Government Acronyms

The United States Government uses a lot of government acronyms that help the various systems within the governmental structure to run more efficiently. These government acronyms use the first (or first few) letters of each word of an important phrase are put together to form a new “word” that symbolizes the original phrase. Below is a condensed list of some of the important government acronyms used by the United States Government.

Condensed List of Government Acronyms

• ACC Air Combat Command
• ACD Advanced Counterfeit Deterrence
• ACDA United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
• ACE Automated Commercial Environment
• ACES Active Community Environments Initiative
• ACF Administration for Children and Families
• ACFR Administrative Committee of the Federal Register
• ACHP Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
• AcqNet AcqNet
• ACQWeb Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology
• ACS Office of American Citizens Services and Crisis Management
• ACSFA Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance
• ACYF Administration for Children, Youth, and Families
• BNL Brookhaven National Laboratory
• BNQP Baldrige National Quality Program
• BOP Federal Bureau of Prisons
• BOR Bureau of Reclamation
• BPA Bonneville Power Administration
• BPC Best Practices Committee
• BPD Bureau of the Public Debt
• BPHC Bureau of Primary Health Care
• BRAC Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission
• BRB Benefits Review Board
• BRD Biological Resource Division
• BRFSS Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
• BRS Biotechnology Regulatory Service
• BSE Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (Mad Cow Disease)
• BTA Business Transformation Agency
• BTOP Broadband Technology Opportunities Program
• CAOC Chief Acquisition Officers Council
• CAP Civil Air Patrol
• CAPPS II Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System
• CARS Car Allowance Rebate System
• CASMIRC Child Abduction and Serial Murder Investigative Resources Center
• CATC Clean Air Technology Center
• CB Children's Bureau
• CBCA Civilian Board of Contract Appeals
• CBER Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
• DERT Division of Extramural Research & Training
• DESA Department of Economic and Social Affairs
• DESC Defense Energy Support Center
• DFAS Defense Finance and Accounting Service
• DFEC Division of Federal Employees' Compensation
• DHAC Division of Health Assessment and Consultation
• DHRA Defense Human Resources Activity
• DHS Department of Homeland Security
• EDIE Electronic Deposit Insurance Estimator
• EEEL Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory
• EEOC Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
• EEOICP Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program
• EEOMBD Ombudsman for the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program
• EERE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
• FINCEN Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
• FIPS Federal Information Processing Standard
• FISA Federal Intelligence Surveillance Court
• FJC Federal Judicial Center
• FLC Federal Laboratory Consortium
• FLETC Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
• FLH Office of Federal Lands Highway
• FLICC Federal Library and Information Center Committee
• FLRA Federal Labor Relations Authority
• FMAP Federal Medical Assistance Percentage
• FMC Federal Maritime Commission
• GPC Grants Policy Committee
• GPO Government Printing Office
• GPRA Government Performance and Results Act
• GPS  Global Positioning System
• GSA General Services Administration
• GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center
• GSTC Geospatial Service and Technology Center
• G/TIP Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
• HIFCA High Intensity Financial Crime Area
• HIP Migratory Bird Harvest Information Program
• HIPAA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
• HISPC Health Information Security and Privacy Collaboration
• HMDA Home Mortgage Disclosure Act
• HMI Healthy Marriage Initiative
• HPCC High Performance Computing and Communications
• LM Office of Legacy Management
• LOC Library of Congress
• LOCIS Library of Congress Information System
• LSC Legal Services Corporation
• MDA Missile Defense Agency
• MDB Multilateral Development Banks
• MDW Military District of Washington
• MedPAC Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
• MEP Manufacturing Extension Partnership
• MEPS Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
• MeSH Medical Subject Headings
• OACU Office of Animal Care and Use
• OAG Office of the Attorney General
• OAHP Office of Affordable Housing Preservation
• OAIT Office of American Indian Trust
• OALJ Office of Administrative Law Judges
• TPS Technical Preservation Services
• TRI Toxics Release Inventory
• TSA Transportation Security Administration
• TSC Terrorist Screening Center
• TSI Transportation Safety Institute
• UNAIDS Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
• UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
• UNHCR United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Program
• UNICEF United Nations Children's Fund
• UNICOR Federal Prison Industries, Inc.
• UNSCEAR United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation UPU Universal Postal Union
• USA United States Army
• USACE U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• USAF United States Air Force
• USAFA United States Air Force Academy