| AAD |
Area Air Defence |
| AAW |
Anti Air Warfare |
| ALSC |
Afloat Logistics and Sealift Capability |
| ALSS |
Advanced Logistic Support Site |
| ADF |
Australian Defence Force |
| AEW |
Airborne Early Warning |
| AIP |
Air Independent Propulsion |
| AOR |
Auxiliary Oiler Replenishment Vessel |
| ASW |
Anti Submarine Warfare |
| ASuW |
Anti Surface Warfare |
| C2 |
Command, Control |
| C4ISR |
Command, Control, Communications, Computers,
Intelligence Reconnaissance and Surveillance |
| CADRE |
Command and Control, Air Defence Replacement
|
| CANUS |
Canada-United States |
| CAS |
Chief of the Air Staff |
| CATG |
Canadian Task Group |
| CBM |
Confidence Building Measures |
| CDS |
Chief of the Defence Staff |
| CF |
Canadian Forces |
| CFSU |
Canadian Forces Support Unit |
| CIMIC |
Civil - Military Cooperation |
| CJTL |
Canadian Joint Task List |
| CLS |
Chief of the Land Staff |
| CMS |
Chief of the Maritime Staff |
| COE |
Concept of Employment |
| DCDS |
Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff |
| DD/DDE |
Destroyer / Destroyer Escort |
| DDA |
Director Defence Analysis |
| DDG |
Guided Missile Destroyer |
| DDH |
Helicopter Carrying Destroyer |
| DFAIT |
Department of Foreign Affairs and International
Trade |
| DFO |
Department of Fisheries and Oceans |
| DGSP |
Director General Strategic Planning |
| DM |
Deputy Minister |
| D Mar Strat |
Director(ate) of Maritime Strategy |
| DND |
Department of National Defence |
| DPG |
Defence Planning Guidance |
| ECS |
Environmental Chief of Staff |
| EEZ |
Exclusive Economic Zone |
| EMP |
Electro-magnetic Pulse |
| EW |
Electronic Warfare |
| FELEX |
Frigate Equipment Life Extension |
| FFH |
Helicopter Carrying Frigate |
| FLS |
Forward Logistics Site |
| FPS |
Force Planning Scenarios |
| GDP |
Gross Domestic Product |
| HFSW |
Radar High Frequency Surface Wave Radar |
| HMCS |
Her Majesty's Canadian Ship |
| HNS |
Host Nation Support |
| HQ |
Headquarters |
| HR |
Human Resources |
| ICBM |
Intercontinental Ballistic Missile |
| IO/IW |
Information Operations / Information Warfare |
| IRF |
Immediate Reaction Forces |
| JFHQ |
Joint Force Headquarters |
| JTF |
Joint Task Force |
| LTCP |
Long Term Capital Plan |
| MARCOM |
Maritime Command |
| MARLANT |
Maritime Forces Atlantic |
| MARPAC |
Maritime Forces Pacific |
| MCF |
Main Contingency Force |
| MCDV |
Maritime Coastal Defence Vessel |
| MCP |
Maritime Capability Plan |
| MCPG |
MARCOM Capability Planning Guidance |
| MENA |
Middle East and North Africa |
| MND |
Minister of National Defence |
| MPA |
Maritime Patrol Aircraft |
| NATO |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| NAVRES |
HQ Naval Reserve Headquarters |
| NBC |
Nuclear Biological Chemical |
| NDHQ |
National Defence Headquarters |
| NGO |
Non-governmental Organization |
| NMD |
National Missile Defence |
| NORAD |
North American Aerospace Defence |
| NRCAN |
Natural Resources Canada |
| O&M |
Operations and Maintenance |
| OGD |
Other Government Department |
| OPI |
Office of Primary Interest |
| OOTW |
Operations Other than War |
| PLAN |
People's Liberation Army Navy |
| QOL |
Quality of Life |
| RAN |
Royal Australian Navy |
| RCAF |
Royal Canadian Air Force |
| RCN |
Royal Canadian Navy |
| RCNR |
Royal Canadian Naval Reserve |
| RCNVR |
Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve |
| R&D |
Research and Development |
| RCMP |
Royal Mounted Canadian Police |
| RMA |
Revolution in Military Affairs |
| RN |
Royal Navy |
| RNZN |
Royal New Zealand Navy |
| S&T |
Science and Technology |
| SAR |
Search and Rescue |
| SCP |
Strategic Capabilities Plan |
| ONDVA |
Standing Committee on National Defence and
Veterans Affairs |
| SCSDF |
Strategic Defence Forum |
| SELEX |
Submarine Equipment Life Extension |
| SNFL |
Standing Naval Forces Atlantic (See also STANAVFORLANT) |
| SSBN |
Nuclear Powered Ballistic Missile Submarine
|
| SSGN |
Nuclear Powered Guided Missile Submarine |
| SSK |
Conventionally Powered Submarine |
| SSN |
Nuclear Powered Attack Submarine |
| STANAVFORLANT |
Standing Naval Forces Atlantic (See also SNFL) |
| STANAVFORMED |
Standing Naval Forces-Mediterranean |
| TG |
Task Group |
| TSSU |
Tactically Self-Sufficient Units |
| UK |
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland |
| UN |
United Nations |
| UNCLOS |
United Nations Convention on the Law of the
Sea |
| US |
United States of America |
| USN |
United States Navy |
| USSR |
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
| VCDS |
Vice Chief of the Defence Staff |
|
WMD
|
Weapons of Mass Destruction |
