| Acronym | Meaning |
| RUCS | Rapid Update Cycle Surface |
| API | American Petroleum Institute |
| APT | Accelerator Production Of Tritium |
| CDOS | Customer Data And Operations System |
| GAAS | Gallium Arsenide |
| OSL | Orbiting Solar Laboratory |
| EIA | Electronic Industries Association |
| EMG | Electromagnetic Gravity Data |
| CCSF | Colorado Computational Science Fair |
| AWU | Associated Western Universities |