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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 office, program, resource, and other acronyms.

B

BCA Biosurveillance Coordination Activity (unable to verify 6/14)
BCAP Biomass Crop Assistance Program (unable to verify 2/23)
BCAT Building Code Adoption Tracking
BCBB Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch (unable to verify 11/16)
BCC Better Climate Challenge
BCCI Border Community Capital Initiative
BCD Business Conditions Digest
BCFB Biotechnology Core Facility Branch (unable to verify 5/24)
BCI Better Contracting Initiative (unable to verify 2/25) | Blue Carbon Inventory Project
BCJI Byrne Criminal Justice Innovation Program
BCL Building Component Library | Bureau of Certification and Licensing
BCM Bulk Chemical Manufacturer Reports
BCN Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Research Branch
BCOE FBI Biometric Center of Excellence (unable to verify 3/22, possibly replaced by PRSU)
BCP Basic Center Program | Bureau of Consumer Protection
BCPRU Biological Control of Pests Research Unit
BCRAT Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool
BCRC Benefits Coordination & Recovery Center
BCRS Bureau of Clinician Recruitment and Service (merged into BHW)
BCS Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences
BCSB Behavioral and Clinical Surveillance Branch
BCSC National Bulk Cash Smuggling Center
BCSRB Behavioral and Cognitive Science Research Branch (changed to BCN)
BCTD Biomolecular and Computational Toxicology Division
BD Budget Division
BD IWG Big Data Interagency Working Group
BDAC Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee
BDC BioData Catalyst | Broadband Data Collection
BDF Biomedical Data Fabric Toolbox
BDFWO Bay-Delta Fish and Wildlife Office (down with "technical difficulties" 3/25)
BDM Business Employment Dynamics
BDP Big Data Program (changed to NODD; changed from Big Data Project)
BDS Business Dynamics Statistics
BDSS Bulk Data Storage System (merged into ODP)
BD-STEP Big Data Scientist Training Enhancement Program
BE Biological Evaluation | Bureau of Economics
BEA Bank Enterprise Award | Bureau of Economic Analysis
BEACON Beach Advisory and Closing On-line Notification
BEAD Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program
BEAM Bacteria, Enterics, Amoeba, and Mycotics
BEARFACTS BEA Regional Fact Sheets
BEC Business Email Compromise
BECCAL Bose Einstein Condensates & Cold Atoms Lab
BECON Biomedical Engineering Consortium (defunct as of 11/08)
BECP Building Energy Codes Program
BECRM Branch of Environmental and Cultural Resources Management (changed to DESCRM)
BEDES Building Energy Data Exchange Specification
BEDI Brownfields Economic Development Initiative (discontinued)
BEEF Big Explosives Experimental Facility
BeefGEM Beef Gas Emissions Model
BEES Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability
BEETS BPA Energy Efficiency Tracking System
BEG Border Enforcement Grant (unable to verify 6/24)
BEIS Biogenic Emission Inventory System
BELD3 Biogenic Emissions Landuse Database, Version 3
BEMP Bison and Elk Management Plan
BenMAP-CE Environmental Benefits Mapping and Analysis Program - Community Edition
BEopt Building Energy Optimization Tool
BEP Bureau of Engraving and Printing
BER Biological and Environmental Research
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 (unable to verify 2/25)
BFNUF Biomass Feedstock National User Facility
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
BGBS Better Grants Better Service
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 (unable to verify 2/25)
BHC United States-México Border Health Commission
BHCC Behavioral Health Coordinating Council (unable to verify 4/19)
BHCCO 988 & Behavioral Health Crisis Coordinating Office
BHDAP Office of Behavioral Health, Disability, and Aging Policy
BHL Biodiversity Heritage Library
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
BHWET Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training
BIA Board of Immigration Appeals | Bureau of Indian Affairs
BIBCO Monographic Bibliographic Record Program
BIC Best-in-Class
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 (unable to verify 2/25)
BIG Boating Infrastructure Grant Program
BIL Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (Biden archive) | Brain Image Library
BIMAS BioInformatics Molecular Analysis Section (unable to verify 8/18)
BIML Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab
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
BioSum Bioregional Inventory Originated Simulation Under Management
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 (defunct 12/23)
BIRLS Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem (pdf; see also, non-gov site)
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 (replaced by BERD)
BRE Book-Rich Environments Initiative (unable to verify 3/25)
BREATHE Building Resilient Environments for Air and Total HEalth
BREP Bycatch Reduction Engineering Program
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 (unable to verify 2/25)
BRIDGE-U Bringing Research to Impact for Development, Global Engagement, and Utilization (unable to verify 2/25)
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/unable to verify 11/24) | 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 (unable to verify 4/25)
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)
BSO Berkeley Site Office at LBNL (reverted back from BASO at LBNL 6/23)
BSP Bank Supervision Policy | Basic Sciences Program | Burn Severity Portal | Business Service Providers
BSPB Bacterial Special Pathogens Branch
BSR Division of Behavioral and Social Research
BSRM Bank Systemic Risk Monitor
BSRT Behavioral Sciences and Rehabilitation Technologies Program (unable to verify 8/17)
BSSD Biological Systems Science Division
BSTEM Bank Stability and Toe Erosion Model
BT23 2023 Billion-Ton Report
BTA Broadband Technical Assistance | Bureau of Trade Analysis
BTAI Behavioral Threat Assessment Integration (unable to verify 10/24)
BTC Benefits Tax Counsel
BTFA Bureau of Trust Funds Administration
BTID Business Transformation and Innovation Division
BTLS Beginning Teacher Longitudinal Study
BTO Building Technologies Office
BTOP Broadband Technology Opportunities Program; changed to BroadbandUSA
BTOS Business Trends and Outlook Survey
BTRIC Buildings Technology Research & Integration Center
BTS Bureau of Transportation Statistics
BTWG Binational Technical Working Group
Budget LoB Budget Formulation and Execution Line of Business (unable to verify 2/24)
BUILD Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development (changed to RAISE; reverted to BUILD 1/25)
BUVC Building Upgrade Value Calculator
BVA Board of Veterans Appeals
BVP Bulletproof Vest Partnership
BWC Body-Worn Camera Toolkit
B-WET Bay Watershed Education and Training
BWIP U.S.-Mexico Border Water Infrastructure Program
BWT Border Wait Times
BXA Bureau of Export Administration (changed to BIS)