| Acronym | Meaning |
| AFGL | Air Force Geophysics Laboratory |
| VTVM | Vacuum Tube Voltmeter |
| EED | Exposure Evaluation Division |
| ERICA | Experiment On Rapidly Intensifying Cyclones And Anticyclones |
| DCLS | Data Collection Location System |
| CCCO | Committee For Climatic Change And The Ocean |
| PMB | Performance Measurement Baseline |
| MTTR | Mean Time To Repair |
| NROSS | Naval Remote Ocean Sensing System |
| STS | Seasonal Transition Simulation |