| Acronym | Meaning |
| NETS | Network Engineering And Telecommunications Section |
| AO | Air Overseas |
| MTTF | Mean Time To Failure |
| AOS/VS | Advanced Operating System/virtual Storage |
| STIWG | Satellite Telemtry Interagency Working Group |
| NLTE | Non Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium |
| B | Byte |
| TMS | Thermatic Mapper Simulator |
| DMSP SPO | DMSP System Program Office |
| ARGOS | Data Collection And Location System |