Defense terms starting with A

525 terms

  1. AltAir Project name for the feasibility demonstration of a short range, air drop, ballistic missile target, dropped from a C-130 cargo aircraft. 16
  2. Alternate National Military Command Center (ANMCC) An element of the National Military Command System (NMCS), which serves as an alternate to the NMCC. Located at Ft. Ritchie, MD.
  3. Alternate Processing and Correlation Center (APCC) NORAD capability in USSTRATCOM Command Post that receives, processes, and analyzes TW/AA information.
  4. Alternate Space Defense Operations Center (ASPADOC) The backup to the SPADOC, maintained by the Naval Space Command, at Dahlgren, VA, collocated with the NAVSPOC and NAVSPASUR.
  5. ALU Arithmetic Logic Unit.
  6. AM area manager.
  7. AMC (1) Air Mobility Command, Scott AFB, IL. (2) Army Materiel Command. (3) Midpoint Compromise Search Area. (4) Acquisition Method Code.
  8. AMCOM Army Aviation and Missile Command (Oct. 1996).
  9. AMD Amend
  10. AMDF Army Master Data File
  11. AMDS Active Missile Defense System.
  12. AMDTF Air and Missile Defense Task Force (US Army term)
  13. AMEMB American Embassy.
  14. AMFB Acquisition Management Functional Board.
  15. AMG Antenna mast group.
  16. AMOR Army Missile Optical Range.
  17. AMOS Automatic Meteorological Observing System
  18. AMP Abbreviation for adenosine monophosphate.
  19. AMRAAM Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile.
  20. AMS 1. Air Mass - a body of air covering a relatively wide area and exhibiting horizontally uniform properties. 2. American Meteorological Society
  21. AMSAA Army Materiel Systems Analysis Agency.
  22. AMSDL Acquisition Management System Data Requirements Control List.
  23. AMT Amount
  24. AMTB Attack Management Test Bed
  25. AMTL Army Materials Technology Laboratory.
  26. AN/TPS-59 USMC Firefinder radar.
  27. ANALYZE Static Code Analyzer.
  28. ANIK E1 Canadian telecommunications satellites name.
  29. ANL Argonne National Laboratory
  30. ANMCC Alternate National Military Command Center .
  31. ANMD Army National Missile Defense.
  32. ANN Artificial Neural Networks.
  33. ANSI American National Standards Institute - a private, non-profit organization that administers and coordinates the U.S.
  34. Antenna Area The ratio of the power available at the terminals of an antenna to the incident power density of a plane wave from the direction polarized.
  35. Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) The term used for Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) weapons developed to negate the ballistic missile threat in the late 60s and early 70s.
  36. Anti-Ballistic Missile System A system designed to counter strategic ballistic missiles or their elements in flight.
  37. Anti-Radiation Missile (ARM) A missile that homes passively on a radiation source.
  38. Anti-Simulation The process of introducing random variations to the signature characteristics of an object in order to cause misidentification of the object by the…
  39. Antiair Warfare Action required to destroy or reduce to an acceptable level the enemy air and missile threat.
  40. Antisatellite Weapon (ASAT) A weapon designed to destroy satellites in space. The weapon may be launched from the ground, from an aircraft, or be based in space.
  41. AO area office.
  42. AOA At or above
  43. AOC Air Operations Center.
  44. AOCC Air Operations Control Center.
  45. AOEC Aero-Optic Evaluation Center, Buffalo, NY.
  46. AOI Active Optical Imager.
  47. AOP annual operating plan.
  48. AOR Area of Responsibility.
  49. AOS OBSOLETE. Airborne Optical Sensor.
  50. AOSP Advanced On-Board Signal Processor.
  51. AOTF Acousto -Optic Tunable Filter.
  52. AP analysis plan.
  53. APB Acquisition Program Baseline.
  54. APBI Advanced Planning Briefing to Industry (MDA).
  55. APCC Alternate Processing and Correlation Center.
  56. APDP Acquisition Professional Development Program.
  57. APEX The portion of a root or shoot containing the primary or apical meristem.
  58. API Ascent-Phase Intercept.
  59. APIPT Acquisition Planning IPT (PAC-3 term).
  60. APL An aggressive (fast-growing) type of acute myeloid leukemia in which there are too many immature blood-forming cells in the blood and bone marrow.
  61. APLE Average Power Laser Experiment.
  62. APM Advanced Penetration Model.
  63. APMA Acquisition Program Management Agreement.
  64. APO Arizona Projects Office.
  65. APOD Aerial Point of Debarkation.
  66. Application Under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA), an oral or written request for an extension of credit that is made in accordance with the procedures…
  67. Apportionment (1) A determination made by the Office of Management and Budget which limits the amount of obligations or expenditures that may be incurred during a…
  68. Appropriation The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified…
  69. Appropriation(s) An authorization by an act of Congress that permits Federal agencies to incur obligations and make payments from the Treasury.
  70. Approved Program The technical and operational, schedule, and quantity requirements reflected in the latest approved USD (A) ADM, or other document reflecting a more…
  71. APPS Automated POM Preparation Instruction.
  72. APS (1) Axial Propulsion System. (2) Automatic Phasing System.
  73. APT Acquisition, Pointing, and Tracking.
  74. APU Auxiliary Power Unit.
  75. AR Army
  76. ARB Accreditation Review Board.
  77. arc (1) Advanced Research Center, US Army, Huntsville, AL. (2) Atlantic Research Corporation.
  78. ARC/SC Advanced Research Center/Simulation Center.
  79. ARCCC Army Component Command Center.
  80. Architectural Design The process of defining a collection of hardware and software components and their interfaces to establish the framework for the development of a computer…
  81. Architecture Integration Study (AIS) A study to determine the performance of alternative architectures and element designs that satisfy BMD System mission requirements, and to evaluate the…
  82. ARCT Advanced Radar Component Technology.
  83. ARDSOC Army Defense System Operations Center.
  84. ARE Aerothermal Reentry Experiment.
  85. Area Air Defense Commander (AADC) The person given overall responsibility for air defense within an overseas unified command, subordinate unified command, or a joint task force.
  86. Area Defense Defense of a broad geographical area that contains both military and civilian assets (i.e., depots, towns/cities). (USSPACECOM)
  87. Area of Influence The area covered by the drawdown curves of a given pumping well or combination of wells at a particular time.
  88. Area of Interest (AOI) The area of influence and surrounding areas that is of concern to the commander for the objective of current and planned operations.
  89. Area of Operations That portion of an area of war necessary for military operations and for the administration of such operations.
  90. ARFOR Army Forces.
  91. ARGUS Advanced Real-time Gaming Universal Simulation.
  92. ARH Anti-Radiation Homing.
  93. ARI Army Research Institute
  94. ARIES Active Radio Interferometer for Explosion Surveillance.
  95. ARL Airborne Reconnaissance-Low (USA term) [circa 1996 = Reconnaissance equipment in Dash-7 airplane].
  96. ARM See: adjustable rate mortgage.
  97. Arms Export Control Board (AECB) An interagency board, chaired by the Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science, and Technology, that serves to advise the Secretary of…
  98. Army Brigade Center (ARBC) The Army center between the ARSPOC and the ARROC with C2 responsibilities for BMD.
  99. Army Component Command Center (ARCCC) A segment of the Command and Control Element, which replicates capabilities of the CCC (BMD) segment and provides administrative and logistics support to…
  100. Army Materiel Command (AMC) Performs the assigned materiel functions of the Department of the Army, including research and development; product improvement; human factors…