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Acronyms
AA
associate administrator
ACT
Advanced Component Technologies
AIST
Advanced Information Systems Technology
AO
Announcement of Opportunity
CALIPSO
Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations
CATSAT
Cooperative Astrophysics and Technology Satellite
CCOSM
Chemistry and Circulation Occultation Spectroscopy Mission
CDR
critical design review
CETDP
Cross-Enterprise Technology Development Program
Co-I
co-investigator
COTS
commercial off-the-shelf
CT
Computational Technologies
EC&TP
Enabling Concepts and Technologies Program
EOS
Earth Observing System
ESE
Earth Science Enterprise
ESSP
Earth System Science Pathfinder
ESTO
Earth Science Technology Office
ESTP
Earth Science Technology Program
EUV
extreme ultraviolet
FAA
Federal Aviation Administration
FAME
Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer
FFRDC
federally funded research and development center
GRACE
Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment
GSFC
Goddard Spaceflight Center
HYDROS
Hydrosphere State Mission
IIP
Instrument Incubator Program
JPL
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
LANL
Los Alamos National Laboratory
LASP
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
MAP
Microwave Anisotropy Probe mission
MCR
mission confirmation review
MDR
mission design review
MIDEX
Medium-Class Explorers
MM
mission manager
MSMT
Mission and Science Measurement Technology
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NCAR
National Center for Atmospheric Research
NEAR
Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission
NMP
New Millennium Program
NOAA
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NPG
NASA Procedures and Guidelines
NRA
NASA Research Announcement
NRL
Naval Research Laboratory
NSF
National Science Foundation
OCO
Orbiting Carbon Observatory
PDR
preliminary design review
PI
principal investigator
PM
project manager
QuikSCAT
Quick Scatterometer mission
SAGE
Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment
SBIR
Small Business Innovation Research
SDAP
Science Data Analysis Program
SeaWiFS
Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor
SMEX
Small Explorers
SORCE
Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment
SRR
system requirements review
SSE
Space Science Enterprise
STEDI
Student Explorer Demonstration Initiative
STTR
Small Business Technology Transfer
TMCO
technical, management, cost, and other
TOMS
Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer
TOPEX/Poseidon
Ocean Topography Experiment
TRL
technology readiness level
TRMM
Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
UARS
Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite
UnESS
University Earth System Science
UNEX
University Explorers
UNOLS
University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System
USGS
U.S. Geological Survey
USRA
Universities Space Research Association
VCL
Vegetation Canopy Lidar
VOLCAM
Volcanic Ash Mapper
WBS
work breakdown structure
