Abbreviations and Acronyms (excludes medical terminology)

Also see Glossary in the New Grants Procedure Manual (HTML version), Glossary of NIH Terms, NIH Acronym List.

 A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | L | M | N | O | P | R | S | T | U | V | W | Y

A

AAHRPP: Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs

ACH: Arkansas Children’s Hospital

ACRC: Arkansas Cancer Research Center (former name for Winthrop P. Rockefeller

 Cancer Institute)

ACS: American Cancer Society

AFMC: Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care

AHAF: American Health Assistance Foundation

AHEC: Area Health Education Center

AHRF: American Hearing Research Foundation

AHRQ: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (HHS)

AICPA: American Institute of Certified Public Accountants

ANF: American Nurses Foundation

AO: administrative official
AOR/SO: Authorized Organization Representative/Signing Official 

APC: Amended Payroll Certification

ARCF: American Respiratory Care Foundation

AREA: Academic Research Enhancement Award

ARIA: Automated Research Information Administrator
ARRA: American Recovery/Reinvestment Act of 2009

ASAP: Automated Standard Application for Payments (NSF)
ASCO: American Society of Clinical Oncology (Foundation)

ATA: Academic/Teacher Award

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B

BAA: Broad Agency Announcement
BAC: business associate contract
BAFO: best and final offer 

BCRP: Breast Cancer Research Program (DoD)
BOA: Basic Ordering Agreement
BRF: Biomedical Research Foundation (VA)
BRG: Bioengineering Research Grant (HHS)

BRIC: Building Research Infrastructure and Capacity (a program through AHRQ)

BRIN: Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (former name for IDeA
 Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE))

BSF: Barth Syndrome Foundation

C

CA: cooperative agreement
CAGE: Commercial and Government Entity

CAS: Cost Accounting Standards (OMB)

CASB: Cost Accounting Standards Board (OMB)

CAVHS: Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System

CCFA: Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America

CCR: Central Contractor Registration

CCTC: Clinical Computer Training Center

CDA: Career Development Award (ASCO Foundation; HHS); confidential disclosure
 agreement
CDMRP: Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (DoD)
CEO: chief executive officer

CFDA: Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

CFO: chief financial officer

CFR: Code of Federal Regulations
CIA: Clinical Investigator Award

CIES: Council for International Exchange of Scholars
CITI: Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative

CMF: Center Maintenance Form (a section in the Grants Accounting database)

CMREF: Cardiovascular Medical Research and Education Fund

CMS: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

CMTS: Contract Management and Tracking System

COA: (Donald W. Reynolds) Center on Aging (former name for Donald W. Reynolds

 Institute on Aging)

COBRE: Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence

COI: conflict of interest

COM: College of Medicine

CON: College of Nursing

COO: chief operating officer

COP: College of Pharmacy

COPH: (Fay W. Boozman) College of Public Health

CORP: Collaboration Opportunities and Research Partnerships (a program within
 the SBIR/STTR programs of NIH)

COSIG: Co-Occurring State Incentive Grant

CPA: Cooperative Project Assurance

CPG: Compliance Program Guidance (pertains to recipients of NIH grants)

CRA: certified research administrator

CRCA: Clinical Research Curriculum Award

CRDF: (U.S.) Civilian & Research Development Foundation
CRF: case report form
CRIMSON: Clinical Research Information Management System

CRISP: Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects (NIH database)

CRM: Clinical Research Module

CRO: contract review officer

CSR: cost summary report; Center for Scientific Review (NIH)
CTSA: Clinical and Translational Science Award (NCRR)

CV: curriculum vitae
 

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D

DBA: doing business as
DCCA: Division of Contracts and Complex Agreements (NSF)
DEPSCoR: Department of Defense Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive

 Research

DFAS: Division of Financial Advisory Services (NIH)

DGA: Division of Grants and Agreements (NSF)

DHHS: (U.S.) Department of Health and Human Services (also HHS)

DHS: (Arkansas) Department of Human Services
DIAS: Division of Institutional and Award Support (NSF)

DoD: Department of Defense

DoE: Department of Energy

DOJ: Department of Justice

DOL: Department of Labor

DUNS: (Dunn and Bradstreet) Data Universal Numbering System

E

EARDA: Extramural Associate Research Development Award

eCGAP: Electronic Competitive Grant Application Process (NIH)

EEOC: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
EFT: Electronic Forms Transfer (NSF)

EIN: Employer Identification Number

EPA: Environmental Protection Agency

EPSCoR: Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research
eRA: Electronic Research Administration (NIH)

ERCA: Expense/Residual Collection Account
eSNAP: Electronic Streamlined Noncompeting Award Process

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F

F&A: facilities and administration (costs)

FAQs: frequently asked questions

FAR: Federal Acquisition Regulation

FDA: Food and Drug Administration

FDP: Federal Demonstration Partnership (a cooperative funding
 initiative comprising  the NSF, nine other federal agencies, and several academic
 institutions and policy organizations connected with research)

FIC: (John E.) Fogarty International Center (NIH)

FICA: Federal Insurance Contributions Act
FIRST: First Independent Research Support and Transition (Award)

FOA: funding opportunity announcement
FOIA: Freedom of Information Act

FSR: financial status report

FTE: full-time equivalent (a type of employee identified for payroll and funding

 purposes)

FY: fiscal year

G

GA: Grants Accounting
GA&GE: general administration and general expenses

GAAP: Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (OMB)

GAGAS: Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards (OMB)
GAO: General Accounting Office (investigative arm of the U.S. Congress)

GPM: Grant Policy Manual (NSF)

GPO: Government Printing Office

GPRF: Grant Proposal Review Form
GR/IR: goods receipt/invoice receipt

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H

HBCU: Historically Black Colleges and Universities

HCFA: Health Care Financing Administration (former name for Centers for Medicare

 and Medicaid Services (CMS))

HCFO: Health Care Financing and Organization (an initiative of the Robert Wood

 Johnson Foundation)

HHS: (Department of) Health and Human Services (U.S.) (also DHHS)
HSREP: Human Subject Research Enhancement Program

HTML: Hypertext Markup Language

HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol

I

IAR: Internet-Assisted Review (NIH Web-based electronics submission system)

IBS: institutional base salary

ICF: International Cancer Foundation

ICRETT: International Cancer Technology Transfer Fellowships (a program funded 

 by the American Society of Clinical Oncology in partnership with the International

 Union Against Cancer)

IDC: indirect costs

IDeA: Institutional Development Award (Program)

IDT: interdepartmental transfer

IMAP: Internet Message Access Protocol

INBRE: IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence

IO: Institutional Official

IOA: (Donald W. Reynolds) Institute on Aging
IP: intellectual property
IRG: integrated review group (organizational component of the Center for Scientific
 Review (NIH))

IRPG: Interactive Research Project Grant

IT: Information Technology

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J

JDRF: Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
JEI: Jones Eye Institute

JIT: Just-in-Time (a type of grant procedure instituted under NIH guidelines)
JPEG: Joint Photographic Experts Group
JSP: JavaServer Page

JV: journal voucher

L

LLC: limited liability company
LLP: limited liability partnership

LOI: letter of intent

LRF: Lymphatic Research Foundation

M

MAC: Minority Affairs Consortium (American Medical Association)
MAPS: Minority Association for PreHealth Students

MARC: Minority Access to Research Careers (Award) (NIGMS)

MERIT: Method to Extend Research in Time (Award)

MFP: Minority Fellowship Program (a program within the American Psychological

 Association)

MHR: Mental Health Research (an NIMH-funded fellowship through the Minority

 Fellowship Program of the American Psychological Association)
MIRT: Minority International Research Training (Program); Myeloma Institute for
 Research and Therapy

MMRF: Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation

MOA: Memorandum of Agreement

MOU: Memorandum of Understanding

MPA: Multiple Project Assurance
MRC: (Pat and Willard Walker Family) Memory Research Center

MRE: Medical Research Endowment

M-RISP: Minority Research Infrastructure Support Program (AHRQ)

MTDC: modified total direct costs

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N

NARA: National Archives and Records Administration

NARSAD: National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression

NAS: National Academy of Sciences

NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NASULGC: National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges
NCC: Non-Competing Continuation
NCI: National Cancer Institute
NCRR: National Center for Research Resources

NCURA: National Council of University Research Administrators

NDA: non-disclosure agreement

NDPA: NIH Director's Pioneer Award

NEH: National Endowment for the Humanities

NGA: Notice of Grant Award

NGO: non-governmental organizations (UN)

NHF: National Heart Foundation; National Hemophilia Foundation

NIAID: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

NIDA: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIH)

NIDCR: National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research

NIDDK: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

NIGMS: National Institute of General Medical Sciences

NIH: National Institutes of Health

NIMH: National Institute of Mental Health
NLM: National Library of Medicine (NIH)

NMF: National Medical Fellowships

NMSS: National Multiple Sclerosis Society

NoA: Notice of Award

NOF: National Osteoporosis Foundation

NOS: not otherwise specified
NPR: National Performance Review (a federal coalition acting as a watchdog of
 fiscal bureaucracy in government)

NRSA: National Research Service Awards
NSF: National Science Foundation

O

O&M: operations and maintenance (expenses)
OFPP: Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OMB)

OFR: Office of the Federal Register

OGSP: Office of Grants and Scientific Publications
OIA: other institutional activities
ONR: Office of Naval Research (DoD)

OPASI: Office of Portfolio Analysis and Strategic Initiatives (NIH)

ORA: Office of Research Administration (former name for Office of Research  and Sponsored Programs (ORSP))

ORSP: Office of Research and Sponsored Programs
OSA: other sponsored activities 

OTA: other transaction agreement 

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P

PA: program announcement (HHS)

PAR: Payment Authorization Request (form used to transfer University of Arkansas
 Foundation funds to UAMS); program announcement (includes special referral
 guidelines) (HHS)

PBRN: Primary Care Practice-Based Research Networks (supported by planning

 grants from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, a group of practices

 designed to probe the conduct of the primary care of patients in the community)
PCPFS: President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports (HHS)

PCRP: Prostate Cancer Research Program (DoD)
PD: project director

PDF: Portable Document Format

PECASE: Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (NIH)

PO: purchase order

POC: point of contact

PRN: Projects Reference Number
PRU: Project Related Unit (for a grant)

PSA: Physician Scientist Award (program)

R

R&R: Research and Research-Related (programs funded by federal agencies)

RCA: Research Career Award

RCQ: Regulatory Compliance and Quality (DoD)

REAP: Research Enhancement Award Program (VA)

RFA: Request for Application
RFI: Request for Information

RFP: Request for Proposal
RFQ: Request for Quote

RHNPGP: Rural Health Network Development Planning Grant Program (HRSA)

RO: responsible official

RWJF: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

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S

SAP: Systems Application Product

SBIR: Small Business Innovation Research
SF: Standard Form
SGER: Small Grants for Exploratory Research (NSF)

SIG: Shared Instrumentation Grant (a grant program through the National

 Center for Research Resources, division of the National Institutes of Health)

SNAP: Streamlined Noncompeting Award Process

SO: signing official

SPA: Single Project Assurance

SPORE: Specialized Program of Research Excellence (a program within the

 National Cancer Institute regarding multiple myeloma)
SRO: Scientific Review Officer (CSR)

STAR: Science to Achieve Results (grant program affiliated with the National 

 Center for Environmental Research)

STIR: Short Term Innovative Research

STTR: Small Business Technology Transfer

T

T&E: time and effort (devoted to a research project relative to funding)
TC: total costs

TCRF: Translational Cancer Research Fellowships (a program through the

 International Union Against Cancer)

TDC: total direct costs

TIN: Taxpayer Identification Number

TMBI: Traditionally Minority Based Institutions

TPEP: Tobacco Prevention and Education Program (a program through the

 Arkansas Department of Health and Human Services)

TSNRP: TriService Nursing Research Program (a program through the Uniformed

 Services University of the Health Sciences (DoD))

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U

UA: University of Arkansas
UAFS: University of Arkansas at Fort Smith

UALR: University of Arkansas at Little Rock
UAM: University of Arkansas at Monticello

UAMS: University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

UAPB: University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff

UARK: University of Arkansas

UCP: United Cerebral Palsy

UN: United Nations

UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

UNICEF: United Nations Children's Fund

URL: universal resource locator

USA: United States Army

USAF: United States Air Force

USC: United States Code

USDA: United States Department of Agriculture

USN: United States Navy

USUHS: Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (DoD)

V

VA: (Department of) Veterans Affairs

VCAA/RA: Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs and Research Administration

W

WBS: Work Breakdown Structure (an element used by Grants Accounting)

WWW: World Wide Web

Y
YIA: Young Investigator Award (ASCO Foundation)

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