2024 Assessment of the DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory (2025)
Chapter: Appendix E: Acronyms and Abbreviations
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Suggested Citation:
"Appendix E: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. 2024 Assessment of the DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/28878.
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Acronyms and Abbreviations
| ACerS | American Ceramic Society |
| ACM | Association for Computing Machinery |
| AFRL | Air Force Research Laboratory |
| AI | artificial intelligence |
| AIM | American Institute for Manufacturing |
| ALD | atomic layer deposition |
| AMA1 | apical membrane antigen 1 |
| AMP | Atomic and Molecular Physics |
| ARD | Army Research Directorate |
| ARL | Army Research Laboratory |
| ARLTAB | Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board |
| ARO | Army Research Office |
| ATMT | Agrobacterium tumefaciens-Mediated Transformation |
| BBS | Biological and Biotechnology Sciences |
| BSL | Biosafety Level |
| C2D2 | camouflage, concealment, decoy, and deception |
| CAD | computer-aided design |
| CANbus | controller area network bus |
| CDAO | Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office |
| CHARMME | Center for Harnessing Microbiota from Military Environments |
| CLEO | Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics |
| CMOS | complementary metal-oxide semiconductor |
| COTS | commercial off-the-shelf |
| CRA | Computing Research Association |
| CRISPR | clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats technology |
| CSOI | compound semiconductor on insulator |
| CUI | controlled unclassified information |
| CW-OMDR | continuous-wave optically detected magnetic resonance |
| DAC | Design Automation Conference |
| DARPA | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency |
| DATE | Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference |
| DC-QNet | Washington Metropolitan Quantum Network Research Consortium |
| DEVCOM | U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command |
| DHN | dihydroxynaphthalene |
| DHS | Department of Homeland Security |
| DMREF | Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future |
| DNA | deoxyribonucleic acid |
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix E: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. 2024 Assessment of the DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/28878.
| DoD | Department of Defense |
| DOE | Department of Energy |
| DOPA | 3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine |
| DS&T | Directorate of Science and Technology in the Central Intelligence Agency |
| ECS | Embedded Computing Systems |
| EMSS | Electromagnetic Spectrum Sciences |
| EW | electronic warfare |
| FeFET | ferroelectric field-effect transistor |
| FFRDC | federally funded research and development center |
| FSO | free-space optical |
| GAN | generative adversarial network |
| GAPDH | glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase |
| GenAI | generative AI |
| GFP | green fluorescent protein |
| GHZ | Greenberger–Horne–Zeillinger |
| GNN | Graph Neural network |
| GRC | Gordon Research Conference |
| HCxS | Humans in Complex Systems |
| HPC | high-performance computing |
| hph | hygromycin B phosphotransferase |
| HZO | hafnium zirconium oxide |
| IC | integrated circuit |
| ICCV | International Conference on Computer Vision |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| INFOCOM | International Conference on Computer Communications |
| ISME | International Symposium on Microbial Ecology |
| ITO | indium tin oxide |
| LLM | large language model |
| LPD | low probability of detection |
| ML | machine learning |
| MPLC | Multi-Plane Light Conversion |
| MRS | Materials Research Society |
| MS&T | Materials Science and Technology |
| MURI | Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| NC&CS | Network, Cyber, and Computational Sciences |
| NIH | National Institutes of Health |
| NIST | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| NNSA | National Nuclear Security Administration |
| NSA | National Security Agency |
| NSF | National Science Foundation |
| NVM | non-volatile memories |
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix E: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. 2024 Assessment of the DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/28878.
| ONR | Office of Naval Research |
| PASTA | Portable Automotive Security Testbed with Adaptability |
| PASTE | Programmable Addition via Site-specific Targeting Elements |
| PE&QS | Photonics, Electronics, and Quantum Sciences |
| PET | polyethylene terephthalate |
| PIC | photonic integrated circuit |
| PNT | positioning, navigation, and timing |
| PreMaDe | Predictive Materials Design |
| PRF | performance specification |
| PSQ | priority scientific question |
| QIS | Quantum Information Science |
| R&D | research and development |
| RAMITE | Resource Adaptive Multidomain intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance |
| RBD | Research Business Directorate |
| RF | radio frequency |
| RL | reinforcement learning |
| RNA | ribonucleic acid |
| RNP | ribonucleoprotein |
| SAMPE | Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering |
| SEM | Sciences of Extreme Materials |
| SiC | silicon carbide |
| SIGCOMM | Special Interest Group on Data Communications conference |
| STO | Strategic Technology Office |
| SWaP | size, weight, and power |
| TE | Terminal Effects |
| TiO2 | titanium dioxide |
| TMS | The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society |
| Tn-seq | transposon sequencing |
| UQ | uncertainty quantification |
| V&V | verification and validation |
| WS | Weapons Sciences |
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