AAC U.S. Army Armor Center
ACGIH American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists
ADAM Area Denial Artillery Munition
AEHA Army Environmental Hygiene Agency
AEPI Army Environmental Policy Institute
AFLCR Air Force Logistics Command Regulation
AFRRI Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute
AFSCR Air Force Systems Command Regulation
ALARA As Low As Reasonably Achievable
AMC Army Materiel Command
AMCCOM Armament, Munitions and Chemical Command
AMCR Army Materiel Command Regulation
AMSAA Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity
ANG Air National Guard
ANSI American National Standards Institute
AOAC Armor Officer Advanced Course
AOBC Armor Officer Basic Course
AOT Aerojet Ordnance Tennessee, Inc.
APE Army Peculiar Equipment
APFSDS Armor-Piercing Fin Stabilized Discarding Sabot
APFSDS-T Armor-Piercing Fin Stabilized Discarding Sabot with Tracer
APG Aberdeen Proving Ground
AR Army Regulation
ARDEC Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center
ARL Army Research Laboratory
ARNG Army National Guard
ASMÝ Armored Systems Modernization
AST Army Science and Technology Center
ATACS Advanced Tank Cannon System
BEIR Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation [NMAB committee]
BLM Bureau of Land Management
BNCOC Basic Noncommissioned Officer Course
BRAC Base Realignment and Closure [Act]
BRL Ballistic Research Laboratory
BTD Bomb Throwing Device
CAA Clean Air Act
CERCLA Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act
CFR Code of Federal Regulations
CMS conventional munitions systems
COCO contractor-owned, contractor-operated
COMVAT Combat Vehicle Armament Technology
CRDC Chemical Research and Development Center
CX categorical exclusion
DA Department of the Army
DA PAM Department of the Army pamphlet
DARCOM-R Defense and Readiness Command Regulation
DASA-ESOH Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Environment, Safety, and Occupational Health
DCF Defense Consolidation Facility
D/D decontamination/decommissioning
DESCOM Depot Systems Command
DLAR Defense Logistics Agency Regulation
DMWR Depot Maintenance Work Requirement
DoD Department of Defense
DODD Department of Defense Directive
DODI Department of Defense Instruction
DODM Department of Defense Manual
DODR Department of Defense Regulation
DOE Department of Energy
DOT Department of Transportation
DOTE Department of Transportation Exception
DU depleted uranium
DUDOSE depleted uranium air dispersion modeling technique
DU/HE depleted uranium/high explosive
DVA Department of Veterans Affairs
EA Environmental Assessment
EIA Environmental Impact Assessment
EIS Environmental Impact Statement
ENMOD environmental modification [techniques]
EOD explosive ordnance disposal
EPA Environmental Protection Agency
ERM Environmental Radiation Monitoring [plan]
FAR Federal Acquisition Regulation
FLPMA Federal Land Policy and Management Act
FM field manual
FNSI Finding of No Significant Impact
FORSCOM Forces Command
FR Federal Register
FRX Field Response Exercise
FSTC Foreign Science and Technology Center
FY fiscal year
GAO General Accounting Office
GI gastrointestinal
GOCO government-owned, contractor-operated
HA heavy armor
HAZMAT hazardous material
HDBK handbook
HE high explosive
HEAT High Explosive Anti-Tank
HEPA High Efficiency Particulate Air
HHA Health Hazard Assessment
HQ headquarters
IAAP Iowa Army Ammunition Plant
IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency
ICRP International Commission on Radiological Protection
IEP Independent Evaluation Plans
I, L&E Installation, Logistics and Environment
IMDG International Maritime Dangerous Goods
JPG Jefferson Proving Ground
JTCG/ME Joint Technical Coordinating Group for Munitions Effectiveness
KE kinetic energy
KEM Kinetic Energy Missile
LANL Los Alamos National Laboratory
LAP load, assemble, and pack
LCC life cycle cost
LCED Life Cycle Environmental Document
LLRW low-level radioactive waste
LLRWPA Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act [of 1985]
LLW low-level waste
MAAP Milan Army Ammunition Plant
MACOM Major Command
MCA Military Claims Act
MIL-SPEC military specification
MIL-STD military standard
MLRS Multiple Launch Rocket System
MSC Manufacturing Sciences Corporation
MTL Materiels Technology Laboratory
MTMC Military Traffic Management Command
NAVMATINST Naval Material Instruction
NBC nuclear, biological and chemical
NCRP National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements
NEPA National Environmental Policy Act
NICP National Inventory Control Point
NLRB National Labor Relations Board
NMAB National Materials Advisory Board
NMI Nuclear Metals, Inc.
NRC Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NRT National Response Team
NSN National Stock Number
NUREG Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff-originated report
NWC Naval Weapons Center
O&S operations and support
OASA Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army
ODCSOPS Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans
ODDR&E Office of the Director Defense Research and Engineering
OPM Office of Personnel Management
ORF Operational Readiness Float
OSHA Occupational Health and Safety Administration
OTSG Office of the Surgeon General
PBMA Production Base Modernization Activity
PCB polychlorinated biphenyl
PDM Pursuit Deterrent Munition
PEIS Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement
PEO Program Executive Officer
PL public law
PM Program Manager
PNL Pacific Northwest Laboratory
POL petroleum, oils and lubricants
QASAS Quality Assurance Specialist (Ammunition Surveillance)
R&D research and development
REDOX reduction chemistry
RBE relative biological effectiveness
RCRA Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
RDT&E research, development, testing and evaluation
RESRAD residual radiation
RPO Radiation Protection Officer(s)
SAC Senate Appropriations Committee
SADA Savanna Army Depot Activity
SB supply bulletin
SDMP Site Decommissioning Management Plan
SDWA Safe Drinking Water Act
SEG Scientific Ecology Group
SMCA Single Manager for Conventional Ammunition
SOP standard operating procedure
SSRA System Safety Risk Assessment
STRAC Standards in Training Commission
SUP supplement
TACOM Tank Automotive Command
TB technical bulletin
TECOM Test and Evaluation Command
TEMP Test and Evaluation Master Plan
TERA Terminal Effects Research and Analysis
TLD thermoluminescent dosimeter
TLV threshold limit value
TM technical manual
TMAS Tank Main Armament Systems
TR technical report
TRADOC Training and Doctrine Command
TWA time weighted average
UK United Kingdom
UMTRA Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action
U.N. United Nations
USA U.S. Army
USACHPPM U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine
USACSTA U.S. Army Combat Systems Test Activity
USAF U.S. Air Force
USAR U.S. Army Reserve
USC U.S. Code
USFS U.S. Forest Service
USN U.S. Navy
UXO unexploded ordnance
WA tungsten (wolfram) alloy
WSMR White Sands Missile Range
YPGÝÝ Yuma Proving Ground