| Acronym | Meaning |
| OPLE | Omega Position Location Equipment |
| BAMEX | Bow Echo And Mesoscale Convective Vortex (MCV) Experiment |
| ECR | Economic Cleanup Responsibility Act |
| STC | Society For Technical Communication |
| DCM | Deep Convection Model |
| STSP | Solar Terrestrial Science Programme |
| JPL | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| RANN | Research Applied To National Needs |
| GISP | Greeland Ice Sheet Program |
| APET | Accident Progression Event Tree |