| Acronym | Meaning |
| BSE | Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy |
| AFIS | Automated Fingerprint Identification System - American Forces Information Service |
| NASP | National Aerospace Plane |
| AASPEM | Advanced Air-to-air System Performance Evaluation Model |
| JPOW | Joint Project Optic Windmill |
| BGWG | Battle Group Wargame (military Simulation; Big Wig) |
| RPO | Radiation Protection Officer |
| GPU | Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravlenie (Russian ??????????????? ???????????? ?????????? |
| THAAD | Theatre High Altitude Area Defence |
| EUCOM | (U.S.) European Command |