| Acronym | Meaning |
| ESTP | Exploratory Shaft Test Plan |
| OTA | Office Of Technology Assessment |
| OFCM | Office Of The Federal Coordinator For Meteorology |
| SIAM | Society For Industrial And Applied Mathematics |
| POC | Project Operations Center |
| MAP | Middle Atmosphere Program |
| ETA | A Vendor Of Supercomputers And Associated Software |
| WOS | Weather Observing Systems Committee |
| AST | Algorithm Support Team |
| ADP | Automatic Data Processing |