| Acronym | Meaning |
| CASE | Computer Aided Software Engineering |
| OSI | Open Systems Interconnection |
| AWSMSC | Air Weather Service Master Station Catalog |
| ELLWAS | Enhanced Low-Level Windshear Alert System |
| IAU | International Astronomical Union |
| ACM | Advanced Cruise Missile |
| CASES | Cooperative Atmosphere Surface Exchange Study |
| THERMEX | Thermal Wave Experiment |
| TDMC | TAMEX Data Management Center |
| IDI | Instrumentation Development And Intercomparisons |