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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