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

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

W

WE3 Women's Economic Empowerment and Equality (unable to verify 4/25)
WEA Wireless Emergency Alerts
WEAT BRFSS Web Enabled Analysis Tool
WEC Waste Emissions Charge
WECD Watershed and Ecosystem Characterization Division
WED Western Ecology Division (changed to PESD)
WEEG Water and Energy Efficiency Grants
WellBQ Worker Well-Being Questionnaire
WEMo Wave Exposure Model
WEP Water and Environmental Programs (unable to verify 3/15) | Windfall Elimination Provision
WEPP Watershed Erosion Prediction Project
WERC Western Ecological Research Center
WES Women’s Entrepreneurship Symposium (unable to verify 1/25)
WETO Wind Energy Technologies Office
WETT Water-Energy Tech Team (changed to Energy-Water Nexus Crosscut Team)
WFAIP Wildland Fire Application Information Portal
WFAS Wildland Fire Assessment System
WFDSS Wildland Fire Decision Support System
WFEC Wildland Fire Executive Council (terminated 2015, but website still available)
WFF Wallops Flight Facility
WFIPS Wildland Fire Investment Planning System
WFIRST Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (changed to Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope)
WFIT Wildland Fire Information and Technology
WFLC Wildland Fire Leadership Council
WFLDP Wildland Fire Leadership Development Program
WFMI Wildland Fire Management Information
WFMRDA Wildland Fire Management, Research, Development & Application
WFMRDA FFE Wildland Fire Management Fuels and Fire Ecology (unable to verify)
WFO IPCIS Washington Field Office Infrastructure Protection and Computer Intrusion Squad
WFPO Watershed and Flood Prevention Operations Program
WFRC Western Fisheries Research Center
WFRP Whole-Farm Revenue Protection
WFRP-MS Wildlife, Fish, and Rare Plant Management System
WFRS Water Fluoridation Reporting System
WF TCP Wilson-Fish Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Coordination Program
WFTT Wildland Fire Trends Tool
WFW Watershed, Fish, Wildlife, Air & Rare Plants program (changed to WFWARP)
WFWARP Watershed, Fish, Wildlife, Air & Rare Plants program (changed to BPR)
WGR Website Globalization Review
WGSC Western Geographic Science Center
WH White House
WH&B National Wild Horse and Burro Program
WHA Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs
WHATIF Watershed Health Assessment Tools Investigating Fisheries
WHAV Watershed Hydrology Assessment Viewer
WHC Worker Health Charts
WHCNAA White House Council on Native American Affairs
WHD Wage and Hour Division
WHEJAC White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council (unable to verify 2/25)
WHI Women's Health Initiative
WHIAAPI White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (unable to verify 1/25)
WHIP Wildfires and Hurricanes Indemnity Program  | Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program (unable to verify 10/22)
WHISPers Wildlife Health Information Sharing Partnership
WHI-WHR White House Initiative on Women's Health Research (unable to verify 2/25)
WHMO White House Military Office (unable to verify 2/25)
WHNRC Western Human Nutrition Research Center
WHOUA White House Office of Urban Affairs (defunct or inactive 1/17, WH transition)
WHP Office of Western Hemisphere Programs (unable to verify 6/19) | Workplace Health Program
WHTCC White House Transition Coordinating Council
WHTI Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative
WHUSA Women's Health USA
WRIT Web-based Reanalyses Intercomparison Tools
WRIVA Walk-through Rendering from Images of Varying Altitude
WRN Weather-Ready Nation
WRP Wetlands Reserve Program (unable to verify 10/22) | Workforce Recruitment Program
WRRC Western Regional Research Center
WRRI State Water Resources Research Institute
WRS Waiver Review System
WRT Wholesale and Retail Trade Program
WS Wildlife Services
WSA Wadeable Streams Assessment | Women Scientist Advisors
WSCC Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (unable to verify 1/25)
WSD Western States Division  | Wilderness Stewardship Division
WSFR Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration (changed to Office of Conservation Investment)
WSI WaterSMART Initiative
WSIO Watershed Index Online (changed to RPS Tool)
WSP Witness Security Program | Work Stoppages Program
WSR Wild and Scenic Rivers
WSRD IWG Wireless Spectrum Interagency Working Group
WSS Web Soil Survey
WSTB Water Security Test Bed
WTB Wireless Telecommunications Bureau
WTC World Trade Center Health Program
WTE World Terrestrial Ecosystems
WTEE World Terrestrial Ecosystems Explorer (unable to verify 3/25)
WTO World Trade Organization
WTP Worker Training Program
WTT We Think Twice
WUDR Water-Use Data and Research program
WUI Wildland Urban Interface
WWC What Works Clearinghouse
WWCRA West-Wide Climate Risk Assessments
WWEC West-wide Energy Corridor Information Center
WWEIA What We Eat in America
WWETAC Western Wildland Environmental Threat Assessment Center
WWSC Washington Water Science Center
WWTG World Wine Trade Group
WYO Write Your Own Program