| AFC | Army Futures Command |
| AI | artificial intelligence |
| AMC | Army Materiel Command |
| BOARD | Board on Army Research and Development |
| CBDP | Chemical and Biological Defense Program |
| CDC | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
| CDMRP | Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program |
| CEO | chief executive officer |
| COVID-19 | Coronavirus Disease 2019 |
| DARPA | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency |
| DHA | Defense Health Agency |
| DHB | Defense Health Board |
| DHP | Defense Health Program |
| DoD | Department of Defense |
| DTRA | Defense Threat Reduction Agency |
| EPA | Environmental Protection Agency |
| FDA | Food and Drug Administration |
| HHS | Department of Health and Human Services |
| HIV-AIDS | human immunodeficiency virus-acquired immunodeficiency deficiency syndrome |
| IRB | Institutional Review Board |
| JTS | Joint Trauma System |
| MARCH | Massive Airway Respiratory Circulation Hypothermia |
| MDO | multi-domain operation |
| NIAID | National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases |
| NIBC | National Interagency Biodefense Campus |
| NICBR | National Interagency Confederation for Biomedical Research |
| NIH | National Institutes of Health |
| PTSD | posttraumatic stress disorder |
| R&D | research and development |
| RDA | research, development, acquisition |
| RDT&E | research, development, test, and evaluation |
| SARS | severe acute respiratory syndrome |
| SOP | standard operating procedure |
| STP | segmenting, targeting, positioning |
| TBI | traumatic brain injury |
| TCCC | Tactical Combat Casualty Care |
| TRUST | Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technologies |
| USAISR | U.S. Army Institute for Surgical Research |
| USAMRDC | U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command |
| USAMRIID | U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases |
| USAMRMC | U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command |
| WRAIR | Walter Reed Army Institute of Research |