| Acronym | Meaning |
| BP | Budget And Planning Office |
| USAP | United States Antarctic Program |
| TOPS | Transcendental Operating System |
| SPIRES | Stanford Physics Information Retrieval System |
| AAM | Air-to-air Missile |
| APR | Automatic Pressure Relief |
| FACE | Florida Area Cirrus Experiment |
| AP | Anomalous Propagation |
| MEF | Master E-mail Facility |
| SEDI | Structure Of The Earth's Deep Interior |