Date: Sat, 21 May 1994 22:08:50 edt From: "Dale Wharton" Message-Id: <2ddec07d.dale.CAM.ORG@dale.cam.org> Subject: Glossary, special ops/LIC Patrick: here is a list of US military acronyms, mainly for special operations and "low intensity conflict." It contains so many telecom items that you might be interested. Best wishes... Dale Wharton dale@dale.cam.org M O N T R E A L Te souviens-tu? 8<--------------------------- cut here --------------------------->8 AABNCP Advance Airborne National Command Post ACOUSTINT Acoustical Intelligence AESOP Airborne Electro-optical Special Operations Payload AFRIMP Air Force Reconnaissance and Intelligence Master Plan AN/PAQ-4 Infrared arming light APERS Antipersonnel fragmentation warhead ASDS Advanced SEAL Delivery System BECONET Beam Control Experimental Technology BEEHIVE Flechette-loaded fragmentation shells BETA Battlefield Exploitation and Target Acquisition BLU-26/B SADEYE One-lb fragmentation bomb with 600 lethal steel shards BLU-42 WAAPM Wide-area antipersonnel bomb BYEMAN Clearance category for highly secret signals intelligence and satellite imaging data C3CM Command, Control, and Communications Countermeasures C4I Command/Control/Communications/Computers/Intelligence CATIS Computer-Aided Tactical Information System CEB Combined Effects Bomblet CEOI Communications-Electronic Operating Instructions CEP Circular Error Probable CHALET Reconaissance satellite (National Security Agency) CHIP Communications Handbook for Intelligence Planners CIPHONY Enciphered telephone CIRIS Consolidated Intelligence Resources Information System COIN Counterinsurgency COINS Community Online Intelligence System COMIREX Committee on Imagery Requirements and Exploitation COPERNICUS Navy C4I architecture CRIMP Crisis Management Plan CRITICOMM Critical Intelligence Communications (National Security Agency's world network for military/civilian leaders) CUBIC Common User Baseline for Intelligence Community DEFSMAC Defense Special Missile and Astronautics Center DIANE Digital Integrated Attack Navigator Equipment (Navy) DIIP Defense Intelligence Interoperability Panel DOCKLAMP Defense Attache System DRSP Defense Reconnaissance Support Center DRUID Secret information from a third party intercept DTM Data Transfer Module ECCM Electronic Counter-Countermeasures ECM Electronic Countermeasures EFLS Electronic Filmless Camera System EMERALD Counternarcotics database (Defense Intelligence Agency) ENSCE Enemy Situation Correlation Element (Air Force) EOCM Electro-Optical Countermeasures ESI Extremely Sensitive Information FID Foreign Internal Defense (Special Forces, SEALs overseas training) FIRMS Foreign Intelligence Relations Management System FISINT Foreign Instrumentation Signals Intelligence FLEETSAT Fleet Satellite FLIR Forward Looking Infrared Radar GDIP General Defense Intelligence Program GOLDFINGER Ocean surveillance data management system HITS Human Intelligence Tasking System HOMERUN Tactical electronic jamming system HOTPHOTOREP Hot Photo interpretation Report HOTSIT Hot Situation message HTKP Hard Target Kill Potential IDHS Intelligence Data Handling System ILSP Integrated Logistic Support Plans IMAAP Intelligence Mission Area Analysis Plan (Air Force) IMD Intelligence Management Document INCA Intelligence Communications Architecture (Def Int Agcy) INEWS Integrated Electronic Warfare System (Air Force) INSCOM Intelligence and Security Command (Army) IPSP Intelligence Priorities for Strategic Planning (forecasts covering years 1-10 in a 20-year span) ISSMS Special Operations Signal Intelligence Manpack System IUG Intelligence User's Guide (Defense Intelligence Agncy) JASORS Joint Advance Special Operations Radio System JCSP/Annex E Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan/Special Operations JILE Joint Intelligence Liaison Element (CIA) JITC Joint Interoperability Test Center (Army intelligence center and school, Ft Huachuca AZ) JOPES Joint Operations Planning and Execution System JSOSE Joint Special Operations Support Element JSPS Joint Strategic Planning System JTIDS Joint Tactical Information Distribution System KISS Korean Intelligence Support System LAAT Laser Augmented Airborne TOW (helicopter-mounted antitank missile sight) LAMPS Light Airborne Multipurpose System LOROP Long Range Oblique Photography LPI/LPD Low Probability Intercept/Low Probability Detection LRRP Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol LTD/LRF Laser Target Designator/Laser Range Finder MAD Magnetic Anomaly Detection (Navy) MASINT Measurement and Signature Intelligence MAU(SOC) Marine Amphibious Unit (Special Ops Capable) MDCI Multidisciplinary Counterintelligence MEBE Middle East Basic Encyclopedia MERIT Military Exploitation of Reconnaissance and Intelligence Technology MILSTAR Military Strategic, Tactical, and Relay (for satellite communication) MISREP Joint tactical air reconnaissance/surveillance Mission Report MLS Microwave Landing System MOUT Military Operations in Urban Terrain MRASM Medium Range Air-to-Surface Missile MTT Mobile Training Teams (Special Forces, overseas) MUTES Multiple Threat Emitter System NARCOG Narcotics Coordination Group NAVSPECWARCOM Naval Special Warfare Command NETCAP Tactical exploitation of national space Capabilities NIPS Naval Intelligence Processing System NITF National Imagery Transmission Format NMSD National Military Strategy Document NOD Night Observation Device NOIAN National Operations and Intelligence Analysis Net NRO National Reconnaissance Office NSOC National Signals intelligence Operations Center (NSA) OPSEC Operations Security OTAU Over The Air Updating PAVE PAWS Phased-array radar system PFADS Psychological operations Foreign Area Data Subsystem PKO Peacekeeping Operation PLSS Precision Location Strike System POE Plan of Execution PPBS Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (produces a two-year budget for the Pentagon) PSYOPS Psychological Operations RATSCAT Radar Target Scatter System RAWSII Raw Statement of Intelligence Interest RECCEXREP Reconnaissance Exploitation Report RPV Remotely Piloted Vehicle SAGE Semiautomatic Ground Environment SCRAP Super Caliber Rocket-Assisted Projectile (Army) SEALS Sea/Air/Land commando teams (Navy) SENTINEL BRIGHT Signals intelligence cryptology training (Air Force) SERE Survival, Evasion, Resistance to interrogation (Army training program) SIGVOICE Special Interest Group on Voice (NSA) SIPS Secondary Imagery Processing System (Defense Int Agncy) SKYMASTER OV-2A reconnaissance aircraft SLAR Side-Looking Aircraft Radar (used in reconnaissance aircraft and satellites) SLQ-33 Cover and deception hardware (Navy) SOADS Special Operations Automated Data Base SOCRATES Special Operations Research, Analysis, and Threat Evaluation System (CIA "umbrella program") SOF-ATS Special Operations Forces Aircrew Training System SOFPARS Special Operations Forces Planning and Rehearsal System SPICECOM Special Purpose Integrated Communications Equipment SPINTCOMM Special Intelligence Communications (Defense Int Agncy) SPIREP Spot Intelligence Report STOC Special Technical Operations Center (Pentagon command center for supersecret "black operations") TACAMO Tactical Airborne Command communications aircraft TAGINT Tagging Intelligence T-AGOS Ocean surveillance ship TECRAS Technical Reconnaissance and Surveillance TIAP Theater Intelligence Architecture Program TIARA Tactical Intelligence And Related Activities TIGERSHARK F-20 jet fighter aircraft TIP Target Intelligence Package TMIP The Military Industrial impact Program TPFDL Time, Phased Force, and Deployment List TR-1 Current generation of U-2 reconnaissance aircraft TRADOC Training and Doctrine Command (Army) TRAM Target Recognition and Attack Multisensor TRINE One of hundreds of self-contained, compartmented "special access" programs requiring clearance beyond Top Secret for the most sensitive intelligence TRSSCOMM Technical Research Ship Special Communications UDT Underwater Demolition Teams (Navy) USAJFKSWCS John F Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School, Ft Bragg NC (Army) USALWL US Army Limited War Laboratory USSOCOM US Special Operations Command UWOA Unconventional Warfare Operational Area VIGILANTE A-5 jet reconnaissance aircraft VOODOO F-101 interceptor aircraft WAAM Wide-Arm Antiarmor Munitions WAR Weekly Activity Report (NSA) WETEYE 750-lb chemical bomb with 403 lbs lethal GB (Sarin) gas WICS Worldwide Intelligence Communications System WTM World Target Mosaic XPLT Exploitation YG Garbage transport disposal craft (Navy) The list is part of an analysis by Louis Wolf: "Refurbishing Special Operations for the 1990s." It appeared in _Covert Action Quarterly_ #42, Fall 1992 (Wolf is director of research and copublisher of the journal). _Covert Action Quarterly_: ISSN 0275-309X (University Microfilms, _Alternative Press Index_). Back issues available ($8 per copy in US) from Covert Action Publications Inc, 1500 Massachusetts Ave NW (#732), Washington DC 20005, phone (202) 331-9763, fax (202) 331-9751.