| Acronym | Meaning |
| ALAP | As Low As Practical |
| AHF | Advanced Hadron Facility |
| OMTF | Optical Modulation Transfer Function |
| OSSA | Office Of Space Science And Applications |
| NASN | National Air Surveillance Network |
| ACE-ASIA | Asian Pacific Regional Aerosol Characterization Experiment |
| SST | Supersonic Transport |
| DCF | Data Capture Facility |
| BCL | Battelle Columbus Laboratory |
| DRE | Defense Research And Engineering |