Military

AAFES

Army/Air Force Exchange Service

ABCS

Army Battle Command Systems

ACO

Administrative Contracting Officer

AIT

automated information technology

AMC

Air Mobility Command

AO

area of operation

AOR

area of responsibility

APOD

aerial port of debarkation

APOE

aerial port of embarkation

AR

Army Regulation

ARB

Acquisition Review Board

ARINC

Aeronautical Radio Inc.

ARFOR

Army Forces

ASA(ALT)

Assistant Secretary of the Army, (Acquisition, Logistics and Technology)

ASCC

Army Service Component Commander

AT

antiterrorist

BCF

Basic Core Formulary

C2

command and control

CDE

chemical defense equipment

CLPSB

combatant commanders logistics procurement support board

CLS

contracted logistic support

COMSEC

communications security

CONUS

Continental United States

COA

Courses of Action

COR

contracting officer's representative

COSCOM

corps support command

CRAF

Civil Reserve Air Fleet

CREST

Corps Real Estate Support Team

CRC

CONUS Replacement Center

CS

combat support

CSAR

Combat search and rescue

CSS

combat service support

DAC

Department of the Army civilian

DACG

departure airfield control group

DCMA

Defense Contract Management Agency

DCSLOG

Deputy Chief of Staff, Logistics

DFARS

Defense Federal Acquisition Supplement

DHP

Defense Health Program

DISCOM

division support command

DLA

Defense Logistics Agency

DOB

date of birth

DOD

Department of Defense

DODI

Department of Defense Instruction

EAC

echelons above Corps

EAD

echelons above division

Emergency Care

Medical treatment of patients with severe life-threatening or potentially disabling conditions resulting from accident or illness of sudden onset. These conditions necessitate immediate care to prevent undue suffering or loss of life or limb. Dental treatment for relief of painful or acute condition.

FM

Field Manual

FP

force protection

FORSCOM

Forces Command

FTX

field training exercise

GFE

government furnished equipment

GPMRC

Global Patient Movement Requirements Center

HCA

Head of Contracting Activity: A general officer, usually the senior commander in the theater, who provides overall contracting guidance; serves as the approving authority for contracting; and appoints the PARC. All contracting authority in a theater flows from the HCA to the PARC.

HQDA

Headquarters, Department of the Army

Host Nation

A nation which receives the forces and/or supplies of allied nations and/or organizations to be located on, to operate in, or to transit through its territory.

HNS

host nation support: civil and/or military assistance rendered by a nation to foreign forces within its territory during peacetime, times of crisis, emergency, or war, based upon agreements mutually concluded between nations.

ICS

interim contracted logistic support

IDS

individual deployment site

IPB

Intelligence preparation of the battlefield

IPE

individual protective equipment

ITV

in-transit visibility

JAG

Judge Advocate General

JARB

Joint Acquisition Review Board

JCS

Joint-Chiefs-of-Staff

JCSP

joint contracting support plan

JFC

joint forces command

Joint Operations

Operations carried on by two or more of the Armed Forced of the United States (Army, Navy, Air Force).

JOPES

Joint Operation Planning and Execution System

JP

Joint Publication

JTF

Joint Task Force

LAO

logistics assistance officer

LOC

lines of communication

LOGCAP

Logistics Civil Augmentation Program

LPB

Logistics preparation of the battlefield

LSE

logistics support element

MACOM

major army command

MCX

Marine Corps Exchange

MDMP

Military decision-making process

METT-TC

mission, enemy, terrain, troops, time available, and civil considerations

MMR

measles, mumps, rubella

MOG

maximum on ground

MPS

Military Postal Service

MSE

mobile subscriber equipment

MTF

medical treatment facility

MTMC

Military Traffic Management Command

MTP

Mission Training Plan

MTW

Major theater war

MWR

morale, welfare and recreation

Nation Assistance

Civil and/or military assistance rendered to a nation by foreign forces within that nation's territory during peacetime, crises or emergencies, or war, based on agreements mutually concluded between nations.

NBC

nuclear, biological, and chemical

NCA

National Command Authorities

NEX

Navy Exchange

NRP

non-unit related personnel

OCIE

organizational clothing and individual equipment

OPCON

operational control

OPLAN

operations plan

OPORD

operation order

OPSEC

operations security

PARC

Principal Assistant Responsible for Contracting: a special staff officer, is the ASCC or mission commander's senior Army acquisition advisor responsible for planning and managing all Army contracting functions within the theater.

PCO

Procuring Contracting Officer

PEO

Program Executive Officer

PM

Program Manager

POC

point-of-contact

POD

port of debarkation

POE

port of embarkation

Routine care

Routine medical care is nonemergency care that is required and medically indicated. Routine dental is all care necessary to maintain dental health and function other than care of an emergency or elective nature.

RSO&I

reception, staging, onward movement, and integration

SERE

Survival, escape, resistance and evasion

SITA

Societe International de Telecommunications Aeronautiques

SJA

Staff Judge Advocate

SOO

statement of objectives

SOW

statement of work

SPOD

seaport of debarkation

STX

situational training exercise

TACC

Tanker Airlift Command Center

TALCE

Tanker Airlift Control Element

TCO

Terminating Contracting Officer

TPFDD

time-phased force and deployment data

TPMRC

Theater Patient Movement Requirements Center

TPS

tactical personnel system

TSC

theater support command

TSP

training support package

UCMJ

Uniform Code of Military Justice

UIC

unit identification code

ULN

unit line number

UMT

Unit Ministry Team

US

United States

UTC

unit type code

USACE

US Army Corps of Engineers

USAMC

US Army Materiel Command

USAREUR

US Army Europe

USARPAC

US Army Pacific

USO

United Services Organization

USTRANSCOM

US Transportation Command