| Acronym | Meaning |
| IPOMS | International Polar-Orbiting Meteorological Satellite Group |
| PDT | Product Development Team |
| NCSA | National Center For Supercomputing Applications |
| TRACON | Terminal Radar Control |
| ACL | Auxiliary Cooling Loop |
| DAIRS | Differential Absorption Infrared Sensor |
| BIATEX | Part Of EUROTRAC |
| IVVS | Interactive Verification And Visualization System (RTVS) |
| SOO/SAC | Science And Operations Officer/Scientific Applications Computer |
| SIAM | Society For Industrial And Applied Mathematics |