FA -- Field Artillery FA -- Frontal Aviation (Soviet) FAA -- Federal Aviation Adminstration FAA -- Fleet Air Arm (British) FAAD C2I -- Forward Area Air Defense Command, Control & Intelligence FAAD -- FORWARD-AREA AIR DEFENSE FAADS C2I -- FORWARD AREA AIR DEFENSE COMMAND, CONTROL AND INTELLIGENCE FAAR -- Forward Area Alerting Radar system FAASV -- Field Artillery Ammunition Support Vehicle FAC -- Fast Attack Craft FAC -- Forward Air Controll FAC -- Forward Air Controller FACS -- Fleet Area Control and Surveillance Facility FAD -- Forward Area Defense FAE -- Fuel-Air Explosive FAIR -- Fleet Air (USN) FAR -- Federal Acquisition Service FAR -- Federal Aviation Regulations FARP -- Forward Arming & Refueling Point FARV -- - Future Armored Resupply Vehicle FAS -- Federation of American Scientists FASA -- - Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act FBM -- Fleet Ballistic Missile (now SLBM) FBW -- Fly-By-Wire FC -- Fire Control FCC -- Fleet Command Center (USN) FCRC -- Federal Contract Research center FCS -- Fire Control System FDC -- Fire Direction Center (ashore) FDS -- Fixed Distributed System FEBA -- Forward Edge of Battle Area FEMA -- Federal Emergency Management Agency FF -- Frigate FFAR -- Folding-Fin Aircraft Rocket FFG -- Frigate, Guided Missile FIELD ARTILLERY FIELD EXERCISE FIELD OF FIRE FIGHTER COVER FIMA -- Future International Military Airlifter FINAL APPROACH FINISHED INTELLIGENCE FIRE CONTROL FIRE CONTROL RADAR FIRE CONTROL SYSTEM FIRE FOR EFFECT FISINT -- Foreign Instrumentation and Signals Intelligence (FISINT) -- FOREIGN INSTRUMENTATION SIGNALS INTELLIGENCE FIXED AMMUNITION FIXED PRICE INCENTIVE CONTRACT FIXED PRICE TYPE CONTRACT fl -- full load FLA -- Future Large Aircraft FLAG OFFICER FLAGE -- Flexible Lightweight Agile Guided Experiment FLASH MESSAGE Fld -- Field (USA) FLEET FLEXIBLE RESPONSE FLIR -- Forward Looking Infarared Radar FLIR -- Forward-Looking Infrared flo/flo -- flow-on/flow-off FLOT -- Forward Line of Own Troops FLTSATCOM -- Fleet Satellite Communication FMC -- Fully Mission Capable FMF -- Fleet Marine Force (USMC) FMOP -- Frequency Modulation on Pulse FMS -- FOREIGN MILITARY SALES FMS -- Foreign Military Sales/Field Maintenance Sq (USAF) FMSCR -- Foreign Military Sales Credit FMSS -- Foreign Military Sales Financing FMTV -- Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles FN -- French Navy FO -- Forward Observer FOC -- Full Operational Capability FOFA -- Follow-On Forces Attack (USAF) FOG-m -- Fiber-Optics guidance Missile FOL -- Forward Opereating Location FON -- Freedom Of Navigation For -- force (suffix) FORTE -- Fast On-orbit Recording of Transit Events FPC -- Fast Patrol Craft frag -- fragmentation FRAM -- Fleet Rehabilitation And Modernization FRD -- Formerly Restricted Data (security classification) Freq. -- Frequency FRG -- Federal Republic of Germany FROG -- Free Rocket Over Gound (Soviet) FRONT FS -- Fire Support (USA) FSAT -- Full-Scale Aerial Target FSD -- Full Scale Development FSED -- Full Scale Engineering Development FSK -- Frequency Shift Keying FSS -- Fast Sealift Ships (USN) FSW -- Forward-Swept Wing Ftr -- Fighter FTS -- Full-Time Support FUSION Fwd -- Forward FY -- FISCAL YEAR FY -- Fiscal Year FYDP -- Five-Year Defense Plan
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G.M. -- General Motors Corp G1 -- General Staff officer for personnel G2 -- General Staff officer for intelligence G3 -- General Staff officer for operations G4 -- General Staff officer for supply/logistics GAO -- General Accounting Office GARBLE GATERS -- Ground-Air Telerobotic Systems (USMC) GBCS -- Ground Based Common Sensor GCA -- Ground Controlled Approach GCI -- Ground Controlled Intercept GD -- General Dynamics Corporation GDIP -- General Defense Intelligence Plan GDODSS -- Ground-Based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance System GE -- General Electric Company GENERAL ORDERS GENERAL WAR GENSER -- General Service (communications system) GEOSAT -- Geodesy Satellite GFCS -- Gun Fire Control System GFE -- Government Furnished Equipment GI -- Government Issue (slang for US soldier) GIN -- Greenland-Iceland-Norway (gap) GIUK -- Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdown (gap) GKO -- State Committee of Defense (Soviet) GLBM -- Ground-Launched Ballistic Missile GLCM -- Ground-Launched Cruise Missile GLONASS -- Global Navigation Satellite System (Soviet) GM -- Guided Missile (British) GOC -- General Officer Commanding (British) GP -- Gereral Purpose GP -- Guided Projectile GPS -- Global Positioning System (satellite) GQ -- General Quarters GRAY HULL GRP -- Glass Reinforced Plastic GRT -- Gross Registered Tons GRU -- Directorate of Military Intelligence (Soviet) Gru -- Group GS -- General Schedule (civil service) GS -- General Staff GSA -- General Services Administration GSFG -- Group of Soviet Forces, Germany GSM -- Ground Station Module GSR -- Ground Surveillance Radar GTVD -- GLAVNIY TEATR VOYENNYKH DEYSTVIY GUARDS -- GUARDS UNITS GUPPY -- Greater Underwater Propulsive Power GWEN -- Ground Wave Emergency Network GWS -- Guided Weapon System
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