Acronyms

(this page is constantly being updated)

-16 – FPS-16 (ground-based monopulse single object tracking radar (SOTR))
AAC – Alaskan Air Command (US Air Force)
ACSI – Department of the Army, Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence (US Army)
ACSI-matic – ACSI-MATIC is an acronym for a proposed information storage and retrieval system which was to be designed and implemented by RCA for the Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence (US Army)
ADP Department – Automated Data Processing Department (US Army)
Aeronutronic – Aeronutronic Corporation
Aerospace – The Aerospace Corporation
AFBMD – Air Force Ballistic Missile Division
AFOOA – Air Force Office of Operations Analysis
AJ – anti-jamming
ALCOM – Alaskan Command (US Air Force)
ARDC – Air Research and Development Command (US Air Force)
ARPA – Advanced Research Projects Agency (Pentagon)
ARPAT – ARPA Terminal (ARPA studied defense systems to destroy ballistic missile in their terminal flight phase under the ARPAT program run by Raytheon.)
ARTOC – Army Tactical Operations Control (US Army)
Ascension – Ascension Island, location of Wideawake Airfield (US Air Force & RAF)
ATC – Air Traffic Control
Bendix – Bendix (Electrodynamics) Corporation
BMD – Ballistic Missile Defense (US Air Force)
Brookwoods – Camp Brookwoods for Boys, Alton, New Hampshire
BSA – Boy Scouts of America
BSD – Ballistic Systems Division
BTL – Bell Telephone Laboratories
C&GSC – Command and General Staff College (US Army)
CAA – Civil_Aeronautics_Authority
CCIS – Command and Control Information System
C2D2 – Command and Control Development Division (US Air Force)
CONARC – Continental Army Command (US Army)
CORG – Combat Operations Research Group (US Army)
CORG (TechOps) – Combat Operations Research Group, Technical Operations (US Army)
DEC – Digital Equipment Corporation
Division 2 – the digital (
EADF –
EAFB – Elemendorf Air Force Base, Anchorage, Alaska
EJCC – Eastern Joint Computer Conference
FAA – Federal Aviation Authority
FAA/BRD – FAA Bureau of Research and Development
FADSOC –
FATOC – Field Army Tactical Operation Center (US Army)
Ft. Harrison – Fort Benjamin Harrison Army Base, Lawrence, Illinois
Ft. Huachuca – Fort Huachuca Army Base, Cochise County, Arizona
Ft. Leavenworth – Fort Leavenworth Army Base, Leavenworth, Kansas
Ft. Sill – Fort Sill Army Base, Lawton, Oklahoma
GE – General Electric Corporation (Missile and Space Vehicle Department)
GSA – Girl Scouts of America
IAWR – Institute for Air Weapons Research
ICBM – intercontinental ballistic missile
ICSAL -
IRE/PGEM – Institute of Radio Engineers/Professional Group on Engineering Management
L2 – Lincoln Laboratory (MIT)
MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Litton – Litton Industries
MITRE – Mitre Corporation
MOBIDIC – MOBIle DIgital Computer from Sylvania Electric Products, Inc.
MOMAR – MOdern Mobile ARmy
NBS – National Bureau of Standards
NORAD – North American Aerospace Defense Command (US Air Force)
Norton AFB – Norton Air Force Base, SAGE center, HQ of the Western Air Defense Force
NRL – Naval Research Laboratory (US Navy)
NYT – New York Times
OA – Operations Analysis
OCG –
OED –
OTP – Office of Telecommunications Policy (White House)
PAFB – Patrick Air Force Base, Florida
Park Street – Park Street Church
RADLAB – Radiation Laboratory (MIT)
RAND – Rand Corporation
Raytheon – Raytheon Corporation
RCA Princeton – Radio Corporation of America Princeton (New Jersey) Research & Development Facility
RW/CSC – Radiological Warfare / Community Support Center
SA – Systems Analysis
SAC – Strategic Air Command (US Air Force)
SAGE – Semi Automatic Ground Environment
SDS Paramus – Strategic Defense System (US Army) in Paramus, New Jersey
Site 12 – (possibly: Atlas F missile silo near Mooers, New York operated out of Plattsburgh AFB, Plattsburgh, New York; or Atlas F Missile site near Brainerd, Nebraska operated out of Lincoln AFB, Lincoln, Nebraska)
Sperry – Sperry Corporation
Sperry Gyroscope –
SS – Sunday School (at Park Street Church in downtown Boston on the Boston Common)
StroboConn – an analog tuning device.
STV – Supersonic Test Vehicle or Special Test Vehicle (missile system used for testing trajectory control in ICBMs)
Sylvania – Sylvania Electric Products, Inc.
TI – Texas Instruments, Inc.
TOC Concept – Theory of Constraints concept
TRWR – Thompson Ramo Wooldridge (Research) Inc.
TS – Top Secret
TTR – target tracking radar
USAEPG – United States Army Electronics Proving Ground, Fort Huachuca, Arizona
VC -
WSEG – Weapons System Evaluation Group
WS(N)MR – White Sands (National) Missile Range, New Mexico