| AFRL | Air Force Research Laboratory |
| AFSB | Air Force Studies Board |
| AFWIC | Air Force Warfighting Integration Capability |
| AI | artificial intelligence |
| ASIC | application-specific integrated circuit |
| AVL | Adelson-Velsky and Landis |
| AWS | Amazon Web Services |
| C2 | command and control |
| CONUS | continental United States |
| COVID-19 | SARS-CoV-2 |
| CPU | central processing unit |
| CReW | Center for Research in Wind |
| C-SWAP HPC | cost, size, weight, and power high-power computing |
| DARPA | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency |
| DARPA STO | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Strategic Technology Office |
| DEEPR | Decomposition for Energy Assurance and Electrical Power Resilience |
| DER | Distributed Energy Resource(s) |
| DHS | Department of Homeland Security |
| DoD | Department of Defense |
| DOE | Department of Energy |
| DOI | digital object identifier |
| DSB | Defense Science Board |
| ENIAC | electronic numerical integrator computer |
| ESPC | Energy Savings Performance Contract |
| ESTCP | Environmental Security Technology Certification Program |
| FPGA | field-programmable gate array |
| GPU | graphics processing unit |
| HPC | high-power computing |
| HPEC | high-performance embedded computing |
| HVAC | heating, ventilation, and air conditioning |
| IC | intelligence community |
| ICS | industrial control system |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| IoT | Internet of Things |
| IT | information technology |
| JADC2 | Joint All-Domain Command and Control |
| JADO | Joint All-Domain Operations |
| JSOC | Joint Special Operations Command |
| JTS-CND | Joint Task Force on Computer Network Defense |
| LLNL | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| LNG | liquefied natural gas |
| MET | mission-essential task |
| MIoT | Military Internet of Things |
| ML | machine learning |
| MUO | Make Use Of |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| NERC | North American Electric Reliability Corporation |
| NIST | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| NPU | neural processing unit |
| NSCAI | National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence |
| OCONUS | outside the continental United States |
| PC | personal computer |
| PNNL | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| R&D | research and development |
| RAM | random access memory |
| RF | radio frequency |
| RISC | Reduced Instruction Set Computer |
| S&T | science and technology |
| SAF/AQR | Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Science, Technology, and Engineering |
| SAF/IEE | Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Environment, Safety, and Infrastructure |
| SERDP | Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program |
| SOCOM | Special Operations Command |
| SWaP | size, weight, and power |
| TOPS | tera-operations per second |
| TPU | tensor processing unit |
| UAV | unmanned aerial vehicle |
| UESC | Utility Energy Service Contract |
| USAF | U.S. Air Force |
| US-CERT | U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team |
| V2G | vehicle-to-grid |
| VLSI | very-large-scale integration |
| VPR | Vulnerability Priority Rating |
| VPU | vision processing unit |