| Acronym | Meaning |
| FCC | Federal Communications Commission |
| AR | Administrative Requirement |
| SAIC | Science Applications International Corporation |
| DQA | Data Quality Assessment |
| QJRMS | Quarterly Journal Of The Royal Meteorological Society |
| ESSCO | Electronic Space Systems Corporation |
| G&A | General And Administrative |
| FMIT | Fusion Materials Irradiation Test Facility |
| EOS-A | First NPOP |
| NOPS | Nimbus Observations Processing System |