| Acronym | Meaning |
| AO | Announcement Of Oppurtunity |
| TOGA COARE | The Tropical Ocean And Global Atmosphere Program's Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment |
| RCAG | Remote-controlled Air-to-ground |
| ATSR | Argonne Thermal Source Reactor |
| LLNL | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory(ies) |
| DEAR | Department Of Energy Acquisition Regulation |
| IDD | Interface Definition Document |
| BOMEX | Barbados Oceanographic And Meteorological Experiment |
| TROPOZ | Tropospheric Ozone Experiment |
| IAAC | International Antarctic Analysis Center |