AAF2 (army airfield)

AAF2 is the NATO abbreviation for army airfield. It is listed in NATO's Glossary of NATO acronyms and abbreviations (AAP-15), which gives the French equivalent as "aérodrome de l'armée de terre". The entry sits among the standard acronyms and abbreviations that NATO uses across its military terminology.

The term refers to an airfield operated by or associated with an army. It is not a generic shorthand for any airfield. A bid team that meets AAF2 in NATO-related material should read it as this specific category of airfield, and should use the full expansion when writing it into a proposal or a clarification question.

What the NATO glossary entry says

The AAP-15 glossary is a bilingual publication. It sets out each abbreviation with its English expansion and its French equivalent. For AAF2, the English expansion is "army airfield" and the French is "aérodrome de l'armée de terre".

• Abbreviation: AAF2
• English expansion: army airfield
• French equivalent: aérodrome de l'armée de terre
• Source publication: Glossary of NATO acronyms and abbreviations (AAP-15)

NATOTerm and the wider NATO terminology set

NATO maintains an official terminology database called NATOTerm. It contains non-classified military terminology and other terminology relevant to NATO. Suppliers who need to confirm how NATO words a term can start there, and then check the abbreviation itself in the AAP-15 glossary.

The glossary is also a practical reference for anyone reading NATO documents that rely on dense abbreviations. Each entry is short, and its value lies in giving every reader the same expansion for the same code.

Reading army airfield correctly in bilingual work

Because the glossary pairs each English expansion with a French one, AAF2 can be handled consistently in both official languages. A Canadian supplier preparing a bilingual response can use "army airfield" in English and "aérodrome de l'armée de terre" in French, matching the NATO wording rather than inventing a translation.

The qualifier "army" carries the meaning. It identifies the airfield by its association with an army, which separates it from airfields described in other terms. Writers should keep that qualifier in place and not shorten the phrase to "airfield".

Where NATO terminology meets Canadian tendering

CanadaBuys publishes tender notices from Public Services and Procurement Canada and other Government of Canada organizations. Its notices also come from broader public-sector organizations, Crown corporations, and NATO. A supplier who monitors CanadaBuys can therefore encounter NATO-originated documents next to domestic federal ones, and NATO abbreviations can arrive with them.

Suppliers who want to see how federal contracts are described after award can use the Government of Canada's contract history search on open.canada.ca.

What AAF2 means for a supplier

If AAF2 appears in a solicitation, statement of work or technical annex, read it as army airfield and confirm the wording against the AAP-15 glossary. Use the full expansion in your own documents so evaluators see the same meaning you do. If the surrounding text leaves the scope of the requirement unclear, put the question to the contracting authority named in the notice before the question period closes.