NATO handbook16 uploaded March 25, 1993


APPENDIX IX



105. ABBREVIATIONS IN COMMON USE

ABM
Anti-Ballistic Missile

ACCHAN
Allied Command Channel

ACE
Allied Command Europe

ACLANT
Allied Command Atlantic

ACCS
Air Command and Control System

ADP
Automated Data Processing

AEW
Airborne Early Warning

AFCENT
Allied Forces Central Europe

AFNORTH
Allied Forces Northern Europe

AFSOUTH
Allied Forces Southern Europe

AGARD
Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and
Development

ALCM
Air-Launched Cruise Missile

AMF
ACE Mobile Force

APAG
Atlantic Policy Advisory Group

ASW
Anti-Submarine Warfare

ATA
Atlantic Treaty Association

AWACS
Airborne Warning and Control System

BMEWS
Ballistic Missile Early Warning System

CAPS
Conventional Armaments Planning System

CBM
Confidence Building Measure

CCMS
Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society

CDE
Conference on Security and Confidence Build-
ing Measures and Disarmament in Europe

CEAC
Committee for European Airspace Coordin-
ation

CENTAG
Central Army Group, Central Europe

CEOA
Central Europe Operating Agency

CEP
Civil Emergency Planning

CEPS
Central Europe Pipeline System

CFE
Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in
Europe

CHANCOM
Channel Committee

CINCEASTLANT
Commander-in-Chief Eastern Atlantic Area

CINCENT
Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces Central
Europe

CINCHAN
Allied Commander-in-Chief Channel

CINCIBERLANT
Commander-in-Chief Iberian Atlantic Area

CINCNORTH
Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces Northern
Europe

CINCSOUTH
Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces Southern
Europe

CINCUKAIR
Commander-in-Chief United Kingdom Air
Forces


CINCWESTLANT
Commander-in-Chief Western Atlantic Area

CIS
Commonwealth of Independent States

CIS
Communications and Information Systems

CNAD
Conference of National Armaments Directors

CONMAROPS
Concept of Maritime Operations

CPSU
Communist Party of the Soviet Union

CPX
Command Post Exercise

CSBM

Confidence and Security Building Measure

CSCE
Conference on Security and Cooperation in
Europe

CST
Conventional Stability Talks

CUSRPG
Canada-US Regional Planning Group

DPC
Defence Planning Committee

DRC
Defence Review Committee

EC
European Community

ECCM
Electronic Counter-Countermeasures

ECM
Electronic Countermeasures

EMP
Electro-Magnetic Pulse

ENTG
EURO/NATO Training Group

ESA
European Space Agency

EUROGROUP
Acronym used for informal Group of NATO
European Defence Ministers

EW
Electronic Warfare

EWG
Executive Working Group

GLCM
Ground Launched Cruise Missile

HLTF
High Level Task Force

IATA
International Air Transport Association

ICAO
International Civil Aviation Organisation

ICB
International Competitive Bidding

ICBM
Intercontinental Ballistic Missile

IEPG
Independent European Programme Group

IISS
International Institute for Strategic Studies

IMS
International Military Staff

INF
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces

IRBM
Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missile

LCC
Logistics Coordination Centre

LTDP
Long-Term Defence Programme

MARAIRMED
Maritime Air Forces Mediterranean

MAREQ
Military Assistance Requirements

MAS
Military Agency for Standardization

MBFR
Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions

MC
Military Committee

MCM
Mine Countermeasures

MILREP
Military Representative (to the MC)

MNC
Major NATO Commander

MOD
Ministery of Defence

MOU
Memorandum of Understanding

NAA
North Atlantic Assembly

NAC
North Atlantic Council


NACC
North Atlantic Cooperation Council

NACISA
NATO Communications and Information
Systems Agency

NACMA
NATO Air Command and Control Systems
Management Agency

NADEFCOL
NATO Defence College

NAEW
NATO Airborne Early Warning

NAHEMA
NATO Helicopter (NH90) Design, Develop-
ment, Production and Logistics Management
Organisation

NAMFI
NATO Missile Firing Installation

NAMMA
NATO Multi-Role Combat Aircraft Develop-
ment and Production Management Agency

NAMMO
NATO Multi-Role Combat Aircraft Develop-
ment and Production Management Organisation

NAMSA
NATO Maintenance and Supply Agency

NAMSO
NATO Maintenance and Supply Organisation

NAPMA
NATO Airborne Early Warning and Control
Programme Management Agency

NAPMO
NATO Airborne Early Warning and Control
Programme Management Organisation

NAPR
NATO Armaments Planning Review

NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

NAVOCFORMED
Naval On-Call Force, Mediterranean

NCCIS
NATO Command, Control and Information
System

NEFMA
NATO European Fighter Aircraft Develop-
ment, Production and Logistics Management
Agency

NEFMO
NATO European Fighter Aircraft Develop-
ment, Production and Logistics Management
Organisation

NHMO
NATO HAWK Management Office

NHPLO
NATO HAWK Production and Logistics
Organisation

NIAG
NATO Industrial Advisory Group

NICS
NATO Integrated Communications System

NMR
National Military Representative (to SHAPE)

NORAD
North American Air Defence System

NORTHAG
Northern Army Group, Central Europe

NPG
Nuclear Planning Group

NPLO
NATO Production and Logistics Organisation

NSC
NATO Supply Centre

OECD
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and
Development

OPEC
Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries

OTAN
Organisation du Traite de l'Atlantique Nord

PAPS
Periodic Armaments Planning System


PERM REP
Permanent Representative (to the NAC)

PNET
Peaceful Nuclear Explosion Treaty

R&D
Research and Development

SAC
Strategic Air Command

SACEUR
Supreme Allied Commander Europe

SACLANT
Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic

SACLANTCEN
SACLANT Undersea Research Centre

SALT
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

SATCOM
Satellite Communications

SCEPC
Senior Civil Emergency Planning Committee

SCG
Special Consultative Group

SDI
Strategic Defence Initiative

SHAPE
Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe

SLBM
Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile

SLCM
Sea-Launched Cruise Missile

SNF
Short-Range Nuclear Forces

STANAG
Standardization Agreement

STANAVFORCHAN
Standing Naval Force Channel

STANAVFORLANT
Standing Naval Force Atlantic

STANAVFORMED
Standing Naval Force Mediterranean

START
Strategic Arms Reduction Talks

STC
SHAPE Technical Centre

TLE
Treaty Limited Equipment

TNF
Theatre Nuclear Forces

TTBT
Threshold Test Ban Treaty

UN
United Nations

UNCTAD
United Nations Conference on Trade and
Development

UNESCO
United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organisation

VCC
Verification Coordinating Committee

WEU
Western European Union

WG
Working Group

WHO
World Health Organisation

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