| Acronym | Meaning |
| AA | Assistant Administrator |
| SLATEC | Sandia-Los Alamos Air Force Weapons Laboratory Technical |
| AEW | Airborne Early Warning |
| FR | Federal Register |
| WISPIT | Winter Icing And Storms Project (WISP) Instrumentation Test |
| XMDSL | X Window Interface Distributed Software Library |
| AARADCOM | US Army Armanents R&D Command |
| MSF | Magnetic Flux Structures |
| DRP | Design Review Presentation |
| SDBE | Shear-Directed Balloon Experiment |