| Acronym | Meaning |
| CDC | Centers For Disease Control |
| N-ROSS | Naval Research Oceanographic Satellite System |
| DASA | Defense Atomic Support Agency |
| GGNS | Grand Gulf Nuclear Station |
| DNP | Division Of Nuclear Physics |
| FLOPS | Floating Point Operations Per Second |
| FOF | Field Observing Faciltilty |
| UNESCO | United Nations Educational |
| FDDI | Fiber-distributed Data Interface |
| BASC | Barrow Arctic Science Consortium |