| Acronym | Meaning |
| NDBC | National (or NOAA) Data Buoy Center |
| EORV | Emergency Operating Records Vault |
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
| CDW | Critical Design Walk-through |
| DCF | Data Capture Facility |
| ROLM | Not An Acronym |
| MOD (+/OR DSI | Ministry Of Defense |
| DSAT | Distributed System Administration Team |
| SLED | Single Large Expensive Disk |
| GAL | Galileo |