| Acronym | Meaning |
| ALERT | Automated Local Evaluation In Real Time |
| NSFF | NSF Funded |
| FE | Front-end |
| DAC | Douglas Aircraft Corporation |
| TTO/NAS | Transient Tracers In The Ocean (TTO)/North Atlantic Study |
| OCE | Division Of Oceanic Sciences |
| BINET | Bistatic Doppler Radar Receiver Network |
| GIPS | Billions Of Instructions Per Second |
| PSCNET | Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Network |
| LLC | Logical Link Control |