| Acronym | Meaning |
| JAWOP | Joint Automated Weather Observing Program |
| MAF | Mesoscale Analysis Forecasting |
| ICITA | International Cooperative Investigation Of The Tropical Atlantic |
| LTER | Long Term Ecological Research |
| GOST | Goals Objectives Strategies Tactics |
| YAG | Yttrium |
| EPROM | Electronically Programmable Read Only Memory |
| MBONE | Multicast BackBONE |
| EERL | Eastern Environmental Radiation Lab |
| SAIC | Science Applications International Corporation |