Annex L: Procurement Acronyms


Acronym	Meaning
ABS	Scientific Bureau for Drug Information and Medical Appliances
AEST	Albostangy Equipment Services and Trade
AP	ammonium perchlorate
ARADET	Arab Company for Detergent Chemicals
ARC	Arabian Russian Company of Jordan
ARI	acute respiratory infections
ASB	Arabic Scientific Bureau
ATGM	anti-tank guided missile
AWACS	airborne warning and control systems
AZ-11	a type of liquid rocket propellant, composed of 2 components (DETA and UDMH), according to captured documents
bbl/d	barrels per day
BCP	Border Control Checkpoints
BME	Belmetalenergo
BOP	Balance of Payments
BW	Biological Weapons
CA	Commercial Attaché
CAEC	Abrasive Import and Export Corporation
CBI	Central Bank of Iraq
CBJ	Central Bank of Jordan
CBS	Central Bank of Syria
CBW	Chemical and biological weapons
CCD	Charge coupled device
CGMS	Control and Guidance Missile System
CIA	Central Intelligence Agency
CNC	Computer numeric controlled machines or devices
CoM	Council of Ministers
CoS	Chief of Staff
CPA	Coalition Provision Authority
CPMIEC	China Precision Machinery Import and Export Corporation
CPU	Central Processing Unit

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CW	Chemical weapons
DETA	diethylenetriamine: one of the two components of AZ-11, a type of liquid rocket propellant
DGMI	Directorate of General Military Intelligence
DGS	Directorate of General Security
DIA	Defense Intelligence Agency
Diwan	The Presidential Office
DMI	Directorate of Military Intelligence
DOCEX	Document Exploitation
DPRK	Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
EAC	Economic Affairs Committee
ECCM	Electronic Counter-Countermeasure
ECM	Electro-chemical machining
EGC	Electric-Gaz-Com
EMIS	Electromagnetic Isotope Separation
EP	Entry Points
ETGC	External Technology General Corporation
EUC	end-user certificates
EW	Electronic Warfare
FAO	Food and Agriculture Organization
FCDC	Foreign Currency Disbursement Committee
FEAL	Food Examination and Analysis Lab
FRY	Former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
GDP	Gross Domestic Product
GID	General Intelligence Directorate (Jordan)
GPS	Global Positioning System
GRL	Goods Review List
HDI	Human Development Index
HE	high explosive
HF	High Frequency
HSBC	Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation
HUMINT	Human Intelligence
HVD	High-Value Detainee
IAEA	International Atomic Energy Agency
IAEC	Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission
IAF	Iraqi Armed Forces

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ID	Iraqi Dinar
IFAT	A Swiss-based, Consen subsidiary established in August 1983
IID	International Industrial Development
IIS	Iraqi Intelligence Service
IIS M19	The primary IIS body handling procurement of specialized items. Redesignated as M4/8 in recent years, and also was known as the Technical Consultation Company or the Trade Office
IIS M23	MIC Security Directorate
IIS M4	Foreign Clandestine Operations branch of the Iraqi Intelligence Service or Directorate of Secret Service
IIS M4/8	Formerly the IIS M19, organized into three different sections, the internal section, the foreign section, and the trading section
IIS Section One	The internal section primarily responsible for creating front companies inside Iraq and facilitating trade with these companies to import/export oil, batteries, copper and food products
ILTC	Iraqi Land Transportation Company
IMF	International Monetary Fund
INOC	Iraq National Oil Company
ISG	Iraq Survey Group
ITU	International Telecommunication Union
JD	Joint Delegation
KGB	Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti
KOMID	North Korea’s Korea Mining Development Corporation. Previously known as the External Technology General Corporation (ETGC)
LU	Launcher units
IIS M-5	The IIS Directorate of Counterintelligence or Counterespionage Directorate
MABOT	Mina al Bakr Offshore Terminal
MANPADS	Man portable Air Defense Systems
MFA	Ministry of Foreign Affairs
MHESR	Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research
MIC	Military Industrialization Commission
MoA	Ministry of Agriculture
MoD	Ministry of Defense
MoF	Ministry of Finance
MoH	Ministry of Health
MoI	Ministry of Industry

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MoO	Ministry of Oil
MoT	Ministry of Trade
MoTC	Ministry of Transport and Communication
MOU	Memorandum of Understanding
NORINCO	China North Industries Corporation
NSC	National Security Council
NVD	Night Vision Devices
NVG	Night Vision Goggles
OFF	United Nations Oil-for-Food program
OIF	Operation Iraqi Freedom
OIP	Office of the Iraq Program
OMI	Organization of Military Industrialization, synonymous with the MIC, the preferred usage
R&D	Research & Development
RCC	Revolutionary Command Council
RG	Republican Guard
RNA	Research and News Analyzing
RPG	Rocket Propelled Grenade
SAM	Surface-to-Air Missile
SDH	Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
SDI	Samarra Drug Industries
SFOR	Stabilization Forces
SISMI	Italian Intelligence and Military Security Service
SOE	State-Owned Enterprises
SOMO	State Oil Marketing Organization
SRG	Special Republican Guard
SSM	Surface-to-Surface missiles
SSO	Special Security Organization
TAGCO	Trading and Agriculture General Company
TIS	Thermal imagery sight
TOSSCO	Technical Oilfield Services and Supply Company
TPAO	Turkish Petroleum Company
TPIC	Turkish Petroleum International Company, a TPAO subsidiary

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TTC	Thermal tracking camera
UAE	United Arab Emirates
UAV	Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
UDMH	One of the two components of AZ-11, a liquid rocket propellant
UHF	Ultra -High Frequency
UN	United Nations
UNCC	United Nations Compensation Commission
UNDP	United Nations Development Program
UNESCO	United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization
UNICEF	United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund
UNMOVIC	United Nations Monitoring Verification & Inspection Commission
UNOPS	United Nations Operations
UNSC	United Nations Security Council
UNSCOM	United Nations Special Commission
UNSCR	United Nations Security Council Resolution
UNSYG	UN Secretary General
UTL	United Telecommunications Limited
VHF	Very High Frequency
WFP	World Food Program
WHO	World Health Organization
WMD	Weapons of Mass Destruction