Acronyms and Abbreviations
T
T Tera ( trillion ); Time; Transmitter
T/F Time & Frequency
T/IED Training / Improvised Explosive Devices ( also TIED )
T-AG Acoustic Survey Ship
T-AGOS Ocean Surveillance Ship ( USNS )
T-AGS Oceanographic Survey Ship
T-AH Hospital Ship
T-AKE dry cargo/ammunition ship
T-AKR Large, Medium-Speed, Roll-On Roll-Off ship
T-AVB Aviation Logistic Support Ship
T-BONE Theater Battle Operations Network Environment ( U.S. Air Force )
T-CRAFT Transformable Craft ( e.g., high-speed water craft for transporting heavy wheeled and tracked vehicles to an unprepared shore )
T-DRFM Tactical Digital RF Memory
T-MUX Transmultiplexer
T-Rays Terahertz radiation
T-SAT Tactical Satellite
T-SGT Transportable - Satellite Ground Terminal
T/N Targeting and Navigation
T/R Transmit/Receive
T&R Training & Readiness
T3 Tomcat Tactical Targeting
TAAF Test, Analyze, and Fix
TAAT Technical Assistance Advisory Team
TABS Tactical Anti-submarine warfare Battle management System
TAC Threat Adaptive Countermeasures
TACAMO Take Charge and Move Out ( airborne strategic VLF communications relay system. See also VERDIN )
TACAN TACtical Air Navigation; Tactical Air Control And Navigation
TAC-CP Tactical Command Post
TAC-D Tactical Deception
TACCELL Tactical Cellular ( e.g., disposable communications device )
TACDB Tactical Database
TACCIMS Theater [ Army ] Command and Control Information Management System
TACDEW Tactical Combat Direction and Electronic Warfare
TACELIS Tactical Emitter Location and Identification System
TACES TActical Communications Exploitation System
TACFIRE TACtical FIRE direction ( Army )
TACINTEL Tactical Intelligence
TACJAM Tactical Jammer
TACL Tactical All-weather Collection and Long range ( e.g., Synthetic Aperture Radar )
TACLAN Tactical Local Area Network
TACLET Tactical Law Enforcement Team ( e.g., drug interdiction )
TACMET TActical CounterMeasure Evaluation Trainer; TACtical METeorology
TACMS-BAT TACtical Missile System - Brilliant Anti-Tank submunition
TACNAVMOD Tactical Navigation Modification ( Taiwan )
TACO TActical COmmunications (protocol); Total Access Communications System
TACP Tactical Air Control Party ( combat air space management )
TACS Tactical Advanced Computer System; Tactical Air Control System
TAC-SAT TACtical SATellite ( also TACSAT )
TACSIGINT Tactical Signals Intelligence
TACSIM Tactical Simulation
TACTAS Tactical Towed Array Sonar
TACTOM Tactical Tomahawk
TACTS Tactical Aircrew Combat Training System
TAD Towed Artillery Digitalization ( system ); Temporary Additional Duty
TADARS Target Acquisition, Designation And Reconnaissance System
TADCS Tactical Airborne Digital Camera System
TADIL Tactical Digital Information Link
TADIRCM Tactical Aircraft Directed InfraRed CounterMeasures; Tactical Aircraft Directable InfraRed CounterMeasures
TADIXS Tactical Digital Information Exchange Subsystem; Tactical Data Information Exchange System
TADIXS-B Tactical Data Information Exchange Systems - Broadcast
TADMUS Tactical Decision-Making Under Stress
TADS/PNVS Target Acquisition and Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision System; Target Acquisition and Designation Sensor/Pilot Night Vision Sight
TADSTAND Tactical Digital Standard
TAFICS Turkish Armed Forces Integrated Communications System
T-AG Acoustic Survey Ship
TaGIS Tactical Geographical Information System
TAGM Tactical Agile Missile
T-AGOS Ocean Surveillance Ship ( USNS )
T-AGS Oceanographic Survey Ship
TAGS Tactical Auxiliary Global Hawk Program ( USN )
T-AH Hospital Ship
TAI International Atomic Time; Tactical Air Integration
TAIS Tactical Airspace Integration System
T-AKR Large, Medium-Speed, Roll-On Roll-Off ship
TALC Tactical Airborne Laser Communications
TALD Tactical Air Launched Decoy ( see also ITALD )
TALES Translingual Automated Language Exploitation System ( DARPA program ca 2004 )
TALON Threat And Local Observation Notice ( used in JPEN )
TALOS Thermal Anti-missile Launched Offboard Seduction ( IR decoy round ); name of an early Navy surface-to-air missile
TAM Target Airplane Model; Thermal Acquisition Monocular ( e.g., thermal sight )
TAMD Theater Air and Missile Defense
TAMMAC Tactical Airborne Moving Map Capability
TAMPS Tactical Aircraft Mission Planning System; Tactical Automated Mission Planning System
TANGO Turret-ANGle interface bOx
TAO Tactical Action Officer
TAOR Tactical Area of Operations
TAP Text and Audio Processing; Theater Air Planner; TPED Analysis Process
TAQ Total Army Quality
TAPER Tracking and Participant Event Reporting
TARA Technology Area Review and Assessment
TARCAP TARget Combat Air Patrol
TARD Towed Active Radar Decoy
TARDEC Tank-Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center ( U.S. Army )
TARGET Training and Rehearsal Generation Toolkit; Theater-level Analysis, Replanning and Geopolitical Toolbox
TARM Threat Activity Recognition and Monitoring ( e.g., DARPA program ca 2003 to automatically and reliably capture, identify, and classify human activities in surveillance environments. )
TARPS Tactical Air Reconnaissance Pod System; Tactical Aerial Reconnaissance Pod System; Tactical Airborne Reconnaissance Pod System.
TARS Towed Active Receiver Subsystem; Theater Airborne Reconnaissance System; Tactical Air Reconnaissance System
TAS Targeting Avionics System; Target Acquisition System
TASDAC TActical Secure DAta Communications
TASK Taskable Agent Software Kit
TASI Time Assignment Speech Interpolation
TASIP Tailored Analytic Intelligence Support to Individual EW and C3CM Projects
TASM Tactical Air-to-Surface Missile; Tomahawk Anti-Ship Missile
TASMO Tactical Air Support for Maritime Operations
TASR Tactical Automated Situation Receiver ( GPS-related for clearing land mines )
TASS Towed Array Surveillance System; Towed Array Sonar System; Tactical Automated Security System ( intrusion detector, intrusion analysis and response director ); Totally Agile Sensor System; Tactical Security System
TAU Tactical Access Unit
TAURUS Target Adaptive Unitary ( & dispenser ) Robotic Ubiquity System [ also called KEPD ] (Sweden, Germany)
TAV TransAtmospheric Vehicle; Total Asset Visibility
T-AVB Aviation Logistic Support Ship
TAWS Target Acquisition Weather Software
TB Time Bandwidth; Terrain Bounce; TeraByte ( 109 Bytes ); Thermobaric ( e.g., THERMOBARIC WEAPON )
TBD To Be Determined
TBIP Tomahawk Baseline Improvement Program
TBJ Terrain Bounce Jamming
TBM Tactical Ballistic Missile; Theater Ballistic Missile
TBMCS Theater Battle Management Core Systems
TBMD Theater Ballistic-Missile Defense
T-BONE Theater Battle Operations Network Environment ( U.S. Air Force )
TBS Talk Between Ships ( an early HF tactical radio - circa 1944 ); To Be Scheduled; To Be Specified; To Be Supplied; Theater Broadcasting System
TC Transformational Communications
TCA Transitional Communications Architecture
TCAC Technical Control and Analysis Center ( USMC )
TCAE Technical Control and Analysis Element ( C3I Workstation )
TCAR Trans-Atlantic Cooperation AGS Radar; Transatlantic Collaborative Advanced Radar
TCAS Terrain Collision Avoidance System
TCATS Transformational Communications Airborne Technology System
TCB Trusted Computer Base; Tactical Communications Bridge
TCC Tactical Command Center; Transportable Communication Central; Tactical Communications Center
TCCCS Tactical Command and Control and Communications System ( Canada )
TCCS Tactical Command and Control System ( Canada )
TCD Target Configuration Date
TCDL Tactical Communications Data Link; Tactical Common Data Link ( e.g., for the TUAV )
TCFEC Turbo Code Forward Error Correction
TCG Trusted Computing Group
TCGR Track Control Group Replacement ( Tomahawk system )
TCK Tactical Communications Kit ( e.g., for portable wireless networks )
TCM Trajectory Correction Maneuver ( missile )
TCMT Time Critical Mobile Targer
TCN TACAN; Tactical Component Network
TCO Trans-national Criminal Organization; Tactical Combat Operations
TCP Tactical Cryptologic Program; Transmission Control Protocol; Tactical Communications Package
T-CRAFT Transformable Craft ( e.g., high-speed water craft for transporting heavy wheeled and tracked vehicles to an unprepared shore )
TCS Tactical Command System; Tactical Control Station; Tactical Control System; Transformational Communications Satellite
TCT Time-Critical Targeting
TCTA Time-Critical Targeting Aid
TCU Thermal Control Unit
TCXO Temperature-Compensated Crystal Oscillator
TD Terminal Defense; Target Destruct
TDA Tactical Decision Aid
TDAPS Traffic Demand Analysis and Planning System ( FAA )
TDB To Be Determined; Twin Data Bus
TDC Theater Deployable Communications
TDCL Torpedo Detection, Classification and Localization
TDD Target Detection Device; Time Division Duplexing; Target Detecting Device ( e.g., in a mine )
TDD/SA Target Detecting Device/Shroud Assembly
TDDS Tactical Data Dissemination System
TDE Tactical Decision Exercise
TDEL Thick-Dielectric ElectroLuminescence
TDG Tactical Decision Game
TDHS Time Domain Harmonic Scaling; Tactical Data-Handling System ( Turkey )
TDIS Tactical Digital Intercom System
TDLS Tactical Data Link System
TDM Time Division Multiplexer
TDMA Time Division Multiple Access
TDN Tactical Data Network
TDOA Time Difference of Arrival
TDP Trigger Detection Point; Technical Data Package
TDPPM Time-Dithered Pulse Position Modulation
T-DRFM Tactical Digital RF Memory
TDRS Tracking and Data Relay Satellite; Tracking Data Relay System ( satellite )
TDRSS Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System
TDS Test Director System; Towed Decoy System; Terminal Defense Segment ( e.g., of a ballistic missile defense system )
TDSPP Time Domain Sensitive Password Protection
TDTS Telemetric Data Transmitting Set
TE Thermoelectric; Transporter Erector ( e.g., vehicle used to transport ICBMs )
TEAM Threat Engagement Analysis Model; Training, Empowering, Acknowledging, and Mentoring; Technology for Efficient Agile ( mixed-signal ) Microsystem
TEAMS Tactical EA-6B Mission Planning System
TECRAS Technical Reconnaissance and Surveillance
TECSAR Technological Synthetic Aperture Satellite
TED Trunk Encryption Device; Threshold Extension Demodulator; Transient Electromagnetic Device
TEDD Time, Environment, Distance and Demeanor ( i.e., surveillance [of persons] principles for identifying criminal threats )
TEDS Transducer Electronic Data Sheet ( e.g., for holding description of electrical interface requirements )
TEED Tactical End-to-end Encryption Device
TEEP Total Effective Equipment Productivity
TEFE Tactical Emitter Feature Extraction
TEG Tactical Exploitation Group (system); Turbo Electric Generator (Destroyer Escort)
TEL Telephone; Transporter Erector Launcher ( e.g., for Scud missile )
TELAR Transporter Erector Launcher And Radar ( e.g., vehicle for carrying surface-to-air missiles - Soviet / Russian )
TELEW Telecommunication Electronic Warfare
TELINT Telemetry Intelligence
TEM Transverse ElectroMagnetic ( propagation )
TEME Tactical Features Emitter Extraction
TEMPEST Transient Electromagnetic Pulse Emanations Standard; Transient Electromagnetic Pulse Emanations Surveillance
TEMIS Test Equipment Management Information System
TEMPS Transportable Electromagnetic Pulse ( EMP ) Simulator
TENA Test & training Enabling Architecture
TENCAP Tactical Exploitation of National ( space program ) CAPabilities
TEOB Tactical Electronic Order of Battle
TER Triple Ejection Rack ( e.g., for air-launched decoys )
TERCOM Terrain Contour Matching; Terrain Contour Map
TEREC Tactical Electronic Reconnaissance
TERM Tank Extended Range Munition
TERPES Tactical Electronic Reconnaissance and Processing Evaluation System
TERS Tactical Event Reporting System
TERSO Terminal Radio Software ( Spain )
TES Threat Emitter Simulator; Tactical Environment System; Tactical Engagement Simulation; Tactical Exploitation System; Thermal Emission Spectrometer ( e.g., as used on satellites ); Technology Experiment Satellite (India)
TES-A Tactical Exploitation System - Army
TES-N Tactical Exploitation System - Navy
TESAR Tactical Endurance Synthetic Aperture Radar
TESS Tactical Environmental Support System
TET Trailing Edge Tracking; Trial Embow Team ( NATO )
TETRA Trans-European Trunk RAdio; Terrestrial Trunk Radio; Terrestrial Trunked Radio
TEW Tactical Electronic Warfare
TEWA Threat Evaluation and Weapon Assignment
TEWES Tactical Electronic Warfare Environment Simulator
TEWS Tactical Early Warning System; Tactical Electronic Warfare System; Tactical Electronic Warfare Suite
TEWT Tactical Exercise Without Troops
TEXS Tactical Exploitation System
T/F Time & Frequency
TF Terrain Following; Tactical Frequency
TFAST Technology for Frequency Agile digitally Synthesized Transmitters
TFCC Tactical Flag Command Center
TFDD Time-phased Force Deployment Data
TFDSS Total Force Decision Support System
TFEL Thin-Film ElectroLuminescence
TFFT Tactical Fire Fighting Truck ( U.S. Army )
TFLIR Targeting Forward-Looking Infrared
TFLOP TeraFLOP; Trillion ( 109 ) FLoating OPerations per second
TFOA Things Falling Off Aircraft
TFOCA Tactical Fiber Optic Cable Assembly
TFPV Thin Film PhotoVoltaics
TFR Trouble/Failure Report
TFT Technologically Feasible Threat; Thin Film Transistor
TF/TA Terrain Following/Terrain Avoidance ( radar or missile seeker )
TFW Task Force Web ( U.S. Navy )
TGIF Tactical Ground Intercept Facility
TGW Terminal Guidance Warhead
TH Time Hopping
Thaad Theater High Altitude Area Defense ( Army )
THAGG Tactical High Anti-jam GPS Guidance
THD Total Harmonic Distortion
THEL Tactical High-Energy Laser
THEMIS Thermal Emission Imaging System ( e.g., satellite-borne )
THEPS Transportable Hybrid Electric Power System ( e.g., generates power from renewable sources )
THHR Tactical Hand-Held Radio
THOR TeraHertz Operational Reachback ( DARPA program ca 2003 )
THP Take Home Package ( military operations/exercise lessons-learned and recommendations )
THS Tactical Hybrid Switch
THSDN Tactical High-Speed Data Network
THz TeraHertz ( Trillion Hertz )
TI Targeted Individual; Tactical Internet; Terrestrial Interference ( e.g., satellite communications )
TIA Technology Investment Agreement; Total Information Awareness; Terrorism Information Awareness
TIALD Thermal Imaging and Laser Designator ( U.K. ); Thermal Imaging Airborne Laser Designator ( U.K. )
TIARA Tactical Intelligence And Related Activities
TiB tebibytes - ( e.g., binary tera: 240 ), equal to 210 GiB ( gigibytes )
TIBS Tactical Information Broadcast Service; Tactical Information Broadcast System
TICCS Tactical Information Command and Control System
TID Tactical Image Display; Threat Identification ( e.g., table )
TIDES Translingual Information Detection, Extraction and Summarization
TIDLS Tactical Information Data Link System ( Sweden )
TIE Time Internal Errors
T/IED Training / Improvised Explosive Devices ( also TIED )
TIG Tactical Interface Gateway ( modular device to allow legacy tactical voice & radio networks to operate on state-of-the-art IP networks )
TIGER Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing ( population database ); Triangulation for Generic Evaluation of Risks ( e.g., DARPA program ca 2005 )
TIGERNET Tactical Ground Reporting Network (USAF)
TII Target Impact Indicator
TILL Track-Illumination Laser ( e.g., part of the ABL )
TIM Tactical Internet Model; Thermal Interface Material ( e.g., zinc oxide silicone heat sink grease )
TIMS TFCC Information Management System; The Institute of Management Science; Training Integration Management System
TINS Thermal Imaging Navigation Set; Tactical Inertial Navigation System
TIP Terminal Interface message Processor
TIPI Tactical Imagery Processing Intelligence
TIPHON Telecommunications & Internet Protocol Harmonization Over Networks
TIPS Tactical Intelligence Processing System; Thermal Imaging Processing System; Tactical Imagery Processing System; Trans-Atlantic Industrial Proposed Solution ( industrial proposal to NATO ); Theater Injection Point System
TIS Thermal Imaging System; Trials Instrumentation System ( U.K. ); Tactical Input Segment ( e.g., for reconnaissance imagery ); Thermal Imaging Sight; Thermal Imaging Sensor
TISS Thermal Imaging Sensor System ( replacement for the NMMS - Navy Mast-Mounted Sight, circa 2004 )
TITAAN Theatre-Independent Tactical Army and Air force Network ( Netherlands )
TIXS Tactical Information Exchange System
TJS Tactical Jamming System
TKAP Transmitter Keep-Alive Program
TKO Target Kill & Observation
TLAM Tomahawk Land Attack Missile
TLAM-N Tomahawk Land Attack Missile - Nuclear
TLB Translation Look-aside Buffer ( computers )
TLD Top Level Domain ( Internet )
TLDHS Target Location Designated Handoff System; Target Location, Designation and Handoff System
TLE Target Location Error
TLP Tactical Leadership Program ( e.g., NATO fighter training )
TLS Transport Layer Security; Through Life Support ( Australia )
TLWR Top Level Warfare Requirement
TM Terrain Masking; TeleMetering; Tactical Missile
T&M Time and Material ( contract )
TMA Target Motion Analysis
TMC Test Management Center
TMCS Tactical Mobile Communications System ( New Zealand )
TMD Theater Missile Defense; Tactical Munitions Dispenser; Tactical Missile Defense
TMD GBR Theater Missile Defense Ground-Based Radar
TMM Transfer Matrix Method ( fiber optics )
TMP Tactical ManPack ( e.g., U.K. IED jammer )
TMRS Telephone Maintenance Radio System
TMRU Tunable Microwave Receiver Unit
TMS Target Management System; Transport Management System
TMSR Timing Mark Shift Register ( Radio )
TMUX Transmultiplexer
T-MUX Transmultiplexer
TN Tactical Navigation; Twisted-Nematic ( material; e.g., LCD )
T/N Targeting and Navigation
TND The Next Dimension
TNG The Next Generation
TNL Target Nomination List ( e.g., in Theater Air Planning )
TNOSC Theater Network Operations and Security Center
TNS Tactical Need Statement
TO Training Officer
TOA Time of Arrival; Total Obligation Authority
TOAD Towed Off-board Active Decoy ( U.K. )
TOC Test Observation Center; Total Ownership Cost ( e.g., of a weapons system ); Table Of Contents; Temporary Operations Center; Tactical Operations Center
TOD™ Tactical Ocean Data
TOE Table Of Organization and Equipment
TOEW Transitory Offensive Electronic Warfare
TOFT Tactical Operational Flight Trainer
TOI Target(s) Of Interest
TOMS-EP Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer - Earth Probe
TOPS Thousand Operations per Second; Total Operating Paperless System
TOPSCENE Tactical Operational Scene
TOR Tentative Operational Requirement
TORC2H Integrated Operational Headquarters and Maneuvering Forces Command & Control System ( Israel )
TORT Tactical Operational Readiness Trainer ( e.g., P-3C crew simulator )
TOS Terms Of Service ( networks ); Transportable Optical System
TOT Time On Target; Time Over Target; TOTal
TOTEM Target Obscuration using Tactical ECM Modulation
TOW Tube-launched Optically-tracked Wire-guided ( missile )
TPA Transistor Power Amplifier
TPC Turbo Product Coding
TPCS Team Portable COMINT System; Team Portable Collection System
TPDIS Tactical Pointing Determination of Imaging Spacecraft
TPED Tasking, Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination ( e.g., of reconnaissance IMAGERY )
TPEW Technology Panel for Electronic Warfare
TPFDD Time-Phased Force Deployment Data
TPIPT Technical Planning Integrated-Product Team
TPM Trusted Platform Module
TPOD Tactical Pod ( e.g., aircraft pod for carrying sensors )
TPP Theoretical Peak Performance
TPS Thermal Protection System
TPSB Transportable Port Security Boat
TPSO Theater Precision Strike Operations
TPU Torpedo Propulsion Unit
TPV ThermoPhotoVoltaic
TQdM Total Quality data Management
TQG Tactical Quiet Generator
TQM Total Quality Management
TQS Total Quality Service
T/R Transmit/Receive
T&R Training & Readiness
TR Technical Report; Technology Requirement; TRansmit; Transitional Radiation
TRAC Tactical Radar Correlator
TRAC-A Total Radiation Aperture Control Antenna
TRACALS Traffic Control and Landing System
TRACER Tactical Reconnaissance Armored Combat Equipment Requirement
TRACS Tactical Radio Acquisition Countermeasures System; Tactical Radio Acquisition Countermeasures Subsystem
TRADEX Target Resolution and Discrimination Experiment
TRAIL Technical Reports Awareness Internet Links
TRAINS Threat Reactor Analysis Indicator System; Threat Reactor Analysis and Indication System
TRANSARMOR TRANSparent ARMOR ( high-strength glass )
TRANSEC Transmission Security
TRAP Tactical Receive equipment and related APplications; TADIX-B and Related APplications; Tactical Recovery of Aircraft and Personnel; Telepresent Rapid Aiming Platform ( e.g., for sniper weapons )
T-Rays Terahertz radiation
TRD Towed Radar Decoy
TRE Tactical Receive Equipment
TRECS Tactical Radar Electronic Combat System
TREE Transient Radiation Effects in Electronics; A series of specialized EW equipment employed by FEWSG
TREPS Tropospheric Refractive Effects Prediction System ( Australia )
TRF Tuned Radio Frequency (e.g., as opposed to Superheterodyne)
TRILS Tactical Radar Identification and Locating System
TRIMMS Transmit/Receive Integrated Multichannel Modules ( Navy )
TRIS Transition Radiation Interference Spectrometer
TRI-TAC Tri-Service Tactical Communications
TRIXS Tactical Reconnaissance Intelligence Exchange Service; Tactical Reconnaissance Intelligence Exchange System
TRIZ Theory of Inventive Problem Solving
TRJ Tactical Radar Jammer
TRL Technology-Readiness Level ( e.g., for a "key" technology )
TROJAN SPIRIT Trojan Special Purpose Intelligence Remote Integrated Terminal ( e.g., satellite connectivity application )
TRON The Real-time Operating (system) Nucleus
TROV Telepresence-controlled Remotely Operated Vehicle
TRP Technology Reinvestment Program
TRR Tactical Radar Receiver
TRRIP Theater Rapid Response Intelligence Package
TR/S Tactical Reconnaissance/ Surveillance ( Also TSR)
TRS Tele-Operator Retrieval System; Tactical Reconnaissance System
TRSS Tactical Remote Sensor System
TRTG Tactical Radar Threat Generator
TRU TRansUranic ( Plutonium-contaminated items: clothing, tools, rags... )
TRUEX Training in Urban Environment Exercise
TRUST Transparent Reconfiguration Ubiquitous Terminal
TRV Tower Restoral Vehicle
TS Top Secret ( security classification ); Training Simulator
TSABI Top Secret And Below Interoperability
TSACP Theater Security Assistance Cooperation Plan
TSAM Tri-service Standoff Attack Missile
TSAS Tactile Situational Awareness System
T-SAT Tactical Satellite
TSAT Transformational Satellite ( program ); Transformation Communications Satellite
TSC Technical Support Center; Theater Surface Combatant; Total Ship Computer ( system )
TSCA Toxic Substance Control Act ( e.g., of 1976 )
TSCE Total Ship Computing Environment ( e.g., for the DDX )
TSCM Tactical Strike Coordination Module
TSD Tactical Situation Display
TSE Tactical Signals Exploitation
TSEC Telecommunications Security
TSES Tactical Signals Exploitation System
TSG Tactical Shelter Group ( e.g., "Humvee"-mounted command-and-control center )
T-SGT Transportable - Satellite Ground Terminal
TSP Tracking Signal Processor; Target Signal Processor; Telecommunications Service Priority; Tactical SIGINT Payload; Tactical Service Provider ( DoD project ca 2007 )
TSPI Time-Space -Position Information ( GPS )
T-SPIL with DSI Threat Signal Processor-In-the-Loop with Detailed Scene Injection (simulation)
TSR Tactical Surveillance & Reconnaissance ( See TR/S )
TSS Tactical Surveillance Sonobuoy; Thermal Surveillance System; Tethered Satellite System; Target Sight System; Tactical Soft Shelter; Target Sight System ( e.g., for helicopters )
TSSAM Tri-Service Stand-off Attack Missile
TSSE Total Ship Systems Engineering
TSSR Troposcatter/Satellite/Support Radio
TST Time Sensitive Targeting; Total Ship Training
TSTNT Time Sensitive Targeting Network Technology
TSTA Tailored Ship's Training Availability
TSTN Triple Super-Twisted Nematic ( LCD display system )
TT-CAN Time Triggered Controller Area Network
TT&C Telemetry, Tracking and Commanding; Telemetry, Tracking and Control ( e.g., cryptographic equipment )
TTA Trusted Transfer Agent ( software )
TTC&M Telemetry, Tracking, Control & Monitoring
TTH Tactical Transport Helicopter ( NATO )
TTI Time-To-Impact; Tactical Tomahawk Initiative; Tactical Timeliness Index
TTL Transistor-Transistor Logic; Torpedo-Tube Launch; Time-to-Live ( e-mail/Internet term )
TTNT Tactical Targeting Network Technology
TTO Technology Transition Office ( USAF )
TTP Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures; Trusted Third Party ( cryptography ); Time-Triggered Protocol
TTR Target Tracking Radar
TTS Text-to-Speech; Transmission Test Set; Total Training System
TTT Time To Train
TTU Trigger Transmitter Unit ( e.g., for grenade launchers )
TTWCS Tactical Tomahawk Weapon-Control System; Tactical Tomahawk Weapons Control Systems
TTY Teletypewriter
Tu Tupolev ( Soviet aircraft manufacturer )
TUAV Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
TULIP Through Life Interoperability Planning
TUSK Tactical Urban Survival Kit ( program )
TUSW Theater Undersea Warfare
TUT Target Under Test (e.g., in an anechoic chamber); Tanks Under Trees ( Air Force )
TUV Tactical Unmanned ( ground ) Vehicle
TV Television; Technical View ( e.g, architectural framework products, which includes All Views [AV], Operational Views [OV], System Views [SV], Technical Views [TV] )
TVC Thrust Vector Control
TVG "Tare Victor George" - World War II USN signal for "Well Done" ( replaced by "Bravo Zulu" (BZ) in the mid-1950s)
TVM Track Via Missile ( e.g., missile homing system )
TVS Television Section ( category of microwave radio route ); Television Sensor
TVSS Toroidal Volume Search Sonar
TW Threat Warning; Thermobaric Weapon; Tactical Warning
TWAA Tactical Warning And Assessment
TWACN Theatre-Wide Area Communications Network
TW/AR Threat Warning/Attack Reporting
TWCP Tape-Wrapped ( rayon-based ) Carbon fiber Phenolic matrix ( re-entry body heat shield )
TWCS Tomahawk Weapon Control System
TWD Threat Warning Display
TWE Threat-Warning Equipment
TWF Threat Warning Function; Tail Warning Function
TWG Technology Working Group
TWIDS Taut Wire Intrusion Detection System
TWIP Twentieth of a Point
TWS Track While Scan; Tail Warning System; Thermal Weapon Sight; Threat Warning System
TWT Traveling Wave Tube; Tantalum Warhead Technology
TWTA Traveling Wave Tube Amplifier
TWV Tactical Wheeled Vehicle
TWX Teletypewriter Exchange Service
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