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APPENDIX E
Listing of Abbreviations and Acronyms
| AARS | Advanced Airborne Radiac System |
| ABL | Airborne Laser |
| ACADA | Automatic Chemical Agent Alarm |
| ACDA | U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency |
| ACE(s) | Areas for Capability Enhancements |
| ACPG | Aircrew Protective Garment |
| ACPM | Aircrew Protective Mask |
| ACS | AEGIS Combat System |
| ACTD | Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration |
| AEGIS | Navy shipboard air defense system |
| AERP | Aircrew Eye/Respiratory Protection |
| AEW | Airborne Early Warning |
| AICPS | Advanced Integrated Collective Protection System |
| AOR | Area of Responsibility |
| ASD(ISP) | Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Security Policy) |
| ASD(SO/LIC) | Assistant Secretary of Defense (Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict) |
| ATD | Advanced Technology Demonstration |
| ATR | Automatic Target Recognition |
| ATSD(NCB) | Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Nuclear and Chemical and Biological Defense Programs |
| AUP | Advanced Unitary Penetrator |
| AWACS | Airborne Warning and Control System |
| BDA | Battle (or Bomb) Damage Assessment |
| BIDS | Biological Integrated Detection System |
| bio | biological |
| Blk | Block (as in Block upgrade for a procurement item) |
| BM | Battle Management |
| BMDO | Ballistic Missile Defense Organization |
| BPI | Boost Phase Intercept |
| BW | Biological Warfare or Biological Weapons |
| CALIOPE | Chemical Analysis by Laser Interrogation of Proliferation Effluents |
| CBD | Chemical and Biological Defense (Program) |
| CBDP | Chemical and Biological Defense Program |
| CBIRF | Chemical/Biological Incident Response Force |
| CBMS | Chemical/Biological Mass Spectrometer |
| CBPS | Chemical/Biological Protective Shelter |
| chem | chemical |
| CINC | Commander-in-Chief |
| CINCSOC | CINC Special Operations Command |
| CJCS | Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| COCO | Contractor Owned, Contractor Operated |
| COEA | Cost and Operational Effectiveness Analysis |
| CONOPS | Concept of Operations |
| CONPLAN | Concept Plan |
| CONUS | Continental United States |
| CP | Counterproliferation |
| CPRC | Counterproliferation Program Review Committee |
| CPSP | Counterproliferation Support Program |
| CTBT | Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty |
| CTR | Cooperative Threat Reduction |
| CTTS | Counterterror Technical Support |
| CW | Chemical Warfare or Chemical Weapons |
| CWC | Chemical Weapons Convention |
| C2 | Command and Control |
| C3 | Command, Control, and Communications |
| C3I | Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence |
| C4I | Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence |
| DARPA | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency |
| DATSD(NCB)(CP) | Deputy for Counterproliferation to the ATSD(NCB) |
| DATSD(NCP)(NTPO) | Deputy for Nuclear Treaty Programs to the ATSD(NCB) |
| DCI | Director of Central Intelligence |
| decon | decontamination |
| demo | demonstration |
| DEM/VAL | Demonstration and Validation |
| DIA | Defense Intelligence Agency |
| DNA | Defense Nuclear Agency |
| DOC | Department of Commerce |
| DoD | Department of Defense |
| DOE | Department of Energy |
| DOS | Department of State |
| DSB | Defense Science Board |
| DT | Development Test |
| DTRG | Defense Technical Response Group |
| DTSA | Defense Technology Security Administration |
| EEE | Eastern Equine Encephalitis |
| ELF | Extremely Low Frequency |
| EMD | Engineering and Manufacturing Development |
| EOD | Explosive Ordnance Disposal |
| EUCOM | U.S. European Command |
| EURATOM | European Atomic Energy Agency |
| EWR | Early Warning Radar |
| FBI | Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| FDA | Food and Drug Administration |
| FLIR | Forward Looking Infrared |
| FOPEN | Foliage Penetration |
| FOWG | Fiber Optic Wave Guide |
| FOX | designator for the XM93 NBCRS armored vehicle |
| FSU | Former Soviet Union |
| FUE | First Unit Equipped |
| FY | Fiscal Year |
| FYDP | Future Years Defense Program |
| GAN | Russian Federal Nuclear Radiation and Safety Authority |
| GBU | Guided Bomb Unit |
| GPS | Global Positioning System |
| HAARP | High Altitude Auroral Research Project |
| HASCAL | hazard prediction code |
| HDBTDC | Hard and/or Deeply Buried Target Defeat Capability |
| HMMWV | High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (i.e., "Hum Vee") |
| HTI | High Temperature Incendiary |
| HTSF | Hard Target Smart Fuze |
| IAEA | International Atomic Energy Agency |
| IBAD | Interim Biological Agent Detector |
| ICAM | Improved Chemical Agent Monitor |
| ICBM | Intercontinental Ballistic Missile |
| IMEA | Integrated Munitions Effectiveness Analysis |
| INTELL | U.S. Intelligence |
| INF | Intermediate Nuclear Forces (Treaty) |
| IOC | Initial Operating Capability |
| IPB | Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield |
| IPDS | Improved Chemical Agent Point Detector System |
| IPP | Industrial Partnering Program |
| IPR | In-Process Review |
| IPT | Integrated Product Team |
| IR | Infrared |
| ITAG | Inertial Terrain Aided Guidance |
| JBPDS | Joint Biological Point Detection System |
| JBREWS | Joint Biological Remote and Early Warning System |
| JCS | Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| JMIP | Joint Military Intelligence Program |
| JPO-BD | Joint Program Office for Biological Defense |
| JROC | Joint Requirements Oversight Council |
| JSLIST | Joint Services Lightweight Suit Technology |
| JSTARS | Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System |
| JTIDS | Joint Tactical Information Distribution System |
| JWCA | Joint Warfighting Capabilities Assessment |
| JWCO | Joint Warfighting Capability Objectives |
| JWSTP | Joint Warfighting Science and Technology Plan |
| KKV | Kinetic Kill Vehicle |
| LANTIRN | Low Altitude Navigation and Targeting Infrared for Night |
| lb | pound |
| LEAP | Lightweight Exoatmospheric Projectile |
| lidar | Light Detection and Ranging |
| LLNL | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| LR-BSDS | Long Range Biological Standoff Detection System |
| LSCAD | Lightweight Standoff Chemical Agent Detection System |
| LTBT | Limited Test Ban Treaty |
| LWIR | Long Wavelength Infrared |
| MCTL | Militarily Critical Technologies List |
| MDS | Modular Decontamination System |
| MEA | Munitions Effectiveness Analysis |
| MEADS | Medium Extended Air Defense System |
| MICAD | Multipurpose Integrated Chemical Agent Detector |
| MILCON | Military Construction |
| MILSATCOM | Military Satellite Communications (System) |
| MINATOM | Ministry of Atomic Energy (Russia) |
| mods | modifications |
| MoU | Memorandum of Understanding |
| MPC&A | Material Protection, Control, and Accounting |
| MRI | Mutual Reciprocal Inspection |
| MS | Milestone |
| MS&T | Medical Science and Technology |
| NADS | Navy Area Defense System |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| NBC | Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical |
| NBCRS | Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Reconnaissance System (XM93 FOX armored vehicle) |
| NCA | National Command Authority |
| NDAA | National Defense Authorization Act |
| NDI | Non-Developmental Item |
| NERVE | an agent nonspecific BW detector |
| NEST | Nuclear Emergency Search Team |
| NFIP | National Foreign Intelligence Program |
| NIS | Newly Independent States |
| NMD | National Missile Defense |
| NPC | Nonproliferation Center |
| NPRC | Nonproliferation Program Review Committee |
| NPT | Nonproliferation Treaty |
| NTWS | Navy Theater-Wide System |
| NUDET | Nuclear Detonation |
| OATSD(NCB) | Office of the ATSD(NCB) |
| OCONUS | Outside the Continental United States |
| O&M | Operations and Maintenance |
| OSD | Office of the Secretary of Defense |
| OSIA | On-Site Inspection Agency |
| OT | Operational Test |
| PAC | Patriot Advanced Capability |
| PA&E | Program Analysis and Evaluation |
| PATS | Protection Assessment Test System |
| PDD | Presidential Decision Directive |
| PDM | Program Decision Memorandum |
| PDUSD(A&T/S&TS) | Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Strategic and Tactical Systems to the USD(A&T) |
| PE | Program Element |
| PKK | Kurdistan Worker's Party |
| POM | Program Objective Memorandum |
| P3I | Pre-Planned Product Improvement |
| Q | fiscal year quarter |
| Radiac | Radiation Detection, Indication, and Computation |
| R&D | Research and Development |
| RDT&E | Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation |
| recon | reconnaissance |
| RFP | Request for Proposals |
| RONS | Remote Ordnance Neutralization System |
| RSCAAL | Remote Sensing Chemical Agent Alarm |
| SALAD | Shipboard Automatic Liquid Agent Detector |
| SAM | Surface-to-Air Missile |
| SBIR | Small Business Innovation Research |
| SECDEF | Secretary of Defense |
| SEI | Specific Emitter Identification |
| SFAI | Swept Frequency Acoustic Interferometry |
| SHAPE | Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe |
| SM | Standard Missile |
| SOCOM | Special Operations Command |
| SOF | Special Operations Forces |
| SO/LIC | Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict |
| SR-BSDS | Short Range Biological Standoff Detection System |
| S&T | Science and Technology |
| START | Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty |
| STI | Safeguards, Transparency, and Irreversibility |
| TADIL-J | Tactical Data and Information Link |
| TBM | Theater Ballistic Missile |
| THAAD | Theater High Altitude Air Defense |
| TIARA | Tactical Intelligence and Related Activities |
| TMD | Theater Missile Defense |
| TSWG | Technical Support Working Group |
| TUGS | Tactical Unattended Ground Sensor |
| UAV | Unmanned Aerial Vehicle |
| UGS | Unattended Ground Sensor |
| UGV | Unmanned Ground Vehicle |
| ULF | Ultra Low Frequency |
| UN | United Nations |
| UNSCOM | United Nations Special Commission (Iraq) |
| U.S. | United States |
| USA | United States Army |
| USAF | United States Air Force |
| USD(A&T) | Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition and Technology) |
| USEUCOM | U.S. European Command |
| US INTELL | U.S. Intelligence |
| USMC | United States Marine Corps |
| USN | United States Navy |
| USSOCOM | U.S. Special Operations Command |
| UV | Ultraviolet |
| VEE | Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis |
| ver | version (software) |
| VLF | Very Low Frequency |
| VSS | Vented Suppressive Shield |
| VX | designator for a type of chemical nerve agent |
| WBS | Weapon Borne Sensor |
| WEE | Western Equine Encephalitis |
| WMD | Weapons of Mass Destruction |
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