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

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

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TANC Office of Trade Agreements Negotiations and Compliance
TANF Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
TAO Tropical Atmosphere Ocean project
TAOS Trajectory Analysis and Optimization Software
TAP Technology Assessment Program | Trajectory Analysis Planner | Transition Assistance Program | Transportation Alternatives Program | Tree Assistance Program | Tribal Access Program | Tribal Action Plan
TAPD Telecommunications Access Policy Division
TAPEC Tool for Assessing Pilot Electronic Censuses
TAPS Transportation and Power Systems
TAR Tranportation Acquisition Regulation
TARGET Technology & Accessible Resources Give Employment Today Center | Therapeutically Applicable Research to Generate Effective Treatments
TARP Troubled Asset Relief Program
TARS Tropical Agriculture Research Station
TAS Taxpayer Advocate Service | Teacher at Sea Program | Treatment as a State
TASC Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops | Tool for Assessing Statistical Capacity
TATA Office of Tariff Affairs and Trade Agreements
TATFAR Transatlantic Taskforce on Antimicrobial Resistance
TAVISS Targeted Violence Information Sharing System
TB Division of Tuberculosis Elimination
TBAC Tribal Budget Advisory Council (changed to TIBC)
TBCC Trust Beneficiary Call Center (unable to verify 4/24)
TBDWG Tick-Borne Disease Working Group
TBESC Tuberculosis Epidemiologic Studies Consortium
TB GIMS TB [Tuberculosis] Genotyping Information Management System
TBHCE Telebehavioral Health Center of Excellence
TBI/TSR Traumatic Brain Injury and Stroke Rehabilitation Program (unable to verify 8/17)
TBMP Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Manual of Procedure
TBMPP Treasury Bank Mentor-Protégé Program
TBQ Territory & States Beneficiary Query File
TBS Transborder Security Center
TBTC Tuberculosis Trials Consortium
TC Tropospheric Chemistry | William J. Hughes Technical Center
TCAC Tribal Consultation Advisory Committee (changed to TAC)
TCAP Tribal Courts Assistance Program (unable to verify 12/18)
TCB Telecommunications Certification Bodies System | Trade Capacity Building (unable to verify 2/25)
TCC Trade Compliance Center (changed to TANC) | Tree Canopy Cover
TCCC Transportation and Climate Change Clearinghouse (unable to verify 12/18)
TCCLA Tribal Civil and Criminal Legal Assistance
TCCP Terms of Credit Card Plans Survey
TCCPRU Tropical Crop and Commodity Protection Research
TCDB Technology Cost Database for Renewables (replaced by ATB) | Transparent Cost Database
TCDS Type Certificate Data Sheets
TCE Tax Counseling for the Elderly Program
TCEG Tribal Colleges Education Equity Grants Program
TCEO Training and Continuing Education Online
TC Explorer Transportation Community Explorer (see also, info page archived 1/25)
TCF Technology Commercialization Fund
TCFP Tropical Cyclone Formation Probability
TCGA The Cancer Genome Atlas
TCGM Thriving Communities Grantmaking Program
TCH Think Cultural Health
TCIS Treasury Check Information System
TCIU Transnational Criminal Investigative Unit
TCLI Teacher Cancellation Low Income
TCLP Teachers of Critical Languages Program
TCMM Treasury Collateral Management and Monitoring
TCNS Tower Construction Notification System
TCP Technology Collaboration Program | Thriving Communities Program | Tropospheric Chemistry Program
TCPCTIP Tribally Controlled Postsecondary Career and Technical Education Program
TCR Branch of Tribal Climate Resilience | Technology Clearinghouse (changed to R-Tech)
TCRB Tobacco Control Research Branch
TCRP Tribal Climate Resilience Program (changed to TCR; earlier, changed to TRP, then back to TCRP)
TCS Trade and Cargo Security
TCSIRC Treasury Computer Security Incident Response Capability
TCTAC Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Centers Program
TCVS Treasury Check Verification System
TEAS Trademark Electronic Application System
TEC Tribal Epidemiology Center
TechFAR Technology Federal Acquistion Regulation
TECPHI Tribal Epidemiology Centers Public Health Infrastructure
TED Test and Evaluation Division | The Economics Daily | Transportation Economics Division
TEDAC Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center
TEDB Transportation Energy Data Book
TEDC Tribal Energy Development Capacity
TEDS National Standards on Transport, Escort, Detention, and Search | Train Energy and Dynamics Simulator | Treatment Episode Data Set
TEEIC Tribal Energy and Environmental Information Clearinghouse (unable to verify 8/18)
TEFAP The Emergency Food Assistance Program
TEFCA Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement
TEHIP Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program (unable to verify 12/19)
TEI-REX Targeted Evaluation of Ionizing Radiation Exposure Program
TEK Traditional Ecological Knowledge
TEKTRAN Technology Transfer Automated Retrieval System (changed to Scientific Manuscript Database)
TEL Terrorist Exclusion List
TELGP Tribal Energy Loan Guarantee Program
TELI Tribal Early Learning Initiative
TEMPO Transportation Energy & Mobility Pathway Options | Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution
TEOAF Treasury Executive Office for Asset Forfeiture
TEP Tribal Electrification Program
TEPEX Tropical Pacific Observing System (TPOS) Equatorial Pacific Experiment
TERC Threat Evaluation and Reporting Course
TERO Threat Evaluation and Reporting Overview | Tribal Employment Rights Offices
TES Office of Trade and Economic Security | Terrestrial Ecosystem Science Program (changed to/replaced by ESS)
TESS Trademark Electronic Search System (retired 11/23, replaced by Trademark Search) | Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
TEST This is a Test
TESViS Terrestrial Ecology Subsetting and Visualization Services
TET Transportation Economic Trends
TEU Trace Evidence Unit (unable to verify 9/22)
TEUI Terrestrial Ecological Unit Inventory
TextMD Technical Metadata for Text
TFAA Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs
TFAS Trust Fund Accounting System (unable to verify 2/21)
TFCS Trade Facilitation and Cargo Security (changed to TCS 3/25)
TFDM Terminal Flight Data Manager
T-FERST Tribal-Focused Environmental Risk and Sustainability Tool (requires login 12/19)
TFF Transmission Facility Financing Program | Treasury Forfeiture Fund | Treasury Franchise Fund
TFFC Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes
TFFIP Tracy Fish Facility Improvement Program
TFGB Translational and Functional Genomics Branch
TFH TechFar Hub
TFHRC Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center
TFI Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence
TFM Treasury Financial Manual
TFMC Tribal Financial Management Center
TFMICF Task Force on Market Integrity and Consumer Fraud (unable to verify / website archived 1/22)
TFP Thrifty Food Plan | Transmission Facilitation Program
TFR Temporary Flight Restriction
TFS Counter Threat Finance and Sanctions Division | Teacher Follow-Up Survey
TFSSP Twelve-Five Standard Security Program
TFS/SPI Office of Economic Sanctions Policy and Implementation
TFS/TFC Office of Threat Finance Countermeasures
TFTP Terrorist Finance Tracking Program
TFW Trash Free Waters
TFX Treasury Financial Experience
TGA Treasury General Account
TGDC Technical Guidelines Development Committee
TGO Trace Gas Orbiter
TGS Traveler-based Genomic Surveillance
THEA Transplantation of Human Eye Allografts program
THEMIS Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms
THP Territorial Highway Program
THPO Tribal Historic Preservation Offices
T.H.R.I.V.E. Train. Hope. Rise. Innovate. Venture. Elevate
THRIVE Targeted Highly-Effective Interventions to Reverse the HIV Epidemic (ceased 2020)
THRO Tribal Health Research Office
THRU Technical Hazards Response Unit (unable to verify 9/22)
THSAC Tribal Homeland Security Advisory Council (page archived 1/25)
THSRB Treatment, Health Services, and Recovery Branch
THT Transportation and Health Tool
TIAG Tribal Issues Advisory Group
TIAS Treaties and International Acts Series
TIAT Transportation Insecurity Analysis Tool (see also, info page archived 1/25)
TNM The National Map
TOC Telecommunication Operations Center | Transportation Operations Center
TOCMC Transnational Organized Crime Mission Center (changed to TBS)
TOD Transit-Oriented Development
TOLNet Tropospheric Ozone Lidar Network
TOMS-EP Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer-Earth Probe
TOP Technology Opportunities Program (changed to BTOP) | Treasury Offset Program
TOPP Transition to Organic Partnership Program
TOPS Transform to Open Science (unable to verify 1/25)
TOR Tropospheric Ozone Residual
TORUS Targeted Observation by Radars and UAS of Supercells
ToT Tool of Tools
TOTAL Technology Open To Approved Lenders | Tenure, Ownership, and Transition of Agricultural Land
TOX21 Toxicology Testing in the 21st Century
ToxCast Toxicity ForeCaster
TPA Trade Promotion Authority
TPAC Trademark Public Advisory Committee
TPC Tourism Policy Council
TPCC Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee
TPEP Timber Production Expansion Guaranteed Loan Program
TPFS Transportation Public Finance Statistics
TPG Training Project Grants
TPGRDRU Tropical Plant Genetic Resources and Disease Research Unit
TPIO Technology, Planning and Integration for Observation (unable to verify 1/22)
TPIS Trade Policy Information System (public access retired 5/22)
TPLC Total Product Life Cycle
TPLD Technology Programs Law Division
TPM Transportation Performance Management
TPN Trade Policy and Negotiations
TPO Technology Partnerships Office (NIST) | Technology Partnerships Office (NOAA) | Timber Products Output
TPOPS Telephone Point of Purchase Survey (unable to verify BLS site 3/20; see alternate Census site)
TPP Target Product Profiles | Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program | Trade Policy and Programs (changed to TPN) | Trans-Pacific Partnership
TPS Teaching with Primary Sources | Technical Preservation Services | Temporary Protected Status
TPSAC Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee
TPSID Transition and Postsecondary Programs for Students with Intellectual Disabilities
TPVs Tenant Protection Vouchers
TPWIC Tribal Practices for Wellness in Indian Country
TQP Teacher Quality Partnership
TRA Division for Transportation Affairs
TRA/AN Office of Aviation Negotiations
TRACC Transportation Research And Analysis Computing Center (unable to verify 2/25)
TRACER Trace Radioisotope Analysis Center
TRACIE Technical Resources Assistance Center and Information Exchange
TRACS Tenant Rental Assistance Certification System | Tracking and Reporting Accomplishments for the Conservation of Species | Trail Assessments and Condition Surveys | Transportation Cost System
TraCSS Traffic Coordination System for Space
TRACT Targeted Resource Acquisition Comparison Tool (unable to verify 2/25)
TRAD Tribal Resilience Action Database
TRAILS Trail Routing, Analysis, and Information Linkage System
TRAINS Testing Risks of AI for National Security
TrAMS Transit Award Management System
TRANSCEND Transgender Status-Neutral Community to Clinic Models to End the HIV Epidemic (unable to verify 1/25))
TRAO Trade Remedy Assistance Office
TRA/OTP Office of Transportation Policy
TRAVL Transportation Analysis and Visualization Laboratory
TRCC Traffic Records Coordinating Committee
TRDS Travel Record Data Service
TREAS Department of the Treasury
TREAT Transient Reactor Test Facility
TREND Transparent Reporting of Evaluations with Nonrandomized Designs (unable to verify 1/25)
TRI Toxics Release Inventory
Tribal PREP Tribal Personal Responsibility Education Program
TRI-CHIP TRI (Toxics Release Inventory)-Chemical Hazard Information Profiles
TRIG Terrorism-Related Inadmissibility Grounds
TRiP Tools Resources & Publications (unable to verify 1/25)
TRIP Terrorism Risk Insurance Program
TRIPS Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
TRIPwire Technical Resource for Incident Prevention
TRLs Technology Readiness Levels
TRMM Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
TRN Tenant Resource Network Program
TrojAI Trojans in Artificial Intelligence
TROPICS Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats
TROR Treasury Report on Receivables
TRP Translational Research Program | Tribal Climate Resilience Program (reverted back to TCRP)
TRRG Tribal Resilience Resource Guide
TRS Telecommunications Relay Service
TRSRB Treatment and Recovery Services Research Branch
TRTW Training for Realtime Writers (defunded)
TS Terminology Services
TSA Teacher Shortage Areas | Transitional Sheltering Assistance (unable to verify 8/20) | Transportation Security Administration
TSAR Transportation Statistics Annual Report
TSB Thoracic Surgery Branch
TSC Technical Service Center | Terrorist Screening Center
TSCD Technical Support Coordination Division
TSD Transportation Services Division
TSDB Terrorist Screening Database
TSDC Transportation Secure Data Center
TSDFs Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Facilities
TSDR Trademark Status and Document Retrieval
TSDS Terrorist Screening Dataset
TSE TradeStats Express
TSED Transmission Siting and Economic Development Grant Program
T-SEP Transportation Security Exports Program
TSF Tiered State Framework
TSI Technology, Services & Innovation | Timber Stand Improvement | Transportation Safety Institute | Transportation Services Index
TSL Teacher and School Leader Incentive Program | Thermal Spray Lab
TSM Traffic Safety Marketing
TSN Trade Support Network
TSO Transit Safety and Oversight
TSOG Timber Sales Operations Group
TSP Tanker Security Program | Telecommunications Service Priority | Thrift Savings Plan | Transportation Safety Planning
TSU Tribal Support Unit (changed to OTASA)
TSWG Technical Support Working Group
TT&L Treasury Tax and Loan Service (unable to verify 10/14)
T/TA Early Childhood Training and Technical Assistance (unable to verify 7/21)
TTA Tribal Training and Technical Assistance Center
TTAB Trademark Trial and Appeal Board
TTABVUE Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Inquiry System
TTAC Transforming Transportation Advisory Committee | Tribal Technical Advisory Committee
TTANF Tribal Temporary Assistance for Native Families
TTB Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau
TTC Technology Transfer Center | Thermal Test Complex
TTCW Tribal TANF – Child Welfare
TTGP Tribal Tourism Grant Program
TTiF Transportation Trends in Focus
TTN Technology Transfer Network (changed to Technical Air Pollution Resources)
TTO Technology Transfer Office
TTP Tribal Transportation Program | Trusted Traveler Programs
TTPCC Tribal Transportation Program Coordinating Committee
TTPP Tobacco Transition Payment Program (moved to password-protected eAuthentication)
TTR Tonopah Test Range | Total Taxable Resources
TTRDC Transportation Technology R&D Center (unable to verify 8/18)
TTRU Technology and Translational Research Unit
TTS Technology Transformation Service
TTSA Travel and Tourism Satellite Account
TTSD Railroad Safety Technical Training Standards Division
TTSGP Tribal Transportation Self-Governance Program
TTVP Tuna Tracking & Verification Program
TUDA Trial Urban District Assessment
TUS-CPS Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey
TVA Tennessee Valley Authority
TVAP Trafficking Victim Assistance Program (unable to verify 2/25)
TVAR Transportation Vulnerability and Resilience
TVIS Title V Information System
TVS Traveler Verification Service
TVT Traffic Volume Trends
TVTP Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention
TWH Total Worker Health
TwHP Teaching with Historic Places
TWIC Transportation Worker Identification Credential
TWINS Two Wide-angle Imaging Neutral-atom Spectrometers
TWU Transportation, Warehousing and Utilities Program
TYP Tribal Youth Program (unable to verify 2/25)
TYT Two-Year Tool