[ed.: Following are acronyms that appear in the text of Cleveland Hopkins’ private and work journals from his work with MIT’s Lincoln Lab, the Army and Air Force, the FAA, and other governmental and private sector military industrial organizations. I’ve provided definitions as far as I could determine from research, any corrections are welcome!]
(this page is constantly being updated)
-16 – FPS-16 (ground-based monopulse single object tracking radar (SOTR))
A – Capital “A” in circle in the original text designated the US Army
AAC – Alaskan Air Command (US Air Force)
a/c – aircraft
ACSI – Department of the Army, Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence (US Army)
ACSI-matic – ACSI-MATIC is an acronym for a proposed information storage and retrieval system which was to be designed and implemented by RCA for the Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence (US Army)
ADP Department – Automated Data Processing Department (US Army)
Aeronutronic – Aeronutronic Corporation
Aerospace – The Aerospace Corporation
AFBMD – Air Force Ballistic Missile Division
AFOOA – Air Force Office of Operations Analysis
AFSC – Air Force Systems Command
AJ – anti-jamming
ALCOM – Alaskan Command (US Air Force)
AMC – Air Material Command
AMM – Anti-missile missile
ARDC – Air Research and Development Command (US Air Force)
ARI – Armour Research Institute, Chicago, IL
ARPA – Advanced Research Projects Agency (Pentagon)
ARPAT – ARPA Terminal (ARPA studied defense systems to destroy ballistic missile in their terminal flight phase under the ARPAT program run by Raytheon.)
ARTOC – Army Tactical Operations Control (US Army)
Ascension – Ascension Island, location of Wideawake Airfield (US Air Force & RAF)
ATC – Air Traffic Control
BBN – Bolt, Beranek and Newman implemented Arpanet in 1966
Bendix – Bendix (Electrodynamics) Corporation
BMD – Ballistic Missile Division (US Air Force)
Brookwoods – Camp Brookwoods for Boys, Alton, New Hampshire
BSA – Boy Scouts of America
BSD – Ballistic Systems Division, Hq. at Norton AFB in San Bernadino, California
BSY – Ballistic Missile Re-entry Systems, Air Force Systems Command, at Norton AFB in San Bernadino, California
BTL – Bell Telephone Laboratories
C&GSC – Command and General Staff College (US Army)
CAA – Civil_Aeronautics_Authority
CCIS – Command and Control Information System
C2D2 – Command and Control Development Division (US Air Force)
CIA – Central Intelligence Agency
CONARC – Continental Army Command (US Army)
CORG – Combat Operations Research Group (US Army)
CORG (TechOps) – Combat Operations Research Group, Technical Operations (US Army)
DEC – Digital Equipment Corporation
Division 2 – (of MIT’s Lincoln Lab Research facility) Aircraft Control and Warning
EADF –
EAFB – Edwards Air Force Base
EAFB – Elemendorf Air Force Base, Anchorage, Alaska
ECM – Electronic Counter-Measures
EJCC – Eastern Joint Computer Conference
EK Co. – Eastman Kodak Company
ESD – Electronic Systems Division of the Air Force Systems Command
FAA – Federal Aviation Authority
FAA/BRD – FAA Bureau of Research and Development
FADSOC –
FATOC – Field Army Tactical Operation Center (US Army)
FIL – Franklin Institute Laboratories
Ft. Harrison – Fort Benjamin Harrison Army Base, Lawrence, Illinois
Ft. Huachuca – Fort Huachuca Army Base, Cochise County, Arizona
Ft. Leavenworth – Fort Leavenworth Army Base, Leavenworth, Kansas
Ft. Sill – Fort Sill Army Base, Lawton, Oklahoma
GE – General Electric Corporation (Missile and Space Vehicle Department)
GSA – Girl Scouts of America
IAWR – Institute for Air Weapons Research
ICBM – intercontinental ballistic missile
ICSAL –
IDA – Institute for Defense Analysis
IRE/PGEM – Institute of Radio Engineers/Professional Group on Engineering Management
KREMS – The Kiernan Reentry Measurements System (KREMS),located on Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific, is the United States’ most sophisticated and important R&D radar site.
L2 – Lincoln Laboratory (MIT)
MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Litton – Litton Industries
MITRE – Mitre Corporation
MOBIDIC – MOBIle DIgital Computer from Sylvania Electric Products, Inc.
MOMAR – MOdern Mobile ARmy
MRBM – Medium-Range Ballistic Missiles (USSR deployed during Cuban missile crisis)
NAFEC – National Aviation Facilities Experimental Center
NBS – National Bureau of Standards
NORAD – North American Aerospace Defense Command (US Air Force)
Norton AFB – Norton Air Force Base, SAGE center, HQ of the Western Air Defense Force
NRL – Naval Research Laboratory (US Navy)
NSA – National Security Agency
NYT – New York Times
OA – Operations Analysis
OCG –
OED –
OTP – Office of Telecommunications Policy (White House)
PAFB – Patrick Air Force Base, Florida
PSC / Park Street – Park Street Church
PRESS – Project PRESS (Pacific Range Electromagnetic Signature (Systems?) Studies), the major field measurement element of ARPA’s research on ICBMs’ reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere.
RADC – Rome Air Development Center (US Air Force)
RADLAB – Radiation Laboratory (MIT)
RAND – Rand Corporation
Raytheon – Raytheon Corporation
RCA Princeton – Radio Corporation of America Princeton (New Jersey) Research & Development Facility
RW/CSC – Radiological Warfare / Community Support Center
SA – Systems Analysis
SAC – Strategic Air Command (US Air Force)
SAGE – Semi Automatic Ground Environment
SDC – System Development Corporation – Associated with RAND Corporation, and with a branch at the Lincoln Laboratory.
SDS Paramus – Strategic Defense System (US Army) in Paramus, New Jersey
Site 12 – (possibly: Atlas F missile site near Mooers, New York operated out of Plattsburgh AFB, Plattsburgh, New York; or Atlas F Missile site near Brainerd, Nebraska operated out of Lincoln AFB, Lincoln, Nebraska)
SMSA – Strategic Missile Support Area (at White Sands Missile Range)
Sperry – Sperry Corporation
Sperry Gyroscope – A subsidiary of Sperry Corporation
SS – Sunday School (at Park Street Church in downtown Boston on the Boston Common)
StroboConn – an analog tuning device.
STV – Supersonic Test Vehicle or Special Test Vehicle (missile system used for testing trajectory control in ICBMs)
Sylvania – Sylvania Electric Products, Inc.
(Hq)TAC – (Headquarters) Tactical Air Command
TAC OA – Tactical Air Command Operations Analysis Division
TI – Texas Instruments, Inc.
TOC Concept – Theory of Constraints concept
TRADEX – TRAcking and DEtection eXperiment L-band and ultrahigh frequency (UHF) radar (or Target Resolution And Discrimination EXperiment)
TRAP III – modified GRC-121D (Constellation) used to measure radiation from the reentry of high speed bodies into the earth’s atmosphere – had three small radomes installed on top of fuselage. Nicknamed “Triple Nipple”, assigned s/n: 56-6956.
TRWR – Thompson Ramo Wooldridge (Research) Inc.
TS – Top Secret
TTR – target tracking radar
USAEPG – United States Army Electronics Proving Ground, Fort Huachuca, Arizona
VC –
VAFB – Vandenburg Air Force Base
WSEG – Weapons System Evaluation Group
WS(N)MR – White Sands (National) Missile Range, New Mexico