| Acronym | Meaning |
| BAC | Budgeted Cost At Completion |
| DTC | Office Of Defense Trade Controls |
| DMAIAGS | Defense Mapping Agency Inter-American Geodetic Survey |
| ERB | Earth Radiation Budget |
| PDE | Partial Differential Equation |
| GOMOOS | Gulf Of Main Ocean Observing System |
| ABE | Army Background Experiment |
| PDF | Probability Density Functions |
| PA/CCC | Payload Accommodations/Carrier Control Center |
| MBYTE | Megabyte |