| AED | Ammunition Equipment Directorate |
| AMCOM | Aviation and Missile Command |
| ANAD | Anniston Army Depot |
| ANMC | Anniston Munitions Center |
| AoA | analysis of alternatives |
| AP | ammonium perchlorate |
| APCS | air pollution control system |
| APE | ammunition peculiar equipment |
| ARMD | Ammonium Perchlorate Rocket Motor Destruction facility |
| BEDS | Bulk Energetics Disposal System |
| BGAD | Blue Grass Army Depot |
| BGCAPP | Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant |
| CAA | Clean Air Act |
| CAAA | Crane Army Ammunition Activity |
| CAD | cartridge actuated device |
| CB | contained burning |
| CBI | Clean Burning Igniter |
| CD | contained detonation |
| CDC | Controlled Detonation Chamber |
| CDT | contained disposal technology |
| CFR | Code of Federal Regulations |
| COCO | contractor owned, contractor operated |
| CWM | chemical warfare material |
| CWP | Contaminated Waste Processor |
| DAVINCH | Detonation of Ammunition in a Vacuum Integrated Chamber |
| DDESB | Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board |
| DoD | Department of Defense |
| DODIC | Department of Defense Identification Code |
| DOE | Department of Energy |
| DU | depleted uranium |
| EDS | Explosive Destruction System |
| E-ILS | Enterprise Integrated Logistics Strategy |
| EPA | Environmental Protection Agency |
| EWI | Explosive Waste Incinerator |
| FDA | Food and Drug Administration |
| FMEA | failure modes and effects analysis |
| FTE | full-time equivalent |
| GAO | Government Accountability Office |
| GOCO | government owned, contractor operated |
| GOGO | government owned, government operated |
| HC | hexachloroethane |
| HE | high-explosive |
| HEAT | high-explosive anti-tank |
| HHERA | Human Health and Ecological Risk Assessment |
| HWAD | Hawthorne Army Depot |
| ID | induced draft |
| iSCWO | industrial supercritical water oxidation |
| JMC | Joint Munitions Command |
| LCC | life cycle cost |
| LEAD | Letterkenny Army Depot |
| LEMC | Letterkenny Munitions Center |
| LMP | Logistics Modernization Program |
| MACT | maximum achievable control technology |
| MCAAP | McAlester Army Ammunition Plant |
| MIDAS | Munitions Items Disposition Action System |
| MLRS | Multiple Launch Rocket System |
| MMR | Military Munitions Rule |