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

R2O	STI Field Driven Research to Operations Team
RA	Office of Regional Affairs (changed to PC)
RAB	Regulatory Affairs Branch \| Review and Analysis Branch
RACA	Office of Regulatory Affairs and Collaborative Action
RACC	Registered Apprenticeship — College Consortium
RACE	Resource Assessment and Conservation Engineering Division
RACF	RHIC and ATLAS Computing Facility
RAD	Rental Assistance Demonstration \| Reports Analysis Division \| Resist-Accept-Direct \| Responsible Appliance Disposal
RADInfo	Radiation Information Database (discontinued 6/19)
RADS	Refugee Arrivals Data System
RADV	Risk Adjustment Data Validation
RADx	Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics
RAF	Risk Assessment Forum
RAINE	Resilience and Adaptation in New England database
RAIO	Refugee, Asylum, and International Operations Directorate
RAISE	Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (reverted to BUILD 1/25) \| Rural America’s Intelligence Service for Exporters
RAIVEN	Randomized Assessment of Influenza Vaccine Efficacy Network
RAMB	Research Animal Medicine Branch
RAMPAC	Radioactive Material Packaging
RAMPS	Restoration Assessment and Monitoring Program for the Southwest
RAMS	Rangeland Allotment Monitoring System
RAMSeS	Rapid Analysis of Mission Software Systems
RANDS	Research and Development Survey
RAP	Rangeland Analysis Platform \| Rapid Refresh \| Registered Apprenticeship Program
RAPID	Rare Disease AI/ML for Precision Integrated Diagnostics \| Regulatory and Permitting Information Desktop Toolkit
RAPIDD	Rapid Acquisition of Pre- and Post-Incident Disaster Data
RAPP	Refugee Agricultural Partnership Project \| Regional Agricultural Promotion Program
RAPT	Real-world Assessment, Prediction, and Treatment Unit \| Resilience Analysis and Planning Tool
RAS	Rangeland Administration System

RATB	Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board (defunct)
RATPAC	Radiosonde Atmospheric Temperature Products for Assessing Climate
RATS	Research Application Tracking System
RAVEN	Rapid Analysis of Various Emerging Nanoelectronics
RAVG	Rapid Assessment of Vegetation Condition after Wildfire
RAWS	Remote Automatic Weather Stations
RBC	Regulatory Barriers Clearinghouse
RBCS	Rural Business-Cooperative Service
RBDG	Rural Business Development Grants
RBEG	Rural Business Enterprise Grant (unable to verify 12/19)
RBI	Radiation Budget Instrument (discontinued 1/18)
RBIP	Rural Business Investment Program
RBLC	RACT/BACT/LAER Clearinghouse
RBPGL	Reston Biogeochemical Processes in Groundwater Laboratory
RBRC	RIKEN BNL Research Center
RBS	Rural Business-Cooperative Service
RCAF	Railroad Cost Adjustment Factor
RCC	Regional Climate Centers
RCD	Rural Community Development
RCDC	Research, Condition, and Disease Categorization
RCDG	Rural Cooperative Development Grants
RCDI	Rural Community Development Initiative Grants
RCFL	Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory
RCI	Reconnecting Communities Institute
RCM	Regional Chemical Modeling (unable to verify 2/24) \| Revenue Collections Management
RCMAP	Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection
RCN	Regional Collaboration Network
RCORP	Rural Communities Opioid Response Program
RCP	Reconnecting Communities Pilot \| Refugee Career Pathways
RCPP	Regional Conservation Partnership Program
RCR	Resident Characteristics Report
RCRA	Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
RCRAInfo	Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Information System
RCRAInfo WIETS	RCRAInfo Waste Import Export Tracking System
RCS	Records Control Schedules \| Reusable Component Services (replaced by SSRC)

RD	Rural Development
RDA	Resource Description and Access
RDaF	Research Data Framework
RDAS	Restricted Data Analysis Tool for the Survey of Earned Doctorates
RDB	Readiness and Deployment Branch
RDC	Research Data Center
RDETAP	Roadway Data Extraction Technical Assistance Program
RDHRS	Regional Disaster Health Response System
RDI	Renditions, Detentions, and Interrogations Program
RDIP	Roadway Data Improvement Program
RDoC	Research Domain Criteria
RDP	Redistricting Data Program \| Research and Development Partnerships (page archived)
RDPC	Rural Domestic Preparedness Consortium
RDR	Resilience and Disaster Recovery Tool Suite
RDRC	Radioactive Drug Research Committee \| Retirement and Disability Research Consortium
RDRD	Rare Disease Repurposing Database (unable to verify 5/16)
RDS	Retiree Drug Subsidy
RDSB	Reagent and Diagnostic Services Branch (unable to verify 5/24)
RDT	Research, Development and Technology \| Retrofit Decision Tool
REA	Rapid Ecoregional Assessment
REAC	Real Estate Assessment Center
REACH	Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health \| Racial and Ethnic Minority Acceleration Consortium for Health Equity (unable to verify 1/25)
REACT	REmote Aquatic Chlorphyll-a Tracker \| Resilient Extended Automatic Cell Therapies

REAC/TS	Radiation Emergency Assistance Center/Training Site
READ	Registry of EPA Applications, Models and Data Warehouses \| Resource Evaluation and Assessment Division
READI-Net	Rapid environmental (e)DNA Assessment and Deployment Initiative & Network
READY	Real-time Environmental Applications and Display sYstem
READY4Life	Relationships, Education, Advancement, and Development for Youth for Life
REAP	Reserve Educational Assistance Program \| Rural Education Achievement Program \| Rural Energy for America Program (unable to verify 1/25)
REAT	Rehabilitation Escrow Administration Tracking
REB	Radiation Epidemiology Branch
REC	Rural Export Center
Recap	Office of Recapitalization
ReCAST	Resiliency in Communities After Stress and Trauma
RECD	Rural Economic & Community Development (replaced by RD)
ReCON	Real-Time Coastal Observation Network
RECON	Regional Economic Conditions (defunct)
RECS	Residential Energy Consumption Survey
RED	Re-Engineered Discharge
ReDDDoT	Responsible Design, Development, and Deployment of Technologies
REDDI	Regional Explosives Detection Dog Initiative
RedDOG	Readiness and Deployment Operations Group (changed to RDB)
REDI	Regional Energy Democracy Initiative (unable to verify 1/25)
REDLG	Rural Economic Development Loan and Grant
RED List	Registration Deficient List
REDOPS	Response and Defeat Operations Support
REDTI	Residential Energy Demand Temperature Index
REE	Research, Education and Economics
ReEDS	Regional Energy Deployment System
REEIS	Research, Education, and Economics Information System
REEport	Research, Extension, and Education Project Online Reporting Tool
REFM	Resource Ecology and Fisheries Management Division
REFPROP	Reference Fluid Thermodynamic and Transport Properties Database
ReFreSH	Regulatory Framework for Seed Health
REFS	Bureau of Resilience, Environment, and Food Security
ReFUEL	Renewable Fuels and Lubricants Laboratory
Reg DaRRT	Regulatory Development and Retrospective Review Tracker (unable to verify 2/18)
REGStats	USDA Race, Ethnicity, and Gender Program Statistics
REHAB	Watershed Rehabilitation Program
REI	Recycling Economic Information
REIC	Research on the Economic Impact of Cooperatives (unable to verify 12/15)
REIS	Regional Economic Information System (unable to verify 3/12; some content available via Regional Economic Accounts; see also CIESIN)

REL	Regional Educational Laboratory Program
RE-LINK	Re-Entry Community Linkages
RELO	Regional English Language Officers
REMCDP	Rural Emergency Medical Communications Demonstration Project
ReMIS	Records Management Instruction Support
REML	Reston Electron Microbeam Laboratory
REMM	Radiation Emergency Medical Management
REMPD	Renewable Energy Materials Properties Database
REMS	Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools \| Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy
REMVE	Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremism
ReNCAT	Resilient Node Cluster Analysis Tool
RENEW	Reaching a New Energy Sciences Workforce (unable to verify 1/25)
REO	Reentry Employment Opportunities \| Regional Ecosystem Office
REopt	Renewable Energy Integration & Optimization
REP	Radiological Emergency Preparedness \| Replicating Effective Programs (unable to verify 11/24)
REPO	Russian Elites, Proxies, and Oligarchs task force
RePORT	Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool
REPP	Radiological Emergency Preparedness Program (changed to REP) \| Regional Export Promotion Program
RERC	Recreation Economy for Rural Communities \| Regional Energy Resource Council \| Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center
RERT	Radiological Emergency Response Team
RES	Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research \| River Ecosystem Science
ReSciColl	Registry of Scientific Collections
RESCUE	Resources & Education for Stroke Caregivers' Understanding & Empowerment
ResDAC	Research Data Assistance Center
RESEP	Radiation Exposure Screening & Education Program
RESES	Regional Sustainable Environmental Science (unable to verify 6/23)
RESILIENCE	Robust Energy Sources for Intelligence Logistics In Extreme Novel and Challenging Environments
RESL	Radiological and Environmental Sciences Laboratory (unable to verify 3/24)
RESP	Rural Energy Savings Program
RESP-NET	Respiratory Virus Hospitalization Surveillance Network
RESSED	Reservoir Sedimentation Database
REST	Representational State Transfer Service
RETAIN	Retaining Employment and Talent after Injury/Illness Network
RETIGO	REal TIme Geospatial Data Viewer
REU	Research Experiences for Undergraduates
RFA	Radio Free Asia \| Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
RFAB	Risk Factor Assessment Branch
RFCCMED	Refugee Family Child Care Microenterprise Development

RFE	Regulatory Fish Encyclopedia
RFE/RL	Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
RFFM	Retail Flexible Funding Model
RFJ	Rewards for Justice
RFMMB	Risk Factor Monitoring & Methods Branch (defunct 1/14)
RFR	Reportable Food Registry
RFS	Bureau of Resilience and Food Security (changed to REFS) \| Renewable Fuel Standard Program \| Residential Finance Survey
RGL	Regulatory and Guidance Library (decommissioned 9/22; replaced by DRS)
RGMA	Regional & Global Model Analysis
RGP Pilot	Remote Grading Pilot for Beef
RHCP	Railway-Highway Crossings Program
RHD	Respiratory Health Division
RHED	Rural Housing and Economic Development
RHESSI	Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (decommissioned)
RHFS	Rental Housing Finance Survey
RHIC	Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
RHIIP	Rental Housing Integrity Improvement Project
RHOB	Rayburn House Office Building
RHP	Recovery Housing Program \| Refugee Health Promotion
RHS	Rural Housing Service
RHSE	Rural Health and Safety Education Grant Program
RHY	Runaway & Homeless Youth
RHY-HMIS	Runaway and Homeless Youth – Homeless Management Information System
RHYTTAC	Runaway and Homeless Youth Training and Technical Assistance Center
RIA	Regulatory Impact Analyses
RIC	Reference Information Center \| Rural Information Center
RICHS	Rural Information Center Health Service (defunct)
RIDB	Recreation Information Database
RIDGE	Research Innovation and Development Grants in Economics
RIF	Rural Innovation Fund (unable to verify 2/18)
RIM	Records Information Management
RIMS II	Regional Input-Output Modeling System

RIN	Regulation Identifier Number \| Renewable Identification Number
RINAP	Rural, Insular & Native Achievement Programs
RIO	Research Infrastructure Office
RIS	Regional Innovation Strategies (changed to B2S)
RISA	Regional Integrated Sciences & Assessments (changed to CAP/RISA)
RISC	Regulatory Information Service Center \| Risk Identification and Site Criticality
RISE	Division of Research, Innovation, Synergies and Education \| Railroad Information Sharing Environment \| Reclamation Information Sharing Environment \| Recognizing Inspiring School Employees Award \| Rural Innovation Stronger Economy Grant Program
Risk MAP	Risk Mapping, Assessment and Planning
RIST	Rainfall Intensity Summarization Tool
RITA	Research and Innovative Technology Administration (changed to OST-R)
RiVorS	Rivers of Vorticity in Supercells
RKB	Responder Knowledge Base (absorbed into LLIS)
RLCs	Research Learning Centers
RLD	Regulatory Affairs Law Division
RLF	Revolving Loan Fund
RLTS	Regulatory and Laboratory Training System for Human and Animal Food
RLTT	Rehabilitation Long-Term Training
RM	Bureau of Resource Management (changed to BP)
RMA	Office of Risk Management and Analysis (unable to verify 5/16; likely changed to OCIA) \| Records Management Assessment \| Refugee Medical Assistance \| Risk Management Agency
RMAP	Rural Microentrepreneur Assistance Program
RMD	Robocall Mitigation Database
RML	Reston Microbiology Laboratory
RMLs	Regional Removal Management Levels for Chemicals
RMOTC	Rocky Mountain Oilfield Testing Center
RMP	Risk Management Plan
RMR	Research, Monitoring & Regulations Division (previously, Research, Markets, and Regulations)
RMRA	Office of Risk Management and Regulatory Affairs
RMRS	Rocky Mountain Research Station
RMSA	Records Management Self-Assessment
RMTAC	Migrant and Refugee Technical Assistance Center
RN Database	Registered Identification Number Database
RNCTEC	Radiological/Nuclear Countermeasures Test and Evaluation Complex
RNECE	Regional Nutrition Education and Obesity Prevention Centers of Excellence
RNPN	Resilient Nation Partnership Network
RNTA	Research and National Technical Assistance Program
ROAM	CBP Reporting Offsite Arrival – Mobile \| Response Outreach Area Mapper
ROB	Radiation Oncology Branch

ROBO	Releases of Beneficial Organisms in the United States and Territories
ROC	Response Options Calculator
ROCIS	RISC and OIRA Consolidated Information System
ROCkIT	Reorganized Census with Integrated Technology
RODEO	Realtime Opportunity for Development Environmental Observations
ROE	Report on the Environment
ROL	Rapid Optimization Library
ROP	Record of Proceeding
ROPD	Office of Regional Operations and Program Delivery
ROPPD	Research to Operations and Project Planning Division
RoPR	Registry of Patient Registries
RORC	Rehabilitation Outcomes Research Center (changed to CINDRR)
ROSA P	Repository and Open Science Access Portal
ROSS	Resident Opportunities and Self Sufficiency Grant Program
ROTA-R	Rural Opioid Technical Assistance Regional Centers
ROUTES	Rural Opportunities to Use Transportation for Economic Success
ROW	Rent on the Web (requires login) \| Rights-of-Way
RPA	Robotic Process Automation
RPBP	Resilient Power Best Practices for Critical Facilities and Sites
RPC	Refugee Processing Center
RPE	Rape Prevention and Education Program
RPED	Rural Postsecondary & Economic Development Program
RPEELD	Real Property, Energy, and Environmental Law Division
RPES	Research Position Evaluation System
RPIF	Regional Planetary Image Facility
RPL	Radiochemical Processing Laboratory
RPM	Automated Radiation Portal Monitor
RPMS	Rangeland Production Monitoring Service \| Resource and Patient Management System
RPN	Rural Partners Network
RPP	Regional Price Parities
RPPESP	Raw Pork Products Exploratory Sampling Program

R/PPR	Office of Policy, Planning, and Resources for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs
RPRS	Research Permit and Reporting System
RPS	Recovery Potential Screening \| Remote Proposal System
RQA	Division of Regulatory and Quality Affairs
RR	Rodent Research
RRA	Ransomware Readiness Assessment \| Remote Regulatory Assessment
RRAP	Regional Resiliency Assessment Program
RRB	Railroad Retirement Board \| Response Research Branch
RRD	Regulations and Rulings Division
RRECS	Rural Route Evaluated Compensation System
RRED	Resource and Rural Economics Division
RReDC	Renewable Resource Data Center (changed to Solar Resource Data & Tools)
RRF	Rapid Response Fund \| Ready Reserve Force \| Restaurant Revitalization Fund
RRFS	Rapid Refresh Forecast System
RRG	Regulatory Review Group
RRI	Rate Reduction Incentive
RRP	Lead Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule
RRR	Rapid Response Registry
RRS	Road Ruggedness Scale
RRTs	Rapid Response Teams for Human and Animal Foods
RRTC	Rehabilitation Research and Training Center
RS	Reproductive Sciences Branch (changed to FI)
RS&T	Regional Science and Technology (changed to LSASDs)
RSA	Rehabilitation Services Administration
RSAC	Railroad Safety Advisory Committee \| Remote Sensing Applications Center (unable to verify 10/20)
RSAT	Office of Regional Security and Arms Transfers \| Residential Substance Abuse Treatment for State Prisoners Program

RSD	Radiation Safety Division \| Reentry Services Division \| Resilient Systems Division (unable to verify 2/16)
RSDO	Rapid Spacecraft Development Office
RSDP	Roadway Safety Data Program
RSEI	Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators
RSFLG	Recovery Support Function Leadership Group
RSG	Resilient Strategies Guide
RSI	Refugee School Impact \| Regional Snowfall Index
RSIG	Remote Sensing Information Gateway
RSIL	Reston Stable Isotope Laboratory
RSL	Remote Sensing Laboratory
RSLs	Regional Screening Levels
RSP	Radiation Sciences Program \| Reimbursable Services Program
RSPCB	Roadway Safety Professional Capacity Building Program
RSQA	Regional Stream Quality Assessment
RSR	Ryan White Services Report
RSS	Raster Soil Surveys \| Research Support Section
RSSP	Reimbursable Screening Services Program
RST	Regulatory Science Tools Catalog
RSTAC	Railroad-Shipper Transportation Advisory Council
RSTC	Rocket Sled Track Complex
RSTT	Regional Seismic Travel Time
RSU	Research and Support Unit (changed to Research and Support)
RSV-NET	Respiratory Syncytial Virus Hospitalization Surveillance Network
RSVP	Retired and Senior Volunteers Program
RTB	Research Technologies Branch \| Rural Telephone Bank (defunct)
RTC	Regional Test Center
RTCA	Rivers, Trails, and Conservation Assistance Program
RTCP	Reimbursement Transportation Cost Payment Program
R-Tech	First Responder Technologies Division (page archived)
RTECS	Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances (unable to verify 2/23)
RTES	Research, Technology, and Economic Security
RTL	Ready to Learn
RTOFS	Real-Time Ocean Forecast System
RTP	Recovery to Practice (unable to verify 12/19) \| Recreational Trails Program
RTR	Risk and Technology Review
RUCA	Rural-Urban Commuting Area
RUCC	Rural-Urban Continuum Codes
RUS	Rural Utilities Service
RUSH	Rapid Unsheltered Survivor Housing grants
RUSLE2	Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation 2
RV	Recovering Voices
RVCT	Report of Verified Case of Tuberculosis
RVTN-Flu	Respiratory Virus Transmission Network for Influenza
RVWP	Ransomware Vulnerability Warning Pilot
RWDP	Real-World Data Platform
RWHAP	Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program
RWIS	Reclamation Water Information System (replaced by RISE)
RWQC	Recreational Water Quality Criteria