| Acronym | Meaning |
| EEPROM | Electronically Eraseable And Programmable Read Only Memory |
| PCM | Punched Card Machine |
| AMC | Army Materiel Command |
| IDR | Incremental Design Review |
| LIS | Lightning Imaging Sensor |
| IGB | International Geophysical Bulletin |
| FOOTPRINT | Measuring And Modeling The Surface Footprint Of Scalar Fluxes |
| VTPR | Vertical Temperature Profile Radiometer |
| NAWAU | National Aviation Weather Advisory Unit |
| NOC | Naval Oceanographic Command |