FHLBB Federal Home Loan Bank Board 



FJSRL Frank J. Seller Research Laboratory 



(Air Force) 



FPC Federal Power Commission 



FS Forest Service (Agriculture) 



FWPCA Federal Water Pollution Control Act 



FWS Fish and Wildlife Service (Interior) 



GARP Global Atmospheric Research Pro- 



gram 



GATE GARP Atlantic Tropica! Experiment 



GFDL Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Labo- 



ratory (NOAA) 



GNP gross national product 



GOCO government-owned/contractor-oper- 



ated 

 GSA General Services Administration 



HAO High Altitude Observatory 



HDL Harry Diamond Laboratories (Army) 



HEAO High Energy Astronomy Observa- 



tory 



HEW Department of Health, Education, 



and Welfare (or DHEW) 



HSA Health Services Administration 



(HEW) 



HUD Department of Housing and Urban 



Development 



lARCC Interagency Arctic Research Coordi- 



nating Committee (FCST) 



lAT Institute for Applied Technology 



(NBS) 



IBS Institute for Basic Standards (NBS) 



ICAS Interdepartmental Committee for 



Atmospheric Sciences (FCST) 



ICASE Institute for Computer Applications 



for Science and Engineering 



ICBM Intercontinental Ballistic Missile 



ICCA Interagency Coordinating Committee 



for Astronomy (FCST) 



ICET Interagency Committee on Excava- 



tion Technology (FCST) 



ICMSE Interagency Committee on Marine 



Science and Engineering (FCST) 



ICSRD Interdepartmental Committee on 



Scientific Research and Development 



ICST Institute for Computer Sciences and 



Technology (NBS) 



IDA Institute for Defense Analyses 



IDL Interdisciplinary Laboratories 



[program] 



I DOE -International Decade of Ocean Ex- 



ploration 



IFYGL International Field Year of the Great 



Lakes 



IGY International Geophysical Year 



IMR Institute for Materials Research 



(NBS) 



IMS International Magnetospheric Study 



INR Bureau of Intelligence and Research 



(State) 



IR infrared 



ITFIMS Interagency Task Force on Inadver- 



tent Modification of Stratosphere 

 (FCST) 



ITS Institute for Telecommunication Sci- 



ences (Office of Telecommunica- 

 tions) 



JILA Joint Institute for Laboratory Astro- 



physics 



JOIDES Joint Oceanographic Institutions for 

 Deep Earth Sampling 



JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory 



JSC Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center 



KPNO Kitt Peak National Observatory 



LEAA Law Enforcement Assistance Ad- 



ministration (Justice) 



LIN AC linear accelerator 



LMPD Office of Labor-Management Policy 



Development (Labor) 



LMSA Labor-Management Services Admin- 



istration (Labor) 



LSI Lunar Science Institute 



MAPS Management and Planning System 



(Agriculture) 



Mar Ad Maritime Administration (Commerce) 



MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technolo- 



gy 

 MODE Mid-Ocean Dynamics Experiment 



MONEX monsoon experiment 



MPE [Directorate for[ Mathematical and 



Physical Sciences and Engineering 

 (NSF) 



MRL Materials Research Laboratory 



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