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

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

H

H Bureau of Legislative Affairs
H2 Housing and Healthcare Integration
H2FAST Hydrogen Financial Analysis Scenario Tool
H2FillS Hydrogen Filling Simulation
HAB Harmful Algal Blooms | HIV/AIDS Bureau
HABS Historic American Buildings Survey
HABSOS Harmful Algal BloomS Observing System
HAC Division of Health Care Access and Coverage | Health Administration Center (absorbed into CBOPC)
HACCP Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point
HAC-TC Hazard Awareness & Characterization Technology Center
HAER Historic American Engineering Record
HAFS Hurricane Forecast Analysis System
HAI Healthcare-Associated Infection
HAIC Healthcare-Associated Infections - Community Interface
HAICViz Healthcare-Associated Infections - Community Interface Visualizations
HAIVEN Hospitalized Adult Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness Network
HALS Historic American Landscapes Survey
HAMB HIV and AIDS Malignancy Branch
HAMP Home Affordable Modification Program
HAMQEA Hydrodynamic and Acoustic Models for Quantitative Environmental Assessment
HAN Health Alert Network
HARB Healthcare Assessment Research Branch
HarDWR Harmonized Database of Western U.S. Water Rights
HARP Home Affordable Refinance Program (defunct 12/18)
HARVEST HIV/AIDS Review and Verification System
HATS Halocarbons and other Atmospheric Trace Species Group
HAVV Help America Vote Verification
HAWQS Hydrologic and Water Quality System
HAYSTAC Hidden Activity Signal and Trajectory Anomaly Characterization
Hazus Hazards-United States
HBB Health Behavior Branch (changed to SBSB)
HBCU Historically Black Colleges and Universities
HBI Healthy Brain Initiative (changed to NHBI)
HBIIP Higher Blends Infrastructure Incentive Program
HBP Highway Bridge Program (reverted to HBRRP)
HBRB Health Behaviors Research Branch
HBRRP Highway Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Program (changed to HBP, then reverted to HBRRP)
HBRT HIPAA Breach Reporting Tool
HCAAF Human Capital Assessment and Accountability Framework (unable to verify 4/20)
HCAHPS Hospital CAHPS
HCaTS Human Capital and Training Solutions
HCD4HS Human-centered Design for Human Services
HCFA Health Care Financing Administration (changed to CMS)
HCFAC Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program
HCFU Health Care Fraud Unit
HCHV Health Care for Homeless Veterans Program
HCIC Hurricane Contracting Information Center (unable to verify 2/09)
HCIRB Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch
HCMI Human Cancer Models Initiative
H-CORE HHS Coordination Operations and Response Element
HCP Habitat Conservation Plan | Healthcare and Consumer Products Section
HCPCS Healthcare Common Procedural Coding System
HCRL Horticultural Crops Research Laboratory (unable to verify 1/23)
HCRU Horticultural Crops Research Unit (unable to verify 1/23, likely changed to Horticultural Crops Production and Genetic Improvement Research Unit)
HCS Hazard Communication Standard | Housing Counseling System
HCSA Healthcare and Social Assistance
HCSD Health Communication Science Digest (discontinued 8/22)
HCSO Health Communication Science Office
HCUP Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project
HCV Office of Housing Choice Vouchers
HDE Humanitarian Device Exemption
HDGDC Historical Dietary Guidance Digital Collection
HDGM High Definition Geomagnetic Model
HDI Health Data Interactive (discontinued 7/16)
HDIAC Homeland Defense & Security Information Analysis Center
HDMC Heliophysics Data and Model Consortium
HDP Heliophysics Data Portal | Heritage Documentation Programs
HDRL Heliophysics Digital Resource Library
HDRP Healthcare Delivery Research Program
HDRSAM Heavy-Duty Vehicle Refueling Station Analysis Model
HDS Health and Diet Survey
HDSAM Hydrogen Delivery Scenario Analysis Model
HDSC Hydrometeorological Design Studies Center
HDTN High-Rate Delay Tolerant Networking
HDVEC Heavy-Duty Vehicle Emissions Calculator
HDW HRSA Data Warehouse (changed to data.HRSA.gov)
HDX Homelessness Data Exchange
HEAF High Explosives Applications Facility
HEAL Helping to End Addiction Long-term Initiative
HEALS Healthy Eating and Active LifeStyles
HEASARC High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center
HEC Higher Education Challenge Grants Program
HEC IWG High End Computing Interagency Working Group
HECAT Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (unable to verify 1/25)
HECM Home Equity Conversion Mortgage program (unable to verify 1/25)
HEDIS Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set
HEDR Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction Project (unable to verify 5/24)
HEEAD Health and Environmental Effects Assessment Division
HEER Higher Education Emergency Relief (unable to verify 9/24)
HEERF Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund
HEI Healthy Eating Index
HEIS Hanford Environmental Information System
HELD Health Effects Laboratory Division
HELP Commission Commission on Helping to Enhance the Livelihood of People around the Globe (defunct)
HELPR Hydrogen Extremely Low Probability of Rupture
HeMP Hemp eManagement Platform
HEMS HUD Enforcement Management System
HEMS Tool Helicopter Emergency Medical Services Tool (integrated into GFA-LA 10/23)
HEMU Health Economics and Modeling Unit (unable to verify 5/24)
HEO Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate (separated into ESDMD and SOMD 9/21)
HEP High Energy Physics Program | High School Equivalency Program | Higher Education Programs | Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty
HEPGIS Planning, Environment, Realty Geographic Information System
HERA Hazard Exposure Reporting and Analytics | Health and Environmental Risk Assessment | Human Exploration Research Analog
HERD Higher Education Research and Development Survey
HERMES Heliophysics Environmental and Radiation Measurement Experiment Suite
HERO Health and Environmental Research Online
HEROES HEalth care Rewards to Achieve Improved OutcomES
HEROS HUD Environmental Review Online System
HERU Hydraulic Engineering Research Unit (changed to AHERU)
HESN Higher Education Solutions Network
HETF Health Equity Task Force
HEVISAM Heavy-Duty Battery Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Scenario Analysis Model
HExCAT Homeland Explosive Consequence Assessment Tool
HF Human Factors Division | Hydraulic Fracturing
HFD Human Factors/Behavioral Sciences Division (unable to verify 5/14)
HFEF Hot Fuel Examination Facility
HFFI Healthy Food Financing Initiative
HFIL Highly Fractionated Indian Land Loan Program
HFIP Hurricane Forecast Improvment Program
HFIR High Flux Isotope Reactor
HfL Highways for LIFE
HFP Division of Health Care Financing Policy | Human Foods Program
HFPP Healthcare Fraud Prevention Partnership
HFRP Haitian Family Reunification Parole Program | Healthy Forests Reserve Program
HFTO Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office
HGP Hazards GeoPlatform | Human Genetics Program (unable to verify 11/20)
HHE Health Hazard Evaluation Program
HHF Hardest Hit Fund
HHI Healthy Homes Initiative | Heat and Health Index
HHIS Heritage Health Information Survey
HHLPSS Healthy Homes and Lead Poisoning Surveillance System
HHRA Human Health Risk Assessment
HHRC Homeless and Housing Resource Center
HHS Department of Health and Human Services
HHTS Healthy Homes Technical Studies
HHVBP Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Model
HIA Health Impact Assessment
HiAP Health in All Policies (unable to verify 9/24)
HIATUS Human Interpretable Attribution of Text using Underlying Structure
HIC Histology and Imaging Core | Housing Inventory Count
HICPAC Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee
HIDS Home Intrusion Detection System
HIDTA High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area
HIE Health Information Exchange
HIF Hydrologic Instrumentation Facility
HIFCA High Intensity Financial Crime Area (unable to verify 1/25)
HIFLD Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data Working Group
HIG High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group (unable to verify 9/24)
HIGLAS Healthcare Integrated General Ledger Accounting System
HIM Health Information Management Program | Health Insurance Marketplace
HINTS Health Information National Trends Survey
HIP Housing Improvement Program | Migratory Bird Harvest Information Program
HIPAA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
HIPDB Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank (archive; merged into NPDB 5/13)
HIPM Health Inclusive Poverty Measure
HIP-WI Hurricane Insurance Protection – Wind Index
HIRE Hiring Initiative to Reimagine Equity (unable to verify 1/25) | HIV/AIDS Health Improvement for the Re-Entry Population
HIS Hydrographic and Impairment Statistics
HISP High Impact Service Provider
HISPC Health Information Security and Privacy Collaboration
HIT Office of Transportation Workforce Development and Technology Deployment
HITEC Homeland Identities, Targeting & Exploitation Center
HITL Humans in the Loop
HITRF Hydrogen Infrastructure Testing and Research Facility
HITS High Impacts Tracking System
HIU Humanitarian Information Unit
HIV/AIDS Division of HIV Prevention (previously, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention)
HIV DRP HIV Dynamics and Replication Program
HIVE Health Information Vision Exchange | Highly Integrated Vehicle Ecosystem
HIVIS Hydrologic Imagery Visualization and Information System
HIW Health Indicators Warehouse (discontinued 6/16)
HKNC Helen Keller National Center
HL Hydrology Laboratory
HLED U.S.-Mexico High-Level Economic Dialogue
HLS Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2
HPI House Price Index
HPMS Health Plan Management System | Highway Performance Monitoring System
HPOG Health Profession Opportunity Grants
HPP Hospital Preparedness Program
HPPI Office of Highway Policy Information
HPRP Heirs’ Property Relending Program | Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program
HPS Heritage Preservation Services (unable to verify 5/11) | Household Pulse Survey
HPSA Health Professional Shortage Areas
HPSP Health Professions Special Pays
HPSS High-Performance Storage System
HPTC Historic Preservation Training Center
HPTS Office of Transportation Policy Studies
HPV-IMPACT Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Impact Monitoring Project
HQO Division of Health Care Quality and Outcomes
HQS Housing Quality Standards
HRC Homelessness Resource Center (unable to verify 12/18)
HRCCT Health Resources County Comparison Tool (changed to HRCT)
HRCPO HR Connect Program Office (changed to EBS)
HRCT Health Resources Comparison Tool (unable to access 2/17)
HRD Hurricane Research Division
HRDF Human Rights and Democracy Fund (unable to verify 6/19)
HRDG Human Resources Desk Guide
HREB Hormonal and Reproductive Epidemiology Branch (unable to verify 5/16; likely changed to MEB)
HREx HFIP Real-time Experiment
HR LOB Human Resources Line of Business
HRP HIV Research Program  | Human Research Program
HRPO Human Research Protection Office
HRQOL Health-Related Quality of Life (site archived)
HR QSMO Human Resources Quality Services Management Office
HRR Human Research Roadmap
HRRP Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program
HRRR High-Resolution Rapid Refresh | High Risk Rural Roads
HRS Health and Retirement Study
HRSA Health Resources and Services Administration
HRSAM Hydrogen Refueling Station Analysis Model
HRSP Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section
HRT Hostage Rescue Team
HRT3 Human Rights Target Tracking Team
HRVWCC Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center
HRVWCU Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Unit (changed to HRVWCC)
HS Hazard Services | Homeland Security Research Program
HS&B High School & Beyond
HS3 Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel
HSAAC Homeland Security Academic Advisory Council (changed to HSAPC)
HSAC Homeland Security Advisory Council
HSAM Homeland Security Acquisition Manual
HSAPC Homeland Security Academic Partnership Council
HSARPA Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (page archived)
HSAS Homeland Security Advisory System (replaced by NTAS)
HSB Head Start Bureau (changed to OHS) | Health Studies Branch (unable to verify 5/24) | Health Systems Bureau (changed from Healthcare Systems Bureau)
HSC Human Smuggling Cell (unable to verify 2/21)
HSDL Homeland Security Digital Library
HSEB Health Services and Economics Branch (replaced by HARB)
HSEEP Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program
HSEES Hazardous Substances Emergency Events Surveillance (terminated 2009/unable to verify 11/24)
HSGAC U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs
HSGI High School Graduation Initiative (unable to verify 2/24)
HSGP Homeland Security Grant Program
HSI Hispanic-Serving Institutions Division | Homeland Security Investigations
HSII Human Services Interoperability Innovations (unable to verify 1/25)
HTA Homeland Threat Assessment
HTEM High Throughput Experimental Materials Database
HTF Housing Trust Fund | Hypoxia Task Force
HTHC Healthy Trees Healthy Cities
HTMC Historical Topographic Map Collection
HTPU Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit
HTRL High-Throughput Research Laboratory (changed to ADL)
HTRS Human Trafficking Reporting System
HTS Harmonized Tariff Schedule
HTYPE Human Trafficking Youth Prevention Education
HUBZone Historically Underutilized Business Zones
HUD Department of Housing and Urban Development | Humanitarian Use Device
HUD-VASH HUD Veteran Affairs Supportive Housing Program
HuGENet Human Genome Epidemiology Network (unable to verify 5/24)
HURREVAC Hurricane Evacuation
HURSAT Hurricane Satellite
HVCES Homeless Veterans Community Employment Services
HVO Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
HVRP Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program
HVS Housing Vacancy Survey
HVU HUD Virtual University
HWCC Hunting and Wildlife Conservation Council
HWD Health & Wellness Director | Healthy Work Design and Well Being Program
HWM Health and Wellness Manager (changed to HWD) | High Water Mark Initiative
HWRF Hurricane Weather Research and Forecast
HWS Hydrology and Watershed System Subgroup
HWT Hazardous Weather Testbed
Hydro-TCP Hydropower Technical Collaboration Program
HyMARC Hydrogen Materials Advanced Research Consortium
HyRAM+ Hydrogen Plus Other Alternative Fuels Risk Assessment Models
HyspIRI Hyperspectral Infrared Imager
HYSPLIT Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory