| Acronym | Meaning |
| FAR | Federal Acquisitions Regulations |
| DRS | Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy |
| HPRT | Hypoxanthine Phosphoribosyltransferase |
| WILDCAT | Warning And Identification Lidar Detector For Countering Agent Threats |
| CBD | Chronic Beryllium Disease |
| SXRFM | Synchrotron X-ray-fluorescence Microprobe |
| FFA | Free Fatty Acid |
| ACPQ | Approx. Coupled-pair (theory Cor. For Connected) Quadruply (excited Clusters) |
| EXPRESSO | Experiment For Regional Sources And Sinks Of Oxidants |
| GBIF | Global Biodiversity Information Facility |