Glossary
SECTION I - ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
3SOPS 3d Space Operation Squadron
4SOPS 4th Space Operation Squadron
ACERT Army Computer Emergency Response Team
ACUS Area Common User System
ADCON administrative control
AFFOR Air Force forces
AFSPACE United States Space Command Air Force
A-GNOSC Army Global Network Operations and Security Center
AO area of operations
AOR area of responsibility
APOD aerial port of debarkation
APOE aerial port of embarkation
ARFOR Senior Army Headquarters
ARNG Army National Guard
ARSTRAT Army Forces Strategic Command
ASA-INSCOM Army Signal Activity - United States Army Intelligence and Security Command
ASCC Army Service component command
AUTODIN Automatic Digital Network
BBN base-band node
BCT brigade combat team
BDE brigade
BFT Blue Force Tracking
BLOS beyond line of sight
BN battalion
C2 command and control
C2 ConstellationNet Command and Control Constellation Network
CA civil affairs
CAW Certification Authorization Workstation
CBR chemical, biological, and radiological
CCDR combatant commander
CDR commander
C-E communications-electronics
CENTCOM United States Central Command
CENTRIXS Combined Enterprise Regional Information Exchange System
CIO Chief Information Officer
CJCS Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
CJCSI Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff instruction
CJCSM Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff manual
CJTF combined joint task force
C-LAN coalition local area network
cmd command
CMST Communications Management Support Team
CND computer network defense
CNR combat net radio
co company
COA course of action
COCOM combatant command (command authority)
COMCAM Combat Camera
COMSEC communications security
CONOPS concept of operations
CONPLAN concept plan
CONUS continental United States
COOP continuity of operations
COTS commercial off-the-shelf
CP command post
CPN Command Post Node
CS content staging
CSCE communications systems control element
CSS Combat Service Support
CUWTF combined unconventional warfare task force
C-WAN coalition wide-area network
DA Department of the Army
DCS Defense Communications System
DHS Department of Homeland Security
DIA Defense Intelligence Agency
DIN defense intelligence notice
DISA Defense Information Systems Agency
DISN Defense Information Systems Network
DIV division
DMS defense message system
DMS-A defense message system-Army
DNS domain name services
DNVT digital nonsecure voice terminal
DOD Department of Defense
DOIM director of information management
DRSN Defense Red Switched Network
DSC division signal company
DSCS Defense Satellite Communications System
DSD Deployment Support Division
DSN Defense Switched Network
DSVT digital subscriber voice terminal
EAC echelons above corps
EAM emergency action message
EHF extremely high frequency
e-mail electronic mail
EMS electromagnetic spectrum
ESB expeditionary signal battalion
ESM enterprise systems management
ESP expeditionary signal platoon
ESTA Enterprise Systems Technology Activity
EW electronic warfare
FBCB2-BFT Force XXI battle command-brigade and below - Blue Force Tracking
FCC functional combatant commander
FM field manual
FMI field manual interim
FORSCOM United States Army Forces Command
FRHN fixed regional hub node
G-l Assistant Chief of Staff, Personnel
G-2 Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence
G-3 Assistant Chief of Staff, Operations and Plans
G-4 Assistant Chief of Staff, Logistics
G-5 Assistant Chief of Staff, Plans
G-6 Assistant Chief of Staff, Command and Control (C2) and Information Management
G-8 Assistant Chief of Staff, Resource Manager
GBS Global Broadcast Service
GCC geographic combatant commander
GCCS Global Command and Control System
GCCS-J Global Command and Control System-Joint
GCM Global Content Management
GEM GIG Enterprise Management
GIG Global Information Grid
GISMC Global Information Grid Infrastructure Service Management Center
GMF ground mobile force
GNC Global Network Operations Center
GNCC Global Network Operations Control Center
GND Global Information Grid Network Defense
GNSC Global Network Operations Support Center
GSSC global satellite communications support center
HCLOS high capacity line-of-sight
HF high frequency
HHC headquarters and headquarters company
HMDA high mobility digital group multiplex assemblage
HMMWV high mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicle
HQ headquarters
HQDA Headquarters, Department of the Army
IA information assurance
IC-IRC Intelligence Community - Incident Response Center
IDM information dissemination management
IM information management
IMCOM Installation Management Command
INSCOM United States Army Intelligence and Security Command
INTELSAT International Telecommunications Satellite Organization
IO information operations
IOM-D install, operate, maintain and defend
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