acronyms
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01::January::2000 14:01 → permalink

(constantly updated! in progress!)

AAC – Alaskan Air Command (Air Force)
ACSI – Department of the Army, Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence
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 Department of the Army, Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence
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 (Air Force)
ARDC – Air Research and Development Command (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
Ascension – Ascension Island, location of Wideawake Airfield (US Air Force & RAF)
ATC – Air Traffic Control
BMD – Ballistic Missile Defense (Air Force)
BSA – Boy Scouts of America
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 (Air Force)
CONARC – Continental Army Command (US Army)
DEC – Digital Equipment Corporation
EADF –
EAFB – Elemendorf Air Force Base, Alaska
EJCC – Eastern Joint Computer Conference
FAA – Federal Aviation Authority
FADSOC –
FATOC – Field Army Tactical Operation Center
Fort Harrison – Fort Harrison Army Base, Illinois
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
MOMAR – MOdern Mobile ARmy
NBS – National Bureau of Standards
NORAD – North American Aerospace Defense Command (Air Force)
NRL – Naval Research Laboratory (Navy)
NYT – New York Times
OA – Operations Analysis
OCG –
OED –
OTP – Office of Telecommunications Policy (White House)
PAFB – Patrick Air Force Base, Florida
RADLAB – Radiation Laboratory (MIT)
RAND – Rand Corporation
Raytheon – Raytheon Corporation
RCA Princeton –
SA – Systems Analysis
SAC – Strategic Air Command (Air Force)
Sperry – Sperry Corporation
Sperry Gyroscope –
SS – Sunday School
TI – Texas Instruments
TOC Concept – Theory of Constraints concept
TRWR – Thompson Ramo Wooldridge (Research) Inc.
TTR – target tracking radar
USAEPG – United States Army Electronics Proving Ground, Fort Huachuca, Arizona
VC -
WSEG – Weapons System Evaluation Group

People:
AA – Al Armentis
BS -
Col. Bavaro – Mike Bavaro
Col. Darnell
Col. Small
Dr. Wiesner – Jerome B. Wiesner
EK –
HJM – Hugh Jordan Miser “A pioneering practitioner, consultant, editor, educator and philosopher in operational research and systems analysis.”
JFH –
JFN -
JH –
JLV –
RCP –
RJB –
VAN -
WN -
WZL -

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    December 18th, 2011 at 18:55

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    January 6th, 2012 at 23:03

    [...] will consist of. After some discussion it was pointed out by Col. Bavaro that Col. Darnell at Hq CONARC conceives that we will refine the concept of Simplex as set forth in Phase I to the point where a [...]

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