| Acronym | Meaning |
| NPOP | NASA Polar Orbiting Platform |
| BGP4 | Border Gateway Protocol Version 4 |
| PIBALS | Pilot Balloons |
| NPAS | Network Planning And Analysis System |
| PRC | Inc. |
| MBONE | Multicast BackBONE |
| NDTE | North Dakota Tracer Experiment |
| QG | Quasi-Geostrophic Analysis |
| AOML | Atlantic Ocean Meteorological Laboratory |
| SEAWIFS | Sea Wide-Field Sensor |