| Acronym | Meaning |
| MDC | Modified Direct Costs |
| DOSECC | Deep Observation And Sampling Of The Earth's Continental Crust |
| NEPH | Nephelometer |
| HRTS | High-resolution Telescope Spectrograph |
| ADP | Automatic Data Processing |
| WIFE | Wildfire Experiment |
| ACS | Auxiliary Cooling System |
| NTISS | National Telecommunications And Information Systems Security |
| MGA | Meteorological And Geoastrophysical Abstracts |
| ISRIC | International Soil Reference And Information Centre |