- GRB
- A Gamma-Ray Burst
- MWA
- The Murchison Widefield Array, radio telescope in Western Australia
- VCS
- Voltage Capture System, an instrument on the MWA which captures data at the highest time/frequency resolution
- ATCA
- Australia Telescope Compact Array, radio telescope in New South Wales
- SWIFT
- The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, a Gamma-Ray telescope in orbit with x-ray, UV, and optical instruments.
- Fermi
- A Gamma-Ray space telescope.
- VOEvent
- Virtual Observatory Event, a format for distributing notices
- PostgreSQL
- A database management system, also known as Postrgres
- Nimbus
- A cloud compute system provided by Pawsey.
- Pawsey
- A super-computing facility in Perth. Hosts the MWA data archive, and provides most of the computing support for WA astronomers.