| Acronym | Meaning |
| SCIT | Standing Committee On Information Technologies |
| PIXIE | Polar Ionospheric X-ray Imaging Experiment |
| ACMG | American College Medical Genetics |
| GAIIA | Global Alliance Of Information Industry Associations |
| CPC | Chemical Protective Clothing |
| TPAD | Temperature Programmed Ammonia Desorption |
| EP | Extraction Procedure |
| IDA | Interdigitated Array (microelectrodes) |
| LDTOF | Laser-Desorption Time-Of-Flight Mass Spectrometry |
| PC-BOSS | Particle Concentrator-Brigham Young University Organic Sampling System |