List of U.S. Department of Defense and partner code names

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This is an incomplete list of U.S. Department of Defense code names primarily the two-word series variety. Officially, Arkin (2005) says that there are three types of code name:

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In 1975, the Joint Chiefs of Staff introduced the Code Word, Nickname, and Exercise Term System (NICKA) which automated the assignment of names. NICKA gives each DOD organization a series of two-letter alphabetic sequences, requiring each 'first word' or a nickname to begin with a letter pair. For example, AG through AL was assigned to United States Joint Forces Command. [1]

The general system described above is now in use by NATO, the United Kingdom, Canada (Atlantic Guard, Atlantic Spear, Atlantic Shield) Australia and New Zealand, and allies/partners including countries like Sweden.

Most of the below listings are "Nicknames."

List of code names

A

Arcade Azimuth [17]
Arcade Bugle [17]
Arcade Falcon [17]
ARRCade Fusion, the annual computer-assisted warfighting Command Post Exercise [17]
Arcade Globe [17]
Arcade Guard. [17]

B

C

Arkin lists Constant subprograms included Constant Blue (Presidential successor helicopter evacuation plan), Constant Gate, Constant Help, Constant Phoenix (55th Wing nuclear monitoring) Constant Pisces, Constant Shotgun, Constant Source, Constant Spur, Constant Star, Constant Stare (an Air Intelligence Agency organization). [95] [96]

D

E

Somalia National Army troops passing in review during an Exercise Eastern Wind '83 ceremony Somali troops.jpg
Somalia National Army troops passing in review during an Exercise Eastern Wind '83 ceremony

F

G

H

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J

K

L

M

N

Wreck of abandoned ex-Iranian F-4E at Tallil Air Base, Iraq, 1991, investigated during Operation Night Harvest F-4E IRIAF wreck at Tallil AB Iraq 1991.JPEG
Wreck of abandoned ex-Iranian F-4E at Tallil Air Base, Iraq, 1991, investigated during Operation Night Harvest

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Q

R

The tank landing ship ex-USS Schenectady lists after being struck by seven 2,000lb Joint Direct Attack Munitions during exercise Resultant Fury at the Pacific Missile Range Facility off the Island of Kauai, Hawaii, on Nov. 23, 2004. Ex-Schenectady (LST-1185) sinking.jpg
The tank landing ship ex-USS Schenectady lists after being struck by seven 2,000lb Joint Direct Attack Munitions during exercise Resultant Fury at the Pacific Missile Range Facility off the Island of Kauai, Hawaii, on Nov. 23, 2004.

S

Personnel from the Air National Guard and Ukrainian Air Force group-greet each other during Safe Skies 2011 Safe Skies 2011 - greetings.jpg
Personnel from the Air National Guard and Ukrainian Air Force group-greet each other during Safe Skies 2011
52nd TFW F-4G Phantom II taking part in exercise Salty Hammer, 22 May 1990 McDonnell Douglas F-4G Phantom II, USA - Air Force AN1890331.jpg
52nd TFW F-4G Phantom II taking part in exercise Salty Hammer, 22 May 1990
  • Seek Clock - strategic nuclear related special access program (Arkin, 494)
  • Project Seek Eagle – The United States Air Force certification process for determining safe/acceptable carriage and release limits, loading and unloading procedures, safe escape parameters, and ballistic accuracy for all stores in specified loading configurations. [355]
  • Project Seek Frost – In 1977 the Rome Air Development Center began the "Seek Igloo" project to find a replacement for the AN/FPS-19 radar that would require less power and would run for extended times without maintenance. In 1980, General Electric won the contest with their GE-592 design, and the final design was accepted by RADC on 30 September 1983 and passed acceptance tests that year. This system became the AN/FPS-117 radar. Seek Frost was officially concerned only with DEW Line radars outside Alaska.
  • Project Seek Igloo – Portion of Project Seek Frost replacing DEW Line radars in Alaska.
  • Project Seek Screen – Improvements to the Tactical Air Control System. [356]
  • Seek Spinner – 1987 evaluation of an upgraded CGM-121A as a low cost alternative to the AGM-136 Tacit Rainbow Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses missile. [268]
  • Senior Ball – Shipment of material directed by USAF.
  • Senior Blade – Senior Year ground station (a van capable of exploiting U-2R digital imagery).
  • Senior Blue – Air-to-Air Anti-Radiation Missile (?)
  • Senior Book – U-2R COMINT system, used on flights from Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base over the Gulf of Tonkin. First flight 17 August 1971. Information was downloaded in real time to a ground station at Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Navy Base for relay to USAF fighters operating in Southeast Asia. Renamed Olympic Torch 11 April 1972. [357]
  • Senior Bowl – 2 B-52Hs, serials 60-21 and 60–36, modified to carry two Lockheed D-21B "Tagboard" reconnaissance drones
  • Senior Cejay – Northrop B-2A stealth bomber, former Senior Ice (name changed when the development contract was awarded to Northrop on 4 November 1981). Sometimes quoted as Senior CJ.
  • Senior Chevron – Senior Year-related program.
  • Senior Citizen – Classified program; probably a projected Special Operations stealth and/or STOL transport aircraft. Arkin writes that this was an Aurora reconnaissance aircraft or similar low observable system. [358]
  • Senior Class – Shipment of material directed by Headquarters USAF.
  • Senior Club – Low-observable anti-tamper advanced technology systems assessment.
  • Senior Crown – Lockheed SR-71 reconnaissance aircraft, [4] based on CIA-sponsored A-12 "Oxcart"
  • Senior Dagger – A test & evaluation exercise performed by Control Data Corp. for Air Force Rome Air Development Center for purposes of reconnaissance. It may involve flights of Lockheed SR-71 reconnaissance aircraft in Southeast Asia.
  • Senior Dance – ELINT/SIGINT program, possibly U-2 related.
  • Senior Game – A military item shipping designation.
  • Senior Glass – U-2 SIGINT sensor package upgrade combing Senior Spear and Senior Ruby
  • Senior Guardian – Grob/E-Systems D-500 Egrett, high-altitude surveillance / reconnaissance aircraft, German-US cooperation, 1980s
  • Senior Ice – Advanced Technology Bomber program, including Lockheed proposal and the Northrop B-2 stealth bomber; renamed Senior Cejay on 4 November 1981
  • Senior Peg – proposal for a stealthy strategic bomber by the Lockheed Corporation together with Rockwell International. It was created as part of the Advanced Technology Bomber competition, which started in 1979. [359] Lost to a design by Northrop (Senior Ice), which would eventually become the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit.
  • Senior Prom – classified black project conducted by the United States Air Force in conjunction with the Lockheed Corporation's Skunk Works for the development and testing of a cruise missile using stealth technology, 1978–82.
  • Senior Trend – Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk special access program development, previously Have Blue. [181]
Six F-16s of the Texas Air National Guard traveled to Hawaii for Exercise Sentry Aloha in 2006. 182d Fighter Squadron - F-16s.jpg
Six F-16s of the Texas Air National Guard traveled to Hawaii for Exercise Sentry Aloha in 2006.
A reservist member of the British Special Air Service walks off a drop zone during Exercise Strong Enterprise in Denmark, 1955. 21 SAS NIGHT DROP.jpg
A reservist member of the British Special Air Service walks off a drop zone during Exercise Strong Enterprise in Denmark, 1955.

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U

V

W

Chinook helicopters from No. 18 (B) Squadron RAF practising desert operations during Exercise Vortex Warrior '14, April 2014. RAF Chinook Helicopters MOD 45157572.jpg
Chinook helicopters from No. 18 (B) Squadron RAF practising desert operations during Exercise Vortex Warrior '14, April 2014.

Y

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