| Acronym | Meaning |
| NCPC | National Capital Planning Commission |
| ORNL | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| LLNL | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| FTS | Federal Technology Service |
| JPL | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| LANL | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| VA | Department Of Veterans Affairs |
| CFTC | Commodity Futures Trading Commission |
| USIP | United States Institute Of Peace |
| FBIS | Foreign Broadcast Information Service (see WNC) |