| Acronym | Meaning |
| IMOS | Inadvertent Modification Of The Stratosphere |
| EROS | Earth Resources Observation System |
| GPO | Government Printing Office |
| ETA | A Vendor Of Supercomputers And Associated Software |
| SSM/I | Special Sensor Microwave Imager |
| FIVRS | Financial Information Variance Reporting System |
| ALE | Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian |
| IRIS | Incorporated Research Institutions For Seismology |
| WIND II | Wind Imaging Interferometer |
| MPS | Mesoscale Prediction Section |