CDP          Chief of Defence Procurement (also Chief Executive of the new Defence Procurement Agency)

CMS        Combat Management System

CNGF        The Common New Generation Frigate

DCN        Direction des Constructionnes Navales

DERA        Defence Evaluation and Research Agency

DGA        French MoD procurement agency

Empar        European Maritime Passive-Array Radar

Europaams      The tri-national project office for the PAAMS system

Eurosam      The subsidiary of Europaams providing French and Italian PAAMS requirements

EWS        Electronic Warfare System

FSAF        Famille des Systemes Sol-Air Futur, or family of future ground-to-air missiles

Future Surface Combatant   The replacement for the Type-23 frigate

HEPICS and EuroCombat  The two consortia competing for the CMS sub-contract

Horizon        The warship element of the CNGF programme

Horizon IJVC    Horizon International Joint Venture Company

Mesar        Multi-function Electronically-Scanned Adaptive Radar

NFR-90        NATO Frigate Replacement for the '90s

OCCAR      Organisation for Collaboration and Cooperation in Armaments

PAAMS      Principal Anti-Air Missile System

SENIT        Family of combat management systems already fitted in other French navy vessels

Sylver        French/Italian PAAMS missile launcher

TLAM        Tomahawk land-attack missile

Type-42 destroyer    The warship being replaced by Horizon/Type-45

Type-45 destroyer    The UK national destroyer programme, initiated following the termination of the Horizon programme

UKAMS Ltd      The subsidiary of Europaams providing the UK's PAAMS requirement

VLS-41        Lockheed-Martin missile launcher