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

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

V

VA Department of Veterans Affairs
VABCA Department of Veterans Affairs' Board of Contract Appeals (absorbed into CBCA)
VAERS Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (older link archive)
VAIP Voluntary Aluminum Industrial Partnership (unable to verify 6/21, though still mentioned on NSR page)
VALE Voluntary Airport Low Emissions Program
VALOR Preventing Violence Against Law Enforcement and Ensuring Officer Resilience and Survivability
VALU VA Learning University (unable to verify 12/19)
VAP Victim Assistance Program
VAPG Value-Added Producer Grants (older link archive)
VAU Virtual Assets Unit (older link archive)
VB Virtual Beach (older link archive)
VBA Veterans Benefits Administration
VBOC Veterans Business Outreach Center (older link archive)
VBP Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program
VCAB Violent Crime Analysis Branch
VCAS Violent Criminal Alien Section (changed to CAP)
VCC Virtual Card Catalog
VCCTL Virtual Cement and Concrete Testing Laboratory (older link archive)
VCF September 11th Victim Compensation Fund
VCI Bureau of Verification, Compliance, and Implementation (changed to AVC)
VCNP Valles Caldera National Preserve
VCSP Voluntary Classification Settlement Program (older link archive; archive2)
VDAP Volcano Disaster Assistance Program
VDC Veteran Directed Care program
VDP Vulnerability Disclosure Policy
VEF Vietnam Education Foundation (unable to verify 3/19)
VEHCS Veterinary Export Health Certification System
VELMA Visualizing Ecosystem Land Management Assessments (older link archive)
VEO Veteran Employment Outcomes | Veterans Experience Office
VEPO Veteran Employment Program Office
VERA Virtual Environment for Reactor Applications (older link archive; archive2)
VERIFI Virtual Engine Research Institute and Fuels Initiative
VESL Victims Engagement and Services Line | Virtual Earth System Laboratory (older link archive)
VetoViolence Violence Education Tools Online (older link archive)
VETS Veterans' Employment and Training Service (older link archive)
VEVRAA Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (older link archive)
VFC Vaccines for Children Program
VfP Volunteers for Prosperity (unable to verify 1/15)
VGLI Veterans' Group Life Insurance (older link archive)
VHA Veterans Health Administration
VHP Veterans History Project | Volcano Hazards Program (older link archive; archive2)
VHPD Veterans Homelessness Prevention Demonstration Program
VHS Virtual Healthy School
ViCAP Violent Criminal Apprehension Program
VICP National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (older link archive)
ViCTER Virtual Consortium for Translational/Transdisciplinary Environmental Research
VIP Value of Construction Put in Place Survey | Veterinary Innovation Program (older link archive) | Village Infrastructure Protection | Volunteers in Park program
ViPER Virus Particle Exposure in Residences
VIPS Volunteers in Police Service (unable to verify 8/18)
VIReC VA Information Resource Center
VIS Vaccine Information Statements
VISA Voluntary Intermodal Sealift Agreement (older link archive)
VISTA Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (unable to verify 3/17) | Volunteers in Service to America (older link archive; archive2)
VITA Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Grant Program
VLM Veterans Legacy Memorial
VMAP Vegetation Management Action Portal
VMBIP Vaccine Management Business Improvement Project
VMLRP Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program (older link archive)
VNS Victim Notification System
VOA Voice of America
VOI/TIS Violent Offender Incarceration and Truth-in-Sentencing Incentive Program (older link archive)
VOICE Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (changed to VESL)
VORTEX-SE Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes EXperiment-Southeast
VPA-HIP Voluntary Public Access and Habitat Incentives Program
VPAT Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (older link archive)
VPGC Veterinary Pest Genomics Center
VPI Virtual Platform Initiative (unable to verify 1/20)
VPO Office of Verification, Planning, and Outreach
VPOTUS Vice President of the United States (older link archive; archive2)
VPP Voluntary Protection Programs (older link archive)
VQEG Video Quality Experts Group (older link archive)
VR&E Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment Program
VRAP Veterans Retraining Assistance Program (terminated 3/14)
VRC Vaccine Research Center
VRRAP Veteran Rapid Retraining Assistance Program
VS Veterinary Services
VSAC Value Set Authority Center
VSD Victim Services Division
VSFS Virtual Student Federal Service
VSGP Veterinary Services Grant Program
VSP Vessel Sanitation Program | Visa Security Program (older link archive)
VSPB Viral Special Pathogens Branch
VSTL Voting System Test Laboratories
VTD Voting District Project
VTO Vehicle Technologies Office
VTP Veterans Transportation Program
VTrckS Vaccine Tracking System
VTT Vicarious Trauma Toolkit
VVSG Voluntary Voting System Guidelines
VWAC Victim and Witness Assistance Council
VWAP Victim Witness Assistance Program
VWP Visa Waiver Program (older link archive)