| NMD | National Missile Defense |
| TMD | Theater Missile Defense Regionale Raketenabwehr |
| BMD | Ballistic Missile Defense [engl.] Raketenabwehrsystem |
| bmdo | Ballistic Missile Defense Organization [engl.] ab 1993 Nachfolgeorganisation der SDIO, im Pentagon für das bürokratische Leitung der Raketenabwehr zuständig |
| NDEA | National Defense Education Act |
| GM | Guided Missile |
| AAM | Air-to-Air Missile [engl.] Luft-Luft-Rakete |
| MX | Missile Experimental |
| SAM | Surface-to-Air Missile |
| ASM | Air-to-Surface Missile [engl.] Luft-Boden-Rakete |
| ARM | Antiradar Missile [engl.] mit Radar nicht erkennbare Rakete |
| B.M. | Ballistic Missile [engl.] Balistische Rakete |
| AUM | Air-to-Underwater Missile [engl.] |
| ICBM | Intercontinental Ballistic Missile vgl. http://www.peterhall.de/lexikon/icbm/icbm41.html |
| AGM | Air-to-Ground Missile [engl.] Luft-Boden-Rakete |
| MTB | Missile Torpedo Boat |
| LRBM | Long Range Ballistic Missile |
| BGM | Ballistic Guided Missile [engl.] Balistische Lenkrakete |
| IRBM | Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile |
| BMDS | Ballistic Missile Defence System |
| bmo | Ballistic Missile Office [engl.] |
| SMTS | Space and Missile Tracking System Frühwarnsatellitensystem zur Lokalisierung von Flugkörpern |
| WSMR | White Sands Missile Range |
| ALBM | Air-to-Land Ballistic Missile [engl.] |
| WSMC | Western Space & Missile Center |
| ALCM | Air Launched Cruise Missile [engl.] Von Militärflugzeugen einsetzbarer Marschflugkörper |
| ABM | Anti Ballistic Missile [engl.] Bodengestütztes Abwehrsystem |
| SLBM | Sea (Submarine) Launched Ballistic Missile See- bzw. U-Boot gestützte ballistisches Raketensystem |
| ALBM | Air Launched Ballistic Missile [engl.] |
| SRBM | Short-Range Ballistic Missile Kurzstreckenrakete |
| cd | Civil Defense |
| DoD | US Department Of Defense Washington, D.C., http://www.defenselink.mil |
| ADA | Air Defense Artillery |
| ASDF | Air Self Defense Force [engl.] Luftverteidigungskräfte |
| DSN | Defense Switched Network |
| DCA | Defense Communications Agency |
| DFCE | Defense Control Element |
| DLA | Defense Logistics Agency |
| NADEFCOL | NATO Defense College |
| TVD | Total Virus Defense |
| OSD | Office of the Secretary of Defense |
| DDN | Defense Data Network, USA |
| TOW | Tube Launched Optically Tracked Wire Guided Missile rohrgestartete, optisch verfolgte, drahtgelenkte Rakete |
| DMSP | Defense Meteorological Satellite Program |
| DGSC | Defense General Supply Center |
| DISN | Defense Information Systems Network |
| DISA | Defense Information System Agency |
| DIDS | Defense Integrated Data System |
| DCTN | Defense Commercial Telecommunications Network |
| NRDC | Natural Resource Defense Council |