| Acronym | Meaning |
| NOARL | Naval Oceanographic And Atmospheric Research Laboratory |
| IPOMS | International Polar-Orbiting Meteorological Satellite Group |
| ABWA | American Business Women's Association |
| GSE | Ground Support Equipment |
| FNAL | Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory |
| APS | Auxiliary Power System |
| PROM | Programmable Read-Only Memory |
| OPTRAN | Optical Test Transmittance Model |
| TGB | Trace Gas Biogeochemistry Section |
| EOCAP | Earth Observations Commercialization Applications Program |