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| A/D | Analog-to-Digital Converter |
| ADA | Programming Language |
| ADTS | Advanced Detection Technology Sensor |
| AG | Application Generator |
| ASIC | Application-Specific Integrated Circuit |
| ATL | Advanced Technology Laboratories |
| BTD | Benchmark Technical Description |
| CAD | Computer-Aided Development |
| CE | Compute Element |
| CIDS | Configuration Item Development Specification |
| COTS | Commercial, Off-The-Shelf |
| CP | Command Program |
| CSIM | Lockheed Martin Internally-Developed Simulator |
| DARPA | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency |
| dB | Decibel |
| DFG | Data-Flow Graph |
| DSP | Digital Signal Processor |
| EAG | Equivalent Application Graph |
| EDIF | Electronic Data Interchange Format |
| EPROM | Electrically Programmable Read Only Memory |
| FFT | Fast Fourier Transform |
| FIFO | First In, First Out |
| FIR | Finite Impulse Response Filter |
| FO | Fiber-Optic |
| FPGA | Field-Programmable Gate Array |
| GEDAE | Graphical Entry, Distributed Applications Environment |
| GFLOP | Billion Floating-Point Operations per Second |
| GRAIL | Graph Translator |
| GRED | Graphical Editor |
| GUI | Graphical User Interface |
| HOT ROD | Fiber Optic Module from Triquint Semiconductor, Inc. |
| HH | Horizontal (transmitted), Horizontal (received) polarization |
| HV | Horizontal (transmitted), Vertical (received) polarization |
| HW | Hardware |
| IC | Integrated Circuit |
| IFFT | Inverse Fast Fourier Transform |
| I/O | Input/Output |
| ISE | Integrated Systems Engineering |
| JTAG | Joint Test Action Group (IEEE 1149) |
| LFM | Linear Frequency Modulation |
| LM | Lockheed Martin Corporation |
| MB | Mega Bytes |
| Mbps | Millions of bits per second |
| MCCI | Management Communications and Control, Inc. |
| MCM | Multi-Chip Module |
| MC/OS | Mercury Computer Operating System |
| MIT/LL | Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory |
| MUT | Model Under Test |
| NEP | Node Execution Parameters |
| OOA | Object-Oriented Analysis |
| OOD | Object-Oriented Design |
| ORCA | Optimized Reconfigurable Cell Array (FPGA from Lucent Technologies, Inc.) |
| PCB | Printed Circuit Board |
| PG | Partition Graphs |
| PGM | Processing Graph Method |
| PGSE | Processing Graph Simulation Environment |
| PLD | Programmable Logic Device |
| PRF | Pulse Repetition Frequency |
| PRICE | Parametric Review of Information for Costing & Evaluation |
| RACEway | Interconnect network developed by Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. |
| RASSP | Rapid Prototyping of Application-Specific Signal Processors |
| RCS | Radar Cross-Section |
| RDD-100 | System Design Tool - Ascent Logic |
| RINO | RACEway In/Out |
| RTL | Register Transfer Level |
| SAR | Synthetic Aperture Radar |
| SBC | Single-Board Computer |
| SDF | Standard Delay Format |
| SHARC | Super Harvard ARchitecture Computer |
| SIMD | Single Instruction, Multiple Data |
| SLOC | Software Lines of Code |
| SNR | Signal-to-Noise Ratio |
| SOW | Statement of Work |
| SPGN | Signal Processing Graph Notation |
| SRTS | Static Run Time System |
| SW | Software |
| UAV | Unmanned Aerial Vehicle |
| vdc | Volts, Direct Current |
| VH | Vertical (transmitted), Horizontal (received) polarization |
| VHDL | VHSIC Hardware Description Language |
| VHSIC | Very-High-Speed Integrated Circuits |
| VME | Versa Module Europa (module format) |
| VMEbus | Versa Module Europa Bus |
| VP | Virtual Prototype |
| VV | Vertical (transmitted), Vertical (received) polarization |