| Acronym | Meaning |
| AA | Adverse Action |
| MISR | Multiangle Imaging Spectroradiometer |
| WOS | Weather Observing Systems Committee |
| ABS | Automatic Backup Shutdown |
| FNAL | Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory |
| ARA | Appletalk Remote Access |
| BPSG | Budget Planning And Systems Group |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| SPIRES | Stanford Physics Information Retrieval System |
| DD | Dated |