| Acronym | Meaning |
| NAO | North Atlantic Oscillation |
| FERC | Federal Energy Regulatory Commission |
| GCDIS | Global Change Data And Information System |
| REREX | Remote Read-out Experiment |
| RPM | Revolutions Per Minute |
| RF | Radio Frequency |
| BWI | Baltimore-Washington International Airport |
| VISTA | Visual Terrain Analyzer |
| ALP | Assemble Language Preprocessor |
| FB | Fleischmann Building |