| Acronym | Meaning |
| FPS | Feet Per Second |
| UCAR | Unmanned Combat Armed Rotorcraft |
| NODS | NASA Ocean Data System |
| IFR | Instrument Flight Rules |
| AWS | Aviation Weather Service |
| ERL | Environmental Research Laboratory |
| SOLVE | SAGE Ozone Loss Validation Experiment |
| GAC | Global Atmospheric Chemistry |
| NAE | National Academy Of Engineering |
| ECA | Earth-crossing Asteroids |