Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Initialisms

A&I
Analysis & Integration

A&T
Acquisition and Technology

A-SPEC
System Specification

A/E/C
Architect/Engineer/Contractors

A/NM
Administrative/network management

AAAS
American Association for the Advancement of Science

AADL
Architecture Analysis and Design Language

AAH
Ada Adoption Handbook

AAIR
AI Language Research Institute

AAS
Advanced Automation System

ABA
American Bankers Association

ABAS
Attribute-Based Architectural Style

ABDR
Aircraft Battle Damage Repair

ABET
Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology

ABET
ATLAS/Ada-Based Environment for Test

ABF
Agile Bandpass Filter

ABICS
Ada-Based Integrated Control System

ABO
Air Base Operability

ACAT
Acquisition Capability

ACAT
Acquisition Category

ACCE
Ada Compiler Capability Evaluation

ACCF
Advisory Committee for Computing Facilities

ACDA
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

ACDS
Advanced Command Direction System

ACE
automatic computing engine

ACEC
Ada Compiler Evaluation Capability

ACECWG
ACEC (Ada Compiler Evaluation Capability) Working Group

ACI
Allocated Configuration Identification

ACIA
asynchronous communications interface adapter

ACK
acknowledge

ACL
Access Control List

ACM
Association for Computing Machinery

ACO
administrative contracting Officer

ACP
Associate Computer Professional

ACPA
Association of Computer Programmers and Analysts

ACPS
Ada Compiler Performance Test Suite and Test Evaluation Capability

ACS
Ada Compilation System

ACSAC
Annual Computer Security Applications Conference

ACSE
association control service element

ACSN
advance change study notice

ACT
Acoustic Change Transport

ACT
Annual Change Traffic

ACTD
Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration

ACTS
Adaptive Computerized Training System

ACV
Air Cushion Vehicle

ACVC
Ada Compiler Validation Capability

ACWP
actual cost of work performed

AD
Armament Division

ADAC
Accelerated Durability Assessment Configuration

ADAGE
Avionics Domain Application Generation Environment

AdaJUG
Ada Joint User's Group

ADAR
Ada Decimal Arithmetic and Representations

ADBG
Automatic Database Generation

ADC
Air Development Center

ADD
attribute-driven design

ADI
Air Defense Initiative

ADI
American Documentation Institute

ADI
Autodin - DDN Interface

ADL
Ada Design Language

ADL
architecture description language

ADM
Ada Development Method

ADM
Advanced Development Model

ADP
automatic data processing or automated data processing

ADPE
automated data processing equipment

ADR
Research and Development Service (FAA)

ADSL
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

ADT
abstract data type

ADT
acknowledged data transfer

ADT
Assign Digital Transmission Group

ADT
Associative Design Technology

ADT
Automatic Digital Tester

ADTAS
Automated Document/Transaction Accounting System

ADV
advanced

AE
Acquisition Executive

AE
Application Entity

AEA
American Electronics Association

AECS
Advanced Signal Processing - Executable Common Software

AEDC
Arnold Engineering Development Center

AEE
Application Execution Environment

AEO
Ada Executive Officer

AEP
application environment profile

AES
Ada embedded systems

AES
Ada Evaluation System

AES
Ada Evaluation System (United Kingdom)

AES
application environment specification

AESOP
Assistant for Evaluation of Software Practices

AEST
Ada Embedded Systems Testbed

AETC
Air Education and Training Command

AF
Air Force

AF
Audio Frequency

AF/MP
HQ USAF DCS/Manpower and Personnel

AFA
Air Force Academy

AFAC
Air Force Advisory Committee

AFALC
Air Force Acquisition Logistics Center - now ALD

AFALD
Air Force Acquisition Logistics Division - now AFD

AFAM
Air Force Acquisition Model

AFATDS
Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data Systems

AFATL
Air Force Advanced Technology Laboratory

AFB
Air Force Base

AFBRMC
Air Force business Research Management Center

AFC
Application Foundation Classes

AFC
Automatic Frequency Control

AFC2S
Air Force Command and Control System

AFC4A
Air Force Command, Computer, Control, Communication Agency

AFCA
Air Force Communications Agency

AFCAA
Air Force Cost Analysis Agency

AFCC
Air Force Communications Command

AFCEA
Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association

AFCMD
Air Force Contract Management Division

AFCOLR
Air Force Coordinating Office for Logistics Research - now AFOLTA

AFCSC
Air Force Cryptological Support Center

AFEA
Abbreviated Functional Economic Analysis

AFECO
Air Force Electronic Combat Office

AFEMS
Air force Equipment Management System

AFESC
Air Force Engineering and Services Center

AFFAC
Air Force Finance and Accounting Center

AFHRL
Air Force Human Resources Laboratory

AFIA
Air Force Instruction

AFIA
Air Forces Information Agency

AFIC
Air Force Intelligence Command

AFIPS
American Federation of Information Processing Societies, Inc.

AFIT
Air Force Institute of Technology

AFIWC
U.S. Air Force Information Warfare Center

AFL
abstract family of languages

AFLANSPO
Air Force Local Area Network System Program Office

AFLCM
Air Force Logistics Command Manual

AFLCP
Air Force Logistics Command Pamphlet

AFLIF
Air Force Logistics Information File

AFLMC
Air Force Logistics Management Center

AFM
Air Force MOnual

AFMC
Air Force Materiel Command

AFMCP
Air Force Materiel Command Pamphlet

AFMPC
Air Force Military Personnel Center

AFMPT
Air Force Manpower, Personnel, and Training

AFMS
Air Force Mission Support

AFNET
Air Force Network

AFOLTA
Air Force Office of Logistics Technology Application

AFOSR
Air Force Office of Scientific Research

AFOSS
application of formal software specifications

AFOTEC
Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center

AFP
Air Force Pamphlet (also AFPAM)

AFP
Approval for Full Production

AFPAM
Air Force Pamphlet (also AFP)

AFPI
Air Force part identification

AFR
Air Force Regulation

AFRES
Air Force Reserve

AFRL
Air Force Research Laboratory

AFRL/IFGB
Air Force Research Laboratory/ Defensive Information Warfare Branch

AFRPL
Air Force Rocket Propulsion Laboratory - now AL

AFS
Air Force station

AFS
Andrew File System

AFSAB
Air Force Scientific Advisory Board

AFSARC
Air Force Systems Acquisitions Review Council

AFSC
Air Force Specialty Code

AFSC
Air Force Systems Command

AFSC/CC
Commander of Air Force Systems Command

AFSC/CUE
Air Force Satellite Control Network Command User Element

AFSC/PLR
Air Force Systems Command/Product Assurance and Acquisition Logistics Deputy

AFSCM
Air Force systems command manual

AFSCR
Air Force systems command regulation

AFSPACECOM
Air Force Space Command

AFSSC
Air Force Standard Systems Center

AFT
Automated File Transfer

AFTO
Air Force technical order

AFTOMS
Air Force Technical Order Management System

AFWAL
Air Force Wright Avionics Laboratory

AFWAL/AA
Air Force Wright Aeronautical Laboratories/Avionics-now WRDC/AA

AFWAL/FI
Air Force Wright Aeronautical Laboratories/Flight Dynamics - now WRDC/FI

AFWAL/ML
Air Force Wright Aeronautical Laboratories/Materials - now WRDC/ML

AFWAL/PO
Air Force Wright Aeronautical Laboratories/Propulsion - now WRDC/PO

AGC
Automatic Gain Control

AGL
above ground level

AGM 114
HELLFIRE Tactical Missile

AGS
aircraft generation squadron

AHP
Analytic Hierarchy Process

AHPL
a hardware programming language

AI
Artificial Intelligence

AIA
Aeronautical Industries Association

AIA
Aerospace Industries Association of America, Inc.

AIAA
American Institute of Astronautics and Aeronautics

AIAG
Automotive Industry Action Group

AIB
Action Item Browser

AIC
Ada Information Clearinghouse

AIDE
Automated Inventory Distribution and Exchange

AIE
Ada integrated environment

AIEE
American Institute of Electrical Engineers

AIG
Address Indicator Group

AIGA
American Institute of Graphic Arts

AIM
Ada interactive monitor

AIM
APSE (A Programming Support Environment) interactive monitor

AIME
Association of Industrial Management and Economics

AIME
European Society for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

AIMS
Automatic Identification and Monitoring System

AIR
American Institutes for Research

AIR-STAFF
Air Force Headquarters Staff

AirCERT
Automated Incident Reporting-CERT

AIRK
Area Interswitch Rekeying Key

AIRMICS
Army Institute for Research in Management Information, Communications, and Computer Sciences

AIS
Adaptive Interference Suppression

AIS
Alarm Indicator Signal

AIS
automated information system (like MIS)

AIS
Avionics Intermediate Shop

AISF
Avionics Integration Support Facility

AISNCC
Artificial Intelligence Smart Network Communications Coordinator

AITRC
Applied Information Technologies Research Center

AITS
Adopted Information Technology Standards

AIX
IBM Advanced Interactive Executive Operating System

AJ
Anti-Jam

AJ/CM
Anti-Jam Control Model

AJPO
Ada Joint Program Office

AK
Automatic Remote Rekeying

AKD/RCU
Automatic Key Distribution/Rekeying Control Unit

AKDC
Automatic Key Distribution Center

AKM
Automated Key Management Center

AL
Acquisition Logistician

AL
Ada language

AL
Aluminum

AL
assembly language

AL
Astronautics Laboratory

ALBM
Air Land Battle Management (System)

ALBO
Automatic Line Build Out

ALC
Accounting Legend Code

ALC
Air Force Logistics Command

ALC
air logistics center

ALC
Assembler Language Code

ALCM
air launched cruise missile

ALD
Acquisition Logistics Division

ALE
Atomic Layer Epitaxy

ALERT
Air Logistics Early Requirements Test

Algol
algorithmic language

ALI
additional liability insurance

ALIWG
Ada Language Issues Working Group

ALM
ASSET Library Mechanism

ALMC
Army Logistics Management Center

ALMS
ASSET Library Management System

ALOAF
Asset Library Open Architecture Framework

ALP
Approval for Limited Production

ALS
Ada Language System

ALS
Advanced Launch System

ALS
Asset Library System

ALS/N
Ada Language System/Navy

Alsys
Ada Language Systems

ALT
Advanced Learning Technologies

ALU
arithmetic and logic unit

ALVEY
not an acronym; British software effort named for John Alvey

AMARC
Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center

AMASS
Aircraft Movement Area Safety System (FAA)

AMC
acquisition method coding

AMC
Air Force Air Mobility Command

AMC
Army Materiel Command

AMCCOM
Armament Munitions and Chemical Command

AMCEE
Association for Media-Based Continuing Education for Engineers

AMCOM
U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command

AMD
Advanced Micro Devices

AMDL
Abstract Module Description Language

AMHS
Automated Message Handling System

AMI
Alternate Mark Inversion

AMIDS
Advanced Multi-Media Information Distribution System

AMIS
Accounting Management Information System

AMME
Automated Multi-Media Exchange

AMMWS
Advanced Millimeter-Wave Seeker (AFSC)

AMP
Advanced Management Program

AMP
Aviation Maintenance Publishers

AMP
Avionics Modernization Program

AMPEE
Automated Missile Parts Expert Engineering

AMPS
a mission planning system

AMPS
Automated Mobility Processing System

AMPSSO
Automated Message Processing System Security Office (or Officer)

AMRAAM
Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile

AMRF
Automated Manufacturing Research Facility

AMS
American Management Systems

AMS
American Mathematical Society

AMS
ASSET Management System

AMS
Auto-Manual System

AMS
Autonomous Message Switch

AMSAA
Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity

AMSC
Air Force Materiel Support Command

AMSDL
acquisition management system and data requirements control list

AMT
Acquisition Management Team

AMTS
Advanced Multiplex Test System

AMW
Amphibious Warfare

AMWG
Architecture Methodology Working Group

AN/UYK
not an acronym; a type of military computer

ANCOAT
Annual National Conference on Ada Technology

ANCP
Adoptive Non-Linear Coherent Processor

ANDF
Architecture Neutral Distribution Format

ANDVT
Advanced Narrow Band Digital Voice Terminal

ANI
Automatic Number Identification

ANN
Artificial Neural Network

ANNA
Annotated Ada

ANNWG
Artificial Neural Network Working Group

ANR
Automatic Network Routing

ANS
Advanced Networking Services

ANS
American National Standards

ANS
Artificial Neural Systems

ANSI
American National Standards Institute

ANZUS
Australia-New Zealand-United States Treaty

AO
action Officer

AOA
angle of attack

AOB
Annual Operating Budget

AOR
Area of Responsibility

AOSP
Advanced On-board Signal Processor

AOSS
Automated Office Support Systems

AOTH
advanced over the horizon

AP
Acquisition Plan

AP
Application Processor

APB
Acquisition Program Baseline

APC
Adaptive Predictive Coding

APCR
analysis, prompting, checking, and reporting

APCS
Assembly Process for COTS-Based Systems

APD
Activity Precedence Diagram

APDC
Acquisition Professional Development Council

APDO
announcement of product development opportunity

APEC
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation

APES
Automated Patient Evacuation System

APF
Afloat Propositioned Forces

APFAT
Ada Program Flow Analysis Tool

API
Acquisition Program Integration

API
after project initiation

API
Application Program Interface

API&A
Acquisition Policy, Integrity and Accountability

APL
A Programming Language

APL
Approved Products List

APMIS
Automated Project Management System

APO
Army/Air Post Office

APOD
Aerial Port of Debarkation

APP
application portability profile

APPC
Advanced Program to Program Communications

APPL/A
A Process Programming Language/Ada (Arcadia)

APPN
Advanced Peer to Peer Networking

APR
Agency Procurement Request

APRF
Automated Password Retrieval Facility

APS
Automated Procurement System

APSE
Ada Programming Support Environment

APSEWG
Ada Programming Support Environment Working Group

APT
Application Productivity Tool

APTAAM
Advanced Processor Technology for Air-to Air-Missiles

APU
Auxiliary Power Unit

AQAP
Allied Quality Assurance Provision

AQCESS
Automated Quality of Care Evaluation Support System

AR
Access Rate

AR
Affiliate Relations

AR
Army Regulation

AR
Automation Resources

ARADS
Army Recruiting and Accession Data System

ARB
Acquisition Review Board

ARC
area reprogramming capability

ARC
Army Reuse Center

ARC
Assessment Requirements for CMMI

ARC
Appraisal Requirements for CMMI

ARFA
Allied Radio Frequency Agency

ARID
active reviews for intermediate designs

ARINC
Aeronautical Radio, Incorporated

ARINC
Aeronautical Research, Incorporated

ARINC
Aircraft Radio, Incorporated

ARIOC
Army Reserve Information Operations Command

ARL
Army Research Laboratory

ARL-UT
Applied Research Laboratory at University of Texas

ARM
Acquisition Risk Management

ARM
Ada Reference Manual

ARM
anti-radiation missile

ARM
Asynchronous Response Mode

ARMS
Automation Resources Management System

ARMSS
Acquisition Risk Management Source Selection

ARNG
Army National Guard

ARO
Acquisition Requirements Office

ARO
Army Research Office

ARP
Address Resolution Protocol

ARPA
Advanced Research Projects Agency

ARPANET
ARPA network

ARQ
Automatic Repeat Request

ARSC
Application of Reusable Software Components

ART
Advanced Real-Time

ART
Advanced Real-Time Technology

ART
Automated Reasoning Tool

ARTEWG
Ada Real-Time Environment Working Group

ARTX
Ada Real-Time Executive

AS
Acquisition Strategy

ASA
Advanced System Architecture

ASA (ALT)
Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology

ASAAC
Allied Standard Avionics Architecture Council

ASAALT
Assistant Secretary of the Army Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology

ASAM
Advanced Software Acquisition Management course

ASAP
Air Crew Systems Advisory Panel

ASAP
application service access point

ASAP
as soon as possible

ASARG
Autonomous Synthetic Aperture Radar Guidance

ASAT
anti-satellite

ASBCA
Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals

ASC
Accredited Standards Committee (ANSI)

ASC
Acquisition Segment Code

ASC
Administrative Support Center

ASC
Aeronautical Systems Center

ASC
application service class

ASC
Automatic Slope Control

ASC-X3
Accredited Standards Committee X3 for Information Technology

ASC/YT
Aeronautical Systems Command

ASC/YW
Aeronautical Systems Command Program Office for Simulators and Training Devices

ASCII
American National Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASCII
American standard code for information interchange

ASCM
Anti-Ship Cruise Missile

ASCON
associate contractor

ASD
Aeronautical Systems Division (Wright-Patterson AFB, OH)

ASD
Assistant Secretary of Defense

ASD
Avionics Embedded Systems Division

ASD/ISOL
Aeronautical Systems Division/Information Systems and Technology Center, Computer Operations Divisions, Language Control Branch

ASD/RWA
Aeronautical Systems Division/Inter-Command Electronic Warfare Management Directorate (ICEWMD) (Office symbol)

ASD/YWEE
Aeronautical Systems Division/Deputy for Simulators, Director of Engineering, Equipment Division

ASDF
Advanced Solution Development Framework

ASDP
Abbreviated System Decision Paper

ASE
Ada-Based Software Engineering

ASE
application service element

ASE
automotive stirling engine

ASE
System Engineering Service (FAA)

ASEET
Ada Software Engineering Education and Training

ASERC
Alberta Software Engineering Research Consortium

ASFM
Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Financial Management

ASG
Ada Structure Graph

ASIC
Application Specific Integrated Circuit

ASID
Advanced System Integration Demonstration

ASIM
Automatic Security Incident Management

ASIMS
Army Standard Information Management System

ASIP
Aircraft Structural Integrity Program

ASIS
Ada Semantic Interface Specification

ASIS
American Society for Industrial Security

ASIS
American Society for Information Science

ASK
Amplitude Shift Keying

ASL
application-specific language

ASM
adaptive security management

ASM
Anti-Ship Missile

ASM
Application of Software Models

ASMD
Anti-Ship Missile Defense

ASN
abstract system notation

ASN
Assistant Secretary of the Navy

ASN.1
Abstract Syntax Notation Number 1

ASN (FM&C)
ASN for Financial Management & Comptroller

ASN (I&E)
ASN for Installations and Environment

ASN (RDA)
ASN for Research, Development and Acquisition

ASO
Academic Sector Operations

ASO
Aviation Supply Office

ASOC
Air Support Operations Center

ASP
Acquisition Strategy Plan

ASP
Acquisition Support Program

ASP
Active Server Pages

ASP
Advanced Signal Processor

ASP
Application Service Provider

ASPJ
Advanced Self-Protection Jammer

ASPS
Advanced Speech Processing Station

ASQ
American Society for Quality

ASQC
American Society for Quality Control

ASR
Ada Software Repository

ASR
Automatic Send/Receive

ASR
Automatic Speech Recognition

ASRF
Aircraft Survivability Research Facility

ASRS
Automatic Storage and Retrieval System

ASSET
Ada Static Structure Evaluation Tool

ASSET
Asset Source for Software Engineering Technology

ASSET
Automated Software Support Entry System

ASSIP
Army Strategic Software Improvement Program

ASSP
Application Specific Standard Product

ASST-R
Analytic Software Sizing Tool- Real-Time

ASTA
Accelerating Software Technology Adoption

ASTAB
Automated Status Board

ASTERIX
Ada System for Embedded Real-Time Industrial Execution

ASTO
Advanced Systems Technology Office

ASU
Approval for Service Use

ASUW
Anti-Surface Warfare

ASVP
Ada Simulator Validation Program

ASW
Anti-Submarine Warfare

ASW
Anti-Submarine Warfare Department

AT&L
Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics

AT&L
Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (Undersecretary of Defense)

AT&T
American Telephone and Telegraph

AT&T
AT&T Bell Laboratories

ATA
Advanced Tactical Aircraft

ATA
Architecture Tradeoff Analysis

ATACS
Acquisition Tracking and Control System

ATAM
Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method

ATB
Advanced Tactical Bomber

ATC
Air Training command

ATCCCS
Advanced Technical Command, Control, and Communication System

ATCCS
Army Tactical Command and Control System

ATCD
Air Training Communications Division

ATCSS
Army Advanced Tactical Support System

ATD
Advanced Technology Demonstration

ATD
Automated Training Devices

ATDM
Adaptive Time Division Multiplexer

ATDS
Aircrew Training Devices

ATE
Automated Test Equipment

ATE
automatic test equipment or automated test equipment

ATEGG
Advanced Turbine Engine Gas Generator

ATESSE
ATE Software Support Environment

ATF
Advanced Tactical Fighter

ATI/SCRA
Advanced Technology Institute/ Society for Community Research and Action

ATIP
Ada Technology Insertion Program

ATIS
a tool interface standard

ATIS
a tools integration standard

ATIS
Atherton Tool Integration Services

ATL
automated tape library

ATLAS
Abbreviated Test Language for All Systems

ATM
Asynchronous Transfer Mode

ATMP
Advanced Technology and Management Programs (National Technological University)

ATMS
Assumption-Based Truth Maintenance System

ATO
Air Tasking Order

ATOC
Allied Tactical Operations Center

ATOS
Automated Technical Order System

ATP
Acceptance Test Procedures

ATP
Advanced Technology Program

ATP
Advanced Training Technologies Project

ATPGS
automatic test program generations

ATPS
Automated Test Planning System

ATS
Adaptive Troubleshooting System

ATSC
Army Training Support Center

ATSE
Army Test Program Set Support Environment

ATSS
Ada Target Sensor Subsystem Study

ATSS
Advanced Tactical Surveillance system

ATT
attitude data periodic message

ATTD
Advanced Technology Transition Demonstration

ATVS
Ada Test Validation System

ATWCS
Advanced Tomahawk Weapon Control System

AUSCERT
Australia CERT

AUSCERT
Australian CERT

AUT
Application Under Test
AUTODIN
Automatic Digital Network

AUTOSEVOCOM
Automated Secure Voice Communications

AUTOVON
Automated Voice Network

AUV
acceptable use policy

AV
Autovon

AV
Auxiliary Vector

AVI
Automated Vehicle Identification

AVO
Ada Validation Organization

AVORS
Automated Vehicle Operators Records System

AVP
Authorized Vendor Program

AVR
Automatic Voltage Regulation

AVSCOM
Aviation Systems Command

AVSM
air vehicle structural model

AVT
Automatic Video Tracker

AWACS
Airborne Warning and Control System

AWARES
Analysis of Wholesale and Retail System

AWC
Air War College

AWG
Architecture Working Group

AWID
Aircraft Weapons Integration Department

AWIPS
Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System

AWIS
Army WWMCC (World Wide Military Command and Control System) Information System

AWK
Aho, Weinberger, Kernighan

AWNAM
Automated Weather Network Communications

AWR
Air Worthiness Release

AWS
Air Weather Service

AWT
Abstract Windowing Toolkit