Skip to Main Content

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

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

I

IAE Integrated Award Environment
IAEGC Inter-Agency Electronic Grants Committee (changed to grants.gov)
IAEM Institute for Advanced Electron Microscopy
IAF Inter-American Foundation
IAG Indigenous Animals Harvesting and Meat Processing Grant Program | Industries at a Glance
IAIP Infrastructure Analysis and Infrastructure Protection Program (unable to verify 1/08)
IAIWG International Activities Interagency Working Group
IAL Innovative Approaches to Literacy
IALS International Adult Literacy Survey
IAM Indian Affairs Manual
IAO Interagency Office (unable to verify 7/22)
IAP International Activities Program | International Agricultural Productivity | Medicaid Innovation Accelerator Program | Office of Impact Aid Programs
IAPD Investment Adviser Public Disclosure
IAPE Office of Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement
IAQ Indoor Air Quality
IARPA Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity
IARPC Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee
IASA International Aviation Safety Assessment
IASAP Indian Alcohol and Substance Abuse Program (unable to verify 12/18)
IASOA International Arctic Systems for Observing the Atmosphere (unable to verify 4/23)
IASP Integrated Aviation Systems Program
IAT Interagency Aviation Training
IATP Intelligence Analyst Training Program (unable to verify 8/18)
IAWG Interagency Working Group
IB Intelligence Branch | International Bureau (changed to OIA)
IBA Industrial Base Assessments (changed to IPA)
IBAS Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment (unable to verify 5/23)
IBAT Interagency Bolt Action Team
IC Intelligence Community
IC ACC Intelligence Community Advanced Campaign Cell
IC3 Internet Crime Complaint Center
ICAC Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Program (unable to verify 10/19)
ICAD Intelligent Computer Assisted Detection
ICAM Identity, Credential, and Access Management | Innovative Coordinated Access and Mobility Pilot Program
ICAMS Interagency Council for Advancing Meteorological Services
I CARE Integrity, Commitment, Advocacy, Respect, and Excellence
ICARS Interagency Council on Agricultural and Rural Statistics
ICASS International Cooperative Administrative Support Services
ICATT Increasing Community Access to Testing for COVID-19
ICBEMP Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project (archived site)
ICBS-R Interagency Cache Business System Re-engineering
ICC Census Integrated Communications Campaign | Office of Incident Command and Control
ICCA International Conservation Chiefs Academy
ICCE Office of International Climate and Clean Energy (discontinued)
ICCPUD Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Prevention of Underage Drinking (alternate link archive)
ICCVAM Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods
ICD Intelligence Community Directive | Interagency Contract Directory | International Classification of Diseases
ICDBG Indian Community Development Block Grant
ICDR Interagency Committee on Disability Research
ICE Immigration and Customs Enforcement | Infrastructure Carbon Estimator | Interactive Catchment Explorer
ICEIWG Indian Country Energy and Infrastructure Working Group
ICESat-2 Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite-2
ICF International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health | Office of Inertial Confinement Fusion (unable to verify 8/18)
ICFS International Communications Filing Systems
ICH Interagency Council on Homelessness
ICHNR Interagency Committee on Human Nutrition Research
ICILS International Computer and Information Literacy Study
ICIS-AIR Integrated Compliance Information System-Air
ICIS-NPDES Integrated Compliance Information System-National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
ICITAP International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program
ICLUS Integrated Climate and Land-Use Scenarios
ICM Integrated Corridor Management
ICMOB Intramural Clinical Management and Operations Branch
ICOADS International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set
ICON Ionospheric Connection Explorer
ICOR Immigration Court Online Resource
I-Corps Innovation Corps
iCOUP Institute for the Cooperative Upcycling of Plastics
ICP Indian Children's Program | Informed Compliance Publication | International Information and Communications Policy
ICPD Individual and Community Preparedness Division
ICPG Intelligence Community Policy Guidance
ICPM Intelligence Community Policy Memorandum
ICPO International Cooperative Programs Office
ICPPS Interagency Council on Printing and Publications Services (replaced by FPC)
ICR Information Collection Request | Information Collection Review | Information Collection Rule | Information Coordination and Reporting Branch (unable to verify 11/24)
ICRCs Injury Control Research Centers
ICRO Information Collection Review Office
ICS Incident Command System | Industrial Control Systems | International Cyberspace Security | Investment Climate Statements
ICS-CERT Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (retired 2/23; previously merged into NCCIC)
ICSD Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (requires login)
ICSJWG Industrial Control Systems Joint Working Group
ICSO Interior Complex Security Operations
ICSP Interagency Committee on Standards Policy  | Interagency Council on Statistical Policy
ICT Indigenous Connectivity and Technology Division
ICTAP Interoperable Communications Technical Assistance Program
ICTIME Interagency Center for Trade Implementation, Monitoring, and Enforcement
ICTS Information and Communication Technology Survey
ICU Influenza Coordination Unit (unable to verify 2/16)
ID Infectious Diseases | Influenza Division  | Intelligence Division
IDA Individual Development Accounts | Interactive Data Analyzer
IDB Integrated Database | International Data Base | Investigational Drug Branch
IDC Imaging Data Commons
ID-CTP Immune Deficiency Cellular Therapy Program
IDD Infrastructure Protection and Disaster Management Division (unable to verify 5/14)
IDDA Income Distributions and Dynamics in America
IDDB Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Branch
IDE International Data Explorer
IDEA Index of Economic Activity | Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
IDEAS IARPA Distribution & Evaluation System | Interagency Disability Educational Awareness Showcase (unable to verify 8/13) | Inter-Disciplinary Engagement in Animal Systems
IDENT Automated Biometric Identification System
IDEP Integrated Diabetes Education Program (defunct)
IdHSC Identity History Summary Checks
IDI Interagency Data Inventory
IDIS Integrated Disbursement and Information System
IDLH Immediately Dangerous To Life or Health
IDMS Investigations Data Management System
IDN International Directory Network
IDP Industrial Demonstrations Program
IDPB Infectious Diseases Pathology Branch
IDR Income-Driven Repayment
IDS Incident Data System | Investigations Database System
IDSR Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (merged into DGHP)
i-DST Integrated Decision Support Tool
IDSWD Informatics and Data Science Workforce Development
IEA Integrated Ecosystem Assessments | Office of Independent Enterprise Assessments (changed to EA) | Office of Intergovernmental and External Affairs
IEC International Energy Commitments
IECMH Infant Early Childhood Mental Health
IECMHC Center of Excellence for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation
IED Office of Indian Economic Development
iEdison Interagency Edison
IEDO Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office
IEED Office of Indian Energy and Economic Development (changed to IED)
IEG Instrument Enhanced Grading program
IEID Influenza and Emerging Infectious Diseases Division
IEIP International Emerging Infections Program (unable to verify 9/23)
IELP Innovation and Early Learning Programs
IELS International Early Learning Study
IENC Inland Electronic Navigational Charts
IEO International Energy Outlook
IER Immigrant and Employee Rights Section
IERH International Emergency and Refugee Health (changed to ERRB)
IES Institute of Education Sciences | International Energy Statistics | Investigative and Enforcement Services
IESC Indian Energy Service Center
IEUBK Integrated Exposure Uptake Biokinetic
IE&VT Industries, Education, and Vocational Training Division (unable to verify 8/17)
IFAC In-Field Address Canvassing
IFAP Information for Financial Aid Professionals (changed to Knowledge Center then FSA Partner Connect)
I-FAST Innovations in Food and Agricultural Science and Technology Prize Competition (unable to verify 3/21)
IFD Division for International Finance and Development
IFDP International Finance Discussion Papers
iFECS integrated Federal Employees' Compensation System
IFFC Illicit Finance Fusion Cell
IFLE International and Foreign Language Education
IFMAT Indian Forest Management Assessment Team
IFO International Field Offices
IFPM Interagency Fire Program Management Standard
IFPS Institute of Food Production and Sustainability
IFS Center for Innovative Finance Support
IFSAC Interagency Food Safety Analytics Collaboration
IMC Imaging Mass Cytometry Laboratory | Interagency Management Council for Federal Telecommunications (unable to verify 12/12)
IMCL Irradiated Materials Characterization Laboratory
IMCO Interagency Meteorological Coordination Office
IMCP Investing in Manufacturing Communities Partnership (unable to verify 4/20)
IMDCC Interagency Marine Debris Coordinating Committee
IMDS International Macroeconomic Data Set
IME Institute of Molecular Engineering (unable to verify 9/17)
IMF International Monetary Fund
IMG/M Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes
IMG/VR Integrated Microbial Genomes/Virus
IMIS Integrated Management Information System
IML Irradiated Materials Laboratory
IMLGS Index to Marine and Lacustrine Geological Samples
IMLS Institute of Museum and Library Services
IMM Immigration Law Division
IMMDL Insect Management and Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory
IMMPaCt International Micronutrient Malnutrition Prevention and Control Program
ImmPort Immunology Database and Analysis Portal
IMP Inventory Management Plan
IMPACT Interagency Implementation and Advanced Concepts Team
IMPACT-MH Individually Measured Phenotypes to Advance Computational Translation in Mental Health
IMS Interactive Multisensor Snow and Ice Mapping System
IMS/PIC Inventory Management System/PIH Information Center
INA Office of International Affairs
INADs Investigational New Animal Drugs
INB Integrative Neuroscience Branch
InCA Interactive Cancer Atlas (unable to verify 8/18; likely changed to USCS Data Visualizations)
INCA Interagency National Climate Assessment Working Group (unable to verify 2/18)
InciWeb Incident Information System
INCLUDE INvestigation of Co-occurring conditions across the Lifespan to Understand Down syndromE Project
INCSR International Narcotics Control Strategy Report
INCUS Investigation of Convective Updrafts
IND Interplanetary Network Directorate | Investigational New Drug
IndIWG Indicators Interagency Working Group
INEAP Interagency Network of Enterprise Assistance Providers (unable to verify 9/16)
INEPC Office of International Nuclear Energy Policy and Cooperation
INF Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces
InfoLaw Information Law Division
INFRA Infrastructure for Rebuilding America
InFRM Interagency Flood Risk Management
INL Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs | Idaho National Laboratory
INL/AME Office of Africa and Middle East Programs (unable to verify 6/19)
InPort NMFS Information Portal
INR Bureau of Intelligence and Research
INRM Integrated Natural Resource Management
INRMPs Integrated Natural Resources Management Plans
INS Immigration and Naturalization Service (changed to USCIS)
INSD FBI Inspection Division
INSITE INtegrated Support for Impacted air-Traffic Environments (unable to verify 11/23)
INSTINCT Infrastructure for Noise and Soundscape Tolerant Investigation of Nonspecific Call Types
INT Office of International Affairs (DOI)
INTEGRAL International Gamma-ray Astrophysics Laboratory
INTERPOL International Criminal Police Organization
INV Investigations Directorate
INVEST Infrastructure Voluntary Evaluation Sustainability Tool
INVNT CBP Innovation Team
IO Bureau of International Organization Affairs | International Office
IOC/AG Information Operations Center’s Analysis Group (unable to verify 2/17)
IOCM Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping
IOD Indexing on Demand | International Operations Division
IOLP Inventory of Owned and Leased Properties
IOMs Internet Only Manuals
IOOC Interagency Ocean Observation Committee
IOOS Integrated Ocean Observing System
IOS Division of Integrative Organismal Systems
IOSS Interagency OPSEC Support Staff (decommissioned 12/22) | Investigative and Operations Support Section (unable to verify 8/22)
IP Intellectual Property Section | Office of Infrastructure Protection (changed to ISD)
IPA Industrial Policy and Analysis
IPaC Information for Planning and Consultation (changed from Information, Planning, and Conservation)
IPAD International and Philanthropic Affairs Division | International Production Assessment Division
IPAS Illicit Pathways Attack Strategy
IPAWS Integrated Public Alert & Warning System
IPB Inspection Policy Branch
IPC Integrated Partnership and Communication
IPCA International Parental Child Abduction
IPCD Intermodal Passenger Connectivity Database
IPD Innovative Program Delivery (changed to CIFS) | International Programs Division (unable to verify 11/22)
IPDD Institutional Programs Development Division
IPE Immunization Program Evaluation
IPEC Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator
IPEDS Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System
IPEF Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity
IPEMF Integrated Physical and Ecological Modeling and Forecasting
IPEP Intellectual Property Theft Enforcement Program
IPG Industry Proving Grounds
IPHIS Integrated Plant Health Information System
IPI Bureau for Inclusive Growth, Partnerships, and Innovation | International and Philanthropic Innovation (changed to IPAD)
IPIF Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry
IPL Intergovernmental Public Liaison
IPM Integrated Pest Management, FWS (unable to verify 2/16) | Integrated Pest Management, NIFA
IPO International Policy Office
IPP Import Permit Program | Innovative Partnerships Program (changed to ITPO) | Unmanned Aircraft System Integration Pilot Program | Invoice Processing Platform
IPR Interatomic Potentials Repository
IPR Center National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center
IPRiS Intellectual Property Rights Internal Search System
IPRL Invasive Plant Research Laboratory
IPRP Interagency Pain Research Portfolio
IPRR Intellectual Property Rights e-Recordation Online System
IPRS Intellectual Property Rights Search
IPS Images and Publications System, NCEI
IPTF Intellectual Property Task Force (unable to verify / website archived 1/22)
IPTU International Prisoner Transfer Program
IPV Intimate Partner Violence
IPY International Polar Year
IQCP Individualized Quality Control Plan
IQIP Immunization Quality Improvement for Providers
IRA Industry and Regional Analysis Division (unable to verify 10/19)
IRAC Interdepartment Radio Advisory Committee
IRAP International Research and Applications Project (unable to verify 9/23)
IRAS IWG Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Systems Interagency Working Group
IRAT Influenza Risk Assessment Tool | Inorganic and Radiation Analytical Toxicology Branch
IRB Internal Revenue Bulletin
IRDA Informatics Research and Development Activity (unable to verify 6/14; likely replaced by DHIS)
IREMS Integrated Real Estate Management System
IRENE Image, Reconstruct, Erase Noise, Etc.
IREPO Institutional Resilience and Expanded Postsecondary Opportunity program
IRFMS Integrated Rangeland Fire Management Strategy
IRG Intergovernmental Reference Guide
IRIS Immigration Records and Identity Services Directorate | Industrial Research and Development Information System (unable to verify 11/18) | Integrated Risk Information System | Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph
IRM Bureau of Information Resource Management (changed to DT) | Internal Revenue Manual
IRMA Integrated Resource Management Applications
IRMAA Income-Related Monthly Adjustment Amount
IRMCO Interagency Resources Management Conference (unable to verify 3/13)
IROC Interagency Resource Ordering Capability
IRP Integrated Resource Planning | Intermediary Relending Program  | Intramural Research Program
IRPF Infrastructure Resilience Planning Framework
IRR Indian Reservation Roads (replaced by TTP)
IRS Indian Resources Section | Internal Revenue Service
IRS-CI Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigations
IRSOB IRS Oversight Board (unable to verify 4/22)
IRTM Division of Information Resources and Technology Management
IRVS Integrated Rapid Visual Screening for Buildings (page archived)
IRWIN Integrated Reporting of Wildland-Fire Information
IS International Services
ISA Importer Self-Assessment
ISAs Integrated Science Assessments
ISAC Invasive Species Advisory Committee
ISAT Information Sharing Assessment Tool (page archived)
ISB Immunization Systems Branch | Investigative Services Branch
ISC Integrated Support Center (changed to CSC) | Interagency Securities Council | Interagency Security Committee
ISC3 Implementation Science Centers in Cancer Control
ISCAP Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel
ISCD Infrastructure Security Compliance Division (changed to Chemical Security)
ISCR Institute for Scientific Computing Research (unable to verify 2/19)
ISD Division of Indian Self-Determination | Immunization Services Division | Industry Safety Data | Information Services Division | Infrastructure Security Division | Integrated Surface Database (replaced by GHCNh)
ISDC Interagency Suspension and Debarment Committee
ISE Information Sharing Environment (unable to verify 8/22)
ISEP Indian School Equalization Program
ISF Importer Security Filing
ISIS Integrated Software for Imagers and Spectrometers
ISLSWG International Space Life Sciences Working Group (unable to verify 10/23)
ISMICC Interdepartmental Serious Mental Illness Coordinating Committee
ISMN International Standard Music Number
ISN Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation
ISN/ECC Office of Export Control Cooperation (also, ECC)
ISN/MNSA Office of Multilateral Nuclear and Security Affairs (also, MNSA)
ISO Immunization Safety Office | Office of International Security Operations (unable to verify 6/19)
ISOO Information Security Oversight Office
ISP International Statistics Program
ISPO International Safeguards Project Office
ISRU In-Situ Resource Utilization
ISS International Space Station
ISSM Ice Sheet System Model
ISSMG Internet and Scalable Systems Metrology Group
IST Infrastructure Survey Tool | Investigative Support Team
ISTAND Innovative Science and Technology Approaches for New Drugs
I-STEP Intermodal Security Training and Exercise Program
ITA Injury Tracking Application | Interactive Tax Assistant | International Trade Administration
ITAP Federal Interagency Committee on Invasive Terrestrial Animals and Pathogens | International Technical Assistance Program
ITAR International Traffic in Arms Regulations
ITC International Tax Counsel | International Technical Cooperation | NRCS Information Technology Center (unable to verify 11/22) | United States International Trade Commission
ITCCH Intramural Targeted Climate Change and Health
ITCR Informatics Technology for Cancer Research
ITD International Trade Division (changed to IAD)
ITDS International Trade Data Systems
ITEC Interagency Trade Enforcement Center (replaced by ICTIME)
ITF Infrastructure Task Force | Innovation Task Force
ITIL Interdiction Technology and Integration Laboratory
ITIS Integrated Taxonomic Information System
ITK Information, Translation, and Knowledge-Delivery
ITL Information Technology Laboratory
ITPO Innovative Technology Partnerships Office (changed to SPO)
ITR Innovation, Technology, and Research Hub
ITRDB International Tree-Ring Data Bank
i-Tree Individual Trees
ITS Identity Theft Supplement | Institute for Telecommunications Sciences | Intelligent Transportation Systems | International Treasury Services
ITVERP International Terrorism Victim Expense Reimbursement Program
IV Immigrant Visa
IV&V Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility
IVIS Immigrant Visa Information System
IVLP International Visitor Leadership Program
IVO Immigrant Visa Overseas
IVP International Visitors Program
IVY Investigating Respiratory Viruses in the Acutely Ill
IWAAs Integrated Water Availability Assessments
iWARM Individual Waste Reduction Model
IWC Irregular Warfare Center
IWCAL Integrated Water Chemistry Assessment Laboratory
IWCG Integrated Water Cycle Group
IWG Interagency Working Group
IWG-FI Interagency Working Group on Facilities and Infrastructure
IWG-OCM Interagency Working Group on Ocean and Coastal Mapping
IWG-OEC Interagency Working Group on Ocean Exploration and Characterization
IWGOA Interagency Working Group on Ocean Acidification
IWGYP Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs
IWM Office Integrated of Waste Management (unable to verify 6/24)
IWMS Irrigation and Water Management Survey
IWRSS Integrated Water Resources Science and Services
IWS Irregular Warfare Support Program (unable to verify; likely changed to CTTSO)
IWTSD Irregular Warfare Technical Support Directorate
IXPE Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer
IYFC Institute of Youth, Family, and Community
IYSC Indian Youth Service Corps Program