| Acronym | Meaning |
| BO | Back Orifice -Belarus (FIPS 10-4 Country Code) - Bolivia (ISO 3166 Digram) -Body Odor |
| AFIS | Automated Fingerprint Identification System - American Forces Information Service |
| B&W | Babcock & Wilcox - Black And White - Bowers & Wilkins |
| DMSO | U.S. Defense Modeling & Simulation Office (dim-so) |
| AAI | Applied Artificial Intelligence |
| DPDT | Double-Pole Double-Throw |
| HBT | Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor |
| ROS | Reactive Oxygen Species |
| DSAA | (U.S.) Defense Security Assistance Agency |
| XVII | Seventeen (in Roman Numerals) |