| Acronym | Meaning |
| DASD | Direct Access Storage Device |
| AEOS | Analytic Equation-of-state |
| AFI | Atomic Industrial Forum |
| NICI | Negative Ion Chemical Ionization |
| LERC | Lewis Research Center |
| SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol |
| SLAP | Shuttle Laser Altimeter Prototype |
| BWI | Baltimore-Washington International Airport |
| AFP | Approved Financial/funding Plan |
| JERS-1 | Japanese Earth Resources Sensing Satellite 1 |