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EELV Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle
ELV Expendable Launch Vehicle
FLTSATCOM Fleet Satellite Communications
FIA Future Imagery Architecture
GEO Geosynchronous Orbit
GBS Global Broadcasting System
GDIN Global Defense Information Network
GPS Global Positioning System
GAO Government Accounting Office
GBI Ground-Based Interceptor
GBR Ground-Based Radar
HSI Hyper-Spectral Imagery
ISR Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
ICBM Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
IRBM Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile
ISS International Space Station
JPL Jet Propulsion Lab
JCS Joint Chiefs of Staff
KEAsat Kinetic Energy Antisatellite
LEO Low Earth Orbit
LO Low Observable
MOL Manned Orbital Lab
MEADS Medium Extended Air Defense System
MTCR Missile Technology Control Regime
MTI Moving Target Indicator
MIRV Multiple Independently Retargetable Vehicle
MAD Mutually Assured Destruction
NACA National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics
NASA National Aeronautical and Space Administration
NASP National Aerospace Plane
NIMA National Imagery and Mapping Agency
NMD National Missile Defense
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NPOESS National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental
Satellite System
NRO National Reconnaissance Office
NTW Navy Theater-Wide Defense
NEO Near Earth Object
NBC Nuclear, Biological and Chemical
OSD Office of the Secretary of Defense
PAC-3 Patriot Advanced Capabilities-3
PRC People's Republic of China
QDR Quadrennial Defense Review
R&D Research and Development
RLV Reusable Launch Vehicle

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Publication Information: Book Title: Seeking New World Vistas: The Militarization of Space. Contributors: Roger Handberg - author. Publisher: Praeger Publishers. Place of Publication: Westport, CT. Publication Year: 2000. Page Number: x.
    
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