| Acronym | Meaning |
| AXBT | Air-Deployed Expendable Bathythermographs |
| PIN | Power Input |
| AFNE | American For Nuclear Energy |
| ITO | Independent Test Organization |
| EV | Earned Value |
| AIM | Advanced Industrial Materials |
| NEPRF | Naval Environmental Prediction Research Facility |
| PERT | Performance Evaluation And Review Technique |
| TIME-GCM | Thermosphere-Ionosphere-Mesosphere-Electrodynamic General Circulation Model |
| KRMS | Ka-band Radiometer Mapping System |