| ADCI/C | Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Collection |
| ASAF/Space | Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Space (NRO Director) |
| CFI | Committee on Foreign Intelligence |
| CIA | Central Intelligence Agency |
| CMO | Central MASINT Organization |
| COMMS | NRO Communications Directorate |
| DARO | Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office |
| DCI | Director of Central Intelligence |
| DDCI | Deputy Director of Central Intelligence |
| DDCI/CM | Deputy Director of Central Intelligence for Community Management |
| DDMS | NRO's Deputy Director for Military Support |
| DDNS | NRO's Deputy Director for National Support |
| DIA | Defense Intelligence Agency |
| DoD | Department of Defense |
| DRSP | Defense Reconnaissance Support Program |
| DSPO | Defense Support Project Office |
| DSRP | Defense Space Reconnaissance Program |
| DS&T | CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology |
| EELV | Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle |
| EXCOM | Executive Committee |
| FIA | Future Imagery Architecture |
| HPSCI | House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence |
| HUMINT | Human Intelligence |
| IC | Intelligence Community |
| ICBM | Intercontinental Ballistic Missile |
| IMINT | Imagery Intelligence |
| IOSA | Integrated Overhead Signals Intelligence Architecture |
| JMIP | Joint Military Intelligence Program |
| JROC | Joint Requirements Oversight Council |
| MASINT | Measurement and Signature Intelligence |
| MIND | FIA's Mission Integration and Development Element |
| NASA | National Aeronautical and Space Agency |
| NFIP | National Foreign Intelligence Program |
| NIMA | National Imagery and Mapping Agency |
| NRO | National Reconnaissance Office |
| NRP | National Reconnaissance Program |
| NSA | National Security Agency |
| NSC | National Security Council |
| NSCID | National Security Council Intelligence Directive |
| OD&E | CIA's Office of Development and Engineering |
| OSR | Office of Space Reconnaissance |
| PDD | Presidential Decision Directive |
| RD&A | Research, Development and Acquisition |
| SAFSP | Secretary of the Air Force Office of Special Programs |
| SBIRS | Space-Based Infrared System |
| SIGINT | Signals Intelligence |
| SSCI | Senate Select Committee on Intelligence |
| SWARF | Senior Warfighters Forum |
| TIARA | Tactical Intelligence and Related Activities |
| TPED | Tasking, Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination |
| USIB | United States Intelligence Board |
