| Acronym | Meaning |
| AFPEO/ST | Air Force Programs Executive Officer |
| TREC | Tracking Radar Echoes By Correlation |
| ALPEX | Alpine Experiment |
| EPI | Environmental Policy Institute |
| GSN | Global Seismic Network |
| MST | Mesospheric/stratospheric/tropospheric |
| SAFARI-2000 | The Southern African Regional Science Initiative |
| TOA | Top Of The Atmosphere |
| IBM RT | The IBM RISC Technology Computer System |
| MOTIF | N/A |