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

F	Office of Foreign Assistance (older link archive; archive2; archive3)
FAA	Federal Aviation Administration
FAADS	Federal Assistance Award Data System (older link archive; archive2)
FAAPS	Forecasting and Advance Acquisition Planning System (replaced by C-BOT)
FAASTeam	FAA Safety Team
FAAT	FEMA Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Terms List
FAB	Field Assistance Bulletin, EBSA \| Field Assistance Bulletin, WHD
FAC	Federal Audit Clearinghouse (older link archive; archive2) \| Fish and Aquatic Conservation (older link archive)
FAC-C	Federal Acquisition Certification in Contracting Program
FAC-COR	Federal Acquisition Certification for Contracting Officer’s Representatives program
FAC-P/PM	Federal Acquisition Certification for Program and Project Managers program
FACA	Federal Advisory Committee Act (older link archive)
FACAOSSP	Full All-Cargo Aircraft Operator Standard Security Program
FACE	Family and Child Education (older link archive) \| Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program
FACES	Family and Child Experiences Survey
FACETs	Forecasting a Continuum of Environmental Threats
FACMD	Federal Advisory Committee Management Division
FACOSH	Federal Advisory Council on Occupational Safety and Health (archive/terminated; older link archive)
FACT	Field Audit Checklist Tool \| Financing Alternatives Comparison Tool \| Food and Agriculture Cyberinformatics and Tools (unable to verify 1/21; older link archive)
FACTS	FACility for Weather and Climate AssessmenTS
FAD	Food Assistance Division (unable to verify 6/19)
FADGI	Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative
FADS	Food Availability (Per Capita) Data System
FAE	Foreign Aid Explorer (merged into ForeignAssistance.gov)
FAEIS	Food and Agricultural Education Information System
FAER	Fisheries: Aquatic and Endangered Resources Program (changed to Fisheries Program; older link archive)
FAERS	FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (older link archive; archive2)
FAF	Freight Analysis Framework
FAH	Foreign Affairs Handbook
FAI	Federal Acquisition Institute (alternate link archive)
FAIRS	Federal Aviation Interactive Reporting System
FAIS	Food Aid Information System (older link archive)

FAM	Foreign Affairs Manual
FAMES	Fatality Analysis of Maintenance-of-way Employees and Signalmen Committee
FAM-IT	Fire and Aviation Management IT
FAMWEB	Fire and Aviation Management Web Applications (replaced by FAM-IT)
FAN	Faculty for Advancing Neuroscience Cross-divisional Group \| Foreign Affairs Network
Fannie Mae	Federal National Mortgage Association
FAPE	Free Appropriate Public Education
FAPIIS	Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System (older link archive)
FAPRS	Federal Assistance Programs Retrieval System (replaced by CFDA)
FAR	Federal Acquisition Regulation (older link archive)
FARA	Food Access Research Atlas \| Foreign Agents Registration Act (older link archive)
FARAD	Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank
FARG	Federal Adaptation and Resilience Group
Farmer Mac	Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation
FARR	Federal Air Rules for Indian Reservations
FARS	Fatality Analysis Reporting System
FAS	Federal Acquisition Service (older link archive; archive 2) \| Foreign Agricultural Service
FASAB	Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board
FASD	Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (older link archive)
FASE	Food and Agricultural Science Enhancement
FASLP	Food and Agriculture Service Learning Program
FASS-FHA	Financial Assessment of FHA Housing
FASSR	Financial Assistance and Social Services Report
FaST	Flood and Storm Tracker
FAST	Federal and State Technology Partnership Program \| Free and Secure Trade
Fatherhood FIRE	Fatherhood—Family-focused, Interconnected, Resilient, and Essential
FATUS	Foreign Agricultural Trade of the United States
FAVIR	Fruits and Vegetables Import Requirements Database (older link archive)

FBCI	Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (changed to OFBNP)
FBD	Ferry Boat Discretionary Program
FBE	Foreign Biometric Exchange Program
FBGC	Florence Bascom Geoscience Center
FBI	Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBIIC	Financial and Banking Information Infrastructure Committee
FBIS	Foreign Broadcast Information Service (changed to WNC; defunct)
FBMS	Financial and Business Management System
FBO	Federal Business Opportunities (merged into beta.sam.gov)
FBP	Fishery Biology Program (older link archive)
FBWT	Fund Balance with Treasury
FCA	Farm Credit Administration
FCC	Federal Communications Commission \| U.S.-Mexico Border Field Coordinating Committee (unable to verify 11/18)
FCCI	Federal Cloud Computing Initiative (unable to verify 10/13; likely absorbed into cloud.cio.gov, then into FedRAMP)
FCCPS	Federal Criminal Case Processing Statistics
FCD	Fire Calorimetry Database
FCG	Federal Consulting Group

FCIC	Federal Citizen Information Center (discontinued; replaced by Pueblo.GPO.gov) \| Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
FCPP	Fusion Center Performance Program
FCPPS	Federal Criminal Case Processing Statistics
FCR	Federal Case Registry (older link archive)
FCS	Food Contact Substances (older link archive)
FCSC	Foreign Claims Settlement Commission
FCSIC	Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation
FCSM	Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology (older link archive)
FCSS	Federal Commission on School Safety
FCTF	Financial Crimes Task Forces (older link archive)
FD	Food Distribution Programs (changed to USDA Foods Programs)
FDA	Food and Drug Administration
FDA-TRACK	FDA Transparency-Results-Accountability-Credibility-Knowledge Sharing (older link archive)
FDB	Financial Disclosure Branch (unable to verify 4/20)
FDCRP	Federal Law Enforcement Agency Deaths in Custody Reporting Program
FDDs	Format Description Documents
FDDU	Federal DNA Database Unit
FDIC	Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
FDLP	Federal Depository Library Program
FDMS	Federal Docket Management System
FDMSD	Food Defense Mitigation Strategies Database (older link archive; archive2)
FDNS	Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate (older link archive; archive2)
FDOSS	Foodborne Disease Outbreak Surveillance System
FDPIR	Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (older link archive)
FDS	Federal Data Strategy
FDsys	(GPO) Federal Digital System (discontinued 12/18; replaced by govinfo)

FE	Office of Fossil Energy (changed to FECM)
FEA	Federal Enterprise Architecture (older link archive) \| Food Environment Atlas
FEB	Federal Executive Boards
FEC	Federal Election Commission \| Federal Electronics Challenge
FECM	Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management
FED	Food Economics Division
FEDFacts	Information about the Federal Electronic Docket Facilities (older link archive)
Fed FUNDS	Federal Funding for Water and Wastewater Utilities in National Disasters
FEDIX	Federal Information Exchange Inc. (defunct)
FEDLINK	Federal Library and Information Network
FedRAMP	Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program
FedRelay	Federal Relay Service (older link archive; archive2)
FEDRIP	Federal Research in Progress Database (unable to verify 11/16)
FEDS	Finance and Economics Discussion Series (older link archive)
FEDSTATS	Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy (unable to verify; older link archive; archive2)
FEDVIP	Federal Employees Dental and Vision Insurance Program

FedVTE	Federal Virtual Training Environment (older link archive; archive2; archive3)
FEELC	First Environments Early Learning Center
FEGLI	Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance
FEHB	Federal Employees Health Benefits
FEI	Family Engagement Inventory
FEID	Firearms and Explosives Industry Division
FEIS	Fire Effects Information System
FELIX	Finding Engineering-Linked Indicators
FEMA	Federal Emergency Management Agency
FEMA GO	FEMA Grants Outcomes
FEMP	Federal Energy Management Program
FERA	Fate, Exposure, and Risk Analysis
FERC	Federal Employee Relocation Center (older link archive) \| Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
FERMI	Federal Electronic Records Modernization Initiative
Fermilab	Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
FERRET	Federated Electronic Research, Review, Extraction, and Tabulation Tool (decommissioned 6/20; older link archive)
FES	Fusion Energy Sciences (older link archive)
FESAC	Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee
FETC	Federal Energy Technology Center (changed to NETL)
FETP	Field Epidemiology Training Program
FEVS	Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (older link archive)
FEWS NET	Famine Early Warning System Network

FFAS	Farm & Foreign Agricultural Service (unable to verify 8/17)
FFAVORS	Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Order Receipt System (older link archive)
FFB	Federal Financing Bank (older link archive)
FFEL	Federal Family Education Loan Program (older link archive)
FFETF	Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force (replaced by Task Force on Market Integrity and Consumer Fraud; older link archive)
FFF	Feds Feed Families (older link archive)
FFFIPP	Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program
FFIEC	Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council
FFLs	Federal Firearms Licensees
FFP	Free File Program \| Office of Food for Peace
FFRDCs	Federally Funded R&D Centers
FFRRO	Federal Facilities Restoration and Reuse Office
FFVP	Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program
FFWR	Farm and Food Worker Relief Grant Program

FGA	Food Grains Analysis Group (older link archive)
FGBNMS	Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary
FGC	Federal Green Challenge
FGDC	Federal Geographic Data Committee
FGIS	Federal Grain Inspection Service (older link archive; archive2)
FGM/C	Female Genital Mutilation or Cutting (older link archive; archive2)
FGOA	Feed Grains and Oilseeds Analysis Group
FGP	Facility Guarantee Program
FHA	Federal Health Architecture (older link archive; archive2) \| Federal Housing Administration (older link archive)
FHAP	Fair Housing Assistance Program (older link archive)
FHC	Fisheries and Habitat Conservation (changed to FAC)
FHDBS	Food Habits Database
FHEO	Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (older link archive)
FHFA	Federal Housing Finance Agency
FHFB	Federal Housing Finance Board (merged into FHFA)
FHIP	Fair Housing Initiatives Program (older link archive)
FHP	Forest Health Protection
FHWA	Federal Highway Administration (older link archive)
FHWAR	National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, & Wildlife-Associated Recreation (older link archive)

FI	Fertility and Infertility Branch (changed to FIB)
FIA	Federal Insurance Administration (changed to FIMA) \| Forest Inventory and Analysis
FIAT	Fire and Invasives Assessment Tool
FIB	Fertility and Infertility Branch
FIBB	Federal Investments and Borrowings Branch
FIBF	Federal Integrated Business Framework
FIC	John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences
FICAM	Federal Identity, Credential, & Access Management
FICMNEW	Federal Interagency Committee for the Management of Noxious and Exotic Weeds (older link archive)
FICO	Financing Corporation
FIDO	Federal Interagency Databases Online (unable to verify 1/17) \| Forest Inventory Data Online (older link archive)
FIFRA SAP	Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act Scientific Advisory Panel
FIGs	Field Intelligence Groups
FIM	Flood Inundation Mapper
FIMA	Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration (older link archive)
FinCEN	Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
FINCIC	Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (defunct; archived at UNT)
FIND	F Interagency Network Databank (unable to verify 8/17; likely merged into ForeignAssistance.gov)
FINI	Food Insecurity Nutrition Incentive (changed to GusNIP)
FIO	Federal Insurance Office
FIPNet	Federal Information Preservation Network (older link archive)
FIPS	Federal Information Processing Standards (older link archive; archive2)
FIPSE	Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education
FIQAS	Forecast Impact and Quality Assessment Section
FIR	Foreign Investment Review
FIRD	Financial Instrument Reference Database
FIRM	Flood Insurance Rate Map (older link archive; archive2)
FIRMS	Fire Information for Resource Management System
FIRST	Fatality and Injury Reporting System Tool \| FOIA Immigration Records SysTem (older link archive; archive2)

FirstNet	First Responder Network Authority
FIS	Flood Insurance Study (older link archive)
FISC	Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
FISD	Financial Investigative Services Division
FIST	Facilities Instructions, Standards, & Techniques \| Firearm Inquiry Statistics
FIT	Office of Financial Innovation and Transformation (older link archive)
FITF	Foreign Influence Task Force
FITS	Funding Integration Tool for Source Water
FITW	First in the World
FJC	Federal Judicial Center
FJSP	Federal Justice Statistics Program (older link archive)
FJSRC	Federal Justice Statistics Resource Center
FLA	Farm Loan Analysis
FLAG	Farm Loans Analysis Group \| Foreign Labor Application Gateway
FLAP	Federal Lands Access Program (older link archive)
FLAS	Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships Program
FLASH	Flooded Locations & Simulated Hydrographs
FLC	Federal Laboratory Consortium \| Office of Foreign Labor Certification (older link archive)
FLEC	Financial Literacy and Education Commission
FLEO	Census of Federal Law Enforcement Officers
FLERT	Firefighter and Law Enforcement Retirement Team
FLETA	Federal Law Enforcement Training Accreditation
FLETC	Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
FLH	Office of Federal Lands Highway (older link archive)
FLICC	Federal Library and Information Center Committee
FLIGHT	Facility Level Information on Greenhouse Gases Tool \| Future Leaders in Infections and Global Health Threats

FLLI	FAA Leadership & Learning Institute
FLO	Family Liaison Office (changed to GCLO; older link archive)
FLOTUS	First Lady of the United States (older link archive)
FLOW	Freight Logistics Optimization Works
FLP	Forest Legacy Program (older link archive; archive2)
FLPP	Federal Lands Transportation Planning Program (older link archive; archive2)
FLRA	Federal Labor Relations Authority
FLS	Farm Labor Survey
FLTCIP	Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program
FLTP	Federal Lands Transportation Program (older link archive)
FLU	Financial Litigation Unit
FMA	Flood Mitigation Assistance Program
FMAP	Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (older link archive)
FMC	Federal Maritime Commission
FMCS	Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
FMCSA	Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

FMD	Foreign Market Development Program
FMI	Facilities Management Institute (older link archive; archive2)
FMIP	Freight Model Improvement Program
FMIX	FEMA Mapping and Insurance eXchange
FMLA	Family and Medical Leave Act
FMLoB	Financial Management Line of Business
FMMI	Financial Management Modernization Initiative
FMNP	Farmers Market Nutrition Program (older link archive)
FMP	Federal Marketplace \| Foreign Medical Program (older link archive)
FMPP	Farmers Market Promotion Program
FMR	Fair Market Rents \| Federal Management Regulation
FMRD	Fishery Monitoring & Research Division (older link archive)
FMS	Financial Management Service (merged into BFS)
FMSHRC	Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission
FNCS	Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services (older link archive)
FNIC	Food and Nutrition Information Center (older link archive; archive2)
FNL	Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research
FNLCR	Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research
FNMA	Federal National Mortgage Association
FNRB	Functional Neuroscience Research Branch (changed to INB)
FNS	Food and Nutrition Service
FOD	Field Operations Division
FOG	Fatalities in Oil and Gas Extraction

FOH	Federal Occupational Health \| Field Operations Handbook (older link archive)
FOIA	Freedom of Information Act (older link archive)
FOMC	Federal Open Market Committee
FON	Freedom of Navigation
FOOD	Foodborne Outbreak Online Database (replaced by NORS)
FoodAPS	National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey
FoodNet	Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network
FORHP	Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (older link archive; archive2)
FORT	Fort Collins Science Center
FOS	Family Options Study
FOTG	Field Office Technical Guide
FOUO	For Official Use Only (.pdf)
FOW	Future of Work Initiative
FPA	Fire Program Analysis

FPAC	Farm Production and Conservation
FPAR	Family Planning Annual Report (older link archive; archive2; archive3)
FPB	Federal Programs Branch \| Finance and Performance Budgeting Division (older link archive)
FPC	Federal Privacy Council \| Federal Publishing Council \| Foreign Press Centers (older link archive; archive2)
FPCO	Family Policy Compliance Office (older link archive)
FPD	Flight Projects Directorate
FPDS	Federal Procurement Data System
FPI	Federal Preservation Institute (older link archive) \| Federal Prison Industries \| Federal Program Inventory (inactive or defunct 9/17)
FPIC	Federal Partnership for Interoperable Communications (older link archive)
FPISC	Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council
FPKI	Federal Public Key Infrastructure (older link archive; archive2; archive3)
FPKIPA	Federal Public Key Infrastructure Policy Authority (older link archive; archive2)
FPL	Federal Poverty Level \| Forest Products Laboratory
FPM	Office of Field Policy and Management (older link archive)
FPMR	Federal Property Management Regulation (replaced by FMR)
FPRS	Federal Pain Research Strategy \| Food Programs Reporting System
FPS	Federal Priority Streamgages \| Federal Protective Service (older link archive)
FPTA	Fibers, Peanuts and Tobacco Analysis Group (older link archive)

FR	Federal Register \| Force Readiness
FRA	Federal Railroad Administration (older link archive)
FRAC	Financial Research Advisory Committee
FRAMES	Fire Research and Management Exchange System
FRAMEWorks	Family, Relationship, and Marriage Education Works
FRASER	Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research
FRB	Federal Reserve Board
FRC	Federal Records Centers
FRCC	Fire Regime Condition Class
FRCO	Federal Recovery Consultant Office
FRCP	Federal Recovery Coordination Program (changed to FRCO)
FRD	Federal Research Division (older link archive) \| Fisheries Resources Division (older link archive)

FRED	Faciltiies and Real Estate Division (older link archive) \| Federal Reserve Economic Data \| Fine-Root Ecology Database
Freddie Mac	Federal Home Loan Corporation
FrEDI	Framework for Evaluating Damages and Impacts
FREE	Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (defunct as of 6/15)
FREE-B	Food Related Emergency Exercise Bundle (older link archive; archive2)
FRESC	Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center (older link archive)
FRG	First Responders Group (changed to First Responder Technologies, then First Responder Capability)
FRMAC	Federal Radiological Monitoring and Assessment Center
FRMC	Federal Records Management Council
FRMP	Fisheries Resource Monitoring Program
FRNs	Floating Rate Notes
FRON	Federal Records Officers Network
FRPAP	Federal Real Property Assistance Program
FRPC	Federal Real Property Council (older link archive)
FRPG	Federal Real Property Gateway
FRPP	Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Program (older link archive)
FRPP MS	Federal Real Property Profile Management System
FRPS	Federal Reserve Payments Study
FRRCC	Farm, Ranch, and Rural Communities Committee
FRRS	Federal Reserve Regulatory Service
FRS	Facility Registry Service (older link archive) \| Federal Reserve System \| Federal Relay Service (changed to FedRelay; older link archive)
FRSAN	Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network (older link archive)
FRSS	Fast Response Survey System
FRTEP	Federally Recognized Tribes Extension Program (older link archive)
FRTF	Family Reunification Task Force
FRTIB	Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board
FRTR	Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable
FRUS	Foreign Relations of the United States

FS	Forest Service (older link archive)
FSA	Farm Service Agency \| Office of Federal Student Aid
FSAFEDS	Federal Flexible Spending Account
FSANS	Food Safety and Nutrition Survey
FSAP	Federal Select Agent Program
FSB	Federal Subsistence Board \| Fisheries Sampling Branch (changed to Fisheries Monitoring Operations Branch; older link archive)
FSC	Forensic Science Center (older link archive; archive2)
FSCS	Full-Service Community Schools program
FSD	Federal Service Desk (older link archive)
FSDO	Flight Standards District Offices
FSE	Foreign Sanctions Evaders List
FSEOG	Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (older link archive)
FSFL	Farm Storage Facility Loan Program
FSG	Food Service Guidelines
FSGB	Foreign Service Grievance Board (older link archive; archive2; archive3; archive4)

FSI	Foreign Service Institute (older link archive)
FSIC	Food Safety Information Center (changed to FSRIO)
FSIDP	Foreign Service Impasse Disputes Panel
FSIMS	Flight Standards Information Management System
FSIP	Federal Service Impasses Panel (older link archive)
FSIS	Food Safety and Inspection Service
FSME	Federal and State Materials and Environmental Management (unable to verify 10/14)
FSNH	Food Safety, Nutrition, and Health
FSO	Fermi Site Office (older link archive)
FSOC	Financial Stability Oversight Council (older link archive)
FSOP	Food Safety Outreach Program
FSP	Food Stamp Program (changed to SNAP) \| Fundamental Science Practices (older link archive; archive2; archive3)
FSRDC	Federal Statistical Research Data Centers
FSRG	Food Surveys Research Group (older link archive)
FSRIO	Food Safety Research Information Office (older link archive; archive2; archive3)
FSRS	FFATA Subaward Reporting System
FSS	Family Self-Sufficiency Program (older link archive) \| Field Support System \| Food Safety Survey
FSSCC	Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council
FSSI	Federal Strategic Sourcing Initiative (older link archive; archive2)
FSWG	President's Food Safety Working Group (inactive or defunct 1/17, WH transition)

FTA	Federal Transit Administration \| Free Trade Agreement
FTC	Federal Trade Commission
FTDP	Foodborne Toxin Detection and Prevention Research Unit
FTF	Feed the Future (older link archive)
FTGTW	Food: Too Good to Waste
FTOs	Foreign Terrorist Organizations
FTPP	Fair Trade Practices Program
FTR	Federal Travel Regulation (older link archive; archive2)
FTS	Federal Technology Service (merged into FAS)
FTU	Firearms/Toolmarks Unit
FTZ	Foreign-Trade Zones
FTZB	Foreign-Trade Zones Board
FUN GCAT	Functional Genomic and Computational Assessment of Threats

FUP	Family Unification Program (older link archive)
FUSRAP	Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program
FVAP	Federal Voting Assistance Program
FVM	Office of Foods and Veterinary Medicine (unable to verify 2/20; older link archive; archive2)
FVPS	Family Violence Prevention & Services
FVS	Forest Vegetation Simulator (older link archive)
FW	FishWatch
FWDP	Food Web Dynamics Program (older link archive)
FWO	Federal Wildlife Officers (older link archive)
FWP	Farmable Wetlands Program \| Former Worker Medical Screening Program
FWS	Federal Wage System \| Federal Work-Study Program \| Fish and Wildlife Service
FWVP	Filipino World War II Veterans Parole Program (older link archive)
FYI	Foster Youth to Independence
FYR	Five-Year Reviews
FYSB	Family and Youth Services Bureau