Mil-E-Con: Military Electronic Conference (Sponsored by IRE). 

 MOHO: The Mohorovicic discontinuity. 

 MSTS: Military Sea Transport Service. 



NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 



NASCO: National Academy of Sciences Committee on Oceanography. 



NEL: United States Navy Electronics Laboratory. 



NODC: National Oceanographic Data Center. 



NSIA: National Security Industrial Association. 



OMEGA: A long-range navigation system originally developed for 



totally submerged submarines, giving worldwide coverage 

 with six to ten ground stations. 



ONR: Office of Naval Research. 



ORSA: Operations Research Society of America. 



RCA: Radio Corporation of America. 

 RF: Radiofrequency. 

 R/V: Research Vessel. 



SCOR: Special Committee on Oceanic Research. Set up by ICSU in 

 August 1957 as a means of coordinating the oceanographic 

 interests of lUGG (lAPO) and the various other ICSU unions, 

 such as those for biology, geography, chemistry, and physics. 

 Committees of national academies of science have been set 



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