Acronyms and Abbreviations
H
HA Humanitarian Assistance ( e.g., special operations )
HAARP High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program
HAB Heavy Assault Bridge
HABE High-Altitude Balloon Experiment
HACT Helicopter Active Control Technology
HAD Hole Accumulated Diode
HAE High Altitude Endurance ( e.g., HAE UAV ); Host Application Equipment
HAHO High Altitude-High Opening ( e.g., parachute jump )
HAIL HydroAcoustic Information Link ( Australia - a possible text-based replacement for the underwater telephone [2003] )
HAIPE High Assurance Internet Protocol Encryptor
HAIPIS High Assurance Internet Protocol Interoperability Specification
HAL Hardware Abstraction Layer
HALE High Altitude, Long Endurance ( Aircraft or UAV )
HALO Hostile Artillery
Locator; High Altitude Long Operations ( communications aircraft ); High-Altitude
Low-Opening
( e.g., parachute jump )
HALWR High-Accuracy Laser Warning Receiver
HANAA Handheld Advanced Nucleic Acid Analyzer ( e.g., to detect harmful biological agents )
HARD Helicopter and Airplane Radar Detection ( system )
HARE Hazard Avoidance Reconnaissance Extender ( unmanned ground vehicle )
HARM High Speed Anti-Radiation Missile
HARPVSS Homing Anti-radiation Remotely Piloted Vehicle Sensing System
HART Hornet Autonomous Real-time Targeting
HARTS Hardened Artillery Site
HAS Helicopter/Air/Surface
HAW Homing All the Way; Heavy Anti-armor Weapon
HAWK Homing All the Way Killer
HAZLOC Hazardous Location ( e.g., location with hazardous environment )
HB Hairy Buffalo ( an "Orion" NP-3 aircraft especially configured as an NCW test-bed )
HBM Human Behavior Modeling
HBMRS High-Band Multifunction Receive System
HBSS High-Band Subsystem ( ELINT )
HBT Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor
HC Hard Copy; Helicopter Combat ( e.g., HC squadron )
HCDE Human-Centered Design Environment
HCDR High Capacity Data Radio
HCI Human Computer Interaction; Human Computer Interface
HCLOS High-Capacity Line-Of-Sight ( Army radio )
HCM Hypersonic Cruise Missile
HCO Human Capital Objects ( e.g., work and workplace requirements for workers )
HCS Helicopter Combat System; Harbor and Coastal Security
HCTR High-Capacity Trunk Radio
HCV Hypersonic Cruise Vehicle ( able to deliver a 12,000 lb. strike payload within two hours from CONUS to any point on globe )
HD High Demand
HD/LD High Demand/Low Density ( e.g., assets )
HDAM HARM Destruction [of Enemy Air Defense] Attack Module; HARM DEAD Attack Module
HDBTDC Hard and/or Deeply Buried Target Defeat Capability ( program - circa 2001 )
HDD Head-Down Display; Hard-Disk Drive
HDESS High Density Signal Simulator ( Denmark )
HDIR High-Definition Infrared
HDL Hardware Description Language; Hardware Design Language
HDLC Light Level Data Link Control
HD/LD High Demand/Low Density ( e.g., assets )
HDMS High Density Memory System
HDPS High Density Power Supply
HDR High Data Rate; Hard-Disk Recorder
HDR LOS High Data Rate Line of Sight ( e.g., digital radio )
HDS Hardware Design System; High Definition System; Holographic Diffraction Sight
HDSL High-bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line
HDSS Holographic Data Storage System
HDTV High Definition Television
HDX Half Duplex
HE High Explosive; High Energy
HEAT High Explosive Anti-Tank ( shaped-charge warhead ); HMMWV Egress Assistance Trainer
HED High Energy Density; Hybrid Electric Drive ( e.g., for combat vehicles )
HEDI High Endo-atmospheric Defense Interceptor
HEDLight High Efficiency Distributed Lighting
HEDM High Energy Density Material
HEDS Human Exploration and Development of Space ( NASA )
HEED Helicopter Emergency Escape Device
HEETE Highly Efficient Embedded Turbine Engine ( program ca 2006 )
HELDT High-Energy Laser Technology Demonstration
HELLADS High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System ( DARPA program ca 2003 for a reduced cost and weight High Energy Laser weapon system; e.g., the goal is less than five kilograms per kilowatt, for use by tactical aircraft and unmanned air vehicles. )
HELLO High Energy Laser Light Opportunity ( SSDC Program )
HELO Helicopter
HELRASER Highly Expeditionary Long-Range Air-Surveillance Radar ( to replace the USMC TPS-59 in 2008 )
HELS High Energy Laser System
HELWEP High Energy Laser Weapon
HELWEPS High Energy Laser Weapon System ( also HELWS )
HELWS High Energy Laser Weapon System ( also HELWEPS )
HEMP High-altitude Electromagnetic Pulse
HEMT High Electron Mobility Transistor
HEMTT Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck ( an off-road vehicle )
HEND High-Energy Neutron Detector
HEO Highly Elliptical Orbit
HEP High Exploisive Plastic ( e.g., used in 165mm demolition projectiles )
HERA High Energy Research and Applications
HERCULES Heavy Equipment Recovery Combat Utility Lift and Evacuation System ( for hoisting, winching & towing disabled equipment )
HERETIC HEat REmoval by Thermo-Integrated Circuits
HERF High Energy Radio Frequency ( weapon ); Hazards of Electromagnetic RAdiation to Fuel
HERMiT Harsh Environment Robust Micromechanical Technology
HERO Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation to Ordnance
HERP Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation to Personnel
HERTI High Endurance Rapid Technology Insertion ( U.K. )
HET HUMINT Exploitation Team; Heavy Equipment Transporter
HEU Highly Enriched Uranium
HEWS Helicopter Electronic Warfare System; Helicopter Electronic Warfare Suite
HEWSPS Helicopter Electronic Warfare Self-Protection Suite
HF High Frequency (3 - 30 MHz); Hydrogen Fluoride ( laser )
HFAARS High Frequency Adaptive Antenna Receiving System
HFAJ High Frequency Anti-Jam
HFCVD Hot Filament Chemical Vapor Deposition ( used to deposit nanolayers of Teflon )
HFDF High Frequency Direction Finding ( see also HUFF-DUFF )
HF/DF Hydrogen Fluoride/Deuterium Fluoride ( laser ); High Frequency Direction Finding ( see also HUFF-DUFF )
HFDM High-Frequency Digital Modem
HFIP High-Frequency Internet Protocol
HFLRI High-Frequency Limited Range Intercept
HFMS High-Frequency Motion Simulator
HFO High-Frequency Oscillator
HFRG High-Frequency Radio Group ( e.g., HF Broadband system permitting reduction in quantity of HF antennas )
HFR High-Frequency Receive ( e.g., site )
HFSWR High-Frequency Surface-Wave Radar ( See HIFAR )
HFT High-Frequency Transmit ( e.g., site )
HFTA High-Frequency Towed Array
HGHS High-Gain ( antenna ) / High Sensitivity ( receiver )
HH Hedgehog; Hand Held ( e.g., radio )
HHA High Hardness Armor
HHELS Hybrid High Energy Laser System
HHICCS Handheld Information Command Control System
HHR High Hop Rate
HI-MEMS Hybrid Insect Microelectromechanical System ( DARPA program ca 2007 )
HIAT Helicopter Internal Air Transport
HIC High Intensity Conflict; High-Information Content ( display )
HID Human Interface Device; High Intensity Discharge ( e.g., light )
HIDAR High data rate
HIDAS Helicopter Integrated Defensive Aids System ( U.K. ); Helicopter Integrated Defensive Aids Suite ( U.K. )
HIDE Human Infrastructure Detection and Exploitation
HIDESS High-Density EW Simulator; High-Density Signal Simulation ( system - Denmark )
HIDRAH Hand-held Integrated Directional Receiver and Homing System ( for the "electronically-enhanced soldier" )
HIFAR High-Frequency surface wave Array Radar
HIIDE Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Device
HIL Hardware In the Loop; High-Intensity Lighting
HILAST High Altitude Large Area Surveillance Tactic ( for locating submarines using sonobuoys )
HIMAD High to Medium Altitude Air Defense
HIMARS High-mobility artillery rocket system
HI-MEMS Hybrid Insect Microelectromechanical System ( DARPA program ca 2007 )
HIO High Interest Object
HIPCOR HIgh Power COherent Radar
HiPOFA High PayOff Focus Area
HIPOT High Potential
HIPPI High Performance Parallel Interface
HI-QUAMS HIgh QUantity Anti-Material Submunition
HIRES High Resolution ( e.g., radar )
HIRF High Intensity Radiated Field; High Intensity Radio Frequency
HIT High-Interest Track; High Impulse Thermobaric Weapon
HITL Hardware-In-The-Loop
HITP High Ignition Temperature Propellant ( reduces probability of "cook-offs" in chamberless weapons such as the H&K G11 battle rifle )
HITRON Helicopter Interdiction Tactical squadRON
HiVOLT High Voltage ( i.e., as used in the Radiation Belt Remediation system )
HKST Hunter-Killer Standoff Team
HLA High-Level Architecture; Higher-Level Architecture
HLCS Harpoon Launch Control System
HLD Head-Level Display ( generally below the HUD and above the main control display on fighters )
HLDA High-Level Design Automation
HLL High-Level Language
HLM High Leverage Munition
HLONS Humvee Laser Ordnance Neutralization System
HLR Home Location Register ( part of COPS ); Heavy Lift Replacement ( e.g., helicopter circa 2005 )
HLS Helicopter Landing System
HLVW Heavy Logistics Vehicle Wheeled ( Unarmoured trucks ca late 1980s - U.K.)
HLZ Helicopter Landing Zone
HM Helicopter Mine-countermeasures
HM&E Hull, Mechanical & Electric ( also HME )
HMARS High-Mobility Artillery Rocket System
HMD Helmet-Mounted Display; Head-Mounted Display; Helmet Mounted Device
HME Hull, Mechanical & Electric ( also HM&E )
HMI Human-Machine Interface
HMMS Helmet-Mounted Mobility Sensor
HMMWV High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle ( "Hummer", or "Humvee" )
HMOSP Helicopter Multimission Optronic Stabilized Payload
HMP Helicopter Master Plan ( U. S. Navy )
HMS Harbor Management and Security; Handheld Manpack and Small [ form fit ]
HNR Highband Networking Radio
HNV Holographic Night Vision
HNVG Holographic Night Vision Goggles
HNVS Helicopter Night-Vision System
HOAP Humanoid for Open Architecture Platform ( Japan - strolling humanoid robot )
HOB Height Of Burst ( e.g., fuze guidance )
HOBS High Off-Boresight System
HOE Holographic Optical Element
HOIS Hostile Intelligence Service
HOJ Home-On-Jam
HOL High-Order Language
HOLAS Hands On Collective And Stick ( e.g., system for helicopters )
HOLC High-Order Language Computer
HOMS HELLFIRE Optimized Missile System
HOOAH - Not an acronym but a slang term used by soldiers - See HOOAH in the definitions.
HORIZON Helicoptère d'Observation Radar au d'Investigation de ZONe ( French airborne sensor platform )
HOS Hostile
HOTAS Hands-On-Throttle-And-Stick
HOTTS Harpoon Operator/Team Training System
HOV-LANE Hypertext On-line Virtual Library for Acquisition News & Electronic information
HP Hand-held Photo
HPA High-Power Amplifier
HPAS High-Pressure Air System ( ship )
HPC High Performance Computing
HPCC High-Precision Contour Control
HPCM High-Power Countermeasures
HPCMP High Performance Computing Modernization Program ( DoD )
HPCS High Performance Computing System; High Productivity Computing System
HPD High-Power-Discriminator ( radar ); High-Performance Drive ( e.g., gas turbine )
HPFL High Power Fiber Laser
HPFOTD High-Power Fiber Optic Towed Decoy
HPI High Probability-of-Intercept
HPKB High Performance Knowledge Base
HPM High-Powered Microwaves; Hierarchical Permanent Memory
HPOI High Probability-Of-Intercept
HPRF High Pulse Repetition Frequency
HPRT High Power Remote Transmitter
HPS Hops Per Second ( e.g., frequency hopping )
HPTL High Payoff Target List
HPVI Hypervelocity Impact
HQ Headquarters
HR Horn Reflector ( antenna )
HR High Resolution ( imaging )
HRA High Resolution Array
HRDS High Resolution Display System
HRR High Range Resolution; High-resolution Rotocraft Radar; High Resolution Radar
HRSAR High Resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar
HS High Speed; HAVE STARE ( radar )
HS/HD Homeland Security/Homeland Defense
HSARPA Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency
HSBCA High Speed Buoyant Cable Antenna
HSC Helicopter Sea Combat ( e.g., HSC squadron )
HSCLCS Harpoon Ship Command Launch Control System
HSCT High Speed Civil Transport
HSD High Speed Data; Horizontal Situation Display ( e.g., aircraft EW system )
HSDPA High Speed Downlink Packet Access
HSFB High Speed Fleet Broadcast
HSI Human Systems Integration; Hyper-Spectral Imagery; Horizontal Situation Indicator
HSKT Hunter Standoff Killer Team
HSL Helicopter Sling Loading
HSOK Hunter/Standoff Killer
HSS Hunter Sensor Suite; Hyperspectral System
HSSDB High Speed Serial Data Bus
HSSR High-Speed Solid State Recorder ( new version of the SSD )
HSTAMIDS Helicopter STAnd-off MIne Detection System; Handheld STAnd-off MIne Detection System
HSV High Speed Vessel
HTD Hard Target Defeat (program)
HTI Horizontal Technology Integration; Horizontal Technology Insertion; High Temperature Incendiary
HTID Threat Identification at a Distance ( e.g., DARPA program, ca 2003, for automated biometric identification technologies to detect, recognize, and identify humans at great distances. A biometric technology is a method for identifying an individual from his face, fingerprints, or the way he walks. )
HTISGF Horizontal Technology Integration Second Generation FLIR
HTK Hit To Kill
HTL High-level Transistor Logic
HTM High Temperature Ship ( e.g., 3.5 megawatt electric motor ); Hierarchical Temporal Memory
HTML HyperText Markup Language
HTP High-Test Peroxide ( thermal fuel to achieve high speed in torpedoes - in use since circa 1957 )
HTS HARM Targeting System; High-Temperature Superconductor; High Tensile Strength
HTSC High -Temperature Superconductor; High-Temperature Superconductivity
HTT High-Temperature Transistor
HTTP HyperText Transfer Protocol
HTTPS HyperText Transport Protocol Secure
HTU Hand-held Terminal Unit
HTV Hypersonic Test Vehicle
HUAV Hovering Autonomous Underwater Vehicle ( e.g., security system to inspect ship hulls ) [ ca 2007 ]
HUFF-DUFF A World War II ( circa 1941 ) system for automatic direction finding of U-boat radio transmissions ( from HF/DF - High Frequency Direction Finding )
HUG Hornet UpGrade ( Australia )
HUGIN Not an acronym, but a system named after one of the Norse god Odin's two information-gathering ravens.
HULA Hybrid Ultra-Large Aircraft
HULTEC Hull-to-Emitter Correlation
HUMMER Not an acronym, but jargon for HMMWV [ also called "HUMVEE" ]
HUMP Hydration Utility Multiple Platform ( e.g., attachment for back-mounted hydration systems to load bearing equipment (including ALICE ). Holds 50, 70 and 100 oz. bladders, and can double as an additional cargo storage pocket. ( View photo of HUMP )
HUMRAAM HMMWV-mounted air intercept missile ( system )
HUP Horizon Ultraviolet Program; HARM Upgrade Program
HURT Heterogeneous Urban RSTA ( Reconnaissance, Search, Track & Acquisition ) Team; Heterogeneous Urban Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Target Acquisition.
HV High Voltage
HVAC High VACuum; Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning
HVDC High Voltage Direct Current
HVG Hypervelocity Gun
HVL High-level Verification Language ( used in digital hardware design )
HVM High Velocity Missile ( e.g., the U.K. STARSTREAK )
HVP Hypervelocity Projectile; High Voltage Power
HVPS High Voltage Power Supply
HVT High Value Target
HVU High Value Unit
HW Half Wave; Heavy Water
HWCI Hardware Configuration Item
HWIC High-speed WAN Interface Card ( e.g., for TCKs )
HWIL Hardware in the Loop
HWITL Hardware in the Loop
HWS Holographic Weapon Sight
HWT Heavyweight Torpedo
HWTS Heavy Weapons Thermal Sight
HYCAS Hyperspectral Collection and Analysis System
HYCAUSE Hypersonic Collaborative Australian/United States Experiment ( e.g., scramjet project ca 2004 )
HYDRA Hierarchical Yet Dynamically Reprogrammable Architecture
HyFly Hypersonic Flight
HYPERION Hypermedia Intelligence Organization and Navigation
Hz Hertz ( formerly "cps" for cycles-per-second )
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