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A

AADD Airmen Against Drunk Driving
AAR Air-to-air Refueling
ABNCP Airborne Command Post
AFCERT Air Force Certified
AFSC Air Force Specialty Codes
All Enlisted Codes and All Officer Codes (AF)
AIFS Allied Information Flow System (NATO)
AMSTE Affordable Moving Surface Target Engagement
APS Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar Processing Segment
ARMEDAirmen Retention and Marketplace Evaluation Decision
ASARS Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar System (U-2 Program)
ATCALS Air Traffic Control and Landing System




B

BCACBeneficiary Counseling and Assistance Coordinator
BLOSBeyond Line-Of-Sight

C

C4I Command, Control, Communications, Computer, and Intelligence
CAN Correlation Analyst
CARS Contingency Airborne Reconnaissance System
CAOC Combined Air Operations Center
CBRN Chemical, Biological, Radiological, or Nuclear
CCCCombat Crew Communications
CCMCost Center Manager
CDC Career Development Course (AF)
CMIS Computer Management Information Systems
CIGSS Common Imagery Ground/Surface System
C&I Communications & Information
CNVT Computer Network Vulnerability Team
COS Communications Operations Segment
COTR Contractor Officer Technical Representative
CSAR Combat Search and Rescue
CSEPCommunications Standardization and Evaluation Program

D

DCAO Debt Collection Assistance Officer
DCGS Deployable Common Ground Station
Distributed Common Ground Systems
DCM-M Deployable Communications Module, Mike
DDS Defense Dissemination System
DE
DE-D
Dissemination Element
Dissemination Element-Deployable
DEROS Date Eligible to Return from Overseas
DGSDeployable Ground Station
Distributed Ground Station
DGIF Deployable Ground Intercept Facility
DLIP Data Link Improvement Program
DISA Defense Information Systems Agency
DISC DCGS Integration Support Contractor
DODIIS Department of Defense Intelligence Information System
DTSDeployable Transit-cased System


E

EAS Expense Assignment System
ESD Electrostatic Discharge
ETP U-2's Extended Tether Program

F

FSR Field Service Representative
FCE Forward Control Element
FYDPFuture Year Defense Program

G

GCCS Global Command and Control System
GCP Ground Control Processor
GSS Ground- and surface-based systems

H

HCFAHealth Care Financing Administration
HCSDBHealth Care Survey of DOD Beneficiaries
HVAC Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning

I

IDO Internal Distribution Operation
IESS Imagery Exploitation Support System
IITA AF Institute for Information Technology Applications
IMDS Integrated Maintenance Database System
IMINT Imagery Intelligence
IPL Image Product Library
IRO Instructor Rated Operator
ISPAN Integrated Strategic Planning and Analysis Network
ISR Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance

J

JASA Joint Airborne SIGINT Architecture
JEFX Joint Expeditionary Forces Experiment
JSIPS Joint Imagery Processing System
JSIN Joint Staff Information Network
JSTARS Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System
JWICS Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System

K

KFOR Kosovo security force, Kosovo Forces

L

LMR Land Mobile Radio
LS Logistics Support
LSETLogistics Standardization/Evaluation Team

M

MAFMan-hour availability factor
MASINT Measurements and Signatures Intelligence
MDS Modular Dissemination System
MEPRSMedical Expense and Performance Reporting System
MIS Mission Intelligence System
MIST Modulator Interoperable Surface Terminal
MIST-II Modularized Interoperable Surface Terminal-II
MOBSTR Mobile Stretch

N

NC2Nuclear Command and Control
NCCNational Command Capability
NDC NATO Deployable Corps
NPESNuclear Planning and Execution System

O

OCF Operational Check Flights

P

PDGProfessional Development Guide
PGL Precision Geo-Location
PPBSPlanning, Programming and Budgeting System

Q

QIPQuadritek IP Management

R

RAOC Regional Air Operations Center
RDO Redistribution Order
RE Receive Element
RL Receive Location
RQ-1 Predator UAV
RQ-4 Global Hawk UAV

S

SAV Staff Assistance Visit
SCAN Streamlined Senior Correlation Analyst
SDOSenior Duty Officer
SIGINT Signals Intelligence
SOP Standard Operating Procedure
SPG Softcopy Processing Group
SSBI Single Scope Background Investigation
SSS Senior Span Segment
STP shielded twisted pair
SWA Southwest Asia
SYERS Senior Year Electro-optical Reconnaissance System

T

TACLANE Tactical FASTLANE
TCTO Time Compliance Technical Orders
TFT Tri-band Field Terminal
TMD Theater Missile Defense
TMET Tactical Medium Earth Terminal

U

UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
UES Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Exploitation System

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