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Acronyms and Abbreviations
AEHF | Advanced Extremely High Frequency |
AFRL | Air Force Research Laboratory |
AI | artificial intelligence |
AIAA | American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics |
ASF | Alaska Satellite Facility |
CAIP | Capability and Affordability Improvement Program |
CDS | CubeSat Design Specification |
CHIRP | Commercially Hosted Infrared Payload |
CSDA | Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition |
CWDP | Commercial Weather Data Pilot |
CYGNSS | Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System |
DAU | Defense Acquisition University |
DoD | Department of Defense |
EASE | Evolutionary Acquisition for Space Efficiency |
ECMWF | European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting |
EMC | electromagnetic compatibility |
EMI | electromagnetic interference |
ENSO | El Niño-Southern Oscillation |
ESA | European Space Agency |
ESP-MACCS | Earth System Processes Monitored in the Atmosphere by a Constellation of CubeSats |
ESTO | Earth Science Technology Office |
EVM-3 | Earth Venture Mission |
FAR | Federal Acquisition Regulations |
FFRDC | Federally Funded Research and Development Center |
GAO | Government Accountability Office |
GEO | geosynchronous Earth orbit |
GNSS-R | Global Navigation Satellite System Reflectometry |
GNSS-RO | Global Navigation Satellite System Radio Occultation |
GOES | Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite |
GPM | Global Precipitation Measurement |
GPS | global positioning system |
GRACE | Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment |
HARP | Hyper-Angular Rainbow Polarimeter |
HOPS | Hosted Payloads Solutions |
HSA | Hybrid Space Architecture |
HydroGNSS | Hydrological Global Navigation Satellite System |
IDIQ | Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (contract) |
IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
INCUS | Investigation of Convective Updrafts |
IoT | Internet of Things |
IP | intellectual property |
IPO | initial public offering |
ISR | intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance |
ISS | International Space Station |
JAXA | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency |
LEO | low Earth orbit |
ML | machine learning |
MODIS | Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer |
NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
NEN | Near Earth Network |
NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
NOPP | National Oceanographic Partnership Program |
NRE | nonrecurring engineering |
NRO | National Reconnaissance Office |
NSF | National Science Foundation |
NWP | Numerical Weather Prediction |
ONR | Office of Naval Research |
OSC | Orbital Sciences Corporation |
OTA | Other Transactions Authority |
PMM | Precipitation Measurement Mission |
PNT | positioning, navigation, and timing |
PPOD | Poly Picosat Orbital Deployer |
PPP | public–private partnership |
RAVEN | Radiometer Assessment Using Vertically Aligned Nanotubes |
R&D | research and development |
REACH | Responsive Environmental Assessment Commercially Hosted |
RGS | Remote Ground Station |
RO | radio occultation |
RSDO | Rapid Spacecraft Development Office |
S&T | science and technology |
S3VI | Small Spacecraft Systems Virtual Institute |
SAE | Society of Automotive Engineers |
SAR | Synthetic Aperture Radar |
SBIR | Small Business Innovative Research |
SMAP | Soil Moisture Active Passive |
SMD | Science Mission Directorate |
SMOS | Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity |
SPAC | Special-Purpose Acquisition Company |
SPEC | Space Enterprise Consortium |
SPRSA | Small Payload Rideshare Association |
SSC | Space Systems Command |
SSCA | Small Spacecraft Coordination Activity |
SSCG | Small Spacecraft Coordination Group |
SSTP | Small Spacecraft Technology Program |
STTR | Small Business Technology Transfer |
SWOT | Surface Water and Ocean Topography |
TANGO | Twin Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gas Observers |
TEMPEST-D | Temporal Experiment for Storms and Tropical Systems Demonstration |
TEMPO | Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (sensor) |
TOMS | Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (satellite) |
TRMM | Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission |
UAV | unmanned aerial vehicle |
USAF | U.S. Air Force |
USGS | U.S. Geological Survey |
USSF | U.S. Space Force |
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