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The military and
government are famous for using - or overusing - abbreviations and acronyms for designating equipment, programs,
and agencies. These eight pages are chock full of nearly every commonly used abbreviations and acronyms used by
the U.S. military (at least up through around the year 2000).
H Symbol for the magnetic field of the propagated radio wave HA Humanitarian Assistance
HAA Helicopter Alighting Area HAB (1) High Altitude Burst; (2) High Altitude Bombing; (3) High Air
Burst; (4) Hardened Aircraft Bunker HAC (1) House Appropriations Committee; (2) Historical Area Coverage
HACC Humanitarian Assistance Coordination Center HAE
High-Altitude Endurance HAHO High-Altitude High-Opening HAIS Hawaiian Air Intelligence System
HAL Helicopter Light Attack HALE High-Altitude Long-Endurance HALO
High-Altitude Low-Opening HANE High-Altitude Nuclear Effects HANG Hawaii Air National Guard
HARDLOOK Special Data Analysis Product of NAVSPACECOM/N24 HARDS High-Altitude Radiation Detection
System HARM High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missile (AGM-88A) HARV
Harassment Vehicle (Drone) HAS Hardened Aircraft Shelter HASC House Armed Services Committee
HATS Heuristic Automated Transportation System HATMD High-Altitude Theater Missile Defense HAV
(1) High Acceleration Vehicle; (2) Heavy Armored Vehicle (non-tactical)
HAWS Hawaii Area Wideband System HAZCON Hazardous Condition HAZMAT Hazardous Materials
HB High Burst HBWP Host-Based Word Processing HC HUMINT Committee
HCA Humanitarian and Civic Assistance HCC HUMINT Contingency Cell HCF High Command of Forces
HCI/DV/AEX Human-Computer Interface/Data Visualization/Automated Expansion
HCR HUMINT Collection Requirement HCS Helicopter Combat/Search and Rescue HCU
High Capacity Computer Unit HD Horizontal Ground Distance HDL Harry Diamond Laboratories HDM
Hierarchical Development Methodology HDO
Humanitarian Demining Operations HDX Half Duplex HX Half Duplex HE High Explosive HEAT
High-Explosive AntiTank HEC Helicopter Element Coordinator HEDI
High Endoatmospheric Defense Interceptor HEF Hostile Establishment File HEI
High-Explosive Incendiary HEL High-Energy Laser HELIP HAWK European Limited Improvement Program
HELRATS High Energy Laser Radar Acquisition & Tracking System HELSTF
High-Energy Laser Systems Test Facility HELW High-Energy Laser Weapons HELWING Helicopter Wing
HEMP High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse HEMT High-Electron-Mobility Transistor
HEO (1) High-Earth-Orbit; (2) Highly Elliptical Orbit HEP High-Explosive Plastic
HERO (1) Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation To Ordnance; (2) Historical Evaluation and Research
Organization HERT Headquarters Emergency Relocation Team HES Hardcopy Exploitation Systems
HESS Hangul English Support System HEST High-Explosive Simulation Technique
HET Heavy Equipment Transporter HF (1) High Frequency; (2) Height Finder; (3) Hydrogen Fluoride
HFE Human Factors Engineering HFA High-Frequency Antenna HF/DF
High-Frequency Direction-Finding HFE Heavy-Fuel Engine HFEA Human Factors Engineering Assessment
HFP Host Front-End Protocol HH Hand-Held HHC Headquarters and Headquarters Company HHD
Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment HHS (1) Headquarters and Headquarter Services; (2) Hasty Hide
Shelter HHW Higher High Water HIL High Interest List HI-PAR High-Performance
Precision-Approach Radar HI-RES High-Resolution
HIC High-Intensity Conflict HICOM High Command (CINCPACFLT Voice Network) HIDSS
Helmet-Integrated Display & Sight System HIFAR High-Frequency Fixed-Array Radar
HIMAD (1) High- to Medium-Altitude Defense; (2) High to Medium Altitude Adjustment HIMS
HUMINT Information Management System HIP Howitzer Improvement Program HIRMS
Human Intelligence Requirements Management System HIROCC Hawaiian Islands Regional Operational Control
Center HIS (1) Honeywell Information System; (2) Hostile Intelligence Services
HISP Hostile Intelligence Service Profiler System HIT High-Interest Track HITS
(1) Human Intelligence Tasking System; (2) Hawaii Information Transfer System HJ HONEST JOHN (U.S.
Surface-to-Surface Rocket) HL Hand-Launched HLA Helicopter Landing Areas
HLA/DZ Helicopter Landing Area/Drop Zone HLA/DZS Helicopter Landing Area/Drop Zone Study HLLV
Heavy-Lift Launch Vehicle HL-UAV Hand-Launched Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
HLW Higher Low Water HLZ Helicopter Landing Zone HM Helicopter Mine Warfare
HMC HUMINT Management Center HMCII Higher Military Command, Interior and Islands (Greece) HMF
Handbook of Military Forces HMI (1) Host-Message Interface; (2) Human-Machine Interface HMMWV
High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle HMS (1) Her Majesty’s Ship; (2) HUMINT Management System
HMTV Head-Mounted Thermal Vision HN Host Nation
HNAF Host Nation Armed Forces HNIS Host Nation Intelligence Support HNS
Host Nation Support HNSC House National Security Committee HOB Height of Burst
HOBO Homing Optical Bomb HOC (1) History of Coverage; (2) HUMINT Operations Cell
HOCNET HUMINT Operational Communications Network HOE Homing Overlay Experiment
HOIS Hostile Intelligence Service(s) HOJ Home on Jam HOL High-Order Language
HOM (1) Head of Media; (2) Head of Mission HOTA HUMINT Operational Tasking Authority
HOTOL Horizontal Takeoff & Landing HOTPHOTOREP Hot Photographic Interpretation Report HOTSIT
Hot Situation Message how Howitzer HP (1) Headquarters Pamphlet; (2) Horsepower HPA
High-Power Amplifier HPG Hardcopy Products Group HPM
High-Power Microwave HPT (1) High-Payoff Target; (2) High-Priority Target HPSC High-Performance
Computing Research System HPSCI House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence HQ/HQS
Headquarters HQDA Headquarters, Department of the Army HQJTF Headquarters, Joint Task Force
HQMC Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps HQMRHITS Quarterly Management Report
HQ USAF Headquarters, Department of the Air Force HR (1) High Resolution; (2) Humanitarian Relief
Service hr Hour HR/MR Human Readable/Machine Readable (Data) HRC
Human Resources Committee HRCS High-Resolution Camera System HRMS Human Intelligence Requirements
Management System HRPT High-Resolution Picture Transmissions HRR High-Resolution Radar HRS
(1) Hours; (2) Humanitarian Relief Service HRTV High-Resolution Television
HRU Hardcopy Reconstruction Unit HRV High-Resolution Visible Range Instruments
HS (1) Helicopter Squadron; (2) Home Station HSD HUMINT Support Detachment HSE
HUMINT Support Element HSE-E HSE-Europe HSE-SOCOM HSE-USSOCOM HSI (1) Human Systems
Integration; (2) Hyperspectral Imagery H-SIP H-Camera Spectral Improvement Program HSLLADS High
Speed Low Level Aerial Delivery System HSMS Human Sources Management System HSS Health Service
Support HTACC Hardened Tactical Air Control Center
HTKP Hard-Target Kill Potential HTLD High-Technology Light Division HTOHL Horizontal Take-off
and Horizontal Landing HTML Hypertext Markup Language HUD Heads-Up Display
HULTEC Hull-to-Emitter Correlation HUMINT Human Resources Intelligence HUMMV
High Utility Mobile Mechanized Vehicle HUMRO Humanitarian Relief Operations HUS
Hardened Unique Storage HUSK Hardened Unique Storage Key hv Heavy HVA
High Value Asset HVAC High-Voltage Air Conditioning HVAP High-Velocity Armor-Piercing
HVAPFSDS High Velocity Armor-Piercing Fin-Stabilized Discarding-Sabot HVAT High-Velocity Antitank
HVF Highly Volatile Fuel HVIT High Volume Information Transfer HVT
High-Value Target HW (1) High Water; (2) Hardware HWAS High Wycombe Air Station
HWC Hobart Walk-in Cooler HW/SW Hardware/Software HWY Highway Hz
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