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Acronyms
ACDA
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
AFOSR
Air Force Office of Scientific Research
AFPL
Air Force Phillips Laboratory
AFTAC
Air Force Technical Applications Center
ARPA
Advanced Research Projects Agency
BAA
Broad Agency Announcement
CD
Conference on Disarmament
CMT
Centroid-Moment Tensor
CSS
Center for Seismic Studies
CTBT
Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
DMC
Data Management Center (IRIS)
DoD
Department of Defense
DOE
Department of Energy
DSWA
Defense Special Weapons Agency (formerly Defense Nuclear Agency)
EMP
electromagnetic pulse
GA
global association
GPS
Global Positioning System
GSETT-3
Group of Scientific Experts Technical Test No. 3
HPGe
high-purity germanium
IDC
International Data Center
IMS
International Monitoring System
IRIS
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
ISC
International Seismological Centre
JVE
Joint Verification Experiment
LASA
Large Aperture Seismic Array
LLD
lower limit of detection
LLNL
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
LTA
long-term average
LTBT
Limited Test Ban Treaty
NDC
National Data Center
NEIS
National Earthquake Information Service
NOAA
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NRC
National Research Council
NSF
National Science Foundation
NTM
national technical means
NTPO
Nuclear Treaty Program Office
NTS
Nevada Test Site
ONR
Office of Naval Research
OSI
On-Site Inspection
PNE
peaceful nuclear explosion
PNNL
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
PRDA
Program Research Development Announcement
REB
Reviewed Event Bulletin (of the prototype IDC)
SOFAR
Sound Fixing and Ranging
STA
short-term average
SVP
sound velocity profile
TTBT
Threshold Test Ban Treaty
USGS
U.S. Geological Survey
