Ah yes, the acronyms. Since most of the stuff I do is government grants, there are acronyms for everything. The following is less for you in particular (though enjoy it if you feel like it) and more so I can link to it above.
APL: Applied Physics Lab (at Johns Hopkins University) DOD: Deparment of Defense (US) DARPA: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (US) (does high end hush hush top secret DOD research) IDC: Indirect Cost rate (the amount of overhead an institution can charge on top of the costs to do the research - keeps the lights on, pays my John's paycheck, etc) PI: Primary Investigator (or Project Investigator) (The doc doing the research) NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (US) JHU: Johns Hopkins University (yes, I really work there) MIT: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NIH: National Institutes of Health (US) R01: An award mechanism that the NIH uses to give money to investigators NGA: Notice of Grant Award (this acronym usually relates specifically to NIH's award documents, though we use it generally to mean awards from any federal agency)
Acronym primer
APL: Applied Physics Lab (at Johns Hopkins University)
DOD: Deparment of Defense (US)
DARPA: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (US) (does high end hush hush top secret DOD research)
IDC: Indirect Cost rate (the amount of overhead an institution can charge on top of the costs to do the research - keeps the lights on, pays
myJohn's paycheck, etc)PI: Primary Investigator (or Project Investigator) (The doc doing the research)
NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (US)
JHU: Johns Hopkins University (yes, I really work there)
MIT: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
NIH: National Institutes of Health (US)
R01: An award mechanism that the NIH uses to give money to investigators
NGA: Notice of Grant Award (this acronym usually relates specifically to NIH's award documents, though we use it generally to mean awards from any federal agency)