Acronyms

Second-and-a-half-generation mobile telephone system

Two

Second

Three

Third

Investors In Industry (venture capitalists)

Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company

Four-dimensional (usually three spatial plus one temporal dimension, sometimes 4 spatial ones)

Fourth-generation mobile telephone system

Fourth-generation programming language

Four Wheel Drive (cf. AWD)

acro (joke acronym)

Ampere

Atto

Armament & Standardisation

also known as

Air Conditioned/Conditioning - Aircraft

Analog/Digital

Anti-submarine

Anti

Army Airspace Command and Control

many, including: A4 paper size, an international standard paper size (210?297 mm) defined by ISO 216 - Audi A4, a brand of car - HMS A4, an A-class submarine of the Royal Navy - LNER Class A4, a class of steam locomotives, including the famous Mallard - Southern Winds, the Argentine airline, as its IATA code - V-2 rocket, as the actual model number for the German weapon - In town and country planning in the UK, A4 is the code for permission to use specific land or premises for pubs and bars. - An abbreviation for the website http://www.anime-forums.com - The UK Joint Force Air Component Headquarters - A4 Air Logistics branch

Achieved Availability - Alcoholics Anonymous -Armed Forces Americas (postal symbol) - Aruba (FIPS 10-4 territory code) -Assembly Area - Automobile Association- Avenue of Approach

Afar language (ISO 639-1 code)

Attoampere

Administration, Authorization, and Authentication - American Automobile Association ("Triple-A") - Anti-Aircraft Artillery - Amateur Athletic Association

American Association for Artificial Intelligence

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle

Army Air Corps (British Army)

Analogue-Analogue-Digital (CD quality) - Australian Antarctic Division

Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission

Area Air Defence Commander

Atlanta Alliance on Developmental Disabilities

Annual Average Daily Traffic flow

U.S. Army Air Corps Ferrying Command (1941-1942) - All-America Football Conference (1946?1949)

Army and Air Force Exchange Service

Applied Artificial Intelligence, Inc.

Advanced Airborne Interceptor Simulator

Air-to-Air Missile

American Academy of Nursing

Anglo-Australian Near-Earth Asteroid Survey

Atmospheric Aerosols and Optics Data Library

Advanced Acquisition Plan - Allied Administrative Publication - American Academy of Pediatrics

Accounting and Auditing Policy Committee

After-Action Review - Association of American Railroads

Afar language (ISO 639-2 code)

(i/s) American Association of Retired Persons (now officially known only by the initials)

Advanced Automation System - American Astronomical Society ("double-A-S")

Advanced Air-to-air System Performance Evaluation Model

Australian Antarctic Territory

Amphibious Assault Vehicle

Anti-Air Warfare Commander

Able Seaman (rank), Able Seaman (occupation) -Alberta (postal symbol)

Abkhaz language (ISO 639-1 code)

American Bar Association - American Basketball Association - American Beverage Association - American Bicycle Association - American Birding Association - Australian Broadcasting Authority

ASEA Brown Boveri (Swiss-Swedish multinational company)

Agnetha, Benny, Bj?rn, Anni-Frid (Swedish pop group)

Abstinence, Be faithful, Condoms - Active Body Control - Alcoholic Beverage Commission - Alien Big Cat - Always Be Careful - American Bird Conservancy - American-Born Chinese - American Broadcasting Company - Anti-lock Brake Controller - Associated British Corporation - Atanasoff-Berry Computer - Atlantic Baptist College - Atomic Biological Chemical (see NBC) - Australian Broadcasting Corporation

American Border Collie Association - American, British and Canadian Armies (originally) - Attorney's Bankruptcy Coordination Assistance

(U.S.) Army Battle Command System

Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology

Ag?ncia Brasileira de Intelig?ncia (Brazilian Intelligence Agency)

Abkhaz language (ISO 639-2 code)

American Basketball League

AirBorne Law Enforcement (police air support unit)

Anti-Ballistic Missile - Asynchronous Balanced Mode - Automated Banking Machine

American Battle Monuments Commission

Australian Business Number (a number issued by the Australian government as registration of a business and used for taxation purposes)

Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry

Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music

acrylonitrile butadiene styrene - Anti-lock Braking System

Amalgamated Banks of South Africa ("ab-sa")

Abstraction-Based STRIPS

Aruba (ISO 3166 trigram)

Adriamycin-Cyclophosphamide (chemotherapy) - Air Conditioning - Alternating Current - ante Christum (Latin, before Christ; see BC) - ante cibum (Latin, "before meals") -Antigua and Barbuda (FIPS 10-4 country code) -Associazione Calcio (Italian, "football (soccer) club") - Altocumulus

Actinium

Attocoulomb

Airspace Control Authority - Airspace Co-ordination Area - A Current Affair

Aircraft Communication Reporting System

Aboriginal Children's Advancement Society - Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service

Asociaci�n de Clubs de Baloncesto (Spanish for "Association of Basketball Clubs")

U.S. Air Combat Command - Air Component Commander - Altocumulus castellanus - Atlantic Coast Conference - Automatic Climate Control - Area Control Center, Alpine Club of Canada

Automatic Cloud Cover Assessment

Awdurdod Cymwysterau, Cwricwlwm ac Asesu Cymru (Qualifications, Curriculum and Assessment Authority for Wales)

American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities

Air Communications and Control Squadron

Arms Control & Disarmament Agency

Alternating Current Direct Current, also the name of an Australian rock music band and a term for a bisexual person

Air Combat Emulator (computer game) - Allied Command Europe - Armored Combat Earthmover - Automatic Computing Engine

Aerolineas Centrales de Colombia

American Car and Foundry - American Culinary Federation - Administration for Children and Families

Average Call Hold Time

Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability (in databases)

Acoustic Intelligence

Acknowledge (telecommunications; cf. NAK)

Access Control List - Anterior Cruciate Ligament

Automatic CLOS (missile control system)

Alternate Crops and Systems Lab

American Civil Liberties Union, alt. American Communist Lawyers Union by Kent Hovind

many, including Association for Computing Machinery; see entry

(U.S.) Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps

Airborne Communications Node - Australian Company Number (number issued by the Australian government as registration of a limited liability company)

Airspace Control Order

Advisory Committee on Business Appointments

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

(U.S.) Atlantic Command

Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now

Air Control Point

Advanced Concepts and Requirements

African Crisis Initiative

Affiliated Computer Services (NYSE ACS) - American Cancer Society - American Chemical Society - Association of Caribbean States

Army Command and Staff College (various nations)

R -ACT-Rational (cognitive model)

R/PM -ACT-R/Perceptual-Motor (cognitive model)

Adaptive Control of Thought (cognitive model) ? Australian Capital Territory (postal symbol) ? American College Test(ing Program), now known simply by the initials

Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration

Australian Children's Television Foundation - (U.S.) Army Constructive Training Federation

Australian Council of Trade Unions

BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features

Armoured Combat Vehicle

Air Defence -Andorra (ISO 3166 digram) -Anno Domini (Latin, "In the year of our Lord")

ad locum (Latin, "to/at the place")

Air Defence Artillery - American Dental Association - Assistant District Attorney - Americans with Disabilities Act (see also the similar but non-acronymic Ada programming language)

Air Defense Air to Ground Engagement (simulation)

AIDS Drug Assistance Program

Asiago-DLR Asteroid Survey

Alesis Digital Audio Tape (recording format)

Automated Data Processing

Agricultural Development and Training Society - Air Defence Anti-Tank System - Australian Defence Air Traffic System

Asian Development Bank

Aide De Camp - U.S. Air Defense Command (1946-1992) - Apple Display Connector - Program Against Digital Counterfeiting of Currency

Advanced Distributed Combat Training System

Analog Digital Digital (CD quality) - Attention-Deficit Disorder - Administration on Developmental Disabilities

Analyze Design Develop Implement and Evaluate

Advanced Deployable Day/Night Simulation

Australian Defence Force - African Development Foundation

Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Syndrome

Acceptable/Allowable Daily Intake

Air Defence Identification Zone

Anti-Defamation League

Administrative -- Full Admiral (four stars) in the U.S. Navy, the United States Coast Guard, and the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps - Archer Daniels Midland - Assistant Deputy Minister

Air Defence Operations Area

Adenosine DiPhosphate - Army Doctrine Publication (UK, Canada, Australia) - Automatic/Automated Data Processing

Arc-second Raster Chart (ARC) Digitized Raster Graphics

Active Denial System - Astrophysics Data System - Attention Deficit Syndrome

Atlantic Daylight Time (UTC-3 hours)

Army Doctrine and Training Bulletin

adversus (Latin, "against")

Air Defence Warning

Armed Forces Africa/Canada/Europe/Middle East (postal symbol) - United Arab Emirates (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code)

Avestan language (ISO 639-1 code)

United Arab Emirates dirham (ISO 4217 currency code)

American Expeditionary Force

Airborne Early warning Ground environment Interface Segment (fake etymology)

T -Army Enterprise Infostructure-Transport

aequalis (Latin, "equal")

Aeronautical Equipment Service Record

After extra time (Football)

aetatis (Latin, "of age", "aged")

Airborne Early Warning - Airborne Electronic Warfare

Afghanistan (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram) -Air Force

Afrikaans language (ISO 639-1 code)

Attofarad

U.S. Air Force Academy

As Far As I'm Concerned

As Far As I Can Tell

As Far As I Know

As Far As I Remember/Recall

Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System

American Football Conference - Asian Football Confederation

Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association

African Development Bank

Automatic Fire Extinguishing System

Afghanistan (ISO 3166 trigram)

French Territory of the Afars and Issas (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete since 1977) - "Agencia Federal de Investigaci�nes" (M?xico)

Automated Fingerprint Identification System - American Forces Information Service

Abrams Full Crew Interactive Skills Trainer

April Fool's Joke

Away From Keyboard (Internet chat abbreviation)

CIO -American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations

American Federation of Labor - American Football League - Arena Football League - Australian Football League

Army Field Manual (UK; the U.S. more frequently uses just FM) - Atomic Force Microscope - Aviation Fleet Maintenance

Afghani (ISO 4217 currency code)

Association of Field Ornithologists

U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research

Armed Forces Qualification Test

Afrikaans language (ISO 639-2 code)

Air Force Reserve Command

Air Force Research Laboratory

Air Force Reserve Office Training Corps

(U.S.) Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute

Armed Forces Radio and Television Service

Active Front Steering - Air Facility Sub-System - Amniotic Fluid-derived Stem cell

U.S. Air Force Studies and Analysis

U.S. Air Force Staff College (obsolete; replaced with JFSC). - U.S. Air Force Systems Command

U.S. Air Force Satellite Control Network

Air Force Space Command

American Farmland Trust

Armoured Fighting Vehicle

Air Force Weather Agency - Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies

Anything to Fool Young Andy. Acronym that's real meaning is hidden.

Aktiengesellschaft (German, "incorporated") -Algeria (FIPS 10-4 country code) - Antigua and Barbuda (ISO 3166 digram)

Attogram

Silver (Latin argentum)

AB Gas-accumulator ("ah-gah", Swedish company) - Advanced Graphics Architecture

Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development

Advanced Guidance for Alliance Research and Development publication

Akeno Giant Air Shower Array (cosmic ray detector)

Internal Nintendo initialism (Advanced Game Boy) for Game Boy Advance

Adjutant General's Corps (British Army)

Apollo Guidance Computer - Automatic Gain Control

Australian Game Developers' Conference

Auxiliary Group Intelligence

Above Ground Level

Annual General Meeting

Active Galactic Nucleus

Angola (ISO 3166 trigram)

Accelerated Graphics Port

Alaska Ground Station (LandSat)

Advanced Gunnery Training System

American Geophysical Union

Autonomous Guided Weapon

Attack Helicopter

Ampere-hour

Attohenry

American Heart Association

Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (obsolete; replaced with AHRQ)

Australian Health Ethics Committee

Army High Performance Computing Research Center

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

American Housing Survey

Air Interdiction -Anguilla (ISO 3166 digram) -Amnesty International - Artificial Insemination - Artificial Intelligence

Aerospace Industry Association - American Institute of Architects -Anguilla (ISO 3166 trigram)

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

African Independent Church

And I Claim My Five Pounds

U.S. Agency for International Development

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

many, including AOL Instant Messenger; see entry

Aurora Incremental Modernization Project

American Israel Public Affairs Committee

Aircraft Inventory Record

American Indian Religious Freedom Act

Aerometric Information Retrieval System (obsolete; replaced with AFS)

(British Society for the Study of) Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour

Attojoule

Azerbaijan (FIPS 10-4 country code)

Asynchronous JavaScript And XML

Astronomical Julian Day

Allied Joint Publication

Akan languages (ISO 639-1 code)

Alaska (postal symbol)

Attokelvin

Akan languages (ISO 639-2 code)

Above knee amputation (orthopaedic usage)

Alaska Standard Daylight Saving Time (UTC-8 hours)

Alaska Standard Time (UTC-9 hours)

Alabama (postal symbol) - Albania (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram) -Anno Lucis (Latin, "Year of Light", in Masonic tradition, most often seen on plaques bearing the founding dates of buildings, in years AD and years AL)

Aluminium

Attolitre

�land Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)

As Long/Late As Possible

Air-Launched Anti-Radar Missile

Albania (ISO 3166 trigram)

Accounting Line Designator (nuclear weapon targeting)

Advanced Linked Extended Reconnaissance and Targeting - Attack and Launch Early Reporting to Theatre

Africa Leadership Forum - Alien Life Form - Animal Liberation Front

ALGOrithmic Language

Albanian lek (ISO 4217 currency code)

Air Lines Of Communication

Average Length of Call

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis - Automatic Landing System

Aggregate Level Simulation Protocol

Automated decision Logic Tactical Air Combat Simulation

Association of Language Testers in Europe

Americium

Amharic language (ISO 639-1 code) - Attometre

many, including Amplitude Modulation and ante meridiem; see entry -Armenia (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)

American Medical Association

Aircraft, Missile, Avionics Performance Simulation

Adaptive Modulation and Coding (digital communications) - U.S. Air Mobility Command - American Motors Corporation - U.S. Army Materiel Command

U.S. Army/Marine Corps Board

Advanced Micro Devices - Age-related Macular Degeneration -Armenian dram (ISO 4217 currency code)

Afghan Military Force

Advanced Missile Fly Out Model ("am-fomm")

Age-specific Marital Fertility Rate - Amplitude Modulation Following Response

Advanced Multi-Function Radio Frequency System - Automatic Multisensor Feature-based Recognition System

Amharic language (ISO 639-2 code)

Acute Myeloid Leukaemia

Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Display

Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation

Advanced MOrtar System - Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing observatory

Adenosine MonoPhosphate - Automated Mission Planner

Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile

U.S. Aviation & Missile Research, Development, & Engineering Center

Agriculture Marketing Service - American Mathematical Society

U.S. Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity

U.S. Army Model and Simulation Office

Association for Managers in Students' Unions - Aviation Mat?riel Screening Unit

UK Admiralty Marine Technology Establishment (1977?1984)

Andorra (FIPS 10-4 country code) - Netherland Antilles (ISO 3166 digram)

Aragonese language (ISO 639-1 code)

Attonewton

Administration for Native Americans - Afghan National Army - All Nippon Airways - Anti-Nuclear Anti-body

African National Congress

Andorra (ISO 3166 trigram)

Air National Guard -Netherlands Antillian guilder (ISO 4217 currency code)

Air/Naval Gunfire Liaison Company

Argonne National Laboratory

Acoustic Noise Monitor

ANalysis Of VAriance

Applied and Natural Sciences

American National Standards Institute

Netherland Antilles (ISO 3166 trigram)

America's Next Top Model

Australian and New Zealand Army Corps

Angola (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram) -Approach Officer (submarine) - Area of Operations

Argonne National Laboratory -Angolan kwanza (ISO 4217 currency code) -Award Of Arms (heraldry)

Air Operations Centre

Angle Of IncidenceArab Organization for Industrialization

America OnLine

Area Of Responsibility

Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog

American Ornithologists' Union

Advanced Placement - Air Publication -Armed Forces Pacific (postal symbol) -Associated Press - Auto Pilot

(i) American Psychiatric Association

All Points Bulletin (police jargon)

Armoured Personnel Carrier - Armour Piercing Capped (ammunition)

Armour-Piercing, Composite Non-Rigid (ammunition)

Armour-Piercing, Composite Rigid (ammunition)

Armour-Piercing, Discarding-Sabot (ammunition)

AMSAA Performance Estimates Data System

Armour-Piercing, Fin-Stabilised, Discarding Sabot (ammunition)

American Public Health Association

Armour-Piercing, High Explosive (ammunition)

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

Application Programming Interface

A Programming Language - Acute Promyeloid Leukaemia - Anti-Personnel Landmine - Applied Physics Laboratory (Johns Hopkins University)

Advanced Power Management

Aerial Port (Airport) Of Debarkation

Aerial Port (Airport) Of Embarkation

Apache Point Observatory Lunar Laser-ranging Operation

Allied Procedural Publication

Annual Percentage Rate

American Physical Society - Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome

American Samoa (FIPS 10-4 territory code) - Antarctica (ISO 3166 digram)

Arabic language (ISO 639-1 code)

Argentina (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram) - Arkansas (postal symbol) - Armour

Argon

Arabic language (ISO 639-2 code)

Advanced Research and Assessment Group

Administrative Review Board

Army Review Boards Agency

Arc-second Raster Chart - Association for Retarded Citizens - Appalachian Regional Commission

United States Army Central Command

Advanced Research and Development Activity (became DTO 2006)

UK Admiralty Research Establishment (?1991) -United Arab Emirates (ISO 3166 trigram)

ASEAN Regional Forum

Aragonese language (ISO 639-2 code)

Argentina (ISO 3166 trigram)

Acute Respiratory Infection - U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences

UK Admiralty Research Laboratory (1921?1977) - U.S. Army Research Laboratory - UIUC Aviation Research Laboratory

Anti-Radiation Missile -Armenia (ISO 3166 trigram)

Acquisition Reform Network

Address Resolution Protocol - Applied Research Programme

Advanced Research Projects Agency

ACE Rapid Reaction Corps

Allied Rapid Reaction Force

Agricultural Research Service -Argentine peso (ISO 4217 currency code)

Arctic Region Supercomputing Center

U.S. Army Space Command

Adaptive Resonance Theory - Anti-Retroviral Therapy

Air Route Traffic Control Center

Army Research Working Group ("are-wig")

Adult swim -Assamese language (ISO 639-1 code) - Attosecond

American Samoa (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram) - Australia (FIPS 10-4 country code)

Arsenic

Attosiemens

AcetylSalicylic Acid - American Standards Association - Army Security Agency - Atlantic Southeast Airlines

As Soon As Possible

Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar System - Airborne Search and Rescue System

Associated Student Body - Alternative Service Book (Church of England)

association sans but lucratif (French "Non-profit organisation")

Anti-Social Behaviour Order

Anti Slip Control + Traction

American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers

Army Service Component Commander - Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator - Air Standardization Coordinating Committee

All Services Combat Identification Evaluation Team

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

(U.S.) Assistant Secretary of Defense - Autism Spectrum Disorder

(U.S.) (Command, Control, Communications, & Intelligence)

(U.S.) Assistant Secretary of Defense (Force Management Policy)

(U.S.) Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs)

(U.S.) Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Security Affairs)

(U.S.) Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Security Policy)

(U.S.) Assistant Secretary of Defense (Legislative Affairs)

(U.S.) Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs)

(U.S.) Assistant Secretary of Defense (Reserve Affairs)

(U.S.) Assistant Secretary of Defense (Strategy & Requirements))

(U.S.) Assistant Secretary of Defense (Strategy & Threat Reduction)

(U.S.) Assistant Secretary of Defense (Special Operations & Humanitarian Assistance)

(U.S.) (Special Operations & Low-Intensity Conflict)

Allied Submarine Detection Investigation Committee (Sonar)

Attack, Sustain, Decay, Release (sound envelope specification)

Association of South East Asian Nations

Americans for a Society Free of Age Restrictions

Area Support Group

Aviation Security Identification Card

Anima sana in corpore sano (Latin, "A sound mind in a sound body") (athletic shoe manufacturer)

Australian Security Intelligence Organisation -Audio stream input output

Advanced System Improvement Program - Army Stationing and Installation Plan - Application Specific Instruction-Set Processor

Above Sea Level - American Sign Language (also known as Ameslan) - "Age, Sex, Location?" (Internet slang)

Air-to-Surface Missile -American Samoa (ISO 3166 trigram) -American Society for Metals -American Society for Microbiology

Assamese language (ISO 639-2 code)

Adult Swim Message Board

American Society for Matrix Biology

Air-Sol Moyenne Port?e missile (French "Medium-range air to surface") -Asymmetric multiprocessing

Associate of Science in Nursing

Air Sovereignty Operations Centre - Air Support Operations Centre - Airport Security and Operations Centre - Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition - Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus - Australian Standard Offence Classification

Active Server Pages - American Society of Primatologists - Ammunition Supply Point - Application Service Provider (cf internet service provider) - Astronomical Society of the Pacific - Association of Surfing Professionals

Australian Strategic Policy Institute

Anti Slip Regulation

Advanced Short-Range Air-to-Air Missile

Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness

Atlantic Standard Time (UTC-4 hours)

Armed Services Technical Information Agency

American Society for Testing and Materials

Aerial Support To Regional Enforcement Agencies (sheriff's air support unit)

AntiSUrface Warfare

AntiSubmarine Warfare

(U.S.) AntiSubmarine Warfare Operations Research Group

Advanced Stream Redirector - Australian Stock Exchange

Anti-Tank -Ashmore and Cartier Islands (FIPS 10-4 territory code) - Austria (ISO 3166 digram) -Advanced Technology (IBM Personal Computer/AT)

Astatine

Attotesla

American Telephone and Telegraph (U.S. company, also known as "Ma Bell")

Advanced Technology Attachment (IBM Personal Computer) - Afghan Transitional Authority - Allen Telescope Array -Antarctica (ISO 3166 trigram)

Air Transportable Acoustic Communications

Army TACtical Missile System

Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface

Air-To-Air Stinger (missile)

Active Time Battle -British Antarctic Territory (ISO 3166 trigram; merged with AQ in 1979)

Air Traffic Control - Air Training Corps - U.S. Air Transport Command (1942-1948)

Army Tactical Command and Control Information System

Aerospace and Telecommunications Engineering Support Squadron

French Southern Territories (ISO 3166 trigram) -Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms

Antigua and Barbuda (ISO 3166 trigram)

Anti-Tank Guided Missile

Anti-Tank Guided Weapon

Allied Telesyn International, Inc.

Attack

Atlanta,Georgia, the largest city and capital of Georgia

All-Terrain Lifter Army System -Assessment Tool for LAnd Systems

Automated Teller Machine - Asynchronous Transfer Mode - At The Moment

Dronning Maud Land (ISO 3166 trigram; merged with AQ in 1983)

Air Tasking Order - Australian Taxation Office

Adenosine TriPhosphate - Allied Tactical Publication - Ammunition Transfer Point

(U.S.) Assistant to the Secretary of Defense

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

All-Terrain Vehicle

Air, Trees, Water, Animals

African Union (was OAU before 2000) - American University -Astronomical Unit - Australia (ISO 3166 digram) - Austria (FIPS 10-4 country code)

Gold

Ab Urbe Condita / Anno Urbis Conditae (Latin "from the founding of the city" / "in the year since the founding of the city") (of Rome) - Area Under the Curve (concentration time curve; medicine)

Australian dollar (ISO 4217 currency code)

Australia (ISO 3166 trigram)

Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States (security designation)

Austria (ISO 3166 trigram)

Army Universal Task List

Anguilla (FIPS 10-4 territory code) -Audio-Visual -Aviation

Attovolt

Avar language (ISO 639-1 code)

Avar language (ISO 639-2 code)

A -(U.S. Army's) Aviation Combed Arms Tactical Trainer-Aviation [Reconfigurable Manned Simulator]

Aviation Depot Level Repair

Avestan language (ISO 639-2 code)

Armoured Vehicle, General Purpose

Audio Video Icon

Aviation Intermediate Maintenance

Armoured Vehicle Launched Body--65.41.49.50 21:40, 18 February 2007 (UTC)Miley Cyrus

Apprehended Violence Order

Arubaanse Volkspartij

Association of Volleyball Professionals

Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers

Armoured Vehicle Test Bed -Aviation Test Bed

Aviation Unit Maintenanc

Aruba (ISO 3166 digram)

Attowatt

American Wrestling Association

Airborne Warning And Control System

Air Warfare Centre

many, including All Wheel Drive; see entry

Advanced Warfighting Experiment

Aruban guilder (ISO 4217 currency code)

Absent Without Official Leave / Absent WithOut Leave (military jargon)

Awaiting Parts (SM&R code)

Air Warfare SIMulation

Above Water Warfare

�land Islands (ISO 3166 digram)

Ambulance eXchange Point

Antarctica (FIPS 10-4 territory code)

Aymara language (ISO 639-1 code)

All Your Base Are Belong To Us

Aymara language (ISO 639-2 code)

As Yet Unknown

Arizona (postal symbol) - Azerbaijan (ISO 3166 digram)

Azerbaijani language (ISO 639-1 code)

Azerbaijan (ISO 3166 trigram)

Azerbaijani language (ISO 639-2 code)

Azerbaijanian manat (ISO 4217 currency code)

Actions en zone urbaine (French, Urban Operations)

Bel - Boron

before

Benzo[a]pyrene

Ben 10

Business-to-business electronic commerce

Business-to-consumer electronic commerce

Business-to-employee electronic commerce

Bachelor of Arts -Bahrain (FIPS 10-4 country code) - Bosnia and Herzegovina (ISO 3166 digram) -British Airways - British Army

Barium

Bashkir language (ISO 639-1 code)

British Airport Authority

Bohica Associates Corporation

Battlefield Awareness and Data Dissemination

BAE Systems (formerly British Aerospace, BAe)

British Academy of Film and Television Arts

Battlefield Air Interdiction

Bashkir language (ISO 639-2 code)

Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative

Business Activity Monitoring -Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark (ISO 4217 currency code)

Bambara language (ISO 639-2 code)

Brooke Army Medical Center

Banco Espa?ol de Cr?dito (Spanish, "Spanish Credit Bank")

Battlefield Air Operations

British Army Of the Rhine

British American Racing - Browning Automatic Rifle - Buy-American Restrictions

Binational Agricultural Research and Development fund (between the US and Israel)

Biomedical Advanced Research & Development Agency

Bay Area Rapid Transit

Battalion Aid Station

Building, Antenna, Span, Earth (parachute form)

Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik (German chemicals company)

Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (acronym was added later, originally it was simply Basic)

Basic Aid Training

Buying a ticket before you get on board saves time or problems later

U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms

Behavior Analysis Training System - Bradley Advanced Training System

Bisei Asteroid Tracking Telescope for Rapid Survey

Barbados (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code) -Boys' Brigade (Christian youth organisation) - Brigitte Bardot (actress)

Better Business Bureau - Blood-Brain Barrier

Breeding Bird Census - British Broadcasting Corporation

Barbados dollar (ISO 4217 currency code)

Be Back Later - Bird Banding Laboratory - British Basketball League

Bolt, Beranek and Newman

Barbecue[1]

Breeding Bird Survey (North America) - Brigade/Battalion Battle Simulation - Bulletin Board System

U.K. Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

Before Christ - Blind Copy (in emailers) - Boston College -Botswana (FIPS 10-4 country code; from Bechuanaland) - British Columbia (postal symbol)

Blind Carbon Copy

Board of Control for Cricket in India - Bank of Credit and Commerce International

Binary-Coded Decimal

Banque centrale europ?enne - Battlefield Co-ordination Element - Before Common Era - British Columbia Electric Railway

British Columbia Electric Railway

Patchy Fog (METAR Code)

Battlefield Combat Identification System

Basic Combined Programming Language (progenitor of C)

Bardeen, Cooper, and Schrieffer superconduction theory - Bowl Championship Series (US college football)

Brigade Combat Team

Bangladesh (ISO 3166 digram) - Bermuda (FIPS 10-4 territory code)

British Dental Association

Body Dysmorphic Disorder - British Defence Doctrine

Brigade

Benevolent Dictator For Life

Burundi (ISO 3166 trigram)

Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor

Battle Dress Overgarment

Basic Disk Operating System; part of CP/M

#NAME?

Bondage and Discipline, Domination and Submission, Sadism and Masochism

Bangladeshi taka (ISO 4217 currency code) -Bureau de d?veloppement des t?l?communications (Telecommunication Development Bureau, became ITU-D)

British Dental Trade Association

Battle-Dress Uniform

Belarusian language (ISO 639-1 code)

Belgium (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)

Beryllium

Banque ext?rieure d'Alg?rie - British European Airways (ancestor of British Airways)

Belarusian language (ISO 639-2 code)

Belgium (ISO 3166 trigram)

British Empire Medal - Bug-Eyed Monster

Bengali language (ISO 639-2 code)

Benin (ISO 3166 trigram)

Banquet Event Order

Bit Error Rate

Budget Estimate Submission

Business, Education, and Social Sciences

Bradley Embedded Training System

The Bahamas (FIPS 10-4 country code) - Burkina Faso (ISO 3166 digram)

Burkina Faso (ISO 3166 trigram)

Best Friends Forever

Brominated Flame Retardant

Blue Force Situation Awareness

Bangladesh (FIPS 10-4 country code) -Battle Group - Body Guard -Brigadier General -Bulgaria (ISO 3166 digram)

Bulgarian language (ISO 639-1 code)

Ball Grid Array - Brandy and Ginger Ale (alcoholic beverage)

Bangladesh (ISO 3166 trigram)

U.S. Board on Geographic Names -Bulgarian lev (ISO 4217 currency code)

Bulgaria (ISO 3166 trigram)

Bristol Grammar School - British Geographical Survey

Battle Group Wargame (military simulation; "big wig")

Bahrain (ISO 3166 digram) - Belize (FIPS 10-4 country code)

Bihari languages (ISO 639-1 code)

Bohrium

Bahraini dinar (ISO 4217 currency code)

Bahrain (ISO 3166 trigram)

British Home Stores

The Bahamas (ISO 3166 trigram)

Bislami language (ISO 639-1 code)

Bismuth

Burundi (ISO 3166 digram)

Baghdad International Airport -Biafran pound

Battlefield Information and Communication System

bis in die (Latin, "twice a day")

British Institute of Dental and Surgical Technologists

Burundian franc (ISO 4217 currency code)

Bihari languages (ISO 639-2 code)

Bosnia and Herzegovina (ISO 3166 trigram)

Basic Input/Output System - British Institute of Organ Studies

Battlefield Interoperability Programme (ancestor of MIP) - Boys Into Party (musical group)

Bislami language (ISO 639-2 code)

Battlefield Identification System Environment Performance Simulation

Built-In Self-Test

Bilateral Investment Treaty - Built-In Test

Built-In Test Equipment

Benin (ISO 3166 digram) -Blowjob (oral sex)

Bharatiya Janata Party (Indian People's Party)

Bipolar Junction Transistor

Bankrupt (most often seen as "gone BK") -Bosnia and Herzegovina (FIPS 10-4 country code)

Berkelium

Broken Sky (METAR Code)

Bolivia (FIPS 10-4 country code) -British Leyland

Battle Laboratory Constructive Simulation Environment

Blowing Dust (METAR Code)

Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapour Explosion ("blevy")

Binary Large OBject

Belarus (ISO 3166 trigram)

Blowing Sand (METAR Code)

Blowing Snow (METAR Code)

Bacon Lettuce Tomato (sandwich)

Blue Force(military)

Body Language User Interface ("blooie")

Belize (ISO 3166 trigram)

Battle Management -Bermuda (ISO 3166 digram) - Myanmar (FIPS 10-4 country code; from Burma)

Bambara language (ISO 639-1 code)

British Medical Association

Borough of Manhattan Community College

Ballistic Missile Defence -Bermudian dollar (ISO 4217 currency code) -Boyevaya Mashina Desanta (Russian ?????? ?????? ???????, "Combat Vehicle Airborne") ? - British Military Doctrine

British Military Doctrine Group

(U.S.) Ballistic Missile Defense Organization ("bim-do")

Biomedical Engineering -Black and Minority Ethnic group - Body Modification E-zine

Ballistic Missile Early Warning System ("bee-mews")

Body Mass Index - Broadcast Music Incorporated

Battle Management Language

Begin Morning Nautical Twilight

Boyevaya Mashina Pekhoti (Russian ?????? ?????? ??????, "Combat Vehicle for the Infantry") ?

Basal metabolic rate ? Bronirovannaya Mashina Razminirovaniya (Russian ????????????? ?????? ??????????????, Armoured Vehicle for Mine-Clearing) ?

Bermuda (ISO 3166 trigram)

Bayerische Motoren Werke (German, "Bavarian Motor Works")

Bicycle/Bike Moto(r) Cross

Battalion

Bengali language (ISO 639-1 code)

Brunei (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code)

Brunei dollar (ISO 4217 currency code)

Backus-Naur Form (computing)

Biological, Nuclear, Incendiary, Chemical, and Explosive Agents

British National Party ? Banque Nationale de Paris, a predecessor to today's BNP Paribas

Bank of Nova Scotia

Burlington Northern Santa Fe

Back Orifice -Belarus (FIPS 10-4 country code) - Bolivia (ISO 3166 digram) -Body odor

Tibetan language (ISO 639-1 code)

Back Orifice 2000

British Overseas Airways Corporation (predecessor of British Airways)

Byway Open to All Traffic (pronounced as 2 syllables, "Bo-At")

boliviano (ISO 4217 currency code)

Body Off Baywatch, Face Off Crimewatch (description)

British Orthodontic Society - British Oxygen Company

Tibetan language (ISO 639-2 code)

Brackets, Orders, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction

Bastard Operator From Hell

Buy One, Get One Free

Bunch Of Guys Sitting Around a Table

Bend Over, Here It Comes Again

Balance Of Investment - Basis Of Issue

Bolivia (ISO 3166 trigram)

Base Object Model - Bill Of Materials - Block of the Month quilting term

Balance of Payments

Barrel of Oil Per Day

Battlefield Operating System

Bosnian language (ISO 639-2 code)

Balance of Trade - Build Operate Transfer - Bank of Thailand

Battle Position - British Petroleum (today, BP doesn't officially stand for anything) -Solomon Islands (FIPS 10-4 country code; from British Protectorate of the Solomon Islands)

Bipolar Personality Disorder

Beats Per Minute

Battlefield Planning Visualization - Bovine papillomavirus

British Antarctic Territory (ISO 3166 digram; merged with AQ in 1979) - Navassa Island (FIPS 10-4 territory code)

Brazil (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code) -British Rail- Break Ranks (marching band term)

Breton language (ISO 639-1 code)

Bromine

Brazil (ISO 3166 trigram)

Breathe, Relax, Aim, Sight, Squeeze (Acronym for using a rifle)

Barbados (ISO 3166 trigram) -"Be Right Back" (Internet chat abbreviation)

Boyevaya Razvedyvatelnaya Dosornaya Mashina (Russian ?????? ???????????????? ???????? ??????, "Combat Reconnaissance Patrol Vehicle")

Breton language (ISO 639-2 code)

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System ("burf-us", a CDC health survey covering the U.S. and its territories)

Bathroom Readers Institute (publishers of series of "Uncle John's Bathroom Readers" books)

Brazil, Russia, India and China

Behavior Representation In Modeling and Simulation (conference)

Brazilian real (ISO 4217 currency code)

Boyevaya Razvedyvatelnaya Mashina (Russian ?????? ???????????????? ??????, "Combat Reconnaissance Vehicle")

Brunei (ISO 3166 trigram)

Battlefield Reasoning System

Bosnian language (ISO 639-1 code)

The Bahamas (ISO 3166 digram) - Bassas da India (FIPS 10-4 territory code) - Bachelor of Science degree - British subject - Bullshit

Birmingham Small Arms (motorcycles company) - Boy Scouts of America - Brigade Support Area

Bahamian dollar (ISO 4217 currency code) -Berkeley Software Distribution (distinct from BSoD)

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, better known as mad cow disease

British Standard Fine (screw thread)

British Sign Language

British Society for Matrix Biology

Bachelor of Science in Nursing

Blue Screen of Death (distinct from BSD)

Between-Show Promotion - Binary Space Partitioning - Board Support Package - British Standard Pipe (screw thread) -Business-sponsored - Bone sialoprotein

Binary Search Tree - Blended Sales Tax -Bovine somatotropin -British Summer Time

British Standard Whitworth (screw thread)

Bendigo Stock Exchange

Baronet; (ii) Bacillus thuringiensis

Bathythermograph -Bhutan (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram) - (ii) BitTorrent - (iii) British Telecommunications plc

Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis

Battlefield Target Identification Device

Battlefield Target Identification System

Bhutan (ISO 3166 trigram) - Bhutanese ngultrum (ISO 4217 currency code)

Built To Order

British Transport Police

Bronetransporter (??? = ???????????????? "(Heavy) Armoured (Personnel) Transporter") ?

British Thermal Unit

By The Way

Blue ?yster Cult

Bulgaria (FIPS 10-4 country code) - Burma (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete since 1989)

British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection

E -Battlefield Universal Gateway Equipment ("buggy")

Bulgarian language (ISO 639-2 code)

Bureau Number (aircraft serial number)

Burma (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete since 1989)

Background Vocals - Battlefield Visualization -Bouvet Island (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code)

Bradley, Voorhees & Day (underwear manufacturer)

Beyond Visual Range

Bouvet Island (ISO 3166 trigram)

Botswana (ISO 3166 digram)

Botswana (ISO 3166 trigram)

Bees, Wasps & Ants Recording Society

Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention

Botswanian pula (ISO 4217 currency code)

Boiling-Water Reactor

Base eXchange -Brunei (FIPS 10-4 country code)

Burundi (FIPS 10-4 country code) - Belarus (ISO 3166 digram)

Bring Your Own Beer/Beverages/Bottle

Bring Your Own Computer (play on BYOB)

Bring Your Own Flask

Belarusian ruble (ISO 4217 currency code)

Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete since 1992)

Brigham Young University

Belize (ISO 3166 digram)

Belize dollar (ISO 4217 currency code)

Benzylpiperazine

Carbon - Coulomb - One Hundred (in Roman numerals)

Centi

care of (postal code indicating temporary address change)

CINC, Service, and Agency

Command and Control

Consumer-To-Consumer electronic commerce - Cam-To-Cam internet chat

the British rail company formerly known as LTS Rail

Intel Core 2 Duo - CERDEC Command and Control Directorate

Command and Control Information Exchange Data Model

Command and Control Information System

Command and Control Personal Computer

Command and Control Vehicle

Command and Control Warfare

Colorectal Cancer Condition - Command, Control, and Communications

Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence

Command, Control, Communications, and Computers

Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence

Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance

Calcium

California (postal symbol) - Canada (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram) - Catalonia -Civil Affairs - Close Armour - Computer Associates - Counter-Air

Catalan language (ISO 639-1 code)

Canadian Automobile Association - (NORAD) Center for Aerospace Analysis - (U.S.) Center for Army Analysis - (U.S.) Clean Air Act - (U.S. Army) Concepts Analysis Agency - Civil Aviation Authority - Colonial Athletic Association

orCampaign Against Arms Trade - The Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing

California Association of Criminalists - Chronic Asymptomatic [Disease] Carrier

Communications of the ACM

Canadian dollar (ISO 4217 currency code) -Computer-Aided Design - Computer-Aided Dispatch

Computer-Aided Design/Computer-Aided Manufacturing

Concept, Assessment, Demonstration, Manufacture, In service, Disposal (life cycle mnemonic)

CAnadian Disruptive PATtern

Canadian Aviation Electronics (originally) - Certificate in Advanced English

Close Action Engagement (constructive simulation)

Central African Republic (ISO 3166 trigram) -Confederation of African Football (or French Conf?d?ration Africaine de Football)

Combined Arms For Air Defence

Canadian Association of Film Distributors and Exporters - Computer Aided Federation Development Environment

Corporate Average Fuel Economy standard

Computer Assisted Instruction

Council on American-Islamic Relations

A region in the Philippines: CAvite, LAguna, BAtangas, Rizal, queZON

(U.S.) Center for Army Lessons Learned

Chemical Agent Monitor - Computer-Aided Manufacturing

CAMpaign for Real Ale

Canada (ISO 3166 trigram)

Convulsive Antidote, Nerve Agent

CANada Deuterium Uranium (nuclear reactor design)

Canadian oil, low acid (referring to a specific cultivar of rapeseed bred to have a low erucic acid content)

Combat Air Patrol - Civil Air Patrol - Common [Operating/Operational] Air Picture - Crisis Action Procedures - Common Agricultural Policy

CAPability Evaluation System -Combined Arms Planning and Execution System

Community database on Accidents on the Roads in Europe -Cooperative for Aid and Relief Everywhere (originally Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe)

Computerized Monte Carlo Simulation

Computed Air Release Point

Championship Auto Racing Teams (now defunct)

Chemical Abstracts Service - Chief of the Air Staff - Close Air Support

Cellular ammunition storage equipment - Computer-Aided Software Engineering

Command Activated Sonobuoy System

Combined Arms and Support Task FORce Evaluation Model

Canadian Automatic Small Telescopes for Orbital Research

Community Acceptance Testing - Computer-Assisted (or Axial) Tomography

Catalan language (ISO 639-2 code)

Counterattack

Computer Active Technology Suspension

Combined Arms Tactical Trainer

Cavalry

Ceiling And Visibility OK ("Kav-okay")

Canadian Auto Workers trade union

Cambodia (FIPS 10-4 country code) -Citizens' Band radio

Commission on Behavioral And Social Sciences and Education ("sea bass")

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Christmas Bird Count - Cipher-Block Chaining - Cornering Brake Control

Commander of the Order of the British Empire - Cab Beside Engine (see truck)

Comparative Bullet Lead Analysis

many, including Canadian Baptist Ministries and Commodore Business Machines; see entry

Coalition Battle Management Language

Consortium for the Barcode Of Life

Case-Based Reasoning

Chemical, Biological, Radiological, or Nuclear (weapon or event)

Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear or [high-yield] Explosive (weapon or event)

Columbia Broadcasting System - Corps Battle Simulation

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy -Combat

many, including carbon copy; see entry

Counter Command Activity

Corpus Christi College, Oxford

Central Committee of the Communist Party - Cyrillic for SSSR (Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, Russian ???? ????????? ???????????????? ?????????, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

Charge-Coupled Device

Canadian Coast Guard - Collectible Card Game

Computer-Controlled Hostile

Comit? consultatif international des communications t?l?phoniques ? grande distance (French for International Telephone Consultative Committee, merged with the CCIT in 1956 to form the CCITT)

Command and Control Information Infrastructure

Comit? consultatif international pour la radio (French for Consultative Committee on International Radio, became the ITU Radiocommunication Sector, ITU-R, in 1992) - Commander's Critical Information Requirements

Comit? consultatif international t?l?graphique (French for International Telegraph Consultative Committee, merged with the CCIF in 1956 to form the CCITT)

Comit? consultatif international t?l?phonique et t?l?graphique (French for International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee, became the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector, ITU-T, in 1992)

Cholecystokinin -Cocos (Keeling) Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)

Canadian Children's Opera Chorus, Crosley Car Owners Club

Coalition Common Operating/Operational Picture

Casualty Collection Point - Communications Checkpoint - Contingency Communications Package

Canadian Conservative Reform Alliance party

Command and Control Research Program

Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium

Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems

Command and Control Simulation Interface Language ("cecil")

Cyclic Code Shift Keying

Current Commitments Team

Close Combat Tactical Trainer

Cadmium

Candela

many, including Compact Disc; see entry

Cluster of Differentiation 1 (a small gene family)

UK Centre for Defence Analysis

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Control Data Corporation - Cult of the Dead Cow

Capabilities Development Document

Chemical Defence Equipment

U.S. Combat Development Experimentation Center

California Department of Forestry [and Fire Protection] - Common Data Format -Democratic Republic of Congo franc congolais (ISO 4217 currency code)

Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center ("see-dee-ack")

Certified Diploma in Accounting and Finance

Clean Development Mechanism (Kyoto protocol) - Cold Dark Matter (astronomy)

Code Division Multiple Access

Cryogenic Dark Matter Search II

Commander

Chief of the Defence Staff

Central Daylight Saving Time (UTC-5 hours)

Commandant

Cerium

Chechen language (ISO 639-1 code)

many, including Christian/Common Era (cf. AD); see entry

Campaign Effectiveness Analysis

U.S. Army Communications and Electronics Command

Coll?ge d'enseignement g?n?ral et professionnel (French, "College of General and Vocational Education")

Competitive Enterprise Institute

United States Central Command

Central Treaty Organization (Baghdad Pact)

Centre d'entra?nement aux actions en zone urbaine (French, "Urban Operations Training Centre")

Chief Executive Officer

Circular Error Probable

Conf?rence europ?enne des administrations des postes et des t?l?communications (French, "European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations")

U.S. Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (Superfund)

U.S. Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center

Centre de recherches en g?odynamique et astrom?trie (French, "Astrometry and Geodynamics Research Centre")

Centre europ?en pour la recherche nucl?aire (French, "European Organization for Nuclear Research")

Computer Emergency Response Team

Czech language (ISO 639-2 code)

Centre for Earth Science Studies (India)

Combat Engineer Vehicle - Crew Exploration Vehicle

Council for Education in World Citizenship

Canadian Forces -Central African Republic (ISO 3166 digram) - Republic of the Congo (FIPS 10-4 country code)

Californium

confer (Latin "compare", or "see also")

Cat Fanciers' Association - Chartered Financial Analyst - Colour Filtering Array - County Fire Authority - Covering Force Area

Christine's - Federal Acquisition Regulation

ChloroFluoroCarbon

Call For Fire Zone

Context-free grammar - Control flow graph

Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope

Center For Inquiry (CSICOP)

Canadian Football League - Co-ordinated Fire Line

Coalition Forces Land Component Command

Chief Financial Officer

Code of Federal Regulations

Carbon fibre reinforced plastic

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Common Foreign and Security Policy

Cavalry Fighting Vehicle

Critical Friendly Zone

Client Group - Computer Graphics -Democratic Republic of the Congo (FIPS 10-4 country code) - Republic of the Congo (ISO 3166 digram)

Computer Game Developers Conference (became GDC in 1998)

Computer-Generated Forces (Simulation)

Comparative Genomic Hybridisation

Cross-Government Implementation Group

Computer Graphics Metafile

Chief of the General Staff

Capital Gains Tax

Chieftain tank -China (FIPS 10-4 country code) - Switzerland (ISO 3166 digram; from Latin Confoederatio Helvetica)

Chamorro language (ISO 639-1 code)

Chamorro language (ISO 639-2 code)

(U.S.) Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services

Cambridge Heart Anti-Oxydant Study

Chechen language (ISO 639-2 code)

Switzerland (ISO 3166 trigram; from Latin Confoederatio Helvetica)

Swiss franc (ISO 4217 currency code)

Computer-Human Interaction

California Highway Patrol

Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer

Chile (ISO 3166 trigram)

China (ISO 3166 trigram)

California Highway Patrol - Combined Heat and Power

Canadian Heart Rhythm Society

Combat Health Support

Certified Hand Therapist

Old Church Slavonic language (ISO 639-2 code)

Chuvash language (ISO 639-2 code)

Chile (FIPS 10-4 country code) - C?te d'Ivoire (ISO 3166 digram) -Counter-Intelligence

Curie

Commission internationale de l'?clairage

Cairo International Airport - Central Intelligence Agency - Culinary Institute of America

Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office - Component-Integrated ACE ORB

Complete In Box (Internet auction/trading listings)

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (obsolete)

Customer Information Control System (IBM mainframe software; "kicks" or "C-I-C-S")

Combat Identification -Criminal Investigation Division - Criminal Investigations Department

Comit? international d'enregistrement des fr?quences (International Frequency Registration Board)

Cost, Insurance, and Freight (Paid) (shipping)

Civil-Military Co-operation

Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Ma�z Y Trigo (Spanish, "International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center")

Commander in Chief

Campo Imperatore Near-Earth Objects Survey

Chief information officer - Congress of Industrial Organizations

Combat Identification Panel

(European) Centre for International Political Economy

(Commander's) Critical Information Requirements

Corotating Interaction Region

Canadian Interuniversity Sport - Commonwealth of Independent States - Command and Information System - Communication and Information System

(U.S.) C4I Integration Support Activity

Complete In Sealed Box (Internet auction/trading listings)

Comit? international sp?cial des perturbations radio?lectriques (Special International Committee on Radio Interference)

Certified Information Systems Security Professional

Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (of Wild Fauna and Flora) ("sigh-tease")

Combat Identification Training System

C?te d'Ivoire (ISO 3166 trigram)

Civilian Population

Close-In Weapon System

Cayman Islands (FIPS 10-4 country code) -Criminal Justice

Canadian Jewish Congress

Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

Chronological Julian Day - Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Chief of Joint Operations

Combined Joint Task Force

Cocos (Keeling) Islands (FIPS 10-4 country code) - Cook Islands (ISO 3166 digram)

Canada Kicks Ass

Codename: Kids Next Door

Chile (ISO 3166 digram) -Co-ordination Line - One Hundred and Fifty (in Roman numerals)

Chlorine

Competitive Local Exchange Carrier

California Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Radio System

Command Line Interface/Interpreter

Compact LInear Collider

Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Character Large OBject

Common Lisp Object System

Command to Line-Of-Sight (missile control system)

Chilean peso (ISO 4217 currency code) -Common [Operating/Operational] Land Picture

CentroLateral PreFrontal Cortex

College Loan Repayment Program

Cameroun (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram) -Cruise Missile -Nine Hundred (in Roman numerals)

Curium

U.S. Chemical Materials Agency

Cosmic Microwave Background

Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

Coronal Mass Ejection (usually Sun)

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation

Christopher Martin-Jenkins (BBC sports commentator)

Chemical -Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (formerly Chronic Myeloid Leukemia)

Capability Maturity Model

Corps Materiel Management Centre

Chronic MyeloMonocytic Leukemia

Civil-Military Operations

Civil-Military Operations Centre

Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society - Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor

Common [Operating/Operational] Maritime Picture

Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department

Chronic Myeloproliferative Disease

Cameroon (ISO 3166 trigram) -Coaxial Main Rotors (helicopter type)

Centres for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Cyan Magenta Yellow Key/blacK (colour model)

Canadian National (railway) -China (ISO 3166 digram) - Comoros (FIPS 10-4 country code)

Center for Naval Analyses - Certified Network Administrator - Computer Network Attack

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament - Computer Network Defence

Canadian National Exhibition - Computer Network Exploitation - Certified Network Engineer

Communications, Navigation and Identification

Cable News Network - Cellular Nonlinear Network

Computer Network Operations

Canadian National Railway - Combat Net Radio

Copy-Number Variable (genetics)

Chinese yuan renminbi (ISO 4217 currency code)

Cobalt

Corsican language (ISO 639-1 code)

many, including Central Office (phone company); see entry -Colorado (postal symbol) -Commanding Officer (military)

Concept Of Analysis - Course Of Action (military)

Close Of Business [day]

COmmon Business-Oriented Language

Combatant Command (military)

Cash On Delivery -Democratic Republic of the Congo (ISO 3166 trigram)

Coder-Decoder / Compressor-Decompressor / Compression-Decompression algorithm

Cab Over Engine (see truck) - Common Operating Environment (military)

Cost Operational Effectiveness Analysis (military)

Combined Operational Effectiveness and Investment Appraisal (military)

Conduct Of Fire Trainer (military)

Centre Of Gravity - Current Operations Group (military) -Republic of the Congo (ISO 3166 trigram)

Cognitive Objects within a Graphical EnviroNmenT

Counter-Insurgency (military)

Cook Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)

Colombia (ISO 3166 trigram)

comp.os.linux.announce - Cost Of Living Adjustment

Combat Observation and Lasing Team (military)

Comoros (ISO 3166 trigram) -Component Object Model

Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (economic counterpart of the Warsaw Pact, 1949-1991)

Communications Zone (military)

Communications Security (military)

U.S. Continental Air Defense Command

Confederation Of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football

Confederaci�n Sudamericana de F�tbol (Spanish, "South American Football Confederation")

Concept of Operations (military)

Continental United States

Chief Operating Officer

Colombian peso (ISO 4217 currency code) -Common Operating/Operational Picture

U.K. Committee On Publication Ethics

U.K. Committee on the Public Understanding of Science

Cornish language (ISO 639-2 code)

Common Object Request Broker Architecture

Common Operational Requirements Document

(U.S.) Combat Operations Research Group

COnvection, ROtation and planetary Transits

Cooper Ornithological Society

Corsican language (ISO 639-2 code) - Cosine

Corps Support Command (military)

COoperative SERvice

Commercial Off The Shelf

Company (military unit)

Canadian Pacific - Check Point - Command Post

Certified Public Accountant

Canadian Parliamentary Affairs Channel - Conservative Political Action Conference ("see-pack")

Capabilities Production Document

Certificate of Proficiency in English

Calibration Parameter File - Canadian Patrol Frigate

Clinical Practice Guideline

Certified Pediatric Oncology Nurse

Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference

Canadian Pacific Railway - CardioPulmonary Resuscitation

Continuous Phase Shift Modulation

Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Contingency Planning Team

Central Processing Unit

Cape Verde (ISO 3166 trigram)

Command Post eXercise

Carrier Qualification - Central Queensland - Charge of Quarters - Congressional Quarterly - Constellation Airlines (IATA airline designator) - Northern Mariana Islands (FIPS 10-4 territory code)

Close Quarters Drill (Morse distress code preceding SOS: CQ "calling all stations", D "Distress"; often incorrectly interpreted as "Come Quick, Distress")

Chrome

Coral Sea Islands (FIPS 10-4 territory code) - Costa Rica (ISO 3166 digram)

Cree language (ISO 639-1 code)

Combined Radiometric Correction Model

Central RTI Component - Chemical Rubber Company - Christian Reformed Church - Control and Reporting Centre -Costa Rican col�n (ISO 4217 currency code) -Cyclic Redundancy Check

Capstone Requirements Document

Cree language (ISO 639-2 code)

Cyclic AMP-response Element Binding (protein)

Committee to Re-Elect the President, a pejorative nickname used by opponents

Costa Rica (ISO 3166 trigram)

Consolidated Remain-In-Place List

Cardiac Rhythm Management - Customer Relationship Management

Committee to Re-elect the President - Control and Reporting Post

Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy - Cathode Ray Tube - Chinese Remainder Theorem

Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission

Combat Support - Computer Scientist -Costa Rica (FIPS 10-4 country code) - Serbia and Montenegro (ISO 3166 digram)

Caesium

Czech language (ISO 639-1 code)

Canadian Space Agency - Canadian Standards Association - Child Support Agency - Command Staff Advisor - Community-supported agriculture - Confederate States of America - Corps Storage Area -Czech Airlines

Combat Search and Rescue ("seessar")

Closed Spacelike Curve (relativity) - Computer Security Centre

Combat Systems Engineering and Analysis Laboratory ("see-seal")

(U.S. DoD) Crew Systems Ergonomics Information Analysis Center

Corps Support Group

see entry

Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (became the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry in 2006)

Commercial Stable Image Platform (AMD)

Canadian Security Intelligence Service ("seessiss") -(U.S.) Center for Strategic & International Studies

Czechoslovakia (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete since 1993)

U.K. Central Science Laboratory