| Acronym | Meaning |
| HP | Hewlett-Packard |
| ALBM | Air-launched Ballistic Missile |
| ESIS | Earth Science Information System |
| PEP | Photo-electron Plasma |
| PERL | Practical Extraction And Report Language |
| AER | Average Evoked Response |
| TAMEX | Taiwan Mesoscale Experiment |
| ALWAS | Advanced Low-Level Wind Shear Alert System |
| GPC | Global Processing Center |
| OSSA | Office Of Space Science And Applications |