| Acronym | Meaning |
| POCIBO | Polar Circling Balloon Observatory |
| KBPS | Kilobits (103) Per Second |
| AFWA | Air Force Weather Agency |
| UNAVCO | University NAVSTAR [not An Acronym] Consortium |
| SIFE | Second ISLSCP Field Experiment |
| MTF | Mississippi Test Facility |
| MIP | Millions Of Instructions Per Second |
| CAMEX | Coastal AMOS (Experiment) |
| UNEP | United Nations Environment Programme |
| NM | Network Management |