Government Sources and Abbreviations - B


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BARC Beltsville Agricultural Research Center
  The Beltsville Area consists of ARS programs at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in Beltsville, MD; the US National Arboretum in Washington D.C.; and worksites in Chatsworth, NJ; Presque Isle, ME; and McMinnville, TN. BARC is the largest and most diversified agricultural research complex in the world.
BATFE Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
BAU Behavioral Analysis Unit
BBG Broadcasting Board of Governors
BEA Bureau of Economic Analysis
  The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) promotes a better understanding of the U.S. economy by providing the most timely, relevant, and accurate economic accounts data in an objective and cost-effective manner.
BEP Bureau of Engraving and Printing
BER Biological and Environmental Research
  The Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, providing more than 40 percent of total funding for this vital area of national importance.
BERA Business & Economics Research Advisor
BES Basic Energy Sciences
BFRL Building and Fire Research Laboratory
BHPr Bureau of Health Professions
BIA Bureau of Indian Affairs
BIE Bureau of Indian Education
BIMAS BioInformatics Molecular Analysis Section
  A crucial component to the major advances in genomics research has been the uniting of advances in biology with those in computers, informatics and networking. As genome sequencing throughput increases, the technological burden will shift increasingly to analysis and informatics. The BioInformatics & Molecular Analysis Section (BIMAS) was established to ensure that as this process advances, the necessary computational tools and resources are available to the NIH community. The BIMAS mission is to provide guidance, support and resources to scientists throughout the NIH in the genomic and genetic analysis fields of BioInformatics.
BIS Bureau of Industry and Security
BJA Bureau of Justice Assistance
BJS Bureau of Justice Statistics
  To collect, analyze, publish, and disseminate information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government. These data are critical to federal, state, and local policymakers in combating crime and ensuring that justice is both efficient and evenhanded.
BLM Bureau of Land Management
BLS Bureau of Labor Statistics
BNL Brookhaven National Laboratory
  One of ten national laboratories overseen and primarily funded by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Brookhaven National Laboratory conducts research in the physical, biomedical, and environmental sciences, as well as in energy technologies and national security. Brookhaven Lab also builds and operates major scientific facilities available to university, industry and government researchers. Brookhaven is operated and managed for DOE's Office of Science by Brookhaven Science Associates, a limited-liability company founded by Stony Brook University, the largest academic user of Laboratory facilities, and Battelle, a nonprofit, applied science and technology organization.
BNQP Baldrige National Quality Program
BOP Federal Bureau of Prisons
BOR Bureau of Reclamation
BPA Bonneville Power Administration
BPD Bureau of the Public Debt
BPHC Bureau of Primary Health Care
  Health centers are community-based and patient-directed organizations that serve populations with limited access to health care. These include low income populations, the uninsured, those with limited English proficiency, migrant and seasonal farmworkers, individuals and families experiencing homelessness, and those living in public housing.
BRAC Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission
BRB Benefits Review Board
BRD Biological Resource Division
BRFSS Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
  The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is the world's largest, on-going telephone health survey system, tracking health conditions and risk behaviors in the United States yearly since 1984. Currently, data are collected monthly in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Guam.
BRS Biotechnology Regulatory Service
BSE Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
BTA Business Transformation Agency
BTOP Broadband Technology Opportunities Program
  The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act provided the Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service (RUS) with $7.2 billion to expand access to broadband services in the United States. Of those funds, the Act provided $4.7 billion to NTIA to support the deployment of broadband infrastructure, enhance and expand public computer centers, encourage sustainable adoption of broadband service, and develop and maintain a nationwide public map of broadband service capability and availability. NTIA will make all grant awards by September 30, 2010.
BTS Bureau of Transportation Statistics
BVA Board of Veterans Appeals