ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS^ 



AAEO [Directorate for] Astronomical, At- 



mospheric, Earth, and Ocean Sciences 



(NSF) 



AAF Army Air Force 



ABMA Army Ballistic Missile Agency 



ACDA Arms Control and Disarmament 



Agency 



ACPL Applied Cloud Physics Laboratories 



(NASA) 



ACTION Independent U. S. agency embracing 

 the Peace Corps, Volunteers in Serv- 

 ice to America, and other volunteer 

 service programs 



ADAMHA Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental 

 Health Administration (HtW) 



AEC Atomic Energy Commission 



AFAPL Air Force Aero Propulsion Labora- 



tory 



AFCRL Air Force Cambridge Research Lab- 



oratories 



AFOSR Air Force Office of Scientific Re- 



search 



AFRRI Armed Forces Radiobiology Re- 



search Institute 



AID Agency for International Develop- 



ment (State) 



AIDJEX Arctic Ice Dynamics Joint Experi- 

 ment 



ARI Army Research Institute 



ARL Aerospace Research Laboratory (Air 



Force) 



ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency 



(HOW DARPA, DOD) 



ARS Agricultural Research Service (Agri- 



culture) 



ASPR Armed Services Procurement Regu- 



lations 



AST [Division of] Astronomical Sciences 



(NSF) 



AUA Argonne Universities Association 



*Only ttie more frequently mentioned or significant organiza- 

 tions, projects, facilities, and scientific and organizational terms 

 mentioned in this report are included. Note that many organi- 

 zations included no longer exist or their functions have been 

 absorbed by new agencies. 



AUI 



Associated 

 ated 



Universities, Incorpor- 



AURA Association of Universities for Re- 



search in Astronomy 



AWRM [Division of] Atmospheric Water 



Resources Management (Bureau of 

 Reclamation, Interior) 



BAE Bureau of American Ethnology 



(Smithsonian) 



BAT best available technology 



BBS [Directorate for] Biological, Behav- 



ioral, and Social Sciences (NSF) 



BID bureau, institute, or division (NIH) 



BLS Bureau of Labor Statistics (Labor) 



BMS Biological and Medical Sciences 



(now Biological, Behavioral, and 

 Social Sciences of NSF) 



BOM EX Barbados oceanographic and mete- 

 orological experiment (GATE) 



BP before the present 



BPR Bureau of Public Roads (DOT) 



BuENG Bureau of Engineering (Navy) 



BUMED Bureau of Medicine and Surgery 

 (Navy) 



BuORD Bureau of Ordnance (Navy) 



CAA Clean Air Act 



CAORF Computer-Aided Operations Re- 



search Facility (MarAd) 



CAT computerized axial tomography 



CCN cloud condensation nuclei 



CDTT [Ad Hoc] Committee on Domestic 



Technology Transfer (FCST) 



CEA Council of Economic Advisers 



CEQ Council on Environmental Quality 



CFL Committee on Federal Laboratories 



(FCST) 



CG Coast Guard 



CGAR Consultative Group on Agricultural 



Research 



CGPP Committee on Government Patent 



Policy (FCST) 



CHESS Community health environmental 



survey system (EPA) 



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