LIST OF ACRONYMS

ADL Architectural Description Language
AI Artificial Intelligence
ARL Army Research Laboratory
AUV Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
BG Behavior Generation
C3 Command, Control, and Communications
C4ISR Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance
CCD Charge Coupled Device
Df. Definition
EX Executor
FCS Future Combat Systems
FLIR Forward Looking Infrared Imaging
GPS Global Positioning System
HQ Headquarters
HMMWV High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle
h hour
IFF Identification Friend-or-Foe
ISD NIST Intelligent Systems Division
IPT Integrated Product Team
JA Job assignor
JAUS Joint Architecture for Unmanned Systems
JAUGS Joint Architecture for Unmanned Ground Systems
JTA Joint Technical Architecture
JTA-A Joint Technical Architecture - Army
KD Knowledge Database
kN kilonewton
LADAR Laser Radar
m meter
ms millisecond
min minute
NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology
OE Operating Environment
OI Operator Interface
OSD the Office of the Secretary of Defense
PL Planner
RCS Real-time Control System
RSTA Reconnaissance, Surveillance, and Target Acquisition
s second
SC Scheduler
SP Sensory Processing
TACOM U.S. Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command
TARDEC Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center
TRM Technical Reference Model
UML Unified Modeling Language
UARV Unmanned Armed Reconnaissance Vehicle
UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
UGS Unattended Ground Sensors
UGV Unmanned Ground Vehicle
UVA Unmanned Vehicle Architecture
VRA Vehicle Electronics (Vetronics) Reference Architecture
VJ Value judgement
WM world modeling
WSTAWG Weapon System Technical Architecture Working Group
XUV eXperimental Unmanned Vehicles

 

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