| Acronym | Meaning |
| S&R | Search And Rescue |
| GEIA | Global Emissions Inventory Activity |
| AXCP | Airborne Expendable Current Profiler |
| EOC | Earth Observation Center |
| DYNA | Structural Dynamics Analysis |
| TES | Transequatorial Scatter |
| FIPS | Federal Information Processing Standard |
| EAR | Ethics Advisory Review |
| OMTF | Optical Modulation Transfer Function |
| ERA | Engineering Research Associates |