| Acronym | Meaning |
| BART | Bay Area Rapid Transit |
| BASC | Barrow Arctic Science Consortium |
| BASC | Board On Atmospheric Sciences And Climate |
| BASIC | Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code |
| BASIS | Battelle Automated Search Information System |
| BATCH MCIDAS | Routine That Runs Sequences Of McIDAS Commands From A Script |
| BATGE | Biosphere-Atmosphere Trace Gas Exchange In The Tropics |
| BATS | Biosphere-atmosphere Transfer Scheme |
| BBC | British Broadcasting Corporation |
| BBRR | Brookhaven Beam Research Reactor |
| BBS | Bulletin Board System |
| BBSO | Big Bear Solar Observatory |
| BCAPS | Biological Component Of The Air Pollution Studies |
| BCCB | Baseline Change Control Board |
| BCD | Binary-coded Decimal |
| BCD | Barcode Decal |
| BCL | Battelle Columbus Laboratory |
| BCS | Boeing Computer Services |
| BCS | Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer |
| BCWP | Budgeted Cost For Work Performed |
| BCWS | Budgeted Cost For Work Scheduled |
| BD | Blowdown |
| BDL | Boundary Layer |
| BDN | Bacteria-derived Nuclei |
| BDSP | Basic Data Set Project |
| BDU | Bus Data Unit |
| BE | Best Estimate |
| BEJ | Best Expert Judgment |
| BEMC | Boulder Emergency Management Center |
| BEP | Balloon Electronics Package |
| BER | Bit Error Rate |
| BER | Biological And Environmental Research |
| BEST | Black Educational Science Trust |
| BEST | Bilan D'energie Du Systeme Tropical |
| BFPQ | Block Floating Point Quantizer |
| BFS | Business And Financial Services |
| BGCWG | Biogeochemistry Working Group |
| BGE | Block Gaussian Elimination |
| BGP4 | Border Gateway Protocol Version 4 |
| BGS | Biogeosciences Initiative |
| BHP | Brake Horsepower |
| BI | The Brookings Institution |
| BIATEX | Part Of EUROTRAC |
| BIBEX | Biomass Burning Experiment |
| BIGIT | A Binary Digit |
| BINET | Bistatic Doppler Radar Receiver Network |
| BIOFLUX | Bioaerosol Flux |
| BIOMASS | Biological Investigations Of Marine Antarctic Systems And Stocks |
| BIOME | Biological Imaging And Observational Mission To Earth |
| BIORESP | Bio Response |