ACRONYM LIST

3-D Three Dimensional

AACB Aeronautics and Astronautics Coordination Board
ABL Airborne Laser
ABM Antiballistic Missile
ACOM Atlantic Command
ACTD Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration
AEOWS Advanced Electro-Optical Warning Sensor
AF Air Force
AFFOR Air Force Forces
AFSPACE Air Force Component to USSPACECOM (14th Air Force)
AFSPC Air Force Space Command
AN Analysis Staff
ANR Alaskan NORAD Region
AOI Area of Interest
AOR Area of Responsibility
ARFOR Army Forces
ARSPACE Army Space Command
ARTS Automated Remote Tracking System
ASTRO Automated Scheduling Tools for Range Operations
ATR Automatic Target Recognition
AUS Advanced Upper Stages
AWACS Airborne Warning and Control System

BDA Battle Damage Assessment
BM Battle Manager
BMC Ballistic Missile Center/Battle Management Cell
BMC3 Ballistic Missile Command, Control and Communications
BMD Ballistic Missile Defense
BMDO Ballistic Missile Defense Office

C2 Command and Control
C4I Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence
C4ISR Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
CANR Canadian NORAD Region
CAV Common Aero Vehicle
CBM Conventional Ballistic Missile
CEASE Compact Environmental Anomaly Sensor
CENTCOM Central Command
CIA Central Intelligence Agency
CINC Commander in Chief
CJCS Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
cm centimeter
CMAS Cheyenne Mountain Air Station
CMOC Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center
COA Course of Action
COIL Chemical Oxygen-Iodine Lasers
COMAFSPACE Commander, 14th Air Force
COMARSPACE Commander Army Space Command
COMNAVSPACE Commander Naval Space Command
CONOPS Concept of Operations
CONR CONUS NORAD Region
CONUS Continental United States
COOP Continuity of Operations Plan
COP Common Operating Picture
CoS Control of Space
CRAF Civil Reserve Air Fleet
CSLA Commercial Space Launch Act

DBA Dominant Battlefield Awareness
DBOF Defense Business Operating Fund
DCINC Deputy Commander in Chief
DISA Defense Information Systems Agency
DoD Department of Defense
DOTMLP Doctrine, Organizations, Training, Material, Leadership and Personnel
DSP Defense Support Program

EELV Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle
ELV Expendable Launch Vehicle
E/O Electro-Optical
EOSAT Earth Observation Satellite
ERM Earth Resource Monitoring
EUCOM European Command
EW Electronic Warfare
EWR Early Warning Radar

FAA Federal Aviation Administration
FAR Federal Acquisition Regulation
FBXB Forward-Based X-Band
FDO Flexible Deterrent Options
FFI Full Force Integration
FMS Foreign Military Sales

GBI Ground-Based Interceptor
GBL Ground-Based Laser
GCCS Global Command and Control System
GCSS Global Command Support System
GDIN Global Defense Information Network
GE Global Engagement
GEO Geosychronous Earth Orbit
GEODSS Ground-Based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance
GOES Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
GP Global Partnerships
GPS Global Positioning System
GPX GP Execution Group

HIO High Interest Object
HPM High Power Microwave
HSI Hyper-Spectral Imagery

ICAO International Civil Aviation Organization
ICBM Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
ID Identification/Identify
I/F Interface Facilities
IO Information Operations
IPL Integrated Priority List
IR Infrared
ISR Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance
ISSN Integrated Space Surveillance Network
ITW&AA Integrated Tactical Warning and Attack Assessment

JAOC Joint Air Operations Center
JCS Joint Chiefs of Staff
JFACC Joint Force Air Component Commander
JFLCC Joint Force Land Component Commander
JFMCC Joint Force Maritime Component Commander
JFSCC Joint Force Space Component Commander
JP Joint Publication
JROC Joint Requirements Oversight Council
JSIMS Joint Simulation System
JSST Joint Space Support Team
JSTARS Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System
JTAGS Joint Tactical Ground Station
JTF Joint Task Force
JTF/CC Joint Task Force Component Commander
JV Joint Vision

KE Kinetic Energy
KE ASAT Kinetic Energy Antisatellite
km kilometer

LADAR Laser Detection and Ranging
LEO Low Earth Orbit
LIDAR Laser Detection and Ranging
LNO Liaison Officer
LO Low Observable
LoD Launch on Demand
LPI Low Probability of Intercept/Launch and Predicted Impact
LRP Long Range Plan

m meter
MAP Mission Area Plan
MAPS Mission Area Planning System
MARFOR Marine Forces
MECC Military Education Coordination Conference
MEO Mid Earth Orbit
METL Mission-Essential Task List
METOC Meteorological and Oceanographic
MILSATCOM Military Satellite Communications
MIRACL Mid IR Advanced Chemical Laser
MOA Memorandum of Agreement
MSI Multispectral Imagery
MSX Midcourse Space Experiment
MTI Moving Target Indicator

NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NAV Navigation
NAVFOR Naval Forces
NAVSPACE Naval Space Command
NAVWAR Navigation Warfare
NCA National Command Authorities
NCO Noncommissioned Officer
NDP National Defense Panel
NEMSS National Environmental Monitoring Satellite System
NGO Non-Governmental Organization
NMD National Missile Defense
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NORAD North American Aerospace Defense Command
NRO National Reconnaissance Office
NRT Near Real Time
NSC National Space Council/National Security Council
N/UWSS NORAD/USSPACECOM Warfighting Support System

OC Operational Concept
OCI Operational Concept Integrator
O&M Operations and Maintenance
OSA Office of the Space Architect
OSD Office of the Secretary of Defense

PAC-3 Patriot Advanced Capability Three
PACOM Pacific Command
PCS Personnel Communications Services
PDD Presidential Decision Directive
PME Professional Military Education
POC Point of Contact
PSM Portable Space Model
PVO Private Voluntary Organization

RDT&E Research Development Test and Evaluation
REG Regulation
RF Radio Frequency
RFP Request for Proposal
RIDSN Radar Imaging and Deep Space Network
RLV Reusable Launch Vehicle
RMA Revolution in Military Affairs
ROE Rules of Engagement
ROTC Reserve Officer Training Corps
R&S Reconnaissance and Surveillance
RT Real Time

SA Space Architect
SAR Synthetic Aperture Radar
SATOPS Satellite Operations
SBEON Space-Based Electro-Optical Network
SBI Space-Based Interceptor
SBIRS Space-Based Infrared System
SBJ Space-Based Jammer
SBL Space-Based Laser
SBP Space-Based Platform
SBR Space-Based Radar
SCPS Satellite Communications Protocol Standards
SECDEF Secretary of Defense
SEP Spherical Error Probability
SLBM Sea-Launched Ballistic Missile
SMC Space and Missile Systems Center
SOC Space Operations Center
SOV Space Operations Vehicle
SPOC Space Operations Center
SPOT Satellite Probatoire d'Observation de la Terre
SSN Space Surveillance Network
ST Space Transport
STRATCOM Strategic Command

THAAD Theater High Altitude Air Defense
TMD Theater Missile Defense
TOS Transportable Optical System
TPS Thermal Protection System
TT&C Telemetry, Tracking and Commanding
TW/AR Threat Warning/Attack Reporting

UCP Unified Command Plan
US United States
USAF United States Air Force
USAFSPACE United States Air Force Space Command
USARSPACE United States Army Space Command
USCENTCOM United States Central Command
USCINCSPACE Commander in Chief United States Space Command
USEUCOM United States European Command
USI Ultra-Spectral Imagery
USN United States Navy
USNAVSPACE United States Naval Space Command
USSPACECOM United States Space Command

WMD Weapons of Mass Destruction