ACRONYM |
DEFINITION |
CONTRIBUTOR |
W |
watts (Symbol) (SI unit of power) |
Langley |
W |
Watt |
CASI |
W/S |
Wind Shear (Aviation) |
Langley |
W/S |
Work Stand |
Goddard |
WA |
Work Authorization |
Langley |
WAAS |
Wide Area Augmentation System |
CASI |
WAD |
Work Authorization Document |
Goddard |
WAIS |
West Antarctic Ice Sheet |
CASI |
WAIS |
Wide Area Information Server |
CASI |
WAL |
Watertown Arsenal Lab., MA |
CASI |
WAMDII |
Wide Angle Michelson Doppler Imaging Interferometer |
CASI |
WAN |
Wide Area Network |
Goddard |
WARC |
World Administrative Radio Conference |
CASI |
WARHUD |
Wide Angle Raster Head Up Display |
CASI |
WARP |
Wideband Advanced Recorder Processor |
Goddard |
WAVE |
WWW, Artificial Intelligence,
and Virtual Environments Exploration |
Goddard |
WB |
Wide Band |
Goddard |
WBD |
Wide Band Data Experiment (Cluster
II) |
Goddard |
WBGT |
Wet Bulb Globe Temperature |
CASI |
WBS |
Work Breakdown Structure |
CASI |
WBT |
Wet Bulb Temperature |
CASI |
WBVTR |
Wide Band Video Tape Recorder |
CASI |
WCA |
Worst Case Analysis |
Goddard |
WCRP |
World Climate Research Program |
Goddard |
WCS |
Work Control System (NASA) |
Langley |
WCS |
Writable Control Store |
Goddard |
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WD |
Watch Dog |
Goddard |
WD |
Wet/Dry Index |
CASI |
WDC |
World Data Center |
Goddard |
WDC-A |
World Data Center-A |
Goddard |
WDE |
Wheel Drive Electronics |
Goddard |
WDM |
Wavelength Division Multiplexing |
CASI |
WDT |
Watch Dog Timer |
Goddard |
WDT-O |
Watch Dog Timer-Out |
Goddard |
WEAR |
WBS Element Audit Review |
Goddard |
WEDM |
Wire Electric Discharge Machine |
Goddard |
WEFAX |
Weather Facsimile |
CASI |
WEMA |
Wallops Exchange and Morale Association |
Goddard |
WESRAC |
Western Research Applications Center |
CASI |
WESTAR |
Western Union Telegraph Communication Satellite |
CASI |
WETF |
Weightless Environment Training
Facility (JSC) |
Goddard |
WF/PC |
Wide-Field/Planetary Camera |
Goddard |
WFC |
Wide-Field Camera (part of WF/PC
or WFPC2) |
Goddard |
WFC3 |
Wide Field Camera 3 |
Goddard |
WFE |
Wave Front Error |
Goddard |
WFF |
Wallops Flight Facility |
Goddard |
WFF |
Wallops (Island) Flight Facility |
CASI |
WFOV |
Wide Field of View |
Goddard |
WFPC |
Wide Field Planetary Camera |
Goddard |
WFPC2 |
Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 |
Goddard |
WFPS |
Water-Filled Pore Space |
Goddard |
WFS |
Wave Front Sensor |
Goddard |
WFUV |
Wide-Field Ultraviolet (channel) |
Goddard |
WG |
Working Group |
Goddard |
WGH |
Womack General Hospital, Fort Bragg, NC |
CASI |
WGS |
Wallops Ground Station |
Goddard |
WI |
Wallops Island |
Goddard |
WI |
Work Instruction |
Goddard |
WIA |
Women in Aerospace |
Langley |
WICC |
Wallops Institutional Consolidated
Contract |
Goddard |
WIDE |
Wide-angled Infinity Display
Equipment |
Langley |
WIG |
Within Grade |
Goddard |
WIG |
Within Grade Increase |
Langley |
WIMPs |
Weakly Interactive Massive Particles |
CASI |
WINCE |
Winter Cloud Experiment |
Goddard |
WIND |
Solar Wind Mission - An interplanetary
spacecraft of ISTP |
Goddard |
WIND |
Interplanetary Space Physics Mission |
CASI |
WINDEX |
Window Experiment |
CASI |
WINDII |
Wind Imaging Interferometer |
Langley |
WINE |
Winter In Northern Europe (MAP Middle Atmosphere
Program) |
CASI |
WIP |
Work In Progress |
Langley |
WIRE |
Wide Field Infrared Explorer |
Goddard |
WIRE |
Widearea Infrared Explorer |
CASI |
WISE |
Women into Science and Engineering |
Langley |
WISP |
Waves in Space Plasma |
CASI |
WIT |
WFPC Insertion Tool |
Goddard |
WITS |
Worldwide IonosphereThermosphere Study |
CASI |
WKB |
Wentzell Krammers Brillouin Approximation |
CASI |
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WL |
Western Laboratories (of BASD) |
Goddard |
WLC |
White Light Coronagraph |
CASI |
WMO |
World Meteorological Organization |
CASI |
WMS |
Wide Field Planetary Camera Mechanical
Simulator |
Goddard |
WMS |
Waste Management System |
CASI |
WO |
Work Order |
Langley |
WOA |
Work Order Authorization |
Goddard |
WOCE |
World Ocean Circulation Experiment |
CASI |
WON |
Women of NASA |
Langley |
WORM |
Write Once Read Memory |
CASI |
WOSE |
Weather Officer in Space Experiment |
CASI |
WOTIS |
Wallops Orbital Tracking Information
System |
Goddard |
WOTS |
Wallops Orbital Tracking Station |
Goddard |
WP |
White Paper |
Goddard |
WP |
Work Package |
CASI |
WPC |
Wave Particle Correlator |
Goddard |
WPM |
Work Package Manager |
Langley |
WPS |
Welding Procedure Specification
(Nuclear energy) |
Langley |
WR |
Western Range |
Goddard |
WRAIR |
Walter Reed Army Inst. of Research, Washington,
DC |
CASI |
WRAP |
Weapons Readiness Achievement Program |
CASI |
WRO |
Work Release Order |
Langley |
WRS |
Work Request System |
Goddard |
WRS |
Waste Removal System |
CASI |
WRS |
World Reference System |
CASI |
WS |
Workstation |
CASI |
WSB |
Women-owned Small Business |
Goddard |
WSC |
White Sands Complex |
Goddard |
WSEG |
Weapons Systems Evaluation Group, Dept. of
Defense, Washington, DC |
CASI |
WSF |
Wake Shield Facility |
CASI |
WSGT |
White Sands Ground Terminal |
CASI |
WSMC |
Western Space and Missile Center |
Goddard |
WSMCR |
Western Space & Missile
Center Regulation |
Goddard |
WSMR |
White Sands Missile Range |
Goddard |
WSR |
Weather Surveillance Radar |
Goddard |
WSTF |
White Sands Test Facility |
CASI |
WT |
Whale Tracker |
Goddard |
WTE |
Wind Tunnel Enterprise |
Langley |
WTR |
Western Test Range |
CASI |
WUIS |
Work Unit Information System
(Database) (DTIC) |
Langley |
WVR |
Water Vapor Radiometer |
CASI |
WVT |
Watervliet Arsenal, NY |
CASI |
WWW |
World Weather Watch |
Langley |
WWW |
World Wide Web |
Goddard |
WXM |
Wide field X-Ray Monitor (HETE-2) |
Goddard |
WY |
Work Year |
Goddard |
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