| Acronym | Meaning |
| BASC | Board On Atmospheric Sciences And Climate |
| SOI/MDI | Solar Oscillations Imager/Michelson Doppler Imager |
| PDL | Program Design Language |
| GLIS | Global Land Information System |
| FLP | Relocating Floating Point Interpreter |
| AARC | Alliance For Acid Rain Control |
| KE | Kinetic Energy |
| MCS | Mesoscale Convective System |
| DTC | Office Of Defense Trade Controls |
| ABE | Army Background Experiment |