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Acquisition – specialist military term for procurement, especially as it relates to sourcing new technology – includes defining the need, tendering, contract negotiation and management, training in new systems, risk management, through to eventual disposal or decommissioning

BAC – Battle Area Clearance

C‐IED – Counter-Improvised Explosive Device

Capacity building – a development term: helping countries or communities to become self‐sufficient after war or disaster, by providing advice, training, or support to rebuild institutions (such as government, education or health services, infrastructure such as water, power, communications, sewage, etc.)

CBRN – Chemical / Biological / Radiological / Nuclear

DDR – Demobilization, Disarmament and Reintegration (of soldiers)

DLoD – Defence Lines of Development: a defence acquisition programme management model

EOD ‐ Explosive Ordnance Disposal

ERW – Explosive Remnants of War (syn. UXO)

IEDD – Improvised Explosive Device Disposal

IMAS – International Mine Action Standards

IMSMA – Information Management System for Mine Action

PRINCE2^® – a Government-approved system for managing large projects, involving the control of risks at each stage, and careful planning of budgets, timescales and resources

TNA – Training Needs Analysis

TTPs – Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (implicitly of terrorist groups)

UXO – Unexploded Ordnance (i.e. shells or rockets)

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