| Acronym | Meaning |
| NSWP | National Space Weather Program |
| ATLAS | Airborne Tunable Laser Absorption Spectrometer |
| GB | Gigabyte |
| EM | Engineering Model |
| ALS | Advanced Light Source |
| RUI | Research In Undergraduate Institutions |
| AAH | Advanced Attack Helicopter |
| ACDA | Arms Control And Disarmament Agency |
| SLAR | Side-looking Airborne Radar |
| RCM | WSR-88D Radar Coded Message |