| Acronym | Meaning |
| AXBT | Air-Deployed Expendable Bathythermographs |
| DSI (+/OR MOD) | Defense Security Installation |
| MFE/MAGNOLIA | Magnetic Field Explorer/Magnolia Mission |
| VTAM | Virtual Telecommunications Access Method |
| TUC | Traingle Universities Consortium |
| AOG | Acid Offgas |
| DSN | Deep Space Network |
| BOMEX | Barbados Oceanographic And Meteorological Experiment |
| ASW | Antisubmarine Warfare |
| AF&F | Arming |