| Acronym | Meaning |
| EV | Earned Value |
| IMF | Interplanetary Magnetic Field |
| GCRP | Global Change Research Program |
| OSL | Orbiting Solar Laboratory |
| ALOHA | Airborne Lidar Observations And Hawaiian Airglow |
| CDR | Circular Depolarization Ratio |
| GOSIP | Government Open Systems Interconnect Protocol |
| NOIC | National Oceanographic Instrumentation Center |
| EETFC | Environmental Effects |
| EDC | EROS Data Center |