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6,416 terms

Defense terms

  1. C<sup>4</sup>I Sufficiency USAF Program to cut C4I redundancy and O&M costs.
  2. C<sup>4</sup>ID Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence Dissemination.
  3. C<sup>4</sup>IFTW Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence For The Warrior (OJCS term).
  4. C<sup>4</sup>ISR Command, Control Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance.
  5. C<sup>4</sup>S Command, Control, Communication, and Computer Systems.
  6. CA Cloud-to-Air lightning.
  7. CA/CRL Custody Authorization/Custody Receipt List.
  8. CAA Cold Air Advection
  9. CAB Surgery in which a healthy blood vessel taken from another part of the body is used to make a new path for blood around a blocked artery leading to the…
  10. CAB VTC Cost Analysis Board Video Teleconference.
  11. CAC Combat Arms Command (USA, Ft. Levenworth, KS).
  12. CAD Coronary artery disease. A disease in which there is a narrowing or blockage of the coronary arteries (blood vessels that carry blood and oxygen to the…
  13. CADCI Common Air Defense Communications Interface.
  14. CADE Combined Allied Defense Experiment/Effort.
  15. CAE (1) Computer-Aided Engineering. (2) Component Acquisition Executive.
  16. CAESAR CONUS Attack Engagement Systems Requirements Simulation.
  17. CAG Collective Address Group.
  18. Cage Where the casino cashier is located.
  19. CAI Computer-Aided Inspection.
  20. CAIG Cost Analysis Improvement Group.
  21. CAIS Common Airborne Instrumentation System.
  22. CAIV Cost As an Independent Variable.
  23. CALM A weather condition when no air motion (wind) is detected.
  24. CALS (1) Computer-aided acquisition logistic support. (2) Continuous acquisition and life-cycle support.
  25. CAM Forms of treatment that are used in addition to (complementary) or instead of (alternative) standard treatments.
  26. CAMDEN Cooperative Air and Missile Defense Exercise Network.
  27. Campaign Plan A plan for a series of related military operations aimed to accomplish a common objective, normally within a given time and space.
  28. Candidate Sensors Any of the following sensors that could potentially be included in a National Missile Defense deployment: UEWR (BMEWS, PAVE PAWS), HAVE STARE, COBRA DANE…
  29. CAO Counter Air Operation.
  30. CAOC Combat Air Operations Center.
  31. Cap A cap is a ceiling, or the highest level to which something can go. For example, an interest rate cap limits the amount by which an interest rate can be…
  32. Capabilitiesbased Acquisition An acquisition strategy based on the principle of providing to the user capabilities as they are achieved, vice capabilities as measured against an…
  33. Capabilitiesbased Operational Requirements Document (ORD) A specialized version of the CJCSI 3701.1B formatted ORD that records the demonstrated operational performance of a base-lined BMDS capability and…
  34. Capability Assessment To determine the value /capability of the BMDS: technical performance, cost, schedule, and other factors included.
  35. Capability Specification Generally, but not entirely, equivalent to the term Performance Specification as used in a DoDI 5000.2/DFARS context.
  36. Capital Satellite A highly valued or costly satellite, as distinct from an inexpensive decoy satellite.
  37. CAPS See: cleaved amplified polymorphic sequence.
  38. Capstone Test and Evaluation Master Plan (Capstone TEMP) A Test and Evaluation Master Plan which addresses the testing and evaluation of a defense system comprised of a collection of stand alone component…
  39. CAR (1) Command Assessment Review (AF). (2) Configuration Audit Review. (3) Contract Assessment Report.
  40. CARD Your card is the physical card, the account number, or any device (including a check) that can be used to access your credit card account.
  41. CARM Counter Anti-Radiation Missile (PATRIOT).
  42. Carrier System A means of obtaining a number of channels over a single path by modulating each channel upon a different carrier frequency, and demodulating at the…
  43. Carrier Vehicle (CV) A space platform whose principal function is to house the space-based interceptors in a protective environment prior to use.
  44. CARS Consolidated Acquisition Reporting System.
  45. CAS (1) Close Air Support. (2) Computer-Aided Servicing. (3) Crisis Action System. (4) Cost Accounting Standard.
  46. CAS/M Computer-Aided Servicing/Maintenance.
  47. CASA Cost Analysis Strategy Assessment. 44
  48. CASE The last card of a certain rank in the deck. Example: "The flop came J-8-3; I've got pocket jacks, he's got pocket 8's, and then the case eight falls on…
  49. CASOM Conventionally Armed Stand Off Missile (USAF & UK RAF term).
  50. CASREP Casualty Report (USN term).
  51. CASS Consolidated Automated Support System.
  52. CAST Commercial Acquisition Streamlining Team (USAF team name).
  53. CAT (1) Computer Aided Testing. (2) Crisis Action Team. (3) Category.
  54. Cat House A second-generation Soviet phased array radar that augments Moscows existing search and target acquisition radars (Dog House).
  55. CATEX Categorical Exclusion (enviromental term).
  56. CATO (1) Combined Arms Tactical Operations (US Army). (2) OBSOLETE. Common Automated Tactical Operations.
  57. CATS Computer Aided Test System.
  58. CATT Combined Arms Tactical Trainer (US Army term).
  59. CB Cumulonimbus cloud, characterized by strong vertical development in the form of mountains or huge towers topped at least partially by a smooth, flat…
  60. CBD Abbreviation for Convention on Biological Diversity.
  61. CBM Central Battle Management.
  62. CBO Congressional Budget Office.
  63. CBR (1) Chemical, Biological, Radiological. (2) Concurrent Budget Resolution.
  64. CBS Corps Battle Simulation (US Army term).
  65. CBTDEV Combat Developer (US Army term).
  66. CBU (1) Cluster Bomb Unit. (2) Conference Bridge Unit.
  67. CBW Chemical Biological Warfare.
  68. CC Cloud-to-Cloud Lightning
  69. CC/SOIF OBSOLETE. Command Center/System Operation and Integration Functions. (See C2E and SOIF.)
  70. CCA See Capital consumption allowance (CCA), (private)
  71. CCA (ICE) Component Cost Assessment (Independent Cost Estimate).
  72. CCB (1) Community Counter terrorism Board. (2) Configuration Control Board. 45
  73. CCC (1) CINC Command Complex. (2) Component Command Center. (3) Consolidated Command Center (NMD BMC3 term)
  74. CCC (BMD) Consolidated Command Center (CCC) (BMD).
  75. CCCI Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence.
  76. CCCS Common Communications Component Set.
  77. CCD (1) Charge-Coupled Device. (2) Camouflage, Concealment, and Deception.
  78. CCE OBSOLETE. Command Center Element. Now called Command and Control Element (C2E).
  79. CCEB Combined Communications-Electronics Board (NATO term).
  80. CCEP Commercial COMSEC Endorsement Program
  81. CCEV Command Center Experimental Version.
  82. CCI Controlled Cryptographic Item
  83. CCIS Command and Control Information System.
  84. CCL Convective Condensation Level- The level in the atmosphere to which an air parcel, if heated from below, will rise dry adiabatically, without becoming…
  85. CCM Counter-Countermeasures.
  86. CCMPS Counter-Countermeasure Parametric Study.
  87. CCN (1) Contract Change Notice. (2) Configuration Change Notice.
  88. CCP Contract Change Proposal (Contracting term).
  89. CCP002 Contract Change Proposal (and number) (Contract Administration term).
  90. CCS Combat Control System (AEGIS).
  91. CCTV Closed Circuit Television
  92. CD a type of form designation such as Form CD435, meaning a Commerce Department form
  93. CD/V Concept Demonstration/Validation (DD 5000 term).
  94. CDA Central Design Activity (USAF term for Software Engineering Center).
  95. CDB Computing Development Branch (NCEP)
  96. CDCC Classified Document Control Center.
  97. CDD Cooling Degree Days- A form of degree day used to estimate energy requirements for air conditioning or refrigeration.
  98. CDE Conference on Confidence and Security-Building Measures and Disarmament in Europe. 46
  99. CDI (1) Conventional Defense Initiative. (2) Compressed Data Interface. (3) Classification, Discrimination, and Identification (PATRIOT).
  100. CDMA Code Division Multiple Access [Receiver].

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