WTF, DoD? Dumbest Military Tech Acronyms

By Drew Nelles

Posted Jun 14, 2009 12:59 PM CDT

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WTF, DoD? Dumbest Military Tech Acronyms — This undated handout photo from IBM Corp. shows a screen displaying IBM's Multilingual Automatic Speech Translator software, known as MASTOR, with English and Arabic text. (AP Photo/IBM Corp.)

Wired has been keeping track of the most ridiculous acronyms the military-industrial complex comes up with. Here’s the latest list of the "Most Awesomely Bad Military Acronyms" (MAMAs, of course):

Affordable Accurate Robot Guidance (AARG)
Integrated Precision Ordnance Delivery System (IPODS)
Multi-Sensor Aerospace-Ground Joint ISR Interoperability Coalition (MAJIIC)

National Intelligence Community Enterprise Cyber Assurance Program (NICECAP)
Forensic Analysis Software Tools for Exploitation and Reasoning (FASTER)
Efficient Linearized All-Silicon Transmitters ICs (ELASTx)

To see the complete list, click the link below.

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