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WTF, DoD? Dumbest Military Tech Acronyms

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(Newser) – 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.

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.
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.)
Mehmet Ali Erbil, of Middlesex University, poses for photographs with an unmanned flying vehicle for reconnaissance during a Ministry of Defense competition in central London.
Mehmet Ali Erbil, of Middlesex University, poses for photographs with an unmanned flying vehicle for reconnaissance during a Ministry of Defense competition in central London.   (AP Photo/Akira Suemori)
U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Ruben Romero, from Fort Benning, Ga., demonstrates new technology making use of a magnifying video camera and thermal imaging on the M4 weapon.
U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Ruben Romero, from Fort Benning, Ga., demonstrates new technology making use of a magnifying video camera and thermal imaging on the M4 weapon.   (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)
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drlarrymitchell
Jun 14, 09 2:03 PM CDT
"Most Awesomely Bad Military Acronyms"- (MAMAs, of course): NO, it would actually read as MAMBAs. Reply
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Mad
Jun 14, 09 3:05 PM CDT
So, "New Awesomely Bad Military Acronyms", would be NAMBA, right? [look at me, a liberal being the first one to mention that group; how rare]
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anchower
Jun 14, 09 9:36 PM CDT
What the hell is NAMBA?
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Jes
Jun 14, 09 10:05 PM CDT
He was probably thinking of NAMBLA, of South Park and Bill O'Reilly fame.
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Mad
Jun 14, 09 3:16 PM CDT
Opps, I fucked up Erase, delete, ctrl-x [An edit key would be nice, grumble-grumble] Reply
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