| Acronym | Meaning |
| LANL | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| AFM | Army Field Manual (UK; The U.S. More Frequently Uses Just FM) - Atomic Force Microscope - Aviation Fleet Maintenance |
| ASD(HA) | (U.S.) Assistant Secretary Of Defense (Health Affairs) |
| DRDC | Defence Research & Development Canada |
| ODBC | Open DataBase Connectivity |
| AA | Afar Language (ISO 639-1 Code) |
| SIMNET | SIMulator NETwork |
| GULAG | Glavnoye Upravleniye Ispravitelno-trudovykh LAGerei I Kolonii (Russian ??????? ?????????? ????????????? ???????? ??????? ? ??????? |
| CCC | Corpus Christi College |
| RADB | Real America Database - Resource Assessment Database - Reunion Address DataBase - Rice Allelopathy Data Base - Routing Arbiter Data Base |