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DOD

American  

abbreviation

  1. Department of Defense.


DOD British  

abbreviation

  1. Department of Defense

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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From 2020 to 2024, just five companies — Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, RTX and Northrop Grumman — received DOD contracts worth a combined $771 billion.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026

And the DOD hasn’t limited itself to mining, inking a $1 billion investment in defense contractor L3Harris’s Missile Solutions unit in exchange for convertible equity.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026

European Command had recommended that the more than 4,000 soldiers of the armored brigade wouldn’t be backfilled after its regular nine-month rotation, according to DOD officials, but hadn’t urged that the deployment be halted midstream.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026

The DOD is moving to in-stock from just-in-time inventory, which makes sense.

From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026

Okay, let’s concede that you can reliably tell Coke from Pepsi, even when the DOD hovers around 4.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

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