| ACC | Access Control Center |
| ACC | Air Combat Command |
| ACTD | Advanced Concept |
| ADC | Analogy to Digital Converters |
| AEW | Airborne Early Warning |
| AIN | Army Interoperability Network |
| AMW | Amphibious Warfare |
| AN/UYS2a | Navy Signal Processor |
| ARL | Army Research Laboratory |
| ARPA | Advanced Research Projects Agency |
| ASW | Anti-Submarine Warfare |
| ATD | Advanced Technology Demonstration |
| BMDO | Ballistic Missile Defense |
| CAD | Computer Aided Design |
| CECOM | U. S. Army Communications-Electronic |
| CMD | Cruise Missile Defense |
| CMOS | Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor |
| CMOS/SiGe | Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor/Silicon Germanium |
| CMOS/SOI | Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor/Statement of Intent |
| COTS | Commercial Off-The-Shelf |
| DAC | Digital to Analogy Converters |
| DDR&E | Draft Synthetic Environment Strategic Plan |
| DDS | Direct Digital |
| DMS | Desorption Mass Spectroscopy |
| DNA | Defense Nuclear Agency |
| DoE | Department of Energy |
| DSRC | Defense Science Research |
| DTAO | Defense Technology |
| EEPROM | Electronically Erasable Programmable Read-Only-Memory |
| ESCAN | Electronically Scanned |
| ETC | Echo Tracking Classifier |
| EW | Electronic Warfare |
| FCR | Fire Control Radar |
| FNMOC | Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Command |
| FOV | Field-Of-View |
| Ga | Gallium |
| GaAs | Gallium Arsenide |
| GaN | Gallium Nitride |
| GBR | Ground Based Radar |
| GE | General Electric |
| GHz | Gigahertz (1 billion herta) |
| GMR | Giant Magneto resistive |
| HF | High Frequency |
| HFSWR | High Frequency Surface Wave Radar |
| HTS | High Tc Superconductor |
| I/O | Input/Output |
| IBM | International Business Machines |
| ICs | Integrated Circuits |
| JLOTS | Joint Logistics Over the Shore |
| LCD | Liquid Crystal Display |
| LOSIM | Low Observable Simulation |
| LWIR | Long Wave Infrared |
| MBE | Molecular Beam Epitaxy |
| MCM | Mine Countermeasures |
| MCM | Multi-Chip Module |
| MEMs | Microelectromechanical Systems Technology Demonstration |
| MGRCC | Very High Resolution Littorlal Prediction System |
| MHz | Megahertz |
| MIW | Mine Warfare |
| MMIC | Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits |
| MMS | Marine Mineral Survey |
| MMW | Millimeter Wave |
| MPM | Microwave Power Module |
| MWIR | Mid-Wavelength and/or Long-Wavelength Infrared |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| NAVAIR | Naval Air Command |
| NAVOCEANO | Naval Oceanographic Office |
| NAVSEA | Naval Sea Systems Command |
| NDRO | Nondestructive Readout |
| NEXRAD | Next Generation Radar |
| NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| NRaD | Naval Command Control and Ocean Surveillance Center Research Development, Training and Education Division |
| NSF | National Science Foundation |
| NSW | Naval Special Warfare |
| OMCVD | Organo-Metallic Chemical Vapor Deposition |
| OMICs | Opto-Microwave Integrated Circuits Synthesizer |
| ONR | Office of Naval Research |
| OTH | Over-The-Horizon |
| OUSD | Office of the Under Secretary of Defense |
| PM | Product Modeling Council |
| PM | Program/Project/Product Manager Analysis Office |
| RAES | Research, Evaluation and System Analysis Facility |
| RAM | Random Access Memory |
| RAM | Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability |
| RASSP | Rapid Prototyping of Application Specific Signal Processors |
| RCS | Radar Cross Section |
| RF | Radio Frequency |
| RF ICs | Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits |
| RL | Rome Laboratory |
| RTTs | Resonant Tunneling Transistors |
| S&T | Science and Technology |
| SERDP | Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program |
| SiC | Silicon Carbide |
| SiGe | Silicon-Germanium |
| SOI | Silicon-on-Insulator |
| TFSOS | Thin Film Silicon-on-Sapphire |
| TI | Texas Instrument |
| UAV | Unmanned Airborne Vehicle |
| UHF | Ultra High Frequency |
| USGS | United States Geological Survey |
| USSPACECOM | U.S. Space Command |
| USSTRATCOM | U.S. Strategic Command |
| UWB | Ultra Wide Band |
| VHR | Very High Resolution |
| WAS | Wide Area Surveillance |
| WES | Waterways Experiment Station |