Acronyms
ABM — anti-ballistic missile
AFSPC — Air Force Space Command
ANGELS — Autonomous Nanosatellite Guardian for Evaluating Local Space
APS — American Physical Society
ASAT — anti-satellite weapon
BMDS — Ballistic Missile Defense System
CAV — Common Aero Vehicle
CBO — Congressional Budget Office CD Conference on Disarmament
CoC — [Hague] Code of Conduct
COPUOS — United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space
DARPA — Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DART — Demonstration of Autonomous Rendezvous
DOD — Department of Defense
DSP — Defense Support Program
EELV Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle
FALCON — Force Application and Launch from Continental United States
FIA — Future Imagery Architecture
FMCT — fissile material cutoff treaty
GAO — Government Accountability Office
GEO geostationary orbit
GEOSS — Global Earth Observation System of Systems
GLONASS — Global’naya Navigatsionnaya Sputnikovaya Sistema [Global Navigation Satellite System]
GPS — Global Positioning System
HCV — hypersonic cruise vehicle
Intelsat — International Telecommunications Satellite Organization
ISR — intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance
ISS — International Space Station
ITAR — International Traffic in Arms Regulations
JDEC — Joint Data Exchange Center
JCS — Joint Chiefs of Staff
KE ASAT — kinetic energy anti-satellite weapon
LEO — low earth orbit
LOAC — Law of Armed Conflict
LTBT — Limited Test Ban Treaty (1963)
MDA — Missile Defense Agency
MEO — medium earth orbit
MHV — Miniature Homing Vehicle
MILSTAR — Military Strategic and Tactical Relay [Satellite]
NASA — National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NATO — North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NFIRE — Near Field Infrared Experiment
NGA — National Geospatial Intelligence Agency
NRO — National Reconnaissance Office
NSC — National Security Council
NTM — national technical means (of verification)
NSSP — National Security Space Project
ORS — Operationally Responsive Space(lift)
OST — Outer Space Treaty (1967)
PAROS — prevention of an arms race in outer space
PPS — Precision Positioning Service
SA — selective ability
SAR — synthetic aperture radar
SBIRS — Space-Based Infrared System
SDI — Strategic Defense Initiative
SIA — Satellite Industry Association
SPACECOM — United States Space Command
SPOT — Satellite Pour l’Observation de la Terre (Earth Observation Satellite)
SPS — Standard Positioning Service
SROE — United States Armed Forces Standing Rules of Engagement
STRATCOM — United States Strategic Command
TOA — total obligation authority
TSAT — Transformational Satellite Communications System
UN — United Nations
UNIDROIT — United Nations Institute for the Unification of Private Law
vMFP — virtual Major Force Program
WMD — weapons of mass destruction
XSS — Experimental Satellite System