| Acronym | Meaning |
| LDS | Loral Defense Systems |
| EMSES | Electromagnetic Modeling And Simulation Environment For Systems |
| AFESC | Air Force Engineering & Sciences Center |
| ZTD | Zenith Tropospheric Signal Delay |
| ARCAS | All-purpose Rocket For The Collection Of Atmospheric Soundings |
| ADF | Automatic Direction Finding |
| OMTF | Optical Modulation Transfer Function |
| AFSC | Air Force Systems Command |
| F77 | FORTRAN77 |
| ASTEX | Atlantic Stratocumulus Transition Experiment |