| Acronym | Meaning |
| CBB | Contract Budget Baseline |
| BIORESP | Bio Response |
| AWIPS | Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System |
| NPS | Numerical Product Service |
| SESAME | Severe Environmental Storms And Mesoscale Experiment |
| ARMAR | Airborne Rain Mapping Radar |
| ADDE | Abstract Distributed Data Environment |
| IRD | Interface Requirements Document |
| QG | Quasi-Geostrophic Analysis |
| IR&D | Internal Research And Development |