| Acronym | Meaning |
| OMDR | Optical Memory Disk Recorder |
| B&P | Budget And Planning Office |
| IEF | Inventory Exchange Format |
| BAC | Budgeted Cost At Completion |
| PPP | Parallelizing PreProcessor |
| ILI | Instrumentation And Laboratory Improvement |
| USGS | United States Geological Survey |
| TLLMES | The Institute For Integrative And Multidisciplinary Earth Studies |
| FIRS | Fourier Transform Infrared Sounder |
| JAROS | Japan Resources Observation System Organization |