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GovSpeak: A Guide to U.S. Government Acronyms & Abbreviations: B

The most current, extensive and fully-linked listing of U.S. government agency, office, program and publication acronyms.

B

BERA Business & Economics Research Advisor (unable to verify 12/23)
BERD Business Enterprise Research and Development Survey
BES Basic Energy Sciences  | Branch of Environmental Services | Business Expenses Survey
BESAC Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee
BEST Benefit Eligibility Screening Tool (replaced by "check eligibility" page) | Biomonitoring of Environmental Status and Trends (changed to I&M, then ECO) | Biologics Effectiveness and Safety System | Border Enforcement Security Task Force
BETO Bioenergy Technologies Office
BETTER Better Extraction from Text Towards Enhanced Retrieval
BFELoB Budget Formulation and Execution Line of Business (unable to verify 2/24)
BFEM Budget Formulation and Execution Manager (unable to verify 8/18)
BFET Blended Finance for the Energy Transition
BFP Bridge Formula Program
BFPD Branded Food Products Database
BFRDP Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program
BFRL Building and Fire Research Laboratory (absorbed into EL)
BFS Bureau of the Fiscal Service | Business Formation Statistics
BFWR Branch of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Recreation
BGLP Biomonitoring of Great Lakes Populations
BGN U.S. Board on Geographic Names
BGSEEF Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation
BHA Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance
BHC United States-México Border Health Commission
BHCC Behavioral Health Coordinating Council (unable to verify 4/19)
BHDAP Office of Behavioral Health, Disability, and Aging Policy
BHP Basic Health Program
BHPr Bureau of Health Professions (merged into BHW)
BHSIS Behavioral Health Services Information System (unable to verify 10/14)
BHSO Brookhaven Site Office
BHW Bureau of Health Workforce
BIA Board of Immigration Appeals | Bureau of Indian Affairs
BIBCO Monographic Bibliographic Record Program
BIDEH Biological Integrity, Diversity, and Environmental Health
BIDS Binational Border Infectious Disease Surveillance Program | Biomedical Informatics and Data Science (changed to BACS) | Business Information Database System (unable to verify 3/24)
BIE Bureau of Indian Education
BIEC Border Interagency Executive Council
BIF Bank Insurance Fund (merged into DIF)
BIFAD Board for International Food and Agricultural Development
BIG Boating Infrastructure Grant Program
BIL Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
BIMAS BioInformatics Molecular Analysis Section (unable to verify 8/18)
BIMO Bioresearch Monitoring
BIO Biosciences Division | Directorate for Biological Sciences
BioAMS National Resource for Biomedical Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
BioEco Biodiversity and Ecosystems Informatics Working Group (unable to verify 1/18)
BioEPIC Biological and Environmental Program Integration Center
BioLINCC Biologic Specimen and Data Repository Information Coordinating Center
BIP Balancing Incentive Program | Biofuel Infrastructure Partnership (unable to verify 2/23) | Branch of Irrigation and Power | Bridge Investment Program
BIRBD Division of Biomedical Informatics, Research, and Biomarker Development
BIRD HLS U.S.-Israel Binational Industrial Research and Development Homeland Security
BIRDS Building Industry Reporting and Design for Sustainability
BIRRS Biomedical Informatics and Regulatory Review Science
BIS Biomedical Informatics Section | Bureau of Industry and Security
BISON Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (replaced by GBIF)
BITB Behavioral and Integrative Treatment Branch (defunct)
BI-TC Biometric and Identity Technology Center
BITMAP Biometric Identification Transnational Migration Alert Program
BRC Bioenergy Research Center | Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future (defunct, archived at UNT) | Breastfeeding Report Card
BRD Biological Resource Division (changed to EMA) | Biological Resources Division | Broadband R&D
BRDIS Business Research and Development and Innovation Survey
BRE Book-Rich Environments Initiative
BRFSS Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
BRIAR Biometric Recognition and Identification at Altitude and Range
BRIC Biological Research in Canisters | Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities
BRIC DTA Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities Direct Technical Assistance
BRIDG Bimonthly Records and Information Discussion Group
Bridge2AI Bridge to Artificial Intelligence
BRIDGE C2 Building Research in Implementation and Dissemination to close Gaps and achieve Equity in Cancer Control
BRIDGE Train Building Research and Innovation for Development, Generating Evidence, and Training
BRIDGE-U Bringing Research to Impact for Development, Global Engagement, and Utilization
BRInE Brine Research Instrumentation and Experimental Laboratory
BRL Basic Research Laboratory (unable to verify 11/23)
BRP Behavioral Research Program | Binational Relations Programs | Biometric Research Program
BRR Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Program
BRS Biotechnology Regulatory Service | Branch of Resource Solutions | Business Response Survey to the Coronavirus Pandemic
BRSS TACS Bringing Recovery Supports to Scale Technical Assistance Center Strategy
BSB Biomolecular Screening Branch (changed to PTB)
BSC Board of Scientific Counselors, ATSDR (defunct) | Board of Scientific Counselors, NCHS
BSCD Biological Sciences and Career Development Program (unable to verify 8/17)
BSC ID Board of Scientific Counselors, Infectious Diseases
BSE Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy ("Mad Cow Disease")
BSEE Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement
BSI Border Security and Immigration Policy
BSIC Broader Social Impacts Committee
BSMD Biology and Soft Matter Division (unable to verify 8/18)