| Acronym | Meaning |
| HOSTAC | Helicopter Operations From Ships Other Than Aircraft Carriers |
| USPTO | United States Patent And Trademark Office |
| MERL | Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories |
| BES | Budget Estimate Submission |
| AHRQ | Agency For Healthcare Research And Quality |
| CHIPS | Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer |
| CCK | Cholecystokinin -Cocos (Keeling) Islands (ISO 3166 Trigram) |
| BYR | Belarusian Ruble (ISO 4217 Currency Code) |
| CR | Cree Language (ISO 639-1 Code) |
| LRP | Logistics Release Point |