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

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

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F Office of Foreign Assistance
F2FV2 Forests to Faucets 2.0
FA Foreign Assistance
FAA Federal Aviation Administration
FAADS Federal Assistance Award Data System
FAAP Functional Affirmative Action Program (unable to verify 2/25)
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
FABS Financial Assistance Broker Submission
FAC Federal Audit Clearinghouse | Fire Adapted Communities | Fish and Aquatic Conservation
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
FACAOSSP Full All-Cargo Aircraft Operator Standard Security Program
FACE Family and Child Education| 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)
FACT Facility for Acceptance, Calibration, and Testing | Field Audit Checklist Tool | Financing Alternatives Comparison Tool | Food and Agriculture Cyberinformatics and Tools (unable to verify 1/21)
FACTS FACility for Weather and Climate AssessmenTS
FAD Food Assistance Division (unable to verify 6/19)
FADGI Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative
FAD PReP Foreign Animal Disease Preparedness and Response
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, then Fish and Aquatic Species)
FAERS FDA Adverse Event Reporting System
FAF Freight Analysis Framework
FAF5 Freight Analysis Framework Version 5
FAH Foreign Affairs Handbook
FAI Federal Acquisition Institute (alternate link archive) | Financial Alignment Initiative
FAIR Funding for Accelerated, Inclusive Research (unable to verify 1/25)
FAIRS Federal Aviation Interactive Reporting System
FAIS Food Aid Information System
FALD Federal Assistance Law Division
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 (unable to verify 1/25) | Foreign Affairs Network
Fannie Mae Federal National Mortgage Association
FANRP Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program
FAPE Free Appropriate Public Education
FAPIIS Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System
FAPRS Federal Assistance Programs Retrieval System (replaced by CFDA)
FAR Federal Acquisition Regulation | Frontier and Remote Area Codes
FARA Food Access Research Atlas | Foreign Agents Registration Act
FARAD Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank
FARE Fostering Access, Rights and Equity (unable to verify 1/25)
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 | Foreign Agricultural Service
FASAB Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board
FASD Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
FASE Food and Agricultural Science Enhancement
FASLP Food and Agriculture Service Learning Program
FASR Fugitives and Absconders Search Report
FASS-FHA Financial Assessment of FHA Housing
FASS-PH Financial Assessment of Public Housing
FASSR Financial Assistance and Social Services Report
FASST Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence for Science, Security and Technology
FaST Flood and Storm Tracker
FAST Federal and State Technology Partnership Program | Federal Automotive Statistical Tool | Free and Secure Trade
FAST-41 Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act - Title 41
FAST-DERMS Federated Architecture for Secure and Transactive Distributed Energy Resource Management Solutions
FASTER Firearm Injury Surveillance Through Emergency Rooms Program
Fatherhood FIRE Fatherhood—Family-focused, Interconnected, Resilient, and Essential
FATUS Foreign Agricultural Trade of the United States
FAVIR Fruits and Vegetables Import Requirements Database (replaced by ACIR)
FBCE Flow Boiling and Condensation Experiment
FBCI Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (changed to OFBNP)
FBD Ferry Boat Discretionary Program
FBE Foreign Biometric Exchange Program (unable to verify 10/22)
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 sam.gov)
FBP Federal Bonding Program | Ferry Boat Program | Fishery Biology Program
FBSAC Faith-Based Security Advisory Council
FBWT Fund Balance with Treasury
FCA Farm Credit Administration
FCAB Federal Consortium for Advanced Batteries
FCBS Flexible Consumer Behavior Survey
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
FCCS Fuel Characteristic Classification System
FCD Fire Calorimetry Database
FCEB Federal Civilian Executive Branch Agencies
FCF Fuel Conditioning Facility
FCG Federal Consulting Group (unable to verify 3/25)
FCGR Fundamental Classification Guidance Review
FCIC Federal Citizen Information Center (discontinued; replaced by Pueblo.GPO.gov) | Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
FCPP Fusion Center Performance Program
FCR Federal Case Registry
FCRD Fuel Cycle Research and Development program
FCS Food Contact Substances
FCSC Foreign Claims Settlement Commission
FCSIC Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation
FCSM Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology
FCSS Federal Commission on School Safety (unable to verify 9/24)
FCTF Financial Crimes Task Forces
FD Food Distribution Programs (changed to USDA Foods Programs)
FDA Food and Drug Administration
FDA-ARGOS FDA dAtabase for Reference Grade micrObial Sequences
FDA-TRACK FDA Transparency-Results-Accountability-Credibility-Knowledge Sharing
FDB Financial Disclosure Branch (unable to verify 4/20)
FDC FoodData Central
FDCRP Federal Law Enforcement Agency Deaths in Custody Reporting Program
FDDs Format Description Documents
FDDU Federal DNA Database Unit
FDI Foreign Direct Investment
FDIC Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
FDLD Federal Depository Library Directory | Food Disclosure and Labeling Division
FDLP Federal Depository Library Program
FDM FDLP Data Manager
FDMS Federal Docket Management System
FDMSD Food Defense Mitigation Strategies Database
FDNS Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate
FDOSS Foodborne Disease Outbreak Surveillance System
FDPIR Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations
FDS Federal Data Strategy | Federal Disbursement Services | Fostering Diverse Schools Demonstration Grants Program
FDsys (GPO) Federal Digital System (discontinued 12/18; replaced by govinfo)
FDW FAMWeb Data Warehouse
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
FiCli Fish and Climate Change Database
FICMNEW Federal Interagency Committee for the Management of Noxious and Exotic Weeds
FICO Financing Corporation (unable to verify 8/24)
FICOR Federal Interagency Council on Outdoor Recreation (unable to verify 2/25)
FICRCD Food Intakes Converted to Retail Commodities Databases
FIDO Federal Interagency Databases Online (unable to verify 1/17) | Forest Inventory Data Online (unable to verify 3/24)
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
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)
FinHub Strategic Hub for Innovation and Financial Technology
FINI Food Insecurity Nutrition Incentive (changed to GusNIP)
FINVET National Veterans Financial Resource Center
FIO Federal Insurance Office
FIP Field-Initiated Projects Program
FIPMCC Federal Integrated Pest Management Coordinating Committee
FIPNet Federal Information Preservation Network
FIPS Federal Information Processing Standards
FIPSE Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education
FIP-SI Fire Insurance Protection-Smoke Index
FIQAS Forecast Impact and Quality Assessment Section (unable to verify 12/24)
FIR Foreign Investment Review (changed to GIES)
FIRD Financial Instrument Reference Database
FIREMON Fire Effects Monitoring and Inventory System
FIREX-AQ Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality
FIRM Flood Insurance Rate Map
FIRMS Fire Information for Resource Management System
FIRS Field Investigative Reporting System | Foreign Investment Review Section
FIRST Fatality and Injury Reporting System Tool | Fluid Interface Reactions, Structures and Transport Center | FOIA Immigration Records SysTem
FirstNet First Responder Network Authority
FIS Flood Insurance Study
FISA Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978
FISC Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
FISCAM Federal Information System Controls Audit Manual
FISD Financial Investigative Services Division
FISP Federal Interagency Sedimentation Project
FIST Facilities Instructions, Standards, & Techniques | Firearm Inquiry Statistics
FIT Office of Financial Innovation and Transformation
FITF Foreign Influence Task Force (unable to verify 2/25)
FITS Funding Integration Tool for Source Water
FITW First in the World (defunded)
FJC Federal Judicial Center
FJSP Federal Justice Statistics Program
FJSRC Federal Justice Statistics Resource Center
FLA Farm Loan Analysis
FLAG Farm Loans Analysis Group | Foreign Labor Application Gateway
FLAP Federal Lands Access Program
FLARE Flammability Limits At Reduced-g Experiment
FLAS Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships Program
FLASH Flooded Locations & Simulated Hydrographs
FLC Federal Laboratory Consortium | Office of Foreign Labor Certification
FLEC Financial Literacy and Education Commission
FleetREDI Fleet Research, Energy Data, and Insights
FLEO Census of Federal Law Enforcement Officers (changed to CFLEO)
FLERT Firefighter and Law Enforcement Retirement Team
FLETA Federal Law Enforcement Training Accreditation
FLETC Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
FLETF Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force
FLEX Future Leaders Exchange Program
FLH Office of Federal Lands Highway
FLICC Federal Library and Information Center Committee
FLIGHT Facility Level Information on Greenhouse Gases Tool | Future Leaders in Infections and Global Health Threats
FMD Housing Voucher Financial Management Division | Foreign Market Development Program
FMF Foreign Military Financing
FMI Facilities Management Institute | Fire Modeling Institute
FMIC Foreign Malign Influence Center
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
FMP Federal Marketplace | Foreign Medical Program
FMPP Farmers Market Promotion Program
FM QSMO Financial Management Quality Service Management Office
FMR Fair Market Rents | Federal Management Regulation
FMRD Fishery Monitoring & Research Division
FMS Financial Management Service (merged into BFS) | Foreign Military Sales
FMSF Fire Modeling Services Framework
FMSHRC Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission
FNCS Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services (changed to FNS)
FNDDS Food and Nutrient Database for Dietary Studies
FNIC Food and Nutrition Information Center
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
FOCAL Plan Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) Operational Cybersecurity Alignment Plan
FOD Field Operations Division, DHS (changed to ORI) | Field Operations Division, FEMA
FOFEM First Order Fire Effects Model
FOG Fatalities in Oil and Gas Extraction
FRED Faciltiies and Real Estate Division | 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
FRESC Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center
FRESH Flood Risk and Endangered Species Habitat
FRG First Responders Group (changed to First Responder Technologies, then First Responder Capability)
FRG_NEW Fire Regime Groups
FRIDA Forest Resource Index for Decisions in Adaptation
FRIS Farm and Ranch Irrigation Survey (changed to IWMS) | Forest Resource Information System
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
FRP Family Reunification Parole (unable to verify 1/25)
FRPAP Federal Real Property Assistance Program
FRPC Federal Real Property Council
FRPG Federal Real Property Gateway (unable to verify 9/22)
FRPP Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Program (unable to verify 10/22) | Federal Retail Pharmacy Program for COVID-19 Vaccination (site archived)
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 | Family Reporting Software | Federal Reserve System | Federal Relay Service (changed to FedRelay)
FRSAN Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network
FRSMP Federally Recognized State Managed Phytosanitary
FRSS Fast Response Survey System
FRTEP Federally Recognized Tribes Extension Program
FRTF Family Reunification Task Force
FRTIB Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board
FRTR Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable
FRUS Foreign Relations of the United States