| Acronym | Meaning |
| NSFF | NSF Funded |
| AAH | Advanced Attack Helicopter |
| IUGS | International Union Of Geological Sciences |
| NQS | Network Queue System |
| GFLOPS | Gigaflops |
| NASCAS | NAS Committee On Atmospheric Sciences |
| HPPI | High Performance Parallel Interface |
| MP | Melting Point |
| ATMS | Advanced Traffic Management System |
| HPD | Hourly Precipitation Data |