Acronyms and Abbreviations
S
S Secret ( security classification )
S&A Safe and Arm
S&CM Strategic and Critical Material
S&P Surveillance & Photonics
S&R Sense and Response ( a managerial framework for large enterprises )
S&T Science and Technology
S&TI Scientific and Technical Intelligence
S/N Signal-to-Noise Ratio ( also SNR )
S/TAR Strategic/Tactical Airborne Recorder ( e.g., for the F-16 )
S2C2 Survivable Satellite Command and Control
S2DS Spectrum two-Dimensional Solutions ( antenna design )
S3B Single SIGINT Software Baseline
S4R Scalable Solid State S-band Radar ( ca 2007 )
S&A Safe and Arm
SA Swept Audio; Surface-to-Air; Selective Availability ( GPS ); Situational Awareness; Security Assistance ( e.g., special operations )
SAAC Supporting Arms Coordination Center
SAAM Surface-to-Air Anti-missile ( System )
SAAS Social Aspects of Agent Systems
SAASM Selective-Availability/AntiSpoofing Mode ( GPS ); Selective-Availability/AntiSpoofing Module ( GPS )
SAAWF Sector Anti-Air Warfare Facility
SABER Situational Awareness BEacon with Reply
SABI Secret And Below Interoperability
SABIR Satellite-Based Interceptor
SABR Selectable Assault Battle Rifle
SABRE Shallow-water Assault Breaching ( system )
SABT Static Automatic Bus Transfer ( e.g., switch )
SAC Strategic Air Command
SACCS Strategic Automated Command and Control System ( NORAD )
SACDIN Strategic Air Command Digital Information Network
SACLOS Semi-Automated Command Line Of Sight; Semi-Active Line Of Sight; Semi-Automatic Command-to-Line-Of-Sight
SA-CMM Software Acquisition Capability Maturity Model
SACT Supreme Allied Commander Transformation ( NATO )
SAD Scenario Authoring Device ( Netherlands )
SADA Standard Advanced Dewar Assembly
SADARM Sense And Destroy Armor Munitions; Search And Destroy Armament Missile; Sense And Destroy Armor; Seek And Destroy Armor
SADATS Space Detection and Tracking System
SADE Solar Array Drive Electronics
SADI Ship Automated Decoy Integration; Situational Awareness Defensive Improvement ( program )
SADL Situational Awareness Data Link
SADM Small Atomic Demolition Munition ( e.g., "nuclear weapon in a suitcase" )
SADRAM Seek And Destroy Radar Assisted Mission
SADS Ship Air Defense System; Sniper Acoustic Detection Sensor; Simulated Air Defense System
SAE Signal Analysis and Exploitation; Service Acquisition Executive
SAEW Ships Advanced Electronic Warfare
SAF Security Assistance Force; Standard Archive Format ( USAF )
SAFCS Small Arms Fire Control System
SAFE Stand-Alone Fax Encryptor; Security And Freedom through Encryption; Selected Area For Evasion
SAFENET Survivable, Adaptable Fiber Optic Embedded Network
SAFETI Situation Awareness from Enhanced Threat Information
SAFF Safing, Arming, Fuzing and Firing
SAFOR Semi-Automated Force
SAFVR Semi-Automatic Film Video Reader
SAGE Semi-Automatic Ground Environment ( NORAD early warning system ); Space Alternating Generalised Expectation-maximisation ( algorithm used in antenna design )
SAGR Stand-Alone Airborne GPSPS Receiver
SAHRV Semi-Autonomous Hydrographic-survey Reconnaissance Vehicle
SAIB Stereo-Audio Interface Box
SAILSS Smart Aircrew Integrated Life Support System
SAIM Situational Awareness and Information Management ( system )
SAINT Satellite Interceptor
SAIP Semiautomated Imagery Intelligence Processing ( system )
SAIPT Situational Awareness Integrated Product Team
SAIRS Standardized Advanced Infrared System
SAIS Semiautomated Imagery Processing
SAJE Smart Antenna for Jamming Elimination
SAL Semi-Active Laser; Synthetic Aperture LADAR
SALE Single Army Logistics Enterprise ( U.S. Army vision ca 2004 )
SALTI Synthetic Aperture LADAR for Tactical Imaging
SALUTE Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment ( mnemonic for reporting enemy information )
SAM Surface-to-Air Missile; Signal Analysis Module; Self-Assembled Monolayer ( bioelectronics ); Single Agency Manager; Swept Amplitude Modulation; Structural Amorphous Metal; Squad Advanced Marksman ( e.g., rifle ); Small Arms Marksmanship
SAMCOM Special Air Missions Communications
SAME Smoke Aerosol Measurement Experiment ( NASA ca 2005 )
SAMFET Self-Assembled Monolayer organic Field-Effect Transistor
SAMID Ships Anti-Missile Integrated Defense
SAMIR Système d'Alert Missile Infra-Rouge
SAMOC Surface-to-Air Missile Operations Center
SAMOS Satellite And Missile Observation System
SAMP Server Availability Management Processor
SAMP/T Sol-Air Moyenne Portée - Terrestre ( France )
SAMS Space Acceleration Measurement System ( NASA )
SAMSARS Satellite-Aided Maritime Search and Rescue System
SAMSON Special Avionics Mission Strap-On-Now ( e.g., Italian C-130 pod system )
SAN Storage Area Network
SAO Selected Attack Options ( e.g., SIOP - See also LAO, MAO, RNO )
SAP Special Access Program
SAPD System Acquisition & Product Development
SAPI Small Arms Protective Insert ( protective plate to be worn under a vest )
SAPOC Special Access Program Oversight Council ( Pentagon )
SAR Semi-Active Radar; Search and Rescue ( see Personnel Recovery ); Synthetic Aperture Radar; System Activity Report; Specific Absorption Rate; Selected Acquisition Report; Suspicious Activity Reporting
SARH Semi-Active Radar Homing ( e.g., weapon )
SARP Storage and Retrieval Processing System; SRP Aircraft Recovery Program
SARQ Selective reject Automatic Repeat reQuest
SARS Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
SARSAT Search and Rescue Satellite; Search and Rescue Satellite-Aided Tracking ( System ) ( see Personnel Recovery )
SAS Speaker Authentication System; Statistical Analysis System; Small Astronomy Satellite; Sea-Air-Space; Signature Augmentation System; Signature Augmentation Subsystem; Situational Awareness System; Synthetic Aperture Sonar
SASAMS Small Arms Shooter Accuracy Measurement System
SASC Senate Armed Services Committee
SASMB Side Attack Standoff Minefield Breacher
SASO Stability And Support Operations ( U.S. Army )
SASP Single Advanced Signal Processor
SASR Special Application Scoped Rifle
SASS Small Aerostat Surveillance System; System Acquisition Support Services
SASSA Self-Awareness Space Situation Awareness
SAT Saturation; Satisfactory; Skills Application Training
SATAN Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks
SATCOM Satellite Communications
SATKA Surveillance, Acquisition, Tracking, and Kill Assessment
SATM Synchronous Asynchronous Transfer Mode
SATNAV Satellite Navigation
SATOPS Satellite Operations
SATRAN Satellite Reconnaissance Advanced Notice
SATURN Second generation Anti-jam Tactical UHF Radio for NATO
SATVUL Satellite Vulnerability
SATWS Spatial Anti-armor Threat Warning System
SAVA Standard Army Vetronics Architecture
SAVBIED Suicide Aerial-Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Device
SAVR Satellite Vulnerability Report ( also SVR )
SAW Surface Acoustic Wave; Squad Automatic Weapon
SAWCAD Surface Acoustic Wave Chemical Agent Detector
SAWE-RF Simulation of Area Weapons Effects - Radio Frequency ( used in MILES )
SAWS Silent Attack Warning System ; Statewide Automated Welfare System ( California )
SAZ Slant AZimuth
SB Surface Bounce; SideBand
SB-WASS Space-Based Wide Area Surveillance System
SBA Small Business Administration; Simulation-Based Acquisition
SBAS Satellite-Based Augmentation System ( GPS-related )
SBC Single Board Computer
SBCT Stryker Brigade Combat Team
SBD Solar Blind Detector; Short Burst Data
SBEON Space-Based Electro-Optical Network
SBI Space-Based Interceptor; Short Baseline Interferometer; Secure Border Initiative
SBIED Suicide Borne IED
SBIS Space-Based Infrared System
SBIRS Space-Based InfraRed System
SBJ Space-Based Jammer
SBL Space-Based Laser
SBMS Space Battle Management Core System
SBP Space-Based Platform
SBR Space-Based Radar
SBS Special Boat Squadron; Special Boat Service ( British counterpart to SEALs ); Small Bomb System
SBSS Space-Based Surveillance System
SBV Space-Based Visible ( telescope )
SBWAS Space Based Wide Area Surveillance
SB-WASS Space-Based Wide Area Surveillance System
SBX Sea-Based X-band ( radar )
SC Shaped Charge; Supercavitating; System Controller; Strategic Communications
SC2IP Small Command and Control over Internet Protocol
SCA Software Communications Architecture
SCADA Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition ( interface for remote monitoring of circuit breakers )
SCADS Shipboard Cover & Deception System
SCAI Space Command and Control Architectural Infrastructure
SCALP-EG Système Autonome à longue Portée de Précision Emploi General ( e.g., French long-range cruise missile )
SCALPEL SCattering with Angular Limitation Projection Electron beam Lithography
SCAMP Single Channel Man Portable ( Terminal )
SCAMPI A system of deployable communications nodes for special operating forces ( SOF )
SCAN Switch Communications Automatic Network ( Army - genesis of AUTOVON ); Switched Circuit Automatic Network
SCANFAR a term for the long range phased array air search radar, AN/SPS-32, used aboard the USS Long Beach (CGN-9)
SCAPP Standardized Camouflage Point Pattern
SCARE Simulated Clutter for Airborne Radar Evaluation
SCATANA Security Control of Air Traffic and Navigation Aids
SCATMINE Scatterable Mines
SCATR Small Craft Advanced Tactical Radar
SCB SemiConductor Bridge ( blast initiator )
SCBA Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus
SCC SuperComputer Center; Space Control Center
SC-CLAWS Surface Combatant - Common Land-Attack Warfare System
SCCM Shipboard Communications Countermeasures
SCCP Skinny Call Control Protocol
SCCS Secure Communications Control System ( U.K. )
SCD Spectral Correlation Density
SCDCHP SuperConducting DC HomoPolar ( e.g., electrical generator )
SCDE Simplified Collective Detection Equipment+
SCE Service Creation Environment; Service Cryptologic Element
SCEPS Stored Chemical Energy Propulsion System ( e.g., for torpedoes )
SCFOS Surface Combatant Family of Ships
SCI Sensitive Compartmented Information; Scalable Coherent Interface
SCIF Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility
SCIM Sample Collection for Investigation of Mars
SCIP Statewide Communications Interoperability Planning ( e.g., Homeland Security methodology ); Secure Communications Interoperability Protocol
SC2IP Small Command and Control over Internet Protocol
SCISAT Science Satellite ( Canada )
SCL Single-Cell ( missile ) Launcher
SCMR Surface Combatant Maritime Rotorcraft ( U.K. )
SCN Strategic Communications Network; Satellite Control Network
SCOR Satellite Center for Regional Operations ( Poland )
SCORM Sharable Content Object Reference Model ( e.g., learning system )
SCORPION Synergie du Contact Renforcée par le Polyvalence et l'Infovalorisation ( France )
SCOTT Single Channel Objective Tactical Terminal
SCOUT Special Crisis Operations for Urban Terrain ( e.g., aerial photography interpretation system )
SCP Strategic Computing Program; Service Control Point
SCPI Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments
SCPS Satellite Communications Protocol Standards
SCR Special Communications Requirements ( e.g., for Naval Air Systems Command ); Signal Corps Radar ( e.g., SCR-582 surface surveillance radar circa 1943 ); Set, Complete, Radio ( sometimes incorrectly interpreted as "Signal Corps Radio." circa 1945 ); Silicon-Controlled Rectifier
SCRA Single Channel Radio Access
SCRAM Shared Common Random Access Memory
SCRAMJET Supersonic Combustion Ramjet
SCS Submarine Combat System; Ship Control System; Special Collection Service ( covert NSA-CIA group )
SC-SSP Supercavitating-Supersonic Projectile
SCU Sensor Control Unit
SCUBA Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
SD Self Destruct ( e.g., fuze ); Secure Digital; Standard Digital ( e.g., definition )
SDACS Solid Divert and Attitude Control System ( e.g., missile guidance )
SDARS Satellite Digital Audio Radio Services
SDB Small Diameter Bomb; Space Database
SDC Spread Doppler Clutter; Standard Desktop Configuration ( computer )
SD&D System Development & Demonstration
SDD System Development and Demonstration; System Design and Development
SDE Spatial Data Engine; Special ( operations forces ) Digital Environment
SDEP Spyware Dectection, Eradication and Protection ( e.g., DISA system - ca 2005 )
SDH Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
SDI Strategic Defense Initiative
SDIN Space Defense Interface Network
SDIO Strategic Defense Initiative Organization ( Now [ 2000 ] BMDO )
SDIS Satellite-transmitted Digital Imaging System
SDMA Space Diversity Multiple Access; Spatial Division Multiple Access
SDN Special [ Operations Force ] Deployable Node
SDNS Secure Data Network System
SDP Service Discovery Protocol; Signal Data Processor
SDPC Standard Desktop Personal Computer
SDR Software for Distributed Robotics; Software Defined Radio
SDRAM Synchronous Dynamic Access Memory
SDS Surveillance Direction System; Satellite Data System; Space Defense System; Standard Depot System
SDS SIGINT Data Server ( formerly SOMMS )
SDSC Submarine Broadcast System Coordinator
SDSL Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line
SDSN Swimmer Detection Sonar Network
SDT Ship Detection and Tracking
SDTS Self-Defense Test Ship
SDU Standalone Display Unit
SDV Swimmer Delivery Vehicle; SEALEAL Delivery Vehicle
SDVT Swimmer Delivery Vehicle Team; SEALEAL Delivery Vehicle Team
SDWS Submarine Defensive Warfare System
SE Support Equipment; Synthetic Environment
SEA SouthEast Asia
SEACAT Southeast Asia Cooperation Against Terrorism
SEAD Suppression of Enemy Air Defense ( See also DEAD )
SEAL SEa Air Land ( special forces ); Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory
SEAPAR Self-defence ESSM Active Phased Array Radar
SEAS Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulation ( e.g., inclusion of political, military, economic and social elements in the simulation environment )
SEC Space and Electronic Combat ; Security; Submarine Element Coordinator; Secret; Software-Enabled Control ( e.g., of systems )
SECAR Surface-wave Extended Coastal Area Radar ( Australian over-the-horizon radar )
SECF Submarine Electronics Computer Field ( e.g., Navy enlisted rating field )
SECOM Secure En route COMmunications
SECOS Secure ECCM COmmunications System
SECT Simulator for Electronic Combat Training; Submarine Emergency Communications Transmitter ( buoy )
SECW see SEW
SED Scramjet Engine Demonstrator; Surface-conduction Electron-emitter Display ( e.g., a flat-screen display technology )
SEDRIS Synthetic Environment Data Representation and Interchange Specification
SEDS Small Expendable Deployer System ( electrodynamically-tethered space system )
SEED Self Electro-optic Effect Device ( as in FET SEED )
SEI Specific Emitter Identification; Software Engineering Institute; Special Emitter Identification
SEFA Short End-Fire Antenna
SEKM Specialized forces of the German Navy ( counterpart to U.S. Navy SEALs )
SELCAL Selective Call
SELOR Ships Emitter Location Report
SEM Standard Electronic Module; Space Experiment Module ( NASA )
SEMA Special Electronic Mission Aircraft
SEMPER Secure Electronic MarketPlace for EuRope
SEN Small Extension Node ( e.g., of MUXSAT )
SENIT Système d'Exploitation Naval des Informations Tactiques
SENREP Sensor Report
SensIT Sensor Information Technology
SEOS SIGINT/EW Equipment Operator Simulator
SEOTV Solar Electric Orbital Transfer Vehicle
SEOW Solar Energy Optical Weapon
SEP Spherical Error Probability; System Enhancement Program; System
Enhancement Package ( Abrams main battle tank system ); Session
Initiation Protocol
SEPICA Solar
Energetic Particle Ionic Charge Analyzer
SEPS Shortstop
Electronic Protection System
SEPTAR Seaborne Powered Target
SER System Evolution Record; Software Evolution & Reuse; Symbol Error Rate ( e.g., in signal transmission )
SERAT Structurally Embedded Reconfigurable Antenna Technology
SERE Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape ( see Personnel Recovery )
SERT System Engineering Requirements Team
SES Surface Effect Ship
SESAMS Special-Effects Small-Arms Marking System ( conversion kit providing rounds that burst on impace, marking a target with a non0-toxic washable pint
SESEF Shipboard Electronic Signals Evaluation Facility
SESS Space Events Support Ship ( Soviet ); Signals Exploitation System - Shipboard
SETA System Engineering Technical Assistance
SEU Single Event Upset ( chip tolerance )
SEV Surface Effect Vehicle
SEVOCOM Secure Voice Communications
SEW Space and Electronic Warfare ; Surface Electronic Warfare
SEWC Space and Electronic Warfare Commander
S/EWCC Signals Intelligence/EW Coordination Center
SEWIP Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program
SEWS Satellite Early Warning System; Shared Early Warning System
SF Space-Frequency ( communications coding - see also ST, STF, STBC )
SFARP Strike-Fighter Advanced Readiness Program
SFCW Stepped-Frequency CW ( e.g., used in high-resolution radars )
SFF Self-Forging Fragment; Small Form Factor
SFG Special Forces Group
SFM Sensor Fuzed Munitions
SFOR Stabilization Force ( NATO )
SFP Small Form factor Pluggable ( e.g., optical transceiver )
SFSK Sinusoidal Frequency Shift Keying
SFWT Strike Fighter Weapons and Tactics
SGEMP System-Generated ElectroMagnetic Pulse
SGF Second Generation Forward looking infrared
SGLS Satellite Ground Link Sub-system
SGML Standard Generalized Markup Language
SGS Shipboard Gridlock System
SGTS Second Generation Tank Sight
SHA Secure Hash Algorithm ( e.g., for encryption )
SHAAFT Supersonic/Hypersonic Attack AircraFT
SHAD Shipboard Hazard and Defense
SHADE Shared Data Engineering
SHADOW Secondary Heuristic Analysis for Defensive Online Warfare
SHAPE Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
SHARC Swedish Highly Advanced Research Configuration ( unmanned aircraft )
SHARES Shared Resources [ National Communications System ( NCS ) High Frequency Radio Program ]
SHARK Silent HARd Kill ( system ); System Hard Kill ( also SHarK )
SHARP Standard Hardware Acquisition & Reliability Program; SHAred Reconnaissance Pod ( system )
SHEDS Super High Efficiency Diode Sources ( DARPA program ca 2007 )
SHF Super High Frequency ( 3.0 to 30 GHz )
SHIELD Silicon Hybrids with Infrared Extrinsic Long-wavelength Detectors
SHIELDS Ships Integrated Electronic Location and Defense System
SHIPMAIN Ship Maintenance
SHIPTRAIN Shipboard Training
SHMAC Standoff Hypersonic Missile with Attack Capability
SHOALS Scanning Hydrographic Operational Airborne LIDAR system.
SHORAN SHort RAnge Navigation
SHP Shaft Horsepower
SHPS Survivable High Performance Sensor
SHR SuperHeterodyne Receiver
SHTU Simplified Hand-held Terminal Unit
SI Special Intelligence; Système International [ d'Unités ] ( International System of Units ); Synthetic Instrument
SIAM Signal Information and Monitoring; Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics; Submarine Intercept of Air Missile
SIAMS Sensor, Infrared Autonomous Munitions Seeker
SIAP Single Integrated Air Picture; Systems Integration and Assurance Phase ( U.K. )
SiARS Silicon-based Attitude Reference System ( replacement for mechanical gyroscope )
SIAS Submarine Integrated Antenna System
SIB Sensors for IMMUNE BUILDING ( Program ca 2005 )
SICCONA SIstema di Comando, COntrollo e NAvigazione (Italy)
SICP Single Integrated Command Post ( Army ); Standard Integrated Command Post ( Army )
SICRAL Italian military satellite system
SID Silicon Imaging Device; Semantic IDentifier (computer programming)
SIDD Stored Information Downloading Device ( used in MILES )
SIDM Système Intermédiare de Drone MALE ( e.g., French high-altitude reconnaissance drone ca 2005 )
SIDS Secondary Imaging Dissemination System
SIE Special ( operations forces ) Information Enterprise
SIEWS Shipboard Integrated Electronic Warfare System
SIF Selective Identification Feature
SIFF Successor Identification Friend-or-Foe ( U.K. )
SIFS Signal Intelligence Feedback System
SIGP Single Integrated Ground Picture
SIGSEC Signals Security
SIIRCM Suite of Integrated Infrared Countermeasures
SIL Solid Immersion Lens ( optical storage ); Streak-tube Imaging Lidar
SILO Signal Location
SIM Space Interferometry Mission; Security Information Management; Subscriber Identification Module ( e.g., in IRIDIUM SATELLITE SYSTEM )
SIMA Shore Intermediate Maintenance Activity
SIMD Single-Instruction Multiple Data
SIMM Single In-line Memory Module ( RAM chip )
SIMNET Simulator Network; Simulation Network
SIMP Simple Instant Messaging and Presence ( communications protocol )
SINA Security Infrastructure Network Architecture ( e.g., network-based VPN )
SINCGARS Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System
SINR Signal-to-Interference plus Noise Ratio
SINS Ship's Inertial Navigation System; Submarine Inertial Navigation System
SIOP Strategic Integrated Operational Plan; Single Integrated Operational Plan
SIP System Improvement Program; Single In-line Package ( RAM chip ); Session Initiation Protocol; Signal/Image Processing
SIPB Space Intelligence Preparation of the Battlespace
SIPE Soldier Integrated Protective Ensemble
SIPR Secure Internet Protocol Router
SIPRNET Secret Internet Protocol Router NETwork; Secure Internet Protocol Router NETwork ( contrast with NIPRNET )
SIR Signal-to-Interference Ratio; Scramble, Intercept and Recovery; Système Informatique Regimental ( French regimental information system ); Selective Integration Rail ( e.g., a hand-guard/accessory mounting rail for the 6.8mm automatic battle rifle - ca 2003 )
SIREN Spectrum Interrogation, Reconnaissance and Neutralization ( e.g., IED jamming system )
SIRFC Suite of Integrated Radio Frequency Countermeasures ( program )
SIRST Surveillance Infrared Search and Track
SIRVSS Shipboard Infrared Visual Sensor System
SIS Solar Isotope
Spectrometer
SISA Secure Information Sharing Architecture (
consortium )
SISCM Suite of Integrated Sensors and Countermeasures
SISO Soft In/Soft Out ( refers to soft information ); Soft Input Soft-Output
SIT Shape Intersection Technique ( source location); Silicon Intensified Target
SITA Selected Image Target Area
SIU Sensor Interface Unit
SIVAM Sistema de Vigilância da Amazônia [ System for the Vigilance of the Amazon ] ( Brazil )
SJFHQ Standing Joint Force Headquarters
SJFHQ Standing Joint Force Headquarters
SKAT Skill and Knowledge Assessment Tool
SKB Smart Knee Board
SKE Station-Keeping Equipment
SKEP Super Kinetic Energy Penetrator
SK/HK Soft Kill / Hard Kill
SKULS Seeker-Killer-Utility Laser
SKWS Soft-Kill Weapon System
SKYNET British military satellite system
SLAM Simulation Language for Alternative Modeling; Selectable Lightweight Attack Munition
SLAM Standoff Land Attack Missile
SLAM-ER Standoff Land Attack Missile - Expanded Response
SLAM-R Small, Lightweight Airborne MTI Radar
SLAMRAAM Surface Launched Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile ( U.S. Army and USMC )
SLAP Service-Life Assessment Program
SLAR Side-Looking Airborne Radar
SLAT Sea-based Logistics Assessment Tool
SLB Sidelobe Blanking
SLBM Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile; Sea-Launched Ballistic Missile
SLC Sidelobe Canceling; Submarine Laser Communications
SLCM Submarine-launched Cruise Missile; Sea-Launched Cruise Missile
SLCSAT Submarine Laser Communications Satellite
SLED Ship-launched Electronic Decoy; Single Large Expensive Disk
SLEP Service Life Extension Program
SLEWS Shipboard Lightweight Electronic Warfare System
SLFCS Survivable Low Frequency Communications System
SLGR Small Lightweight GPS Receiver
SLI Space Launch Initiative
SLIC Subscriber Line Interface Circuit; Spatial Light Image Construction
SLICE A SWATH type ship having four pods instead of two; Soldier Level Integrated Communications Environment
SLICER Scanning LIDAR Imager of Canopies by Echo Recovery
SLICK Secure Lightweight Interoperable Communications Kit
SLID Small Low-cost Intercept Device ( terminal-defense system for ground vehicles )
SLIP Serial Line Internet Protocol
SLIPAR Short Light Pulse Alerting Receiver
SLM Spatial Light Modulator ( e.g., for MEMS ); Statistical Learning Model
SLMM Submarine-Launched Mobile Mine
SLOC Sea Lines of Communication
SLOT Submarine-Launched One-way Transmission ( e.g., buoy )
SLPF Sealift Protection Force
SLPR Space Lattice Passive Repeater
SLR Side-Looking Radar
SLRS Space Lift Range System
SLS Selective Laser Sintering ; Sidelobe Suppression; Side-Looking Sonar
SLTA Small Laser Transmitter Assembly
SLUFAE Surface-Launched Fuel Air Explosive
SLV Space Launch Vehicle; Small Launch Vehicle ( e.g., part of FALCON program )
SLVR Submarine LF/VLF Receiver
SM Standard Missile
SMA Search Mode Acquisition; Security Manager Agent ( networks ); Shape Memory Alloy
SMACM Surveillance Miniature Attack Cruise Missile ( referred to as "smack-em" )
SMART Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology ( i.e., computer device performance predicting ); Small-firms' Merit Award for Research and Technology ( U.K. ); Signaal Multibeam Acquisition Radar for Targeting ( Netherlands ); Smart Material Actuated Rotor Technology ( e.g., for helicopters ); Submarine Advanced RESM [ Radar ESM ] Technology ( UK program ca 2007 )
SMART-T Secure Mobile Anti-jam Reliable Tactical Terminal
SMAW Shoulder-launched Multipurpose Assault Weapon
SMB Serer Message Block ( Internet ); Submarine Message Buffer
SMC Security Management Center
SMCS Standard Monitoring and Control System
SMCS NG Submarine Command System Next Generation ( U.K. program ca 2008 )
SMCT Submarine Capability Team
SMD Standardized Military Drawing; Special-Material Decoy; Strategic Missile Defense; Ship Manning Document; Sea-based Midcourse Defense ( USN )
SMDS Switched Multimegabit Data Service; Shipboard Multiplex Distribution System
SME Subject Matter Expert; Secure Mobile Environment
SME-PED Secure Mobile Environment - Portable Electronic Device ( also SMEPED, similar to a Blackberry )
SMES Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage
SMFM Synthetic MultiFunctional Materials
SMG Sub Machine Gun
SMIL Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
SMMW Sub Millimeter Wave
SMN Shared Memory Networking
SMO Support to Military Operations
SMP Symmetrical Multiprocessor; Soldier Modernization Program ( NATO )
SMRS Special Mission Radio System
SMS Signature Management System; Stores Management System; Service Management System; Short Message Service ( device ); Space Motion Sickness
SMT Surface Mount Technology ( e.g., for circuit boards )
SMTD Submarine Torpedo Defense ( vehicle )
SMTI Sea Moving-Target Indication
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SMTS Space and Missile Tracking System (IR tracking satellite)
SMU Switch Multiplex Unit; Stores-Management Unit ( e.g., part of aircraft EW system )
SN Smart Noise ( jammer ); Seaman ( Navy )
SNA Soviet Naval Aviation; System Network Architecture
SNAP Steerable Null Antenna Processor; Shipboard Non-tactical Automated Processor
SNCP Special Naval Collection Program; Special Navy Control Program
SND C2 Strategic Nuclear Defense Command and Control
SNMG Standing NATO Maritime Group
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol
SNR Signal-to-Noise Ratio ( also S/N )
SNS Secure Network Server
SO Special Operations ( also SPECOPS )
SOA Speed of Advance ( e.g., navigation ); Sustained Operations Ashore; Service-Oriented Architecture ( DoD )
SOAD Stand-off ( outside of ) Area Defense; Standoff-Outside-Area-Defense
SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol
SOARS Satellite On-board Attack Reporting System
SOB Shrike On Board ( circa 1960-80 anti-radiation missile adapted for shipboard use )
SOC System On a Chip ( also "SoC" ); Special Operations Capable ( e.g., Marine Expeditionary Brigade ); Special Operations Craft
SOCOM Special Operations Command
SOCP Ship Operations Cooperative Program
SOCR Special Operations Craft - Riverine ( Also SOC-R )
SOCRATE NG Système Opérationnel Composé des Réseaux des Armées pour les Telécommunications Nouvelle Génération ( France )
SOCRATES Special Operations Command Research, Analysis and Threat Evaluation System; Sensors for Characterizing Ring-eddy Atmospheric Turbulence Emanating Sound ( i.e., the "hearing" of sound generated by wake vortices ); Special Operations Command Research and Threat Evaluation System
SOCS Ship Operational Characteristic Study
SocSim Social Simulation
SOF Special Operations Force
SOFC Solid-Oxide Fuel Cell
SOFIA Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy ( e.g., space telescope aboard Boeing 747, ca 2006 )
SOF IV Special Operating Forces Intelligence Vehicle
SOFDAS Special Operating Forces Defensive Avionics ( formerly IDAS )
SOFDK Special Operating Forces Demolition Kit ( ca 2007 )
SOFLAM Special Operations Forces Laser Marker
SOFTD Special Operations Forces Towed Decoy
SOHO SOlar and Heliospheric Observatory (satellite )
SOI Signal of Interest; Silicon-on-Insulator
SOJ Stand-off Jammer; Standoff Jamming
SOLAS Safety Of Life At Sea
SOLE Society of Logistic Engineers
SOMMS SIGINT On-line Mission Management System ( former term for SDS )
SON Statement of Operational Need
Sonar Sound Detection And Ranging
SONET Synchronous Optical Network
SONOS Silicon-Oxide-Nitride-Oxide Semiconductor
SOP Standard Operating Procedure; Standing Operating Procedure; System on Package ( also "SoP" )
SOPD Stand-off ( outside of ) Point Defense
SOPSMAN Space Operations Scheduling & Management ( system )
SoR Statement of Requirements
SOR Set-On Receiver
SORD Statement Of Requirements Document
SoRDS Software Radio Development System
SORDS Stand-Off Radiation Detection System ( e.g., DHS program ca 2007 )
SORE Special Operations Regional Engagement
SORO Scan On Receive Only
SORTS Status of Resources and Training System ( measure of readiness )
SoS System of Systems
SOS Silicon On Sapphire; distress signal
SOSCOE System of Systems Common Operating Environment ( U.S. Army ); Systems Common Operating Environment
SoSE System of Systems Engineering
SOSS Soviet Ocean Surveillance System
SOSTAR Stand-Off Surveillance and Target Acquisition Radar ( France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands )
SOSTAR-X Next generation SOSTAR ( ca 2006 )
SOSUS Sound Surveillance System
SOTA State-Of-The-Art
SOTAS Standoff Target Acquisition System ( U.S. Army )
SOTD Standoff Outside Theater Defense
SOTHOC Submarine Over the Horizon Organic Capability
SOTM SATCOM On The Move ( e.g., a communications satellite radio combiner ); Satellite On The Move
SOV Space Operations Vehicle; Special Operations Vehicle ( New Zealand )
SOW Statement of Work
SOWRBALL SOuthWest Radar BALLoon ( aerostat )
SP Self-Propelled
SPA Submarine Probability Area
SPAAM Self-Protection Air-to-Air Missile
SPADATS Space Detection and Tracking System
SPADOC SPAce Defense Operations Center
SPAMS Single-Particle Aerosol Mass Spectrometry ( e.g., to identify minute quantities of various chemical and biological agents )
SPAR Acronym for the Coast Guard motto, Semper Paratus ( "Always Ready" ). Created at the beginning of WW II, the USCG SPAR division was a group of women volunteers for certain Coast Guard duties in order to release men for more arduous duty. See also WAC, WAVES.
SPARS System for Prediction of Acoustic Response of Sensors; Space Precision Attitude Reference System
SPASUR Space Surveillance ( Navy system )
SPAWAR Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command ( View the SPAWAR logo )
SP Satellite Photo; Self-Propelled (e.g., artillery system )
SPAN Submarine Piloting And Navigation ( trainer )
SPARS Space Precision Attitude Reference System
SPAWAR Space and naval Warfare Systems Command ( USN )
SPAWN Satellite Protection and Warning/Space Awareness ( e.g., DARPA program ca 2003 )
SPC Statistical Process Control
SPC-LE Special Purpose Craft - Law Enforcement ( USCG )
SPEAR SLQ-32 Program Evaluation And Review; Special Emitter Array ( aircraft jamming pod ); Special Purpose Emitter Array
SPECI SPECIal ( Aviation selected special weather report, Message d'observation spéciale sélectionné pour l'aviation ) - this is a special version of the METAR.
SPECOPS Special Operations (also SO )
SPEDI Smart Procurement Electronic Data Interchange
SPEED Systems Planning, Engineering & Evaluation Device ( USMC ); Systems Planning, Engineering Evaluation Device (USMC)
SPEK Single Pallet Expeditionary Kitchen ( Army )
SPETE Special Test Equipment
SPETERL Ships Portable Electric/electronic Test Equipment Requirements List
SPEW Small Platform Electronic Warfare ( system )
SPEWS Self-Protection Electronic Warfare Suite; Self-Protection Electronic Warfare System
SPGD Stochastic Parallel Gradient Descent ( e.g., for optical systems )
SPH Self-Propelled Howitzer
SPHERES Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites
SPI Security Patrol Instrumentation; Smart Procurement Initiative
SPI 3-D Standoff Precision Identification in Three Dimensions ( e.g., DARPA Program ca 2003 )
SPICE Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis
SPIDER Secure Parcel ISO Distributed Enhanced RFID ( e.g., tamper-evident smart skin for container protection )
SPIE Ship's Precise Identification by Emitter
SPINTCOM Special Intelligence Communications
SPINSAT Special Purpose Inexpensive Satellite
SPIRALE Système Préparatoire Infra-Rouge pour l'Alert ( French satellite program for detecting ballistic missile launches )
SPIRIT Special Purpose Integrated Remote Intelligence Terminal
SPIRITS Spectral Infrared Remote Imaging of Targets and Scenes
SPIRITT Spectral Infrared Remote Imaging Transit Testbed
SPJ Self-Protection Jammer
SPM Sender Policy Framework ( e.g., E-mail anti-spam technique )
SPMN Software Program Managers Network ( DoD )
SPOD Sea Port Of Debarkation
SPOP Secure Point of Presence ( e.g., part of WIN-T )
SPORT Soldier's Portable On-system Repair Tools; Small Payload Orbit Transfer ( vehicle )
SPOT Small Portable Operation Terminal; Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre; Système Probataire d'Observation de la Terre ( French commercial earth-observation satellites ); Small Payload Orbit Transfer Vehicle; Smart Personal Object Technology (e.g., a wrist watch that receives text messages )
SPOTREP Spot Report
SPOTS Smart Personal Objects Technology ( e.g., watches, clocks, appliances, . . . )
SPR Seconds per Rotation
SPS Seconds per Scan; Standard Positioning Service ( GPS ); Designation for Soviet airborne jammer facility; Solar Powered Satellite; Standard Procurement System; Self-Protection Suite; Shipboard Protection System
SPSS Self-Propelled, Semi-Submersible ( e.g., such as used to smuggle drugs into the U.S. )
SPST Single Pole Single Throw ( switch )
SPW Special Warfare; Self-Protection Weapon
SQA Software Quality Assurance
SQL Structured Query Language
SQUID Superconducting Quantum Interference Device
S&R Sense and Response ( a managerial framework for large enterprises )
SR Short Range; Support Requirement; Super Resolution ( digital DF technique ); Search Radar; Super Resolution ( imaging - enhancement to "HR" ); Super Rapid ( gun system ); Space Radar; Special Reconnaissance
SRA System Research Aircraft; Selected Restricted Availability ( e.g., of a ship ); System Repairable Assembly
SRAAW Short Range Anti-Air Warfare
SRAM Static Random Access Memory; Short Range Attack Missile
SRAW Short-Range Anti-tank Weapon ( e.g., the PREDATOR missile, USMC ca 1993 ); Short Range Assault Weapon
SRBM Short-Range Ballistic Missile
SRBOC Super Rapid Bloom Off-board Chaff
SRDRS Submarine Rescue Diving and Recompression System
SREMP Source-Region ElectroMagnetic Pulse
SRGPS Shipboard Relative GPS; Shipboard Ready GPS
SRHIT Small Radar Homing Intercept Technology
SRI Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Intelligence
SRIO Serial Rapid Input-Output
SRL Sense and Respond Logistics
SRLC Sense and Respond Logistics Concept
SRM Supply Relationship Management ( e.g., element of BSM program )
SRMS Smart Resource Management System
SRO Surface Radio Navigation
SROE Standing Rules of Engagement
SRP Sustained Readiness Program; Short Range Prosecutor ( e.g., boat carried on USCG Maritime Security Cutter )
SRR Survivable Reconstitution and Recovery ( USAF plan ); Security Readiness Review
SRS Scatterer Replication System; Self-Regenerative System; Speech Recognition System
SRT Special Reaction Team ( e.g., MOUT operations )
SRTM Shuttle Radar Topography Mission ( ca 2000 )
SRU Ship Replaceable Unit; Shop Replaceable Unit
SRUAV Short Range Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
SRVS Super Resolution Vision System ( e.g., DARPA program ca 2007 )
SRW Soldier Radio Waveform ( e.g., for communications and geo-location information )
SS Spread Spectrum; ; Steamship ( e.g., "SS Titanic" ); Strategic Satellite
SS7 Signaling System 7 ( network )
SSA Software Support Activity; Solid-State Amplifier; Space Situational Awareness; Space Situation Awareness
SSAA Systems Security Authorization Agreement
SSAS Ships-Security-Alert System
SSB Single Sideband; SubSystem Bus; Small Smart Bomb
SSBLT Source Synchronous Block Transfer
SSBN Nuclear Ballistic Missile Submarine
SSBSC Single Sideband Suppressed Carrier
SSBT Ship Simulator and Bridge Teamwork
SSC Small Scale Contingency
SSCBM Storage and Shipping Container - Ballistic Missile
SSCM Shipboard Communications Countermeasures
SSCOM Soldier System COMmand
SSD Solid State Drive ( forerunner of HSSR )
SSDC Space & Strategic Defense Command ( Army )
SSD Solid-State Disk
SSDS Single Ship Deep Sweep ( mine countermeasures ); Ship Self-Defense System
SSE Strategic Server Enclave ( ca 2007 there are four DCAPES SSEs: The Pentagon; Scott AFB, Illinois; Fort Shafter, Hawaii, and Stuttgart, Germany )
SSEE Ship's Signal Exploitation Equipment; Ship Signal Exploitation System
SSES Ship's Signal Exploitation Spaces; Suite of Survivability Enhancement Systems ( USA )
SSET Shipboard Security Engagement Tactics
SSEW Shipboard Security Engagement Weapons
SSF Short-take-off, vertical landing Strike Fighter; Software Support Facility
SSGN Nuclear Guided Missile Submarine
SSGTG Ship Service Gas Turbine Generator
SSHCL Solid-State Heat-Capacity Laser
SSI Sensor System Interface
SSIP Sensor System Improvement Program
SSIXS Submarine Satellite Information Exchange System
SSJ Self-Screening Jamming
SSL Single Station Location; Security Sockets Layer ( security protocol ); Single-site Locator
SSM Surface-to-Surface Missile; Soldier System Modeling; Special Safeguarding Measures
SSMA Spread Spectrum Multiple Access
SSMDR Solid State Mission Data Recorder
SSN Nuclear Attack Submarine; Space Surveillance Network; Station Serial Number
SSNIP Space Surveillance Network Improvement Program
SSO Special Security Office(r)
SSP Sound Speed Profile; Service Switching Point ( network ); Strategic Systems Programs
SSPA Solid State Power Amplifier
SSPS Small Scale Propulsion System
SSR Solid State REcorder; Secondary Surveillance Radar
SSRT Single Stage Rocket Technology ( program )
SSS Single Shelter Switch
SSSS Silent Sound Spread Spectrum
SSSSS Shout, Show, Shove, Shoot to warn, Shoot to wound ( "five Ss" Rules of Engagement )
SST Supersonic Transport; Space Surveillance Telescope; Smart & Secure Trade ( lanes initiative ); Systems, Sensors and Technology
SSTD Surface Ship Torpedo Defense
SSTO Single-Stage-To-Orbit
SSTR Stability-Security-Transition-Reconstruction ( i.e., "phase-four postwar operations" ca 2006 )
SSTS Space Surveillance and Tracking Satellite; Space Surveillance Tracking System
SSU Supply and Safety Unit ( e.g., on aircraft )
SSV Surface/Subsurface Vehicle
SSW Swept Square Wave
S&T Science and Technology
ST Space-Time ( communications coding - see also SF, STF, STBC )
ST Surface Terminal; Space Transport
STAB Space Tactical Awareness Brief; Steered Agile Beam
STACCS Strategic Theater Army Command & Control System
STADD Ship-towed Acoustic Deception Device
STAFF Smart Target Activated Fire and Forget
STAG Special Task Air Group ( U.S. Navy circa WW II )
STAGE Scenario Toolkit and Generation Environment ( software )
STALO STAble Local Oscillator
STAMIDS STAnd-off MIne Detection System
STAMIS Standard Army Management Information System
STAMMIS Standard Army Multi-Command Information System
STANAG STANdardization AGreement
STAP Space-Time Adaptive Processing
S/TAR Strategic/Tactical Airborne Recorder ( e.g., for the F-16 )
STAR Special Threat Analysis and Recognition; Simultaneous Transmit and Receive; Space/Time Adaptive Research ( system ); Simulation Training And Research; Shock Technology Applied Research; Science To Achieve Results ( EPA Program )
STARET SHF Tri-band Advanced-Range Extension Terminal ( also STAR-T )
STARS Surveillance and Target Attack Radar System
STARS Software Technology for Adaptable Reliable Systems; Strategic Target and Attack Radar System ( e.g., J-STARS ); Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System; State ( Department ) Telecommunications Alternate Relay System
STAR-T SHFHF Tri-band Advanced-Range Extension Terminal ( also STARET )
STAR-TIDES Sustainable Technologies, Accelerated Research - Transportable Infrastructure for Development and Emergency Support
START Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
STASS Submarine Towed Array Surveillance System
STB Special Troops Battalion
STBC Space-Time Block Code ( communications coding - see also SF, ST, STF )
STC Software Technology Conference ( DoD )
STCW Standards of Training, Certification, and Watchkeeping ( U.S. Merchant Marine )
STD Systems Technology Demonstration; STandarD
STDN Secure Tactical Data Network
STE Secure Telephone Equipment; Standard Telephone Equipment; Secure Terminal Equipment
STEADEE Sensors TEchnology Application, DEvelopment and Evaluation
STED System Technique Evaluation Development
STEF Soft Target Exploitation and Fusion
STEM System Trainer and Exercise Module
STEMS Standard Emitter Simulator
STEP Space Test Experiment Platform; Standardized Tactical Entry Point; Standard Tactical Entry Point; Software Test & Evaluation Panel ( Army ); Spatial Templates for Emergency Preparedness ( e.g., situational awareness Web-based decision support system ); Standard Theater Entry Platform
STES Special Test Equipment Subsystem
STEW Surface Threat Electronic Warfare; Surface Trainer Electronic Warfare
STF Slaved Tandem Freewing ( technology ); Storage and Transportation Frame ( replaces wooden shipping containers )
STF Space-Time-Frequency ( communications coding - see also SF, ST, STBC )
STF Storage and Transportation Frame; Shear Thickening Fluid ( used in Kevlar vest armor )
STFT Short-Time Fourier Transform
STI Single Target Identification
S&TI Scientific and Technical Intelligence
STIC Security Threat Intelligence Cell
STIL Streak Tube Imaging LIDAR
STINET Scientific and Technical Information Network
STING Smart Targeting and Identification via Networked Geolocation (2006 - USAF R7 pod upgrade )
STIRR Signal Tracking and Illumination Radar ( Dutch ); Subsystem Technology for InfRared Reduction
STIRS Smart Threat Integrated Radiation Sensor ( DoD project ca 2007 )
STM Scanning Tunneling Microscope
STN System Track Number; SuperTwisted-Nematic ( material; e.g., LCD )
STO Science and Technology Objectives ( Army ); Special Technical Operations
STOBAR Short Take-Off But Arrested Recovery
STOL Short Take-Off and Landing
STOM Ship-To-Objective Maneuver
STOMPM STrike Optimized Mission Planning Module
STOPS Super Tactical Operational Prediction System
STORM Simulation Testing Operations Rehearsal Model
STOVL Short Take-Off and Vertical Landing
STP Signaling Transfer Point ( network ); Shock Trauma Platoon ( medical unit ); Space Test Program
STPT Stinger Troop Proficiency Trainer ( Netherlands )
STRAP Straight Through Repeater Antenna Performance; Straight Through Repeater Antenna Program
STRATCOM Strategic Command
STREAM Standard Tension Replenishment Alongside Method ( for at-sea underway replenishment )
S-TRED Standard Tactical Receive Equipment Display
STRI Simulation, Training and Instrumentation
STRICOM Simulation Training and Instrumentation Command ( Army )
STRIKE System for Triaging Key Evidence
STROEB Sensor Technology Research [development, test & evaluation] Open-Ended Broad [Agency Announcement (BAA)]
STRV Space Technology Research Vehicle
STS Seeker Trade Study; Space Transportation System; Special Tactics Squadron ( USAF ); System Test Set
STSS Space Tracking and Surveillance System; Space-based Tracking and Surveillance System
STT Single Target Track; Satellite communications Transportable Terminal ( Army ); Satellite Transportable Terminal; Satellite Terminal Trailer
STTR Small Business Technology Transfer
STU Secure Telephone Unit
STUAS Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System ( USMC )
STUFT Ships Taken Up From Trade ( e.g., merchant ships requisitioned for military operations - U.K. )
STV Surrogate Tele-operated Vehicle; Submarine Target Vessel
STW Strike Warfare
STX Situational training exercise ( U.S. Army )
Su Sukhoi ( Soviet aircraft manufacturer )
SUAS Small Unmanned Air System
SUAV Strategic Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
SUAWACS Soviet Union Airborne Warning and Control System
SUBHDR Submarine High Data Rate (antenna )
SUBIS Submarine Imaging Subsystem ( e.g., analog video and digital still cameras that record the periscope view for enhancement by software and analysis )
SUBLAN Submarine Local Area Network ( ca 2005 )
SUBSAFE Submarine flooding prevention and recovery
SUBSAM Subsurface-to-Air Missile; Submarine Surface--to-Air Missile
SUBTECH Submarine Technology
SUBTICS SUBmarine Tactical Integrated Combat System
SUCAP Surface Combat Air Patrol
SUCCESS Synthesized UHF Computer Controlled Equipment Subsystem
SUGV Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle ( Army )
SUO Small Unit Operations ( Army )
SUO/SAS Small Unit Operations/Situational Awareness System
SURC Small Unit Riverine Craft
SURF Semiconductor-tuned high temperature superconductor filters for Ultrasensitive RF receivers ( Air Force program ca 2008 )
SURSAT Surveillance Satellite
SURSS Small Unit Remote Scouting System ( e.g., expendable UAV reconnaissance sensors )
SURTASS SURveillance Towed-Array Sensor System ( low frequency active SONAR )
SURVIAC Survivability/Vulnerability Information Analysis Center
SURVSAT Survivable Satellite
SUS Sound Underwater Signal; Sound Underwater Source
SUSOPS Sustained Operations
SUSS Small Unit Solar Shade; Small Unit Sensor System ( e.g., hand-emplaced electro-optic sensor )
SUSTAIN Small Unit Space Transport and Insertion ( e.g., the capability to rocket a squad of Marines to the scene of an emergency anywhere in the world within two hours )
SUSTEL Suspension of Telecommunications
SUT System Under Test
SUVOS Semiconductor Ultraviolet Optical Source
SV Secure Voice; Space Vehicle; System View ( e.g,, architectural framework products, which includes All Views [AV], Operational Views [OV], System Views [SV], Technical Views [TV] )
SVGA Super Video Graphics Adapter
SVML Standard Vehicle-Mounted Launcher
SVN Secure Virtual Network
SVR Satellite Vulnerability Report ( also SAVR )
SVU Surface Vehicular Unit
SW Shallow Water ( mine-detection ) [ 40 - 200 feet ]
SW-CMM SoftWare Capability Maturity Model
SWA SouthWest Asia
SWAN Satellite Wide Area Network; Shipboard Wide Area Network; Support Wide-Area Network
SWANsat Super Wide Area Network Satellite
SWAP Size, Weight and Power ( e.g., of a warfighter system )
SWAS Small Waterplane Area Ship
SWAT Special Weapons And Tactics; Space Warfare Awareness Training
SWATH Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull
SWC Surface Warfare Coordinator; Scan with Compensation
SWCC Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewman; Special Warfare Combat Crewman
SWCM Shallow Water ( mine ) Countermeasures ( also SWMCM )
SW-CMM Software capability maturity model
SWEPAM (Solar Wind Electon, Proton, and Alpha Monitor
SWESS Special Weapons Emergency Separation System
SWFTS Submarine Warfare Federated Tactical System
SWICS Solar
Wind Ionic Composition Spectrometer
SWIDS Shallow-Water Intrusion Detection System ( e.g.,
use of sea lions trained to detect swimmers )
SWIF Secure Inter-Working ( function -- e.g., feature for INMARSAT systems )
SWIMS Shallow Water Influence Mine Sweep ( system ); Solar Wind Ion Mass Spectrometer
SWINT Safe Window Intelligence
SWIP System Weapons Improvement Program
SWIR Short Wavelength Infrared; Short Wave Infrared
SWLAN Submarine Wireless Local Area Network; Secure Wireless Local Area Network
SWMCM Shallow Water Mine Countermeasures
SWNT Single-Walled carbon NanoTube; Single-Walled Nanotube
SWORD Scheduled Work Requirements for Depot ( USAF ); System for all-Weather Observation by Radar on Drone ( German-French system )
SWORDS Special Weapons Observation Reconnaissance Detection System ( e.g., autonomous system for detecting threats in the urban environment ca 2007 )
SWP-M Strategic War Planning system Modernization
SWPS Stabilized Weapons Platform System; Strategic War Planning System
SWR Standing Wave Ratio; Surface Wave Radar; Standing-Wave Reflectometry
SWS Sniper Weapons System
SWSC Space and Warning System Center ( USAF )
SWTR Shallow Water Training Range
SWUWTR Shallow Water Undersea Warfare Training Range
SWx Space Weather
SXI Solar X-ray Imager
SYCO Symbiotic Communications
SYCOBS SYstème de COmbat pour Barracuda et SNLE ( France )
SYDP Six Year Defense Plan
SYERS Senior Year Electro-optical Reconnaissance System
SYNAVI Systems, Navigation and Interoperability
SYRACUSE French military satellite system
SYSCOM Systems Command
SYSCON System Control
SZ Surface Zone; Surf Zone
SZA Surf-Zone Array ( explosive system )
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