Acronyms

AD = Assistant Director
ADD = Attention Deficit Disorder
AIM = AOL Instant Message
AM = After Midnight
ARM = Adjustable Rate Moorgate
BAG = Budget Aggregate Group, Budget Activity Group, Ballistic Attack Game
BAR = Base Address Register, Battery Acquisition Radar
BASE = Basic Army Strategic Estimates, Basic Army Skills Exam
BASH = Bird Aircraft Strike Hazard
BASIC = Basic Algebraic Symbolic Interpretive Compiler, Basic Automatic Stored Instruction computer,
Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code [computer language]
BASIS = Burroughs applied statistical inquiry system, 2bank automated service information system
BAT = Brilliant Anti-Tank, Block Address Translation,
BEST = Business Electronic Systems Techniques, Base Engineering Support-Technical (USN),
Business Equipment Software Techniques
BET = Baseline Evaluation Test
BIT = Built in Test,
BITS = Base Information Transfer System, Biweekly Indicator Tracking System
BLADE= Basic level automation of data through electronics
BLAMES=Base-Level AUTODIN Message Extract System
BLAST = Battlefield Laser Acquisition Sensor Test, Blocked Asynchronous Transmission (protocol) [Communications Research Group]
BLESS = Battle Lab Support Element
BLIMPS=Base level military personnel system (USAF)
BLIP =Background Limited Infrared Photoconductor
BOLD = Bibliographic On-Line Display
BOND = Bandwidth on Demand
BOSS = Base Operating Support Operations Support Center
BOW = Basic Operating Weight
BUG = Brooklyn Union Gas
CAB = Combat Aviation Brigade, Civil Aeronautics Board, Centralized Accounting and Billing, Corrective Action Board
CAPE = Communications Automatic Processing Equipment, Contractor Assessment Product Evaluation
CAR = Chief, Army Reserve, Channel Address Register, Computer-Assisted research, Command Assessment Review [USAF], Configuration Audit Review, Corrective Action Report, Customer Account Representative, Civil Airworthiness Regulation, Contract Administration Report , Corrective Action Request, 11[AR 310-50] Condition and Recommendation
CARA =Combined Altitude Radar Altimeter
CARDS=Catalog of Army Requirements Documents, Carrier Dynamic Simulation Program (USN), Comprehensive Approach to Reusable Defense Software, Catalog of Approved Requirements Documents
CARE =Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CAREUSA)
CARL =Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries [Internet], Commercial Activities Resource Library
CARP= Computed Air Release Point, Contract Award Release Package, Contingency Alternate Routing Plan,
Contingency alternate routing program, 5contract award review panel, Crisis action response plan
CARS = Computer-Aided Routing System, Contingency Airborne Reconnaissance System, Community Antenna Relay Service, Computerized Automotive Reporting System, Combat Arms Regimental System, Consolidated Acquisition Reporting System
CART =Central Automatic Reliability Tester, Central Automated Replenishment Technique, Conformal Array Radar Technology, Computerized Automatic Rating Technique
CARTS=Controlled Atmosphere Reliable Transportation System
CARVE= Criticality Accessibility, Recuperability, Vulnerability, and Effect
CARVER= Criticality Accessibility Recuperability, Vulnerability, Effect, and Recognizability
CAT = Combat Auto Theft
CORE = Congress of Racial Equality.
DO - Doctor of Osteopath
DOT = Dept. of Transportation
FEAR = False Enemy About to Retreat & Fierce Enemy Always Ruling.
HEAT = Help Eliminate Auto Theft
HIP = Health Insurance Plan
IM = Instant Message
IT = Internet technology
MA = Mature audiences
SAD: = Seasonal Affective Disorder
TARP = Troubled Asset Relief Program