| ALMMII | American Lightweight Materials Manufacturing Innovation Institute |
| CMEDE | Center for Materials in Extreme Dynamic Environments |
| CRA | Collaborative Research Alliance |
| CRADA | cooperative research and development agreement |
| DMMI | Defense Materials Manufacturing and Infrastructure |
| EBDM | Electron Beam Direct Manufacturing |
| ESO | electronics, sensors, and others |
| FDM | Fused Deposition Modeling |
| FGP | functional gradient product |
| HEMI | Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute |
| ICME | Integrated Computational Materials Engineering |
| LM3I | Lightweight and Modern Metals Manufacturing Innovation Institute |
| MEDE | Materials in Extreme Dynamic Environments |
| NCAM | National Center for Advanced Manufacturing |
| NRC | National Research Council |
| PNNL | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| TARDEC | Tank Automotive Research, Development, and Engineering Center |