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3D-iD  Three Dimensional IDentification

3G  Third Generation [ application ] ( e.g., wireless communications )

3PL  Third-Party Logistics

4GL Fourth-Generation (Computer Program) Language

4GW  Fourth-Generational Warfare; 4th Generation of Warfare

5D  Demand-Driven Direct Digital Dissemination; Demand-Driven Direct Digital Download

5GL Fifth-Generation (Computer Program) Language

A

A-MANPADS  Advanced Man-Portable Air Defense (weapons) System

A-RCI  Acoustic Rapid Commercial off-the-shelf Insertion ( also ARCI )

A-S  Anti-Spoof; Anti-Spoofing

A/W/E  Aircraft/Weapons/Electronics

A²C²S  Army Airborne Command and Control System ( also A2C2S )

A²ED  Advanced Airborne Electronic Decoy

AA Anti-Aircraft; Adaptive Automation

AA/CR  Aware-Adaptive & Cognitive Radio

AAA Anti-Air Armament; Anti-Aircraft Artillery; Adaptive Antenna Array

AAAV  Advanced Assault Amphibious Vehicle; Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle

AAAVC  Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle - Command [ also AAAV(C) ]

AAC  Advanced Acquisition Concept

AADC  Area Air-Defense Capability; Area Air-Defense Commander

AADEOS Advanced Air Defense Electro-Optic System; Advanced Air Defense Electro-Optical Sensor

AAED Airborne Active Expendable Decoy; Advanced Airborne Expendable Decoy; Active Airborne Expendable Decoy; Advanced Airborne Electronic Decoy

AAG  Advanced Arresting Gear ( e.g., for aircraft carriers )

AAIS  Advanced Airborne Interceptor Simulator

AAM Air-to-Air Missile

AAM Access and Authentication Module (software)

AAMPS  AUTODIN Automatic Maintenance Program System

AAMWD  Air-to-Air Mission (equipment package/)Weapons Demonstration

AAN  "Army After Next"

AAO  Army Acquisition Objective

AAOR  Anti Aircraft Operations Room (U.K.)

AAR Active Antenna Radar (Anglo-French); Air-to-Air Radar; After Action Review; Air-to-Air Refueling

AARFE  Advanced Airborne Radio Frequency Expendables

AARGM  Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile

AARS  Advanced Airborne Reconnaissance System

AAV  Assault Amphibious Vehicle

AAW  Anti-Air Warfare; Active Aeroelastic Wing

AAW C&R Anti-Air Warfare Coordination & Reporting

AAWC Anti-Air Warfare Coordinator

AAWS Anti-Air Warfare System; Advanced Anti-tank Weapon System

ABA  Adaptive Battlespace Awareness

ABC Atomic, Bacteriological, Chemical ( warfare ); Activity Based Costing

ABCA  Advanced Buoyant Cable Antenna; American, British, Canadian, Australian ( e.g., Armies )

ABCCC Airborne Battlefield Command and Control Center; Airborne Battlefield Command and Control Capsule

ABCS  Army Battle Command System; Antimonide-Based Compound Semiconductor

ABD Agile Beam Director

ABDR Aircraft Battle Damage Repair

ABE  Autonomous Benthic Explorer ( an AUV ); Advanced Boresight Equipment

ABF  Advanced Bomb Family; Adaptive Beam-Forming

ABI Airborne Broadcast Intelligence; AWACS Broadcast Intelligence

ABIS  Advanced Battlespace Information System

ABIT  Airborne Information Transmission ( e.g., datalink )

ABL AirBorne Laser; Armored Box Launcher

ABM Anti-Ballistic Missile; Activity Based Management

ABMA  Automated Battle Management Aid

ABMS  Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation ( e.g., related to modeling human social behavior and individual decision-making )

ABNCP  Airborne Command Post; Airborne National Command Post

ABP  Air Battle Plan; Afghan Border Police

ABR  Assault Breaching System ( for shallow water mines ); Agreement for Boat Repairs

ABS  ABSolute (value); Agent-Based System ( See also KBS )

ABSME  Automated Battlefield Spectrum Management & Engineering ( system; Army )

ABSR  Advanced Battlefield Surveillance Radar

ABSS  Agent-Based Social Simulation

ABV  Assault Breaching Vehicle; Assault Breacher Vehicle

A/C Aircraft

AC Alternating Current; Amplitude Comparison; Airborne Component; Active Component ( of USN forces - as compared to Reserve Component )

AC²ISRC   Aerospace Command and Control, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Center

ACADA  Automatic Chemical Agent Detector Alarm

ACAP  Advanced Composite Airframe Program; Advanced Capability Pod ( e.g., aircraft self-protection pod )

ACAS  Airborne Collision-Avoidance System

ACASS  Advanced Close Air Support System

ACAT Acquisition Category

ACB  Alert Contingency Battalion ( USMC )

ACC  Air Combat Command ( USAF )

ACCES Advance Cryptologic Carry-on Exploitation System

ACCIS  Automated Command and Control Information System

ACCS  Army's Command and Control System; Air Command and Control System ( NATO ); Artillery Command and Control System ( India )

ACDBU Automated Counterdrug Database Update

ACDS Advanced Combat Direction System

ACE  Air Combat Element; Armored Combat Earthmover; Advanced Composition Explorer ( satellite ); Automated Commercial Environment; Aviation Combat Element

ACERS Air Combat Environment Radar Simulator

ACERT  Army Computer Emergency Response Team

ACETF Air Combat Environment Test & Evaluation Facility ( NATC )

ACEVAL  Air Combat EVALuation

ACFADS  Area, Convoy and Fixed Asset Defence System ( Australia )

ACGW  Autonomous Guidance for Conventional Weapons

ACI Adjacent Channel Interference; Automatic Card Identification

ACINT Acoustic Intelligence ( also ACOUSTINT )

ACIS  Application-Specific Integrated Circuit; Advanced Control Indicator Set

ACISS  Augmented Criminal Investigations Support System

ACK ACKnowledge ( Communications protocol )

ACLS  Automatic Carrier Landing System

ACM Advanced Cruise Missile; Air Combat Maneuver; Advanced Conventional Munitions

ACMDS  Advanced CounterMeasure Dispenser System

ACME  Adapted Camera Multispectral Equipment ( Australia )

ACMI  Air Combat Maneuvering Instrumentation

ACN  Airborne Communications Node

ACOMMS  Acoustic Communications

ACOUSTINT Acoustic Intelligence ( also ACINT )

ACP  Assault Command Post

ACPA Adaptive Controlled Phased Array ( sonobuoy antenna system )

ACR  Armored Cavalry Regiment

ACS Afloat Correlation System; AEGIS Combat System; Automated Communications Set; Advanced Countermine System; Asynchronous Communications Server; Aerial Common Sensor

ACSAS  Army Command Support Application Suite ( U.K. )

ACSC  Aegis Combat Systems Center

ACSD  Advanced Container Security Device ( DHS )

ACSS  Aircraft Sustainment Squadron ( USAF )

ACT Acoustic Charged Transport; Air Combat Tactic; Allied Command Transformation ( group ); Avion de Combat Tactique ( French tactical combat aircraft ); Aviation Crew Trainer

ACTD  Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration

ACTIVE Advanced Control Technology for Integrated Vehicles

ACTOV  Accelerated Transfer of assets to the Vietnamese ( ca 1970 )

ACTS Advanced Communication Technology Satellite; Air-Combat-Training System; Automated Computer Time Service

ACU Antenna Control Unit; Avionics-Control Unit; Assault Craft Unit; Army Combat Uniform ( ca 2004 )

ACUS  Army Customer User System

ACV Air Cushion Vehicle; Advanced Common View ( GPS )

ACVHC Advanced Combat Vehicle Crewman’s Helmet

ACVR  Advanced Crystal Video Receiver

ACW Advanced Color Workstation

AC&W  Aircraft Control and Warning

AD  Air Defense; Area Dominance

A/D Analog-to-Digital

Ada Not an acronym. Ada is the DoD standard programming language named after Lord Byron's daughter, the Countess of Lovelace, considered to be the world's first computer programmer.

ADA Air Defense Artillery

ADAD  Air Defense Alerting Device

ADAM  Artillery-Delivered Antipersonnel Mine; Area-Denial Artillery Munition

ADAMS  Allied Deployment And Movement System

ADAPT  Automated Data Analysis and Presentation

ADAPTOR  ALSP Data and Protocol Transfer Over Runtime infrastructure

ADARTS  Ada-based Design Approach for Real-Time Systems

ADARS  Airborne Digital Audio Recording System ( cryptologic intelligence )

ADAS  Air Deliverable Acoustic Sensor

ADC Analog-to-Digital Converter; Automated Data Collection; Acoustic Defense CounterMeasures; Acoustic Device Countermeasures; Air Defense Center ( Sweded )

ADCAP  Advanced Capability

ADCIS  Air Defense Communications Information System; Air Defense Command Information System

ADCP  Air Defense Communications Platform

ADDS Army Data Distribution System; Advanced Display and Debriefing System

ADE  Air Defense Emergency ( NORAD )

ADELA  Aircraft Directed Energy Laser Application ( U. S. Air Force )

ADEOS  Advanced Earth Observing Satellite ( Japan )

ADEWS  Air Defense Electronic Warfare System; Advanced Distributed Electronic Warfare Simulation

ADF Automatic Direction Finding; Air Defense Fighter

ADFC  Advanced Digital Fire Control ( system )

ADG  Advanced Data Guarding

ADHPM  Aircraft-Delivered High-Performance Munition

ADI  Air Defense Initiative; Airborne Defense Initiative

ADII  Advanced Displays and Intelligent Interfaces

ADIZ  Air Defense Identification Zone ( see also PIRAZ )

ADKEM  Advanced Kinetic Energy Missile

ADL  Advanced Distributed Learning

ADLFP  Air Deployable Low Frequency Projector

ADLT  Advanced Discriminating LADAR Technology ( program )

ADM  Advanced Development Model; Adaptive Delta Modulation; Admiral

ADMR  Air Defense Missile Regiment ( Russia )

ADNET  Anti-Drug Network

ADNS  Automated Data Network System; Automated Digital Network System

ADOB  Air Defense Order of Battle

ADOCS  Automated Deep Operations Coordination System

ADP  Automatic Data Processing; Airman Development Plan ( USAF )

ADPA  American Defense Preparedness Association

ADPCM  Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation

ADR  Advanced Digital Receiver; Airborne Data Relay

ADRG  Arc Digitized Raster Graphic ( e.g., viewing screen )

ADRIES  Advanced Digital Radar Imagery Exploitation System

ADRS  Advanced Dynamic Radio-frequency Simulator; Aeronautical Datalink and Radar Simulator ( NASA )

ADS Area Defensive System; Air-Defense Ship; Acoustic Detection Sensor; Area Denial System; Air Defense Fighter; Atmospheric Diving System; Advanced Deployable System ( e.g., van-contained ); Active Denial System; Advanced Design System ( e.g., software )

ADSAM  Air-Directed Surface-to-Air Missile ( engagement concept )

ADS-B  Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast ( FAA system )

ADSL  Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line; Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Link

ADSP  Analog Doppler Signal Processor

ADSSF  Air Defense System Simulation Framework

ADST Advanced Distributed Simulation Technology

ADT  Air Detection and Tracking; Advanced Degaussing Technology; Air Data Terminal ( e.g., installed in German army reconnaissance drone KZO ); All-Digital Transceiver

ADU Air Defense Unit

ADUUV  Advanced Development Unmanned Underwater Vehicle

ADVCAP  Advanced Capability

AEA  Active Element Array; Airborne Electronic Attack

AEB  Active Electronic Buoy

AEC  Aviation Electronic Combat; Atomic Energy Commission

AECM  Air-to-air radar ECM/ECCM ( Vulnerability Assessment Model ); Airborne Electronic CounterMeasures Model

AED  Active Electronic Decoy; Active Expendable Decoy

AEF  Air Expeditionary Force; Allied Expeditionary Force

AEGIS  Air Electronic Guidance Information System

AEHF Advanced Extremely High Frequency

AEID  Automatic Equipment ID

AEM/S  Advanced Enclosed Mast/Sensor

AEOS  Advanced Electro-Optical System

AEOWS  Advanced Electro-Optic Warning Sensor

AEP  Adaptive Event Processing

AEPS  Aircrew Escape Propulsion System

AES  Advanced ECM System; Advanced Encryption Standard; All Electric Ship

AESA  Active Electronically-Scanned Array ( radar ); Active Electronically Scanning Array

AESM  Airborne Electronic Support Measures

AESOP  Airborne Electro-Optical Special Operations Payload

AETC  Air Education and Training Command ( USAF )

AEW  Airborne Early Warning

AEW&C Airborne Early Warning and Control

AEWBarRonpac  Airborne Early Warning Barrier Squadron Pacific ( circa 1961 - 1965 )

AEWS  Advanced EW System; Atmospheric Early Warning System

AEWT  Airborne Electronic Warfare Trainer

AF  Audio Frequency

AFATDS  Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System

AFAMS  Air Force Agency for Modeling and Simulation

AFAMPS  Air Force Automated Mission Planning System

AFAS  Advanced Field Artillery System

AFATDS  Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System; Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Direction System

AFAWES  Air Force Electronic Warfare Evaluation Simulator

AFB  Air Force Base

AFC2IRSC  Air Force Command, Control & Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Center

AFC⁴A  Air Force Command, Control, Communications and Computer Agency

AFCEA  Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association

AFCEE  Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence

AFCERT  Air Force Computer Emergency Response Team

AFCI  Arc-Fault Circuit Interrupter

AFCS  Automatic Flight Control System

AFCYBER  Air Force Cyberspace Command ( ca 2007 )

AFD  Automated Frequency Deconfliction

AFDS  Autonomous Free-flight Dispenser System

AFEDO  Air Force Electronic Combat Organization

AFEWS  Air Force Electronic Warfare Evaluation Simulator

AFEWES  Air Force Electronic Warfare Environment Simulator

AFIC Air Force Intelligence Command

AFIS  Automated Fingerprint Identification System; Automated Fingerprinting Identification System

AFKN  Air Force Knowledge Now ( e.g., USAF Web site )

AFL  Available Frequency List; Avionics Flying Laboratory; Adaptive Front Lighting ( e.g., digitally-controlled LEDs )

AFMSRR  Air Force Modeling and Simulation Resources Repository

AFMSS  Air Force Mission Support System

AFMSTT  Air Force Modeling and Simulation Training Toolkit

AFNETOPS  Air Force Network Operations

AFNOSC  Air Force Network Operations Security Center

AFOREPS  Air Force Operational REPorting System

AFOSR  Air Force Office of Scientific Research

AFOTTP  Air Force Operational Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures

AFPA  Adaptive Focal Plane Array ( DARPA program ca 2003 )

AFRICOM  Africa Command ( U.S. )

AFS  Acoustic Firing System

AFSATCOM  Air Force Satellite Communications

AFSERS  Air Force Synthetic Environment for Surveillance

AFSOC  Air Force Special Operations Command

AFSS  Automatic Firing Sensing and Suppression; Advanced Fire Support System ( "missile in a box" )

AFTI  Advanced Fighter Technology Integration

AFTM  Aeronautical Fixed Teletype Network

AFTTP  Air Force Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures

AFU  Airborne Fixed-wing Unit

A/FU  Arming/Firing Unit  ( e.g., used with LVOSS )

AFV  Armored Fighting Vehicle

AG Assistant Gunner

AGAS Affordable Guided Airdrop System

AGC Automatic Gain Control

AGES  Air-to-Ground Engagement System

AGI  Auxiliary General Intelligence [ also Auxiliary General Intercept ]   ( Intelligence-gathering Ship )

AGILITY  AGILe Information Transfer abilitY ( British mobile high-bandwidth secure satellite communications system )

AGL  Above Ground Level

AGM  Air-to-Ground Missile; Aircraft Ground Mishap

AGP  Accelerated Graphics Port

AGRAM  Air-to-Ground Radar Assessment Model

AGRI  Air-to-Ground Radar Imaging

AGS   Alliance Ground Surveillance ( aircraft )

AGS  Airborne Ground Surveillance; Advanced Gun System; Armored Gun System

AGV Autonomous Guided Vehicle

AH  Automated Howitzer; Armed Helicopter

AHEAD  Advanced Hit Efficiency And Destruction ( e.g., muzzle-fuzed Gatling gun ammunition )

AHIT  Advance Hover Interceptor Technology

AHMCM  Anti-Helicopter Mine Countermeasures

AHMOS  Advanced Structural Health Monitoring System ( e.g., for aircraft )

AHMV  Armored High-Mobility Vehicle ( e.g., 2 to 2 1/2 ton wheeled vehicle )

AHRS  Attitude and Heading Reference System

AHS  Autonomous Helicopter System

AHSUM  Adaptable High-Speed Underwater Munition

AI  Artificial Intelligence ; Air Intercept

AI&R  Active Intercept & Ranging ( e.g., in submarine acoustic systems )

AIA  Air Intelligence Agency

AIC  Aircraft Intercept Controller; Atlantic Intelligence Command

AICS  Aircraft Intercept Controller Supervisor; Airborne Information Correlation System

AIDA  Advanced Instructional Design Advisor

AIDC  Automatic Identification and Data Capture

AIDE  Automated Intrusion Detection Environment ( system )

AIDEWS  Advanced Integrated Defensive EW System; Advanced Integrated Defensive EW Suite

AIEWS  Advanced Integrated EW System

AIFF  Advanced Identification, Friend-or-Foe

AIG  Address Indicating Group ( communications )

AIM  Advanced INFOSEC Machine; Air-Intercept Missile; Advanced ISR Management

AIMP  Aurora Incremental Modernization Project ( Canada )

AIMS  Airplane Information Management System; Advanced Imaging Multispectral Sensor; Advanced Imagery Multispectral System

AIN  Army Interoperability Network (program); Advanced Intelligent Network; Autonomous Intelligent Network

AINS Autonomous Intelligent Network and Systems ( DARPA initiative )

AIP  Anti-surface warfare Improvement Program; Air-Independent Propulsion; Abandoned In Place; Aircraft Improvement Program

AIPD  Air-to-air Intercept Pulse Doppler ( radar )

AI&R  Active Intercept & Ranging ( e.g., in submarine acoustic systems )

AIRBOC  Air-launched Rapid Blooming Off-board Chaff

AIRCMM  Advanced InfraRed CounterMeasures Munition

AIRPAC All-Purpose Weapons and Container System

AIRS  Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder

AIS  Acoustic Intercept System; ALSP Infrastructure Software; Automated Identification System; Automated Information System; Automatic Identification System; Attack and Identification System ( e.g., Eurofighter TYPHOON ca 2005 )

AIT  Advanced Individual Training ( Army ); Automatic Identification Technology

AIWS Advanced Interdiction Weapons System

AJ  Anti-jam

AJACS  Anti-Jam Advanced Communications System

AJAR  Anti-Jam Antenna Retrofit ( e.g., for GPS receivers )

AJAX  Asynchronous Java XML

AJCN  Adaptive Joint Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Node ( e.g., multimission RF system )

AJEM  Advanced Joint Effectiveness Model

AJID  Acoustic Jamming, Interference, and Deception

AJMC  Anti-Jam Modem Controller

AJT  Advanced Jet Trainer

AJWR  Alternate Joint War Room

AKN  Army Knowledge Network

AKO  Army Knowledge Online

ALAM  Advanced Land-Attack Missile ( Navy )

ALARM  Air-Launched Anti-Radar Missile; Air-Launched Anti-radiation Missile ( RAF );  Alert, Locate, And Report Missiles ( missile warning satellite )

ALBAM  Air-Land Battle Assessment Model

ALCM  Air-Launched Cruise Missile

ALCOR  ARPA Lincoln C-band Observable Radar

ALDS  Armored Laser Detecting Set

ALE  Automatic Link Establishment ( modem )

ALERT  Air/Land Enhanced Reconnaissance and Targeting; Attack and Launch Early Reporting to Theater ( Air Force system ); Advanced Law Enforcement and Response Technology

ALEX  Automatic Launch of Expendables; Automated Launch of Expendables

ALFS  Airborne Low Frequency Sonar; Advanced Low Frequency Sonar

ALG  Autonomous Landing Guidance ( system )

ALGAT  Advanced Light Gun & Ammo Technologies

ALI  Alpha-LAMP Integration ( chemical laser experiment ); Aegis Light exo-atmospheric projectile Intercept

ALICE  ALaska Integrated Communications & Electronics  ( e.g., WHITE ALICE ); Air Launched Integrated Countermeasure, Expendable

ALICE  All-purpose Lightweight Individual Carrying Equipment ( see also HUMP )

ALIEN  Unknown acronym - See ALIEN in the Glossary

ALIS  Autonomic Logistics Information System

ALISS  Advanced Lightweight Influence Sweep System

ALL-IP  All Internet Protocol ( U.K. )

ALLTV All Light Level Television

ALMCS Advanced Lightweight Microclimate Cooling System ( e.g., designed to provide personal cooling to personnel wearing insulated protective clothing in high heat stress environments )

ALMDS  Airborne Laser Mine Detection System

ALO  Air Liaison Officer

ALOC  Air Line of Communications ( e.g., air traffic )

ALOFTS  Advanced Low Frequency Towed Sonar

ALSP  Aggregate Level Simulation Protocol

ALT Administrative Lead-Time; Alternate; Airborne Laser Terminal

ALTAIR  ARPA Long-range Tracking And Identification Radar

ALTEA  Anomalous Long-Term Effects in Astronauts' Central Nervous Systems [ NASA ]

ALTBMD  Active Layered Theater Ballistic Missile Defense ( NATO )

ALTRV  Altitude Reservation ( e.g., FAA procedures )

ALU  Arithmetic Logic Unit

ALV  Autonomous Land Vehicle

AM  Amplitude Modulation; Active Matrix; Activity Monitoring

A-MANPADS  Advanced Man-Portable Air Defense (weapons) System

AMASCOS  Airborne Maritime Situation Control System ( Europe )

AMASE  Apache Modular Aircraft Survivability Equipment ( Netherlands program ca 2007 )

AMB  Active Magnetic Bearing ( frictionless bearing ); Agile Multi-Beam ( e.g., air defense search radar )

AMCIT  American Citizen

AMCM  Advanced Mine Cruise Missile; Airborne Mine CounterMeasures

AMD  Audio Manipulation Device; Active Missile Decoy; Air Movement Data ( NORAD )

AMDAS  Airborne Mine Detection and Surveillance

AMDPCS  Air and Missile Defense Planning and Control System

AMDS  Advanced Mine Detection Sonar; Advanced Mine Detector System

AME  Amplitude Modulation Equivalent

AMEG  Advanced Multiple Environment Generator

AMES  Advanced Multiple Emitter System; Advanced Multiple Environment Simulator

AMF  Automated Module Fabrication; Airborne, Maritime and Fixed Station ( Joint program )

AMFRC  Advanced Multifunction Radio Frequency Concept

AMGSSS  Air Mobile Ground Security and Surveillance System

AMHA  Automatic Message-Handling Assistance ( system )

AMHS  Automatic Message-Handling System

AMI  Avionics Modernization Improvement ( program )

AMIP  Army Model Improvement Program

AMIRS  Advanced Multifunction Infrared System ( also Advanced Multifunction IR System ); Advanced Multi-Role Infrared System

AMIS  Aircraft Movement Information Service

AML  Additional Military Layers ( e.g., software product specification )

AMLCD  Active-Matrix Liquid Crystal Display

AMMD  Advanced Modular Missile Detector

AMMO  Ammunition

AMMOS  Automatic Modular Monitoring Of Signals

AMNS  Airborne Mine-Neutralization System

AMOP  Amplitude Modulation On Pulse

AMOS  Air Force Maui Optical Station; Israeli communications satellite; Advanced Mortar System

AMP  Amplifier; Ampere; Automated Mission Planning; Avionics Modernization Program; Analysis of Mobility Platform; Adaptive Memory Programming; Alternative Maritime Power ( e.g., electrical power to ship from shore sources )

AMPCD  Advanced Multi-Purpose Color Display  ( e.g., used in military aircraft )

AMPE  Automated Message Processing Exchanges

AMPS  Advanced Mobile Phone Service ( U.S. cellular standard ); Advanced Mobile Phone System

AMPS Aviation Mission Planning System; Advanced Multisensor Pod System; Airborne Missile Protection System  ( Germany )

AMR  Airborne Microwave Refractometer

AMRAAM  Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile

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

AMRFC  Advanced Multi-function Radio Frequency Concept ( U.S. Navy program ) - [ Also AMRF-C ]

AMRFS  Advanced Multifunction Radio Frequency System

AMRIS  Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy

AMS  Automated Management System; Analog/Mixed Signal; Acoustic Mine Sweep; Anti-Material Submunition; Actuation Mine Simulator

AMSAR  Airborne Multi-role Solid-state Active-array Radar ( European ); Airborne Multi-mode Solid-state Active-array Radar

AMSS  Advanced Multi-mission Sensor System; Airborne Mission Support System ( U.K. ); Advanced Minehunting Sonar System; Automatic Meteorological Sensor System

AMSTAR  Australian MSTAR

AMSTE  Affordable Moving Surface Target Engagement ( program )

AMSU  Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit ( spacecraft payload )

AMTS  Advanced Moving Target Simulator

AMUST  Airborne Manned/Unmanned System Technology; Airborne Manned/Unmanned System Teaming ( program )

AMUT  Advanced Manpack UHF Terminal   ( acronym replaced by EMUT )

AMV  Armored Modular Vehicle ( NATO )

AMVER  Automated Mutual Assistance Vessel Rescue System

AMW Amphibious Warfare

An  Antonov ( Soviet aircraft manufacturer )

ANCD  Arms control, Nonproliferation, Counter-proliferation and Disarmament

ANDVT  Advanced Narrow Band Digital Voice Terminal

ANF  Anti-Navire Futur

ANGEL  Active Network Guidance in Emergency Logic

ANGELS  Autonomous Nanosatellite Guardian Evaluating Local Space

ANID  Active Network Intrusion Defense

ANGLICO  Air-Naval Gunfire Liaison Company

ANL  Automatic Noise Leveling; Automatic Noise Limiter

ANMCC  Alternate National Military Command Center

ANN  Artificial Neural Network

ANNG  Anti-Navaire Nouvelle Génération ( missile )

ANOSC  Army Network Operations and Security Center

ANS  Answer; Anti-Navaire Supersonique ( France )

ANSF  Afghan National Security Forces

ANSI  American National Standards Institute

ANSR  Autonomous Naval Support Round

ANT  Autonomous Negotiating Team ( computer software ); Autonomous Negotiating Teamware

ANTS  Autonomous Negotiating Teams ( e.g., DARPA program ca 2003 )

ANVIS  Aviator's Night Vision Imaging System

ANWC  Alternate National Warning Center

A_o  Operational Availability

AO  Acousto-Optic

AoA  Analysis of Alternatives

AOA  Angle of Arrival ( see also LOB ); Amphibious Objective Area; Airborne Optical Adjunct ; Advanced Optical Adjunct; Analysis Of Alternatives; Aegis Open Architecture

AOC  Association of Old Crows [ Electronic Warfare ]  ( View the AOC logo )

AOCMS  Airborne Optical CounterMeasures System

AOD  Acousto-Optic Device

AODV  Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector ( e.g., network routing protocol )

AOI  Area of Interest

AOP  Area of Probability

AOR  Area of Responsibility ( for CINCs )

AOS  Airborne Optical System

AOSP  Analog Optical Signal Processor ( circa 2002 ARPA program )

AOTA  All Optical ( Acoustical ) Towed Array

AOTH  Advanced Over-The-Horizon ( Radar )

AOU  Area of Uncertainty

AP Attack Plan; Aircraft Photo; Aim Point; Acquisition Plan; Anti-Personnel ( mine ); Access Point

APA  Aircraft Procurement, Army

APACHE  Arme Propulsée Antipiste à Charges Èjectable ( French anti-runway munition )

APAM  Anti-Personnel Attack Munition; Anti-Personnel / Anti-Material  ( canister-enclosed bomblets cluster weapon )

APAR  [equipment out of service due to] Awaiting Parts And Repair; Active Phased Array Radar ( Netherlands )

APAS  Automated Pulse ( repetition interval ) Analysis System

APB  Advanced Processor Build; Advanced Process Build; Antimatter Particle Beam ( weapon )

APBW  Anti-Personnel Beam Weapon

APC  Adaptive Predictive Coding; Armored Personnel Carrier

APDS  Autonomous Pathogen Detection System ( e.g., air monitor for harmful biological agents )

APEC  Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation ( nations )

APFSDS  Armor Piercing Fin-Stabilized Discarding Sabot

APG  Automatic Password Generator

API  Application Program Interface; Armor-Piercing Incendiary; Angle Position Indicator; Application Protocol Interface

APIU  Adaptive Programmable Interface Unit

APK  Armor Protection Kit ( USMC )

APKWS  Advanced Precision Kill Weapons System ( e.g., small, low-cost precision tactical missile )

APL  Allowance Parts List; Applied Physics Laboratory; Anti-Personnel Landmine

APLE  Average Power Laser Experiment

APL/JHU  Applied Physics Laboratory/Johns Hopkins University

APM  Assistant Project Manager

APOBS  Anti-Personnel Obstacle Breaching System

APOD  Air Port of Debarkation; Aerial Port of Deparkation

APOMS  Automated Propeller Optical Measuring System ( MCM )

APP Acoustic Performance Prediction; Autonomous Path Planning ( e.g., for UAVs )

APRDD  Automatic Periscope Radar Detection Discriminator

APS  Afloat Planning System; Auxiliary Power System; Active Protection System; Advanced Planning and Scheduling; Aiming and Pointing System ( USMC ); Advanced Protection System ( e.g., Russian short-range anti-missile missile ); Active Protective System ( e.g., for vehicles FSEP ); Armour Protection System ( Canada ); Africa Partnership Station ( U.S. Navy )

APSP  Advanced Pilotage Sensor Program ( U.S. Army )

APU  Auxiliary Power Unit

APV Automatically Piloted Vehicle

APWS  Advanced Proximity Warning System

AQF  Advanced Quick Fix

AQL  Acceptable Quality Level

AR  Anti-Radiation; Anti-Reflective; Attack Reporting; Air Refueling; Automatic Rifle; Augmented Reality

AR2 Automatic Ribcord Release

ARABSAT  Arab Satellite ( Communication Organization )

ARAT  Army Reprogramming Analysis Team

ARB  Acquisition Review Board; Arbitrary Waveform

ARBS  Angle Rate Bombing System

ARC  Area Reprogramming Capability; Aviation Refueling Capability

ARCAT  Advanced Rotorcraft Aeromechanics Technology

ARCI  Acoustic Rapid COTS Insertion ( also A-RCI )

ARCIC  Army Capabilities Integration Center ( ca 2005 )

ARCNET  Attached Resource Computer Network

ARCS  Advanced Ride Control System ( e.g., control of a ship's pitch and roll )

ARCSS  Autonomous Rendezvous and Capture Sensor System  ( e.g., to measures relative angle, attitute, range, position between two spacecraft )

ARDIMS  Aerial Radiation Detection Identification and Mapping System

ARDS  Advanced Range Data System

AREC  Air Element Coordinator

ARES  Aerial Regional-scale Environmental Survey; Advanced Robotic Engagement System

ARF  ASEAN Regional Forum

ARFA  Advanced RF Amplifier; Advanced Radio Frequency Amplifier

ARG  Amphibious Ready Group; ARGument ( function )

ARGUS  Advanced Remote Ground Unattended Sensor ( Formerly UMS )

ARH  Anti-Radiation Homing; Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter

ARIADNE  Access, information, and navigation support in the Labyrinth of Large Buildings ( European Union )

ARID-PCM  Adaptive Recursive Interpolated Differential Pulse Code Modulation

ARIES  Airborne Reconnaissance Integrated Electronic System ( e.g., EP-3E reconnaissance aircraft ); Airborne Real-time Imagery Exploitation System; Airborne Reconnaissance Intelligence Exploitation System

ARL  Airborne Reconnaissance - Low ( aircraft system )

ARL-M  Airborne Reconnaissance Low-Multifunction ( system )

ARM  Anti-Radiation Missile ; Atmosphere Radiation Monitor; Advanced Radar Mode ( e.g., for the JointSTARS sensor )

ARM-D  Anti-Radiation Missile Decoy

ARMIGER  Anti-Radiation Missile with Intelligent Guidance and Extended Range ( Germany )

ARMS  Aviation Reconfigurable Manned Simulator

AROD Airborne Remotely Operated Device

AROSS  Airborne Remote Optical Spotlighting System

ARPA  Advanced Research Project Agency ( Original [ 1958 ] name; it was changed to DARPA on Mar 1972, then to ARPA in Feb 1993, then to its current [ 2002 ] name, DARPA, in Feb 1996 [ Source: DARPA web site www.darpa.mil/body/arpa_darpa.html ] )

ARPA Automatic Radar Plotting Aid; Automated Radar Plotting Aid

ARPCA  Automatic Remotely Programmable Conference Arranger

ARPDD  Automatic Radar Periscope Detection

ARQ  Automatic Retransmission on Request

ARR  Antenna Rotation Rate

ARRL  American Radio Relay League

ARM  Availability, Reliability, and Maintainability

ARS  Advanced Reconnaissance Satellite; Action Request System ( DISN ); Advanced Radiographic System

ARSC  Airborne Rocket Space Complex

ARSPACE  Army Space Command ( View Logo )

ARS-ST  Airborne Receiving System-Surface Terminal

ART  Advanced Rotorcraft Transmission; Ammunition Reduced Time-of-flight ( e.g., through reduction of drag ); Automatic Ranging Telescope ( e.g., for sniper rifles )

ARTCC  Air Route Traffic Control Center

ARTEMIS Advanced Relay and Technology Mission Satellite

ARTI  Advanced Rotorcraft Technology Integration ( U.S. Army program )

ARTIM  Automated Reasoning Tool for Information Management

ARTM  Advanced Range Telemetry

ARTS  Automated Requirements Traceability System; Automatic Radar Terminal System; Automated Remote Tracking System

ARTYMET  Artillery Meteorology

ARU  Airborne Radar Unit

ARV  Armed Robotic Vehicle ( Army )

ARWE  Advanced Radar Warning Equipment

A-S  Anti-Spoof; Anti-Spoofing

AS  Aircraft Survivability; Air Search; Anti-Spoofing; Acquisition Strategy; Advanced Sensors

AS-SIP  Assured Services-Session Initiation Protocol

ASAC  Automated Situationally Adaptive Classifier

ASACE  Application Software Assurance Center of Excellence ( USAF )

ASACS  Air Surveillance And Control System ( U.K. )

ASAP  Airborne Shared Aperture Program; As Soon As Possible

ASARS  Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar System

ASAS  All-Source Analysis System;

ASAS  Automated Scan Analysis System

ASAT Anti-Satellite

ASC  ASW Stressing Case ( from ASW TLWR ); AUTODIN Switching Center

ASCET  Airborne Strategic Communication, Engineering and Test

ASCII  American National Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASCL  Advanced Sonobuoy Communications Link

ASCM  Anti-Ship Cruise Missile; Advanced Spaceborne Computer Modular

ASCS  Advanced Satellite Control System

ASDIC  Anti-Submarine Detection Investigation Committee ( circa 1941 British Sonar )

ASDS  Advanced SEAL team Delivery System; Advanced Swimmer Delivery System

ASDV  Advanced Swimmer Delivery Vehicle

ASE  Aircraft Survivability Equipment; Airborne Search Equipment; Application Service Element; Aviation Support Equipment; Allowable Steering Error

ASEAN  Association of Southeast Asian Nations

ASEM  Application-Specific Electronic Module ( ARPA )

ASET  Aircraft Survivability Equipment Trainer

ASETS  Airborne Seeker Evaluation and Test System

ASGS  Acoustic Signal Generation System

ASH  Autonomous Search/Hydrographic ( vehicle )

ASI  Armored Systems Integration

ASIC Application-Specific Integrated Circuit

ASIOE  Associated Support Items Of Equipment

ASIP  Advanced Systems Improvement Program ( e.g., for tactical radios such as SINCGARS ); Advanced Signals Intelligence Payload ( e.g., airborne sensor suite ); Airborne Signal Intelligence Payload; Airborne Signals Intelligence Payload

AS-SIP  Assured Services-Session Initiation Protocol

ASIST  Aircraft/Ship Integrated Secure and Traverse ( system )  ( shipboard helicopter recovery system )

ASK  Amplitude Shift Keying  ( modulation type for transferring data packets )

ASLAV  Australian Light Armored Vehicle

ASLC  Adaptive Sidelobe Cancellation

ASM  Air-to-Surface Missile; Armored System Modernization ( land-combat vehicles )

ASMA  Air Staff Management Aid ( U.K. )

ASMD  Anti-Ship Missile Defense

ASMDL  Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

ASMT  Air Superiority Missile Technology

ASMOD  Anti-Submarine Warfare Module

ASMP  Asymmetric Multiprocessor; Assymmetrical Multiprocessor

ASMPA  Air-Sol Moyenne Portée Ameliore ( French air-to-air missiles )

ASN  Automatic Spot Noise ( jamming ); Assistant Secretary of the Navy

ASOC  Air Sovereignty Operations Center ( NATO )

ASP  Advanced Signal Processor; Antenna Scan Period; Application Service Provider; Advanced Spectroscopic Portal ( e.g., device for screening people, vehicles, containers, etc... )

ASPECTS  Automated Spectrum Planning, Engineering Coordination & Tracking System ( Navy )

ASPIS  Advanced Self-Protection Integrated Suite; Airborne Self-Protection Integrated Suite

ASPJ  Airborne Self-Protection Jammer

ASPRO  Associative Processor

ASPS  Advanced Self-Protection Suite

ASR  Advanced Special Receiver; Airborne Surveillance Radar; Airport Surveillance Radar; Automatic Send/Receive; Automatic Speech Recognition; Autonomous Scout Rotocraft ( UAV )

ASRAAM  Advanced Short Range Air-to-Air Missile

ASRAD  Atlas Short-Range Air-Defense ( system ) ( Finland )

ASRAPS  Acoustic Sensor Range Prediction System

ASROC  Anti-Submarine Rocket

ASSERT  Automated SIGINT System for Early Recognition of Targets

ASSET Asset Source for Software Engineering Technology; All-Source Satellite Evaluation Tool; Advanced Ship and Submarine Evaluation Tool

ASSIST  Automated Systems Security Incident Support Team ( Defense Information Systems Agency )

ASSM  Anti-Surface Ship Missile

ASST  Anti-Ship Surveillance and Targeting

ASTA  Advanced Software Technology and Algorithms

ASTAC  Analyseur Super-hétérodyne Tactique ( France )

ASTAMIDS  Airborne Standoff Minefield Detection System

ASTE  Advanced Strategic and Tactical Expendables; Advanced Strategic and Tactical infrared Expendables; Advanced Strategic Tactical Expendables

ASTECS  Advanced Submarine Tactical ESM Combat System

ASTEP  Astrobiology Science and Technology for Exploring Planets ( e.g., NASA program )

ASTMP  Army Science and Technology Master Plan

ASTOR  Airborne Stand-Off Radar ( U.K. )

ASTOREX  Airborne Stand-Off Radar

ASTOVL Advanced Short Take-Off and Landing ( fighter )

ASTP  Advanced Space Technology Program; Advanced Space Transportation Program

ASTRO  Autonomous Space Transfer and Robotic Orbiter; Autonomous Space Transfer and Robotic Operations ( e.g., satellite ca 2004 ); Autonomous Space Transport Robotic Orbiter

ASTT  Action Speed Tactical Trainer ( U.K. )

ASU  Acquisition and Synchronization Unit

ASUW  Antisurface Warfare

ASVS  Airborne Separation Video System ( a high-speed digital imaging system for capturing airborne weapons separation events during military aircraft test flights )

ASW  Anti-Submarine Warfare

ASWC  Anti-Submarine Warfare Coordinator

ASWCS  ASW Combat System

ASWCCS  ASW Command and Control System

ASWIP  Anti-Submarine Warfare Improvement Program; Anti-Submarine Warfare Integrated Process

ASWM  Anti-Submarine Warfare Module

ASWT  Antimateriel Submunition Warhead Technology

AT  Anti-Tank ( mine ); Anti Terrorism

AT³  Advanced Tactical Targeting Technology; Automated Tactical Targeting Technology

ATA  Advanced Tactical Aircraft; Army Technical Architecture; Advanced Technology Attachment ( same as IDE ); Automatic Target Acquisition

ATACCS  Advanced Tactical Command and Control System; Airborne Targeting And Cross-Cueing System

ATACMS Army Tactical Missile System ( referred to as "Attack 'ems" )

ATACS  Advanced Tactical Airborne C4ISR System

ATAK  Tactical Reconnaissance & Attack Helicopter ( Turkey )

ATAMS  Automated Tracking and Monitoring System

ATAMIDS  Airborne sTAndoff Mine Detection System

ATAP  Anti-Tank/Anti-Personnel

ATAPS  Advanced Tactical Aircraft Protection System

ATARS  Advanced Tactical Air Reconnaissance System; Advanced Tactical Airborne Reconnaissance System; Aircrew Training, Rehearsal and Support

ATAS  Air-To-Air Stinger

ATB  Advanced Technology Bomber ( "Stealth" aircraft )

ATBM  Anti-Tactical Ballistic Missile

ATBN  Anti-Terrorism Battalion ( USMC )

ATC  Automatic Target Cuing; Adaptive Transform Coding; Air Temperature Control; Air Traffic Control

ATCCS  Army Tactical Command and Control System

ATC&LS  Air Traffic Control & Landing System

ATCRABS  Air Traffic Control Radar Beacon System

ATCS  Advanced Tactical Communications System

ATD  Advanced Technology Demonstration; Automatic Target Detection; Advanced Tank Technologies

ATDES  Adaptive Threshold Detection with Estimated Sequence

ATDS Airborne Tactical Data System; Automatic Target Detection System

ATE Automatic Test Equipment

ATEAMS Advanced Tactical EA-6B Mission Planning System

ATEDS  Advanced Technology Electronic Defense System

A-TES  Advanced Tactical Engagement System

ATES  Advanced Tactical Emitter System; Advanced Tactical Engagement System

ATF  Amphibious Task Force; Advanced Tactical Fighter

ATFD  Absolute Time Firing Device

ATFES  Army Tactical Frequency Engineering System

ATFLIR  Advanced Targeting Forward-Looking Infrared; Advanced Tactical Forward-Looking Infrared

ATGM  Anti-Tank Guided Missile

ATGW  Anti-Tank Guided Weapon

ATHENS  Advanced Thematic Navigation System ( DATA MINING tool )

ATHS  Automated Target Hand-Over System

ATIA  Advanced Technical Intelligence Association ( ca 2007, formerly Measurement and Signals Intelligence (MASINT) Association )

ATIRCM Advanced Threat InfraRed Countermeasures; Advanced Technology InfraRed Countermeasures

ATIRJ  Advanced Threat Infrared Jammer

ATIX  Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange

ATL  Advanced Tactical Laser

ATLANTIC  Airborne Targeting Low Altitude Navigation Thermal Imaging & Cuing

ATLAS  Advanced Technology LADAR System; Advanced Tactical Laser; Advanced Technology Lightweight Artillery System

AT-LAV  All-Terrain Lightweight Armored Vehicle

ATM  Asynchronous Transfer Mode; Atmosphere; Automated Teller Machine; Air Traffic Management

ATMD  Advanced Threat Missile Detector

ATMIS  Aircrew Training Management Information System

ATMS  Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder ( weather instrument )

ATN  Aeronautical Telecommunications Network; Astrophysical Teletype Network

ATO  Air Tasking Order

ATON  Aid TO Navigation

ATOS  Anti-Threat Optronic Screening

ATP Advanced Thermal Processing

ATPC  Automatic Transmit Power Control ( e.g., automatically employing minimum transmit power )

ATPG  Automatic Test-Pattern Generation

ATR  Autonomous Target Recognition; Automatic Target Recognition; Air Transportability Racking; Aided Target Recognition; Atlantic Test Range

ATRAC  Assembly Test Reporting Analysis and Collection

ATRI  Advanced Threat Radar Jammer

ATRJ  Advanced Tactical Radar Jammer; Advanced Threat Radar Jammer

ATS  Advanced Tactical Surveillance ( aircraft )

ATSO  Airborne Threat Simulation Organization

ATSS  Army Target Sensing System

ATT  Anti-Torpedo Torpedo; Anti-Terrorist Tactics

ATTD  Advanced Technology Transition Demonstration

ATTWR  Advanced Tactical Threat Warning Radio

ATV  Advanced Tethered Vehicle

ATWCS  Advanced Tomahawk Weapon Control System

ATWS  Anti-armor Threat Warning System

ATX  Advanced Technology eXtended ( e.g., computer motherboard )

AU  Astronomical Unit, i.e., the distance from the sun to the earth ( 1.4959787 × 10¹¹ meters )

AUGV  Autonomous Unmanned Ground Vehicle

AUP  Advanced Unitary Penetrator

AUR  All-Up Round ( missile )

AUS  Autonomous Unmanned System

AUSS  Advanced Unmanned Search System

AUTEC  Atlantic Underwater Test & Evaluation Center

AUTODIN  Automatic Digital Network ( Replacement for COMLOGNET ca 1963 ) [Visit an AUTODIN web page]

AUTO-ID  Automatic Identification

AUTOVON  Automatic Voice Network

AUV  Autonomous Underwater Vehicle ; Autonomous Untethered Vehicle

AUVS  Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems

AV  Audio-Visual; All Views ( e.g, architectural framework products, which includes All Views [AV], Operational Views [OV], System Views [SV], Technical Views [TV] )

AVAD  Automatic Voice Alert Device

AVCATT  Aviation Combined Arms Tactical Trainer

AVD  Alternate Voice Data

AVDTV  Armored Vehicle Drivers Thermal Viewer

AVG  Automatic Video Gain; Advanced Video Guidance ( e.g., for satellites )

AVI  Automatic Vehicle Identification; Audio-Visual Interleave; Advanced Visual Interface (computer file extension)

AVIONICS  AVIation electrONICS   ( Compare with VETRONICS )

AVIP  Avionics/Electronics Integrity Program

AVIPSS  Automated Virtual Information Production Support System

AVL  Automatic Vehicle Location

AVLB  Armored Vehicle Launched Bridge; Assault Vehicle Landing Bridge

AVLF Airborne Very Low Frequency

AVO  Air-Vehicle Operations

AVR Acquisition Validation Report

AVS  Advanced Vehicle System

AVSIM  Avionics Simulator

AVT  Automatic Video Tracker

AVTIP  Air Vehicles Technology Integration Program

AVTR  Airborne Video Tape Recorder

AVTS Advanced Visual Technology System

AWACS  Airborne Warning and Control System

AWADS  Adverse Weather Aerial Delivery System

AWDL  Advanced Weapon Data Link ( e.g., for the SLAM-ER )

A/W/E  Aircraft/Weapons/Electronics

AWE  Advanced Warfighting Experiment ( U.S. Army )

AWG  Arbitrary Waveform Generator

AWIP  Antisurface Warfare Improvement Program

AWIS  Autonomous Wildfire Surveillance ( satellite sensor )

AWN  Automated Weather Network

AWNW  Active Wideband Networking Waveform ( related to LPI )

AWOS  Aviation Weather Observation System

AWPGM  Adverse Weather Precision Guided Munitions

AWS  Advanced Warning System; Aegis Weapons System; Advanced Wideband System

AWSIM  Air Warfare Simulation

AWSIMS  Air Warfare Simulation System

AWSM  Air Warfare Simulation System ( USAF ca 2007 )

AWWS  Adverse Weather Weapon System

AXAF  Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility ( satellite )

AYM  Adjustable Yield Munition

AZ  Azimuth

AZERTY Not an acronym. Refers to the French or Continental European typewriter keyboard design having the upper left letter keys in the sequence A,Z,E,R,T,Y.  See also QWERTY ( e.g., English keyboard ).  Click to view AZERTY keyboard layout.

Azipod  Azimuthing Electric Propulsion Drive

AZON  Azimuth Only

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