Acronyms*
(A-E) (F-K)
(L-P) (Q-U) (V-Z)
* includes disaster, USAID , and military acronyms
A - airborne
AALC - African-American Labor Center
AAR after-action review
AC Active Component
ACDI - Agriculture Cooperative Development International
ADEA - Association for the Development of Education in Africa
ADP automated data processing
AELGA - Africa Emergency Locust/Grasshopper Assistance
AFDB - African Development Bank
AFDF - Africa Development Fund
AFFOR Air Force forces
AFSI - Africa Food Security Initiative
AIDS - Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
AIDSCAP - Acquired Immunodeficiency
Syndrome Control and Prevention Project
AIFLD - American Institute for Free Labor Development
AM amplitude modulated
AMC Army Materiel Command, Air Mobility Command
AMOPES Army Mobilization and Operations Planning and
Execution System
AOJ - Administration of Justice
AOR area of responsibility
AP antipersonnel
ARD - Associates in Rural Development
ARFOR Army forces
ARSOF Army special operations forces
ARSOTF Army Special Operations Task Force
ASARECA - Association for Strengthening of Agricultural
Research in East and Central Africa
ASD: SO-LIC Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special
Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict
AT antitank
ATI - Appropriate Technology International
ATRIP - Africa Trade and Investment Pprogram
AWACS - AID Worldwide Accounting and Control System
Bb
BASIC - Basic Support for Institutionalized Child Support
BCN - Biodiversity Conservation Network
BNC - Binational Commission (U.S and South Africa)
BRDEC Belvoir Research, Development, and Engineer Center
Cc
C2 command and control
C4 command, control, communications, and computers
CA - Cooperating Agency
CA Civil Affairs
CALT Civil Affairs liaison team
CAMPFIRE - Communal Area Management Program for Indigenous
Resources (Zimbabwe)
CAP crisis action planning
CARE - Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere, Inc.
CARPE - Central African Regional Program for the Environment
CD counterdrug
CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CDIE - Center for Development Information and Evaluation
CFA - African Financial Community
CG - Consultative Group
CG CAPLAN Coast Guard Capabilities Plan
CG LSMP Coast Guard Logistic Support and Mobilization Plan
CGIAR - Consultative Group for International Agricultural
Research
CIA Central Intelligence Agency
CIDA - Canadian International Development Agency
CILSS - Permanent Interstate Committee for the Control of
Drought in the Sahel
CINC commander of a combatant command; commander in chief
CJCS Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
CLS combat life savers
CLUSA - Cooperative League of the United States of America
cm centimeter
COA course of action
COMSEC communications security
CONOPS concept of operations
CONPLAN operation plan in concept format
CONUS continental United States
CP - Congressional Presentation
CPA Chairman's Program Assessment
CPG Contingency Planning Guidance
CPP - Comprehensive Post Partum
CPR - Contraceptive Prevalence Rate
CPX command post exercise
CRS - Catholic Relief Services
CRS Chairman's Readiness System
CRSP - Collaborative Research Support Program
CSD - Child Survival and Disease Fund
CSM - Contraceptive Social Marketing
CYP - Couple Year's Protection
Dd
DA - Development Assistance
DAC - Development Assistance Committee
DAO Defense Attache Office
DART - Disaster Assistance Response Team
det cord detonating cord
DFA - Development Fund for Africa
DG - Democracy and Governance
DHRF - Democracy and Human Rights Fund
DHS - Demographic Health Survey
DJS Director, Joint Staff
DLA Defense Logistics Agency
DMA Defense Mapping Agency
DOD Department of Defense
DODIC Department of Defense identification code
DOS Department of State
DPG Defense Planning Guidance
DPRB Defense Planning Resources Board
DPT - Diphtheria, Pertussis and Tetanus
DSAA Defense Security Assistance Agency
DWG - Democracy Working Group
Ee
EAP - Environmental Action Plan
EBRD - European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
EC - European Commission
EC - European Community
ECA - Enhanced Credit Authority
ECOMOG - Economic Community of West African States Monitoring
Group
ECOWAS - Economic Community of West African States
EG - Economic Growth
EIP - Environmental Impact Assessment
ENI - Europe and New Independent States
ENR - Environment and Natural Resources
EOD explosive ordnance disposal
EPA - Environmental Protection Agency
EPI - Expanded Program of Immunization
ERP - Economic Recovery Program
ESF - Economic Support Fund
EU - European Union
EXORD execute order
FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization
fax- facsimile
FDA - Food and Drug Administration
FEWS - Famine Early Warning System
FFP - Food for Peace
FFW - Food for Work
FID foreign internal defense
FM frequency modulated; field manual
FMF foreign military financing
FMFP Foreign Military Financing Program
FMS foreign military sales
FP - Family Planning
FRAGO fragmentary order
FSN - Foreign Service National
FSRDF - Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund
FTA - Free Trade Area
FTX field training exercise
FTZ - Free Trade Zone
FY fiscal year
Gg
G-7 - Group of Seven (leading
industrialized nations consisting of Canada, France, Germany,
Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States)
GATT - General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
GCA - Global Coalition for Africa
GCC - Global Climate Change
GCCS Global Command and Control System
GDP - Gross Domestic Product
GHAI - Greater Horn of Africa Initiative
GHG - Green House Gas
GNP - Gross National Product
GNRA - Government Management Reform Act
GPRA - Government Performance Review Act (P.L. 103-62)
GPS global positioning system
GSO Government Service Organization
GSP - General System of Preference
Hh
HA humanitarian assistance
HASP - Horn of Africa Support Project
HBCU - Historically Black Universities and Colleges
HDO humanitarian demining operations
HE high explosive
HEAT high-explosive antitank
HG - Housing Guaranty
HIID - Harvard Institute for International Development
HIV - Human Immunodeficiency Virus
HN host nation
HQ headquarters
Ii
IACCC - Inter-Agency Climate Change Committee
IARC - International Agricultural Research Center
IAW in accordance with
IBRD - International Bank for
Reconstruction and Development (World Bank)
ICITAP - International Criminal
Investigation and Training Assistance Program
ICRISAT - International Crop Research Institute for Semi-Arid
Tropics
ID identification
IDA - International Development Association
IEC - Information, Education and Communications
IESC - International Executive Service Corps
IFES - International Foundation for Electoral Systems
IFI - International Financial Institute
IFRC - International Federation of the Red Cross
IG - Inspector General
IGAD - Intergovernmental Authority on Development (GHAI))
ILO - International Labor Organization
IMET International Military Education and Training
IMF - International Monetary Fund
IMIT International Military Information Team
IMR - Infant Mortality Rate
IPB intelligence preparation of the battlespace
IPL integrated priority list
IPP Industrial Preparedness Program
IPPF - International Planned Parenthood Federation
IQ - Intelligence Quotient
IRI - International Republican Institute
ISA - Initiative for Southern Africa
IWG Interagency Working Group
Jj
J3 SOD Joint Staff Operations Directorate
JCET Joint Combined Exchange Training
JCS Joint Chiefs of Staff
JFC joint force commander
JFSOCC joint force special operations component commander
JIMPP Joint Industrial Mobilization Planning Process
JMNA Joint Military Net Assessment
JMRR Joint Monthly Readiness Review
JOPES Joint Operation Planning and Execution System
JPD Joint Planning Document
JPEC Joint Planning and Execution Community
JSCP Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan
JSOTF Joint Special Operations Task Force
JSPS Joint Strategic Planning System
JSR Joint Strategy Review
JTF joint task force
Kk
kg kilogram
kW kilowatt
LNO liaison officer
LOI letter of instruction
LSA logistics sustainability analysis
LWOB - Lessons Without Borders
Mm
MACOM major Army commands
MARFOR Marine forces
MB megabyte
MCH - Maternal and Child Health
MCP Marine Corps Capabilities Plan
MDB - Multilateral Development Bank
MDDC Mine Detection Dog Center
MEDEVAC medical evacuation
MHz megahertz
MIB Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
MILTRA military training
MIPR military interdepartmental purchase request
MIS - Management Information System
MIST military information support team
mm millimeter
MOA - Ministry of Agriculture
MOA memorandum of agreement
MOE - Ministry of Education
MOF - Minister of Finance
MOH - Ministry of Health
MOP memorandum of policy
MOPH - Ministry of Public Health
MPA mission planning agent
MPLAN Marine Corps Mobilization Management Plan
MSC Military Sealift Command
MSED - Micro and Small Enterprise Development
MSH - Management Sciences for Health
MT - Metric Ton
MTMC Military Traffic Management Command
Nn
NADR Nonproliferation, Antiterrorism, Demining, and Related
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NAVFOR Navy forces
NCA National Command Authorities
NCMP Navy Capabilities and Mobilization Plan
NCO noncommissioned officer
NCOPD noncommissioned officer professional development
NDI - National Democratic Institute
NDLC Namibian Demining Liaison Committee
NDO National Demining Office
NED - National Endowment for Democracy
NEO noncombatant evacuation order
NGO - Nongovernmental Organization
NGO nongovernment organization
NMCC National Military Command Center
NMCS National Military Command System
NMS - New Management System
NMS national military strategy
NPI - New Partnership Initiative
NPR - National Performance Review
NRM - Natural Resource Management
NSA National Security Agency
NSC National Security Council
NTE - Non-traditional Export
Oo
O&M operation and maintenance
OASD: SO-LIC Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict
OCONUS outside the continental United States
ODA - Official Development Assistance
ODA -Overseas Development Administration (British)
OECD - Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
OECF - Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund
OFDA - Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance/USAID
OHDACA Overseas Humanitarian Disaster Aid and Civil
Assistance
OJCS Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
OMB - Office of Management and Budget
OPD officer professional development
OPLAN operation plan
OPORD operation order
OPORD operation order
OPTEMPO operating tempo
ORS - Oral Rehydration Salts
OSD Office of the Secretary of Defense
OTI - Office of Transition Initiative/USAID
Pp
PA - Project Assistance
PAO public affairs office
PASA - Participating Agency Service Agreement
PBD program budget decision
PDC product development center
PDM Program Decision Memorandum
PDSS predeployment site survey
PDWS product development workstation
PE practice exercise
PERTEMPO personnel tempo
PHN - Population, Health and Nutrition
PLO - Palestinian Liberation Organization
PMCS preventive maintenance checks and services
POAT psychological operations assessment team
POC point of contact
POI program of instruction
POM Program Objective Memorandum
PPBS Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System
PRIME - Program for Innovation in Microenterprise
PSC - Personal Service Contract
PSYOP Psychological Operations
PVO - Private Voluntary Organization
PVO private voluntary organization
R-4 - Results Review and Resource Requirement
RAM random-access memory
RC Reserve Component
RCSA - Regional Center for Southern Africa/USAID
RDA - Regional Development Account
REDSO - Regional Economic Development Support Office/USAID
RHUDO - Regional Housing and Urban Development Office/USAID
RIF - Reduction in Force
RIG - Regional Inspector General
ROE rule of engagement
RSO Regional Security Office
Ss
SA security assistance
SADC - Southern Africa Development Community
SAEDF - Southern Africa Enterprise Development Fund
SAP - Structural Adjustment Program
SATMO Security Assistance Training Management Organization
SCF - Save the Children
SEATS - Family Planning Service Expansion and Technical
Support
SF Special Forces
SFODA Special Forces operational detachment Alpha
SFODB Special Forces operational detachment Bravo
SITREP situation report
SMA - Small Program Assistance
SME - Small and Medium Enterprises
SMME - Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises
SO - Strategic Objective
SOC special operations command
SOC special operations command
SOF special operations forces
SOP standing operating procedure
SOSCOM Special Operations Support Command
SOTSE special operations theater support element
SPA - Special Program of Assistance for Africa
SPRP - Sector Policy Reform Program
SSH - Special Self Help Program
STANAG standardization agreement (NATO)
STD - Sexually Transmitted Disease
STI - Sexually Transmitted Infection
STX situational training exercise
Tt
TBD - To Be Determined
TFR - Total Fertility Rate
TNT trinitrotoluene
TPFDD time-phased force and deployment data
TRANSCOM Transportation Command
TSC training support center
TST tactical support team
Uu
U.S. United States
U5RM - Under 5 Mortality Rate
UCP Unified Command Plan
UK - United Kingdom
UN - United Nations
UN United Nations
UNDP - United Nation Development Program
UNESCO - United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization
UNFPA - United Nations Population Fund
UNICEF - United Nations Children Fund
UNOCHA United Nations Observer Controllers Humanitarian
Assistance
UPS uninterrupted power supply
USA United States Army
USACAPOC United States Army Civil Affairs and Psychological
Operations Command
USAF United States Air Force
USAID - U.S. Agency for International Development
USAJFKSWCS United States Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare
Center and School
USASFC United States Army Special Forces Command
USASOC United States Army Special Operations Command
USCG United States Coast Guard
USCINCEUR United States Commander in Chief, Europe
USDA - United States Department of Agriculture
USDH - United States Direct Hire
USEUCOM United States European Command
USIA - United States Information Agency
USMC United States Marine Corps
USN United States Navy
USSOCOM United States Special Operations Command
USTRANSCOM United States Transportation Command
UTM universal transverse mercator
UW unconventional warfare
UXO unexploded ordnance
VCR videocassette recorder
VOA - Voice of America
Ww
WAEN - West Africa Enterprise Network
WARNORD warning order
WFP - World Food Program
WHO - World Health Organization
WID - Women in Development
WIN Worldwide Military Command and Control System
WMP Air Force War and Mobilization Plan
WP white phosphorous
WTO - World Trade Organization
WWF - Worldwide Fund for Nature
WWMCCS Worldwide Military Command and Control System
Yy
Y2K - Year 2000
