| A-21 |
OMB Circular A-21 - Cost Principles for Educational Institutions |
| A-122 |
OMB Circular A-122 - Cost Principles for Non-Profit Organizations |
| A-110 |
OMB Circular A-110: Uniform Administrative Requirements for Grants and Agreements with Institutions of Higher Education, Hospitals or Other Nonprofit Organizations |
| A-133 |
OMB Circular A-133: Audits of States, Local Governments & Non-Profit Organizations |
| AAALAC |
American Association of Animal Laboratory Accreditation Council |
| AAAS |
American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| AAMC |
Association of American Medical Colleges |
| AAU |
Association of American Universities |
| ABRF |
Association of Bimolecular Resource Facilities |
| ACM |
Association of American Medical Colleges |
| ACO |
Administrative Contracting Officer |
| ADA |
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 |
| AFAA |
Air Force Audit Agency |
| AFARS |
Army Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement |
| AFOSR |
Air Force Office of Scientific Research |
| AFRL |
Air Force Research Laboratory |
| ANPRM |
Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking |
| ARL |
Army Research Lab |
| ARO |
Army Research Office |
| ARDA |
Advanced Research & Development Activity |
| ARPA |
Advanced Research Projects Agency |
| ASAP |
Automated Standard Application for Payments |
| ATP |
Advance Technology Program |
| BAA |
Broad Agency Announcement |
| BPN |
Business Partner Network |
| CAS |
Cost Accounting Standards |
| CASB |
Cost Accounting Standards Board |
| CBD |
Commerce Business Daily |
| CBO |
Congressional Budget Office |
| CCH |
Commerce Clearing House |
| CCR |
Central Contractor Registration |
| CFDA |
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance |
| CFO |
Chief Financial Officer |
| CFR |
Code of Federal Regulations |
| CFS |
Committee on Fundamental Science |
| CICA |
Competition in Contracting Act |
| CLIN |
Contract Line Item Number |
| CMIA |
Cash Management Improvement Act |
| CNO |
Chief of Naval Operations |
| CO |
Contracting Officer |
| COGR |
Council On Governmental Relations |
| COS |
Committee on Science of the National Science and Technology Council |
| COSEPUP |
Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy |
| COTR |
Contract Officer Technical Representative |
| CPSR |
Contractor Procurement/Property System Review |
| CRADA |
Cooperative Research and Development Agreement |
| CRS |
Congressional Research Service |
| CSR |
Center for Scientific Review |
| DA |
Department Administration Costs |
| DA |
Department of the Army |
| DARPA |
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency |
| DC |
Direct Costs |
| DCE |
Direct Cost Equivalent |
| DCAA |
Defense Contract Audit Agency |
| DCASR's |
Defense Contract Administration Services Regions |
| DEAR |
Department of Energy Acquisition Regulations |
| DEC |
Determination of Exceptional Circumstances |
| DED |
Department of Education |
| DFAR |
Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation |
| DFARS |
Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement |
| DHEW |
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare |
| DHHS |
Department of Health and Human Services |
| DIA |
Defense Intelligence Agency |
| DIALOG |
A computer based search system using key words |
| DIPEC |
Defense Industrial Plant Equipment Council |
| DIS |
Defense Investigative Service |
| DNA |
Defense Nuclear Agency |
| DOC |
Department of Commerce |
| DOD |
Department of Defense |
| DODGARS |
DOD Grant and Agreement Regulations |
| DOE |
Department of Energy |
| DOL |
Department of Labor |
| DOT |
Department of Transportation |
| DSMB |
Data Safety Monitoring Board |
| EAR |
Export Administration Regulations |
| EARS |
Electronic Approval and Routing Systems |
| ebXML |
Electronic Business Extensible Markup Language |
| EC |
Electronic Commerce |
| EDA |
Economic Development Administration |
| EDGAR |
Education Department General Administration Regulations |
| EDI |
Electronic Data Interchange |
| EEOC |
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission |
| EFT |
Electronic Funds Transfer |
| EO |
Executive Order |
| EPA |
Environmental Protection Agency |
| ERA |
Economic Regulatory Administration |
| ERA |
Electronic Research Administration |
| ETA |
Employment and Training Administration |
| EVS |
Equipment Visibility System |
| F&A |
Facilities and Administrative (Rate or Cost) |
| FAA |
Federal Aviation Administration |
| FAR |
Federal Acquisition Regulation |
| FARS |
Financial Accounting and Reporting System |
| FASA |
Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act |
| FASAB |
Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board |
| FASEB |
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology |
| FBO |
Federal Business Opportunities |
| FCC |
Federal Communications Commission |
| FCST |
Federal Council for Science and Technology |
| FDA |
Food and Drug Administration |
| FDP I |
Florida Demonstration Project |
| FDP II |
Federal Demonstration Project |
| FDP III &IV |
Federal Demonstration Partnership |
| FEA |
Federal Enterprise Architectures |
| FECAI |
Federal Electronic Commerce Acquisition Instructions |
| FEDIX |
An on-line federal data base serving most federal agencies for on-line searches |
| FEMA |
Federal Emergency Management Agency |
| FFMIA |
Federal Financial Management Improvement Act |
| FHWA |
Federal Highway Administration |
| FICC |
Federal Interagency Coordinating Council |
| FIMA |
Financial Management System |
| FIPSE |
Fund for Improvement of Postsecondary Education |
| FISAP |
Fiscal Operations Report & Application to Participate |
| FMC |
Federal Management Circular |
| FN |
Foreign National |
| FOB |
Free-on-board |
| FOIA |
Freedom of Information Act |
| FR |
Federal Register |
| FS&T |
Federal Science and Technology Budget |
| FTC |
Federal Trade Commission |
| FTS |
Federal Telecommunications System |
| FY |
Fiscal Year |
| GA |
General Administration (Costs) |
| GAAP |
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles |
| GAO |
General Accounting Office |
| GASB |
Governmental Accounting Standards Board |
| GATT |
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade |
| GMO |
Grants Management Office |
| GMRA |
Government Management Reform Act |
| GPG |
Grant Proposal Guide (NSF) |
| GPO |
Government Printing Office |
| GPRA |
Government Performance and Results Act |
| GSA |
General Services Administration |
| GUIRR |
Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable |
| HBCU |
Historically Black College and University |
| HCFA |
Health Care Financing Administration |
| HHS |
Department of Health and Human Services |
| HIPAA |
Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act |
| HRSA |
Health Resources and Services Administration |
| HSARPA |
Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency |
| HUD |
Department of Housing and Urban Development |
| IACUC |
Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee |
| IAEGC |
Inter-Agency Electronic Grants Committee |
| IBC |
Institutional Bio-safety Committee |
| ICC |
Interstate Commerce Commission |
| IDC |
Indirect Costs |
| IG |
Inspector General |
| IPA |
Intergovernmental Personnel Act |
| IPASS |
Interagency Panel on Advanced Science & Security |
| IPR |
Intellectual Property Rights |
| IR&D |
Independent Research and Development |
| IRAB |
FDP Initiative to Reduce Administrative Burden |
| IRB |
Institutional Review Board |
| IRIS |
An on-line search system for research opportunities developed |
|
by the University of Illinois |
| ITAR |
International Traffic in Arms Regulations |
| ITMRA |
Information Technology Management Reform Act |
| JAG |
Judge Advocate General |
| JCS |
Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| LSA |
Labor Surplus Area |
| M&O |
Maintance and Operations |
|
or Management and Operations Contractors |
| MBDA |
Minority Business Development Agency |
| MBE |
Minority Business Enterprise |
| MECA |
Midwest Conference on College Cost Accounting |
| MOU |
Memorandum of Understanding |
| MTA |
Material Transfer Agreement |
| MTDC |
Modified Total Direct Costs |
| NACCA |
National Conference on College Cost Accounting |
| NAS |
National Academy of Sciences |
| NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| NASULGC |
National Association of State Universities |
|
and Land-Grant Colleges |
| NCC |
National Coordinating Committee |
| NCI |
National Cancer Institute |
| NCRR |
National Center for Research Resources |
| NCST |
National Council of Science and Technology |
| NCURA |
National Council of University Research Administrators |
| NECA |
Northeast Conference on College Cost Accounting |
| NEH |
National Endowment for the Humanities |
| NGA |
Notice of Grant Award |
| NIAID |
National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases |
| NIE |
National Institute of Education |
| NIEHS |
National Institute of Environmental Health Services |
| NIH |
National Institutes of Health |
| NIJ |
National Institute of Justice |
| NIST |
National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| NLRB |
National Labor Relations Board |
| NOAA |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| NPR |
National Performance Review |
| NPRM |
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking |
| NPS |
National Park Service |
| NRC |
National Research Council |
| NRC |
Nuclear Regulatory Commission |
| NRL |
Naval Research Laboratory |
| NSA |
National Security Agency |
| NSB |
National Science Board |
| NSC |
National Security Council |
| NSDD |
National Security Decision Directive 189 (issued 1985) |
| NSF |
National Science Foundation |
| NSF/STIS |
An on-line search system of the National Science Foundation |
| NSP |
Not Separately Priced |
| NSTC |
National Science Technology Council |
| NTIS |
National Technical Information Service |
| NTSB |
National Transportation Safety Board |
| OCR |
Office of Civil Rights |
| OES |
Office of Employment Security |
| OET |
Office of Employment Training |
| OFAC |
Office of Foreign Assets Control |
| OFCC |
Office of Federal Contract Compliance |
| OFM |
Office of Financial Management |
| OFR |
Office of the Federal Register |
| OHRP |
Office of Human Research Protection |
| OIG |
Office of Inspector General |
| OIRA |
Office of Information & Regulatory Affairs (OMB) |
| O&M |
Operations and Maintenance Costs |
| OMB |
Office of Management and Budget |
| ONR |
Office of Naval Research |
| OPM |
Office of Personnel Management |
| OPERA |
Office of Policy for Extramural Research Administration |
| OPRR |
Office for Protection from Research Risks |
| ORA |
Office of Research Administration |
| ORI |
Office of Research Integrity |
| OSEP |
Office of Special Education Programs |
| OSHA |
Occupational Safety and Health Administration |
| OSP |
Office of Sponsored Projects |
| OSTP |
Office of Science and Technology Policy |
| OT |
Office of Transportation |
| OTT |
Office of Technology Transfer (NIH) |
| PCAST |
President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology |
| PCC |
Policy Coordination Council |
| PCO |
Procuring Contracting Officer |
| PDF |
Portable Document Format |
| PETA |
People for the Ethnical Treatment of Animals |
| PHI |
Protected Health Information |
| PHS |
Public Health Service |
| PIGABS |
Principal Investigator Grant Adminsitration Burden Survey (done by FDP) |
| PMS |
Payment Management System |
| PRD |
Presidential Review Directive |
| PROG |
Peer Review Oversight Group |
| PTO |
Patent and Trademark Office |
| R&R |
Reseach and Related |
| RAC |
Recombinant DNA Committee |
| RCR |
Responsible Conduct in Research |
| RDNA |
Recombinant DNA Research |
| RFA |
Request for Applications |
| RFP |
Request for Proposal |
| RFQ |
Request for Quotation |
| S&W |
Salaries and Wages |
| S&W + B |
Salaries and Wages plus Benefits |
| SAMHSA |
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration |
| SBA |
Small Business Administration |
| SBU |
Sensitive But Unclassified |
| SBIR |
Small Business Innovation Research |
| SECA |
Southeast Conference on College Cost Accounting |
| SEOG |
Supplemental Education Opportunity Grants |
| SEVIS |
Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (INS for tracking foreign students) |
| SF |
Standard Form |
| SNAP |
Streamline Non-competing Application Process |
| SOW |
Statement of Work |
| SPA |
Sponsored Project Administration |
| SPAS |
Sponsored Project Administration System |
| SPIN |
An on-line search system for research opportunities developed |
|
by the University of New York (SUNY) System |
| SRA |
Society of Research Administrators |
| SRO |
Sponosored Research Office |
| STEP |
Science, Technology and Economic Policy Board |
| STP |
Science and Technology Policy |
| T&A |
Time and attendance |
| TBSR |
Total Business Systems Review |
| TDC |
Total Direct Costs |
| U.S.C. |
United States Code |
| UBIT |
Unrelated Business Income Tax |
| UCA |
Utility Cost Adjustment |
| USA |
United States Army |
| USAF |
United States Air Force |
| USAID |
United States Agency for International Development |
| USCG |
United States Coast Guard |
| USDA |
United States Department of Agriculture |
| USDE |
United States Department of Energy |
| USIA |
United States Information Agency |
| USN |
United States Navy |
| VA |
Department of Veterans Affairs |
| WECA |
Western Conference on College Cost Accounting |
| WHO |
World Health Organization |
| XML |
Extensible Markup Language |
| YCC |
Youth Conservation Corps |