Assessment of the Physical Sciences Directorate at the Army Research Office (2020)
Chapter: Appendix B: Acronyms
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"Appendix B: Acronyms." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. Assessment of the Physical Sciences Directorate at the Army Research Office. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/25830.
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Acronyms
| 2D | two-dimensional |
| AFC | Army Futures Command |
| AMP | Atomic and Molecular Physics |
| ARL | Army Research Laboratory |
| ARLTAB | Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board |
| ARO | Army Research Office |
| BRAIN | Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies |
| CCDC | Combat Capabilities Development Command |
| CMP | Condensed Matter Physics |
| CRISPR | clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats |
| DARPA | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency |
| DoD | Department of Defense |
| DOE | Department of Energy |
| DURIP | Defense University Research Instrumentation |
| ENZ | epsilon near zero |
| fMRI | functional magnetic resonance imaging |
| FY | fiscal year |
| GPS | global positioning system |
| JILA | Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics |
| LAB | Laboratory Assessments Board |
| MTO | Microsystems Technology Office |
| MURI | Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative |
| NIH | National Institutes of Health |
| NISQ | noisy intermediate-scale quantum |
| NRL | Naval Research Laboratory |
| NSF | National Science Foundation |
| PI | principal investigator |
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix B: Acronyms." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. Assessment of the Physical Sciences Directorate at the Army Research Office. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/25830.
| PM | program manager |
| PNT | position, navigation, and timing |
| PSD | Physical Sciences Directorate |
| PVE | poly(vinyl ether) |
| R&D | research and development |
| RRC | Report Review Committee |
| SBIR | Small Business Innovation Research |
| SI | single investigator |
| STIR | Short-Term Innovative Research |
| STTR | Small Business Technology Transfer |
| SUSY | supersymmetric |
| tBLG | twisted bilayer graphene |
| YIP | Young Investigator Program |
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