AASP

Army Automation Security Program

ACAB

Air Cavalry Attack Brigade

ACCESS

Army Computer Entry Store System

ACCS-82

Army Command and Control Study-82

ACSAC

Assistant Chief of Staff for Automation and Communications

ACSI

Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence

ACT

Advanced Concepts Team

ACVT

Armored combat vehicle technology

ADAM

Area denial artillery munition

ADDS

Army Data Distribution System

ADP

Automatic Data Processing

ADPA

American Defense Preparedness Association

ADPS

Automatic Data Processing System

AFEES

Armed Forces Examining and Entrance Stations

AFQT

Armed Forces Qualification Test

AFMCO

Army Force Modernization Coordination Office

Agent Orange

An herbicide used by the U.S. Army in South Vietnam.

ALOC

Air Line of Communications

AMEDD

Army Medical Department

AMIP

Army Model Improvement Program

AMM

Army Mobility Model

AMOPS

Army Mobilization and Operations Planning System

AMPS

Army Mobilization Planning System

ANC

Army Nurse Corps

ANORAK EXPRESS

A multinational NATO field exercise conducted in Norway.

ANVIS

Aviators Night Vision Imaging System

AOS

Army Optical Station

APAP

Army Pollution Abatement Program

APAS

Air-transportable, protected antiarmor/assault capable system

APOE

Aerial Ports of Embarkation

ARCSA III

Aviator, Requirements for the Combat Structure of the Army III

ARMIS

Army Reserve Management Information System

ARMRS

Army Readiness and Mobilization Regions

ARNG

Army National Guard

ARSTAF

Army staff

ARWIN

Army WWMCCS Intercomputer Network

ASAC

Automated System for Army Commissaries

ASAP

Administrative Systems Acceleration Plan

ASARC

Army Systems Acquisition Review Council

ASAS

All Source Analysis Systems

ASB

Army Science Board

ASC

Army Staff Council

ASSLT

Assault

ASVAB

Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery

ATC

Air Training Command

ATFES

Automated Tactical Frequency Engineering System

ATP

Ammunition transfer point

ATRRS

Army Training Requirements and Resources System

ATT

Attack

AUS

Army of the United States

AUTODIN

Automatic Digital Network

AVRADCOM

Aviation Research and Development Command

AWACS

Airborne Warning and Control System

BAC

Boeing Aerospace Company

BAO

Battalion administrative officer

BASOPS

Base Operating Information System

BETA

Battlefield Exploitation Target Acquisition

BMD

Ballistic missile defense

BMDSCOM

BMD Systems Command

BMM

Borrowed military manpower

BOIP

Basis of Issue Plan

BTD

Battalion Training Day

BTMS

Battalion Training Management System

BTU

British Thermal Units

BTUH

British thermal units per hour

BWES

Basewide Energy Studies

C3

Communications, command, control

CAA

Concepts Analysis Agency

CAC

Combined Arms Center

CACDA

Combined Arms Combat Development Activity

CAPSTONE

An Army organizational program for mobilization in which National Guard units are formed into preorganized packages, each with a specific mission.

CBT

Combat

CDPS

Consolidated Decision Package Sets

CERCOM

Communication Electronics Readiness Command

CERS

Carrier Evaluation and Reporting System

CERTAIN LANCER

A command training exercise.

CEWI

Combat Electronic Warfare Intelligence

CM

Communications, command, control, and intelligence

CILHI

Central Identification Laboratory, Hawaii

CINCPAC

Commander in Chief, Pacific

CINCLANT

Commander in Chief, Atlantic

CIPD

Concept Initial Program Definition

CITA

Commerical-industrial -type -activities

CIUS

Corps Interim Upgrade System

CNAD

Conference of National Armaments Directors

COBRA JUDY

A shipborne S-band radar signature collection system designed to provide intelligence data.

COE

Corps of Engineers

COMUSKOREA

Commander, United States Forces, Korea

CSS A/C

Combat Service Support Automation and Communications

CONUS

Continental United States

Copperhead

A field artillery projectile fired from conventional weapons

CORPS 86

Heavy Corps 86

CPR

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

CRC

CONUS Replacement Center

CSA

Chief of Staff, U.S. Army

CSBS

Combat-to-Support Balance Study

CSM

Chief of Staff Memorandum

CSOP

College Student Officer Program

CSPR

Chemical System Program Review

CSRA

Civil Service Reform Act

CWAR

Continuous wave acquisition radar

DARCOM

Materiel Development and Readiness Command

DARPA

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

DAS3

Decentralized Automated Service Support System

DCS

Defense Communications System

DCSLOG

Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics

DCSOPS

Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations

DCII

Defense Central Index and Investigations

DDTE

Director, Defense Test and Evaluation

DEPMAS

Deployment Management System

DFSC

Defense Fuels Supply Center

DIA

Defense Intelligence Agency

DIRT-III

Dusty Infrared Test-III

DIRTRAN

Disturbed infrared transmission

DIRTY

The presence of natural and man-made obscurants (dust, fog, rain, smoke, etc., and use of countermeasures).

DIV 86

Heavy Division 86

DIVAD

Division Air Defense

DLA

Defense Logistics Agency

DLOGS

Division Logistics System

DMATS

Defense Metropolitan Area Telephone System

DNA

Defense Nuclear Agency

DOD

Department of Defense

DOPMA

Defense Officer Personnel Management Act

DOT

Designated optical tracker

DPI

Data Processing Installation

DS

Direct Support

DSARC

Defense System Acquisition Review Council

DSCS

Defense Satellite Communication System

DSSCS

Defense Special Security Communications System

EAC

Echelons above corps

ECAC

Electromagnetic Compatability Analysis Center

ECAP

Enhanced Cobra Armament Program

ECIP

Energy Conservation Investment Program

EEAP

Energy Engineering Analysis Program

EFMP

Enlisted Force Management Plan

EMCS

Energy Monitoring Control System

EMTMS

Enlisted Mobilization Training and Management System

EO

Executive Order

EOSAEL

Electro-optical systems atmospheric effects library

EPA

Environmental Protection Agency

ES

Executive Schedule

ETS

European Telephone System

EUSA

Eighth United States Army

EW

Early Warning

FACTS

Facilities Assets Catalog and Tracking System

FAS

Force Accounting System

FASCAM

Family of scatterable mines

FCF, D

Foreign Currency Fluctuation, Defense

FDTE

Force development test and experimentation

FEED

Field exploitation and elevation data

FEMA

Federal Emergency Management Agency

FEORP

Federal Equal Opportunity Recruitment Program

FESS

Facilities Engineering Supply System

FHRSC

Federal Health Resources Sharing Committee

FLRA

Federal Labor Relations Authority

FORECAST

The Military Occupational Specialty, enlisted strength, and personnel management forecasting system.

FORDIMS

Force Development Integrated Management System

FORSCOM

Forces Command

FORTRAN

Formula Translation (a scientific programming language for computers)

FMTS

Field maintenance test set

FRG

Federal Republic of Germany

FSED

Full Scale Engineering Development

FTM

Full-time manning

GAO

General Accounting Office

GEMSS

Ground emplaced mine scattering system

GO IPR

General Officer In-Process Review

GPAS

General Performance Appraisal System

GPS

Global Positioning System

HAC

Hughes Aircraft Company

HHB

Headquarters and headquarters battery

HHC

Headquarters and headquarters company

HHD

Headquarters and headquarters detachment

Hellfire

A laser guided ballistic missile.

HELSTF

High Energy Laser Systems Test Facility

HIMAD

High to Medium Air Defense

HPSP

Health Professions Scholarship Program

HQDA

Headquarters, Department of the Army

HLG

High Level Group

HNS

Host Nation Support

HOE

Homing Overlay Experiment

HSC

Health Services Command

HTTB

High Technology Test Bed

HUMINT

Human Intelligence

ICETF

Interagency Coal Export Task Force

IRCM

Infrared common modules

ID 86

Infantry Division 86

IDOFOR

Improving the Definition of the Army Objective Force Methodology

IFF

Identification, friend or foe (radar)

IFS

Integrated Facilities System

IHawk

Improved Hawk

IISS

Intelligence Information Subsystem

I & KP

Instructor and key personnel

ILIR

In-house laboratory independent research

IMFL

Intensive Management Force List

ING

Inactive National Guard

INSCOM

Intelligence and Security Command

IPR

In-process review

IR

Infrared

IRM

Information Resource Management

ITV

Improved TOW Vehicle

IRR

Individual Ready Reserve

ISTAP

Intelligence, Surveillance, and Target Acquisition Program

ITAADS

Installation-The Army Authorization Documents System

ITAC

Intelligence Threat Analysis Center

ITEP

Interim Tactical Elint Processor

ITU

International Telecommunications Union

JACS

Joint Adjudication Clearance System

JAIEG

Joint Atomic Information Exchange Group

JCC

Joint Computer Center

JCRC

Joint Casualty Resolution Center

JCS

Joint Chiefs of Staff

JDA

Joint Deployment Agency

JDS

Joint Deployment System

JINTACCS

Joint Interoperability of Tactical Command and Control System

JITF

Joint Interface Test Facility

JOPS

Joint Operations Planning System

JTIDS

Joint Tactical Information Distribution System

KMR

Kwajalein Missile Range

LANDSAT

Land Satellite

LDP

Leader Development Plan

LDS

Layered Defense System

LMSC

Lockheed Missile and Space Company

LOGEX 80

A joint command post and training exercise

LOGSACS

Logistic Structure and Composition Systems

LRIP

Low Rate Initial Production

LSICP

Labor Saving Capital Investment Program

LTDP

Long Term Defense Program

MAA

Mission area analysis

MACOM

Major Army Command

MAGIIC

Mobile Army Ground Imagery Interpretation Center

MANPAD

Man Portable Air Defense

MCA

Military Construction, Army

MECH

Mechanized

MED

Message Element Dictionary

MDAC

McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company

MEACE

Military engineering applications for commercial explosives

MEDCASE

Medical Care Support Equipment

MELT

Minimum Equipment Levels for Training

MENS

Mission Element Need Statement

MEPCOM

Military Enlistment Processing Command

MERADCOM

Mobility Equipment Research and Development Command

MI

Military Intelligence

MICOM

Missile Command

MILPERCEN

Military Personnel Center

MMS

Mast-mounted-sight

MLRS

Multiple launch rocket system

MOBEX

The Army's portion of a joint exercise by the Army, Navy, Air Force, and other concerned federal government agencies, which was designed to review and practice all mobilization and deployment actions required during the first thirty days of a general war.

MOBPERS

Mobilization Personnel Processing System

MOD

Ministry of Defense

MODEX

Mobilization and Deployment Exercises

MPA

Military Personnel, Army

MOS

Military Occupational Specialty

MOU

Memorandum of Understanding

MOUT

Military operations in urbanized terrain

MQS

Military Qualification Standard

MRA & L

Manpower, Reserve Affairs, and Logistics

MCI

Meal, combat, individual