List of Acronyms and Initialisms: C - CA

CA

• ca – (s) Catalan language (ISO 639-1 code)
• Ca – (s) Calcium
• CA
  • (s) California (postal symbol)
  • Canada (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
  • Catalonia
  • (i) Civil Affairs
  • Close Armour
  • Cocaine Anonymous
  • Computer Associates
  • Counter-Air
  • Cricket Australia
• CAA
  • (i) Canadian Automobile Association
  • (NORAD) Center for Aerospace Analysis
  • (U.S.) Center for Army Analysis
  • (U.S.) Clean Air Act
  • (U.S. Army) Concepts Analysis Agency
  • Civil Aviation Authority
  • Colonial Athletic Association
• CAAT
  • (i) or (a) Campaign Against Arms Trade
  • Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing
• CAC
  • (i) California Association of Criminalists
  • Chronic Asymptomatic Carrier
• CACM (i) Central American Common Market
• CACM – (i) Communications of the ACM
• CAD
  • (s) Canadian dollar (ISO 4217 currency code)
  • (a) Computer-Aided Design
  • Computer-Aided Dispatch
• CADCAM – (a) Computer-Aided Design/Computer-Aided Manufacturing
• CADPAT – (p) CAnadian Disruptive PATtern
• CADMID – (a) Concept, Assessment, Demonstration, Manufacture, In service, Disposal (life cycle mnemonic)
• CAE
  • (i) Canadian Aviation Electronics (originally)
  • Certificate in Advanced English
• CAEn – (i/a) Close Action Engagement (constructive simulation)
• CAF
  • (s) Central African Republic (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • (i) Confederation of African Football (or French Confédération Africaine de Football)
• CAFAD – (a) Combined Arms For Air Defence
• CAFDE
  • (a) Canadian Association of Film Distributors and Exporters
  • Computer Aided Federation Development Environment
• CAFE – (a) Corporate Average Fuel Economy standard
• CAI – (i) Computer Assisted Instruction
• CAIR – (i) Council on American-Islamic Relations
• CALABARZON – (p) A region in the Philippines: CAvite, LAguna, BAtangas, Rizal, queZON
• CALL – (a) (U.S.) Center for Army Lessons Learned
• CALM – (p) Communications, Air-interface, Long and Medium range
• CalPERS – (p) California Public Employees' Retirement System
• Caltrans – (p) California Department of Transpotation
• CAM
  • (a) Chemical Agent Monitor
  • Complementary and alternative medicine
  • Computer-Aided Manufacturing
  • Crassulacean acid metabolism (type of photosynthesis)
• CAMRA – (p) CAMpaign for Real Ale
• CAN – (s) Canada (ISO 3166 trigram)
• CANA – (a) Convulsive Antidote, Nerve Agent
• CANDU – (p) CANada Deuterium Uranium (nuclear reactor design)
• Canola – (p) Canadian oil, low acid (referring to a specific cultivar of rapeseed bred to have a low erucic acid content)
• CAP
  • (i) Combat Air Patrol
  • Civil Air Patrol
  • Common Air Picture
  • Crisis Action Procedures
  • Common Agricultural Policy (European Union)
• CAPES
  • (p) CAPability Evaluation System
  • (a) Combined Arms Planning and Execution System
• CARE
  • (a) Citizens Association for Racial Equality (former New Zealand organisation)
  • (p) Community database on Accidents on the Roads in Europe
  • (a) Cooperative for Aid and Relief Everywhere (originally Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe)
• CARMONETTE – (p) Computerized Monte Carlo Simulation
• CARP – (a) Computed Air Release Point
• CART – (a) Championship Auto Racing Teams (now defunct)
• CAS
  • (i) Chemical Abstracts Service
  • Chief of the Air Staff
  • Close Air Support
• CASE
  • (a) Cellular ammunition storage equipment
  • Computer-Aided Software Engineering
• CASS – (a) Command Activated Sonobuoy System
• CASTFOREM – (p) Combined Arms and Support Task FORce Evaluation Model
• CASTOR – (a) Canadian Automatic Small Telescopes for Orbital Research
• cat – (s) Catalan language (ISO 639-2 code)
• CAT
  • (a) Community Acceptance Testing
  • Computer-Assisted (or Axial) Tomography
• CATK – (p) Counterattack
• CATS – (a) Computer Active Technology Suspension
• CATT – (a/i) Combined Arms Tactical Trainer
• CAV – (p) Cavalry
• CAVOK – (p) Ceiling And Visibility OK ("Kav-okay")
• CAW – (i) Canadian Auto Workers (trade union)