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

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

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M2M Mark-to-Market (older link archive)
M3 Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders Survey
M3UFO Manufacturers' Unfilled Orders Survey
MAC Market Access and Compliance
MACOSH Maritime Advisory Committee for Occupational Safety and Health
MACPAC Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission
MADS Metadata Authority Description Schema
MAIRS Monsoon Asia Integrated Regional Study (unable to verify 8/17)
MAP Market Access Program | Risk Mapping, Assessment and Planning
MAPP Modeling, Analysis, Predictions, and Projections (older link archive)
MAPS Mapping and Analysis for Public Safety | Mobile Applications for Public Safety
MARAD Maritime Administration
MARC Machine-Readable Cataloging
MARI Minority HIV/AIDS Research Initiative
MARINe Multi-Agency Rocky Intertidal Network
MARSSIM Multi-Agency Radiation Survey and Site Investigation Manual
MARTS Advance Monthly Retail Trade Survey
MARVEL Machine Assisted Realization of the Virtual Electronic Library
MAT Medication-Assisted Treatment
MATCH Metadata Access Tool for Climate and Health (discontinued 6/18; archive)
MATES Multi-Agency Tissue Engineering Science (unable to verify 2/16)
MATRIX Multi-State Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange (.pdf)
MATS Mercury and Air Toxics Standards
MAUDE Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience
MAVEN Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN
MB Media Bureau (older link archive) | Metabolism Branch (changed to LYMB)
MBC Office of Missile Biological, and Chemical Nonproliferation (older link archive)
MBCC Migratory Bird Conservation Commission
MBDA Minority Business Development Agency
MBDP Minority Bank Deposit Program
MCB Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences |
Medical Consequences of Drug Abuse and Co-occurring Infections Branch
MCBS Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey
MCC Millennium Challenge Corporation
MCD Medicare Coverage Database
MCDW Monthly Climatic Data for the World
MCHB Maternal and Child Health Bureau
MCHEP Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology Program
MCHESP Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology and Statistics Program
MCHIRC Maternal and Child Health Information Resource Center (changed to MCHESP)
MCIDGB Metabolic, Cardiovascular and Inflammatory Disease Genomics Branch
MCRMC Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission (unable to verify 5/16; final report)
MCS Mathematics and Computer Science Division | Mineral Commodity Summaries
MCSD Marine and Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee
MCTF Middle Class Task Force (defunct or inactive 1/17, WH transition)
MDA Maritime Domain Awareness
MDB Multilateral Development Banks | Mycotic Disease Branch
MDCC Muscular Dystrophy Coordinating Committee
MDCP Market Development Cooperator Program
MDEP Mojave Desert Ecosystem Program
MDF Manufacturing Demonstration Facility
M/DGHR Bureau of Human Resources
MDI Minority Depository Institutions
MDP Marine Debris Program
MDR Medical Device Reporting
MDRS Mine Data Retrieval System
MDSCC Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex
MDTB Medications Discovery & Toxicology Branch
MEB Metabolic Epidemiology Branch
MECS Manufacturing Energy Consumption Survey
MED Bureau of Medical Services | Minority Enterprise Development
MedPAC Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
MEP Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership
MEPAG Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group
MEPI U.S.-Middle East Partnership Initiative
MEPS Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
MERL Materials Engineering and Research Lab (unable to verify 11/16)
MESA Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis Air Study
MeSH Medical Subject Headings
MetOp Meteorological Operational satellite
METS Metadata Encoding & Transmission Standard
MFP Market Facilitation Program (older link archive) | Minority Fellowship Program | Money Follows the Person Rebalancing Demonstration program (older link archive) | Multifactor Productivity
MFRC Midwest Forensics Resource Center
MGB Medical Genetics Branch
MGC Molecular Genomics Laboratory Core
MGG Marine Geology and Geophysics
MGGD Marine Geology and Geophysics Division (changed to MGG)
MGH Maternity Group Homes for Pregnant and Parenting Youth Program
MGI Materials Genome Initiative
MGM Minerals & Geology Management
MGMGB Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch
MHA Making Homes Affordable
MH-CLD Mental Health Client-Level Data
MH RRTPs Mental Health Residential Rehabilitation and Treatment Programs
MHS Manufactured Housing Survey | Office of Manufactured Housing
MIC Microscopy and Imaging Core
MICAD Molecular Imaging and Contrast Agent Database
MIDAS Modernize and Innovate the Delivery of Agricultural Systems program
MIDOs Manufacturing Inspection District Offices
MIPS Merit-based Incentive Payment System (older link archive)
MIRS Monthly Interest Rate Survey
MIS Mineral Industry Surveys
MISE Maritime Information Sharing Environment (unable to verify 8/18)
MITR Manufacturing and International Trade Report
MIX Metadata for Images in XML Schema
MJIEDSP Multi-Jurisdiction Improvised Explosive Device Security Planning
MLARS Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section
MLN Medicare Learning Network
MLR Monthly Labor Review
MLS Mass Layoff Statistics
MLU Major Land Uses
MMAB Marine Modeling and Analysis Branch
MMB Molecular Medicine Branch
MMC Marine Mammal Commission
MMD Mission Management Directorate (unable to verify 4/13)
MMHSRP Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program (older link archive)
MML Marine Mammal Laboratory | Material Measurement Laboratory
MMM Marine Mammals Management
MMP Molecular Medicine Program (changed to Metals Biology and Molecular Medicine Group)
MMRR Medicare & Medicaid Research Review
MMS Minerals Management Service (changed to BOEMRE)
MMTD Marine Mammal & Turtle Division
MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
MNMS Monitor National Marine Sanctuary
MNRG Midwest Natural Resources Group (unable verify 3/15)
MNSA Office of Multilateral Nuclear and Security Affairs (older link archive)
MOB Medical Oncology Branch (changed to MOS)
MOC Marine Operations Center
MoDA Ministry of Defense Advisors (unable to verify 7/15)
MODIS Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
MODS Metadata Object Description Schema
MOLIS Minority On-Line Information Service (defunct)
MOOSE Multiphysics Object Oriented Simulation Environment
MOPS Management and Organizational Practices Survey (older link archive)
MOS Medical Oncology Service
MOV Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor
MOVES MOtor Vehicle Emission Simulator
MPA Marine Protected Areas
MPF Mars Pathfinder
MPG Model Programs Guide
MPIDB Maternal and Pediatric Infectious Disease Branch
MPP-Dairy Margin Protection Program for Dairy Producers
M/PRI Office of Management Policy, Rightsizing, and Innovation
MPS Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences
MRC Medical Reserve Corps
MRCTR Mapping, Remote-sensing, Cartography, Technology, and Research
MRDS Mineral Resources Data System
MRI Major Research Instrumentation Program
MRIP Marine Recreational Information Program (older link archive)
MRLC Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium
MRM Minerals Revenue Management (changed to ONRR)
MRO Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
MRP Mineral Resources Program
MRPBS Marketing and Regulatory Programs Business Services
MRR Microenterprise Results Reporting (older link archive)
MRS Minorities and Retirement Security Program
MRSP Medical Research Scholars Program
MRTP Modified Risk Tobacco Products
MRTS Monthly Retail Trade Survey
MS Mission Support
MSA Metropolitan Statistical Area (older link archive)
MSB Mission Support Bureau (changed to MS) | Money Services Businesses
MSC FEMA Flood Map Service Center (older link archive) | Management Services Center (unable to verify 11/16)
MSCG Midwest Center for Structural Genomics (older link archive)
MSD Materials Science Division, ANL (older link archive) | Materials Science Division, LLNL | Mission Support Directorate
MSDS Material Safety Data Sheets (unable to verify 9/13)
MSEIP Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program
MSEL Materials Science and Engineering Library (changed to MML)
MSFWs Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers (earlier link archive)
MSHA Mine Safety and Health Administration
MSIP Minority Serving Institutions Program
MSIS Medicaid Statistical Information System (changed to T-MSIS)
MSN Macromolecular, Supramolecular and Nanochemistry
MSP Maritime Security Program | Mathematics and Science Partnerships
MSPB Merit Systems Protection Board
MSPD Monthly Statement of the Public Debt
MSRP Montrose Settlements Restoration Program
MSSP Market Segment Specialization Program (older link archive)
MST Materials Science and Technology Division
MTBS Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity
MTDP Minority Telecommunications Development Program
MTI Mineta Transportation Institute
MTS Marine Transportation System | Monthly Treasury Statement
MTW Moving to Work (older link archive)
Mu2e Muon-to-Electron-Conversion Experiment
MVP Million Veteran Program
MWL Mariners Weather Log
MWTS Monthly Wholesale Trade Survey
MXP Import/Export Price Indexes