C4I Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence
C4ID Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence
Dissemination
C4IFTW C4I for the Warrior
C4ISR Command, Control, Communications, Computing, Intelligence,
Surveillance, & Reconaissance
C4S Command, Control, Communications, Computer Systems
C4SMP Command, control, communications and computers system master plan
CA (1) Civil Affairs
(2) COMSEC Account
(3) Cloud-Air lightning
(4) Counter Air
(5) Cyanoacrylate (Super Glue)
CAATS Canadian Automated Air Traffic System
CAB Combat Area Broadcast
CACS Command And Control Squadron
CAD (1) Computer-aided design
(2) Coherent amplitude detector
(3) Computer-aided dispatch
CAD/CAM Computer aided design/computer aided manufacturing
CADRG Compressed Arc Digitized Raster Graphics
CAE (1) Common Application Environment
(2) Computer Aided Engineering
CAEWIS Computer Aided Electronic Warfare Information System
CAF Combat Air Forces
CAFWSP CAF Weather Support Package
CAI (1) Common Air Interface
(2) Computer-aided instruction
(3) Cooperative Airborne Identification
CAINS Carrier Aircraft Inertial Navigation System
CAL Calibrate, calibration
CALLS Contact And Long-range Liaison System (USCG)
CALM Codan Automated Link Management (proprietary trademark)
CALS (1) Computer-aided Acquisition & Logistics System
(2) Contingency Airfield Lighting System
CAM Computer-aided manufacturing
camo Camouflage [~]
CAMO Computer-aided manual operation
CAMS Communications Area Master Station (USCG, obsolete)
CAMSLANT Communications Area Master Station, Atlantic; obsolete
CAMSPAC Communications Area Master Station, Pacific; obsolete
CAN (1) Cancel (ASCII)
(2) Controller Area Network (industrial automation)
CANFORCE Canadian Forces
CANR Canadian NORAD Region
CANSO Civil Air Navigation Services Organization
CANUS Canada/US
CAOC (1) Combined Air Operations Center
(2) Combined Allied Operations Center, Vicenza, IT (Allied Force)
CAP (1) Civil Air Patrol
(2) Carrierless Amplitude Phase
CAPCOM Capsule Communicator (NASA)
CAPE Convective Available Potential Energy (WX)
CAPEG Cape Canaveral Ground Antenna (GPS)
CAPPS Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System
CAPS Center for the Analysis and Prediction of Storms (NWS)
CAPT Captain
CAR Caribbean (MWARA)
CARB (1) Channel Availability Radio Bulletin (NATO)
(2) Channel Availability and Receipt Broadcast (NATO)
CARCAH Chief, Aerial Reconnaissance Coordination, All Hurricanes (NHC)
CARF Central Altitude Reservation Facility (FAA)
CARIBROC Caribbean Regional Operations Center
CARR Corrective Action Request & Report
CAS (1) Close Air Support
(2) Collision Avoidance System
(3) Calibrated Air Speed
CASE (1) Common automated system execution
(2) Computer-aided software engineering
(3) Computer-aided system engineering
CASPER C-130 Airborne Sensory Palletized Electronic Reconnaissance
CASREP Casualty Report
CAT (1) Clear Air Turbulence
(2) Computer Aided Transceiver, proprietary control interface
(3) Communications Assist Team (USCG)
CATIS Computer Aided Tactical Information System
CATT Computer Assisted Technology Transfer
CATV Community Antenna Television ("cable")
CAU Crypto Ancillary Unit
CAV (1) Collision Avoidance
(2) Conditionally Available (LA City FD)
(3) Ceiling and visibility
CAVOK Ceiling & Visibility OK (non-US METAR)
CAVU Ceiling & visibility unlimited
CB (1) Citizen Band Radio (legal or otherwise, around 27 MHz)
(2) Cumulonimbus (thundercloud)
CBAA Community Broadcasting Association of Australia
C-band 4-8 GHz microwave band
CBC Canadian Broadcasting Company
CBFS Cesium Beam Frequency Standard
CBHD China Blue High-Definition (Chinese vido disc standard)
CBM Central battle management
CBMAM Cumulonimbus mammatus cloud
CBP Customs and Border Protection
CBR (1) Chemical, Biological, Radiological (warfare)
(2) Constant bit rate
CBRN Caribbean Basin Radar Network
CBRNE Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and high-yield Explosive
CBS Columbia Broadcasting System (U.S.)
CBT (1) Computer-based training
(2) Combat
CBTS Computer-based training system
CBU Cluster Bomb Unit
CBW (1) Chemical & Biological (warfare)
(2) Constant bandwidth
CC (1) Transmission is in Standard Chinese ("Mandarin")
(2) Command & Control
(3) Command Center
(4) Control Center
(5) Commander
(6) Computer controller
(7) Copies
(8) C Compiler (unix)
(9) cloud-cloud lightning
CC&D Camouflage, concealment and deception
CC&R Covenants, Conditions & Restrictions; what you check before buying
a home if you intend to build an antenna there
CCAS Cape Canaveral Air Station, FL, formerly CCAFS
CCB (1) Configuration Control Board
(2) Computer Controlled Brake (railroad)
CCC (1) Central computer complex
(2) Communications control complex
(3) Consolidated Command Center (NORAD)
CCD Charge Coupled Device
CCDM Consultative Committee for the Definition of the Meter
CCDS Consultative Committee for the Definition of the Second
CCDS Command Center Display System
CCE (1) Command & control element
(2) Consultative Committee on Electricity
CCEMRI Consultative Committee for Ionizing Radiations
CCG Calibration Coordination Group
CCIP Continuously-Computed Impact Point
CCIR International Radio Consultative Committee, now ITU-R
CCIR 476-4 International SITOR character set
CCIR 493-4 FSK 100/170 Selcall, AKA Codan 8580
CCIRID Charge-coupled infrared imaging device
CCITT Comite Consultatif International de Telegraphique et
Telephonique (International Telegraph & Telephone
Consultative Committee), obsolescent
CCL Common Command Language
CCM (1) Combined Cipher Machine (WWII Allies)
(2) Counter-Countermeasures
CCMC Canadian Centre for Maritime Communications
CCP Console Command Processor, part of CP/M
CCPC Civil Communications Planning Committee (NATO)
CCPDS-R Command Center Processing and Display System - Replacement
CCR Central Control Room
CCRP Continuously-Computed Release Point
CCS (1) Continuous Commercial Service (power rating)
(2) Charge Control System
CCSL cirrocumulus standing lenticular cloud
CCT Computer Compatible Tape
ccTLD Country Code Top Level Domain
CCTV Closed Circuit Television
C-cubed Command Control and Communications
CCV Code change verifier
CCW (1) Counter-clockwise
(2) Command & Control Warfare
(3) Continuous Carrier Wave
(4) Coherent CW
(5) Class C CW biasing (most efficient)
CD (1) Compact Disc
(2) Civil Defense (now FEMA in US)
(3) Carrier detect (modem line)
(4) Collision Detection (networking)
CDA (1) Central distribution amplifier
(2) Command & data acquisition
CDB Command data buffer
CDC (1) Canadian Department of Communications
(2) Centers for Disease Control (US)
(3) Control Data Corporation
CD-DA Compact Disc Digital Audio (format, part of the "Red Book")
CDE Common Desktop Environment
CDF (1) Common Data Format
(2) California Division of Forestry (fire fighters)
CDHF Central Data Handling Facility
CD-I Compact Disc - Interactive (one format in the "Green Book")
CDIS Canadian Defence Intelligence Staff
CDL Common Data Link
CDM Chemical Downwind Message (US Army)
CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
CDMA One (IS-95) Qualcomm 2nd generation CDMA
CDMA2000 3G CDMA technology
CDNU Control Display Navigation Unit
CDPD Cellular Digital Packet Data
CDR (1) Commander
(2) Command destruct receiver (Stratcom)
CD-R Compact Disc - Recordable
CDRAM Cache Dynamic Random Access Memory
CD-ROM Compact Disc Read Only Memory
CD-ROM XA CD-ROM eXtended Architecture, extends the "Yellow Book"
CD-RTOS Compact Disc - Real Time Operating System (CD-I)
CDS (1) Canadian Defence Staff
(2) Combat Direction System
CDT Central (US) Daylight Time
CDTI Cockpit Display of Traffic Information
CDU Control display unit (fancy "control head")
CE (1) Conformite Europeanne (European Conformity); mark put on
products for EEC
(2) Committee that sets these requirements
CEC (1) Commission of the European Communities (drafts "CE" standards)
(2) Cooperative Engagement Capability
CECOM US Army Communications Electronics Command
CENTCOM U.S. Central Command
CEOI Communications-Electronics Operation Instructions
CEP (1) Central East Pacific (MWARA)
(2) Circular Error Probability
(3) Circular Error Probable
CEPPO Chemical Emergency Preparedness and Prevention Office
CEPT Conference of Postal & Telecommunications Administrations (EU)
CEPTAG Civil Emergency Planning Telecommunications Advisory Group
(Joint US/Canadian)
CERDEC Communications Electronics Research, Development and
Engineering Center
CERFP CBRNE Enhanced Response Force Package (nested, see CBRNE)
CERN Centre Europ'eene por la Recherche Nucleaire, Center for European
Nuclear Research, huge particle accelerator center
CERT (1) Community Emergency Response Teams (FEMA)
(2) Computer Emergency Response Team (Internet security)
(3) Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US Government)
CF (1) Canadian forces
(2) Center frequency
CFAP Commandement Force Aerienne de Projection (French AF)
CFARS Canadian Forces Affiliate Radio System
CFB Canadian Forces Base
CFBL Call Forwarding Busing Line (telco)
CFBS Canadian Forces Broadcasting Service
CFDA Call Forwarding Don't Answer (telco)
CFEP Communications front end processor
CFL Confidential Frequency List (good shortwave publication)
CFM Cubic feet per minute
CFMU Central Flow Management Unit (Eurocontrol, now NMOC)
CFR Code of Federal Regulations
CFR 33 USCG Navigation Regulations
CFR 46 USCG Vessel Regulations
CFR 47 FCC Regulations
CFS (1) Center for Standards
(2) Canadian Forces Station
CFT Center Frequency Tone
CG (1) Coast Guard
(2) Commanding General
CG cloud-ground lightning
CGAS Coast Guard Air Station
CG-C2 Coast Guard Command & Control
CGCWOA (US) Coast Guard CW Operators Assn. (see CW)
CGDN Coast Guard Data Net
CGM (1) Computer Graphics Metafile
(2) Corrected Geomagnetic coordinates
CGMS Coordinating Group for Meteorological Satellites
CGSIC Civil GPS Service Interface Committee
CGU Canadian Geophysical Union
CGVTS Coast Guard Vessel Traffic System
Ch Channel
Ch mkr Channel marker
CHAP Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (PPP)
CHATH Chemically/Biologically Hardened Air Transportable Hospital
CHBDL Common High Bandwidth Data Link
CHBDL-ST Common High Bandwidth Data Link-Surface Terminal
C-HFET Complementary Heterostructure Field Effect Transistor
CHI cloud-height indicator
CHINO sky condition at secondary location not available
CHOP (1) Change in Operational Control
(2) Chief Operator (Navy MARS)
(3) Counter Measures Hands-on Program
CHS Combat health support
CHS Cylinder, Head, Sector (direct disk addressing)
C/I Carrier-to-Intermodulation products
CIA (1) Central Intelligence Agency (US)
(2) Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability (INFOSEC)
CIBAR Conference of International Broadcasters' Audience Research Services
CIC (1) Combat Information Center (Navy)
(2) Combined Intelligence Center (US Air Force)
CICA Competition in Contracting Act
CICBMs Conventionally-armed ICBMs
CICS Customer Information Control System (IBM)
CID (1) Circuit Identifier
(2) Combat Identification
CIDE Communication Information Data Exchange
CIDR Classless Inter-Domain Routing (Internet, replaces class A-C)
CIDX Canadian International DX Club
CIG ceiling
CIIP Common Imagery Interoperability Profiles
CIJ Close In Jamming
CIL Command Image Library
CINC Commander In Chief, replaced by CDR 2003
CINCLANT C in C, Atlantic, obsolete
CINCNORAD C in C, NORAD, obsolete
CINCPAC C in C, Pacific, obsolete
CINCSTRAT C in C, Stratcom, obsolete
CIOL Common Interface Objects Language
CIPO Commanders in chief Interoperability Program Office
CIPSO Common Internet Protocol Security Options
CIRAF French acronym for international broadcast zone system
CIRC Cross Interleaved Reed Solomon Code
CIRF Co-Channel Interference Reduction Factor
CIS (1) Combat Intelligence System
(2) Commonwealth of Independent States (replaced USSR)
CISC Complex Instruction Set Computing
CISCO Consolidated intelligence support to combat operations
CISPR International Special Committee on Radio Interference
CIT California Institute of Technology (CalTech)
CITS Combat Information Transfer System
CI-V Radio computer interface made by Icom
CIW Combined Intelligence Watch
CIWS Close-In Weapons System
CJCS Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (US)
CJCSI Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruction
CJCSM Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Memo
CJFET Complementary junction field effect transistor
CJMAO Central Joint Mortuary Affairs Office
CK Check (usually word count in a message)
CL (1) Centerline Lighting System
(2) CW prosign: I am closing my station (clearing)
Class A (1) Stage is biased to conduct continuously
(2) Explosive class: maximum hazard, now Div. 1.1 - 1.3
Class B (1) Stage is biased to conduct on half of cycle
(2) Explosive class: less hazardous, now Div. 1.3 - 1.4
Class C (1) Stage is biased to conduct less than half
(2) Explosive class: least hazardous, now Div. 1.4 - 1.5
Class D Stage uses digital switching
Class E New, like D
CLC Circuit Link Control
CLE Coordinated Listening Event (amateur)
CLEW Conventional Link Eleven Waveform (NATO)
Clg Calling
CLIPER CLImatology and PERsistence (weather model)
CLOVER Robust RTTY mode for HF
CLR (1) Clear
(2) Clear below 12,000 feet (automated METAR)
(3) Common Language Runtime (MickeySoft)
(4) Combat Logistics Regiment
CM (1) Countermeasures
(2) Cipher Machine
(3) Corrected Geomagnetic coordinates
(4) Chemical Mace, a tear gas
(5) Configuration Management
cm (1) Centimeter
(2) Control monitor
CMARS Cruise Missile Autonomous Routing System
CMAS Cheyenne Mountain Air Station, was CMAFB, CMAFS
CMAWS Common Missile Approach Warning System
CMC (1) Cheyenne Mountain Complex (NORAD)
(2) Command Management Center
(3) COMSAT Mobile Corporation, part of COMSAT
CMCS COMINT Mission Collection System
CMD (1) Command
(2) Network Command (ALE)
CMDR Commander
CMDS Countermeasure Dispenser Set
CME Coronal Mass Ejection, causes aurora
CMF Combat Mission Folder
CMI Computer-managed instruction
CMIS (1) Cheyenne Mountain Interface Subsystem
(2) Closed Loop Maintenance Information System
CMLSA Commercial Microwave Landing System Avionics
CMMB China Multimedia Mobile Broadcasting
CMO (1) Central Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT) Office
(2) Civil-military operations
CMOC Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center
CMOS (1) Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
(2) Cargo Movement Operations System
CMP Common Management Practices
CMR Crisis Management Reconnaissance
CMRF Combined-Mode Resonator Filter
CMRS Commercial Mobile Radio Service
CMS (1) Canadian Maritime Service
(2) Calendar Messaging Service (Solaris)
(3) Common Mapping System
(4) Community Management Staff
(5) Counter Measures Set
(6) Counter Measures System
(7) Combined Symbol Matching
CMSA Cruise Missile Support Activity
CMT Cellular Mobile Telephone
CMU Cheyenne Mountain Upgrade
CMX Crisis Management Exercise (NATO)
CMY Cyan, Magenta, Yellow (subtractive color printing)
CMYK Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, blacK (4-color printing)
CN (1) Communications network
(2) Counter-narcotics
CNA Center for Naval Analysis
CNAAS Counter-narcotics air analysis system
CNCE Communications nodal control element
CNCS Centralized Net Control Station (Scope Command hub at Andrews AFB)
CNE (1) Communications Network Environment
(2) Communications Node Emulator
(3) Certified Netware Engineer (Novell)
CNES Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (French space agency)
CNI Communications, Navigation, and ID
CNM (1) Communications Network management
CNMI Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
CNN Cable News Network
CNO (1) Chief of Naval Operations
(2) Casualty notification officer
CNR (1) Carrier to Noise Ratio
(2) Combat Net Radio
CNRADL Canadian RADIL (ROCC/AWACS digital information link)
CNS (1) Communications, navigation & surveillance
(2) Central nervous system
(3) Consolidated NOTAM System (Another nested acronym, courtesy
FAA)
CNTRA Chief of Naval Air Training (pronounced "Sinatra" like the singer)
CO (1) Commanding Officer
(2) Central Office (telcom)
(3) Contracting Officer
co UK version of .com (Internet domain)
CO/MIS Commander, Management Information Center
COA Courses of Action
Coax Coaxial cable
COBOL Common Business Oriented Language (clunky old programming code)
COBRA (1) Coastal Battlefield Reconnaissance System
(2) Counter Battery Radar
(3) Coaxial Beam Rotating Antenna
COBRA DANE US military air surveillance radar system
COCOM Combatant command
COD (1) Carrier Onboard Delivery
(2) Collect On Delivery
CODAG COmbined Diesel And Gas (USCG cutters)
CODAR Coastal Ocean Dynamics Radar
CoDE Coherent Digital Exciter
Codec Coder/Decoder
COE (1) Circle of Error
(2) Common Operating Environment
(3) Central Office Equipment
COFAS Commandement Force Aerienne Strategique (French AF)
COFC Container On Flat Car (as opposed to container car)
COFCM Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex
COFF Common Object File Format (Windoze)
CofS Chief of Staff
COG Continuity Of Government (US emergency plan)
COGCON COG Condition
COHO Coherent Oscillator
COI Critical Operational Issue
COIL Chemical Oxygen-Iodine Laser
COL Colonel
COM (1) Computer file extension: load as simple command program
(2) Commercial domain (Internet)
(3) Component Object Module (Windoze)
COMACC Commander, Air Combat Command
COMAFFOR Commander Air Force Forces
COMAFSPACE Commander, Air Force Space Command
COMARSPACE Commander, U.S. Army Space Command
COMASWFORLANT Commander, ASW Forces Atlantic
COMCON Communications Condition (MARS)
COMFAIRMED Commander, Fleet Air Mediterranean
COMFAIRWINGTEN Commander, Fleet Airwing Ten
COMHSWINGONE Commander, Helicopter Antisubmarine Wing One
COMINT Communications Intelligence
COMJAM Communications jamming
Comm Communications (also "commo")
COMM Communications
COMMCOM Communications Command (USCG, replaces CAMS)
COMMDET Communications Detachment (USCG)
COMMSTA Communication Station
COMMZ Communications zone
COMNAVCOMTELCOM Commander, Naval Computer and
Telecommunications Command
COMOPTEVFOR Commander, Operational Test and Evaluation Force
COMPATWING Commander, Patrol Wing
COMPATWINGSLANT Commander, Patrol Wings Atlantic
COMPTUEX Composite Training Unit Exercise (USN)
COMPUINT Computer intelligence
Compul Compulsory
COMPUSEC Computer Security
COMSAT (1) COMmunication SATellite
(2) Comsat Corp., US consortium & INMARSAT Convention rep
COMSEABASED Commander, Sea-Based ASW Wings, Atlantic
COMSEC Communication Security
COMSTAT Communications Status Report
COMSUBLANT Commander, Submarine Forces, Atlantic (USN)
COMSUBPAC Commander, Submarine Forces, Pacific (USN)
COMTAC Communications Tactical
CONCISE Cosine Network's Central Information Service for Europe
CONDX CW brevity: propagation conditions (usually wretched)
CONELRAD CONtrol of ELectromagnetic RADiation, obsolete
Config Configuration, configure [~]
conmara Italian Consulate, Maracaibo, Venezuela
conmars Italian Consulate, Marseille, France
conmopr Italian Consulate, possibly Montpellier, France
conmpla Italian Consulate, Mar del Plata, Argentina
CONOP(s) Concept of Operations(s)
CONS continuous
conspie Italian Consulate, possibly St. Pierre
contolo Italian Consulate, Toulouse, France
CONUS continental United States
conwett Italian Consulate, Wettingen, Switzerland
COOP Continuity Of Operations (US emergency plan)
COP Common Operational Picture
COPS Complex Operations Per Second
Coq Coquelet (French teleprinting system, after "Rooster")
Coq8 8-bit Coquelet
COR (1) Carrier operated relay
(2) Consolidated Operations Room ("Lights Out")
(3) Correction to a previously disseminated weather report
CORES Commission Registration System (FCC)
CORS Continuously Operating Reference Station (DGPS)
COS Communication Operations Segment
COSCOM Corps support command
COSE Common Open Software Environment
COSIP Computer Open System Interface Processor
COSPAS Acronym for Russian SARSAT
COT Changeover time
COTHEN Cellular Over The Horizon Enforcement Network (US)
COTS Commercial Off-The-Shelf
COWS Cells On Wheels (post-disaster cellphone service)
CP (1) Command Post
(2) CW general call: "Hello -- [2 or more callsigns follow]"
CP (3) Contental Polar (air mass)
CP/M Early Z80 operating system, might or might not have stood for "Control
Program for Microcomputers," or "Control Program/Monitor." The
guy who would know is dead, having narrowly missed out on
being richer than Bill Gates.
CPA (1) Closest Point of Approach
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