| Acronym | Meaning |
| BRS | Battlefield Reasoning System |
| YB | Ytterbium |
| BR | Bromine |
| EMC | Electric Membership Corporation - Electromagnetic Compatibility - Electro-Motive Corporation - European Muon Collaboration - Evergreen Marine Corporation |
| SCAP | Supreme Commander Allied Powers (Allied Occupation Of Japan) |
| ORISE | Oak Ridge Institute For Science And Education |
| PGK | Papua New Guinea Kina (ISO 4217 Currency Code) |
| SPIE | Originally The Society For Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE - The International Society For Optical Engineering 1981?2007 |
| ANL | Argonne National Laboratory |
| DARPA | U. S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency |