| Acronym | Meaning |
| NASW | National Association Of Science Writers |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
| NOAASIS | NOAA Satellite Information System |
| APC | Argon Purge Cart |
| GLWQA | Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement |
| BIP | Balloon-borne (instrument) Platform |
| BMRR | Brookhaven Medical Research Reactor |
| HESP | High-Energy Solar Physics |
| JHU | Johns Hopkins University |
| VIP | Versatile Information Processing |