| Acronym | Meaning |
| PPS | Physical Plant Services |
| EAA | Export Administration Act |
| BWC | Biological Weapons Convention |
| GCP | GEWEX Continental-Scale Project |
| AISEC | Army Information Engineering Command |
| DLS | Dynamic Limb Sounder |
| GVHRR | Geostationary VHRR |
| ESTAR | Electrically Steered Thinned Array Radiometer |
| AIX | Advanced Interactive Executive |
| RAID | Redundant Arrays Of Inexpensive Disks |