| Acronym | Meaning |
| DMSP SPO | DMSP System Program Office |
| AS&E | American Science And Engineering |
| EAG | Exposure Assessment Group |
| IS | Institute Sponsors |
| VLBI | Very Long Baseline Interferometry |
| PAR | Performance Assurance Requirements |
| TERAFLOPS | Trillions Of Arithmetic Operations Per Second |
| C | A Programming Language Used Extensively In Systems Software |
| MICROSOFT WINDOWS | N/A |
| NSSP | National Severe Storms Project |