| Acronym | Meaning |
| ICO | Interagency Committee On Oceanography |
| DPFC | Defense Program Field Council |
| IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change |
| AIS | Administrative Information Systems |
| AOC | Area Of Concern |
| CDIAC | Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center |
| NSDL | National Science Digital Library |
| AEM | Application Evaluation Matrix |
| AFD | Axial Flux Difference |
| ATM | Asynchronous Transfer Mode |