Acronyms

2D: Two dimensional (science)

3D FLS: 3d forward-looking sonar (science)

3D: Three dimensional (science)

4D: Four dimensional (science)

A1: Auditory cortex (science)

AAAI: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (org)

AAAS: American Association for the Advancement of Science (org)

AARP: American Association of Retired Persons (org)

ABC-CT: Autism Biomarkers Consortium for Clinical Trials (org)

AC: Advisory committee (org)

AC&S: Advanced computing and software (org)

ACCI: Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure (org)

ACCS: Advanced Computing Systems and Services (program)

ACED: Accelerating Computing-Enabled Scientific Discovery (program)

ACM: Appropriations and Cash Management Module (administrative)

ACM: Association for Computing Machinery (org)

ACUE: The Association of College and University Educators (org)

AD: activation domain (science)

AD: administratively determined (administrative)

AD: Assistant director (role)

ADA: Americans with Disabilities Act (law)

ADL: Activities of daily living (science)

ADOPTS: Agile DevOps Process Transformation (software)

ADR: alternative dispute resolution (administrative)

AF: Algorithmic Foundations (org)

AFGE: American Federation of Government Employees (org)

AFRI: Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (program)

AFRL: Air Force Research Laboratory (org)

Ag: Agriculture (science)

AGEP: Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (program)

AGI: Artificial general intelligence (policy)

AGSI: Artificial general/super intelligence (science)

AGU: American Geophysical Union (org)

AHM: All hands meeting (administrative)

AHRQ: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (org)

AI COP: AI Community of practice (org)

AI: Artificial intelligence (science)

AIDG: AI and Data Governance Committee (org)

AIDGC: AI and Data Governance Committee (org)

AIEW: AI Education and Workforce Working group (org)

AIGB: AI Governance Board (org)

AIGO: Working Party on Artificial Intelligence Governance (org)

AISC: AI Steering Committee (org)

AISI: AI Safety Institute (org)

AISL: Advancing Informal STEM Learning (program)

AIVO: AI Virtual Organization (org)

AKA: Alpha Kappa Alpha (org)

AKA: also known as (administrative)

ALDAC: All Diplomatic and Consular Posts (document)

ALS: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (science)

ALX: Alexandria, VA (place)

ANR: French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (org)

AOAM: Agency Operation and Award Management (administrative)

AOR: Authorized Organizational Representative (role)

AP-CSA: Advanced Placement Computer Science A (course)

APDM: Administrative Position Description Model (administrative)

API: application programming interface (science)

APLU: Association of Public & Land-Grant Universities (org)

APM: Annual planning meeting (meeting)

APNSA: Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (role)

APR: Annual Progress Report (document)

APSSB: artificial intelligence (AI) powered personalized, highly adhesive, self-oxygenating smart bandage (science)

APST: Assistant to the President on Science and Technology (role)

APTO: Assessing and Predicting Technology Outcomes (program)

AR: Administrative Review (administrative)

AR: Augmented reality (science)

ARC-AGI-2: Abstract and Reasoning Corpus for Artificial General Intelligence (science)

ARP: American Rescue Plan (program)

ARPA-E: Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (org)

ARPA-H: Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (org)

ARRP: Agency RIF and Reorganization Plans (document)

ARS: Agricultural Research Service (org)

ASAP: As soon as possible (administrative)

ASCR: Advanced Scientific Computing Research (program)

ASD: autism spectrum disorder (science)

ASIC: Application-specific integrated circuit (science)

ASP: Answer Set Programming (science)

ASR: automatic speech recognition (science)

AST: Astronomy (org)

ASTP: Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy (role)

AT: Assistive Technology (science)

ATE: Advanced Technological Education (program)

ATP: Agricultural Technology Provider (org designation)

AV: Autonomous vehicle (science)

AWS: alternative work schedule (administrative)

B2BI: Brain-to-brain interface (science)

BART: Balloon Analogue Risk Task (science)

BBSRC: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (org)

BCC: Blind carbon copy (administrative)

BCI: Brain-computer interface (science)

BCS: Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (org)

BD: Budget Division (org)

BEA: Bureau of Economic Analysis (org)

BER: Biological and Environmental Research (program)

BETO: Bioenergy Technologies Office (org)

BFA: Budget Finance Awards (org)

BIO: Biology (org)

BIS: Bureau of Industry and Security (org)

BLEU: Bilingual Evaluation Understudy (science)

BLS: Bureau of Labor Statistics (org)

BLUF: Bottom line up front (administrative)

BLV: blind and low vision (science)

BOM: Business operations manager (role)

BP: Broadening Participation (administrative)

BPC: Broadening Participation in Computing (administrative)

BPLG: Budget Planning and Liaison Group (org)

BS: Bachelor of Science (program)

BSF: Binational Science Foundation (org)

BTO: Biological Technologies Office (org)

BU: Bargaining unit (role designation)

BVI: blind visually impaired (science)

C2PA: Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (org)

CA: California (place)

CA: conversational agent (science)

CA: Cooperative agreement (document designation)

CAE: Center of Academic Excellence (org designation)

CBA: Centrally Billed Account (administrative)

CBA: Collective bargaining agreement (document)

CBET: Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems (org)

CBO: Chief of Business Operations (role)

CBO: Congressional Budget Office (org)

CBRN: Chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (policy)

CC: carbon copy (administrative)

CC*: Campus Cyberinfrastructure (program)

CCAR: Challenge-Context-Action-Result (administrative)

CCB: Change Control Board (org)

CCC: Computing Community Consortium (org)

CCD: community-centered design (administrative)

CCF: Common Crawl Foundation (org)

CCF: Computing and Communications Foundations (org)

CCP: Chinese Communist Party (org)

CCRI: CISE CommunER:ity Research Infrastructure (program)

CDAO: Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (org)

CDC: Center for Disease Control (org)

CDEP: Community-Defined Evidence Practices (administrative designation)

CDIO: Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer (role)

CDL: Commercial drivers license (document)

CDO: chief data officer (role)

CDR: Commander (role)

CDRH: Center for Devices and Radiological Health (org)

CDS&E: Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering (program)

CDSS: clinical decision support system (science)

CDT: Center for Democracy and Technology (org)

CE: Critical element (administrative)

CEN: Office of Central American Affairs (org)

CEOSE: Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering (org)

CERP: Center for evaluating the research pipeline (org)

CEST MRI: Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer Magnetic Resonance Imaging (science)

CET: Central European Time (administrative)

CFC: Combined Federal Campaign (program)

CFO: Chief Financial Officer (role)

CFPB: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (org)

CFR: Code of Federal Regulations (document)

CGI: Computer-generated imagery (science)

CGI: Continuing grant increment (administrative)

CHCO: Chief Human Capital Officer (role)

CHE: Chemistry (org)

CI: cyber infrastructure (science)

CICI: Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (program)

CIF: Communications and Information Foundations (program)

CIO: chief information officer (role)

CIRC: Community Infrastructure for Research in CISE (program)

CISA: Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (org)

CISE: Computer and Information Science and Engineering (org)

CIVIC: Civic Innovation Challenge (program)

CJS: Commerce Justice Science (org)

CLB: Career-life balance (program)

CLDP: career ladder development plan (program)

CMG: CISE Management Group (org)

CMMI: Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (org)

CMMI: Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (org)

CMO: Committee Management Officer (role)

CMS: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (org)

CMU: Carnegie-Mellon University (org)

CNN: Convolutional neural network (science)

CNPS: Computing-Enabled Networked Physical Systems (org)

CNS: Division of Computer and Network (org)

CO: Colorado (place)

CO: Coordinating Official (role)

CO2: Carbon dioxide (science)

COA: Collaborators and Other Affiliations (administrative)

COB: Close of business (administrative)

COE: Centers of Excellence (org designation)

COFFA: Council on Federal Financial Assistance (org)

COI: Conflict of interest (administrative)

COLA: cost of living adjustment (administrative)

COO: Chief operating officer (role)

COR: Council on Research (org)

CORF: Chief of Research Facilities (role)

COS: Chief of staff (role)

CoT: Chain-of-thought (science)

COV: Committee of visitors (org)

COVID: Coronavirus Disease (science)

CPO: Chief product officer (role)

CPP: City Pair Program (program)

CPS: complex partial seizures (science)

CPS: Cyberphysical systems (program)

CPSC: Consumer Product Safety Commission (org)

CQ: Congressional Quarterly (document)

CR: continuing resolution (administrative)

CR2: second continuing resolution (administrative)

CRA: Computing Research Association (org)

CRADA: Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (document)

CRCNS: Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (program)

CRD: chronic respiratory disease (science)

CRDA: Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (program)

CRDA: Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (document)

CREATE AI: Creating Resources for Every American To Experiment with Artificial Intelligence (document)

CREST: Canary Cancer Research Education Summer Training (program)

CRII: CISE Research Initiation Initiative (program)

CRM: Customer Relationship Management (administrative)

CRSSP: Chief of Research Security Strategy and Policy (role)

CS: computer science (science)

CS2: Correctness for Scientific Computing Systems (program)

CSAM: Child Sexual Abuse Material (document designation)

CSB: Co operative Support Branch (org)

CSCW: computer-supported cooperative work (science)

CSE: CISE (org)

CSEd: Computer Science Education (science)

CSET: Center for Security and Emerging Technology (org)

CSforAll: Computer Science for All (program)

CSGrad4US: Computer and Information Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship Program (program)

CSI: Connectivity Services and Infrastructures (org)

CSIA: Cybersecurity and Information Assurance (org)

CSIRO: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (org)

CSIS: Center for Strategic and International Studies (org)

CSO: Chief science officer (role)

CSR: Center for Scientific Review (org)

CSR: Computer systems research (program)

CSTB: Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (org)

CSW: Code Switching (science)

CTII: Cyber Threat Information and Intelligence (administrative)

CU: University of Colorado at Boulder (org)

CUE: Computing in Undergraduate Education (program)

CUI: Controlled unclassified information (document designation)

CUI: Conversational user interface (science)

CUX: conversational user experience (science)

CV: Curriculum vitae (document)

CVEs: Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (administrative)

CX: Customer experience (administrative)

CY: Calendar year (administrative)

D1: dopamine 1 (science)

D2: dopamine 2 (science)

DACS: Division of Acquisition and Cooperative Support (org)

DAD: Deputy Assistant Director (role)

DAO: Data Analytics Officer (role)

DARPA: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (org)

DAS: Division of Administrative Services (org)

DASS: Designing Accountable Software Systems (program)

DBI: Division of Biological Infrastructure (org)

DBIR: Design Based Implementation Research (science)

DBMS: Database Management Systems (science)

DC: District of Columbia (place)

DCC: Dynamics, Control and Cognition (org)

DCL: Dear Colleague Letter (document designation)

DCMS: Department for Culture, Media and Sport (org)

DCSA: Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (org)

DCSD: Dynamics, Control and Systems Diagnostics (program)

DD: developmentally delayed (science)

DD: Division director (role)

DDAI: Data Driven Artificial Intelligence (administrative)

DDD: Deputy division director (role)

DDD: developmental disabilities and delays (science)

DDL: Data Definition Language (science)

DEC: Department of Environmental Conservation (org)

DEI: diversity, equity, inclusion (administrative)

DEIA: diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility (administrative)

DEMA: Digital Economics, Measurement, and Analysis (org)

DepSecDef: Deputy Secretary of Defense (role)

DESC: Design for Environmental Sustainability in Computing (program)

DFFT: Data free flow with trust (org)

DFM: Division of Financial Management (org)

DFT: density functional theory (science)

DG-CNECT: Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (org)

DG: Director General (role)

DGA: Division of Grants and Agreements (org)

DGP: Working Party on Data Governance and Privacy (org)

DGX: Deep GPU Xceleration (software designation)

DHRD: Digital Health R&D (org)

DHS: Department of Homeland Security (org)

DIAS: Division of Institution and Award Support (org)

DIB: Defense Industrial Base (org designation)

DIRO: Director of Office (role)

DIS: Division of Information Systems (org)

DISKO: Distributed IT Specialists Knowledge Outfit (org)

DIU: Defense Innovation Unit (org)

DIY: Do it yourself (science)

DL: deep learning (science)

DLD: developmental language disorder (science)

DLG: Directorate Liaison Group (org)

DLI-DEL: NSF Dynamic Language Infrastructure - NEH Documenting Endangered Languages (program)

DMA: Digital Markets Act (law)

DMP: Data management plan (document designation)

DMREF: Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (program)

DMS: Division of Mathematical Sciences (org)

DMSP: Data Management and Sharing Plan (document)

DN: Diary note (administrative)

DoD OASD(CT): Department of Defense Officer Assistant Secretary of Defense for Critical Technologies (org)

DOD: Department of Defense (org)

DOE SC: Department of Energy office of science (org)

DOE: Department of Energy (org)

DOGE: Department of Government Efficiency (org)

DOJ: Department of Justice (org)

DOO: Director of operations officer (role)

DOS: Department of State (org)

DOST: Department of Science and Technology (org)

DPC: Digital Policy Committee (org)

DPC: Domestic Policy Council (org)

DPM: Disability Program Manager (role)

DRL: Deep reinforcement learning (science)

DRL: Division of Research on Learning (org)

DRP: Deferred Resignation Program (program)

DRS: Document review system (administrative)

DS: Digital Security (org)

DSC: Data Science Corps (program)

DSM: Demand side management (science)

DSO: Defense Sciences Office (org)

DST: Department of Science and Technology (org)

DTRA: Defense Threat Reduction Agency (org)

DURC: Dual-use research concern (administrative)

E/I: excitatory/inhibitory (science)

EAC: Evaluation and Assessment Capability (org)

EADGSC: Evidence Act and Data Governance Steering Committee (org)

EAGER: EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (program)

EBI: Evidence-based Interventions (science)

EC: Electrochemical (science)

ECCS: Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (org)

ECG: Electrocardiogram (science)

ECoG: Electrocorticography (science)

ECQ: Executive Core Qualifications (administrative)

ECR:BCSER: EDU Core Research: Building Capacity in STEM Education Research (program)

ED: Department of Education (org)

EDA: Electrodermal Activity (science)

EDGE: Enabling Discovery through GEnomics (program)

EDI: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (administrative)

EDP: Executive Development Plan (document)

EDU: Directorate for STEM Education (org)

EEC: Engineering Education and Centers (org)

EEG: Electroencephalography (science)

EEO: Equal Employment Opportunity (law)

EEOB: Eisenhower executive office building (place)

EERE: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (org)

EES: Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM (org)

EFMA: Emerging Frontiers and Multidisciplinary Activities (org)

EGTA: empirical game theoretic approach (science)

EHR: Education and Human Resources (org)

EHR: Electronic health records (science)

EI: Emerging Industries (policy)

EI: Established Investigatoro (role designation)

EIC: Expeditions in Computing (program)

EiR: Excellence in Research (program)

EJ: eJacket (software)

ELT: Executive Leadership Team (org)

EM: electromagnetic (science)

EMG: Electromyography (science)

ENG: Engineering (org)

EO: Executive order (document)

EOD: Enter on Duty Date (administrative)

EODS: Entrance On Duty System (administrative)

EOI: Expression of interest (administrative)

EOL: End of life (software designation)

EOP: Executive Office of the President (org)

eOPF: Electronic Official Personnel Folder (software)

EPSCoR: Established Program to Stim­u­late Com­pet­i­tive Research (program)

EPSRC: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (org)

ER: Emergency room (science)

ER2: Ethical & Responsible Research (program)

ERB: Engineering Review Board (org)

ERB: Executive Resources Board (org)

ERC: Engineering Research Center (org)

ERI: Engineering Research Initiative (program)

ERMS: Electronic Records Management System (software designation)

ESB: Executive Service Branch (org)

ESI: Early-Stage Investigators (role designation)

ESR1: estrogen receptor 1 (science)

ESS: Excepted Service Section (role designation)

ET: Eastern Time (administrative)

ET: Essential tremor (science)

ETA: Employment and Training Administration (org)

ETA: Estimated time of arrival (administrative)

ETL: Extract-transform-load (science)

EU: European Union (org)

EWF: Education and workforce (program)

ExLENT: Experiential Learning for Emerging and Novel Technologies (program)

FAA: Federal Aviation Administration (org)

FACA: Federal Advisory Committee Act  (law)

FAI: Fairness in AI (program)

FAPESP: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (org)

FAQ: Frequently asked questions (document designation)

FAS: Federation of American Scientists (org)

FASED: Facilitation Awards for Scientists and Engineers with Disabilities (program)

FATC: Financial and administrative terms and conditions (law)

FCC: Federal Communications Commission (org)

FCRC: Federated Computing Research Conference (meeting)

FDA: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (org)

FEAT: Fairness ethics accountability transparency (administrative)

FEI: Federal Executive Institute (program)

FET: Foundations of Emerging Technologies (program)

FEVS: Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (document)

FF: forward funding (administrative)

FFF: Feds Feed Families (program)

FFRDC: Federally Funded Research and Development Center (org designation)

FFT: Fast Fourier Transform (science)

FHIR: Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (science)

FIC: Fogarty International Center (org)

FMIC: Foreign Malign Influence Center (org)

FMitF: Formal Methods in the Field (program)

FMLA: family medical leave act (law)

FMPM: Financial Management Policy Manual (document)

fMRI: functional magnetic resonance imaging (science)

fNIRS: Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (science)

FO: Financial Official (role)

FOIA: Freedom of information act (law)

FOSS: Free and Open Source Software (science)

FOUO: For official use only (administrative)

FOV: field-of-view (science)

FPGA: Field-Programmable Gate Array (science)

FR: Financial Review (administrative)

FRO: Focused Research Organization (org designation)

FRR: Foundational Research in Robotics (program)

FSDR: Financing for sustainable development report (document)

FTAC: Fast-track Action Committee (org)

FTC: Federal Trade Commission (org)

FTR: Federal Travel Regulations (administrative)

FW-HTF: Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier (program)

Fw: Forward (administrative)

FWIW: For what it’s worth (administrative)

FY: Fiscal Year (administrative)

FYA: for your awareness (administrative)

FYDP: Future Years Defense Program (software)

FYI: For your information (administrative)

FYSA: For Your Situational Awareness (administrative)

G: Gravity (science)

g2g: got to go (administrative)

GAIRA: Global AI Research Agenda (document)

GAO: Government Accountability Office (org)

GARA: Google Academic Research Awards (program)

GBV: Gender-based violence (policy)

GDPR: General Data Protection Regulation (law)

GEC: Global Engagement Center (org)

GFE: Government furnished equipment (administrative)

GFM: geospatial foundation model (science)

GFTech: Global Forum on Technology (meeting)

GHG: Greenhouse gas (science)

GLM: generalized linear model (science)

GNN: graph neural network (science)

GOALI: Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (program)

GPAI: Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (org)

gpCAM: Gaussian Process CAMERA (science)

GPLVM: Gaussian process latent variable model (science)

GPO: Government Publishing Office (org)

GPRA: Government Performance and Results Act (law)

GPT: Generative Pre-Trained model (science)

GPU: Graphics Processing Unit (science)

GRFP: Graduate Research Fellowship Program (program)

GS: General Schedule (administrative)

GSA: General Services Administration (org)

GTC: GPU Technology Conference (meeting)

gtg: Got to go (administrative)

GTO: Geothermal technologies (org)

GU: genitourinary (science)

GUI: Graphical user interface (science)

GUIRR: Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable (org)

GWAS: genome-wide association study (science)

GWF: General Workforce (role designation)

H&E: hematoxylin and eosin (science)

HAL: Holistic Agent Leaderboard (document)

HBCU: Historically black colleges and universities (org designation)

HCC: Human Centered Computing (program)

HCI: Human-computer interaction (science)

HDR: Harnessing the Data Revolution (program)

HEC IWG: High End Computing Interagency Working Group (org)

HHS: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (org)

HIE: Health information exchange (org)

HIPAA: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (law)

HITL: human-in-the-loop (science)

HMD: Head-mounted display (science)

HMI: Human-machine interface (science)

HPC: high performance computing (science)

HPCMP: High Performance Computing Modernization Program (program)

HQ: headquarters (administrative)

HR: Human Resources (org designation)

HRI: Human-robot interaction (science)

HRM: Human Resource Management (org)

HRSA: Health Resources and Services Administration (org)

HS: High School (org)

HSI: Hispanic serving institution (org designation)

HSR: High speed rail (science)

HSST: House Committee on Science Space & Technology (org)

HST: Harry S Truman Federal Building (place)

HUD: Housing and Urban Development (org)

I/DD: Intellectual and developmental disabilities (science)

I2O: Information Innovation Office (org)

IAA: inter-agency agreement (document)

iAG: informal Advisory Group (org)

IARPA: Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (org)

IAS: Integrative Activities Specialist (role)

IC: Institute/Center (org)

IC: Intelligence community (org designation)

ICF: Ice Core Facility (org)

ICH: image-based computational hemodynamic (science)

ICP/MA: International Information and Communications Policy, Office of Multilateral Affairs (org)

ICT: Information and computer technology (science)

ICU: Intensive care unit (science)

ICYMI: In case you missed it (administrative)

IDA: Institute for Defense Analyses (org)

IDC: Indirect cost (administrative)

IDP: Individual Development Plan (document)

IEDO: Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office (org)

IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (org)

IEEPA: International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 (law)

IES: Institute of Education Sciences (org)

IFP: Institute for Progress (org)

IHBEM: Incorporating Human Behavior in Epidemiological Models (program)

IHE: Institution of higher education (org designation)

III: Information Integration & Informatics (program)

IIS: Intelligent and information systems (org)

IK: Indigenous Knowledge (science)

ILO: International Labour Organization (org)

IM: Intellectual Merit (administrative)

IMF: International Monetary Fund (org)

IMHO: In my humble opinion (administrative)

IMT: Institutions, Markets, Technologies (org)

IMU: Inertial measurement unit (science)

iOS: iPhone operating system (science)

IoT: internet of things (science)

IP: intellectual property (policy)

IPA: interagency personnel agreement (law)

IPC: Interagency Policy Committee (org)

IR/D: Independent Research / Development (program)

IRB: Institutional Review Board (org)

IRM: Office of Information & Resource Management (org)

ISO/IEC: International Organization for Standardization and the International Electrotechnical Commission (org)

IT: Information technology (science)

ITEST: Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (program)

ITIF: Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (org)

ITR: Information Technology Research (org)

iTRAK: Integrating tracking system (software)

ITYC: Innovation in Two-Year College STEM Education (program)

IUCRC: Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers (program)

IUSE: Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (program)

IUSSTF: Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (org)

IwA: Individuals with Autism (science)

IWG: interagency working group (org designation)

JAX: Just after execution (software)

JCM: Joint committee meeting (meeting)

JD: Joydip Kundu (person)

JHUAPL: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (org)

JRC: Joint Research Centre (org)

JSC: Johnson Space Center (org)

JST: Japan Science and Technology Agency (org)

K+: Potassium ions (science)

K12: Kindergarten through 12th grade (administrative)

KCS: Kutlu-Calipari-Schmajuk model (science)

KG: knowledge graph (science)

KIQ: key intelligence questions (administrative)

KPI: Key Performance Indicator (administrative)

KSA: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (place)

KV: key-value (science)

KYC: Know Your Customer (administrative)

LA: Legislative assistant (role)

LC: Low competitive (administrative)

LCA: life cycle analysis (science)

LCCF: Leadership-Class Computing Facility (program)

LCE: liquid crystal elastomer (science)

LDA: Linear discriminant analysis (science)

LEAPS: Launching Early-Career Academic Pathways in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (program)

LEO: law enforcement officer (science)

LfD: Learning from Demonstration (science)

LFM: Large Foundation Model (science)

LFP: Local field potential (science)

LGBTQ+: Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer etc. (org)

LGN: Lateral geniculate nucleus (science)

Li+: Lithium ions (science)

LLM: Large language model (science)

LMI: Language Model Intervention (science)

LMIC: Low- or Middle-Income Country (place designation)

LNI-WA: Labor and Industries Washington State (org)

LOE: Line of Effort (administrative)

LOI: Letter of intent (document designation)

LOL: Laughing out loud (administrative)

LRM: Legislative reference memorandum (document)

LRO: Labor relations office (org)

LT: leadership team (org designation)

LTT: leadership transition team (org)

LWD: Learning and workforce development (program)

LWOP: leave without pay (administrative)

M&P: Management and Partnership Unit (org)

M3X: Mind, Machine and Motor Nexus (program)

MARI: Multilateral AI Research Institute (org)

MARL: Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning (science)

MAS: multi agent systems (science)

MBX: Mailbox (software)

MCA: Mid-career advancement (program)

MCI: Mild Cognitive Impairment (science)

MCM: Ministerial Council Meeting (meeting)

MDA: Missile Defense Agency (org)

MDM: Misinformation, disinformation, malinformation (administrative)

MFB: Molecular Foundations for Biotechnology (program)

MFTRP: Malign foreign talent recruiting program (program designation)

MHA: Mental Health America (science)

MI: Motor imagery (science)

MIA: Master instruction announcement (document)

MIA: membership inference attacks (science)

MIRA: Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (program)

MLLM: Multimodal LLM (science)

MLN: Multilayer networks (science)

MMFMs: multimodal foundation models (science)

MMS: Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (org)

MOA: Memorandum of agreement (document)

MOU: Memorandum of understanding (document)

MP: management plan (document)

MPC: Multi-party computation (science)

MPO: Managing Program Officer (role)

MPS: Mathematical and Physical Sciences (org)

MR: Mixed reality (science)

MREFC: Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction (program)

MRH: medically restricted to home (science)

MRI: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (science)

MRM: Margaret Rose Martonosi (person)

MS: Master of Science (program)

MS: Microsoft (org)

MS: Multiple sclerosis (science)

MSD: musculoskeletal disorder (science)

MSI: Minority serving institution (org designation)

MSRI: Midscale Research Infrastructure (program)

MTO: Microsystems Technology Office (org)

MTSL: Multi-Task Split Learning (science)

MUR: Ministry Universities and Research (org)

MURI: Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (program)

n: number (science)

NA: Network alignment (science)

NAc: nucleus accumbens (science)

NAEP: National Assessment of Educational Progress (document)

NAIAC-LE: NAIAC-Law Enforcement (org)

NAIAC: National AI Advisory Committee (org)

NAICS: North American Industry Classification System (administrative)

NAIIO: National AI Initiative Office (org)

NAIRR: National AI Research Resource (program)

NARA: National Archives and Records Administration (org)

NAS: National Academy of Sciences (org)

NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (org)

NASEM: National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (org)

natsec: National security (administrative)

NBU: Non-bargaining unit (role designation)

NC: Not competitive (administrative)

NCBC: National Counterproliferation and Biosecurity Center (org)

NCCIH: National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (org)

NCE: No cost extension (administrative)

NCES: National Commission for Education Statistics (org)

NCII: Non-consensual intimate imagery (policy)

NCO: National Coordinating Office (org)

NCS: Integrative Strategies for Understanding Neural and Cognitive Systems (program)

NCSES: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (org)

NCTC: National Counterterrorism Center (org)

NCWIT: National Center for Women & Information Technology (org)

ND: Neurodivergent (science)

ND: North Dakota (place)

NDA: National Defense Act (law)

NDAA: National Defense Act Authorization (law)

NDCG: Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain (science)

NDIF: National Deep Inference Fabric (software)

NDP: National Data Platform (program)

NE: Nebraska (place)

NEA/ARP: National Endowment for The Arts / American Rescue Plan (program)

NEC: National Economic Council (org)

NEH: National Endowment for the Humanities (org)

NeRF: Neural Radiance Field (science)

NERSC: National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (org)

NeTS: Networking Technology and Systems (program)

NEWT: Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment (org)

NHGRI: National Human Genome Research Institute (org)

NHP: Non-human primate (science)

NHS: National Health Service (org)

NI: New Investigators (role designation)

NIBIB: National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (org)

NIDA: National Institute on Drug Abuse (org)

NIDCD: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (org)

NIFA: National Institute of Food and Agriculture (org)

NIGMS: National Institute of General Medical Sciences (org)

NIH: National Institute of Health (org)

NIST: National Institute of Standards (org)

NITRD: Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (org)

NLG: Natural language generation (science)

NLI: natural language inference (science)

NLP: natural language processing (science)

NLT: No later than (administrative)

NLTM: Non-Linear Transformation Models (science)

NOAA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (org)

NOFO: Notice of Funding Opportunity (administrative)

NOM: Notice of meeting (administrative)

NOVA: Northern Virginia (place)

NPD: Neural Population Dynamics (science)

NRI: National Robotics Initiative (program)

NRRP: National Recovery and Resilience Plan (program)

NRT: near real-time (science)

NSA: National Security Advisor (role)

NSB: National Science Board (org)

NSC: National Security Council (org)

NSCAI: National Security Commission on AI (org)

NSCR: National Strategic Computing Reserve (program)

NSDS: National Secure Data Service (program)

NSF: National Science Foundation (org)

NSM: National Security Memorandum (document)

NSSL: National Severe Storms Laboratory (org)

NSTC: National Science and Technology Council (org)

NT: Neurotypical (science)

NTE: Not To Exceed (administrative)

NTIA: National Telecommunications and Information Administration (org)

NWS: National Weather Service (org)

NYC: New York City (place)

OAC: Office Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (org)

OAD: Office of the Assistant Director (org)

OAI: Office for Artificial Intelligence (org)

OBE: overcome by events (administrative)

OBI: Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (document)

OCFO: Office of the Chief Financial Officer (org)

OCIO: Office of the Chief Information Officer (org)

OCR: Office of Civil Rights (org)

OCR: Optical character recognition (science)

OCRSSP: Office of the Chief of Research Security Strategy and Policy (org)

OCT: Optimal coherence tomography (science)

OD: Office of the Director (org)

ODNI: Office of the Director of National Intelligence (org)

OECD: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (org)

OECR: Office of Equity and Civil Rights (org)

OGC: Office of the General Counsel (org)

OIA: Office of Integrative Activities (org)

OIG: Office of Inspector General (org)

OIRM: Office of Information & Resource Management (org)

OISE: Office of International Science and Engineering (org)

OLPA: Office of Legislative and Public Affairs (org)

OM: Office manager (role)

OMB: Office of the Management of the Budget (org)

ONC: Office of the National Coordinator (org)

ONC: Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (org)

ONCD: Office of the National Cyber Director (org)

ONE: OECD Network Environment (software)

ONR: Office of Naval Research (org)

OOB: Out of building (administrative)

OOD: Out of distribution (science)

OOO: Out of office (administrative)

OOTO: Out of the office (administrative)

OPM: Office of Personnel Management (org)

ORD: Office of Research and Development (org)

OSD: Office of the Secretary of Defense (org)

OSDBU: Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (org)

OSDF: Open Science Data Federation (software)

OSDI: Operating Systems Design and Implementation (org)

OSS: Open Source Software (science)

OSTP: Office of Science and Technology Policy (org)

OT: Operational technology (administrative)

OT: optimal transport (science)

OT&E: Operational Test and Evaluation (administrative)

OTA: Other Transactional Authority (program)

OTO: Out the office (administrative)

OUSD(R&E): Office of the Undersecretary of Defense, Research and Engineering (org)

OWA: Outlook for the Web (software)

OWCL: Open World Continual Learning (science)

PA: Pennsylvania (place)

PA: program analyst (role)

PA: Program announcement (document designation)

PA: program assistant (role)

PAC: Perception, Action & Cognition (program)

PAD: Program assistant director (role)

PAEMST: Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (program)

PAM: Proposal and Award Manual (document)

PAPPG: Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (document)

PAS: Presidential Appointment needing Senate confirmation (role designation)

PAWR: Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (program)

PBL: Problem-based Learning (science)

PC: personal computer (science)

PC: predictive coding (science)

PC: principles committee (org designation)

PCA: Principal component analysis (science)

PCA: Program Component Area (administrative)

PCAST: President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (org)

PCB: printed circuit board (science)

PCC: Policy Coordination Committees (org)

PCL: Programmable Cloud Labs (program)

PD: Parkinson’s disease (science)

PD: Professional development (administrative)

PD: Program director (role)

PDaSP: Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing in Practice (program)

PDE: Partial differential equation (science)

PDF: Portable document format (software)

PDR: Preliminary design review (administrative)

PEC: Program Element Code (administrative)

PECASE: Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (program)

PEP: Politically Exposed Person (role)

PEP: Project Execution Plan (document)

PER: Personnel Manual (document)

PERMA: Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishments (science)

PES: Proposal Evaluation System (software)

PET: privacy-enhancing technology (science)

PFE: Professional Formation of Engineers (program)

PhD: Doctor of Philosophy (program)

PHQ-9: Patient Health Questionnaire 9 (science)

PI: Principal investigator (role)

PIARC: Permanent International Association of Road Congresses (org)

PIF: Presidential Innovation Fellow (role)

PII: Personal identifying information (policy)

PIM: Processing-In-Memory (science)

PIMS: Program Information Management Systems (software)

PIN: protein interaction networks (science)

PINN: Physics-informed Neural network (science)

PIO: Public Information Officer (role)

PIPI: Predictive Intelligence for Pandemic Intervention (program)

PL: programming languages (science)

PM: Program manager (role)

PMC OA: PubMed Central Open Access Subset (science)

PMDWG: Program Management Development Working Group (org)

PMF: Presidential Management Fellow (role)

PO: Program officer (role)

POC: point of contact (administrative)

POMDP: Partially observable Markov decision process (science)

POP: period of performance (administrative)

POR: Project outcome report (administrative)

POSE: Pathways to Enable Open Source Ecosystems (program)

POTUS: President of the United States (role)

POV: Privately Owned Vehicle (administrative)

PPBE: Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (administrative)

PPC: posterior parietal cortex (science)

PPG: Photoplethysmography (science)

PPI: protein protein interaction (science)

PPO: PAWR Project Office (org)

PPoSS: Principles and Practice of Scalable Systems (program)

PPP: Public-private partnerships (administrative)

PPT: Post-Process Theory (science)

PPT: Powerpoint (software)

PRA: The Paperwork Reduction Act (law)

PRB: Performance Review Board (org)

PRC: People’s Republic of China (place)

PRC: Program Reference Code (administrative)

PS: performance standards (administrative)

PSM: Program Support Manager (role)

PT: Physical therapy (science)

PTO: US Patent Trademark Office (org)

PTSD: post-traumatic stress disorder (science)

PTSR: post-trauma self-regulation (science)

Q/A: question/answer (administrative)

Q1: First quarter (administrative)

QD: quantum dot (science)

QM/MM: Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics (science)

R&RA: Research and Related Activities (administrative)

RA: Reasonable accommodation (administrative)

RA: Research assistant (role)

RA: Review analysis (document)

RAG: Retrieval-augmented generation (science)

RAIO: Responsible AI official (role)

RC-TRO: risk-aware contextual trade-off (science)

RCE: Robot Construction Equipment (science)

RCN: Research Coordination Networks (program)

RCR: Responsible Conduct of Research (administrative)

RDF: Resource Description Framework (science)

RDH: Reconstruction of diffusion history (science)

RDI: Research and Development Infrastructure (org)

RDIA: Research Development and Innovation Authority (org)

RDSV: Research on Data-Driven Systems and Verification (program)

RED: REvolutionizing engineering and computer science Departments (program)

REE: Rare Earth Elements (science)

RET: Research experience for teachers (program)

REU: Research experience for undergraduates (program)

RF: Radio frequency (science)

RF: random features (science)

RFA: Request for Applications (document designation)

RFI: Request for Information (document designation)

RFS: Request for solutions (document designation)

RGC: Retinal ganglion cell (science)

RGOV: Research.gov (software)

RI: Research Infrastructure (program)

RI: Rhode Island (place)

RI: Robust Intelligence (program)

RIF: Reduction in force (administrative)

RIG: Research Infrastructure Guide (document)

RINGS: Resilient & Intelligent NextG Systems (program)

RIO: Research Infrastructure Office (org)

RISE: Research, Innovation, Synergies and Education (org)

RITEL: Research on Innovative Technologies for Enhanced Learning (program)

RL: Reinforcement learning (science)

RNA: Ribonucleic Acid (science)

RNN: Recurrent neural network (science)

RO: Research objective (administrative)

ROC: Receiver-Operating Characteristic (science)

ROS: Run of show (document)

RPI: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (org)

RPP: Research Practice Partnership (science)

RPPR: Research Performance Progress Report (document)

RQ: research question (administrative)

RRA: Research and Related Activities (administrative)

RS: research security (administrative)

RSCCD: Rancho Santiago Canyon College District (org)

RSV: Reverse Site Visit (administrative)

RTO: Return to office (administrative)

RUI: Research Undergraduate Institutions (org designation)

RWR: Return without review (administrative)

S/TECH: Office of the Special Envoy for Critical and Emerging Technology (org)

S&CC: Smart & Connected Communities (program)

S&CC: Smart & Connected Communities (program)

SA: specific aims (administrative)

SAMHSA: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (org)

SaTC: Secure &Trustworthy Cyberspace (program)

SBA: Small business administration (org)

SBE: Social Behavioral Economic Sciences (org)

SBIR/STTR: Small Business Innovation Research / Small Business Technology Transfer (program)

SBU: sensitive but unclassified (document designation)

SC: steering committee (org)

SCAT: School and College Ability Test (document)

SCB: Staffing and Classification Branch (org)

SCF: Socio-Cognitive Framework (science)

SCH: Smart and Connected Health (program)

SCIF: Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (place designation)

SCIPE: Strengthening the Cyberinfrastructure Professionals Ecosystem (program)

SCM: Structural causal models (science)

scRNA: single-cell RNA (science)

SCSP: Special Competitive Studies Project (org)

SDB: Small and Disadvantaged Business (org designation)

SDF: signed distance function (science)

SDO: Standards Developing Organization (org designation)

SDOH: Social determinants of health (science)

SDVOSB: Service-Disabled Veteran-owned Small Business (org designation)

SecDef: Secretary of Defense (role)

SEO: Search Engine Optimization (science)

SERS: Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (science)

SES: Senior Executive Service (role designation)

SES: Social and Economic Sciences (org)

SES: socioeconomic status (science)

SFI: Science Foundation Ireland (org)

SFM: Small Foundation Model (science)

SFS: CyberCorps Scholarship for Service (program)

SFS: School of Foreign Service (program)

SGTM: sounds good to me (administrative)

SH: Section Head (role)

SHF: Software and Hardware Foundations (program)

SIGCHI: Special interesting group on computer human interaction (org)

SIN: Science and Innovation Network (org)

SIO: Science Integrity Officer (role)

SIO: Semanticscience Integrated Ontology (document)

SLAM: Simultaneous Location and Mapping (science)

SLES: Safe Learning Enabled Systems (program)

SLP: speech language pathologist (science)

SMA: SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities (org)

SMC: Seamless Mobile Computer (administrative)

SME: subject matter expert (role)

SNN: Spiking Neural Network (science)

SNR: signal-to-noise ratio (science)

SOC: Sociology (org)

SOC: State of Charge (science)

SOC: summary of conclusions (document designation)

SOH: State of Health (science)

SOM: self-organizing maps (science)

SOP: standard operating procedure (administrative)

SORN: System Of Records Notices (software)

SOTA: State of the art (science)

SOW: Statement of Work (document)

SP-SSEL: CUI Specified Source Selection (document designation)

SPARK: Simons Foundation Powering Autism Research (program)

SPII: Sensitive PII (policy)

SQL: Structured Query Language (science)

SQL/PSM: SQL/Persistent Stored Modules (science)

SR: super resolution (science)

SRO: Science Review Officer (role)

SRT: Site Review Team (org)

SSD: Solid-state drive (science)

STC: Science and Technology Center (program)

STC: Science and Technology Center (org designation)

STEM: Science Technology Engineering Mathematics (administrative)

STIR/SHAKEN: Secure Telephone Identity Revisited (STIR) and Signature-based Handling of Asserted Information Using toKENs (policy)

STO: Strategic Technology Office (org)

STPI: Science and Technology Policy Institute (org)

STT: speech to text (science)

STW: skilled technical workforce (administrative)

SU: Service Unit (org designation)

SUS: System Usability Scale (science)

SVBRDFs: Spatially-Varying Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Functions (science)

SVOD: streaming video on demand (science)

SWE-bench: Software Engineering Benchmark (document)

T&E: Test and Evaluation (administrative)

TA: Technical assistance (document)

TACC: Texas Advanced Computing Center (org)

TAM: Technology acceptance model (science)

TAMU: Texas A&M University (org)

TAWSS: Time-averaged wall shear stress (science)

TBD: To be decided/determined (administrative)

TBI: traumatic brain injury (science)

TCPA: Telephone Consumer Protection Act (law)

TCS: Theoretical computer science (science)

TCU: Tribal Colleges and Universities (program)

TCUP: Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (program)

TD: temporal difference (science)

TDY: Temporary duty (role designation)

TEFCA: Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (software)

TEVV: Test and Evaluation, Verification and Validation (administrative)

TF-IDF: term frequency-inverse document frequency (science)

tFUS: Transcranial Focused Ultrasound (science)

TGA: Trusted Government Access (administrative)

TIP: Translation Industry Partnership (org)

TMF: Technology Modernization Fund (program)

ToD: Task-oriented dialogue (science)

TP: Talking point (administrative)

TPC: Total project cost (administrative)

TRL: Technology Readiness Level (administrative)

TRMC: Test Resource Management Center (org)

TRO: Temporary restraining order (document)

TRS: TCUP Research Symposium (meeting)

TS: Top Secret (administrative)

TSC: traffic signal control (science)

TSMC: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (org)

TSP: Thrift Savings Plan (administrative)

TTC: Trade and Technology Council (org)

TTCT: Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (science)

TTO: Tactical Technology Office (org)

TTP: Transition to practice (administrative)

TTPs: tactics, techniques, and procedures (administrative)

TTS: Technology Transformation Services (org)

TV: Television (science)

UAP: Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (science)

UARC: University Affiliated Research Center (org designation)

UAS: Uncrewed Aerial Systems (science)

UAV: Unmanned aerial vehicle (science)

UC: uncertainty characterization (science)

UC: University of California (org)

UCR: University of California Riverside (org)

UDF: unsigned distance field (science)

UDF: user-defined function (science)

UF: underground feeder (science)

UG: undergraduate (role)

UHH: University Hawaii Hilo (org)

UI: User interface (science)

UMBC: University of Maryland Baltimore County (org)

UN: United Nations (org)

UNC: University of North Carolina (org)

UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (org)

UNGA: UN General Assembly (org)

UQ: uncertainty quantification (science)

US: United States (place)

USAF SAB: United States Air Force Scientific Advisory Board (org)

USAGM: US Agency for Global Media (org)

USAID: United States Agency for International Development (org)

USCDI: US Core Data for Interoperability (administrative)

USDA: US Department of Agriculture (org)

USDS: U.S. DOGE Service (org)

USDS: US Digital Service (org)

USG: United States Government (org)

USGS: US Geological Survey (org)

USMARC: U.S. Meat Animal Research Center (org)

USOECD: US OECD (org)

USPTO: US Patent Trademark Office (org)

UVA-SDS: UVA School of Data Science (org)

UVA: The University of Virginia (org)

UX: user experience (science)

V&V: Verification and validation (science)

V1: primary visual cortex (science)

VDI: Virtual desktop infrastructure (administrative)

VERA: Voluntary Early Retirement Authority (administrative)

VI: visual impairment (science)

VIN: View Introspection Network (science)

VIP: Visually Impaired People (science)

VLM: Vision-language model (science)

VOC: Volatile organic compounds (science)

VPN: virtual private network (administrative)

VQ-VAE: Vector Quantized Variational Autoencoder (science)

VR: Virtual reality (science)

VSAE: Virginia Society of Association Executives (org)

VSD: value-sensitive design (science)

VSEE: Visiting Scientist, Engineer and Educator (program)

VSIP: Voluntary Separation Incentive Payments (program)

VT: Vermont (place)

VT: Virginia Tech (org)

VVUQ: Verification, Validation and Uncertainty Quantification (science)

WAVES: White House Worker and Visitor Entry System (software)

WD: Wasserstein distance (science)

WDYT: What do you think? (administrative)

WER: word error rate (science)

WG: Working group (org designation)

WH: White House (org)

WHA: Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs (org)

WIBNI: Wouldn't it be nice if? (administrative)

WIFI: Wireless fidelity (software)

WIOA: Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (law)

WitSec: Witness Security (program)

WOSB: woman owned small business (org designation)

WoZ: Wizard of Oz (science)

WPC: Weather Prediction Center (org)

WPCSI: Working Party on Connectivity Services and Infrastructures (org)

WPDEMA: Working Party on Digital Economics, Measurement and Analysis (org)

WPTO: Water Power Technology Office (org)

WRB: Workforce Relations Branch (org)

WSRD: Wireless Spectrum R&D (org)

XAI: Explainable AI (science)

XR: extended reality (science)