSS Commodity Command Standard System

Comanche Crew Support System

CCTT Close Combat Tactical Trainer

######## CCU/SPO The Command Center Upgrades/Special Projects Office

CDA Central Design Agency

CD compact disc

Culminating Demonstration

####### CD-ROM compact disc-read only memory 

> (no need to spell out)

CDAP Computer Defense Assistance Program

CDEC Combat Development Experimentation Center

######## CDF Common Delivery Framework

CDG Competitive Development Group

CDM CATIA Data Management

CDMRP Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs

######## CDP Chemical Demilitarization Program

CDPL Command-Designated Position List

CDR Critical Design Review

######## CDRL Contract Data Requirements List

CDT closed disposal technologies

######## CDTF Chemical Demilitarization Training Facility

CDU control display unit

commander's display unit

CDV Chrysler Data Visualizer

CE Corps Eligible

communications enhancement

collaborative environment

concept exploration

CEA captured enemy ammunition

CEAC U.S. Army Cost and Economic Analysis Center

######## CEC Computer Engineering Center

CECOM U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command (Fort Monmouth, NJ)

######## CEHNC U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville

######## CEM Center for Electromechanics

##### CENTCOM Central Command

CEO Chief Executive Officer (use acronym only)

CEP Concept Experimentation Program

circular error probable

CERDEC U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command Research,
Development and Engineering Center

######## CERL Construction Engineering Research Laboratory

CERT Computer Emergency Response Team

CET Core Evaluation Team

CETs \"Cutting-Edge\" Technologies

CEU continuing education unit

######## CFB Customer Focus Branch

######## CFE contractor-furnished equipment

CFLCC Coalition Forces Land Component Command

######## CFO complex factor overlay

CFTDC Central Florida Technology Development Center

CFU Combined Forces Command

CFR Code of Federal Regulations

contractor flight release

######## CFTDC Central Florida Technology Development Center

CG Commanding General

######## CGF computer generated forces

CGI Computer Graphics Interface

CGS Common Ground Station

CGS/P common ground station/prototype

####### CGSC Command and General Staff College

CGSOC Command and General Staff Officer Course

CHAMPUS Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services

######## CHATS CI/HUMINT Automated Tool Set

######## CHES Center for Healthcare Education and Studies

CHPPM U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine

####### CI combat identification

######## CI/HUMINT Counter-intelligence/Human Intelligence

CIA Central Intelligence Agency (no need to spell out)

######## CICA Competition in Contracting Act

CID Combat Identification

U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command

CIDDS Combat Identification for the Dismounted Soldier

#### CIDS Contractor Integrated Data Services

######## CIE clothing and individual equipment

~~CIM centralized installation management~~ (replaced by TIM)

CINC commander-in-chief (does not follow AP)

CINCs commanders-in-chief

#### CINCH Competitive Impulse, Non-Carcinogenic Hypergol

CIO Army Chief Information Officer (G-6)

CIRT Computer Incident Response Team

CIRTM Co-Injection Resin Transfer Molding

CISCO Computer Information Systems Co.

CITIS Contractor Integrated Technical Information Services

CITV Commander's Independent Thermal Viewer

CK Containerized Kitchen

CKEM Compact Kinetic Energy Missile

CKO chief knowledge officer

CL continuous learning

CLA continuous learning activity

CLIN contract line item number

CLP continuous learning point

CLPSB commander-in-chief\'s Logistic Procurement Support Board

##### CLS contractor logistics support

CLU command launch unit

C/LU Container Launch Unit

CM cruise missile

####  configuration management

####  common missile

CMA Chemical Materials Agency

#### CMC Change Management Center

#### CMCS countermine capability set

#### CMF career management field

CMIF Career Management Information File

Central Management Information File

CMN Coalition Multinational Network

#### CMO Contract Management Office

#### CMOC Civil-Military Operations Center

CMP common message processor

CMR Composite Materials Research

conditional materiel release

CMS Chugach Management Services, Anchorage, AK

#### CMSS Career Management Support Specialist

CMT company maintenance team

#### CMTC Combat Maneuver Training Center (Hohenfels, Germany)

#### CNC Computer Numeric Code

#### CNI Communication Navigation Identification

CO~2~ carbon dioxide

COA course of action

#### COAA course of action analysis

COBOL Common Business Oriented Language

#### CoC Council of Colonels

CODEC coder/decoder

COE U.S. Corps of Engineers (Army)

common operating environment

Center of Excellence

#### COGS cost of goods sold

COIC critical operational issues and criteria

COIN Community of Information Network

#### COL colonel

COLSA Collazo System Analysis Corp.

COLT Combat Observer Lasing Team

####### COM center of mass

########  (Army) Center for Optics Manufacturing

######## COM+ center of mass plus

######## COMBATT COmmercially BAsed Tactical Truck

######## COMINT communications intelligence

######## COMNAVAIRLANT Commander, Naval Air Forces, Atlantic Fleet

COMPASS Computerized Optimization Model for Predicting and Analyzing
Support Structures

COMSEC communications security

######## Con-Ops Construction-Operations

CONOPS concept of operations

contingency operations

CONUS continental United States

(no need to spell out)

######## COO combined obstacle overlay

COOP continuity of operations plans

COP common operational picture

#######  Community Of Practice

COR contracting officer\'s representative

######## CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture

CORPS TOC GSM Corps Tactical Operations Center Ground Station Module

COSSI Commercial Operations and Support Savings Initiative

COTS commercial-off-the-shelf

##### CP copilot

CPAC Civilian Personnel Advisory Center

#### CPAF cost-plus-award-fee

CPC Corrosion Prevention and Control

Comanche Portable Cockpit

##### CPD Competitive Professional Development

CPI Communications & Power Industry

CPDT Center for Professional Development and Training (at UT-Austin)
(replaced by CSA

> 13 OCT 2000)

CPEA Comparative Performance Exploratory Analysis

#### CPFF cost-plus-fixed-fee

#### CPIF cost-plus-incentive-fee

#### CPL Certified Professional Logistician

CPM critical path method

CPOC Civilian Personnel Operations Center

CPOF Command Post of the Future

CPS Corporate Payment System

######## CPU central processing unit

####### CPX command post exercise

CPXXI Command Post XXI

CR Customer Representative

CR/TE Cost Reduction/Technical Excellence

CRADA cooperative research and development agreement

####### CRDA Cooperative Research and Development Agreement

CREED Communications Resource Engineering Drawing Repository

######## CREST Career Related Experience in Science and Technology

#### CRI contribution rating increase

########  Computerized Rugidization Inc.

######## CRG communications relay group

CRIMS-WARR Communications Requirements Information Management
System-Warfighter Reachback

CRIPT Curriculum Review Integrated Product Team

CRB Certification Record Brief

CRP Cost Reduction Plan

#######  Critical Reagent Program

######## CRR Critical Reagent Repository

CRREL Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory

#### CRT combat repair team

CRTC Cold Regions Test Center

CRUD Creation, Replication, Usage, Duplication

#### CRXXI Classroom XXI

#### CS combat support

CSA Chief of Staff of the Army

Army Chief of Staff

> Center for Strategic Analysis (at UT-Austin) (former CPDT)

CSC Command and Staff College

computer software component

CSCI computer system configuration item

computer software configuration item

#### CSF Common Simulation Framework

####  critical success factor

#### CSG Corps Support Group

#### CSIS Center for Strategic and International Studies

##### CSL command selection list

#### CSM Command Sergeant Major

#### CSO customer support office

CSP Contracting Support Plan

CSR continuous speech recognition

CSS combat service support

CSSCS Combat Service Support Control System

CSTAR Combat Synthetic Training Assessment Range

#### C-STAT Critical Care System for Trauma and Transport

##### CSU computer software unit

CSU/DSU Channel Servicing Unit/Data Service Unit

##### CT customer test

CTA Center for Total Access

####  Collaborative Technology Alliances

#### CTC combat training center

#### CTEIP Central Test and Evaluation Investment Program

#### CTGS Common Tactical Ground Station

CTI Composite Technology Inc.

CTIA common training instrumentation architecture

#### CTPS Combat Trauma Patient Simulation System

CTR continuous technology refreshment

CTSF Central Technical Support Facility

> (Fort Hood, TX)

#### CTT combined test team

#### CTTS Consolidated Theater Target Services

#### CUCV commercial utility cargo vehicle

#### CUITN Common User Installation Transport Network

#### CV commander's vehicle

CVC Combat Vehicle Crewman

CVIR cost avoidance to total investment ratio

#### CW continuous wave

#### CWA chemical warfare agents

CWBS contract work breakdown structure

#### CWC Chemical Weapons Convention

##### ~~CWO Chief Warrant Officer~~ (no longer used; see Military Ranks, P.30)

##### CWT customer wait time

D

##### D-C-E design-collaborate-evaluate

##### D&D design and development

D/IEAs Data/Information Exchange Annexes

dB decibels

DA Department of the Army

DAB Director of the Army Budget

####  Defense Acquisition Board

##### DAC Defense Ammunition Center

DACM Director for Acquisition Career Management

DAE Dynamic Atmospheric Environment

#####  Defense Acquisition Executive

##### DAES Defense Acquisition Executive Summary

##### DAG Data Authentication Group

##### DAGR Defense Advanced GPS Receiver

DALA Defense Ammunition Logistics Activity

DAMA demand assigned multiple access

DAMO-FD Department of the Army Military Operations-Force Development

#### DAMPL Department of the Army Master Priority List

DAR Defense Acquisition Regulation

DARCOM Department of the Army Materiel Development & Readiness Command

DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

DARTS Diagnostic Analysis and Repair Tool Set

######## DASA Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army

DASA(P) Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Procurement

DASC Department of the Army Systems Coordinator

DAU Defense Acquisition University

DAWE Division Advanced Warfighting Experiment

DAWIA Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act

######## DBBL Dismounted Battlespace Battlelab 

######## (Fort Benning, GA)

######## DBST Digital Battlestaff Sustainment Trainer

DC2 Distributed Command and Control

DCA Defense Logistics Agency

DCAA Defense Contract Audit Agency

DCC-W U.S. Army Defense Contracting Command-Washington

DCD Directorate of Combat Developments (Maneuver Support Center, Fort
Leonard Wood, MO)

DCG Deputy Commanding General

######## DCGS-A Distributive Common Ground System-Army

######## DCM Defense Contract Management

######## DCMA Defense Contract Management Agency

DCMAO Defense Contract Management Area Office

~~DCMC Defense Contract Management Command~~ (replaced by DCMA 3/27/00)

####### DCPDS Defense Civilian Personnel Data System

####### DCS Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff

######## DCS, G-4 Deputy Chief of Staff, G-4 (Logistics)

######## DCSDOC Deputy Chief of Staff for Doctrine

######## DCSED Deputy Chief of Staff for Education

######## DCSINT Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence

DCSLOG Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics

DCSOPS Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans

######## ~~DCSPER Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel~~ (replaced by G-1, Personnel)

DCSRDA Deputy Chief of Staff for Research, Development and Acquisition

DCX division capstone exercise

DDACM Deputy Director for Acquisition Career Management

######## DDC direct digital control

######## DDRT Defense Distribution Depot Red River

DDSA/DDSP Defense Development Sharing Agreement/Defense Development
Sharing Program

DEA Diffusion-Enhanced Adhesion

Data Exchange Agreement

######## DEB Digital European Backbone

####### DED detailed equipment decontamination

DEERS Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting Systems

DEFCON Defense Condition

DEMCE design, engineering, manufacturing collaborative environment

DENIX Defense Environmental Network and Information eXchange

####### DES Dismounted Entry Switch

######## DEU Delegated Examining Unit

######## DEUCE Deployable Engineer Universal Combat Earthmover

######## DEW directed energy weapon

DFAR Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation

DFARS Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement

DFAS Defense Finance and Accounting Service

DFCC Digital Force Coordination Cell

######## DGPS Differential Global Positioning System

######## DHI Drivers Hatch Interlock

DII COE Defense Information Infrastructure Common Operating Environment

DIL Digital Integrated Lab (Fort Monmouth, NJ)

DIMHRS Defense Integrated Military Human Resources System

DIRR DOD and Industry Resource Repository

DIS distributed interactive simulation

DISA Defense Information Systems Agency

DISC4 Director of Information Systems for Command, Control,
Communications, and Computers (last comma per ODISC4 10/11/01)

DISCOM Division Support Command

DISN Defense Integrated Services Network

#####  Defense Information Systems Network

#### DISN-E Defense Information Systems Network-Europe

DITSCAP DOD Information Technology Security Certification and
Accreditation Process

DIVARTY Division Artillery

#### DIVCAV Division Cavalry

DKB diagnostics knowledge bases

DKET Deployable Ku-Band Earth Terminals

#### DL distance learning

DLA Defense Logistics Agency

#### DLB Digital Log Book

DLAMP Defense Leadership and Management Program

DLL Dynamic Link Library

DLOS Dismounted Line of Sight

DLR depot level repairable

DM deutsche marks

DMA Digital Model Assembly

DMC 2001 Defense Manufacturing Conference 2001

DMD Directed Material Deposition

DMDC Defense Management Data Center

DMMC dual multi-media classroom

DMR Defense Management Review

DMS-Army Defense Message System-Army

DMWR depot maintenance work requests

DNA deoxyribonucleic acid

DNS Domain Name Service (HB confirmed thru COL Michael Brown's office)

DOC Directorate of Contracting

####  Director of Contracting

DOD Department of Defense (no need to spell out)

DOD-GEIS Department of Defense-Global Emerging Infections Surveillance
and Response System

DODGAR Department of Defense Grant and Agreement Regulations

#### DoDI DoD Instruction

DOE U.S. Department of Energy

#### DOF degree-of-freedom

#### DOIM Directorate of Information Management

DOIMs directors of information management

##### DOL Directorate of Logistics

#### DON Department of the Navy

DOPMA Defense Officer Personnel Management

DOR date of rank

DOT U.S. Department of Transportation

DOT&E Director of Operational Test and Evaluation

~~DOTLMS doctrine, organization, training, leader development, materiel
and soldiers~~ (old term; no longer used per LTC Anderson 9/6/01)

DOTMPL doctrine, organization, training, materiel, personnel, and leader
development

DP decontaminant pumper

DPAE Director, Program Analysis and Evaluation

DPD distributed product description

digital product description

#### DPE demilitarization protective ensemble

DPEO Deputy Program Executive Officer

DPEP Defense Professionals Exchange Program

DPG Defense Planning Guidance

Dugway Proving Ground

#### DPICM Dual Purpose Improved Conventional Munition

DPM Deputy Program/Project/Product Manager

#### DPMCS Digital Preventive Maintenance Checks and Services

#### DPP Domestic Preparedness Program

#### DRAS Dual Row Airdrop System

DRB Defense Ready Brigade

DREs (Canadian) Defence Research Establishments

##### DREN Defense Research and Engineering Network

DRI Defense Reform Initiative

DRID-20 Defense Reform Initiative Directive 20

DRMO Defense Reutilization Market Office

#### DRMS Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service

DRU Dynamic Reference Unit

#### DRU-H Dynamic Reference Unit-Hybrid

#### DS direct support

#### DS2T Deployment and Sustainment Support Tool

DSA Deputy for Systems Acquisition

DSA&LCM Deputy for Systems Acquisition and Life Cycle Management

DSAC Defense Systems Affordability Council

DSB Defense Science Board

#### DSC Digital Source Collector

DSCA Defense Security Cooperation Agency

DSMC Defense Systems Management College

DSP Defense Support Program

Defense Standardization Program

DSR discrete speech recognition

######## DSS-W Defense Supply Service-Washington

DT developmental test/testing

######## DT&E developmental test and evaluation

DTC U.S. Army Developmental Test Command

DTD Document Type Definition

digital terrain data

DTDIA Doctrine/Training Development Instructional Activity

DTED Digital Terrain Elevation Data

DTF digital training facility

DTIC Defense Technical Information Center

DTLOM doctrine, training, leader development, organization, and materiel

DTLOMS Doctrine, Training, Leader Development, Organization, Materiel
and Soldiers

> (per AR 79-1 and LTC Anderson 9/6/01)
>
> (always initial caps)

DTLOMS-P Doctrine, Training, Leader Development,

Organization, Materiel and Soldiers-Policy

DTLOPF Doctrine, Training, Leader development, Organizations, People,
and Facilities

(per MAJ Billingsley in LTG Riggs office 1/15/03)

DTO Defense Technology Objective

DTRACS Defense Transportation Reporting and Control System

DTS Detector Test System

Defense Transportation System

DTSE&E Director, Test, Systems Engineering and Evaluation

DTSP Division Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Signals Intelligence
Payload

DTSS Digital Topographic Support System

#### DTSS-H Digital Topographic Support System-Heavy

#### DTT distributive training technology

DTTP Distributive Training Technology Project

#### DTTS Defense Transportation Tracking System

#### DTU data transfer unit

DU Dual-Use

DUAP Dual-Use Application Program

DUMMB Directed Utilization of Models for a Materiel Bureaucracy

DUSAOR Deputy Under Secretary of the Army for Operations Research

DUSDAR Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition Reform

#### DUS&T Dual-Use Science and Technology

#### DVD digital video disk

direct vendor delivery

DVE driver vision enhancer

DWG Defense Working Group

##### E

#### E3 electromagnetic environmental effects

E&MD Engineering and Manufacturing Development

E-FES Enhanced-Force Entry Switch

##### E-FOGM Enhanced Fiber-Optic Guided Missile

E-mall electronic mall

E-O Electro-Optical

EA economic analysis

#######  executive agent

#######  engagement area

Evolutionary Acquisition

####### EAADS Enhanced Area Air Defense System

####### EAC Evaluation Analysis Center, Aberdeen, MD 

> (with OEC forms AEC)

echelons above corps

####  estimate at completion

#### EAD echelons above division

EADC2 Extended Air Defense Command and Control

#### EADSIM Extended Air Defense Simulation

#### EAI Enterprise and Application Integration

EAMC Eisenhower Army Medical Center

#### EAPU External Auxiliary Power Unit

EBB electronic bulletin board

EBC Embedded Battle Command

ECAC Enhanced Counter Air Capability

#### ECAM Environmental Cost Analysis Methodology

#### ECBC U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center

ECC EXFOR Coordination Cell

Effects Control Center

ECG electrocardiogram

####  electrocardiography

#### ECM electronic countermeasures

#### ECP Engineering Change Proposal

ECQ executive core qualification

ECS engagement control station

ECU Environmental Control Unit

EDAMS Electronic Data And Management System

EDAPS Embedded Diagnostics and Prognostics Synchronization

EDCA Executive Director for Conventional Ammunition

EDI electronic data interchange

EDI/EDA Electronic Data Interchange and Electronic Data Access

EDIF Electronic Design Interchange Format

EDS Electronic Data Systems

Engineering Design Simulator

EDT EarthData Technologies Ltd.

EEC Emergency Essential Civilian

#### EECT Early Entry Contracting Team

#### EEDSK Early Entry Deployment Support Kit

EEG electroencephalogram

EEI essential element of information

#### EFOGM Enhanced Fiber-Optic Guided Missile

#### EFP explosively formed penetrator

EFT electronic funds transfer

##### EIS environmental impact statement

environmental information system

#### EK electrokinetic

EKV Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle

#### ELB Extending the Littoral Battlespace

#### ELC Enterprise Learning Center

ELCC Environmental Life Cycle Costing

#### ELINT electronic intelligence

#### EM electromagnetic

#### EMC electromagnetic compatibility

EMD engineering and manufacturing development

EMG electromyogram

EMI electromagnetic interference

> electromagnetic induction

######## EMLP Electromagnetic Launch Package

######## EMP electromagnetic pulse

######## EMPM Enlisted Personnel Management Directorate

EMPRS Enroute Mission Planning and Rehearsal System

######## EMT emergency medical technician

########  emergency medical team

######## EN engineer

#### ENIAC Electrical Numerical Integrator and Computer

#### ENVG Enhanced Night Vision Goggle

#### EO Executive Order

EO/IR electro-optic/infrared

EOC Environmental Operations Center

######## EOD Explosive Ordnance Disposal

######## EOQ economic order quantity

EOSA Electro-Optic Sensor Assembly

EOSAEL Electro-Optical Systems Atmospheric Effects Library

EPA U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

EPG Electronic Proving Ground

EPLRS Enhanced Position Location Reporting System

EPLRS-VHSIC Enhanced Position Location Reporting System-Very High Speed
Integrated Circuits

######## EPMC Executive Program Manager's Course

EPP Enhanced Producibility Program

extended planning period

EQT Environmental Quality Technology

####### ER emergency room

######## ERAPT Electronic Reverse Auctioning Project Team

######## ERB Emerging Results Brief

######## ERDC U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center 

ERDEC U.S. Army Edgewood Research, Development, and Engineering Center

######## ERGM Extended Range Guided Munition

ERINT Extended Range Interceptor Technology

ERINT GTF Extended Range Interceptor Guided Test Flight

ERIS Exo-atmospheric Re-entry Vehicle Interceptor Subsystem

######## ESBU Engineering Services Business Unit (of ECBC)

######## ESC Executive Support Center

##### ESI Enterprise Software Initiative

ESP extended service program

ESSC Electronic Sustainment Support Center

ESSENCE Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of
Community-based Epidemics

######## EST Engagement Skills Trainer

ESTA Enterprise Systems Technology Activity

ETEC Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli

ETIPT Environmental Technology Integrated Process Team

######## ETM Electronic Technical Manual

ETM-I Electronic Technical Manual-Interface

ETRAC Enhanced Tactical Radar Correlator (System)

######## ETSIU Enhanced Tactical Simulation Interface Unit

ETTC Environmental Technology Technical Council

EU electronics unit

####### EUCOM European Command

######## EUD early user demonstration

######## EUE extended user evaluation

EUSA Eighth U.S. Army

######## EVA extravehicular activity

####### EVE equal value exchange

EVMS earned value management system

EWA Electronic Warfare Associates Inc.

EWG Experimental Force Working Group

EXFOR experimental force

ExCIS-FSA Extensible, C3I Instrumentation System, Fire Support
Application

####### F

####### F3 form, fit, function

####### FA functional area

FA BN field artillery battalion

FAA Federal Aviation Administration

FAAD forward area air defense

FAADC2/FAAD C2 Forward Area Air Defense Command and Control

FAASV Field Artillery Ammunition Supply Vehicle

########  Field Artillery Ammunition Support Vehicle

######## FAC Federal Advisory Committee

FACA Federal Advisory Committee Act

####### FALCon Forward Area Language Converter

####### FAMU Florida A&M University

####### FAO foreign area officer

##### FAQ frequently asked questions

FAR Federal Acquisition Regulation

FARA Federal Acquisition Regulations Automated

FARA-ITMRA Federal Acquisition Reform Act-Information Technology
Management Reform Act

FAS feasibility analysis study

Functional Acquisition Specialist

FASA Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act

FAST Forward Area Support Team

> Function Analysis Systems Technique

FATDS Field Artillery Tactical Data Systems

FBCB2 Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (confirmed per LTC
Edge, TACOM, per phone conversation 6/23/00)

##### FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation

(no need to spell out)

##### FC Functional Chief

#### FCCE Future Combat Collaborative Environment

#### FCCM facilities capital cost of money

FCR Functional Chief Representative

fire control radar

#### FCS Future Combat Systems (confirmed by John Appel, Dr. Andrews' office, 9/12/00)

FCSIL Flight Control System Integration Laboratory

FCT Foreign Comparative Testing

FCV Future Combat Vehicle

FDA Food and Drug Administration

> (identify first reference)

FDC First Digitized Corps

Fire Direction Center

First Digitized Command

FDD First Digitized Division

FDEO Fort Detrick Engineering Office

##### FDM Fused Deposition Modeling

FDR Future Digital Radio

FDS Fire Direction System

######## FDSC Failure Definition and Scoring Criteria

FDTE force development test and evaluation

######## FE facilities engineering

FEDC Field Exercise Data Collection

Fed LAB Federated Laboratory

FEM finite element modeling

FEMMS Facility Environmental Management and Monitoring System

######## FEO Functional Exchange Officer

FFRDC Federally Funded Research and Development Center

#### FFP firm fixed price

FFS Full Flight Simulator

######## FFTF Fire Fighting Task Force

FFTS U.S. Army's Fire Fighting Training Systems Program

FGCS Future Ground Combat System

FI frame integration

FIAV Family of Interim Armored Vehicles

FIPT functional integrated process team

FIR Final Inspection Report

FIRESIM Indirect Fire Support Simulator

##### FIRST For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology

##### FIS firing impulse simulator

FIST-V Fire Support Team-Vehicle

#### FIV Future Infantry Vehicle

FLAGE Flexible Lightweight Agile-Guided Experiment

######## FLC Federal Laboratory Consortium

FLIR forward looking infrared (per PM, GEN II FLIR LTC Camille M.
Nichols, 28 Jan 00)

FM frequency modulation

#####  field manual

FMS foreign military sales

#####  flight mission simulator

##### FMTV Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles 

#### FNC Future Naval Capability

#### FOA field operating agency

FOC future operational capability

#### FOM Federation Object Model

FOR field-of-regard

FORCES Army Force and Organization Cost Estimating System

FORSCOM U.S. Army Forces Command

FoS Family-of-Systems

#### FOT&E Follow-on Test and Evaluation

FOTT Follow-on-to-Tow

FOV Family of Vehicles

field of view

#### FP Force Provider

FPA focal plane array

#### FPD flat panel display

#### FPED Force Protection Equipment Demonstration

#### FPI fixed-price-incentive

##### FPS Force Protection Systems

#### FPU Field Pack-up Unit

#### FRAGO fragmentation order

FRH flameless ration heater

#### FRP full-rate production

#### FRS forward repair system

FS fire support

Force Structures (Division) (AAESA)

FSCS Future Scout and Cavalry System

FSE fire support element

forward security element

FSI Flight Safety International

#### FSR field service representative

#### FSS fire suppression system

FSTD Fire Support Test Directorate

FT field test

FTDs flight training devices

FTE full-time equivalent

#### FTL far target location

ftp file transfer protocol

FTSS Flight Test Simulation Station

FUE first unit equipped

FVPDS Fielded Vehicle Performance Data System

FW firewall

FXXILW Force XXI Land Warrior

FYDP Future Years Defense Program

#### FYROM Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia

#### FYTP Five-Year Test Program 

##### G

g acceleration of gravity

#### G1 (ASI) contracting agent

G&A general and administrative

GAC Giordano Automation Corp.

GANG Guam Army National Guard

GAO General Accounting Office

GAPG Aberdeen Proving Ground Garrison

#### GATM global air traffic management

GBI ground-based interceptor

GBR ground based radar

##### GBR-P GBR prototype

GBS global broadcast service

GCCS Global Command and Control System

#### GCS Ground Control Station

GCSS Global Combat Support System

####  Ground Combat and Support Systems

#### GCSS-A Global Combat Support System-Army

#### GD nerve agent soman

#### GDI Gulf Digitization Initiative

GDLS General Dynamics Land Systems

GDOS General Dynamics Ordnance Systems

#### GDP gross domestic product

#### GDSS Group Decision Support System

#### GE General Electric

#####  German

#### GED General Educational Development

GEM Guidance Enhancement Missile

GEPA Guam Environmental Protection Agency

#### GF government furnished

GFE government-furnished equipment

*gfp green fluorescent protein*

GHz gigahertz

#### GIG Global Information Grid

#### GIP ground impact point

GIS geographic information system

####  *Gruppo d' Intervento Speciale* (an Italian special intervention group)

#### GIS-R Geospatial Information System Repository (Dana Finney, PAO, ERDC, 2/28/02)

#### GITIS Ground Integrated Target Identification System

GLAD Geographic Logistics Awareness Display

GLCC formerly Great Lakes Composite Consortium

#### GM/GDLS General Motors/General Dynamics Land Systems

#### GM General Motors

GMAT Graduate Management Admission Test

GMD Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (Program)

GMF ground mobile force

######### GMLRS Multiple Launch Rocket System guided rocket (per Bervard Verdier, Redstone Arsenal, 2/22/00)

GMLRS Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (Acronym Finder)

GMOD Global Meteorology On Demand

GMS Groundwater Modeling System

GMT Gunnery Maintenance Trainer

#### GMU George Mason University

##### GMV Ground Mobility Vehicle

GO General Officer

GOSC General Officer Steering Committee

GOTS government-off-the-shelf

#### GP General Physics Corp.

#### GPA grade point average

GPC glow plug controller

#### GPI general pay increase

#### GPM gross profit margin

gpm gallons per minute

#### GPR ground-penetrating radar

#### GPRA Government Performance and Results Act

GPS Global Positioning System

> (always initial caps)

global positioning satellite

#### GRCI GRC International (an AT&T company)

#### GRCS Guardrail Common Sensor

GRE Graduate Record Exam

#### GS General Schedule

#### GSA General Services Administration

GSM Global System for Mobile Communication

GSOC General Officer Steering Committee

#### GSR ground surveillance radar

#### GTN Global Transportation Network

GTO gate turnoff

#### GUARNG Guam Army National Guard

#### GUI graphical user interface

#### GVSS Ground Vehicle Survivability Symposium

gvw gross vehicle weight

##### GWA Guam Water Authority

##### GWOT global war on terrorism

##### H

#### HAEMP high altitude electromagnetic pulse

#### HAFC hydrogen/air fuel cell

HAST highly accelerated stress testing

#### HAZMAT hazardous material

HBCUs Historically Black Colleges and Universities

#### HBOC hemoglobin based oxygen carrier

#### HCA Head of Contracting Activity

HCLOS High Capacity Line of Sight

HD humanitarian demining

sulfur mustard

mustard agent

HDIP High Density Integrated Processor

#### HDTV high-definition television

#### HE high-explosive

#### HE-WAM Hand-Emplaced Wide Area Munition

HEDI High Endo-atmospheric Defense Interceptor

HELSTF High Energy Laser Systems Test Facility

#### HEMT High Electron Mobility Transistor

HEMTT Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck

HERCULES Heavy Equipment Recovery Combat Utility Lift and Evacuation
System

HET Heavy Equipment Transporter

HEV hybrid electric vehicle

##### HF high frequency

#### HFE human factors engineering

#### HFEA human factors engineering assessment

#### HICAP High Capacity Artillery Projectile

HIMARS High Mobility Artillery Rocket System

#### HIP Howitzer Improvement Program

HLA high level architecture

HLD Homeland Defense

HLDBU Homeland Defense Business Unit

HMD helmet mounted display

HMMWV high mobility multipurpose (1 word) wheeled vehicle (do not
initial cap). Acceptable to use Humvee (April 2004)

HOE Homing Overlay Experiment

HP high-pressure

HPC high-performance computing

HPKB High Performance Knowledge Base

HPW high pressure washer

HQ Headquarters

HQ AMC Headquarters, Army Materiel Command

HQDA Headquarters, Department of the Army

(no need to spell out)

#### HQ,USFK Headquarters, United States Forces Korea

#### HR human resources

HR&E Human Research and Engineering

HRED Human Research and Engineering Directorate

#### HRO human resources office

HRTS Hyper-Real-Time Simulation

HSAAP Holston Army Ammunition Plant

> (Kingsport, TN)

#### HSI human systems integration

#### HSRRB Human Subjects Research Review Board

HSS Hunter Sensor Suite

#### HSSL High Speed Serial Link

HTDS host terminal data server

HTI horizontal technology integration

HTK hit-to-kill

#### HTML hypertext (1 word per AP) markup language

HU Howard University

HUC Human Use Committee

#### HUMINT human intelligence

#### HVAC heating, ventilation, and air conditioning

HWIL hardware-in-the-loop

####### I

######## I impact to performance

I2 image intensification/intensifier

I3A Installation Information Infrastructure Architecture

I3MP Installation Information Infrastructure Modernization Program

######## I&S intelligence and security

I&T integration and test

I-GRAD Industry Graduate (Program)

######## IA information assurance

Incremental Acquisition

######## IAARC Industry, Academia, Affiliated, Research Center

######## IAAPS Integrated Army Active Protection System

IACET International Association for Continuing Education and Training

######## IAT Institute for Advanced Technology

IAV Interim Armored Vehicle (formerly the Medium Armored Vehicle (MAV))
(now called "Stryker" 2/27/02)

##### IAVA Information Assurance Vulnerability Alert

#### IBA interceptor body armor

#### IBAD Navy Interim Biological Agent Detector

#### IBCT Interim Brigade Combat Team 

#### (IBCT is used ONLY for this term)

#### IBL installation battle lab

#### IBOP Interagency Business Opportunities Page

IBR integrated baseline review

#### IC2 Innovation Creativity Capital (Institute)

#### IC3 Integrated Combat, Command and Control

IC integrated circuit

IC/T Image Compression/Transmission

ICAF Industrial College of the Armed Forces

##### ICBM intercontinental ballistic missile

ICC Information Coordination Central

ICD-9-CM International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision,
Clinical Modification

ICE Integrated Curriculum Environment

internal combustion engine

######## ICM Improved Conventional Munition

######## ICMD improved countermeasures dispenser

ICNIA Integrated Communication Navigation Identification Avionics

#### ICOR international common operational requirement

ICP Inventory Control Point

ICPA International Cooperative Programs Activity

ICR Intercooled Recuperative Engine

ICRC Integrated Concepts and Research Corp.

ICS interim contractor support

ICT integrated concept team

#####  Institute for Creative Technologies

ID infantry division

ID/IQ indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity

#### IDA Institute for Defense Analysis

IDB-CAN intelligent transport system data bus-controller area network

IDE integrated digital environment

integrated data environment

#### IDIQ Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity

IDM information dissemination management

IDNX Integrated Data Network Exchange

IDP Individual Development Plan

IDS International Digitization Strategy

intrusion detection system

#### IECU Improved Environmental Control Unit

#### IEEE Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers

#### I-ETM Interactive-Electronic Technical Manual

IETM Interactive Electronic Technical Manual

#### IEW intelligence and electronic warfare

IEW&S Intelligence, Electronic Warfare and Sensors

IEWTD Intelligence Electronic Warfare Test Directorate

IFF identification friend or foe

IFICS In-Flight Interceptor Communication System (confirmed by PM, NMD
IFICS/Communication 10/26/00)

IFN item for negotiation

IFOR Implementation Force

#### IFS Integrated Flight Simulation

#####  Integrated Facilities System

IFSAS Interim Fire Support Automation System

IG Inspector General

Image Generation

IHDT Integrated Helicopter Design Tool

#### IIC International Imaging Center 

> (Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD)

##### IIPT integrating integrated product team

##### IIR F&F imaging infrared fire-and-forget

#### IIS Integrated Information System

IIT Integrated Idea Team

#### ILE intermediate level education

##### ILE integrated logistics enterprise

#### ILIR Independent Laboratory In-house Research

#### ILS integrated logistics support

IM information management

IMA Information Mission Area

individual mobilization augmentee

#######  Installation Management Agency

IMASE Intelligence Modeling and Simulation for Evaluation

IMBC Improved Mortar Ballistic Computer

IMETS Integrated Meteorological System

#### IMINT imagery intelligence

IMMC Integrated Materiel Management Center

#### IMO Information Management Office

IMP integrated master plan

IMPAC International Merchants Purchase Authorization Card (no need to
spell out)

#### IMPRINT Improved Performance Research Integration Tool

#### IMR interim materiel release

IMS integrated master schedule

IMU inertial measurement unit

INC Internet controller

IND investigational new drug

INE Inline Network Encryptor

INF Intermediate Nuclear Forces

INNOLOG Innovative Logistics Techniques Inc.

INSCOM U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command

#### INT intelligence

IO industrial operation

####  input device

#### IOBC Infantry Officer's Basic Course

IOC Industrial Operations Command

initial operational capability

##### IOM Institute of Medicine

IOS instructor operator station

IOT initial operational testing

########  initial operational test

######## IOTE initial operational test and evaluation

IOT&E initial operational test and evaluation

IOT&EP initial operational test and evaluation period

##### IP Internet Protocol

####  instructor pilot

installation preparedness

#### IP/SIP instructor pilot/standardization instructor pilot (per Paula Bettes)

#### IPB intelligence preparation of the battlefield

intelligence preparation of the battlespace

IPDE integrated product data environment

#### IPM Integrated Power Management

IPPD Integrated Product and Process Development

IPPM Integrated Product and Process Management

IPR in-process review

######## IPS integrated parts selection

IPT integrated product team

integrated process team

#### I/Q integration and qualification

IQL Integrated Quality Laboratory

IR infrared

IRB Improved Ribbon Bridge

#### IRBM intermediate range ballistic missile

IRE Integrated Range Engineering

#### IRFNA inhibited red fuming nitric acid

#### IRFPA infrared focal plane array

#### IROAN inspect, replace, only as necessary

IRP Improved Response Program

IRR Individual Ready Reserve

IRT independent review team

#### IRTSS Infrared Target Scene Simulation Software

##### IS information systems

IS&T Information Science and Technology

ISAC Introduction to Systems Acquisition Course or Intermediate Systems
Acquisition Course

ISAT Integrated Science and Technology (Program)

ISAT ATD Integrated Situational/Situation Awareness and Targeting
Advanced Technology Demonstration

ISB intermediate support base

intermediate staging base

######## ISC (U.S. Army) Information Systems Command

ISE International Semiconductor Engineering

Intelligent Synthesis Environment (NASA term)

####### ISEC (U.S. Army) Information Systems Engineering Command

ISE Labs Inc./IQL merger of ISE and IQL

####### ISEP installation strategic energy planning

####### ISI Information Sciences Institute

####### ISM Integrated Sustainment Maintenance

####### ISN Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies

####### ISO International Organization for Standardization

########  International Standards Organization

ISPRDEC Intermediate Systems Planning, Research, Development and
Engineering Course

#### ISR intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance

####  Installation Status Report

#### ISS International Space Station

ISYSCON Integrated System Control

IT information technology

IT&A Information, Technology, and Analysis

#### ITAPDB Integrated Total Army Personnel Database

#### ITAS Improved Target Acquisition System

ITEC4 Information Technology E-Commerce and Commercial Contracting
Center

#### ITD Information Technology Division

#### ITM Information Technology Management

ITS inflatable tubular structure

intelligent tutoring system

ITSA Information Technology Support Activity

ITT Invitation to Tender

ITTR inflatable tubular torso restraint

#### ITV in-transit visibility

IV&V independent verification and validation

#### IVDS Integrated Virus Detection System

#### IVET individual virtual environment technologies

IVIS Inter-Vehicular-Intercom-System

IVMMD Interim Vehicle Mounted Mine Detection System

#### IW information warfare

IWS Industry Work-Study Program

#### IWTP Industrial Wastewater Treatment Plant

##### J

#### J-ROF Joint Rapid Response Operations Force

J&A Justification and Approval

#### JAC Joint Area Clearance

#### JACADS Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System

#### JANUS Joint Army Navy Uniform Simulation

JARB Joint Acquisition Review Board

JASA Joint Airborne SIGINT Architecture

JBIDS Joint Biological Integrated Detection System

JBPDS Joint Biological Point Detection System

JC4ISR joint command, control, communications, computers, intelligence,
surveillance, and reconnaissance

JCALS Joint Computer-Aided Acquisition and Logistics Support

JCC Joint Contracting Center

######## JCCB Joint Configuration Control Board

######## JCDB Joint Common Database

######## JCF Joint Contingency Force

JCF-AWE Joint Contingency Force-Advanced Warfighting Experiment

JCID ACTD Joint Coalition Combat Identification Advanced Concept
Technology Demonstration

JCO joint contracting office

JCS Joint Chiefs of Staff

JCTP Joint Contact Team Program

######## JD-VCR Joint Distributed Virtual Combat Range

######## JDMTP Joint Defense Manufacturing Technology Panel

######## JDN Joint Data Network

######## JE1 Joint Experiment 1

#### JE2 Joint Experiment 2

######## JFACC Joint Force Air Component Commander

######## JFC joint force commander

######## JFCOM Joint Forces Command

JFRG Joint Forces Requirements Generator II

JHU/APL Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

######## JI joint interoperability

JIC Joint Intelligence Center

JITC Joint Interoperability Test Command

> (Fort Huachuca, AZ)

JLENS Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor

JLENS PO Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor
Project Office

#### JLOG/PE Joint Logistics Planning Enhancements

JLOTS Joint Logistics Over-The-Shore

JLW-155 Joint Lightweight 155mm Howitzer

#### JMAR Joint Medical Asset Repository

#### JMASS joint modeling and simulation system

#### JMPS Joint Mission Planning System

#### JNLWD Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate

#### JNLWP Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program

JOC job ordering contract

JORD Joint Operation Requirements Document

JPC Joint Partnering Contracting

JPM Joint Program Manager

#### JPMO Joint Program Management Office

JPO Joint Program/Project Office

JPO-BD Joint Program Office for Biological Defense

#### JR&IO Joint Requirements and Integration Office

JROC Joint Requirements Oversight Council

######## JRP Joint Reconciliation Program

JRT Joint Reference Tables

JRTC Joint Readiness Training Center (Fort Polk, LA)

#### JRTC MOUT-IS Joint Readiness Training Center Military Operations in Urbanized Terrain-Instrumentation System

#### JSB joint synthetic battlespace

#### JSC Javelin Simulation Center

JSCBIS Joint Service Chemical and Biological Information System

JSF Joint Strike Fighter

#### JSGPM Joint Service General Purpose Mask

#### JSHS Joint/Junior Science and Humanities Symposium

#### JSIMS joint simulation system

JSIPS Joint Service Imagery Processing System

JSLIST Joint Service Lightweight Integrated Suit Technology

#### JSMG Joint Service Materiel Group

JSOR Joint Services Operational Requirement

JSS Junior Solar Sprint (Program)

JSTARS Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System

> Joint Services Target Acquisition Radar System

JSU Jackson State University

#### JSW Joint Standoff Weapons (Program)

#### JSWS Joint Service Work Station

JTA joint technical architecture

JTA-Army Joint Technical Architecture-Army

JTAGS Joint Tactical Ground Station

JTAMD Joint Theater Air and Missile Defense

#### JTAV Joint Total Asset Visibility

JTF Joint Task Force

JTF-CND Joint Task Force-Computer Network Defense

JTFX Joint Task Force Exercise

JTIDS Joint Tactical Information Distribution System

JTM Joint Technical Manual

JTR Joint Tactical Radio

Joint Transport Rotorcraft

JTRS Joint Tactical Radio System

######## JTT Joint Tactical Terminal

JTT/CIBSM Joint Tactical Terminal/Common Integrated Broadcast Service
Module

JTUAV Joint Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

JV joint venture

#### JV 2010 Joint Vision 2010

JVAP Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program

#### JVB Joint Virtual Battlespace

JVMF joint variable message format

#### JWARS joint warfare system

#### JWFC Joint Warfighting Center

JWOD Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act

JWRC Joint Warfighter Range Complex

##### K

kbps kilobits per second

#### KAMNET Knowledge Asset Management Network

#### KCC Knowledge Collaboration Center

#### KE Knowledge Exchange

#### KFOR Kosovo Peacekeeping Force

KICC Kuwait command, control, communications, and computers

#### KM knowledge management

KMN Knowledge Management Network

KMR Kwajalein Missile Range

#### KMRS Knowledge Management Research System

#### KMS knowledge management system

KO contracting officer

#### KOC key operational capability

KPPs key performance parameters

#### KSBs knowledge, skill, and behavioral attributes

#### KSC Kennedy Space Center

#### KSF key success factor

KV kill vehicle

##### L

LAD Logistics Anchor Desk

#### LADS Laundry Advanced System

#### LALAB (GMU's) Learning Agents Laboratory

#### LAM Loitering Attack Missile

#### LAM-A LAM-Aviation

LAN local area network

##### LAP Load, Assemble, and Pack

local area processing

LAR Logistics Assistance Representative

#### LASER Language and Speech Exploitation Resources

#### LATP Lima Army Tank Plant (Lima, OH)

#### LAV Light Armored Vehicle

Light Assault Vehicle

#### LBA Longbow Apache

LBE load-bearing equipment

#### LBHF Longbow HELLFIRE

LBJ Lyndon B. Johnson

LCC life-cycle cost

LCCS life-cycle contractor support

LCEA life-cycle environment assessment

#### LCET Logistics Cost Estimating Tool

LCM life-cycle management

LCPK Low Cost Precision Kill

##### LCS launch control station

LCSMM Life-Cycle System Management Model

#### LCT Longbow Crew Trainer

LDS lightweight decon system

LDTOC Light Digital Tactical Operations Center

#### LEAD Letterkenny Army Depot, Chambersburg, PA

#### LENS Laser-Engineered Net Shaping

LEP Lightweight Environmental Protection

#### LETS Live Environment Training System

LFT live-fire testing

LFT&E Live Fire Test and Evaluation

#### LIA U.S. Army Logistics Integration Agency

LIBS Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy

LIDAR Laser Infrared Detection and Ranging

#### LIFI Laser-Induced Fluorescence Imaging

#### LIN line item number

LiSO~2~ lithium sulfur dioxide

LIS Laser Ignition System

LIWA Land Information Warfare Activity

LLC DynPort Limited Liability Co.

LLDR Lightweight Laser Designator Rangefinder

#### LME Lightweight Maintenance Enclosure

#### LMEP Language MOS Evaluation Program

LMMFC-D Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control-Dallas

LMMS Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space

#### LMS learning management system

LMTV Light Medium Tactical Vehicle

LNO Liaison Officer

#### LO line of operation

#### LOAEL lowest observable adverse effect level

#### LOB Line of Bearing

#### LOC Logistics Operation Center

#### LOCs lines of communication

#### LOD low overhead driver

#### LOGAMP Logistics and Acquisition Management Program

LOGCAP Logistics Civil Augmentation Program

LOGMARS Logistics Application of Automated Marking and Reading Symbols

LOGMOD Wholesale Logistics Modernization Program

#### LOGSA Logistics Support Activity (at USAMC, Huntsville, AL)

#### LOGSEC logistics security

#### LOM lamination object machine

LONGFOG long-range, fiber-optic guided

LORA level of repair analysis

LOS line of sight

LOSAT Line-of-Sight Anti-Tank

LOTS Logistics Over the Shore

#### LQIP Laboratory Quality Improvement Program

LR Long Range

#### LRAS3 Long Range Advanced Scout Surveillance System

#### LRC Logistics and Readiness Center

##### LRED Logistics Research and Engineering Directorate

LRF laser range finder

LRIP low rate initial production

LRIP ASARC Low-Rate Initial Production Army Systems Acquisition Review
Council

LRP low-rate production

LRU line replaceable unit

LSC Logistics Support Contract

LSE Logistics Support Element

LSI Lead System Integration/Integrator

LSM lethality/survivability/mobility

LSMM Local Sustainment Maintenance Manager

LSSM Local Sustainment Maintenance Management

##### LTC Lieutenant Colonel

#### LTI live training instrumentation

LTT long-term training

#### LTV light tactical vehicle

LTWT 155 Lightweight 155

LUT limited user test/testing

LVRS Lightweight Video Reconnaissance System

#### LW Land Warrior

#### LW155 Lightweight 155mm

LWIR long-wave infrared

##### M

#### MgO magnesium oxide

M3P Multi-Mission Mobile Processor

M&M manufacturing and management

#### M&R maintenance and repair

M&S modeling and simulation

M.A. master of arts

M-TADS/PNVS Modernized Target Acquisition and Designation Sight/Pilot's
Night Vision Sensor

MA&I MACOM, Agency and Installation

MACMO Mobile Acquisition Career Management Office

MACOM major command (U.S. Army)

######## MACS Modular Artillery Charge System

MAIDS maintenance aids

######## MAIS Major Automated Information System

########  Mobile Automated Instrumentation Suite

MAISRC Major Automated Information System Review Council

#### MALS mobile analytical laboratory system

MAM Materiel Acquisition Management

MAMB Military Acquisition Management Branch

MANPAD Man Portable Air Defense (the Stinger missile)

MANPRINT manpower and personnel integration (confirmed by Dr. Holz,
DCSPER, per Army re.g., 1/30/01)

#### MANSCEN Maneuver Support Center

MANTECH manufacturing technology

U.S. Army Manufacturing Technology Office

#####  DOD Manufacturing Technology Program

MAPL Military Acquisition Position List

MAPR Monthly Acquisition Program Review

Monthly Acquisition Program Report

######## MAPS Modular Azimuth Position System

MAR Monthly Acquisition Report

MARAD (Department of Transportation) Maritime Administration

#### MARC Mid-Atlantic Research Consortium

##### MARCORSYSCOM Marine Corps Systems Command

MARFORPAC Marine Forces Pacific

#### MATDEV materiel developer

~~MAV Medium Armored Vehicle~~ (replaced by IAV 2/1/00)

M.B.A. master of business administration

#### MBO management by objectives

MBT Main Battle Tank

#######  Motion Base Technologies

######## MBU Modern Burner Unit

######## MC mission capable

######## MC4 Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care

######## MCA Military Construction, Army

######## MCE maneuver commander's environment

MCR message-completion rate

MCS Maneuver Control System

MCS-P Maneuver Control System-Phoenix

######## MCTC Maneuver Combat Training Center

MCTL Military Critical Technologies List

MCU multipoint control unit

MCWL Marine Corps Warfighting Lab (Quantico, VA)

MD manufacturing demonstration

MDA milestone decision authority

########  Missile Defense Agency

######## MDAP Major Defense Acquisition Program

##### MDARS Mobile Detection Assessment Response Systems

MDEP management decision package

######## MDL mission data loader

######## MDP Management Development Program

MDS Modular Decontamination System

MDT Maintainability Development Test

######## MDUA Mission Defined Unit Assemblage

MDW Military District of Washington

MDWAC Military District of Washington Acquisition Center

MEADS Medium Extended Air Defense System

MEDCOM U.S. Army Medical Command

######## MEDEVAC medical evacuation

MEI Message Exchange Interface

MEL Military Education Level

Master Environmental Library

MEL 1 Military Education Level One

MEMS microelectromechanical system

MEP mission equipment package

MEP2 measurement, electric power and protection

######## MEPCOM Military Entrance Processing Command

######## METL mission essential task list

METT-T Mission, Enemy, Terrain, Troops and Time Available

METT-TC mission, enemy, terrain, troops and time available and civilian

######## MFA Materiel Fielding Agreement

######## MFB multifunctional battalion

MFCS Mortar Fire Control System

######## MFD multi-function display

######## MFF military free-fall

######## MFL multi-function laser

######## MFMS Mobile Flight Mission Simulator

######## MFP Materiel Fielding Plan

MFP-11 Major Force Program 11

MFPT Machinery Failure Prevention Technology

######## MGPTS Modular General Purpose Tent System

MHC Mason & Hanger Corp.

######## MHE materiel handling equipment

######## MHPI Military Housing Privatization Initiative

MI military intelligence

minority institution

####### MICAD Multipurpose Integrated Chemical Agent Detector

MICLIC Mine Clearing Line Charge

MICOM U.S. Army Missile Command (replaced by AMCOM)

MIDAS Munitions Items Disposition Action System

######## MIDRP Military Infectious Diseases Research Program

####### MIDS Mini Intrusion Detection System

Multifunctional Information Distribution System

MIIF maintenance of inactive industrial facilities

######## MILCON military construction

MILDEP Military Deputy

MILES 2000 Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System 2000

MILPER military personnel

MILPO Military Personnel Office

MILSPEC military specification

MILSTAR Military Strategic and Tactical Relay

#### MILSTD military standard

MILT Military Language Tutor

MIP Multilateral Interoperability Program

MIPR Military Interdepartmental Purchase Request

#### MIPS Modified Integrated Program Summary

#### MIPT Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism

#### MIRADCOM Army Missile Research and Development Command

MIRCOM Army Missile Materiel Readiness Command

#### MIRP Military Improved Response Program

##### MIRPS Modified Improved Reserve Parachute System

MIS management information system

MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology

#### MITP Master Intern Training Plan

#### mLEAM Military Land-use Evaluation and Impact Model

####  military land-use and impact assessment model

#### MLC4 MOUT Leaders Combat Certification Course

##### MLRS Multiple Launch Rocket System

#### M.M.A.S. master of military art and science

MMBF Mean Mile Between Failure

MMBL Mounted Maneuver Battlespace Lab

> (Fort Knox, KY)

#### MMC multi-media classroom

MMCP Missile Modernization Campaign Plan

MMFFS Multi-Modular Fluid Filtration System

MMR Military Munitions Response

#### MMU Mass Memory Unit

MMW millimeter wave

MNS Mission Needs Statement

MOA Memorandum of Agreement

######## MOCS military occupational classification structure

######## MOD ministry of defense

######## ModISE Modular Interoperable Synthetic Environment

######## MODSAF Modular Semi-Automated Forces

######## MOE measure of effectiveness

######## MOE/P measures of effectiveness/performance

MOGAS motor gasoline

######## MOI Memorandum Of Instruction

MOLLE MOdular Lightweight Load-carrying Equipment

MOM Microsoft Operations Manager

MOOTW military operations other than war

MOP measure of performance

######## MOPMS Modular Packed Mine System

MOPP mission-oriented protective posture

MOS military occupational specialty

mission occupational specialty

MOSAIC Multifunctional On-the-Move Secure Adaptive Integrated
Communications

######## MOST media oriented systems transport

######## MOT ministry of transportation

MOTS military off-the-shelf

MOU Memorandum of Understanding

MOUT Military Operations on Urbanized Terrain

MOUT-IS Military Operations on Urbanized Terrain-Instrumentation System

MP mentor-protégé

military police

######## MP&QA manufacturing, production and quality assurance

######## MPAT multi-purpose anti-tank

mph miles per hour

######## MPI Mobile Positioning Initiative

MPIM Multipurpose Individual Munition

######## MPRS Man-Portable Robotic Systems (hyphen correct)

######## MPS Mission Planning Station

####### MR Materiel Release

######## MRAA U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity

######## MRAAS Multi-Role Armament and Ammunition System

MRB materiel review board

######## MRD mandatory removal date

MRDEC U.S. Army Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center
(at AMCOM, Redstone Arsenal, AL)

MRE Meal, Ready-to-Eat

########  Mission Rehearsal Exercise (Project)

######## MREs Meals, Ready-to-Eat

######## MRF magnetorheological finishing

######## MRI magnetic resonance imaging

MRICD U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense

MRL multiple rocket launcher

######## MRM mid-range munition

######## MRMC U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command

######## MRRB Materiel Release Review Board

######## MRTS Materiel Release Tracking System

MRTFB major range and test facility base

MS Milestone

MSC major subordinate command

Military Sealift Command

######## MSCM Master of Science in Contract Management

##### MSD Maintenance Support Device

##### MSDN Microsoft Developer Network

######## MSDS Mission Specific Data Set

####### MSE Mobile Subscriber Equipment

##### MS ELA Microsoft Enterprise License Agreement

##### MSG Management Steering Group

######## MSI models, simulations, and instrumentation

MSIE Master of Science in Industrial Engineering

MS/IWS Master of Science/Industry Work Study

MSPM Master of Science in Program Management

MSRC Major Shared Resource Center

MSRR modeling and simulation resource repository

MSSTC Master of Science in Science and Technology Commercialization

MTA manufacturing technical assistance

######## MTADS Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight

MTB-EFF mean time between essential functional failure

MTBF mean time between failure

######## MTBR mean time between replacement

#######  mean time between repair

####### MTC medium trainer classroom

#######  Modern Technologies Corporation

movement to contact

######## MTF military treatment facility

MTI moving target indicator

######## MTMC Military Traffic Management Command

MTMC-TEA Military Traffic Management Command- Transportation Engineering
Agency

MTO manufacturing technology objective

MTOE modified table of organization and equipment

MTS modernization through spares

moving target simulator

#######  Movement Tracking System

MTSSA Maintenance Tracking System and Site Administration

MTTC MANTECH Technical Council

#### MTTR Mean Time To Repair

#### MTVR Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement

#### MTW major theater of war

MYP multiyear procurement

#### MUA Military Utility Assessment

MUM Manned-Unmanned

MUM CEP Manned-Unmanned Concept Exploration Program

MWIR mid-wave infrared

MWO modification work order

MWR morale, welfare, and recreation (as in programs)

MWRH Mounted Water Ration Heater

##### MWS2C2 Mounted Warrior Soldier System Cordless Communications

##### MWTB Mounted Warfare Test Bed

##### N

NAC National Automotive Center

######## NAMRU Naval Medical Research Unit

######## NAS National Airspace System

NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration (use acronym only)

NATIBO North American Technology and Industrial Base Organization

NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization

(no need to spell out)

######## NAWC-AD Naval Air Warfare Center-Aircraft Division

NAWC-TSD Naval Air Warfare Center-Training Systems Division

NBC nuclear, biological and chemical

NBCCS nuclear, biological, and chemical contamination survivability

####### NC CPOC North Central Civilian Personnel Operations Center

NCA&T North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

NCA National Command Authority

NCAT Naval Center for Acquisition Training

#### NCMA National Contract Management Association

NCO noncommissioned officer

#### NCOES noncommissioned officer education system

#### NCOIC noncommissioned officer in charge

NCP national inventory control parts

NCR National Capital Region

National Cash Register

NCR CSO National Capitol Region Customer Support Office

NCSA National Center for Supercomputing Applications

NCSCS Nuclear and Chemical Survivability Committee Secretariat

NDAA Non-Developmental Airlift Aircraft

#######  National Defense Authorization Act

NDCEE National Defense Center for Environmental Excellence

NDI nondevelopmental item

NDIA National Defense Industrial Association

#### NDP National Disclosure Policy

#### NDT nondestructive testing

#### NDTA Night Driving Training Aid

#### NDU National Defense University

#### NEOF no evidence of failure

#### NEPA National Environmental Policy Act

#### NESEA Northeast Sustainable Energy Association

NET new equipment training

######## NETCOM Network Enterprise Technology Command

NEWTEC National Explosives Waste Technology and Evaluation Center

NFOV narrow field-of-view

NGB National Guard Bureau

NGO nongovernmental organization

NIB National Industries for the Blind

NIDS network intrusion detection system

NIFV New Infantry Fighting Vehicle

NIH National Institutes of Health

NIJ National Institute of Justice

NIMA National Imagery and Mapping Agency

NIOSH National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

NIPRNET Non-classified Internet Protocol Router Network (per Army DISC4
Office 11/10/98)

NIS Newly Independent States

NISH National Industries for the Severely Handicapped (use only the
acronym in text, do not define)

NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology

#### NLOS near-line-of-sight

##### NLOS-LS Non-Line-of-Sight Launch System

NLT no later than

NLW nonlethal weapon

#### NMCS nonmission capable supply

NMD National Missile Defense

#### NMRC Naval Medical Research Center

NMRCD Naval Medical Research Center Detachment

######## NMWRS National Maintenance Work Requirement Standard

NOAA National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration

NOFC Notification of Future Change

NORTEL Northern Telecom

#### NPDES National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

NPR National Performance Review

#### NPRG National Partnership for Reinventing Government

NPS Naval Postgraduate School

NPV net present value

NRC National Research Council

NRC BAST National Research Council Board on Army Science and Technology

NRCC Naval Regional Contracting Command

~~NRDEC Natick Research, Development and Engineering Center~~ OBE (Note:
NRDEC has merged with the Army Chemical Biological and Chemical Command
to become The U.S. Army Soldier and Biological and Chemical Command. The
previous ARDEC became The Soldier Center of Excellence. There is no
acronym for the new Natick.)

NRTC National Rotorcraft Technology Center

######## NSA National Security Agency

######## NSC Natick Soldier Center

NSD-A Non-Self Destruct Alternative

######## NSFS naval surface fire support

NSIP Network Security Improvement Program

NSMM National Sustainment Maintenance Management

######## NSN National Stock Number

NSPC National Society of Professional Engineers

NST National Support Team

NST-S National Support Team-Sarajevo

#### NSWC-DD Naval Surface Warfare Center-Dahlgren Division

NTC National Training Center (Fort Irwin, CA)

NTD nondestructive testing

NTDR Near Term Digital Radio

NTIS National Technical Information Service

NUWC Naval Undersea Warfare Center

NVESD Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate

NVGs night vision goggles

NVH noise, vibration, and harshness

O

O&M Operations and Maintenance

O&O operational and organizational

O&O Plan Operational and Organizational Plan

O&S operations and sustainment

operations and support

> (always "operations"; use author's discretion regarding "sustainment"
> vs. "support")

O/C observer/controller

####### OA operational advocate

OAASA Office of the Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the
Army

OAC Officer's Advanced Course

OACSIM Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation
Management

OASAALT Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition,
Logistics and Technology

~~OASARDA Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research,
Development and Acquisition~~

(replaced by OASAALT 2/16/99)

OASIS OTC Analytic Simulation and Instrumentation Suite

OB/OD open burn/open detonation

####### OBC Officer's Basic Course

######## OBCT Objective Brigade Combat Team

######## OC observer/controller

######## OC&S Army Ordnance Center and School

OCAR Office of the Chief, Army Reserve (HQ, The Pentagon, DC; per Ray
Gall, PAO, AR-PERSCOM)

OCD operational concept document

OCONUS outside the continental United States (no need to spell out)

OCU operator\'s control unit

####### ODAP Officer Development Action Plan

ODASA Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army

ODASADE&C Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for
Defense Exports and Cooperation

ODASAP Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for
Procurement

ODASAP&P Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Policy
and Procurement

ODASAPP&R Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for
Plans, Programs, and Resources

ODASAR&T Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for
Research and Technology)

ODCSLOG Office of the Army Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics

ODCSOPS Office of the Army Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and
Plans

ODCSPER Office of the Army Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel

ODCSPRO Office of the Army Deputy Chief of Staff for Programs

ODD objective digitized division

ODILS Office of the Deputy for Integrated Logistics Support)

ODISC4 Office of the Director of Information Systems for Command,
Control, Communications, and Computers (last comma per ODISC4 10/11/01)

#### ODP Officer Distribution Plan

##### ODS Operation Desert Storm

Officer Development System

ozone-depleting substance

ODSMHTI Office of the Deputy for Systems Management and Horizontal
Technology Integration (not official 1/8/02)

ODUSA-IA Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of the Army for
International Affairs

ODUSDAR Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition
Reform

ODUSDS&T Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Science and
Technology

OEC Operational Evaluation Command, Alexandria, VA (with EAC forms AEC)

#### OEF *Operation Enduring Freedom*

OEM original equipment manufacturer

#### OEP Operational Experience Program

OER Officer Evaluation Report

OERS Officer Evaluation and Reporting System

#### OES officer education system

#### OF Objective Force

#### OFPP Office of Federal Procurement Policy

#### OFTF Objective Force Task Force 

#### (closed up per LTC Anderson)

#### OFW Objective Force Warrior

#### OGC Office of the General Counsel

#### OIC Officer-In-Charge

OICW Objective Individual Combat Weapon

OIF *Operation Iraqi Freedom*

OIPT overarching integrated product team

OJE/OJG Operation Joint Endeavor and Operation Joint Guard

OJF Operation Joint Forge

OLC Oak Leaf Cluster

#### OLED organic, light-emitting diode

OM operations monitor

OMA Operations and Maintenance Army

OMB Office of Management and Budget

OML order of merit list

OMPF Official Military Personnel File (per COL Winters, AMB, 5/18/01)

######## OMS/MP Operational Mode Summary/Mission Profile

######## OMSD Operations and Mission Support Directorate

######## ONE Operation Noble Eagle

######## ONR Office of Naval Research

OneSAF One Semi-Automated Forces

ONS Operational Need Statement

OOP object-oriented programming

######## OOR Office of Ordnance Research

OOTW Operations Other Than War

OPA Other Procurement Army

Overarching partnering agreement

OPDASA Office of the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army

OPFOR opposing force

OPLANs operational plans

OPM Office of Personnel Management

OPM SANG Office of the Program Manager, Saudi Arabian National Guard
Modernization Program (U.S. Army)

OPMD Officer Personnel Management Directorate

OPMS XXI Officer Personnel Management System for the 21st Century

OPORDs operational orders

~~OPTEC U.S. Army Operational Test and Evaluation Command~~
(redesignated ATEC 10/1/99;

> Alexandria, VA)

#### OPPROJ Operational Project Stock

OPTEMPO operational tempo

##### OR operations research

operational readiness

ORB Officer Record Brief

ORD operational requirements document

ORNL Oak Ridge National Laboratory

ORSA operations research and systems analysis

operations research systems analyst

OS operating system

########  open system

######## OSC Operations Support Command

OSCR Operating and Support Cost Reduction

OSD Office of the Secretary of Defense

OSDP operational support data package

OSF Operational Support Facility

######## OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration

OSI Officer Skill Identifier

OSLDPS Office of State and Local Domestic Preparedness Support (Dept. of
Justice)

OSMIS Operating and Support Management Information System

OSRAP Optimum Stock Requirements Analysis Program

######## OST Order Ship Time

######## OSU Oklahoma State University

OT operational test/testing

other transaction

####### OT&E operational test and evaluation

OTC U.S. Army Operational Test Command,

> Fort Hood, TX (new name of TEXCOM as of 10/1/99; a subordinate command
> of ATEC)

Oshkosh Truck Corp.

OTE operational test and evaluation

OTSG Office of the Surgeon General

######## OTW out-the-window

OUSD Office of the Under Secretary of Defense

OV operational value

####### P

####### P probability

P&A Programs and Architecture

P3I preplanned product improvement

######## P3L people, product, publication locator

PAC personnel action center

PAC-3 Patriot Advanced Capability-3

PACAB U.S. Total Army Personnel Command (PERSCOM) Acquisition Candidate
Accession Board

####### PACAF Pacific Air Forces

PACE Personalized Acquisition Center Exchange

PACFLT Pacific Fleet

PACOM Pacific Command

PAD propellant-actuated devices

PADDS Procurement Automated Data Document System

######## PADIL Patriot Digital Information Link

######## PAFC Phosphoric Acid Fuel Cell

######## PAIV power as an integral variable

######## PALS Patriot Automated Logistics System

PAM Precision Attack Missiles (PAM)

####### PANSPEC panoramic infrared-imaging spectroradiometer

PARC Principal Assistant Responsible for Contracting

####  Palo Alto Research Center

#### PARP poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase

#### PAS Personnel Alerting System

#### PASGT Personnel Armor System for Ground Troops

PAT process action team

PATRIOT Phased Array Tracking To Intercept Of Target

(no need to spell out)

#### PBA Performance-Based Agreement

Pine Bluff Arsenal

PBC Program and Budget Committee

#### PBG Program Budget Guidance

#### PBL Performance-Based Logistics

PBRS Production Base Readiness Support

PBS2 Phoenix Battlefield Sensor System

#### PBSA performance-based service acquisition

PC Production Control

personal computer

pilot-in-command

PCB protective control box

PCC Pre Command Course

PCCOWG Pacific Contingency Contracting Officers Working Group

#### PCD position classification description

PCM pulse code modulation

##### PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association

##### PCO procuring contracting officer

#### PCR polymerase chain reaction

PCS permanently change stations

permanent change of station

#### PCSS process control system simulator

####  process control simulation system

#### PCT primary composition team

PCU protective combat uniform

PD project director

#### PD2 Procurement Desktop Defense

#### PDA personal digital assistant

PDASA Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army

PDC Professional Development Committee

#### PDD platform performance demonstration

#####  Presidential Decision Directive

PDDA power driven decontamination apparatus

#### PDM precedence diagramming method

PDR Preliminary Design Review

PDRR program definition and risk reduction

PDSS post-deployment software support

#### PDT product development team

PDU protocol data unit

Power Distribution Unit

PD/V Project Definition/Validation

PE Program Element

practical exercise

Personnel Management (Division) (AAESA)

PEC Program Effectiveness Committee

#####  Professional Education Center

PEF pulsed electric field

####  Process Engineering Facility

PEG Program Evaluation Group

PEM plastic encapsulated microcircuit

#####  Proton Exchange Membrane

PEO program executive office

PEO AMD Program Executive Office for Air and Missile Defense

PEO ASM Program Executive Office for Armored Systems Modernization

PEO Aviation Program Executive Office for Aviation

> (Redstone Arsenal, AL)

PEO C3S Program Executive Office for Command, Control and Communications
Systems

PEO C3T Program Executive Office Command, Control and Communications
Tactical

PEO CS&CSS Program Executive Office for Combat Support and Combat
Service Support

PEO EIS Program Executive Office for Enterprise Information Systems

PEO GCSS Program Executive Office for Ground Combat and Support Systems

PEO IEW&S Program Executive Office for Intelligence, Electronic Warfare
and Sensors

~~PEO, STAMIS Program Executive Office for Standard Army Management
Information Systems~~ (now PEO, EIS)

PEO STRI Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training, and
Instrumentation (as of 3 FEB 03, formerly STRICOM)

####### PEO TM Program Executive Office Tactical Missiles

####### NOTE: spell out \"program executive officer\"

PERSCOM U.S. Total Army Personnel Command

#### PERSTEMPO personnel tempo

PERT program evaluation and review technique

#### PERTEC Personnel Technologies

#### PGCS portable ground control station

#### PGDT Portable Ground Data Terminal

######## PHP PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

######## PI program integrator

pilot

PIC Personal Information Carrier (subcomponent of MC4)

PIU personal computer interface unit

PIWG Platform Integration Working Group

#### PJS Pulse Jet Air System

#### PK Probability of Kill

PKI public key infrastructure

#### PL Public Law

#### PLGR Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver

#### PLL programmatic lessons learned

PLS palletized loading system

PLST PLS Truck/Trailer

PLT production lead time

#####  procurement lead time

##### PM Program/Project/Product Manager

PMAP Procurement Management Assistance Program

PM AMMOLOG Office of the Project Manager for Ammunition Logistics

PM ARMS Project Manager for Artillery Munitions Systems (replaces PM
SADARM 10/98)

######## PM ATC Product Manager Air Traffic Control Systems

PM CATT Project Manger for Combined Arms Tactical Trainers

PM CD Program Manager for Chemical Demilitarization

PM CID Product Manager for Combat Identification

PM CHIMS Project Manager Counter-intelligence/Human Intelligence
Information Management System

PM Crusader Project Manager for Crusader

######## PM CSD Project Manager for Chemical Stockpile Disposal

PM DCASS Project Manager Defense Communications and Army Switched
Systems

PM DCATS Project Manager Defense Communications and Army Transmission
Systems

PM ESS Project Manager Enhanced Soldier Systems

######## PM FSS Product Manager Force Sustainment Systems

######## PM GPS Product Manager Global Positioning System (not plural)

PM, HTV Program Manger Heavy Tactical Vehicles

PM IM&T Project Manager Information Management and Telecommunications

PM IM&TPR Project Manager Information Management and Telecommunications
Pentagon Renovation

PM ITTS Project Manager for Instrumentation, Targets and Threat
Sumulators

PM JBPDS Product Manager Joint Biological Point Detection System

PM JTT/CIBSM Product Manager Joint Tactical Terminal/Common Integrated
Broadcast Service Module

######## PM MCD Project Manager Mines, Countermine and Demolitions

######## PM MEP Project Manager Mobile Electric Power

PM MILSATCOM Project Manager Military Satellite Communications

PM MTV Program Manager Medium Tactical Vehicles

######## PM Mortars Product Manager Mortar Systems

######## PM NBC Project Manager Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defense Systems

######## PM PSE Product Manager Physical Security Equipment

PM NV/RSTA Project Manager Night Vision/Reconnaissance, Surveillance and
Target Acquisition

> (per Maxine Singley, PM, NV/RSTA Office, 12/16/99)

######## PM PAC-3 Product Manager Patriot Advanced Capability-3

PM PFRMS Project Manager Precision Fires Rocket and Missile Systems

######## PM Prophet Product Manager Prophet

PM SADARM Project Manager Sense and Destroy Armor (replaced by PM ARMS
10/98)

#### PM SCP Product Manager Small Computer Program

PM Soldier Project Manager for Soldier

> (per Jerry Whitaker, PAO, Natick, 5/11/00)

PM STI Product Manager for Simulation Technology Integration

PM THAAD Project Manager Theater High Altitude Area Defense

PM TMAS Project Manager for Tank and Medium-Caliber Armament Systems

PM TMDE Project Manager Test, Measurement and Diagnostics Equipment

#### PM TRADE Project Manager for Training Devices

#### PM WARSIM Project Manager for Warfighters' Simulation

#### PMC personnel management center

PMCS Programmable Modular Communications System

preventive maintenance checks and services

PME Personnel Management for Executives Course at the Army Management
Staff College

professional military education

PMI Project Management Institute

#### PML Planning Markup Language

PMO Program/Project/Product Management Office

PMO BFVS Program Management Office for the Bradley Fighting Vehicle
Systems

PMO MLRS Program Management Office for the Multiple Launch Rocket System

PMO MTV Project Manager's Office, Medium Tactical Vehicles

#### PMO UH Program Manager's/Management Office Utility Helicopter

PMP Project Management Professional

performance measurement plan

PMT Program Management Tools (course)

PMPP Pilot Mentor-Protégé Program

####### PNNL Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

####### PNVS pilot night vision system

#######  pilot night vision sensor

####### PO Project Officer

PO, TLDD Project Officer, Tactical Logistics Data Digitization

####### POC Proof of Concept

Platoon Operations Center

point of contact

PoF Physics of Failure

######## POI program of instruction

POLs petroleum, oil, and lubricants

POM Program Objective Memorandum

Preparation for Overseas Movement

PoP Proof Of Principle

POSIX Portable Operating System Interface for Computer Environments

#######  Portable Operating System Interface Standard

PP pay plan

PPBES planning, programming, budgeting, and execution system

PPC4I Power Projection Command, Control, Communications, and Computers
Infrastructure

PPD Power Projection Division

PPIMS Past Performance Information Management System

PPMES predictive and preventive maintenance expert system

PPNC Performance Power...the Nutrition Connection

PPP preproduction prototype

#####  Priority Placement Program

Public-Private Partnership

PPQT pre-production qualification testing

#### PQT production qualification test

#### ProMIS Procurement Management Information System

#### ProcNet Procurement Network

#### PRD Position Requirement Document

#### PROC Procurement

PROSE Partnership to Reduce Operation and Support Costs, Engine

#### PROSPECT Proponent Sponsored Engineer Corps Training

##### P(S) Probability of Success

PSA Principal Staff Assistant

principal staff agency

PSC prime systems contractor

Personnel Service Center

PSCOE Power Sources Center of Excellence

#### PSF professional service firm

PSG Prioritization Steering Group

#### PSI product support integrator

#### psi pounds-per-square-inch

#### PSM Predictive Staffing Model

#### PSS project summary sheet

####  personnel Service support

#### PST Program Support Team

##### PSV Program Status Visibility

PT personnel transformation

PTC Parametric Technology Corp.

PTN Paint the Night

#### PVO private volunteer organization

PVS prime vendor support

PVT production verification testing

#### PWA printed wiring assembly

#### PWBS Program Work Breakdown Structure

PWI Partnership With Industry

PWS Performance Work Statement

##### Q

#### Q&A question and answer

QA quality assurance

#### QAB Quality Assurance Board

QAS quality assurance specialist

#### QC quality control

QDR Quadrennial Defense Review

#### QFD quality function deployment

#### QM Quartermaster

#### QMC Quality Management Consortia

#### QR Quick Reaction

QRP Quick Response Program

QSTAGS Quadrilateral Standardization Agreements

##### R

#### R2CSR Rapid Response to Critical Systems Requirement

R3 resource recovery and recycling

##### R-TOC Reduction in Total Ownership Cost

R&D research and development

#### R&S reliability and sustainment

RA Regular Army

return authorization

RAAM Remote Anti-Armor Munition

#### RACRS Risk and Cost Reduction System

RADAM Remote Area Denial Artillery Munition

RAH-66 Comanche Reconnaissance and Attack Helicopter

RAM reliability, availability, and maintainability

#### RAM Tec Real-Time Adaptive Multi-Munition Technology

RAMP Review and Approval of Migration Plans

RAMS Remote Activation Munition System

#### Range-MCX Range Mandatory Center of Expertise

#### RAPL Reserve Acquisition Position List

RBA revolution in business affairs

RBDO reliability-based design optimization

#### RC Reserve component

#### RCAS Reserve Component Automation System

RCERT Regional Computer Emergency Response Team

RCI Reifer Consultants Inc.

####  Residential Communities Initiative

##### RCIO Regional Chief Information Officers

#### RCO Regional Contracting Office

#### RCOE Rotorcraft Centers of Excellence

RCS radar cross section

#### RCSS Robotic Combat Support System

##### RCT repair cycle time

RCTI radar control terminal interface

#### RD regional director

#### RD&A research, development and acquisition

RD&E research, development, and engineering

RDA research, development, and acquisition

RDAISA U.S. Army Research, Development and Acquisition Information
Systems Activity

#### RDAP Rotational Developmental Assignment Program

RDC Raytheon Demilitarization Company

RDDS research and development descriptive summary

RDEC research, development and engineering center

RDECOM Research, Development and Engineering Command

RDO Research and Development Organization

robust design optimization

RDT&E research, development, test and evaluation

######## RDX hexahydro-trinitro-triazine

######## RECAP recapitalization

REDMAP Radford Environmental Development and Management Program

#### REEP Renewables and Energy Efficient Planning (Program)

#### REMBASS Remotely Monitored Battlefield Sensor System

RES Raytheon Electronic Systems

RETRANS Retransmission Station

RF radio frequency

#### RFID Radio Frequency Identification

RFP Request For Proposal

> (NOTE: plural form is RFPs - Requests For Proposals)

RFPI Rapid Force Projection Initiative

#### RFQ Request For Qualification

RI relative importance

#### RIA Rock Island Arsenal

RIBS Rapidly Installed Breakwater System

######## RIF reduction-in-force

######## RIK replacement in kind

######## RIR recordable injury rate

######## RISTA reconnaissance, intelligence, surveillance, and target acquisition

######## RIT rapid improvement team

######## RITA Rotorcraft Industry Technology Association

######## RIW Reliability Improvement Warranty

######## RKF Rapid Knowledge Formation

######## RLEM Rifle Launched Entry Munition Program

RLM Research and Laboratory Management

RM resource management

RM&S Reliability, Maintainability and Sustainability

RMA revolution in military affairs

RML Revolution in Military Logistics

#### RMM remote maintenance monitor

RMO Resource Management Office

RMS root-mean-square

> reliability, maintainability, and supportability

ride motion simulator

####  Resident Management System

####  Rapid Manufacturing System

##### RMSL reliability, maintainability, serviceability and logistics

#### RNA ribonucleic acid

ROAD Reorganization Army Division

ROC-V Recognition of Combat Vehicle

ROI return on investment

##### ROIC Read-Out Integrated Circuit

RoK Republic of Korea

ROP Radar Operational Program

######## ROSA radar open systems architecture

ROTC Reserve Officer Training Corps

> (no need to spell out)

ROWPU Reverse Osmosis Water Purification Unit

RPA Rotorcraft Pilot's Associate

####  Request for Personnel Action

RPAS PPBES Applications System

RPG rocket propelled grenade

#### RNA ribonucleic acid

rpm revolutions per minute

RPT Rapid Prototyping Team

#### RR risk rating

##### RRB Requirements Review Board

#### RRAD Red River Army Depot

RS Remote Sentry

radar set

RSC Regional Support Center

#### RSL Relative Standing List

RSMM Regional Sustainment Maintenance Manager

RSO&I reception, staging, onward movement, and integration

RSTA reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition

RSV resupply vehicle

#### RSV-T resupply vehicle-tracked

#### RSV-W resupply vehicle-wheeled

#### R-TOC Reduction in Total Ownership Cost

#### RTF Realignment Task Force

#### RTK Real-Time Kinematic

##### RTM resin transfer molding

RTS \"run-time smartener\"

Reagan Test Site

RTTC Redstone Technical Test Center

#### RVT remote video terminal

#### RWS remote workstation

RWSTD Rotary Wing Structures Technology Demonstration

##### S

S3 Plans and Operations

battalion operations officer

\$AVE Savings Through Value Enhancement

S&A safety and arming

#### S&E scientific and engineering

S&S Stewart & Stevenson Services Inc.

S&T science and technology

S&ED Sensors and Electron Devices

######## S-FLTS Sequoyah Foreign Language Translation System

SA situational awareness

#######  Secretary of the Army 

SA-CMM Software Acquisition Capability Maturity Model

SW-CMM Software Capability Maturity Model

SAACONS Standard Army Automated Contracting System

SAC Senior Advisory Council

Systems Automation Course

Sikorksy Aircraft Corp.

#####  Senior Acquisition Course

SADA-II standard advanced Dewar assembly, type two

SADARM Sense and Destroy Armor

#### SADARM/PI Product Improved Sense and Destroy Armor

#### SADR Standardized Ambulatory Data Record

#### SAF Semi-Automated Forces

SAG Senior Advisory Group

#### SAIC Science Applications International Corporation

#### SALT size, activity, location, time (replaces SALUTE)

#### SAM surface-to-air missile

#### SAMAS Structure and Manpower Authorization System

SAMS Standard Army Maintenance System

##### SAP Simplified Acquisition Procedure

######## SAPI small arms protective insert

SAR/MTI synthetic aperture radar/moving target indicator

######## SARSS Standard Army Retail Supply System

######## SASO Stability and Support Operations

SBA Simulation Based Acquisition (DOD term only)(confirmed no hyphen
3/1/99)

Small Business Administration

SBCCOM U.S. Army Soldier and Biological Chemical Command

#### SBCT Stryker Brigade Combat Team

SBIR small business innovation research (program)

> (per Dr. Andrews' office 12/20/01)

small business innovative research

SBIRS Space Based Infrared System

SC single channel

#### SCA software communications architecture

SCAMP Single Channel Antijam Manportable Terminal

SCADA supervisory control and data acquisition

SCAPS Site Characterization and Analysis Penetrometer System

#### SCBA self-contained breathing apparatus

#### SCC Supply-Chain Council

#### SCEC Small Computer Engineering Center

#### SCL Strategic Configured Load

skin conductance level

#### SCORM Sharable Content Object Reference Model

SCP Small Computer Program

SCWO supercritical water oxidation

SDBU small disadvantaged business unit

##### SDC sample data collection

##### SDD system development and demonstration

##### SDF signal/data processor

##### SDI Strategic Defense Initiative

##### SDP signal/data processor

#### SDR software-defined radio

##### SDRAM synchronous random access memory

SDRF Software Defined Radio Forum

##### SE synthetic environment

*status epilepticus*

####  systems engineering

#### SEA southeast Asia

SEC Software Engineering Center (at CECOM)

SED Systems Engineering Department

#####  Software Engineering Directorate

SEDD Sensors and Electron Devices Directorate

#### SEEP Student Educational Employment Program

SEI Software Engineering Institute

SELF Synthetic Environment Live-Fire Test Program

#### SELRD Switchable Eyesafe Laser Rangefinder/Designator

SEM Smart Enterprise Model

SEN small extension node

SEP System Enhancement Program

Soldier Enhancement Program

#####  System Enhancement Package

#####  System Evaluation Plan

SEPD System Engineering and Production Directorate

#### SEPS Shortstop Electronic Protection System

#### SER System Evaluation Report

SERM sustainability, encroachment and room to maneuver

SERPACWA Skin Exposure Reduction Paste Against Chemical Warfare Agents

SES Senior Executive Service

SESAME Selected Essential-Item Stock for Availability Method (per
Valerie at AMSAA 12/20/01)

SETAC Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance Contract

SFs and OFs standard and optional forms

SFG Special Forces Group

#### SGM Sergeant Major

SFOR Stabilization Force

SFPW Side Firing Port Weapon

#### SGF second generation FLIR

#### SGLI Servicemen's Group Life Insurance

SGML Standard Generalized Markup Language

SGS Smoke Generator System

SHORAD short range air defense

SHORADS/ Short Range Air Defense System/

VSHORADS Very Short Range Air Defense System

SI skill identifier

SIAP single integrated air picture

SIAP SE Single Integrated Air Picture Systems Engineering

##### SiC silicon carbide

SICPS Standardized Integrated Command Posts System

SIDPERS-3 Standard Installation/Division Personnel System (Version 3.0)

SIDS Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

#### SIDSMAS Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Monitor and Stimulator

#### SIGINT signals intelligence

#### SIIRCM suite of integrated infrared countermeasures

SIL System Integration Laboratory

######## SILC Soft Impact Location Capability

######## SIMA Shore Intermediate Maintenance Activity

######## SIMNET Simulation Network

SINCGARS Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System (per 2001 and
2002 Weapon Systems Handbook)

SINCGARS-ASIP Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System-Advanced
System Improvement Program

SiO~2~ silicon dioxide

sim/stim simulation/stimulation

SIMNET Simulation Network

######## SIP standardization instructor pilot

SIPE Soldier Integrated Protective Ensemble

####### SIPRNET Secret Internet Protocol Router Network

SIR savings investment ratio

######## SIRFC suite of integrated radio frequency countermeasures

######## SIS share in savings

########  software integration system

######## SIT System Integration Team

######## SITREP situation report

SKA skills, knowledge, and attributes

######## SL static line

######## SL-AMRAAM Surface Launched Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile

######## SLAB Senior Leader Advisory Board

######## SLAD Survivability/Lethality Analysis Directorate

SLOC source lines of code

######## SMA The Sergeant Major of the Army

SMART Simulation and Modeling for Acquisition, Requirements and Training
(Army term only)

SMART-T Secure, Mobile Antijam, Reliable Tactical Terminal

SMC Systems Management Center (at CECOM)

#### SMCA Single Manager for Conventional Ammunition

SMDC U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command

SME subject matter expert

#### SMEI Small/Medium Enterprise Initiative

SMI soldier-machine interface

SMP sustained maintenance planning

SMS System Management Server

SNAP Standards Nomination and Approval Process

> Simplified Non-standard Item Acquisition Program

SOA statement of account

#####  Special Operations Aircraft

SOAE Special Operations Acquisition Executive

SOC State-of-Charge

SOCOM Special Operations Command

SOF Special Operations Forces

####  safety of flight

#### SOFC solid oxide fuel cell

#### SOFIA Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy

SOFTAPS Special Operations Forces Tactical Advanced Parachute\
System

#### SONET synchronized optical network

SOO statement of objectives

#### SORA source of repair analysis

SOS speed of service

SoS System-of-Systems

SOSCOE Systems of Systems Common Operating Environment

#### SOSM System-of-Systems Manager

#### SOT Society of Toxicology

SOW Statement Of Work

SP solid propellant

######## SPAWAR Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command

######## SPBS-R Standard Property Book System - Redesign

SPC statistical process control

SPEAR Special Operations Forces Equipment Advanced Requirements

######## SPECS specifications

SPH self-propelled howitzer

SPI Single Process Initiative

######## SPIMT Single Process Initiative Management Team

######## SpiRiT Sustainable Project Rating Tool

SPO Special Projects Office

SPRDE Systems Planning, Research, Development and Engineering

SPS Standard Procurement System

Sharepoint Portal Server

SPS/PD2 Standard Procurement System/Procurement Desktop Defense

SQI special qualification identifier

SQL structured query language

Microsoft System Query Language

SR Short Range

##### SRA Separate Reporting Activity

####  sustainability risk assessment

SRAW Short Range Assault Weapon

SRBM short-range ballistic missile

##### SRO strategic research objective

#### SROC Senior Readiness Oversight Council

SRPE Senior Rater Potential Evaluation

#### SRS Standardized Robotic System

####  Software Requirements Specification

#### SRU shop replaceable unit

SRWG Staff Review Working Group

#### SS supportability strategy

SSA Source Selection Authority

#######  Supply Support Activity

SSAR Specifications and Standards Acquisition Reform

SSC Senior Service College

Soldier Systems Center

#### SSCF Senior Service College Fellowship

SSCFP Senior Service College Fellowship Program

SSCOM Soldier Systems Command

SSDC Space and Strategic Defense Command

SSEB Source Selection Evaluation Board

SSF Single Stock Fund

#### SSI Soldier Support Institute

SSL Secure Socket Layer

#### SSMP Sample Survey of Military Personnel

SSP simulation support plan

SSR software safety release

SSS soldier system support

STAF Simulation/Test Acceptance Facility

STAMIS Standard Army Management Information Systems

##### STANAG standardization agreement

STARS Surveillance Target Attack Radar System

Science and Technology Recognition System

#### STC small trainer classroom

##### STEP simulation, test and evaluation process

#####  Student Temporary Employment Program

####  Standard for Exchange of Product

STI stationary-target-indication

#### STL Special Technologies Laboratory

STO Science and Technology Objective

STORM Simulation Testing Operations Rehearsal Model

STOW synthetic theater of war

~~STRICOM~~ PEO STRI (as of 3 FEB 03) ~~U.S. Army Simulation, Training
and Instrumentation Command~~

STS System Technical Support

#### STTR Small Business Technology Transfer

STU-III secure telephone unit, third generation

STX Situational Training Exercise

#### SUT system-under-test

#### SUV sport utility vehicle

#### SW software

#### SW/HWCI software/hardware configuration item

SWAN OASARDA Wide Area Network

######## SWIR short wavelength infrared

######## SWLAN secure wireless local area network

SWORD Short-Range Missile Defense With Optimized Radar Distribution

SWOT strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (analysis)

SWP2 Software Package 2

##### 

##### T

##### T&E test and evaluation

######## T&M time and materials

######## T&Ps techniques and procedures

T/R transmit/receive

######## Ta tantalum

######## TAA Total Army Analysis

######## Tac/CITV Tactical/Commander's Independent Thermal Viewer

TAB Target Acquisition Batter

######## TAC tactical command post

TACCIMS Theater Automated Command and Control Information Management
System

######## TACCP tactical command post

TACCSF Theater Aerospace Command and Control Simulation Facility

####### TACFIRE Tactical Fire Control System

######## TACMIS Tactical Management Information Systems

TACOM U.S. Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command (Warren, MI) (HB
confirmed 10/27/98)

TACOM-ARDEC U.S. Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command's Armament
Research, Development and Engineering Center (Picatinny Arsenal, NJ)

TACOM-TARDEC U.S. Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command\'s
Tank-Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (Warren,
MI)

> (HB confirmed 10/27/98)

TACP Tactical Air Control Party

TACSAT Tactical Satellite

TACSIM tactical simulation

TACSIM-OT tactical simulation-operational test

TAD Towed Artillery Digitization

TADIL Tactical Digital Information Link

TADIXS Tactical Data Information Exchange System

TADLP The Army Distance Learning Program (confirmed by Sandy Mahanes,
Admin. Support Asst., Office of the Project Manager, Army Distance
Learning Program, who is Gary Winkler)

TADS target acquisition and designation system

target acquisition and designation sight

TADSS training aids, devices, simulators, and simulations

TAFSM Target Acquisition Fire Support Model

Team for Advanced Flow Simulation and Modeling

TAIE trans-Atlantic industrial entity

TAIS Tactical Airspace Integration System

TAM Target Architecture Model

TAMD Theater Air and Missile Defense

TAP technology assessment process

TAPAIS Technical Advisor to Public Affairs for Installation Support

TAPDB Total Army Personnel Database

TAPES Total Army Personnel Evaluation System

TARDEC U.S. Army Tank-Automotive Research, Development and Engineering
Center (Warren, MI)

TAS Team Apache Systems

TASS Total Army School System

########  Target Acquisition Sensor Suite

######## TAT Technical Assistance Team

######## TATRC turn-around-time

> Army Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center

######## TATS-C The Army Training System Courseware

######## TAV total asset visibility

####### TBDS technology-based delivery system

####### TBM tactical ballistic missile

theater ballistic missile

TBMCS U.S. Air Force Theater Battle Management Core System

TC type classification

ton container

track commander

TC-AIMS II Transportation Coordinators'-Automated Information Movements
System II

TCA Transformational Communications Architecture

TCC Troop Carrier Command

######## TCDP Tactical Commanders Development Program

######## TCMD transportation control and movement document

##### TCO total cost of ownership

TCP Transmission Control Protocol (HB confirmed thru COL Michael Brown's
office)

#######  Transformation Campaign Plan

####### TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

######## TCS Traction Control System

TCT traveling contact team

TD Total Distribution

technology demonstration

TD ATD Total Distribution Advanced Technology Demonstration

TDA table of distribution and allowances

TDMA time division multiple access

#### TDNDS Transdermal Nutrient Delivery System

TDO technology development objective

TDP technical data package

####  Total Distribution Program

TDR test data report

#### TDS trainer/demonstrator system

#### TDY temporary duty

#### TEBC Test and Evaluation Basic Course

TEC Topographic Engineering Center

TECNET Tri-Service Test and Evaluation Community Network

~~TECOM U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command (Aberdeen, MD) (to be~~
(became ADTC 10/1/99)

#### TEF Tactics Expert Function

#### TEMA Test and Evaluation Management Agency

TEMO training, exercises, and military operations

TEMP Test and Evaluation Master Plan

#### TEMPER tent, extendable, modular, personal

#### TENCAP Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities

#### TERM Tank Extended Range Munition

#### TES Tucson Embedded Systems

#### TESAR Tactical Endurance Synthetic Aperture Radar

TESS Tactical Engagement Simulation System

TET technical evaluation testing

~~TEXCOM Test and Experimentation Command~~

> ~~(Fort Hood, TX)~~ (renamed AOTC 10/1/99)

##### TEW Terrorism Early Warning

##### TF Task Force

TF XXI AWE Task Force XXI Advanced Warfighting Experiment

TFP tactical force protection

THAAD Theater High Altitude Area Defense

TI Tactical Internet

Technology insertion

TIB Technology Integration Board

TIC Technology Integration Center

TICs toxic industrial compounds

TIFF Tagged Image File Format

TIM Tactical Internet Model

transformation of installation management (replaces CIM)

TIMs toxic industrial materials

TIMPO Tri-Service Infrastructure Management Program Office

TIP theater injection point

#### TIPS Technology Information Products and Services

#### TIPT Test Integrated Product Team

TiW titanium tungsten

TIWG Test Integration Working Group

TK PLT tank platoon

TL technical library

TLDD Tactical Logistics Data Digitization

TLE Target Location Error

TLS TF Training, Leader Development, Soldiers Task Force

#### TMA Tricare Management Agency

TMD Theater Missile Defense

#### TMDE test, measurement, and diagnostic equipment

TMG Army Technology and Materiel Game

#### TMS Tactical Message System

Thermal Management System

TNS Technology Needs Survey

TNSOC Theater Network and Systems Operation Center

#### TNT trinitrotoluene

TOA Total Obligation(al) Authority

TOC tactical operations center

total ownership cost

transition operations cell

TOCDF Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility

TOCR Total Ownership Cost Reduction

TO&E Table of Organization and Equipment

TOPMIS Total Officer Personnel Management Information System

TOS time on station

tactical operation shelter

TOW Tube-launched, Optically-tracked, Wire-guided

(Pam Roberts, PAO Redstone Arsenal 4/23/99)

TOW F&F Tube-launched, Optically-tracked, Wire-guided Fire and Forget

#### TOYA Ten Outstanding Young Americans

TP troubleshooting procedure

#### TPC Technical Program Committee

#### TPF total package fielding

#### TPFDD time-phased force and deployment data

time-phased force deployment data

TPIO TRADOC Program Integration Officer/Office

#### TPM technical performance measures

TPN Tactical Packet Network

##### TPO THAAD Project Office

####  technical project officer

#### TPS test pilot school

#### TQG Tactical Quiet Generator

#### TQM total quality management

TQP Tactical Quiet Generator

TRAC-Monterey TRADOC Analysis Center (Monterey, CA)

TRAC-WSMR TRADOC Analysis Center (White Sands Missile Range, NM)

TRACER Tactical Reconnaissance Armoured Combat Equipment Requirement

TRADOC U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command

##### TRADE Training Devices

##### TRANSCOM U.S. Transportation Command

TRCS tactical radio communications systems

TRDPs Technology Research and Development Projects

#### TRL technology readiness level

TRM Training Resource Model

TRP Technology Reinvestment Project

TRS Technical Requirements Specification

#### TSC Theater Support Command

TSG Technology Seminar Games

TSM TRADOC Systems Manager (per Rhonda Page, TRADOC PAO, 9-10-99)

TSMO Threat Systems Management Office

TSM-Soldier TRADOC Systems Manager for the Soldier

TSP topical skin protectant

TSP/TES Training Support Packages/Training Evaluation Strategies

#### TSPP Threat Simulator/Simulation Program Plan

TT technology team

TTC Tactical Telephone Center

TTCP The Technical Cooperation Program

#### TTD things to do

#### TTHS trainee, transient, holdee, and student

TTI time-temperature indicator

TTPs tactics, techniques, and procedures

TTS Tropic Test Site

####  text to speech

#### TTSP Threat Test Support Package

#### TUAV Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

#### TUGV Tactical Unmanned Ground Vehicle

#### TVAS tactical voice activation system

TWI Training With Industry (Program)

TWS thermal weapon sight

#### TWT traveling wave tube

TWV tactical wheeled vehicle

TWVRMO The Tactical Wheeled Vehicle Requirements Management Office

TYAD Tobyhanna Army Depot

TYAD FRA Tobyhanna Army Depot, Forward Repair Activity

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##### U

#### U urgency factor

#### UA unit of action

#### UAAPU Under Armor Auxiliary Power Unit

#### UAH University of Alabama at Huntsville

#### UARC University Affiliated Research Center

UAV unmanned aerial vehicle

######## UBL Unit Basic Load

######## UCF/IST University of Central Florida Institute for Simulation and Training

######## UCT Universal Computed Tomography

UD-CCM University of Delaware Center for Composite Materials

UDLP United Defense Limited Partnership

#### UE unit of employment

UEWR Upgraded Early Warning Radar

UFD User Functionality Document

########  User's Functional Description

######## UFR unfunded requirement

######## UGCV Unmanned Ground Combat Vehicle

##### UGR Unit Ground Rations

######## UGS unattended ground sensor

######## UGV unmanned ground vehicle

UGV/S JPO Unmanned Ground Vehicles/Systems Joint Project Office

######## UH PMO Utility Helicopters Project Management Office

UHF Ultra High Frequency

######## UIC unit identification code

####### UIT University of Information Technology

####### U.K. United Kingdom

######## ULLS Unit Level Logistics System

#### ULLS-A Unit Level Logistics System - Aviation

#### ULLS-G Unit Level Logistics System-Ground

######## ULLS-S4 Unit Level Logistics System -- S4

######## UML Unified Modeling Language

UN POP United Nations Performance-Oriented Packaging

######## UOA unit of action

UOES User Operational Evaluation System

UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply

USAA United Services Automobile Association

######## USAAA United States Army Audit Agency

######## USAARL U.S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory

######## USAARMC United States Army Armor Center

USACCE U.S. Army Contracting Command Europe

USACCK U.S. Army Contracting Command Korea

USACE U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

USACHPPM U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine

USADAC U.S. Army Defense Ammunition Center

#### USAEC U.S. Army Environmental Center

USAF U.S. Air Force (do not spell out U.S.)

USAFE U.S. Air Force Europe

USAG-HI U.S. Army Garrison-Hawaii

#### USAHFPA U.S. Army Health Facility Planning Agency

#### USAIC U.S. Army Infantry Command

> U.S. Army Intelligence Center (Fort Huachuca, AZ)

##### USAISC U.S. Army Information Systems Command

USAISEC U.S. Army Information Systems Engineering Command

USAISR U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research

USAKA U.S. Army Kwajalein Atoll

#### USALIA U.S. Army Logistics Integration Agency

USAMC U.S. Army Materiel Command

USAMISSA U.S. Army Medical Information Systems and Services Agency

##### USAMMA U.S. Army Medical Materiel Agency

USAMMCE U.S. Army Medical Materiel Center-Europe

USAMMDA U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity

USAMRAA U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity

USAMRDEC U.S. Army Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center

USAMRICD U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense

USAMRIID U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases

USAMRMC U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command

#### USAMRU U.S. Army Medical Research Unit

#### USANCA U.S. Army Nuclear and Chemical Agency

#### USAOTC U.S. Army Operational Test Command

USAPA U.S. Army Publishing Agency

#### USAPACOM U.S. Pacific Command

USAPDC U.S. Army Publications Distribution Center

USAPPC U.S. Army Publications and Printing Command

USAR U.S. Army Reserve (do not spell out U.S.)

USARC U.S. Army Reserve Command (HQ, Fort McPherson, GA; per Ray Gall,
PAO, AR-PERSCOM)

USARDSGs U.S. Army Research, Development and Standardization Groups

######## USAREC U.S. Army Recruiting Command

USAREUR U.S. Army, Europe

USARIEM U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine

USARJ U.S. Army Japan

USARNG U.S. Army National Guard

USARPAC U.S. Army Pacific Command

######## USARSO U.S. Army Forces Southern Command

######## USASD U.S. Army Student Detachment

##### USASOC U.S. Army Special Operations Command

USASOUTH U.S. Army Southern Command

USATA U.S. Army Test, Measurement, Diagnostic Equipment Activity

USAWC U.S. Army War College

####### USC University of Southern California

####### USC-02 MTMC's 2nd Universal Service Contract

USDA U.S. Department of Agriculture (use acronym only)

~~USD(A&T) Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and
Technology~~ (replaced by USD(AT&L)

USD(AT&L) Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and
Logistics

USEUCOM U.S. European Command

#### USF Unit Set Fielding

USFK United States Forces Korea

#### USFS Unit Set Fielding Schedule

USGS U.S. Geological Survey

#### USJFCOM U.S. Joint Forces Command

#### USL Universal Static Line

USMA U.S. Military Academy

USMC U.S. Marine Corps

USMTF United States Message Text Format

USNTPS U.S. Naval Test Pilot School

#### USP&FO United States Property and Fiscal Office

USPACOM United States Pacific Command

#### USSG-Haiti United States Support Group-Haiti

USSOCOM U.S. Special Operations Command

USSOCPAC U.S. Special Operations Command Pacific

USTRANSCOM U.S. Transportation Command

UT University of Texas

UTA University of Texas at Arlington

UT-Austin University of Texas (Austin)

UT-CEM University of Texas-Center for Electromechanics

#### UXO unexploded ordnance

##### V

##### V volts

V&V verification and validation

VARTM vacuum-assisted resin transfer molding

#### VCC VISA Contingency Contract

VCSA Vice Chief of Staff of the Army

VCU vehicle control unit

VDCE Virtual Distributed Collaboration Environment

#### VDM Vienna Development Method

VDM-SL Vienna Development Method-Specification Language

VE value engineering

virtual environment

VECP value engineering change proposal

VEP value engineering proposal

VERTS Virtual Emergency Response Training System

VHDL very high-level design language

VHEVPG Vehicle and Heavy Equipment Virtual Proving Ground

#### VHF very high frequency

VI Voluntary Indefinite

#### VIE Virtual Integration Exercise

VIS Vehicular Intercommunication System

########  Vehicle Intercommunications System

#####  Virtual InSight

######## VISA Voluntary Intermodal Sealift Agreement

VISION Versatile Information System-Integrated ONline (per Mike Cast,
DTC@APG, March 2002)

VLS Vertical Launch System

VRML Virtual Reality Modeling Language

VPG Virtual Proving Ground

VPN virtual private network

#### VPP Voluntary Protection Program

#### VPS Virtual Prototype Simulator

VR virtual reality

VSHORADS Very Short Range Air Defense System

#### VSIP Voluntary Separation Incentive Pay

V/S IMMC Virtual/Single Integrated Materiel Management Center

#### VT vehicle teleoperation

VTC video teleconferencing

VTOL vertical takeoff and landing

VTT video tele-training

VV&A verification, validation, and accreditation

#### VWG Validation Working Group

##### W

W&MR Weapons and Materials Research

#### WAL Warfare Analysis Laboratory

#### WALLP Wartime Lessons Learned Program

WAM Wide Area Munition

WAN wide area network

WARBUCS Web Army RDA Budget Update Computer System

WARCO warranty control officer

WARSIM Warfighter Simulation

##### WBS work breakdown structure

#### WCB wide chord blade

#### WDU wrist display unit

#### WebIT Web-based information technology

##### WES U.S. Army Waterways Experiment Station

#### WETC Warheads and Energetics Technology Center

WFA Warfighter Associate

#### WFF Wallops Flight Facility

WFOV wide field-of-view

WGs Working Groups

WIN Warfighter Information Network

WIN-T Warfighter Information Network-Terrestrial

####  Warfighter Information Network-Tactical

WIPT working integrated product team

#### WITI Women in Technology International

#### WLAN wireless local area network

WLIU Wireless LAN Interface Unit

WLMP Wholesale Logistics Modernization Program

WMD weapons of mass destruction

WMRD Weapons and Materials Research Directorate

#### WMS Workflow Management System

WNA Wireless Network Access

#### WOES warrant officer education system

WPSM warfighter physiological status monitoring

#### warfighter physiologic status monitor (subcomponent of MC4)

#### WRAIR Walter Reed Army Institute of Research

WRAP Warfighter Rapid Acquisition Program

WSEIT weapon system engineering, integration, and test

WSMR White Sands Missile Range

WSMS Warrior Systems Modernization Strategy

#### WTC Warfighter Technical Council

WTCV Weapon Tracked Combat Vehicles

##### X

XBR X-band radar

XMAT Explosives Management Alternatives Team

#### XML eXtensible Markup Language

XP Experimental Test Pilot

#### XUV Experimental Unmanned Vehicle

##### Y

Y2K year 2000

YG year group

YPG Yuma Proving Ground

#### Z

#### ZBB zero-based budgeting

##### ZOS Zone of Separation