| Acronym | Meaning |
| PLD | Probable Line Of Deployment |
| CANDU | CANada Deuterium Uranium (nuclear Reactor Design) |
| IX | Nine (in Roman Numerals) |
| ASTIA | Armed Services Technical Information Agency |
| VBA | Visual Basic For Applications |
| SIGCAT | Special Interest Group For CD-ROM Applications And Technology |
| FUD | Fear |
| SD | Sheriff's Department - Smoke/Decontamination-South Dakota (postal Symbol) - Sudan (ISO 3166 Digram) |
| CPAC | Canadian Parliamentary Affairs Channel - Conservative Political Action Conference (see-pack) |
| STRIVE | Synthetic Tactical Real-time Interactive Virtual Environment |