| CNO | Chief of Naval Operations |
| v. v. | vice versa [lat.] umgekehrt |
| SVP | Senior Vice President |
| AVM | Air Vice Marshal [engl.] |
| NRL | Naval Research Labs |
| COO | Chief Operating Officer |
| CPO | Chief Post Office |
| CWO | Chief Warrant Officer |
| DNL | Director of Naval Laboratories |
| ONI | Office of Naval Intelligence |
| CIO | Chief Information Officer |
| ONR | Office of Naval Research |
| CCS | Combined Chief of Staff [engl.] Personalchef |
| MCPO | Master Chief Petty Officer |
| NCIS | Naval Criminal Investigative Service |
| USNO | United States Naval Observatory Washington, DC, http://www.usno.navy.mil/ |
| BNC | British Naval Connector [engl.] |
| NOSC | Naval Ocean Systems Center |
| SPAWAR | Space And Naval Systems Command San Diego, http://enterprise.spawar.navy.mil |
| NSWC | Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren, http://www.nswc.navy.mil |
| CEO | Chief Executive Officer [engl.] Leitender Direktor eines Unternehmens |
| CFO | Chief Financial Officer [engl.] Finanzchef eines Unternehmens |
| CCO | Chief Communication Officer [engl.] Pressesprecher eines Unternehmens |
| NORC | Naval Ordnance Research Calculator |
| CTO | Chief Technical/Technology Officer/Offices |
| CAO | Chief Administrative OfficerChief Accounting Officer [engl.] VerwaltungschefChef-Buchhalter |
| OPS | Operations |
| MOPS | Million Operations Per Second |
| OPM | Operations Per Minute |
| NOC | Network Operations Center |
| OCC | Operations Control Center |
| MTOPS | Millions Theoretical Operations Per Second |
| MOG | Minicomputer Operations Group |
| MOM | Microsoft Operations Manager |
| MOG | Mobility Operations Group |
| MOP | Maintenance Operations Protocol [DEC] |
| MOG | Military Operations on the Ground |
| MOA | Military Operations Area |
| bop | Billion Operations [engl.] Rechnerleistung: 1 Milliarde Rechenoperationen [pro Sekunde] |
| EOC | Embedded Operations Channel |
| BOPS | Billion Operations per Second [engl.] Rechnerleistung: Milliarden Operationen pro Sekunden |
| BOG | BIND Operations Guide |
| ROPS | Remote Operations Service |
| FLOPS | Floating Point Operations per Second |
| ROSE | Remote Operations Service Element |
| RNOC | Regional Network Operations Center |
| ONAC | Operations Network Administration Center |
| WWFO | World Wide Field Operations |
| NOCS | Network Operations Center System |
| AOCS | Air Operations Control Station [engl.] Luftraumüberwachungsstelle |