| Acronym | Meaning |
| AWWA | American Waterworks Association |
| CDS | Coronal Doppler Spectrometer |
| NIMBUS | Networked Information Management Client-Based User Service |
| MPS | Radar System |
| NOMAD | Navy Oceanographic Meteorological Device |
| AEP | Alkaline Earth Precipitate |
| XMDSL | X Window Interface Distributed Software Library |
| NRL | Naval Research Laboratory |
| AWRDF | Advanced Weapons Radiochemical Diagnostics Facility |
| WORMTOMS | WORM To Mass Storage System |