| Acronym | Meaning |
| ECP | Engineering Change Proposal |
| DOE | Department Of Energy |
| SMSC | Shared-Memory Supercomputer Systems |
| KITOON | Combination Kite And Balloon |
| SESAME | Second European Stratospheric Arctic And Mid-Latitude Experiment |
| MCS | Mesoscale Convective System |
| FIFOLIB | N/A |
| CDE | Common Desktop Environment |
| APET | Accident Progression Event Tree |
| VISSR | Visible And Infrared Spin-Scan Radiometer |