| A&E's | audits and examinations |
| ABA/CEELI | The American Bar Association's Central and East European Law Initiative |
| ACV | armored combat vehicle |
| BW | biological weapons |
| CAAEF | Central Asian - American Enterprise Fund |
| CTR | Cooperative Threat Reduction Program |
| CW | chemical weapons |
| DEF | Defense Enterprise Fund |
| DoD | U.S. Department of Defense |
| DOE | U.S. Department of Energy |
| DTRA | Defense Threat Reduction Agency |
| E&E | USAID's Bureau for Europe and Eurasia |
| EBRD | European Bank for Reconstruction and Development |
| ECA | Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (formerly the U.S. Information Agency) |
| E-IMET | Expanded International Military Education and Training |
| EPA | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
| EU | European Union |
| EUR/ACE | Office of the Coordinator of U.S. Assistance to Europe and Eurasia |
| Eximbank | U.S. Export-Import Bank |
| FMF | Foreign Military Financing |
| FSA | FREEDOM Support Act* |
| FY | fiscal year |
| GDP | gross domestic product |
| IAS | International Accounting Standards |
| IBRD | International Bank for Reconstruction and Development |
| ICBM | intercontinental ballistic missile |
| IDP | internally displaced person |
| IFIs | international financial institutions |
| IMET | International Military Education and Training |
| IMF | International Monetary Fund |
| IPR | intellectual property rights |
| IV Program | International Visitor Program |
| m | million |
| MoD | Ministry of Defense |
| MOU | memorandum of understanding |
| MPC&A | material protection, control and accounting |
| MT | metric ton |
| MVD | Ministry of Internal Affairs |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| NGO | non-governmental organization |
| NIS | New Independent States of the former Soviet Union (now known as Eurasia) |
| NPP | nuclear power plant |
| NPT | Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty |
| OPIC | Overseas Private Investment Corporation |
| ODIHR | OSCE Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights |
| OSCE | Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe |
| PAS | Public Affairs Section |
| PCV | Peace Corps volunteer |
| P.L. | Public Law |
| PSA | production-sharing agreement |
| PVO | private voluntary organization |
| RI | Regional Initiative |
| RFE | Russian Far East |
| SLBM | submarine-launched ballistic missile |
| SMEs | small to medium-sized enterprises |
| SNAE | strategic nuclear arms elimination |
| SOAE | strategic offensive arms elimination |
| SRSA | Silk Road Strategy Act |
| SSBN | ballistic missile submarine |
| START | Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty |
| TACIS | The European Union's technical assistance program for the NIS |
| TDA | U.S. Trade and Development Agency |
| TUSRIF | The U.S.-Russia Investment Fund |
| UNHCR | United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees |
| USAID | U.S. Agency for International Development |
| USDA | U.S. Department of Agriculture |
| WFP | United Nations World Food Program |
| WMD | weapons of mass destruction |
| WNISEF | Western NIS Enterprise Fund |
| WTO | World Trade Organization |
