| Acronym | Meaning |
| AOL | Airborne Oceanographic LIDAR |
| DPFC | Defense Program Field Council |
| A&C | Abatement & Control |
| DTR | Development And Test Resource |
| PE | Primitive Equation |
| NOSS | National Ocean Satellite System |
| CDA | Command And Data Acquisition |
| STIP | Study Of Traveling Interplanetary Phenomena |
| NTIS | National Technical Information Service |
| BAI | Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions Project |