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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.

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W&I Wage and Investment Division (changed to Taxpayer Services)
W&W Water and Watersheds
WaDeS Watershed Delineation and Scoring
WAIC Water and Agriculture Information Center
WAIRE Warehouse Actions and Investments to Reduce Emissions
WALS Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series
WAMS Women and Minorities in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Fields Grant Program
WAOB World Agricultural Outlook Board
WAP Weatherization Assistance Program
WAPA Western Area Power Administration
WARC Wetland and Aquatic Research Center
WarCAT War Crimes Accountability Team
WARM Waste Reduction Model | Workforce Analysis and Resource Modeling Division
WARP Watershed Regressions for Pesticides (unable to verify 5/20; replaced by NWIS)
WASDE World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates Report
WASH Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene
WaSSI Water Supply Stress Index
WATA Water Adaptation Techniques Atlas
WATERS Watershed Assessment, Tracking & Environmental Results
WaterSMART Water Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow
WaterTA Water Technical Assistance
WAUSP Water Availability and Use Science Program
WB Women's Bureau
WBC Women's Business Centers
WBD Watershed Boundary Dataset
WBDOSS Waterborne Disease and Outbreak Surveillance System
WBP Water Bank Program
WBSCM Web Based Supply Chain Management
WCATWC West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center (changed to NTWC)
WCB Wireline Competition Bureau
WCE Well Control Equipment Reporting
WCFSP Water Conservation Field Services Program
WCI Weapons and Complex Integration (changed to SD)
WCIT Water Containment Information Tool
WCMD Warehouse and Commodity Management Division
WCNP Western Center for Native Plant Conservation and Restoration Science
WCoE National Semiconductor Technology Center Workforce Center of Excellence
WCOSS Weather and Climate Operational Supercomputing System
WCP 7(a) Working Capital Pilot Program
WCR Well Control Final Rule | NOAA West Coast Region
WCT Weather and Climate Toolkit | Work Capacity Test
WD Wage Determinations
WDOL Wage Determinations OnLine (discontinued 6/19; merged into beta.sam.gov)
WDPB Waterborne Disease Prevention Branch
WDR Water Data Reports
WDTS Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists
WE Empowering Women's Entrepreneurship
WE3 Women's Economic Empowerment and Equality
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
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
WFEC Wildland Fire Executive Council (terminated 2015, but website still available)
WFF Wallops Flight Facility
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
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)
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
WHIAAPI White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
WHIP Wildfires and Hurricanes Indemnity Program  | Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program (unable to verify 10/22)
WHISPers Wildlife Health Information Sharing Partnership
WHMO White House Military Office
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 (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
WID Water Infrastructure Division
WIDS Weather Informatics and Decision Support Division
WILD Wind-Wildlife Impacts Literature Database (unable to verify 1/20)
WIMS Weather Information Management System
WIN Weight-control Information Network (unable to verify 2/20)
WIND Wind Integration National Dataset
WiNS Women in Neutron Sciences
WIP Weatherization and Intergovernmental Programs Office (unable to verify 1/23)
WIPP Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
WiRē Wildfire Research Team
WIRFC Water Infrastructure and Resiliency Finance Center
WIS Well Information System
WISARDS Work-related Injury Statistics and Resource Data Systems
WISE Weather Information Systems Evolution Section (unable to verify 11/23) | Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer  | Women in the Sustainable Economy Initiative
WISER Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders (discontinued)
WISEWOMAN Well-Integrated Screening and Evaluation for WOMen Across the Nation
WISQARS Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System
WITSEC Witness Security
WLA Water Laboratory Alliance
WLCC Working Lands Climate Corps
WLCI Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative
WLFW Working Lands for Wildlife
WLL Wirtz Labor Library
WLS DHS Watchlist Service
WMA Water Resources Mission Area
WMB Women’s Malignancies Branch
WMBP Wetland Mitigation Banking Program
WMDD Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate
WMDT Office of Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism
WMEAT World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers (discontinued with 2021 edition)
WMGBP Webless Migratory Game Bird Program
WMM World Magnetic Model
WMOST Watershed Management Optimization Support Tool
WMPPD Water Management, Planning, and Pre-Development
WMRS Wildlife and Marine Resources Section
WMU Web Manager University (changed to DGU)
WNC World News Connection (defunct)
WND Wireless Networks Division
WNET Women's Network for Entrepreneurial Training (defunct)
WNGSR Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report
WOA World Ocean Atlas
WOCQI World Coal Quality Inventory
WoCRn Women of Color Research Network
WOD World Ocean Database
WONDER Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research
WORC Workforce Opportunity for Rural Communities Initiative
Work-RISQS Work-Related Injury Statistics Query System
WoRLD Work-Related Lung Disease Surveillance System (changed to eWORLD)
WOSB Women-Owned Small Businesses
WOTC Work Opportunity Tax Credit
WOTUS Waters of the United States
WOW Workers Owed Wages
WPAC Whistleblower Protection Advisory Committee (terminated 4/18)
WPC Weather Prediction Center
WPDG Wetlands Program Development Grants
WPO Weather Program Office
WPOFCU Wheat, Peanut, and Other Field Crops Research Unit (unable to verify 5/23)
WPS Agricultural Worker Protection Standard | Wireless Priority Service  | Women, Peace, and Security
WPSAR Western Pacific Stock Assessment Review
WPSR Weekly Petroleum Status Report
WPTO Water Power Technologies Office
WQI Water Quality Indicators
WQIC Water Quality Information Center (changed to WAIC)
WQP Water Quality Portal
WQX Water Quality Exchange
WR Branch of Water Resources | OSMRE Western Region (unable to verify 4/22)
WRA Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement
WRACCW Water Resources Adaptation to Climate Change Workgroup (unable to verify 3/24)
WRAP National Water Reuse Action Plan | Western Resource Adequacy Program
WRB Water Rights Program and Branch
WRCC Western Regional Climate Center
WRD Water Resources Division
WRDB Wind Resource Database
WRE Wetland Reserve Easements
WREN Working Together to Resolve Environmental Effects of Wind Energy
WREP Wetland Reserve Enhancement Partnership
WRF-Chem Weather Research and Forecasting model coupled to Chemistry (unable to verify 9/24)
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
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
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
WTEE World Terrestrial Ecosystems Explorer
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
WWTG World Wine Trade Group
WYO Write Your Own Program