| Acronym | Meaning |
| BOGSAT | Bunch Of Guys Sitting Around A Table |
| NRAO | National Radio Astronomy Observatory |
| A | Ampere |
| ZF | Zeptofarad |
| AFSCN | U.S. Air Force Satellite Control Network |
| SECDEF | (U.S.) Secretary Of Defense |
| KGB | Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Russian Committee For State Security) (1954-1991) |
| VQ | Vector Quantization -U.S. Virgin Islands (FIPS 10-4 Territory Code) |
| JFMCC | Joint Force Maritime Component Commander |
| ADW | Air Defence Warning |