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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).
S Secret /s/ Signature S-1 Personnel Staff Officer S-2 Intelligence Staff Officer;
Brigade, Battalion, and Armored Cavalry S-3 Operations Staff Officer
SA (1) Logistics Staff Officer; (2) Special Access; (3) Situational Awareness; (4) Signals Analysis; (5)
Surface-to-Air; used to identify FSU Surface-to-Air Missiles, e.g., SA-7/GRAIL; (6) Situation Assessment; (7)
Security Assistance; (8) Special Agent; (9) Stand Alone; (10) Secretary of the Army; (11) Systems Administrator;
(12) Strategic Attack SAA (1) Special Area Assessments; (2) Strategic Air Army SAAC Strategic
Analysis Applications Center SAAM Special Assignment Airlift Mission SAASE Standard Data
Element-Based Automated Architecture Support Environment
SACC Supporting Arms Coordination Center SACCS Strategic Air Command Automated Command & Control
System SACS (1) Secure Access Control System; (2) STU-III Access Control System
SAE Service Acquisition Executive SAB Subject as Above SAC (1) Strategic Air Command; (2)
Scientific Advisory Committee; (3) Senate Appropriations Committee SACDIN
SAC Digital Network SACEUR Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (NATO) SACLANT Supreme Allied
Commander, Atlantic (NATO) SACLANTREPEUR SACLANT Representative in Europe SACOM
Southern Area Command SACOS SAC Operational Staff SACWARNS (1) Strategic Air Command Indications
and Warning; (2) SAC Warning System SADARM Sense and Destroy Armor
SADF South African Defense Force SADO Senior Air Defense Officer SADT Structured Analysis
Design Technique SAEDA Subversion and Espionage Directed Against the Army SAF
(1) Soviet (FSU) Air Force; (2) Source Acquisitions File; (3) Secretary of the Air Force; (4) US Air Force Staff
SAFE (1) Support for the Analysts’ File Environment; (2) Selected Area for Evasion SAFF Safing,
Arming, Fuzing, and Firing SAF/O/T Security Assistance Force/Organization/Team SAG (1) Study
Advisory Group; (2) Surface Action Group; (3) Strategic Advisory Group SAGE Semiautomatic Ground
Environment (Radar) SAI Strategic Command Administrative Instruction SAIB Safe Area Intelligence
Brief SAID Safe Area Intelligence Description SAIS Strategic Aerospace Intelligence System
SAL (1) Strategic Arms Limitation; (2) Submarine Alerting and Locating SALT (1) Strategic Arms
Limitation Talks; (2) Supporting Arms Liaison Team SALUTE Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment
(spot report format) SAM (1) Surface-to-Air Missile; (2) Summary Assessment Matrix SAMOB
Surface-to-Air Missile Order of Battle SAMSO Space And Missile System Organization SAMT State of
the Art Medium Terminals SAO (1) Special Access/Activities Office; (2) Select Attack Option; (3) Special
Access Only; (4) Security Assistance Organization; (5) Security Assistance Office SAOB FSU Air Order of
Battle SAOC (1) Space Actions Officers Course; (2) Sector Air Operations Center SAOCS
Submarine/Aircraft Optical Communications System SAP (1) Special Access Program; (2) System Acquisition
Plan SAPAS Semiautomatic Population Analysis System SAR (1) Search and Rescue; (2) Synthetic
Aperture Radar; (3) Special Access Required; (4) Sea-Air Rescue SARC Surveillance and Reconnaissance
Center
SARDA Secretary of the Army for Research, Development and Acquisition SARP Storage and Retrieval
Processor SARPF Strategic Air Relocatable Processing Facility SARSAT
Search and Rescue Satellite-Aided Tracking SART Strategic Aircraft Recovery Team
SARV Strategic Aerospace Reconnaissance Vehicle SAS (1) Strategic Area Study; (2) Strategic Aerospace
Summary; (3) Special Activities Squadron; (4) Support to Analyst Subsystem; (5) Survivable Adaptive Systems
SASC Senate Armed Services Committee SASM Strategic Air-to-Surface Missile SASS (1) Small
Aerostat Surveillance System; (2) Systems Acquisition Support Services
SAT (1) Satellite; (2) Staff Augmentation Team; (3) Satisfactory SATCOM Satellite Communications
SATCOMA Satellite Communications Agency (U.S. Army) SATKA Surveillance, Acquisition, Tracking, and
Kill Assessment SATRAN (1) Satellite Reconnaissance Advanced Notice; (2) Satellite Transmission SATS
Southwest Asia Telecommunications System SATVUL
Satellite Vulnerability SAVE Situation Analysis and Vulnerability Estimate SAVI
Systems Analysis of Vulnerability to Intrusion SAWC Special Air Warfare Center SAWG
Simulation and Analysis Working Group SAWIC Strike and Amphibious Warfare Intelligence Center SAWS
Submarine Analyst Work Station SAWVS Satellite Attack Warning and Verification System SB Sentinel
Byte S-BAND 2 to 4 GHz SBB Sustained Bare Base SBI
(1) Special Background Investigation; (2) Space-Based Interceptor SBIRS Space-based Infrared Radar
System SBIS Sustaining Base Information Services SBKKV Space-Based Kinetic Kill Vehicle SBL
Space-Based Laser SBM Single-Point Mooring Buoy SBR
(1) Special Boat Squadron; (2) Space-Based Radar SBS Site Backbone Segment SBSS
Space-Based Surveillance System SBU (1) Special Boat Unit; (2) Sensitive but Unclassified
SBWASS Space-Based Wide-Area Surveillance System SC (1) Science Committee (NATO); (2) Signal Corps;
(3) Security Code; (4) Signal Company; (5) System Center; (6) Structural Category; (7) Screen Commander or
Coordinator; (8) Air Force Communications-Computers Directorate; (9) Submarine Conversion SCA Service
Cryptologic Agency SCAD Subsonic Cruise Armed Decoy SCAMP
Sensor Control and Management Platoon SCAMPI SOF C3I Telecommunications System SCARE
Standard Collection Asset Request Format SCATANA Security Control of Air Traffic and Air Navigation Aids
SCC (1) Special Coordination Committee; (2) Standing Consultative
Commission (SALT); (3) Surveillance Coordination Center; (4) System Control Center; (5) Space Control
Center; (6) Service Component Commander SC CAT SOUTHCOM Crisis Action Team
SCC(I) Special Coordination Committee (Intelligence) SCCP Single-Channel Command Post SCCS-R
Single-Channel Collection System - Rear SCCTV Secure Closed-Circuit Television SCDL Surveillance
and Control Data Link (JSTARS) SCE Service Cryptologic Element SCF Satellite Control Facility
SCF-UK Save the Children Federation-UK
SCG Special Consultative Group (NATO) SCI (1) Sensitive Compartmented Information or Information
Programs; (2) Source Code Indicator SCIBS Sensitive Compartmented Information Billet System SCIC
State Crime Information Center SCIF Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility SCIM Subject
Codes for Intelligence Management SCIMITAR System for Countering Interdiction Missiles and Target Radars
SCINET Sensitive Compartmented Information Network (DoDIIS) SCIP Special Communications Intelligence
Package SCIPMIS Standard Civilian Personnel Management Information System SCIPS Sensitive
Compartmented Information Processing System SCIS Survivable Communication Information System SCISS
SOUTHCOM Intelligence Support System SCI-VTC Sensitive Compartmented Information-Video Teleconferencing
SC
J2 USSOUTHCOM J2 SCL Standard Conventional Load SCLNO SOUTHCOM Liaison Officer
SCM Security Countermeasures SCN Satellite Control Network SCO (1) Service Cryptologic
Organizations; (2) Sub-Control Office SCOLA Satellite Communications for Learning
SCORE Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equipment SCOTT Single-Channel Objective Tactical
Terminal SCP Secure Conferencing Project SCPC Single Channel per Carrier
SCS (1) Signal Collection System; (2) Satellite Control Squadron SCSC SOUTHCOM Support Center
SCSI Small Computer Systems Interface SCT (1) Single-Channel Terminal; (2) Single-Channel Transponder
SCUBA Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus SCUD
Nickname of a Missile System SD (1) Space Director; (2) Standard Displacement; (3) Senior Director; (4)
Security Division; (5) Strategic Command Directive SDA (1) Ships Destination Authority; (2) Strike
Damage Assessment S&DA Strike and Damage Assessment SDB
Space Data Base SDC (1) Strategic Dissemination Company; (2) Strategic Defense Command
SDD Secure Data Device SDF Structured Data Fields SDHS Satellite Data Handling System
SDI Strategic Defense Initiative SDIE Special Defense Intelligence Estimate
SDIN (1) Secure Digital Information Network; (2) Special Defense Intelligence Notice
SDIO Strategic Defense Initiative Organization SDIS Switched Digital Integrated Service
SDLC Synchronous Data Link Control SDM Standoff Destructive Munition SDMA
Spaced Division Multiple Access SDMS SINET Data Management System SDNRIU Secure Digital Network
Radio Interface Unit SDNS Secure Data Network System SDO System Development Office SDOB
Scaled Depth of Burst SDR (1) Source-Directed Requirements; (2) System Design Review SDS (1)
Satellite Data System; (2) SIGINT Direct Support; (3) Satellite Dissemination System; (4) Secondary
Dissemination System; (5) Strategic Defense System; (6) Switched Data Services; (7) Spatial Data Server; (8)
Small Digital Switch SDV
(1) Swimmer Delivery Vehicle; (2) SEAL Delivery Vehicle SDVT SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team
SDYS Studies SE Southeastern SEA (1) Southeast Asia; (2) Senior Enlisted Advisor SEABEE
Navy Construction Battalion Personnel SEALANCE Anti-Submarine Warfare Standoff Weapons (ASW/SOW) SEAD
Suppression of Enemy Air Defense SEADS Southeast Air Defense Sector SEAGA Selective Employment Air
Ground Alert Forces SEAL Sea/Air/Land
SEASTAG SEATO Standardization Agreement SEATO Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
SEAWATCH NOSIC On-Line Computer System SEC (1) Second; (2) Section; (3) Submarine Element
Coordinator SECAF Secretary of the Air Force SECARMY Secretary of the Army
SECC Survivable Enduring Command Center SECCLEAR Security Clearance (Management System) SECDEF
Secretary of Defense SECNAV Secretary of the Navy SECOM Security Committee SECS Survivable
and Enduring Communications System SECSTATE Secretary of State SECTY Security SED
Simulated Electronic Deception SEDSCAF Standard ELINT Data System Codes and Formats SEE (1) System
Engineering and Evaluation; (2) Softcopy Exploitation Environment SEEI Special Essential Elements of
Information SEEK Soviet Emigre Exploitation Kit SEI Specific Emitter Identification SEIP
Senior Enlisted Intelligence Program SEIS Survivable and Enduring Intelligence System SELA Latin
American Economic System SELORS Ship Emitter Locating Reports SELMON Selective Monitoring
SEMA Special Electronic Mission Aircraft SEMEC SOF Enhanced Moldable Explosive Change
SEN (1) Small Extension Node; (2) Space Engagement Node SEOS SIGINT/Electronic Warfare Operating
System SEP (1) Selective Employment Plan (NATO); (2) Separate SEPA FSU Extended Planning Annex
SEPS NATO Selective Employment Plan SERE Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape SERER
Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape, and Recovery SERNO
Serial Number SES (1) Surface Effects Ship; (2) Systems Engineering Study; (3) Senior Executive Service;
(4) Sensor Employment Squadron; (5) Softcopy Exploitation System; (6) Societe European Des Satellites
SESOCC Southeastern Sector Operations Control Center SESS
Space Environment Sensor Suite SET Sensor Employment Teams SETAF Southern European Task Force
SEVOCCS Secure Voice Command and Control System SEVOX Secure Voice
SEWC Space and Electronic Warfare Commander SEWCC SIGINT/Electronic Warfare Coordination Center
SEWS (1) Satellite Early Warning System; (2) SIGINT Electronic Warfare Subsystem
SF (1) Special Forces; (2) Standard Form SFA Security Fault Analysis SFAT
Strategic Forces Advisory Team SFD Saturated Flux Density SFEM Space Forces Engagement Model
SFG Special Forces Group SFG-A Special Forces Group-A SFG(A)
Special Forces Group (Airborne) SFOA Special Forces Operations Area SFOB (1) Special Forces
Operating Base; (2) Soviet (FSU) Forces Order of Battle SFOD Special Forces Operational Detachment
SFODA Special Forces Operational Detachments-A SFOD-D First Special Forces Operational
Detachment-Delta SFOS Special Forces Operating System SFQC
Special Forces Qualification Course SFR Statement of Functional Requirement SFRD
Safe Functional Requirements Document SFT Secure Fault Tolerant SFTL Strategic Future Targets
List SFUG Security Features Users Guide SGB SOUTHCOM Ground Order of Battle SGDPS Second
Generation Data Processing System SGEMP System Generated Electromagnetic Pulse SGF (1) Southern
Group of Forces (Soviet Forces in Hungary); (2) Synthetic Aperture Radar Ground Facility SGS (1) Secretary
to the General Staff; (2) Squadron Ground Station SGT (1) Satellite Ground Terminal; (2) Sergeant SHA
Secure Hast Algorithm
SHAPE Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (NATO) SHARES Shared HF Resources
SHC Supreme High Command SHF Super High Frequency SHED Special Handling and Evaluation
Detachment SHELREP Shell Report SHF Super High Frequency SHOP
Special Handling for Operations Purposes SHORAD Short-Range Air Defense SI (1) Special
Intelligence; (2) Special Instructions S&IA Security and Investigative Activities
SIAB Senior Imagery Advisory Board SIAD Strategic Imagery Analysis Detachment
SIAP Strategic Intelligence Architecture Program SIB Special Intelligence Brief
SIC (1) Subject Indicator Code (NATO message code); (2) System Integration Configuration
SICAM SIGINT Control and Analysis Module SICR Specific Intelligence Collection Requirement
SID (1) Secondary Imagery Dissemination; (2) Subscriber Identification SID(S) Selective Imagery
Dissemination (System) SIDA Single Integrated Data Base SIDAC Single Integrated Damage Assessment
Code SIDPAC Strategic Imagery Detachment Pacific SIDS Secondary Imagery Dissemination System
SIE Space Intelligence Element SIF Special Interrogation Facility SIFR Special Intelligence
Functional Requirement Sig Signal SIGCEN
U.S. Army Signal Center SIG-I Senior Interagency Group for Intelligence SIGINT
Signals Intelligence SIGSEC Signals Security SIGSUM SIGINT Summary SII
Statement of Intelligence Interest SIIR Special Imagery Interpretation Report SIL
Systems Integration Laboratory SIM (1) Sensor Interface Module; (2) Systems Integration Management
SIMIR USSTRATCOM IDHS Monthly Integration Review SIMM Single Inline Memory Module SIMNET
Single Channel Ground/Airborne Radio Sub-Systems SIMO SIM Office
SIMP Space Intelligence Master Plan SIMS SOUTHCOM Intelligence Management System
SINCGARS (1) Single Integrated Channel Ground and Airborne Radio Subsystems; (2) Single Channel
Ground-to-Air Radio System SINET Strategic Intelligence Network SINTER SIGINT/IMINT Interaction
SIO (1) Senior Intelligence Officer; (2) Space Intelligence Officer; (3) Ship’s Intelligence Officer
SIOP Single Integrated Operational Plan SIORI Self-Initiated Operational Readiness Inspection SIPE
Strategic Intelligence Processing Element SIPRNET
Secret Internet Protocol Router Network SIR (1) Shuttle Imaging Radar; (2) Specific Information
Requirements; (3) Spectrum Interferance Resolution SIRADS Shared Imagery Repository and Dissemination
System SIRCS Shipborne Intermediate-Range Combat System SIREP
Sensitive Information Report SIRVES SIGINT Requirements Validation and Evaluation Subcommittee (of SIGINT
Committee) SIS (1) Significant Indications Summary; (2) Space Intelligence System; (3) Special
Intelligence Support; (4) Selective Inquiry System; (5) Special Information System
SISOCS Army Logistics/Maintenance Depot Data Network SISR SIGINT Security Regulation
SISS (1) Survivable Intelligence Support to SlOP; (2) Subcommittee on Information Systems Security of the
NSTISSC SISUM Sensitive Information Summary SIT Specialized Investigations Team SITAS
Strategic Industrial Target Analysis Systems SITDEV Situation Development
SITMAP Situation Map SITREP Situation Report SITS Secondary Imagery Transmission System
SITSUM Situation Summary SITTP (US)STRATCOM Intelligence Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures
for Strategic Operations SIW Strategic Intelligence Wing SJA
Staff Judge Advocate SJCS Secretary, Joint Chiefs of Staff SKCATL South Korea Conventional Air
Target List SKE Station-Keeping Equipment SKYLINK Communications System Provided by the Diplomatic
Telecommunications System SKYNET United Kingdom Military Communications Satellite SL Sea Level
SLA Special U.S. Liaison Advisor
SLAM Standoff Land Attack Missile (Navy) SLAR Side-Looking Airborne Radar SLAT
Surface-Launched Air-Targeted SLBM Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile SLC
Space Launch Complex SLCM (1) Submarine-Launched Cruise Missile; (2) Sea-Launched Cruise Missile
SLDCOM Satellite Launch Dispenser Communications SLED Safe Low-Energy Detonators
SLEP Service Life Extension Program SLF Super Low Frequency SLFCS Survivable Low Frequency
Communications System SLGR Small Lightweight Global Positioning System Receiver
SLIP Serial Line Interface Protocol SLMM U.S. Submarine-Launched Mobile Mine
SLO Space Liaison Officer SLOC Sea Lines of Communication SLOC(S) Sea Line(s) of Communication
SLR Side-Looking Radar SLS Space Launch Squadrons SLSSM
Submerged-Launched Surface-to-Surface Missile SLV Space Launch Vehicle SM (1) Memorandum by the
Secretary, JCS; (2) Statute Mile; (3) Service Member; (4) Security Monitor; (5) Smart Modules
SMAA Submarine Movement Advisory Authority S/MANCO Space/Missile Analyst NCO
SMANCO Space/Missile Analyst NCO SMART-T Secure Mobile Antijam Reliable Tactical Terminal
SMCC Survivable Mobile Command Center SMDPS Strategic Mission Data Preparation System
SME Subject Matter Expert SMEB Significant Military Exercise Brief S/MEO
Space/Missile Event Office SMG Standard Mail Guard SMIOC Senior Military Intelligence Officers’
Conference SMLM Soviet (FSU) Military Liaison Mission SMM (1) Spatial Model Matching; (2) Special
Mission Mandatory Modification SMO (1) Support to Military Operations; (2) Senior METOC Officer; (3)
Special Mission Optional Modification SMOB Strategic Missile Order of Battle SMOTEC Special
Missions Operational Test and Evaluation Center SMP
Soviet Military Power (the publication) SMPAS Space Mission Payload Assessment System
SMR Sources, Methods, and Rationale SMS Stand-Alone Analysis Subsystems SMTP
Single Mail Transfer Protocol SMU Secure Mobile Unit SNA (1) Soviet Naval Aviation; (2) System
Network Architecture SNAP Soviet (FSU) Nuclear Artillery Projectile SNCCDIPP
Selected Non-Communist Countries DIPP SNDV Strategic Nuclear Delivery Vehicles S/NF
Secret/NOFORN SNF (1) Short-Range Nuclear Forces; (2) Secret NOFORN SNI Soviet (FSU) Naval
Infantry SNIE Special National Intelligence Estimate SNIP Soviet (FSU) Naval Imagery Panel SNM
Special Nuclear Materials SNMS Security and Network Management Segment SNO Special Naval
Operations SNR Signal-to-Noise SNS Shared Network Server SNUTR SIGINT Numerical Tasking
Register SO Special Operations SO/LIC
Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict SOA (1) Special Operations Aviation; (2) Special Operations
Area; (3) Speed of Advance SOAB (1) Special Operations Aviation Battalion; (2) Special Operations Aviation
Brigade SOAC (1) Special Operations Aviation Command; (2) Special Operations Aviation Company; (3) Special
Operations Acquisition Center SOAD Special Operations Aviation Detachment SOADS Special
Operations Automated Data System SOAE
Deputy for Acquisition and Acquisition Executive SOAG Special Operations Aviation Group
SOAR (1) Special Operations Aviation Regiment; (2) Special Operations Analytical Reports
SOARS Satellite On-Board Attack Reporting System SOB Space Order of Battle SOC
(1) Special Operations Command; (2) Special Operations Capable; (3) Sector Operations Center; (4) Special
Operations Craft SOCACOM Special Operations Command-Atlantic Command SOCC
(1) Sector Operational Control Center; (2) Special Operations Control Center SOCCE
(1) Special Operations Command Communications Element; (2) Special Operations Command and Control Element
SOCCENT (1) Special Operations Command Center; (2) Special Operations Command
Component, CENTCOM SOCCMO Special Operations Command Collection Management Office
SOCCS Special Operations Combat Control Squadron SOCCT Special Operations Combat Control Team
SOCDSS Special Operations Command Deployable Support Set SOCET Special Operations Command Extraction
Tool SOCEUR Special Operations Command, Europe SOCJIC
United States Special Operations Command Joint Intelligence Center SOCKOR Special Operations
Command, Korea SOC-K Special Operations Command, Korea SOCLANT Special Operations Command,
Atlantic SOCLITE Special Operations Command Laptop SOCOM Special Operations Command SOCOORD
Special Operations Coordination Element SOCOS Special Operations Command Operating Staff SOCPAC
Special Operations Command, Pacific SOCRATES
Special Operations Command Research, Analysis, and Threat Evaluation System SOCSIDS
Special Operations Command - Secondary Imagery Dissemination System SOCSO Special Operations
Command, South SOCSOUTH Special Operations Command, South SOD Special Operations Detachment
SODARS Special Operations Debriefing and Retrieval System SOEAID
Special Operations Executive Aide SOF Special Operations Forces SOF-IV Special Operations
Forces-Intelligence Vehicle SOF C4I Special Operations Forces Command, Control,
Communications, Computers, and Intelligence SOF-MOSS SOF Modular Remote Sensing System SOFA
Status of Forces Agreement SOFATS Special Operations Forces Aircrew Training System SOFCOM Special
Operations Forces Command SOF EW Special Operations Forces Enhanced Weapons SOFPAC Special
Operating Forces, Pacific SOFI Special Operations Forces Improvements SOF IRIS Special Operations
Forces Imagery Receiver and Intelligence
System SOFIST Foreign Instrumentation Signals Requirement (a collection management software application)
SOFLAM Special Operations Forces Laser Acquisition Marker SOFPARS Special Operations Forces Planning
and Rehearsal System SOF PLD Special Operations Forces Protection Laser Defense SOFPREP Special
Operations Forces Planning, Rehearsal and Execution Preparation
SOF PSA Special Operations Forces Power Supply Assembly SOFSA Special Operations Forces Support
Activity SOFTACS Special Operations Forces Tactical Assured Connectivity System SOG Special
Operations Group SOH SOF Offensive Handgun SOHFRAD Special Operations HF Radio SOHI
Seminar on Human Intelligence SOI (1) Signal Operating Instructions; (2) Signal of Interest; (3) Space
Object Identification SOIC (1) Space Operational Intelligence Center; (2) Senior Official of the
Intelligence Community; (3) Special Operations Intelligence Center SOICS Special Operations Improved
Cryptographic System SOIF Special Operational Intelligence Folders SOIN Special Operations
Intelligence Notes SOINT Staff Officer Intelligence SOIPS Special Operations Imagery Production
System SOIS Special Operations Intelligence System SOISUM Space Object Identification Summary
SOIT Seminar on International Terrorism SOIWSD Special Operations Information Warfare Support
Demonstration SOJ
(1) Sea of Japan; (2) Stand-Off Jamming SOJTF Special Operations Joint Task Force
SOLANT South Atlantic SOLARS SAC On-Line Analysis and Retrieval System SOLE
Special Operations Liasion Element SOLIS SIGINT On-Line Intelligence (or Information) System SOLL
Special Operations Low Level SOLOG Special Operations Logistics System
SOMA Status of Mission Agreement SOME Satellite Orbit Mission Evaluation SOMOB
Strategic Offensive Missile Order of Battle SOMPF Special Operations Mission Planning Folder SOMS
Special Operations Media System SON Statement of Need SONAR
Sound Navigation and Ranging SONET Synchronous Optical Network SONI Seminar on National
Intelligence SONMET Special Operations Naval Mobile Environmental Teams SOO Space Operations
Officer SOP (1) Standard Operating Procedure(s); (2) Senior Officer Present
SOPE Special Operations Planning Exercise SOPEO Special Operations Program Executive Officer
SOPIF Special Operations Photographic Interpretation Facility SOPM Special Operations Program Manager
SOPPC Special Operations Photo Processing Cell SOPPREP
Special Operation Forces Planning, Rehearsal, and Execution System SOPS (1) Space Operations
Squadron; (2) Special Operations Power Sources SOR (1) Specific Orders and Requests; (2) Statement of
Requirements SORD System Operational Requirements Document
SORDAC Special Operations Research, Development and Acquisition Center SORFMS
Special Operations Radio Frequency Management System SORS (1) Specific Order or Requests; (2) SIGINT
Overhead Reconnaissance Subcommittee SORTIEALOT Sortie Allotment SORTIC
Seminar on Reconnaissance and Technical Information Collection SORTS Status of Resources and Training
System SOS (1) International Distress Signal (2) Squadron Officers’ School; (3) Special Operations
Squadron SOSC Special Operations Support Command SOSS Satellite Ocean Surveillance System
SOSST Special Operations Small Secure Transceiver SOST
Special Operations Special Technology SOSTI Seminar on Scientific and Technical Intelligence
SOSOS U.S. Sound Surveillance System SOT-A Special or Support Operations Team-Alpha
SOTA SIGINT Operational Tasking Authority SOTAS Standoff Target Acquisition System
SOT-B Special or Support Operations Team-Bravo SOTF (1) Special Operations Task Force; (2) Security
Operations Training Facility SOTSE Special Operations Theater Support Element SOTVS Special
Operations Tactical Video System SOTW Special Operations Training Wing SOUTHAM South America
SOUTHCOM Southern Command SOVPACFLT Soviet Pacific Fleet SOW (1) Statement of Work; (2)
Special Operations Wing SOW/TE Special Operations Weather/Technical Element SOWG Special
Operations Working Group SOWT Special Operations Weather Team SP (1) Self-Propelled; (2) Shore
Patrol; (3) Security Police SPA (1) Special PSYOP Analysis; (2) Special PSYOP Assessment SPACDEFENSE
Space Defense and Operations/Anti-Satellite (ASAT) Missile System SPACC Space Command Center
SPACEAF Space Air Force (14 AF) SPACECOM Space Command (See AFSPACECOM and USSPACECOM) SPACING
Space Processing and Collection Internals Group SPAD Special Advisor SPADATS Space Detection and
Tracking System SPADCCS Space Defense Command and Control System SPADOC Space Defense Operations
Center SPADVOS Spaceborne Direct View Optical Scanner SPAF Special Airfield File SPAIS
South Pacific Air Intelligence System SPAN Security Policy Automation Network SPATS Strategic
Posture and Aerospace Threat Summary SPB Special Projects Branch (NATO) SPC SIGINT Processing
Center SPCL Special Purpose Communications Link
SPD Strategic Posture Display SPEAR (1) Signal Processing, Evaluation, Alert and Reporting; (2) SOF
Personal Equipment Advanced Requirements SPEC Counterterrorism Database
Spec Nav Special Navy Program SPECAT Special Category (Pneumatic Tube Message Precedence)
SPECBOATRON Special Boat Squadron SPECBOATUNIT Special Boat Unit Spectre
AC-130 H/U Gunship SPECWAR Special Warfare SPETSNAZ Soviet (FSU) Special Purpose Forces SPF
(1) Special Purpose Forces; (2) Single Point of Failure SPG (1) Self-Propelled Gun; (2) Softcopy Products
Group SPIES Special Insertion and Extraction System SPIN
Space Intelligence Notes SPINS Special Instructions SPINTCOM Special Intelligence Communications
(Network) SPIREP Spot Intelligence Report SPIRES Special Intelligence Reports SPIRIT
Special Purpose Integrated Remote Intelligence Terminal SPK Single Point Key(ing) SPO Special
Project Officer SPOC Space Operations Center SPOD
Sea Ports of Debarkation SPOE Sea Ports of Embarkation SPOT Satellite Pour l’Observation de la
Terre (French) SPOTREP Spot Report SPP Shared Production Program SPR
Strategic Petroleum Reserve SPRAA Strategic Plans and Research Analysis Agency SPS
Scratch Pad Store SPS Special PSYOP Study SPSS Secured Packet Switched Service
SPT Support SPTCONF Support Confirmation SPTD Supported SPTG Supporting
SPTREQ Support Request SQ (1) Square; (2) Squadron SQD Squad SQDN
Squadron SQL (1) Standard Query Language; (2) Structured Query Language SQN
Squadron SR (1) Special Reconnaissance; (2) Short Range; (3) Southern Region; (4) Senior
SRBM Short-Range Ballistic Missile SRF SIGINT Readiness Facility SRHIT Small Radar-Homing
Intercept Technology (BMD Missile) SRIG Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Intelligence Group SRIS
Surface Range Imaging System SROC Southern Region Operations Center
SRIG Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Intelligence Group SRJOIC Southern Region Joint Operations
Intelligence Center SRAM U.S. Short-Range Attack Missile SRAMII
U.S. Short-Range Attack Missile (XAGM-131A; formerly AASM) SRAM-T Short Range Attack Missile - Tactical
SRB Senior Review Board SRBM Short-Range Ballistic Missile SRC
Strategic Reconnaissance Center SRCU SINCGARS Remote Control Unit SRD (1) System Requirements
Document; (2) Special Research Detachment (U.S. Army) SRF (1) Strategic Rocket Forces (USSR); (2)
Strategic Reserve Forces; (3) Secure Reserve Force (U.S.); (4) Selected Reserve Force; (5) SIGINT Readiness
Facility; (6) SPIRIT Remote Facility (TROJAN) SRFTL
Secure Reserve Force Target List SRI Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Intelligence SRIG
Surveillance/Reconnaissance Intelligence Group SRINF Short-Range, Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces
SRJOIC Southern Region Joint Operational Intelligence Center SRMIS
Southern Region Maritime Intelligence Summary SRO Sensitive Reconnaissance Operations
SROE Standing Rules of Engagement SRP (1) Sealift Readiness Program; (2) SIOP Reconnaissance Plan
SRR (1) Survival, Recovery and Reconstitution; (2) Security Requirements Review
SRS (1) Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron; (2) Software Requirements Specification SRSG
Special Representative to the Secretary-General SRT (1) Strategic Relocatable Target; (2) Standard
Remote Terminals SRW Strategic Reconnaissance Wing SRWG Standing Requirements Working Group SS
Attack Submarine SSA (1) Security Supporting Assistance; (2) Diesel-Powered Auxiliary Submarine; (3)
Special Support Activity; (4) SIGINT Support Activity; (5) Soviet (FSU) Strategic Aviation SSAN
(1) Social Security Account Number; (2) Nuclear-Powered Auxiliary Submarine SSB (1) Ballistic Missile
Submarine; (2) Standard Software Base; (3) Single Sideband
SSB Ballistic Missile Submarine SSBN Nuclear-Powered Ballistic Missile Submarine
SSBSC Single Sideband, Suppress Carrier SSC (1) Coastal Submarine; (2) Space Surveillance Center;
(3) Surface Support Craft SSCC Special Security Communications Center SSCI
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence SSD Strategic Studies Detachment SSE
Special Security Element SSES Ships Signal Exploitation Space SSF (1) Software Support Facility;
(2) Special Service Force SSG (1) Cruise Missile Attack Submarine; (2) Special Security Group SSGN
Nuclear-Powered Cruise Missile Attack Submarine SSI (1) Specialty Skill Identifier; (2) Safety, Security
and Intelligence SSIXS Submarine Satellite Information Exchange Subsystem SSJ Self-Screening
Jamming SSLP Transport Submarine SSLSM
Single-Source Logistics Support Manager SSM (1) Surface-to-Surface Missile; (2) Midget Submarine
SSM/I Sensor System Microwave Imager SSM/T Sensor System Microwave/Temperature
SSMA Spread Spectrum Multiple Access SSME Spread Spectrum Modulation Equipment
SSMO SIGINT Support to Military Operations SSMOB Surface-to-Surface Missile Order of Battle SSMP
Security System Management Plan SSN (1) Nuclear-Powered Attack Submarine; (2) Social Security Number; (3)
Space Surveillance Network SSO (1) Special Security Office; (2) Special Security Office(r) SSO-INT
Senior Staff Officer-Intelligence (Canadian)
SSP (1) SIGINT Support Plan; (2) Scheduled Strike Program (NATO); (3) Single-Shot Probability of Damage; (4)
Single-Source Processor; (5) SIOP Support Program SSP-S Single Source Processor-SIGINT
SSQ Auxiliary Submarine, Communications SSQN Nuclear-Powered Auxiliary Submarine, Communications
SSR (1) Radar Picket Submarine; (2) Secondary Surveillance Radar; (3) Special Security SSRS Representative
SIGINT Surveillance and Reporting System SSS (1) Staff Summary Sheet; (2) Systems Science and Software;
(3) System Support Segment; (4) Special Support Section
SSSP Single-Source SIGINT Processor SST (1) Training Submarine; (2) System Specific Threat; (3)
Supersonic Transport; (4) Single Subscriber Terminal; (5) Safe Secure Transport; (6) Strategic Support Team; (7)
Space Support Team SSTO Single-Stage-To-Orbit SSTS Space Surveillance and Tracking System SSUS
Spin-Stabilized Upper Stage ST (1) SEAL Team; (2) Strategic Task; (3) Short Tons S&T Scientific
and Technical S&TI Scientific and Technical Intelligence ST&E Security Test and Evaluation STA
Surveillance and Target Acquisition STACCS Standard Theater Army Command and Control System STAMIS
Standard Army Management Information System STAMP SOUTHCOM Topographic Augmentation Program STAMPS
Stand-Alone Message Processing System STANAG Standardization Agreement (NATO) STANAVFORLANT
Standing Naval Force, Atlantic (NATO) STAN-EVAL Standardization and Evaluation STANS (1) Soviet
Tactical Nuclear Study; (2) Space Target Analysis and Networking System STAP Science and Technology
Advisory Panel STAR (1) Surface-to-Air Recovery; (2) System Threat Assessment Report STARC State
Area Command STARS Surveillance, Target Acquisition & Reporting System STAR-T SHF Tri-Band
Advanced Range Extension Tactical Terminal START Strategic Arms Reduction Talks/Treaty STARTEX
Start Date of an Exercise
STASS Submarine-Towed Array Surveillance System STATDM Statistical Time Division Multiplex
Static RI Static Infrared Workstation STATS Strategic Target Analysis and Tracking System
STATSIONAR USSR/Russian COMSAT System STC (1) Sensitivity Time Control; (2) Short Time Constant
(ECCM); (3) SHAPE Technical Center STCFE Science and Technology Center Far East STD (1) SIGINT
Technical Data; (2) Standard STEL Stanford Telecommunications
STEP Standardized Technical Entry Point STEPS Scientific and Technical ELINT Processing System
STEPS II Scientific and Technical ELINT Processing System II STG Special Tactical Group STEL
Secure Telephone S&TI Scientific and Technical Intelligence
STIC (1) Scientific and Technical Intelligence Committee; (2) Scientific and Technical Intelligence Center
STICS Scalable Transportable Intelligence Communications System STIFF Strategic Intelligence Forecast
File STIISP Scientific and Technical Intelligence Information Services
Program STINT Science and Technology (S&T) Intelligence STIR Scientific and Technical
Intelligence Register STITEUR Scientific and Technical Information Team, Europe
STK (1) Satellite Took Kit; (2) Strike STO Science and Technology Objectives
STOL Short Takeoff and Landing STON Short Ton STOPS Stand-Off Optical System
STOVL Short Takeoff, Vertical Landing STP (1) Space Test Program; (2) Site Transition Plan Str
Strength STRAM Static Random Access Memory STRAT Strategic
STRATCOM Strategic Command STRATJIC USSTRATCOM Joint Intelligence Center STRATLAT
Strategic Command Liaison Assistance Team STRATMAS Strategic Message Analysis Server
STRATPAT Strategic Planning and Analysis Tool STRED Standard-Tactical Receive Equipment Display
STRICOM Simulations, Training, and Instrumentation Command STRIKFORSOUTH Strike Force South S-TRED
Standard Tactical Receive Equipment Display STRUM Standard Technical Reporting Using Modules STS
(1) Special Training Standard; (2) Special Tactics Squadron; (3) Subcommittee on Telecommunications Security of
the NSTISSC STT (1) Small Tactical Terminal; (2) Special Tactics Teams; (3) Shore Targeting Terminal
STU Secure Telephone Unit (STU II & III) STU-III Secure Telephone Unit III STUR Secure
Telephone Unit/Remote
STVD Southern Theater of Military Operations (FSU) STW Strike Warfare STWC
Strike Warfare Commander STX Situational Training Exercise SUAWACS Soviet (FSU) AWACS SUBACS
Submarine Advanced Combat System SUBLANT Submarine Forces, Atlantic
SUBOPAUTH Submarine Operating Authority SUBORD Subordinate SUBPAC Submarine Forces, Pacific
SUCCESS Secure UHF Computer Controlled Equipment Subsystems SUG
SAFE Users Group SUM (1) Surface-to-Underwater Missile; (2) Structural Usage Monitor
SUMS Structural Usage Monitor System SUPCOM Support Command SUPINTREP Supplementary
Intelligence Report SUPIR (1) Supplemental Photographic Interpretation Report; (2) Supplemental Phase
Interpretation Report SUPNAVFOR Supporting Naval Force SUPPLOT Supplemental Plot SUPREMS
Supplemental Preliminary Mission Summary SUPT Superintendent SURAN
Southeastern Universities SURFSHIP Surface Ship SURFWARDEVGRU Surface Warfare Development Group
SURTASS Surveillance Towed Array Sonar System (U.S.) SURV Surveillance
SUSLAK Special U.S. Liaison Activity Korea SUSLO Special U.S. Liaison Officer
SV (1) Secure Voice; (2) Special View SVC Service SVCN Secure Voice Conferencing Network
SVD Soviet Sniper Rifle SVGA Super Video Graphics Adapter SVIP Secure Voice Improvement
Program SVOD Soviet Aircraft Navigation and Landing System SVS
Secure Voice System SVTC Secure Voice Teleconferencing SVTS Secure Video Teleconferencing System
SW (1) Short Wave; (2) Surface Warfare; (3) Software; (4) Strategic Wing S&W
Surveillance and Warning SWA (1) Southwest Asia; (2) Southwest Africa; (3) Standoff
Weapons Assembly; (4) Senior Warning Analyst; (5) Senior Weather Analyst; (6) Secure Work Area
SWADII Southwest Asia Defense Information Infrastructure SWAL Shallow-Water Attack Craft, Light
SWAM Shallow-Water Attack Craft, Medium SWAT SOCRATES WS/LAN Analysis Testbed SWB Southwest
Border SWC (1) Special Warfare Center (U.S. Army); (2) Special Warfare Craft; (3) Strategic Warfare
Center; (4) Strategic Warning Center; (5) Space Warfare Center S&WC Surveillance and Warning
Center/Control SWCL Special Warfare Craft, Light SWCM Special Warfare Craft, Medium SWCS
Special Warfare Center and School SWE Sweden SWHQ Static War Headquarters SWI Special
Weather Intelligence
SWIR Short Wave Infrared SWIRTERCAT SWIR Terrain Categorization SWIS Survivable Wartime
Intelligence System SWO (1) Special Weapons Officer; (2) Staff Weather Officer; (3) Senior Watch Officer
SWORD Submarine Warfare Operations Research Department SWP
Standing Warning Program SWPS Space & Weapons Systems SIGINT Working Group SWR
Southwest Region SWRS Slow-Walker Reporting System SWSC Space Warning Systems Center SWTMO
SW Theater of Military Operations SYBASE A Collection Requirements Database SYDET Sympathetic
Detonator SYDP Six-Year Defense Plan SYG Secretary General SYNCOM Synchronous
Communications Satellite SYRACUSE Systeme de Radio Communication Utilisant un Satellite SYRUP
System Resource Utilization Package SYS System(s)
SYSADM System Administrator SYSADMIN Systems Administration Technical Assistant
SYSCON Systems Control SYSOPR System Operator |