| Acronym | Meaning |
| AO | Announcement Of Oppurtunity |
| SSC | Superconducting Super Collider |
| SWARS | Supplementary Aviation Weather Reporting Station |
| AMC | Appraisal Management Center |
| VM/CMS | Virtual Machine/Conversational Monitor System |
| STEP | Solar Terrestrial Energy Program |
| DASC | Defense Logistics Agency Administrative Support Center |
| WGS84 | World Geodetic Survey 1984 |
| GFLOPS | Gigaflops |
| SPIE | Society Of Photo-optical Engineers |