| Acronym | Meaning |
| AWF | Aging Waste Facility |
| DES | Data Encryption Standard |
| TEB | Tropical Experiment Board |
| SUNY | The State University Of New York |
| HEOS | Highly Eccentric Orbit Satellite |
| EXAMETNET | Experimental Inter-American Meteorological Rocket Network |
| NASN | NASN Cascade Impacter In Aerosol Studies |
| AMO | Advanced Munitions Office |
| MIT | Massachusetts Institute Of Technology |
| SAMS | Stratospheric And Mesospheric Sounder |