The Indiana University-Purdue University (Indianapolis) Library offers a browseable list of U.S. Government acronyms and their definitions.
The library also offers a guide to Military Acronyms and Glossaries – a metasite listing a variety of resources for decoding military terms.
For definitions to more generally-used acronyms see:
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