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

F	Office of U.S. Foreign Assistance Resources
FAA	Federal Aviation Administration
FAADS	Federal Assistance Award Data System
FAAT	FEMA Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Terms List
FAC	Federal Audit Clearinghouse
FACA	Federal Advisory Committee Act (older link archive)
FACE	Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program
FACOSH	Federal Advisory Council on Occupational Safety and Health
FACT	Financing Alternatives Comparison Tool
FAD	Food Assistance Division
FADGI	Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative
FADS	Food Availability (Per Capita) Data System
FAE	Foreign Aid Explorer
FAER	Fisheries: Aquatic and Endangered Resources Program (changed to Fisheries)
FAERS	FDA Adverse Event Reporting System
FAI	Federal Acquisition Institute
FAIS	Food Aid Information System
FAMWEB	Fire and Aviation Management Web Applications
FAN	Foreign Affairs Network
Fannie Mae	Federal National Mortgage Association
FAPIIS	Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System
FAPRS	Federal Assistance Programs Retrieval System (replaced by CFDA)
FAR	Federal Acquisition Regulation
FARA	Food Access Research Atlas \| Foreign Agents Registration Act
Farmer Mac	Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation
FARR	Federal Air Rules for Indian Reservations
FAS	Federal Acquisition Service (older link archive; archive 2) \| Foreign Agricultural Service
FASAB	Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board
FASD	Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
FAST	Free and Secure Trade
FATUS	Foreign Agricultural Trade of the United States
FAVIR	Fruits and Vegetables Import Requirements Database

FBCI	Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (changed to OFBNP)
FBE	Foreign Biometric Exchange Program
FBI	Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBIIC	Financial and Banking Information Infrastructure Committee
FBIS	Foreign Broadcast Information Service (changed to WNC; defunct)
FBO	Federal Business Opportunities
FBP	Fishery Biology Program
FCA	Farm Credit Administration
FCC	Federal Communications Commission \| U.S.-Mexico Border Field Coordinating Committee
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
FCG	Federal Consulting Group
FCIC	Federal Citizen Information Center (discontinued; replaced by Pueblo.GPO.gov) \| Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
FCS	Food Contact Substances
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
FD	Food Distribution Programs
FDA	Food and Drug Administration
FDA-TRACK	FDA Transparency-Results-Accountability-Credibility-Knowledge Sharing
FDB	Financial Disclosure Branch
FDIC	Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
FDLP	Federal Depository Library Program
FDMS	Federal Docket Management System
FDMSD	Food Defense Mitigation Strategies Database
FDNS	Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate
FDNU	Federal DNA Database Unit
FDPIR	Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations
FDsys	(GPO) Federal Digital System

FE	Office of Fossil Energy
FEA	Federal Enterprise Architecture (defunct or inactive 1/17, WH transition)
FEB	Federal Executive Boards
FEC	Federal Election Commission \| Federal Electronics Challenge
FEDFacts	Information about the Federal Electronic Docket Facilities
Fed FUNDS	Federal Funding for Water and Wastewater Utilities in National Disasters
FEDIX	Federal Information Exchange Inc. (defunct)
FedRAMP	Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program
FedRelay	Federal Relay Service (older link archive)
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
FedVTE	Federal Virtual Training Environment (older link archive)
FEGLI	Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance
FEHB	Federal Employees Health Benefits
FEIS	Fire Effects Information System
FEMA	Federal Emergency Management Agency
FEMP	Federal Energy Management Program
FERA	Fate, Exposure, and Risk Analysis
FERC	Federal Employee Relocation Center \| Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Fermilab	Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
FERRET	Federated Electronic Research, Review, Extraction, and Tabulation Tool
FES	Fusion Energy Sciences
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
FFB	Federal Financing Bank (older link archive)
FFEL	Federal Family Education Loan Program
FFETF	Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force (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	Office of Food for Peace
FFRDCs	Federally Funded R&D Centers
FFVP	Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program
FGA	Food Grains Analysis Group
FGBNMS	Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary
FGDC	Federal Geographic Data Committee
FGIS	Federal Grain Inspection Service
FGM/C	Female Genital Mutilation or Cutting (older link archive)
FGOA	Feed Grains and Oilseeds Analysis Group
FHA	Federal Health Architecture (older link archive) \| Federal Housing Administration (older link archive)
FHAP	Fair Housing Assistance Program (older link archive)
FHC	Fisheries and Habitat Conservation
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
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
FIB	Fertility and Infertility Branch
FIC	John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences
FICAM	Federal Identity, Credential, & Access Management (changed to ICAM)
FICMNEW	Federal Interagency Committee for the Management of Noxious and Exotic Weeds
FICO	Financing Corporation
FIDO	Federal Interagency Databases Online (unable to verify 1/17) \| Forest Inventory Data Online
FIFRA SAP	Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act Scientific Advisory Panel
FIMA	Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration
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
FIPNet	Federal Information Preservation Network
FIPS	Federal Information Processing Standards
FIRM	Flood Insurance Rate Map
FirstNet	First Responder Network Authority
FIS	Flood Insurance Study
FISC	Federal Intelligence Surveillance Court
FIT	Office of Financial Innovation and Transformation
FJC	Federal Judicial Center
FJSP	Federal Justice Statistics Program
FLAG	Farm Loans Analysis Group
FLAP	Federal Lands Access Program
FLAS	Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships Program
FLC	Federal Laboratory Consortium \| Office of Foreign Labor Certification
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
FLICC	Federal Library and Information Center Committee
FLIGHT	Facility Level Information on Greenhouse Gases Tool

FLLI	FAA Leadership & Learning Institute
FLO	Family Liaison Office
FLOTUS	First Lady of the United States
FLP	Forest Legacy Program (older link archive)
FLPP	Federal Lands Transportation Planning Program
FLRA	Federal Labor Relations Authority
FLTP	Federal Lands Transportation Program
FLU	Financial Litigation Unit
FMAP	Federal Medical Assistance Percentage
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
FMIP	Freight Model Improvement Program
FMLA	Family and Medical Leave Act
FMMI	Financial Management Modernization Initiative
FMNP	Farmers Market Nutrition Program
FMP	Foreign Medical Program (older link archive)
FMPP	Farmers Market Promotion Program
FMR	Fair Market Rents
FMRD	Fishery Monitoring & Research Division
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
FNL	Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research
FNMA	Federal National Mortgage Association
FNRB	Functional Neuroscience Research Branch (changed to INB)
FNS	Food and Nutrition Service
FOG	Fatalities in Oil and Gas Extraction

FOH	Field Operations Handbook
FOIA	Freedom of Information Act
FOMC	Federal Open Market Committee
FOOD	Foodborne Outbreak Online Database
FORHP	Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (older link archive)
FOUO	For Official Use Only (.pdf)
FPA	Fire Program Analysis
FPAC	Farm Production and Conservation
FPAR	Family Planning Annual Report (older link archive)
FPB	Finance and Performance Budgeting Division
FPC	Federal Publishing Council \| Foreign Press Centers
FPCO	Family Policy Compliance Office (older link archive)
FPD	Flight Projects Directorate
FPDS	Federal Procurement Data System
FPI	Federal Preservation Institute \| Federal Prison Industries \| Federal Program Inventory (inactive or defunct 9/17)
FPIC	Federal Partnership for Interoperable Communications (unable to verify 9/13)
FPISC	Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council
FPKI	Federal Public Key Infrastructure (older link archive)
FPKIPA	Federal Public Key Infrastructure Policy Authority
FPL	Forest Products Laboratory
FPM	Office of Field Policy and Management (older link archive)
FPS	Federal Priority Streamgages \| Federal Protective Service
FPTA	Fibers, Peanuts and Tobacco Analysis Group

FR	Federal Register
FRA	Federal Railroad Administration
FRAC	Financial Research Advisory Committee
FRAMES	Fire Research and Management Exchange System
FRASER	Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research
FRB	Federal Reserve Board
FRC	Federal Records Centers
FRCC	Fire Regime Condition Class
FRCP	Federal Recovery Coordination Program
FRD	Federal Research Division \| Fisheries Resources Division
FRED	Faciltiies and Real Estate Division \| Federal Reserve Economic Data
Freddie Mac	Federal Home Loan Corporation
FREE	Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (defunct as of 6/15)
FREE-B	Food Related Emergency Exercise Bundle
FRESC	Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center
FRG	Support to the Homeland Security Enterprise and First Responders Group
FRMP	Fisheries Resource Monitoring Program
FRPC	Federal Real Property Council (older link archive)
FRPP	Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Program
FRPP MS	Federal Real Property Profile Management System
FRRCC	Farm, Ranch, and Rural Communities Committee
FRS	Facility Registry Service \| Federal Reserve System \| Federal Relay Service (changed to FedRelay; older link archive)
FRSS	Fast Response Survey System
FRTEP	Federally Recognized Tribes Extension Program
FRTIB	Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board
FRTR	Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable
FRUS	Foreign Relations of the United States

FS	Forest Service
FSA	Farm Service Agency \| Office of Federal Student Aid
FSAFEDS	Federal Flexible Spending Account
FSAP	Federal Select Agent Program
FSB	Federal Subsistence Board \| Fisheries Sampling Branch
FSC	Forensic Science Center (older link archive)
FSD	Federal Service Desk
FSDO	Flight Standards District Offices
FSEOG	Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant
FSGB	Foreign Service Grievance Board (older link archive)
FSI	Foreign Service Institute
FSIC	Food Safety Information Center (changed to FSRIO)
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)
FSO	Fermi Site Office
FSOC	Financial Stability Oversight Council
FSP	Food Stamp Program (changed to SNAP) \| Fundamental Science Practices
FSRG	Food Surveys Research Group (older link archive)
FSRIO	Food Safety Research Information Office (older link archive)
FSRS	FFATA Subaward Reporting System
FSS	Family Self-Sufficiency Program (older link archive) \| Field Support System
FSSI	Federal Strategic Sourcing Initiative (older link archive)
FSWG	President's Food Safety Working Group (inactive or defunct 1/17, WH transition)

FTA	Federal Transit Administration
FTC	Federal Trade Commission
FTF	Feed the Future
FTGTW	Food: Too Good to Waste
FTR	Federal Travel Regulation (older link archive)
FTS	Federal Technology Service (merged into FAS)
FTU	Firearms/Toolmarks Unit
FTZ	Foreign-Trade Zones
FTZB	Foreign-Trade Zones Board
FUP	Family Unification Program (older link archive)
FVAP	Federal Voting Assistance Program
FVM	Office of Foods and Veterinary Medicine
FVPS	Family Violence Prevention & Services
FVS	Forest Vegetation Simulator
FW	FishWatch
FWDP	Food Web Dynamics Program
FWP	Farmable Wetlands Program
FWS	Federal Wage System \| Federal Work-Study Program \| Fish and Wildlife Service
FWVP	Filipino World War II Veterans Parole Program
FYSB	Family and Youth Services Bureau