| Acronym | Meaning |
| OSF | Operational Support Facility |
| EMO | Emergency Management Office |
| EMSES | Electromagnetic Modeling And Simulation Environment For Systems |
| CB | Meteorological Symbol |
| TOGA COARE | The Tropical Ocean And Global Atmosphere Program's Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment |
| BAC | Budgeted Cost At Completion |
| NSTP | National Solar Terrestrial Program |
| SOLRAD | NASA Satellite |
| ROC | Regional Observational Cooperative |
| HRSR | High Resolution Scanning Radiometer |