GLOSSARY

ACADA Automatic Chemical Agent Detector/Alarm
ACTD Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration
ADW Agent Defeat Weapon
AICPS Advanced Integrated Collective Protective System
ALCM Air Launched Cruise Missile
BIDS Biological Integrated Detection System
BM/C3I Battle Management/Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence
BMD Ballistic Missile Defense
BMDO Ballistic Missile Defense Organization
BW Biological Weapons
BWC Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention
C3 Command, Control, and Communications
CAM Chemical Agent Monitor
CB Chemical/Biological
CBDCOM Chemical and Biological Defense Command
CBIRF Chemical Biological Incident Response Force
CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CINC Commander in Chief
CJCS Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
COCOM Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls
CPC Counterproliferation Council
CPRC Counterproliferation Program Review Committee
CTBT Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
CTR Cooperative Threat Reduction
CTTS Counterterror Technical Support
CW Chemical Weapons
CWC Chemical Weapons Convention
CWD Chemical Weapons Destruction
DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DGP NATO Senior Defense Group on Proliferation
DIA Defense Intelligence Agency
DMZ Demilitarized Zone
DoD Department of Defense
DOE Department of Energy
DSWA Defense Special Weapons Agency
DTSA Defense Technology Security Administration
EPCI Enhanced Proliferation Control Initiative
FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation
FDA Food and Drug Administration
FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency
GAO General Accounting Office
GCC Gulf Cooperation Council
GDP Gross Domestic Product
HDBTDC Hard and Deeply Buried Target Defeat Capability
IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency
ICBM Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (Range: greater than 5,500 kilometers)
ICAM Improved Chemical Agent Monitor
ILEA International Law Enforcement Academy
IPDS Improved Point Detection System
IRBM Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (Range: 3,000 to 5,000 kilometers)
JBPDS Joint Biological Point Detection System
JSLIST Joint Service Lightweight Integrated Suit Technology
JVAP Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program
JWCO Joint Warfighting Capability Objective
km Kilometer
LNBCRS Lightweight Nuclear Biological and Chemical Reconnaissance System
LR]BSDS Long Range Biological Standoff Detection System
MCTL Militarily Critical Technologies List
MEADS Medium Extended Air Defense System
MRBM Medium Range Ballistic Missile (Range: 1,000 to 3,000 kilometers)
MT Metric Ton
MTCR Missile Technology Control Regime
MTOPS Million Theoretical Operations Per Second
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NBC Nuclear, Biological, or Chemical
NBC/M NBC Weapons and Their Means of Delivery
NBCRS NBC Reconnaissance System
NDAA National Defense Authorization Act
NIS New Independent States
NMD National Missile Defense
NPT Nuclear Non]Proliferation Treaty
NSG Nuclear Suppliers Group
OSCE Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
OSD Office of the Secretary of Defense
OSIA On]Site Inspection Agency
P3I Pre]Planned Product Improvement
PAC]3 Patriot Advanced Capability]3
PDD Presidential Decision Directive
PFP Partnership for Peace
QDR Quadrennial Defense Review
R&D Research and Development
RSCAAL Remote Sensing Chemical Agent Alarm
SALAD Shipboard Automatic Liquid Agent Detector
SBIRS Space Based Infrared System
SLBM Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile
SLV Space Launch Vehicle
SRBM Short Range Ballistic Missile (Range: 1,000 kilometers or less)
START Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
TBM Theater Ballistic Missile
THAAD Theater High Altitude Area Defense
TMD Theater Missile Defense
TSWG Technical Support Working Group
UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
UN United Nations
UNSCOM UN Special Commission on Iraq
UNSCR UN Security Council Resolution
USAMRCD U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command
WMD Weapons of Mass Destruction

 

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