| Acronym | Meaning |
| N-AWIPS | National Centers Advanced Weather Interactive Processing Systems |
| SPANDAR | Space Range Radar |
| GAO | General Accounting Office |
| DG | Data General |
| TASI | Time-assingment Speech Interpolation |
| MAGSAT | Magnetic Field Satellite |
| PVC | Permanent Virtual Circuit |
| USFS | United States Forest Service |
| FAL | Frontier Airline |
| CCARS | Computer Controlled Automatic Rain Sampler |