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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 agency, office, program and publication acronyms.

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W&I Wage and Investment Division (older link archive)
WAIC Water and Agriculture Information Center
WALS Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series
WAOB World Agricultural Outlook Board
WAPA Western Area Power Administration
WARC Wetland and Aquatic Research Center
WARM Waste Reduction Model
WASDE World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates Report
WASH Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene
WaSSI Water Supply Stress Index (older link archive)
WATERS Watershed Assessment, Tracking & Environmental Results
WB Women's Bureau
WBC Women's Business Centers (older link archive)
WBP Water Bank Program
WCATWC West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center
WCB Wireline Competition Bureau
WCFSP Water Conservation Field Services Program
WCIT Water Containment Information Tool
WCR NOAA West Coast Region
WD Wage Determinations
WDOL Wage Determinations OnLine
WDPB Waterborne Disease Prevention Branch
WDR Water Data Reports
WDTS Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists
WED Western Ecology Division
WEP Water and Environmental Programs (unable to verify 3/15)
WEPP Watershed Erosion Prediction Project
WETT Water-Energy Tech Team (changed to Energy-Water Nexus Crosscut Team)
WFEC Wildland Fire Executive Council
WFF Wallops Flight Facility
WFIRST Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope
WFIT Wildland Fire Information and Technology
WFLC Wildland Fire Leadership Council
WFMRD&A Wildland Fire Management, Research, Development & Application
WFO IPCIS Washington Field Office Infrastructure Protection and Computer Intrusion Squad
WFPO Watershed and Flood Prevention Operations Program
WFW Watershed, Fish, Wildlife, Air & Rare Plants program (older link archive)
WH White House
WH&B National Wild Horse and Burro Program (older link archive)
WHA Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs
WHATIF Watershed Health Assessment Tools Investigating Fisheries
WHC Worker Health Charts
WHD Wage and Hour Division
WHIP Wildfires and Hurricanes Indemnity Program | Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program
WHISPers Wildlife Health Information Sharing Partnership
WHMO White House Military Office (defunct or inactive 1/17, WH transition)
WHOUA White House Office of Urban Affairs (defunct or inactive 1/17, WH transition)
WHP Office of Western Hemisphere Programs | Workplace Health Program
WHTCC White House Transition Coordinating Council (unable to verify 2/18)
WHTI Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative
WHUSA Women's Health USA
WIC Women, Infants and Children, Special supplemental food program for
WILD Wind-Wildlife Impacts Literature Database
WIN Weight-control Information Network (older link archive)
WIP Weatherization and Intergovernmental Programs Office
WIPP Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
WIRFC Water Infrastructure and Resiliency Finance Center
WISE Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
WISEWOMAN Well-Integrated Screening and Evaluation for WOMen Across the Nation
WISQARS Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System
WLA Water Laboratory Alliance
WMDT Office of Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism
WMEAT World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers
WMOST Watershed Management Optimization Support Tool (older link archive)
WMU Web Manager University (changed to DGU)
WNC World News Connection (defunct)
WNET Women's Network for Entrepreneurial Training (defunct)
WOA World Ocean Atlas
WoCRn Women of Color Research Network (older link archive)
WOD World Ocean Database
WONDER Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research
WoRLD Work-Related Lung Disease Surveillance System
WOSB Women-Owned Small Businesses (older link archive)
WOTC Work Opportunity Tax Credit
WOTUS Waters of the United States (older link archive)
WOW Workers Owed Wages
WPAC Whistleblower Protection Advisory Committee (older link archive)
WPC Weather Prediction Center
WPS Wireless Priority Service (older link archive)
WPSAR Western Pacific Stock Assessment Review
WQIC Water Quality Information Center (changed to WAIC)
WQP Water Quality Portal
WQX Water Quality Exchange (older link archive)
WR OSMRE Western Region
WRA Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement
WRB Water Rights Program and Branch (older link archive)
WRCC Western Regional Climate Center
WRD Water Resources Division
WREN Working Together to Resolve Environmental Effects of Wind Energy
WRN Weather-Ready Nation (earlier link archive)
WRP Wetlands Reserve Program | Workforce Recruitment Program
WRRC Western Regional Research Center
WRRI State Water Resources Research Institute
WS Wildlife Services
WSA Wadeable Streams Assessment
WSCC Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child
WSFR Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration
WSP Witness Security Program | Work Stoppages Program
WSR Wild and Scenic Rivers
WSS Web Soil Survey
WTB Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (older link archive)
WTC World Trade Center Health Program
WTO World Trade Organization
WWEC West-wide Energy Corridor Information Center
WWEIA What We Eat in America (older link archive)