This is a list of agencies

Government agency

A government or state agency is a permanent or semi-permanent organization in the machinery of government that is responsible for the oversight and administration of specific functions, such as an intelligence agency. There is a notable variety of agency types...

of the United States federal government

Federal government of the United States

The federal government of the United States is the national government of the constitutional republic of fifty states that is the United States of America. The federal government comprises three distinct branches of government: a legislative, an executive and a judiciary. These branches and...

.

The executive branch

Executive (government)

Executive branch of Government is the part of government that has sole authority and responsibility for the daily administration of the state bureaucracy. The division of power into separate branches of government is central to the idea of the separation of powers.In many countries, the term...

 of the federal government includes the Executive Office of the President

Executive Office of the President of the United States

The Executive Office of the President consists of the immediate staff of the President of the United States, as well as multiple levels of support staff reporting to the President. The EOP is headed by the White House Chief of Staff, currently William M. Daley...

 and the United States federal executive departments

United States Federal Executive Departments

The United States federal executive departments are among the oldest primary units of the executive branch of the federal government of the United States—the Departments of State, War, and the Treasury all being established within a few weeks of each other in 1789.Federal executive...

 (whose secretaries belong to the Cabinet

United States Cabinet

The Cabinet of the United States is composed of the most senior appointed officers of the executive branch of the federal government of the United States, which are generally the heads of the federal executive departments...

).

The majority of the independent agencies of the United States government

Independent agencies of the United States government

Independent agencies of the United States federal government are those agencies that exist outside of the federal executive departments...

 are also classified as executive agencies (they are independent in that they are not subordinated under a Cabinet position). There are a small number of independent agencies that are not considered part of the executive branch, such as the Library of Congress

Library of Congress

The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and...

 and Congressional Budget Office

Congressional Budget Office

The Congressional Budget Office is a federal agency within the legislative branch of the United States government that provides economic data to Congress....

, which are administered directly by Congress

United States Congress

The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Congress meets in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C....

 and thus are legislative branch

Legislature

A legislature is a kind of deliberative assembly with the power to pass, amend, and repeal laws. The law created by a legislature is called legislation or statutory law. In addition to enacting laws, legislatures usually have exclusive authority to raise or lower taxes and adopt the budget and...

 agencies. There is one independent agency in the judicial branch.

Legislative branch

Agencies within the legislative branch:

• Architect of the Capitol
  Architect of the Capitol
  The Architect of the Capitol is the federal agency responsible for the maintenance, operation, development, and preservation of the United States Capitol Complex, and also the head of that agency. The Architect of the Capitol is in the legislative branch and is responsible to the United States...
  
  
• Government Accountability Office
  Government Accountability Office
  The Government Accountability Office is the audit, evaluation, and investigative arm of the United States Congress. It is located in the legislative branch of the United States government.-History:...
  
  
• Government Printing Office
  United States Government Printing Office
  The United States Government Printing Office is an agency of the legislative branch of the United States federal government. The office prints documents produced by and for the federal government, including the Supreme Court, the Congress, the Executive Office of the President, executive...
  
  
• Congressional Research Service
  Congressional Research Service
  The Congressional Research Service , known as "Congress's think tank", is the public policy research arm of the United States Congress. As a legislative branch agency within the Library of Congress, CRS works exclusively and directly for Members of Congress, their Committees and staff on a...
  
  
• Congressional Budget Office
  Congressional Budget Office
  The Congressional Budget Office is a federal agency within the legislative branch of the United States government that provides economic data to Congress....
  
  
• Library of Congress
  Library of Congress
  The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and...
  
  
• Office of Compliance
  United States Congress Office of Compliance
  The United States Congress Office of Compliance is an independent federal agency within the legislative branch of the United States government. It was created to administer and enforce the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995...
  
  
• United States Botanic Garden
  United States Botanic Garden
  The United States Botanic Garden is a botanic garden on the grounds of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., near Garfield Circle....
  
  
• United States Capitol Guide Service
  United States Capitol Guide Service
  The United States Capitol Guide Service is a guide service charged by the United States Congress to "provide guided tours of the interior of the United States Capitol Building for the education and enlightenment of the general public, without charge for such tours." It exists under .Created in 1876...
  
  
• United States Capitol Police
  United States Capitol Police
  The United States Capitol Police is a federal police force charged with protecting the United States Congress within the District of Columbia and throughout the United States and its territories.-History:...
  
  
• United States Copyright Office
  United States Copyright Office
  The United States Copyright Office, a part of the Library of Congress, is the official U.S. government body that maintains records of copyright registration in the United States. It is used by copyright title searchers who are attempting to clear a chain of title for copyrighted works.The head of...
  
  

Judicial branch

Agencies within the judicial branch:

• Administrative Office of the United States Courts
  Administrative Office of the United States Courts
  The Administrative Office of the United States Courts is the administrative agency of the United States federal court system. It was established in 1939.The AO is the central support entity for the federal judicial branch...
  
  
• Federal Judicial Center
  Federal Judicial Center
  The Federal Judicial Center is the education and research agency of the United States federal courts. It was established by an Act of Congress in 1967, at the recommendation of the Judicial Conference of the United States....
  
  
• Judicial Conference of the United States
  Judicial Conference of the United States
  The Judicial Conference of the United States, formerly known as Conference of Senior Circuit Judges, was created by the United States Congress in 1922 with the principal objective of framing policy guidelines for administration of judicial courts in the United States...
  
  
• Office of Probation and Pretrial Services
• United States Sentencing Commission
  United States Sentencing Commission
  The United States Sentencing Commission is an independent agency of the judicial branch of the federal government of the United States. It is responsible for articulating the sentencing guidelines for the United States federal courts...
  
  

Executive Office of the President

Agencies within the Executive Office of the President:

• Council of Economic Advisers
  Council of Economic Advisers
  The Council of Economic Advisers is an agency within the Executive Office of the President that advises the President of the United States on economic policy...
  
  
• Council on Environmental Quality
  Council on Environmental Quality
  The Council on Environmental Quality is a division of the Executive Office of the President that coordinates federal environmental efforts in the United States and works closely with agencies and other White House offices in the development of environmental and energy policies and initiatives...
  
  
• Domestic Policy Council
  United States Domestic Policy Council
  The Domestic Policy Council of the United States is the principal forum used by the President of the United States for considering domestic policy matters, excluding economic matters, which are the domain of the National Economic Council...
  
  
• National Economic Council
• National Security Council
  United States National Security Council
  The White House National Security Council in the United States is the principal forum used by the President of the United States for considering national security and foreign policy matters with his senior national security advisors and Cabinet officials and is part of the Executive Office of the...
  
  
• Office of Administration
  Office of Administration
  The Office of Administration is an entity within the Executive Office of the President tasked with overseeing the general administration of the entire Executive Office.-History:...
  
  
• Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships
• Office of Management and Budget
• Office of National AIDS Policy
  Office of National AIDS Policy
  The Office of National AIDS Policy coordinates the continuing domestic efforts to reduce the number of new infections in the United States. In addition, the Office works to coordinate an increasingly integrated approach to the prevention, care and treatment of HIV/AIDS. The Office also emphasizes...
  
  
• Office of National Drug Control Policy
  Office of National Drug Control Policy
  The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy , a former cabinet level component of the Executive Office of the President of the United States, was established in 1989 by the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988...
  
  
• Office of Science and Technology Policy
  Office of Science and Technology Policy
  The Office of Science and Technology Policy is an office in the Executive Office of the President , established by Congress on May 11, 1976, with a broad mandate to advise the President on the effects of science and technology on domestic and international affairs.The director of this office is...
  
  
• Office of the First Lady
  Office of the First Lady of the United States
  The Office of the First Lady of the United States is accountable to the First Lady of the United States for her to carry out her duties as hostess of the White House, and is also in charge of all social and ceremonial events of the White House...
  
  
• Office of the Vice President
  Office of the Vice President of the United States
  The Office of the Vice President includes personnel who directly support or advise the Vice President of the United States. The Office is currently headed by the Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the United States, currently Bruce Reed...
  
  
• President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board
  President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board
  The President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, originally the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board, is a panel of non-governmental experts from business, labor, academia and elsewhere that President of the United States Barack Obama created on February 6, 2009. The board reports...
  
  
• President's Intelligence Advisory Board
• United States Trade Representative
  Office of the United States Trade Representative
  The Office of the United States Trade Representative is the United States government agency responsible for developing and recommending United States trade policy to the president of the United States, conducting trade negotiations at bilateral and multilateral levels, and coordinating trade...
  
  
• White House Office
  White House Office
  The White House Office is an entity within the Executive Office of the President of the United States. The White House Office is headed by the White House Chief of Staff, which was temporarily Pete Rouse, replaced on January 6, 2010 with the permanent appointment of William M. Daley, who is also...
  
  

United States Department of Agriculture

Agencies within the Department of Agriculture:

• Agricultural Marketing Service
  Agricultural Marketing Service
  The Agricultural Marketing Service is a division of the United States Department of Agriculture, and has programs in five commodity areas: cotton and tobacco; dairy; fruit and vegetable; livestock and seed; and poultry...
  
  
• Agricultural Research Service
  Agricultural Research Service
  The Agricultural Research Service is the principal in-house research agency of the United States Department of Agriculture . ARS is one of four agencies in USDA's Research, Education and Economics mission area...
  
  
• Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
  Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
  Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture responsible for protecting animal health, animal welfare, and plant health. APHIS is the lead agency for collaboration with other agencies to protect U.S. agriculture from invasive pests and...
  
  
• Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion
  Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion
  The Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture created on December 1, 1994, and is the focal point within the USDA where scientific research is linked with the nutritional needs of the American public....
  
  
• Economic Research Service
  Economic Research Service
  The Economic Research Service is the main source of economic information and research from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Located in Washington D.C., the mission of ERS is to inform and enhance public and private decision-making on economic and policy issues related to agriculture, food,...
  
  
• Farm Service Agency
  Farm Service Agency
  The Farm Service Agency is the USDA agency into which were merged several predecessor agencies, including the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service . The ASCS was, as the FSA is now, primarily tasked with the implementation of farm conservation and regulation laws around the country...
  
  
  • Commodity Credit Corporation
    Commodity Credit Corporation
    The Commodity Credit Corporation is a wholly owned government corporation created in 1933 to "stabilize, support, and protect farm income and prices"...
    
    
• Food and Nutrition Service
  Food and Nutrition Service
  The Food and Nutrition Service , an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture , was established on August 8, 1969. FNS is the federal agency responsible for administering the nation’s domestic nutrition assistance programs...
  
  
• Food Safety and Inspection Service
  Food Safety and Inspection Service
  The Food Safety and Inspection Service , an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture , is the public health agency responsible for ensuring that the nation's commercial supply of meat, poultry, and egg products is safe, wholesome, and correctly labeled and packaged...
  
  
• Foreign Agricultural Service
  Foreign Agricultural Service
  The Foreign Agricultural Service is the foreign affairs agency with primary responsibility for the United States Department of Agriculture's overseas programs—market development, international trade agreements and negotiations, and the collection of statistics and market information...
  
  
• Forest Service
  United States Forest Service
  The United States Forest Service is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 155 national forests and 20 national grasslands, which encompass...
  
  
• Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration
  Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration
  The Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture that facilitates the marketing of livestock, poultry, meat, cereals, oilseeds, and related agricultural products, and promotes fair and competitive trading practices for the...
  
  
• National Agricultural Statistics Service
  National Agricultural Statistics Service
  The National Agricultural Statistics Service or NASS is the statistical branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. NASS has 46 field offices throughout the United States and Puerto Rico and a headquarters unit in Washington, D.C....
  
  
• National Institute of Food and Agriculture
  National Institute of Food and Agriculture
  The National Institute of Food and Agriculture is a U.S. Federal government body whose creation was mandated in the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008. It is intended to consolidate all federally-funded agricultural research, and will be subordinate to the Department of Agriculture...
  
  
• Natural Resources Conservation Service
  Natural Resources Conservation Service
  The Natural Resources Conservation Service , formerly known as the Soil Conservation Service , is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture that provides technical assistance to farmers and other private landowners and managers.Its name was changed in 1994 during the Presidency of...
  
  
• Risk Management Agency
  Risk Management Agency
  The Risk Management Agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture helps producers manage their business risks through effective, market-based risk management solutions. RMA's mission is to promote, support, and regulate sound risk management solutions to preserve and strengthen the economic...
  
  
• Office of Rural Development
• Rural Housing Service
  Rural Housing Service
  The Rural Housing Service is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture . Located within the Department's Rural Development mission area, RHS operates a broad range of programs to provide:*homeownership options to individuals;...
  
  
• Rural Utilities Service
  Rural Utilities Service
  is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture , one of the federal executive departments of the United States government charged with providing public utilities to rural areas in the United States via public-private partnerships...
  
  

United States Department of Commerce

Agencies within the Department of Commerce:

• Bureau of the Census
• Bureau of Economic Analysis
  Bureau of Economic Analysis
  The Bureau of Economic Analysis is an agency in the United States Department of Commerce that provides important economic statistics including the gross domestic product of the United States. Its stated mission is to "promote a better understanding of the U.S...
  
  
• Bureau of Industry and Security
  Bureau of Industry and Security
  The Bureau of Industry and Security is an agency of the United States Department of Commerce which deals with issues involving national security and high technology. A principal goal for the bureau is helping stop proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, while furthering the growth of United...
  
  
• Economic Development Administration
  Economic Development Administration
  The Economic Development Administration is an agency in the United States Department of Commerce that provides grants to economically distressed communities to generate new employment, help retain existing jobs and stimulate industrial and commercial growth.-History:The EDA was established under...
  
  
• Economics and Statistics Administration
  Economics and Statistics Administration
  The Economics and Statistics Administration is an agency in the United States Department of Commerce that produces, analyzes and disseminates national economic and demographic data.Its three primary missions are the following:...
  
  
• International Trade Administration
  International Trade Administration
  The International Trade Administration is an agency in the United States Department of Commerce that promotes United States exports of nonagricultural U.S...
  
  
• Minority Business Development Agency
  Minority Business Development Agency
  The Minority Business Development Agency is an agency in the United States Department of Commerce that promotes growth and competitiveness of the United States' minority-owned businesses. The current National Director is David A...
  
  
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , pronounced , like "noah", is a scientific agency within the United States Department of Commerce focused on the conditions of the oceans and the atmosphere...
  
  
  • National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
  • National Marine Fisheries Service
    National Marine Fisheries Service
    The National Marine Fisheries Service is a United States federal agency. A division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Department of Commerce, NMFS is responsible for the stewardship and management of the nation's living marine resources and their habitat within the...
    
    
  • National Oceanic Service
  • National Weather Service
    National Weather Service
    The National Weather Service , once known as the Weather Bureau, is one of the six scientific agencies that make up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the United States government...
    
    
• National Telecommunications and Information Administration
  National Telecommunications and Information Administration
  The National Telecommunications and Information Administration is an agency of the United States Department of Commerce that serves as the President's principal adviser on telecommunications policies pertaining to the United States' economic and technological advancement and to regulation of the...
  
  
• Patent and Trademark Office
  United States Patent and Trademark Office
  The United States Patent and Trademark Office is an agency in the United States Department of Commerce that issues patents to inventors and businesses for their inventions, and trademark registration for product and intellectual property identification.The USPTO is based in Alexandria, Virginia,...
  
  
• National Institute of Standards and Technology
  National Institute of Standards and Technology
  The National Institute of Standards and Technology , known between 1901 and 1988 as the National Bureau of Standards , is a measurement standards laboratory, otherwise known as a National Metrological Institute , which is a non-regulatory agency of the United States Department of Commerce...
  
  
  • National Technical Information Service
    National Technical Information Service
    The National Technical Information Service is an agency within the United States Department of Commerce that serves as the U.S. government repository for research and development results and for other information produced by and for the government as well as a variety of public and private sources...
    
    

United States Department of Defense

Agencies within the Department of Defense:

• Department of the Army
  • Army Corps of Engineers
• Department of the Navy
  • Marine Corps
    Marine corps
    A marine is a member of a force that specializes in expeditionary operations such as amphibious assault and occupation. The marines traditionally have strong links with the country's navy...
    
    
• Department of the Air Force
  Department of the Air Force
  The Department of the Air Force is one of the three Military Departments within the Department of Defense of the United States of America...
  
  
• Joint Chief of Staff
• National Guard Bureau
  • Air National Guard
    Air National Guard
    The Air National Guard , often referred to as the Air Guard, is the air force militia organized by each of the fifty U.S. states, the commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the territories of Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia of the United States. Established under Title 10 and...
    
    
  • Army National Guard
    Army National Guard
    Established under Title 10 and Title 32 of the U.S. Code, the Army National Guard is part of the National Guard and is divided up into subordinate units stationed in each of the 50 states, three territories and the District of Columbia operating under their respective governors...
    
    
• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
  Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
  The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technology for use by the military...
  
  
• Defense Commissary Agency
  Defense Commissary Agency
  The Defense Commissary Agency is an agency of the United States Department of Defense that operates more than 250 commissaries worldwide...
  
  
• Defense Contract Audit Agency
  Defense Contract Audit Agency
  The Defense Contract Audit Agency , under the authority, direction, and control of the United States Under Secretary of Defense , is responsible for performing all contract audits for the United States Department of Defense , and providing accounting and financial advisory services regarding...
  
  
• Defense Contract Management Agency
  Defense Contract Management Agency
  The Defense Contract Management Agency is the agency of the United States federal government responsible for performing contract administration services for the Department of Defense and other authorized federal agencies. Its headquarters is at Fort Lee, Va...
  
  
• Defense Finance and Accounting Service
  Defense Finance and Accounting Service
  The Defense Finance and Accounting Service is an agency of the United States Department of Defense that provides finance and accounting services for the civil and military members of the Department. Headquartered in Indianapolis, IN, it was activated on Jan. 18, 1991...
  
  
• Defense Information Systems Agency
  Defense Information Systems Agency
  The Defense Information Systems Agency is a United States Department of Defense agency that provides information technology and communications support to the President, Vice President, Secretary of Defense, the military Services, and the Combatant Commands.As part of the Base Realignment and...
  
  
• Defense Intelligence Agency
  Defense Intelligence Agency
  The Defense Intelligence Agency is a member of the Intelligence Community of the United States, and is the central producer and manager of military intelligence for the United States Department of Defense, employing over 16,500 U.S. military and civilian employees worldwide...
  
  
• Defense Logistics Agency
  Defense Logistics Agency
  The Defense Logistics Agency is an agency in the United States Department of Defense, with more than 26,000 civilian and military personnel throughout the world...
  
  
• Defense Security Cooperation Agency
  Defense Security Cooperation Agency
  The Defense Security Cooperation Agency , as part of the United States Department of Defense , provides financial and technical assistance, transfer of defense matériel, training and services to allies, and promotes military-to-military contacts....
  
  
• Defense Security Service
  Defense Security Service
  The Defense Security Service is an agency of the United States Department of Defense . Within areas of DoD responsibility, DSS is tasked with facilitating personnel security investigations, supervising industrial security, and performing security education and awareness training. It is not a...
  
  
• Defense Technical Information Center
  Defense Technical Information Center
  The Defense Technical Information Center is the premier repository for research and engineering information for the United States Department of Defense. DTIC's Suite of Services is available to DoD personnel, defense contractors, potential defense contractors, federal government personnel and...
  
  
• Defense Threat Reduction Agency
  Defense Threat Reduction Agency
  The Defense Threat Reduction Agency is an agency within the United States Department of Defense and is the official Combat Support Agency for countering weapons of mass destruction . DTRA's main functions are threat reduction, threat control, combat support, and technology development...
  
  
• Missile Defense Agency
  Missile Defense Agency
  The Missile Defense Agency is the section of the United States government's Department of Defense responsible for developing a layered defense against ballistic missiles. The agency has its origins in the Strategic Defense Initiative, which was established in 1983 and was headed by Lt...
  
  
• National Security Agency
  National Security Agency
  The National Security Agency/Central Security Service is a cryptologic intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the collection and analysis of foreign communications and foreign signals intelligence, as well as protecting U.S...
  
  
  • Central Security Service
    Central Security Service
    The Central Security Service is an agency of the United States Department of Defense, established in 1972 by a Presidential Directive to promote full partnership between the National Security Agency and the Service Cryptologic Elements of the United States Armed Forces.-Organization:The blue...
    
    
• National Reconnaissance Office
  National Reconnaissance Office
  The National Reconnaissance Office , located in Chantilly, Virginia, is one of the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies. It designs, builds, and operates the spy satellites of the United States government.-Mission:...
  
  
• National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
  National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
  The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is an agency of the federal government of the United States with the primary mission of collecting, analyzing and distributing geospatial intelligence in support of national security. NGA was formerly known as the National Imagery and Mapping Agency ...
  
  
• Naval Criminal Investigative Service
  Naval Criminal Investigative Service
  The United States Naval Criminal Investigative Service is the primary security, counter-intelligence, counter-terrorism, and law enforcement agency of the United States Department of the Navy...
  
  
• Pentagon Force Protection Agency
  Pentagon Force Protection Agency
  The Pentagon Force Protection Agency is a civilian Defense Agency within the Department of Defense charged with protecting and safeguarding the occupants, visitors, and infrastructure of the Pentagon, Navy Annex and other assigned Pentagon facilities.This mission is accomplished with law...
  
  
• United States Pentagon Police
  United States Pentagon Police
  The United States Pentagon Police is the federal police force of the Secretary of Defense. The mission of the USPPD is to promote high quality law enforcement and security services, in order to provide a safe and orderly work environment for the Department of Defense in the National...
  
  
• American Forces Information Service
  American Forces Information Service
  The American Forces Information Service was a United States Department of Defense-providing news service that supplied information about the U.S. military. Department of Defense Directive 5105.74 disestablished AFIS on October 1, 2008 and created the Defense Media Activity...
  
  
• Counterintelligence Field Activity
  Counterintelligence Field Activity
  Counterintelligence Field Activity was a United States Department of Defense agency whose size and budget were classified. The CIFA was created by a directive from the Secretary of Defense on February 19, 2002...
  
  
• Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office
  Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office
  The Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office , as part of the United States Department of Defense, reports to the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy through the Assistant Secretary of Defense . DPMO provides centralized management of prisoner of war/missing personnel affairs within the...
  
  
• Department of Defense Education Activity
  Department of Defense Education Activity
  The Department of Defense Education Activity is a civilian agency of the United States Department of Defense that manages all schools for military children and teenagers, as well as foreign service children and teenagers, in the United States and also overseas at American military bases worldwide...
  
  
• Department of Defense Dependents Schools
  Department of Defense Dependents Schools
  The Department of Defense Dependents Schools are a network of schools, both primary and secondary, that serve dependents of United States military - and other non-US - personnel outside the United States. The schools themselves are operated by the Department of Defense Education Activity...
  
  
• Defense Human Resources Activity
  Defense Human Resources Activity
  The Defense Human Resources Activity is a United States Department of Defense Field Activity chartered to support the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness...
  
  
• Office of Economic Adjustment
  Office of Economic Adjustment
  The Office of Economic Adjustment is the U.S. Department of Defense's primary source for assisting communities that are adversely impacted by Defense program changes, including base closures or realignments, base expansions, and contract or program cancellations...
  
  
• TRICARE Management Activity
• Washington Headquarters Services
  Washington Headquarters Services
  Washington Headquarters Services was established as a U.S. Department of Defense Field Activity on October 1, 1977 as part of a DoD headquarters streamlining initiative. Approximately 1,300 WHS staff are organized into 7 Directorates and 2 Offices...
  
  

United States Department of Education

Agencies within the Department of Education:

Federal Student Aid

Office of Federal Student Aid

Federal Student Aid, an office of the U.S. Department of Education, plays a central and essential role in America's postsecondary education community...

• Institute of Education Sciences
  Institute of Education Sciences
  The Institute of Education Sciences, created as part of the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002, is the primary research arm of the United States Department of Education. It is the successor to the Office of Educational Research and Improvement . The first director of IES was Grover Whitehurst,...
  
  
• National Center for Education Statistics
  National Center for Education Statistics
  The National Center for Education Statistics is the part of the United States Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences that collects, analyzes, and publishes statistics on education and public school district finance information in the United States...
  
  
  • National Assessment of Educational Progress
    National Assessment of Educational Progress
    The National Assessment of Educational Progress is the largest continuing and nationally representative assessment of what our nation’s students know and can do in core subjects. NAEP is a congressionally mandated project administered by the National Center for Education Statistics , within the ...
    
    
  • Education Resources Information Center
    Education Resources Information Center
    ERIC - the Education Resources Information Center - is an online digital library of education research and information. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education...
    
    
• Office for Civil Rights
  Office for Civil Rights
  The Office for Civil Rights is a sub-agency of the U.S. Department of Education that is primarily focused on protecting civil rights in Federally assisted education programs and prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, handicap, age, or membership in patriotic...
  
  
• Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
  Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
  Office of Elementary and Secondary Education is a division of the United States Department of Education. Its purpose is to promote academic excellence, enhance educational opportunities and equity for all of America's children and families, and to improve the quality of teaching and learning by...
  
  
• Office of Postsecondary Education
• Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools
  Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools
  The Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools is a subdivision within the United States Department of Education that is responsible for assisting drug and violence prevention activities within the nation's schools....
  
  
• Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
  Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
  The Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services is a program of the United States Department of Education. OSERS' official mission is "to provide leadership to achieve full integration and participation in society of people with disabilities by ensuring equal opportunity and access to,...
  
  
• Office of Vocational and Adult Education
  Office of Vocational and Adult Education
  The Office of Vocational and Adult Education is a subdivision of the United States Department of Education. OVAE falls under the supervision of the Undersecretary, who oversees policies, programs and activities related to vocational and adult education, postsecondary education, college aid and...
  
  

United States Department of Energy

List of agencies within the Department of Energy:

• Energy Information Administration
  Energy Information Administration
  The U.S. Energy Information Administration is the statistical and analytical agency within the U.S. Department of Energy. EIA collects, analyzes, and disseminates independent and impartial energy information to promote sound policymaking, efficient markets, and public understanding of energy and...
  
  
• Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
  Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
  The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is the United States federal agency with jurisdiction over interstate electricity sales, wholesale electric rates, hydroelectric licensing, natural gas pricing, and oil pipeline rates...
  
  
• National Laboratories & Technology Centers
  United States Department of Energy National Laboratories
  The United States Department of Energy National Laboratories and Technology Centers are a system of facilities and laboratories overseen by the United States Department of Energy for the purpose of advancing science and helping promote the economic and defensive national interests of the United...
  
  
• National Nuclear Security Administration
  National Nuclear Security Administration
  The United States National Nuclear Security Administration is part of the United States Department of Energy. It works to improve national security through the military application of nuclear energy...
  
  
• Power Marketing Administration
  Power Marketing Administration
  A Power Marketing Administration is a United States federal agency within the Department of Energy with the responsibility for marketing hydropower, primarily from multiple-purpose water projects operated by the Bureau of Reclamation, the Army Corps of Engineers, and the International Boundary and...
  
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  • Bonneville Power Administration
    Bonneville Power Administration
    The Bonneville Power Administration is an American federal agency based in the Pacific Northwest. BPA was created by an act of Congress in 1937 to market electric power from the Bonneville Dam located on the Columbia River and to construct facilities necessary to transmit that power...
    
    
  • Southeastern Power Administration
    Southeastern Power Administration
    The Southeastern Power Administration is a United States Power Marketing Administration with responsibility for marketing hydroelectric power from 23 water projects operated by the U.S...
    
    
  • Southwestern Power Administration
    Southwestern Power Administration
    The Southwestern Power Administration is an agency of the U.S. Department of Energy. Southwestern's mission was established by Section 5 of the Flood Control Act of 1944. The agency is a power marketing administration responsible for marketing the hydroelectric power produced at 24 U.S. Army...
    
    
  • Western Area Power Administration
    Western Area Power Administration
    The Western Area Power Administration markets and delivers hydroelectric power and related services within a 15-state region of the central and western U.S. It is one of four power marketing administrations within the U.S...
    
    

United States Department of Health and Human Services

Agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services:

• Administration on Aging
  Administration on Aging
  The Administration on Aging is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. AoA awards annual grants to State government agencies on aging and Native American tribal organizations to support programs mandated by the Congress in the Older Americans Act...
  
  
• Administration for Children and Families
  Administration for Children and Families
  The Administration for Children and Families is a division of the United States Department of Health and Human Services . It is headed by the Assistant Secretary for Children and Families. It has a $58.8 billion budget for 65 programs that target children, youth and families...
  
  
  • Administration for Children, Youth and Families
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is a part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, which supports research designed to improve the outcomes and quality of health care, reduce its costs, address patient safety and medical errors, and broaden access to effective...
  
  
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are a United States federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services headquartered in Druid Hills, unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, in Greater Atlanta...
  
  
  • National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health is the United States’ federal agency responsible for conducting research and making recommendations for the prevention of work-related injury and illness. NIOSH is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention within the U.S...
    
    
    • National Center for Health Statistics
      National Center for Health Statistics
      National Center for Health Statistics is a division of the United States federal agency the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . As such, NCHS is under the United States Department of Health and Human Services...
      
      
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
  Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
  The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services , previously known as the Health Care Financing Administration , is a federal agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services that administers the Medicare program and works in partnership with state governments to administer...
  
  
• Food and Drug Administration
  Food and Drug Administration
  The Food and Drug Administration is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, one of the United States federal executive departments...
  
  
• Health Resources and Services Administration
  Health Resources and Services Administration
  The Health Resources and Services Administration , is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services located in Rockville, Maryland...
  
  
• Indian Health Service
  Indian Health Service
  Indian Health Service is an Operating Division within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services . IHS is responsible for providing medical and public health services to members of federally recognized Tribes and Alaska Natives...
  
  
• National Institutes of Health
  National Institutes of Health
  The National Institutes of Health are an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and are the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and health-related research. Its science and engineering counterpart is the National Science Foundation...
  
  
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
  Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
  The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration is a branch of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is charged with improving the quality and availability of prevention, treatment, and rehabilitative services in order to reduce illness, death, disability, and cost to...
  
  

United States Department of Homeland Security

Agencies

• Federal Emergency Management Agency
  Federal Emergency Management Agency
  The Federal Emergency Management Agency is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security, initially created by Presidential Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1978 and implemented by two Executive Orders...
  
  
  • World Trade Center Captive Insurance Company
    World Trade Center Captive Insurance Company
    The World Trade Center Captive Insurance Company was created by New York City with funding from the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency in July 2004, as directed by Public Law 108-7...
    
    
  • National Flood Insurance Program
    National Flood Insurance Program
    The National Flood Insurance Program is a program created by the Congress of the United States in 1968 through the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 . The program enables property owners in participating communities to purchase insurance protection from the government against losses from flooding...
    
    
• Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
  Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
  The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center serves as an interagency law enforcement training organization for 90 United States government federal law enforcement agencies.-Location:...
  
  
• Transportation Security Administration
  Transportation Security Administration
  The Transportation Security Administration is an agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that exercises authority over the safety and security of the traveling public in the United States....
  
  
• United States Citizenship and Immigration Services
  United States Citizenship and Immigration Services
  United States Citizenship and Immigration Services is a component of the United States Department of Homeland Security . It performs many administrative functions formerly carried out by the legacy United States Immigration and Naturalization Service , which was part of the Department of Justice...
  
  
• United States Coast Guard
  United States Coast Guard
  The United States Coast Guard is a branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven U.S. uniformed services. The Coast Guard is a maritime, military, multi-mission service unique among the military branches for having a maritime law enforcement mission and a federal regulatory agency...
  
   (Transfers to Department of Defense during declared war or national emergency)
  • International Ice Patrol
    International Ice Patrol
    The International Ice Patrol is an organization with the purpose of monitoring the presence of icebergs in the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans and reporting their movements for safety purposes. It is operated by United States Coast Guard but is funded by the 13 nations interested in trans-Atlantic...
    
    
  • Also controls the Caribbean Coast Guard
• United States Customs and Border Protection
  U.S. Customs and Border Protection
  U.S. Customs and Border Protection is a federal law enforcement agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security charged with regulating and facilitating international trade, collecting import duties, and enforcing U.S. regulations, including trade, customs and immigration. CBP is the...
  
  
  • U.S. Border Patrol
• United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is a federal law enforcement agency under the United States Department of Homeland Security , responsible for identifying, investigating, and dismantling vulnerabilities regarding the nation's border, economic, transportation, and infrastructure security...
  
  
• United States Secret Service
  United States Secret Service
  The United States Secret Service is a United States federal law enforcement agency that is part of the United States Department of Homeland Security. The sworn members are divided among the Special Agents and the Uniformed Division. Until March 1, 2003, the Service was part of the United States...
  
  

Offices

• Domestic Nuclear Detection Office
• Office of Health Affairs
  • Office of Component Services
  • Office of International Affairs and Global Health Security
  • Office of Medical Readiness
  • Office of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Biodefense
• Office of Intelligence and Analysis
• Office of Operations Coordination
• Office of Policy
  • Homeland Security Advisory Council
  • Office of International Affairs
  • Office of Immigration Statistics
    Office of Immigration Statistics
    The Office of Immigration Statistics is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security under the Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Policy.-Mission:...
    
    
  • Office of Policy Development
  • Office for State and Local Law Enforcement
  • Office of Strategic Plans
  • Private Sector Office

National Protection and Programs

• National Protection and Programs Directorate
  • Federal Protective Service
  • Office of Cybersecurity and Communications
    • National Communications System
      National Communications System
      The National Communications System is an office within the United States Department of Homeland Security charged with enabling national security and emergency preparedness communications using the national telecommunications system.-Background and history:The genesis of the NCS began in 1962...
      
      
    • National Cyber Security Division
      National Cyber Security Division
      The National Cyber Security Division is a division of the Office of Cyber Security & Communications, within the United States Department of Homeland Security's Directorate for National Protection and Programs...
      
      
      • United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team
        United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team
        The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team is part of the National Cyber Security Division of the United States' Department of Homeland Security....
        
        
    • Office of Emergency Communications
  • Office of Infrastructure Protection
  • Office of Risk Management and Analysis
  • United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT)

Science and Technology

• Science and Technology Directorate
  • Environmental Measurements Laboratory
    Environmental Measurements Laboratory
    The Environmental Measurements Laboratory is the former name of the current National Urban Security Technology Laboratory , a United States government-owned, government-operated laboratory. NUSTL is part of the Science and Technology Directorate of the Department of Homeland Security...
    
    

Portfolios

• Innovation/Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency
• Office of Research
  • Office of National Laboratories
  • Office of University Programs
  • Program Executive Office, Counter Improvised Explosive Device
• Office of Transition
  • Commercialization Office
  • Long Range Broad Agency Announcement Office
  • Product Transition Office
  • Safety Act Office
  • Technology Transfer Office

Divisions

• Border and Maritime Security Division
  DHS Science and Technology Border and Maritime Security Division
  The Borders and Maritime Security Division is a division within the United States Department of Homeland Security that "develops and transitions tools and technologies that improve the security of our nation's borders and waterways, without impeding the flow of commerce and travelers".The division...
  
  
• Chemical and Biological Division
  DHS Science and Technology Chemical and Biological Division
  The Chemical and Biological Division of Homeland Security Science and Technology is a division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, organized within the Department's Science and Technology Directorate...
  
  
• Command, Control and Interoperability Division
  DHS Science and Technology Command, Control, and Interoperability Division
  According to the DHS S&T website, the Command, Control, and Interoperability Division of Homeland Security Science and Technology "develops interoperable communication standards and protocols for emergency responders, cyber security tools for protecting the integrity of the Internet, and automated...
  
  
• Explosives Division
  DHS Science and Technology Explosives Division
  The Explosives Division of Homeland Security Science and Technology is a division of the United States Department of Homeland Security. It is responsible for the development of technologies needed to detect, interdict, and lessen the "develops the technical capabilities to detect, interdict, and...
  
  
• Human Factors Division
  DHS Science and Technology Human Factors Division
  According to the DHS S&T website, the Human Factors Division of Homeland Security Science and Technology "applies the social and behavioral sciences to improve detection, analysis, and understanding and response to homeland security threats."...
  
  
• Infrastructure/Geophysical Division
  DHS Science and Technology Infrastructure/Geophysical Division
  According to the Department of Homeland Security website, the Infrastructure and Geophysical Division of Homeland Security Science and Technology "focuses on identifying and mitigating the vulnerabilities of the 17 critical infrastructure and key assets that keep our society and economy...
  
  

Offices and Institutes

• Business Operations Division
  • Executive Secretariat Office
  • Human Capital Office
  • Key Security Office
  • Office of the Chief Administrative Officer
  • Office of the Chief Information Officer
  • Planning and Management
• Corporate Communications Division
• Interagency and First Responders Programs Division
• International Cooperative Programs Office
• Operations Analysis Division
  • Homeland Security Studies and Analysis Institute
  • Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute
• Strategy, Policy and Budget Division
• Special Programs Division
• Test & Evaluation and Standards Division

United States Department of Housing and Urban Development

Offices

• Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships (HUD)
• Departmental Enforcement Center
• Office of Community Planning and Development
  Office of Community Planning and Development
  The Community Planning and Development agency within the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development administers the grant programs that help communities plan and finance their growth and development, increase their capacity to govern, and provide shelter and services for homeless...
  
  
• Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations
• Office of Equal Employment Opportunity
• Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity
• Office of Field Policy and Management
• Office of the General Counsel
• Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control
• Office of Hearings and Appeals
• Office of Labor Relations
• Office of Policy Development and Research
• Office of Public Affairs
• Office of Public and Indian Housing
  Office of Public and Indian Housing
  The Office of Public and Indian Housing is an agency of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. Its mission is to ensure safe, decent, and affordable housing, create opportunities for residents' self-sufficiency and economic independence, and assure the fiscal integrity of...
  
  
• Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization
• Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities

Corporation

• Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae)
  Government National Mortgage Association
  The Government National Mortgage Association , or Ginnie Mae, was established in the United States in 1968 to promote home ownership. As a wholly owned government corporation within the Department of Housing and Urban Development , Ginnie Mae’s mission is to expand affordable housing in the U.S. by...
  
  

United States Department of the Interior

• Bureau of Indian Affairs
  Bureau of Indian Affairs
  The Bureau of Indian Affairs is an agency of the federal government of the United States within the US Department of the Interior. It is responsible for the administration and management of of land held in trust by the United States for Native Americans in the United States, Native American...
  
  
• Bureau of Land Management
  Bureau of Land Management
  The Bureau of Land Management is an agency within the United States Department of the Interior which administers America's public lands, totaling approximately , or one-eighth of the landmass of the country. The BLM also manages of subsurface mineral estate underlying federal, state and private...
  
  
  • General Land Office
• Bureau of Reclamation
  United States Bureau of Reclamation
  The United States Bureau of Reclamation , and formerly the United States Reclamation Service , is an agency under the U.S...
  
  
• Fish and Wildlife Service
• Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (formerly Minerals Management Service
  Minerals Management Service
  The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement , formerly known as the Minerals Management Service , was an agency of the United States Department of the Interior that managed the nation's natural gas, oil and other mineral resources on the outer continental shelf...
  
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• National Park Service
  National Park Service
  The National Park Service is the U.S. federal agency that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations...
  
  
• Office of Insular Affairs
  Office of Insular Affairs
  The Office of Insular Affairs is a unit of the United States Department of the Interior that oversees federal administration of several United States possessions...
  
  
• Office of Surface Mining
  Office of Surface Mining
  The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement is a branch of the United States Department of the Interior...
  
  
  • National Mine Map Repository
    National Mine Map Repository
    The National Mine Map Repository is part of the United States Department of the Interior , Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement...
    
    
• United States Geological Survey
  United States Geological Survey
  The United States Geological Survey is a scientific agency of the United States government. The scientists of the USGS study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, and the natural hazards that threaten it. The organization has four major science disciplines, concerning biology,...
  
  
• Office for Oil Spills

United States Department of Justice

• Antitrust Division
  United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division
  The United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division is responsible for enforcing the antitrust laws of the United States. It shares jurisdiction over civil antitrust cases with the Federal Trade Commission and often works jointly with the FTC to provide regulatory guidance to businesses...
  
  
• Asset Forfeiture Program
• Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
  Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
  The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is a federal law enforcement organization within the United States Department of Justice...
  
  
• Civil Division
  United States Department of Justice Civil Division
  The United States Department of Justice Civil Division represents the United States, its departments and agencies, Members of Congress, Cabinet officers and other Federal employees...
  
  
• Civil Rights Division
  United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division
  The U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division is the institution within the federal government responsible for enforcing federal statutes prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, sex, disability, religion, and national origin. The Division was established on December 9, 1957, by...
  
  
• Community Oriented Policing Services
  Community Oriented Policing Services
  The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services is an agency within the United States Department of Justice. COPS was established through a provision in the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act. Since 1994, COPS has provided $11.3 billion in assistance to state and local law...
  
  
• Community Relations Service
• Criminal Division
  United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
  The U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division develops, enforces, and supervises the application of all federal criminal laws in the United States, except those specifically assigned to other divisions. Criminal Division attorneys prosecute many nationally significant cases and formulate and...
  
  
• Diversion Control Program
• Drug Enforcement Administration
  Drug Enforcement Administration
  The Drug Enforcement Administration is a federal law enforcement agency under the United States Department of Justice, tasked with combating drug smuggling and use within the United States...
  
  
• Environment and Natural Resources Division
  United States Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division
  The U.S. Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division is one of seven litigating components of the United States Department of Justice...
  
  
• Executive Office for Immigration Review
  Executive Office for Immigration Review
  The Executive Office for Immigration Review is an office of the United States Department of Justice and is responsible for adjudicating immigration cases in the United States. The EOIR oversees immigration courts in the United States through the Office of the Chief Immigration Judge...
  
  
• Executive Office for Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces
• Executive Office for United States Attorneys
  United States Attorney
  United States Attorneys represent the United States federal government in United States district court and United States court of appeals. There are 93 U.S. Attorneys stationed throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands...
  
  
• Executive Office for United States Trustees
  United States Trustee Program
  The United States Trustee Program is an agency of the United States Department of Justice that is responsible for overseeing the administration of bankruptcy cases and private trustees. The applicable federal law is found at 28 U.S.C. § 586 and 11 U.S.C. , et seq.In addition to the twenty-one...
  
  
• Federal Bureau of Investigation
  Federal Bureau of Investigation
  The Federal Bureau of Investigation is an agency of the United States Department of Justice that serves as both a federal criminal investigative body and an internal intelligence agency . The FBI has investigative jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal crime...
  
  
• Federal Bureau of Prisons
  Federal Bureau of Prisons
  The Federal Bureau of Prisons is a federal law enforcement agency subdivision of the United States Department of Justice and is responsible for the administration of the federal prison system. The system also handles prisoners who committed acts considered felonies under the District of Columbia's...
  
  
  • UNICOR
• Foreign Claims Settlement Commission
  Foreign Claims Settlement Commission
  The Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States is a quasi-judicial, independent agency within the U.S. Department of Justice which adjudicates claims of U.S. nationals against foreign governments, either under specific jurisdiction conferred by Congress or pursuant to international...
  
  
• INTERPOL - United States National Central Bureau
• Justice Management Division
• National Crime Information Center
  National Crime Information Center
  The National Crime Information Center is the United States' central database for tracking crime-related information. Since 1967, the NCIC has been maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Criminal Justice Information Services Division, and is interlinked with similar systems that each...
  
  
• National Drug Intelligence Center
  National Drug Intelligence Center
  The U.S. National Drug Intelligence Center , established in 1993, is a component of the U.S. Department of Justice and a member of the Intelligence Community...
  
  
• National Institute of Corrections
  National Institute of Corrections
  The National Institute of Corrections is an agency of the United States government. It is part of the United States Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons....
  
  
• National Security Division
  United States Department of Justice National Security Division
  The United States Department of Justice National Security Division is the division of the DOJ that handles all national security functions of the Department. Created by the 2005 USA PATRIOT Act reauthorization, the Division consolidated all of the Department's national security and intelligence...
  
  
• Office of the Associate Attorney General
  United States Associate Attorney General
  The Associate Attorney General is the third-ranking official in the United States Department of Justice. The Associate Attorney General advises and assists the Attorney General and the Deputy Attorney General in policies relating to civil justice, federal and local law enforcement, and public...
  
  
• Office of the Attorney General
  United States Attorney General
  The United States Attorney General is the head of the United States Department of Justice concerned with legal affairs and is the chief law enforcement officer of the United States government. The attorney general is considered to be the chief lawyer of the U.S. government...
  
  
• Office of Attorney Recruitment and Management
• Office of the Chief Information Officer
• Office of the Deputy Attorney General
  United States Deputy Attorney General
  United States Deputy Attorney General is the second-highest-ranking official in the United States Department of Justice. In the United States federal government, the Deputy Attorney General oversees the day-to-day operation of the Department of Justice, and may act as Attorney General during the...
  
  
• Office of Dispute Resolution
• Office of the Federal Detention Trustee
• Office of Information Policy
• Office of Intergovernmental and Public Liaison
• Office of Justice Programs
  Office of Justice Programs
  The Office of Justice Programs is an agency of the United States Department of Justice that focuses on crime prevention through research and development, assistance to state and local law enforcement and criminal justice agencies through grants, and assistance to crime victims.The major bureaus...
  
  
  • Bureau of Justice Assistance
    Bureau of Justice Assistance
    The Bureau of Justice Assistance is a component of the Office of Justice Programs, within the United States Department of Justice.On Monday, December 13, 2010, President Barack Obama sent to the U.S. Senate the nomination of Denise Ellen O'Donnell, of New York, to be the Director of the Bureau, in...
    
    
  • Bureau of Justice Statistics
  • Community Capacity Development Office
    Community Capacity Development Office
    The Community Capacity Development Office is an office of the United States Department of Justice and a component of the Office of Justice Programs...
    
    
  • National Criminal Justice Reference Service
    National Criminal Justice Reference Service
    The National Criminal Justice Reference Service is a program that disseminates publications from the United States Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs agencies, as well as the Office of National Drug Control Policy and National Institute of Corrections...
    
    
  • National Institute of Justice
    National Institute of Justice
    The National Institute of Justice is the research, development and evaluation agency of the United States Department of Justice. NIJ, along with the Bureau of Justice Statistics , Bureau of Justice Assistance , Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention , Office for Victims of Crime ,...
    
    
  • Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
    Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
    The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is an office of the United States Department of Justice and a component of the Office of Justice Programs....
    
    
  • Office for Victims of Crime
    Office for Victims of Crime
    The Office for Victims of Crime is a part of the Office of Justice Programs, within the U.S. Department of Justice.The OVC's mission is to provide aid and promote justice for crime victims....
    
    
• Office of Legal Counsel
  Office of Legal Counsel
  The Office of Legal Counsel is an office in the United States Department of Justice that assists the Attorney General in his function as legal adviser to the President and all executive branch agencies.-History:...
  
  
• Office of Legal Policy
  Office of Legal Policy
  The Office of Legal Policy is a division within the United States Department of Justice which describes itself as the "focal point for the development and coordination of Departmental policy." In addition to rendering legal advice to the United States Attorney General and subordinate offices within...
  
  
• Office of Legislative Affairs
  Office of Legislative Affairs
  The Office of Legislative Affairs is a division within the United States Department of Justice. Its responsibility is for the development and implementation of strategies to advance the Department's legislative initiatives and other interests relating to Congress....
  
  
• Office of the Pardon Attorney
  Office of the Pardon Attorney
  The Office of the Pardon Attorney, in consultation with the Attorney General of the United States or his designee, assists the President of the United States in the exercise of executive clemency as authorized under Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution. Under the Constitution, the President's...
  
  
• Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties
• Office of Professional Responsibility
  Office of Professional Responsibility
  The Office of Professional Responsibility is part of the United States Department of Justice responsible for investigating attorneys employed by the DOJ who have been accused of misconduct or crimes in their professional functions...
  
  
• Office of Public Affairs
• Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering and Tracking
• Office of the Solicitor General
  United States Solicitor General
  The United States Solicitor General is the person appointed to represent the federal government of the United States before the Supreme Court of the United States. The current Solicitor General, Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 6, 2011 and sworn in on June...
  
  
• Office of Special Counsel
  U.S. Department of Justice Office of Special Counsel
  The Office of Special Counsel in the United States Department of Justice replaced the former Office of the Independent Counsel in 1999. It is charged with investigating alleged misconduct in the federal government's executive branch. The current Special Counsel is Patrick Fitzgerald, who was...
  
  
• Office of Tribal Justice
• Office on Violence Against Women
  Office on Violence Against Women
  The Office on Violence Against Women , a component of the U.S. Department of Justice, provides national leadership in developing the nation's capacity to reduce violence against women through the implementation of the Violence Against Women Act ....
  
  
• Professional Responsibility Advisory Office
• Tax Division
  United States Department of Justice Tax Division
  The United States Department of Justice Tax Division is responsible for the prosecution of both civil and criminal cases arising under the Internal Revenue Code and other tax laws of the United States...
  
  
• United States Attorney
  United States Attorney
  United States Attorneys represent the United States federal government in United States district court and United States court of appeals. There are 93 U.S. Attorneys stationed throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands...
  
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• United States Marshalls
  United States Marshals Service
  The United States Marshals Service is a United States federal law enforcement agency within the United States Department of Justice . The office of U.S. Marshal is the oldest federal law enforcement office in the United States; it was created by the Judiciary Act of 1789...
  
  
• United States Parole Commission
  United States Parole Commission
  The United States Parole Commission is the parole board responsible to grant or deny parole and to supervise those released on parole to incarcerated individuals who come under its jurisdiction. It is part of the United States Department of Justice....
  
   (Scheduled to expire in November, 2011)
• United States Trustee Program
  United States Trustee Program
  The United States Trustee Program is an agency of the United States Department of Justice that is responsible for overseeing the administration of bankruptcy cases and private trustees. The applicable federal law is found at 28 U.S.C. § 586 and 11 U.S.C. , et seq.In addition to the twenty-one...
  
  

United States Department of Labor

Agencies and Bureaus

• Bureau of International Labor Affairs
  Bureau of International Labor Affairs
  The Bureau of International Labor Affairs is an operating unit of the United States Department of Labor which manages the Department's international responsibilities. According to its mission statement:...
  
  
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
  Bureau of Labor Statistics
  The Bureau of Labor Statistics is a unit of the United States Department of Labor. It is the principal fact-finding agency for the U.S. government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics. The BLS is a governmental statistical agency that collects, processes, analyzes, and...
  
  
• Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships (DOL)
• Employee Benefits Security Administration
  Employee Benefits Security Administration
  The Employee Benefits Security Administration is an agency of the United States Department of Labor responsible for administering, regulating and enforcing the provisions of Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 . At the time of its name change in February 2003, EBSA was...
  
  
• Employment and Training Administration
  Employment and Training Administration
  The mission of the Employment and Training Administration , as part of the U.S. Department of Labor, is to contribute to the more efficient and effective functioning of the U.S. labor market by providing high quality job training, employment, labor market information, and income maintenance...
  
  
• Job Corps
  Job Corps
  Job Corps is a program administered by the United States Department of Labor that offers free-of-charge education and vocational training to youth ages 16 to 24.-Mission and purpose:...
  
  
• Mine Safety and Health Administration
  Mine Safety and Health Administration
  The Mine Safety and Health Administration is an agency of the United States Department of Labor which administers the provisions of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 to enforce compliance with mandatory safety and health standards as a means to eliminate fatal accidents, to reduce...
  
  
• Occupational Safety and Health
  Occupational safety and health
  Occupational safety and health is a cross-disciplinary area concerned with protecting the safety, health and welfare of people engaged in work or employment. The goal of all occupational safety and health programs is to foster a safe work environment...
  
  
• Veterans' Employment and Training Service
  Veterans' Employment and Training Service
  The United States Office of the Assistant Secretary for Veterans' Employment and Training was established by Secretary's Order No. 5-81 in December 1981....
  
  
• Wage and Hour Division
  Wage and Hour Division
  The Wage and Hour Division of the United States Department of Labor is the federal office responsible for enforcing federal labor laws. The Division was formed with the enactment of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938...
  
  
• Women's Bureau
  United States Women's Bureau
  The United States Women's Bureau is an agency of the United States government within the United States Department of Labor. The WB was established by Congress in 1920 and continues its responsibility to carry out Public Law 66-259; 29 U.S.C...
  
  

Boards

• Administrative Review Board
  Administrative Review Board (Labor)
  In April 1996, the Secretary of Labor established the Administrative Review Board to succeed the former Board of Service Contract Appeals, Wage Appeals Board, and Office of Administrative Appeals. The Board consists of a maximum of five Members, one of whom is designated the Chair...
  
  
• Benefits Review Board
  Benefits Review Board
  The Department of Labor's Benefits Review Board was created in 1972, by the United States Congress, to review and issue decisions on appeals of workers’ compensation claims arising under the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act and the Black Lung Benefits amendments to the Federal Coal...
  
  
• Employees' Compensation Appeals Board
  Employees' Compensation Appeals Board
  The Employees' Compensation Appeals Board was created in 1946 by statute to hear appeals taken from determinations and awards under the Federal Employees' Compensation Act with respect to claims of federal employees injured in the course of their employment...
  
  

Offices

• Office of Administrative Law Judges
• Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management
• Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy
• Office of the Chief Financial Officer
• Office of the Chief Information Officer
• Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs
• Office of Disability Employment Policy
• Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs
  Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs
  The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs is part of the U.S. Department of Labor. OFCCP is responsible for ensuring that employers doing business with the Federal government comply with the laws and regulations requiring nondiscrimination...
  
  
• Office of Labor-Management Standards
  Office of Labor-Management Standards
  The Office of Labor-Management Standards of the U.S. Department of Labor administers and enforces most provisions of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 . The LMRDA was enacted primarily to ensure basic standards of democracy and fiscal responsibility in labor organizations...
  
  
• Office of the Solicitor
• Office of Worker's Compensation Program
• Ombudsman for the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program

United States Department of State

Reporting to the Secretary

• Bureau of Intelligence and Research
  Bureau of Intelligence and Research
  The Bureau of Intelligence and Research is an intelligence bureau in the U.S. State Department tasked with analyzing information. Originally founded as the Research and Analysis Branch of the Office of Strategic Services , it was transferred to the State Department at the end of World War II...
  
  
• Bureau of Legislative Affairs
  Bureau of Legislative Affairs
  The Bureau of Legislative Affairs is the office of the United States Department of State that coordinates legislative activity for the Department of State and communications between the State Department and Congress...
  
  
• Office of the Legal Adviser

Reporting to the Deputy Secretary for Management and Resources

• Executive Secretariat
  Executive Secretariat
  The United States Department of State Executive Secretariat is composed of the Executive Secretary of the Department and four Deputy Executive Secretaries. It is responsible for coordination of the work of the Department of State internally, serving as the liaison between the Department's bureaus...
  
  
• Office of the Chief of Protocol
  Chief of Protocol of the United States
  The Chief of Protocol is an officer of the United States Department of State responsible for advising the President of the United States, the vice president, and the secretary of state on matters of national and international diplomatic protocol...
  
  
• Office of Civil Rights
• Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism
  Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism
  The Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism is an office of the United States Department of State. It coordinates all U.S. Government efforts to improve counter-terrorism cooperation with foreign governments and participates in the development, coordination, and implementation of American...
  
  
• Office of the United States Global AIDS Coordinator
• Office of War Crimes Issues
  Office of War Crimes Issues
  The Office of War Crimes Issues is an office within the United States Department of State.It is charged with advising the Secretary of State and formulating U.S. policy relating to war crimes and other atrocities. The office reports to the United States Deputy Secretary of State.The Department of...
  
  
• Policy Planning Staff
  Policy Planning Staff
  The Policy Planning Staff is the chief strategic arm of the United States Department of State. It was created in 1947 by renowned Foreign Service Officer George F...
  
  

Reporting to the Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security

• Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation
  Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation
  The Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation is a bureau within the United States Department of State responsible for managing a broad range of nonproliferation and counterproliferation functions. The bureau leads U.S...
  
  
• Bureau of Political-Military Affairs
  Bureau of Political-Military Affairs
  The Bureau of Political-Military Affairs is an agency within the United States Department of State that bridges the Department of State with the Department of Defense. It provides policy in the areas of international security, security assistance, military operations, defense strategy and policy,...
  
  
• Bureau of Verification, Compliance, and Implementation
  Bureau of Verification, Compliance, and Implementation
  The Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance is a bureau within the United States Department of State. It is responsible for providing oversight of policy and resources of all matters relating to the verification of compliance---or noncompliance---with international arms control,...
  
  

Reporting to the Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs

• Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
  Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
  The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Affairs at the United States Department of State is one of three bureaus and two offices that constitute the Office of the Under Secretary for Global Affairs...
  
  
• Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs
  Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs
  The Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs is a bureau within the United States Department of State. It coordinates a portfolio of issues related to the world's oceans, environment, science and technology, and health....
  
  
• Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration
  Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration
  The Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration is a bureau within the United States Department of State.It has primary responsibility for formulating policies on population, refugees, and migration, and for administering U.S. refugee assistance and admissions programs. The Bureau is headed by...
  
  
• Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
  Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
  The Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons is an agency within the United States Department of State charged with investigating and creating programs to prevent human trafficking both within the United States and internationally. The office also presents the Trafficking in Persons...
  
  

Reporting to the Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs

• Bureau of Economic, Energy and Business Affairs
  Bureau of Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs
  The Bureau of Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs is an agency of the U.S. Department of State charged with promoting economic security and prosperity at home and abroad. It is the single agency of the Under Secretary for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs. The Bureau's work lies at...
  
  

Reporting to the Under Secretary for Management

• Bureau of Administration
  Bureau of Administration
  In the United States Government, the Bureau of Administration is part of the U.S. Department of State. The Bureau is responsible for administrative support operations, including procurement; supply and transportation; real property and facilities management; diplomatic pouch and mail services;...
  
  
• Bureau of Consular Affairs
  Bureau of Consular Affairs
  The Bureau of Consular Affairs is a bureau of the United States Department of State within that department's management office. The mission of the Bureau is to administer laws, formulate regulations and implement policies relating to the broad range of consular services and immigration. , the...
  
  
  • Office of Overseas Citizens Services
• Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS)
  Bureau of Diplomatic Security
  The Bureau of Diplomatic Security, more commonly known as Diplomatic Security, or DS, is the security and law enforcement arm of the United States Department of State. DS is a world leader in international investigations, threat analysis, cyber security, counterterrorism, security technology, and...
  
  
  • Diplomatic Security Service (DSS)
    Diplomatic Security Service
    The U.S. Diplomatic Security Service is the federal law enforcement arm of the United States Department of State. The majority of its Special Agents are members of the Foreign Service and federal law enforcement agents at the same time, making them unique...
    
    
  • Office of Foreign Missions (OFM)
    Office of Foreign Missions
    Mandated by Congress, the Office of Foreign Missions provides the legal foundation to facilitate secure and efficient operations of U.S. missions abroad, and of foreign missions and international organizations in the United States...
    
    
  • Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC)
    Bureau of Diplomatic Security
    The Bureau of Diplomatic Security, more commonly known as Diplomatic Security, or DS, is the security and law enforcement arm of the United States Department of State. DS is a world leader in international investigations, threat analysis, cyber security, counterterrorism, security technology, and...
    
    
• Bureau of Human Resources
  • Family Liaison Office
• Bureau of Information Resource Management
  Bureau of Information Resource Management
  The Bureau of Information Resource Management is a component of Department of State's management family of bureaus, which provides the information technology and services the Department needs to successfully carry out its foreign policy mission....
  
  
• Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations
  Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations
  The Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations is an agency of the United States Department of State charged with constructing, purchasing, and maintaining buildings and real estate in other countries. It is responsible for building and maintaining U.S...
  
  
• Bureau of Resource Management
  Bureau of Resource Management
  Within the United States Department of State, The Bureau of Resource Management assists foreign affairs agency heads with developing policies, plans, and programs to achieve foreign policy goals...
  
  
• Foreign Service Institute
  Foreign Service Institute
  The Foreign Service Institute is the United States Federal Government's primary training institution for employees of the U.S. foreign affairs community, preparing American diplomats and other professionals to advance U.S. foreign affairs interests overseas and in Washington...
  
  
• Office of Management Policy, Rightsizing and Innovation

Reporting to the Under Secretary for Political Affairs

• Bureau of African Affairs
  Bureau of African Affairs
  In the United States Government, the Bureau of African Affairs is part of the U.S. Department of State and is charged with advising the Secretary of State on matters of Sub-Saharan Africa. The bureau was established in 1958...
  
  
• Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs
  Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs
  In the United States Government, the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs is part of the United States Department of State and is charged with advising the Secretary of State and Under Secretary for Political Affairs on matters of the Asia-Pacific region, as well as dealing with U.S. foreign...
  
  
• Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs
  Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs
  In the United States Government, the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs is part of the U.S. Department of State, charged with implementing U.S. foreign policy and promoting U.S. interests in Europe and Eurasia , as well as advising the Under Secretary for Political Affairs...
  
  
• Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs
  Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs
  __FORCETOC__The Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs is a part of the Department of State within the United States government that advises the President, Secretary of State, other bureaux within the Department of State, and other departments and agencies within the U.S...
  
  
• Bureau of International Organization Affairs
  Bureau of International Organization Affairs
  The Bureau of International Organization Affairs is a bureau in the United States Department of State that creates and executes U.S. policy in the United Nations and other international organizations. It is headed by the Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs.The IO...
  
  
• Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs
  Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs
  The Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs is an agency of the Department of State within the United States government that deals with U.S. foreign policy and diplomatic relations with the nations of the Near East.-Duties:The Bureau handles U.S...
  
  
• Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs
  Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs
  -Overview:The Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs is responsible for U.S. foreign policy and U.S. relations with Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Robert O. Blake, Jr. succeeded...
  
  
• Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs
  Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs
  In the United States Government, the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs is a part of the U.S. Department of State, charged with implementing U.S. foreign policy and promoting U.S. interests in the Western Hemisphere, as well as advising the Under Secretary for Political Affairs...
  
  

Reporting to the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs

• Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
  Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
  The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State fosters mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries around the world...
  
  
• Bureau of International Information Programs
  Bureau of International Information Programs
  The US Department of State's Bureau of International Information Programs describes itself as follows:Among other things, IIP operates the website to deliver "information about current U.S. foreign policy and about American life and culture."...
  
  
• Bureau of Public Affairs
  Bureau of Public Affairs
  The Bureau of Public Affairs is the part of the United States Department of State that carries out the Secretary of State's mandate to help Americans understand the importance of foreign affairs...
  
  
  • Office of the Historian
    Office of The Historian
    The Office of the Historian is an office of the United States Department of State within the Bureau of Public Affairs. The Office is responsible, under law, for the preparation and publication of the official historical documentary record of U.S. foreign policy in the Foreign Relations of the...
    
    
• Office of Policy, Planning and Resources for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs

Permanent Diplomatic Missions

• United States Mission to International Organizations in Vienna
• United States Mission to the European Union
• United States Mission to the International Civil Aviation Organization
• United States Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• United States Mission to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
• United States Mission to the Organization of American States
• United States Mission to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
• United States Mission to the United Nations
  United States Mission to the United Nations
  The United States Mission to the United Nations is the formal title of the United States delegation to the United Nations .Each nation at the UN has a similar delegation, although only a few are members of the UN Security Council...
  
  
• United States Mission to the UN Agencies in Rome
  United States Mission to the UN Agencies in Rome
  The United States Mission to the UN Agencies in Rome serves as a link between the Rome-based international organizations and the U.S. government. With staff representing the Departments of State, Agriculture, and the Agency for International Development, the U.S...
  
  
• United States Mission to the United Nations Office and Other International Organizations in Geneva
• United States Observer Mission to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
• United States Permanent Mission to the United Nations Environment Program and the United Nations Center for Human Settlements

United States Department of Transportation

Agencies

• Bureau of Transportation Statistics
  Bureau of Transportation Statistics
  The Bureau of Transportation Statistics , as part of the United States Department of Transportation, compiles, analyzes, and makes accessible information on the nation's transportation systems; collects information on intermodal transportation and other areas as needed; and improves the quality and...
  
  
• Federal Aviation Administration
  Federal Aviation Administration
  The Federal Aviation Administration is the national aviation authority of the United States. An agency of the United States Department of Transportation, it has authority to regulate and oversee all aspects of civil aviation in the U.S...
  
  
• Federal Highway Administration
  Federal Highway Administration
  The Federal Highway Administration is a division of the United States Department of Transportation that specializes in highway transportation. The agency's major activities are grouped into two "programs," the Federal-aid Highway Program and the Federal Lands Highway Program...
  
  
• Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
  Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
  The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration , established January 1, 2000, regulates the trucking industry in the United States. FMCSA is headquartered in Washington, DC and employs more than 1,000 people in all 50 States and the District of Columbia...
  
  
• Federal Railroad Administration
  Federal Railroad Administration
  The Federal Railroad Administration is an agency in the United States Department of Transportation. The agency was created by the Department of Transportation Act of 1966...
  
  
• Federal Transit Administration
  Federal Transit Administration
  The Federal Transit Administration is an agency within the United States Department of Transportation that provides financial and technical assistance to local public transit systems. The FTA is one of ten modal administrations within the DOT...
  
  
• Maritime Administration
• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is an agency of the Executive Branch of the U.S. government, part of the Department of Transportation...
  
  
• Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
  Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
  The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration was created under the Norman Y. Mineta Research and Special Programs Improvement Act of 2004. United States president George W. Bush signed the legislation into law on November 30, 2004...
  
  
• Research and Innovative Technology Administration
  Research and Innovative Technology Administration
  The Research and Innovative Technology Administration is a unit of the United States Department of Transportation . It was created in 2005 to advance transportation science, technology, and analysis, and to improve the coordination of transportation research within the Department and throughout...
  
  
• Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation
  Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation
  The Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation is an agency of the United States Department of Transportation. The SLSDC is responsible for the safe and efficient movement of marine traffic through the U.S.-owned and operated facilities of the Saint Lawrence Seaway, which consists of 2 of the...
  
  
• Surface Transportation Board
  Surface Transportation Board
  The Surface Transportation Board of the United States is a bipartisan, decisionally-independent adjudicatory body organizationally housed within the U.S. Department of Transportation. The STB was established in 1996 to assume some of the regulatory functions that had been administered by the...
  
  

United States Department of the Treasury

Agencies and Bureaus

• Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau
  Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau
  The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, statutorily named the Tax and Trade Bureau and frequently shortened to TTB, is a bureau of the United States Department of the Treasury....
  
  
• Bureau of Engraving and Printing
  Bureau of Engraving and Printing
  The Bureau of Engraving and Printing is a government agency within the United States Department of the Treasury that designs and produces a variety of security products for the United States government, most notable of which is paper currency for the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve itself is...
  
  
• Bureau of the Public Debt
  Bureau of the Public Debt
  The Bureau of the Public Debt is an agency within the Fiscal Service of the United States Treasury Department. Under authority derived from Article I, section 8 of the Constitution, Public Debt is responsible for borrowing the money needed to operate the federal government, and is where donations...
  
  
• Community Development Financial Institutions Fund
  Community Development Financial Institutions Fund
  The Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, or CDFI Fund, promotes economic revitalization in distressed communities throughout the United States by providing financial assistance and information to community development financial institutions...
  
  
• Federal Consulting Group
  Federal Consulting Group
  The Federal Consulting Group is a fee-for-service franchise operation within the United States Department of the Treasury. The Group is made up of career federal executives who have extensive experience in managing major programs and working with senior agency leaders in areas such as process...
  
  
• Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
  Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
  The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network is a bureau of the United States Department of the Treasury that collects and analyzes information about financial transactions in order to combat money laundering, terrorist financiers, and other financial crimes.As reflected in its name, the Financial...
  
  
• Financial Management Service
  Financial Management Service
  The Financial Management Service is a bureau of the United States Department of the Treasury and provides several financial services for the federal government...
  
  
• Internal Revenue Service
  Internal Revenue Service
  The Internal Revenue Service is the revenue service of the United States federal government. The agency is a bureau of the Department of the Treasury, and is under the immediate direction of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue...
  
  
• Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
  Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
  The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a US federal agency established by the National Currency Act of 1863 and serves to charter, regulate, and supervise all national banks and the federal branches and agencies of foreign banks in the United States...
  
  
  • Office of Thrift Supervision
    Office of Thrift Supervision
    The Office of Thrift Supervision was a United States federal agency under the Department of the Treasury that charters, supervises, and regulates all federally- and state-chartered savings banks and savings and loans associations. It was created in 1989 as a renamed version of another federal agency...
    
    
• Office of Financial Stability
  Office of Financial Stability
  The Office of Financial Stability is a new office within the Office of Domestic Finance of the United States Treasury created by theEmergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to operate the Troubled Assets Relief Program....
  
  
• United States Mint
  United States Mint
  The United States Mint primarily produces circulating coinage for the United States to conduct its trade and commerce. The Mint was created by Congress with the Coinage Act of 1792, and placed within the Department of State...
  
  

Offices

• Office of Domestic Finance
• Office of Economic Policy
• Office of International Affairs
• Office of Tax Policy
• Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence
• Treasurer of the United States
  Treasurer of the United States
  The Treasurer of the United States is an official in the United States Department of the Treasury that was originally charged with the receipt and custody of government funds, though many of these functions have been taken over by different bureaus of the Department of the Treasury...
  
  

United States Department of Veterans Affairs

Agencies

• National Cemetery Administration
• Veterans Benefits Administration
  Veterans Benefits Administration
  The Veterans Benefits Administration is "an organizational element of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs". The Veterans Benefits Administration is responsible for administering the Department’s programs that provide financial and other forms of assistance to Veterans, their dependents, and...
  
  
• Veterans Health Administration
  Veterans Health Administration
  The Veterans Health Administration is the component of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs led by the Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Health that implements the medical assistance program of the VA through the administration and operation of numerous VA outpatient clinics,...
  
  

Boards and Offices

• Board of Veterans' Appeals
• Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
• Center for Minority Veterans
• Center for Veterans Enterprise
• Center for Women Veterans
• Office of Advisory Committee Management
• Office of Employment Discrimination Complaint Adjudication
• Office of Survivors Assistance
• Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization
• Veterans Service Organizations Liaison

Independent Agencies and Government Corporations

• Administrative Conference of the United States
  Administrative Conference of the United States
  The Administrative Conference of the United States is an independent agency of the United States government established by the Administrative Conference Act of 1964. It is also considered to be a federal advisory committee...
  
  
• Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
  Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
  The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation is an independent agency of the United States government that promotes the preservation, enhancement, and productive use of the nation's historic resources, and advises the President and Congress on national historic preservation policy.The goal of the...
  
  
• African Development Foundation
  African Development Foundation
  The United States African Development Foundation is an "Independent United States Government Agency" which provides grants of up to $250,000 to community groups and small enterprises that benefit under served and marginalized groups in Sub-Saharan Africa...
  
  
• Amtrak (National Railroad Passenger Corporation)
  Amtrak
  The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak , is a government-owned corporation that was organized on May 1, 1971, to provide intercity passenger train service in the United States. "Amtrak" is a portmanteau of the words "America" and "track". It is headquartered at Union...
  
  
• Central Intelligence Agency
  Central Intelligence Agency
  The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian intelligence agency of the United States government. It is an executive agency and reports directly to the Director of National Intelligence, responsible for providing national security intelligence assessment to senior United States policymakers...
  
  
• Commission on Civil Rights
• Commodity Futures Trading Commission
  Commodity Futures Trading Commission
  The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is an independent agency of the United States government that regulates futures and option markets....
  
  
• Consumer Product Safety Commission
  Consumer Product Safety Commission
  The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission is an independent agency of the United States government created in 1972 through the Consumer Product Safety Act to protect "against unreasonable risks of injuries associated with consumer products." The CPSC is an independent agency that does...
  
  
• Corporation for National and Community Service
  Corporation For National and Community Service
  The Corporation for National and Community Service is a federal agency that engages more than five million Americans in service through Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, and Learn and Serve America, and other national service initiatives...
  
  
• Corporation for Public Broadcasting
  Corporation for Public Broadcasting
  The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a non-profit corporation created by an act of the United States Congress, funded by the United States’ federal government to promote public broadcasting...
  
  
  • Public Broadcasting Service
    Public Broadcasting Service
    The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
    
    
• Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency
  Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency
  The Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency was established, under the National Capital Revitalization and Self-Government Improvement Act of 1997, to oversee probationers and parolees, and provide pretrial services in Washington, D.C.. The functions were previously handled by the Superior...
  
  
• Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
  Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
  The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board is an independent agency of the United States government based in Washington, D.C. Established in 1988, the DNFSB oversees the nuclear weapons complex administered by the U.S. Department of Energy. The DNFSB is independent of the Department of Energy...
  
  
• Election Assistance Commission
  Election Assistance Commission
  The Election Assistance Commission is an independent agency of the United States government created by the Help America Vote Act of 2002 . The Commission serves as a national clearinghouse and resource of information regarding election administration...
  
  
• Environmental Protection Agency
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
  Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
  The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is an independent federal law enforcement agency that enforces laws against workplace discrimination. The EEOC investigates discrimination complaints based on an individual's race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, perceived intelligence,...
  
  
• Export-Import Bank of the United States
  Export-Import Bank of the United States
  The Export-Import Bank of the United States is the official export credit agency of the United States federal government. It was established in 1934 by an executive order, and made an independent agency in the Executive branch by Congress in 1945, for the purposes of financing and insuring...
  
  
• Farm Credit Administration
  Farm Credit Administration
  The Farm Credit Administration is an independent agency of the Executive Branch of the United States Government. It regulates and examines the banks, associations, and related entities of the Farm Credit System, a network of borrower-owned financial institutions that provide credit to farmers,...
  
  
• Federal Communications Commission
  Federal Communications Commission
  The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...
  
  
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
  Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
  The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is a United States government corporation created by the Glass–Steagall Act of 1933. It provides deposit insurance, which guarantees the safety of deposits in member banks, currently up to $250,000 per depositor per bank. , the FDIC insures deposits at...
  
  
• Federal Election Commission
  Federal Election Commission
  The Federal Election Commission is an independent regulatory agency that was founded in 1975 by the United States Congress to regulate the campaign finance legislation in the United States. It was created in a provision of the 1975 amendment to the Federal Election Campaign Act...
  
  
• Federal Housing Finance Board
  Federal Housing Finance Board
  The Federal Housing Finance Board was an independent agency of the United States government established in 1989 in the aftermath of the savings and loan crisis to take over oversight of the Federal Home Loan Banks , and was superseded by the Federal Housing Finance Agency in 2008.The FHFB...
  
  
• Federal Labor Relations Authority
  Federal Labor Relations Authority
  The Federal Labor Relations Authority is an independent agency of the United States government that governs labor relations between the federal government and its employees....
  
  
• Federal Maritime Commission
  Federal Maritime Commission
  The United States Federal Maritime Commission is an independent federal agency, based in Washington D.C., responsible for the regulation of oceanborne transportation in the foreign commerce of the U.S.-Mission:The FMC:...
  
  
• Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
• Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission
  Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission
  The Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is an independent adjudicative agency of the United States government that provides administrative trial and appellate review of legal disputes arising under the Federal Mine Safety and Health Amendments Act, or Mine Act, of 1977.Under the Mine...
  
  
• Federal Reserve System
  Federal Reserve System
  The Federal Reserve System is the central banking system of the United States. It was created on December 23, 1913 with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, largely in response to a series of financial panics, particularly a severe panic in 1907...
  
  
  • Consumer Financial Protection Agency
• Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board
  Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board
  The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board was established as an independent agency of the United States government by the Federal Employees Retirement System Act of 1986. It is one of the smaller executive branch agencies, with just over 80 employees...
  
  
• Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
• General Services Administration
  General Services Administration
  The General Services Administration is an independent agency of the United States government, established in 1949 to help manage and support the basic functioning of federal agencies. The GSA supplies products and communications for U.S...
  
  
• In-Q-Tel
  In-Q-Tel
  In-Q-Tel of Arlington, Virginia, United States is a not-for-profit venture capital firm that invests in high-tech companies for the sole purpose of keeping the Central Intelligence Agency equipped with the latest in information technology in support of United States intelligence capability...
  
  
• Institute of Museum and Library Services
  Institute of Museum and Library Services
  The Institute of Museum and Library Services is an independent agency of the United States federal government established in 1996. It is the main source of federal support for libraries and museums within the United States, having the mission to "create strong libraries and museums that connect...
  
  
• Inter-American Foundation
  Inter-American Foundation
  The Inter-American Foundation, or IAF, is an independent agency of the United States government that funds development projects undertaken by grassroots groups and nongovernmental organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean...
  
  
• International Broadcasting Bureau
  International Broadcasting Bureau
  The International Broadcasting Bureau is an entity within the Broadcasting Board of Governors , which is a U.S. independent agency. The IBB supports the day-to-day operations of Voice of America and the Office of Cuba Broadcasting...
  
  
• Merit Systems Protection Board
  United States Merit Systems Protection Board
  The Merit Systems Protection Board is an independent quasi-judicial agency established to protect federal merit systems against partisan political and other prohibited personnel practices and to ensure adequate protection for federal employees against abuses by agency management...
  
  
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• National Archives and Records Administration
  National Archives and Records Administration
  The National Archives and Records Administration is an independent agency of the United States government charged with preserving and documenting government and historical records and with increasing public access to those documents, which comprise the National Archives...
  
  
  • Office of the Federal Register
    Office of the Federal Register
    The Office of the Federal Register is an agency of the United States government within the National Archives and Records Administration.The Office publishes the Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, and United States Statutes at Large, among others. It also administers the Electoral College....
    
    
• National Capital Planning Commission
  National Capital Planning Commission
  The National Capital Planning Commission is a U.S. government agency that provides planning guidance for Washington, D.C. and the surrounding National Capital Region...
  
  
• National Council on Disability
  National Council on Disability
  The National Council on Disability was initially established in 1978 as an advisory board within the United States Department of Education to guarantee equal opportunity for people with disabilities. NCD is composed of 15 members, appointed by the President of the United States and confirmed by...
  
  
• National Credit Union Administration
  National Credit Union Administration
  The National Credit Union Administration is the United States independent federal agency that supervises and charters federal credit unions...
  
  
  • Central Liquidity Facility
    Central liquidity facility
    The Central Liquidity Facility is a mixed ownership United States government corporation created to improve the general financial stability of credit unions by serving as a liquidity lender to credit unions experiencing unusual or unexpected liquidity shortfalls. Member credit unions own the CLF...
    
    
• National Endowment for the Arts
  National Endowment for the Arts
  The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
  
  
• National Endowment for the Humanities
  National Endowment for the Humanities
  The National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent federal agency of the United States established by the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities. The NEH is located at...
  
  
• National Labor Relations Board
  National Labor Relations Board
  The National Labor Relations Board is an independent agency of the United States government charged with conducting elections for labor union representation and with investigating and remedying unfair labor practices. Unfair labor practices may involve union-related situations or instances of...
  
  
• National Mediation Board
  National Mediation Board
  The National Mediation Board is an independent agency of the United States government that coordinates labor-management relations within the U.S...
  
  
• National Science Foundation
  National Science Foundation
  The National Science Foundation is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health...
  
  
• National Transportation Safety Board
  National Transportation Safety Board
  The National Transportation Safety Board is an independent U.S. government investigative agency responsible for civil transportation accident investigation. In this role, the NTSB investigates and reports on aviation accidents and incidents, certain types of highway crashes, ship and marine...
  
  
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission
  Nuclear Regulatory Commission
  The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is an independent agency of the United States government that was established by the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 from the United States Atomic Energy Commission, and was first opened January 19, 1975...
  
  
• Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission
  Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission
  The Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission is an independent Federal agency created to decide contests of citations or penalties resulting from OSHA inspections of American work places....
  
  
• Office of Compliance
  United States Congress Office of Compliance
  The United States Congress Office of Compliance is an independent federal agency within the legislative branch of the United States government. It was created to administer and enforce the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995...
  
  
• Office of Government Ethics
  United States Office of Government Ethics
  The United States Office of Government Ethics is a separate agency within the executive branch of the U.S. Federal Government which is responsible for directing executive branch policies relating to the prevention of conflicts of interest on the part of Federal executive branch officers and...
  
  
• Office of Personnel Management
  Office of Personnel Management
  The United States Office of Personnel Management is an independent agency of the United States government that manages the civil service of the federal government. The current Director is John Berry.-History:...
  
  
  • Federal Executive Institute
    Federal Executive Institute
    The Federal Executive Institute is an executive and management development and training center for governmental leaders located on a campus near the center of Charlottesville, Virginia, less than a mile from University of Virginia....
    
    
• Office of Special Counsel
• Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive
  Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive
  The Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive directs national counter-intelligence for the United States government and is responsible to the Director of National Intelligence. The Office was established on January 5, 2001 by a directive from President Bill Clinton which also...
  
  
• Office of the Director of National Intelligence
• Overseas Private Investment Corporation
  Overseas Private Investment Corporation
  The Overseas Private Investment Corporation is an independent agency of the United States Government that mobilizes U.S. private sector investment in new and emerging markets overseas in order to support both the sustainable economic development of those markets and the creation of American jobs...
  
  
• Panama Canal Commission
• Peace Corps
  Peace Corps
  The Peace Corps is an American volunteer program run by the United States Government, as well as a government agency of the same name. The mission of the Peace Corps includes three goals: providing technical assistance, helping people outside the United States to understand US culture, and helping...
  
  
• Postal Regulatory Commission
• Railroad Retirement Board
  Railroad Retirement Board
  The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board is an independent agency in the executive branch of the United States government created in 1935 to administer a social insurance program providing retirement benefits to the country's railroad workers....
  
  
• Securities and Exchange Commission
• Securities Investor Protection Corporation
  Securities Investor Protection Corporation
  The Securities Investor Protection Corporation is a federally mandated, non-profit, member-funded, corporation in the United States. It protects investors in certain securities from financial harm if a broker-dealer fails...
  
  
• Selective Service System
  Selective Service System
  The Selective Service System is a means by which the United States government maintains information on those potentially subject to military conscription. Most male U.S. citizens and male immigrant non-citizens between the ages of 18 and 25 are required by law to have registered within 30 days of...
  
  
• Small Business Administration
  Small Business Administration
  The Small Business Administration is a United States government agency that provides support to entrepreneurs and small businesses. The mission of the Small Business Administration is "to maintain and strengthen the nation's economy by enabling the establishment and viability of small businesses...
  
  
• Social Security Administration
  Social Security Administration
  The United States Social Security Administration is an independent agency of the United States federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits...
  
  
• Tennessee Valley Authority
  Tennessee Valley Authority
  The Tennessee Valley Authority is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected...
  
  
• U.S. Trade and Development Agency
• United States Agency for International Development
  United States Agency for International Development
  The United States Agency for International Development is the United States federal government agency primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid. President John F. Kennedy created USAID in 1961 by executive order to implement development assistance programs in the areas...
  
  
• United States International Trade Commission
  United States International Trade Commission
  The United States International Trade Commission is an independent, bi-partisan, quasi-judicial, federal agency of the United States that provides trade expertise to both the legislative and executive branches. Further, the agency determines the impact of imports on U.S...
  
  
• United States Postal Service
  United States Postal Service
  The United States Postal Service is an independent agency of the United States government responsible for providing postal service in the United States...
  
  

Pending Government Corporation

• Corporation for Travel Promotion
  Travel Promotion Act of 2009
  The Travel Promotion Act of 2009 is a law creating a Corporation for Travel Promotion in the United States and charge non-U.S. tourists staying fewer than 90 days in the United States with a fee of $10. The money collected from travelers will be spent for advertising to get tourists to visit the...
  
  

Inspectors General

Inspector General

Inspector General

An Inspector General is an investigative official in a civil or military organization. The plural of the term is Inspectors General.-Bangladesh:...

 (Full list of all sixty nine United States Federal Inspectors General.)

Boards and commissions

• Administrative Committee of the Federal Register
• American Battle Monuments Commission
  American Battle Monuments Commission
  The American Battle Monuments Commission is a small independent agency of the United States government. Established by Congress in 1923, it is responsible for:...
  
  
• Appalachian Regional Commission
  Appalachian Regional Commission
  The Appalachian Regional Commission is a United States federal-state partnership that works with the people of Appalachia to create opportunities for self-sustaining economic development and improved quality of life...
  
  
• Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (United States Access Board)
  United States Access Board
  The United States Access Board is an independent agency of the United States government devoted to accessibility for people with disabilities. Created in 1973 to ensure access to federally funded facilities, the Board is now a leading source of information on accessible design...
  
  
• Arctic Research Commission
• Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Interagency Coordinating Committee
• Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation
  Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship
  The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program was established by the United States Congress in 1986 in honor of former United States Senator and 1964 presidential candidate Barry Goldwater, a Republican from Arizona...
  
  
• Broadcasting Board of Governors
  Broadcasting Board of Governors
  The Broadcasting Board of Governors is an independent agency of the United States government responsible for all non-military, international broadcasting sponsored by the U.S government. It was previously a department within the United States Information Agency until 1999.-Origins:Starting in...
  
  
• Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board
• Chief Acquisition Officers Council
• Chief Financial Officers Council
• Chief Human Capital Officers Council
• Chief Information Officers Council
• Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee
  Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee
  The United States Postal Service's Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee evaluates potential subjects for U.S. postage stamps and reports its recommendations to the Postmaster General, who makes the final decision.-Purpose:...
  
  
• Commission of Fine Arts
  United States Commission of Fine Arts
  The United States Commission of Fine Arts , established in 1910 by an act of Congress, is an advisory agency of the Federal government.The CFA is mandated to review and provide advice on "matters of design and aesthetics", involving federal projects and planning in Washington, D.C...
  
  
• Commission on International Religious Freedom
  United States Commission on International Religious Freedom
  The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom is an independent, bipartisan U.S. federal government commission created by the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998. USCIRF Commissioners are appointed by the President and the leadership of both political parties in the Senate...
  
  
• Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (United States Helsinki Commission)
  Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
  The Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe , also known as the U.S. Helsinki Commission, is an independent U.S. Government agency created by Congress in 1976 to monitor and encourage compliance with the Helsinki Final Act and other OSCE commitments. It was established in 1976 pursuant to...
  
  
• Commission on Wartime Contracting (Will sunset sixty days after issuing final report)
• Committee for Purchase from People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled
  Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act
  The Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act et seq. is a U.S. federal law requiring that all federal agencies purchase specified supplies and services from nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other significant disabilities. The Act was passed by the 92nd United States Congress in 1971; it...
  
  
• Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements
• Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States
  Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States
  The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States is an inter-agency committee of the United States Government that reviews the national security implications of foreign investments in U.S. companies or operations. Chaired by the Secretary of the Treasury, CFIUS includes representatives...
  
  
• Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
  Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs
  The Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs is a group within the executive branch of the U.S. government, and is responsible for promoting achievement of positive results for at-risk youth...
  
  
• Defense Acquisition University
  Defense Acquisition University
  The Defense Acquisition University is a United States military training establishment that trains and enables the 147,705 military and civilian Department of Defense personnel in the fields of acquisition, technology, and logistics, including leadership, program management and bureaucratic...
  
  
• Delaware River Basin Commission
  Delaware River Basin Commission
  The Delaware River Basin Commission is a United States government agency created in 1961 by an interstate compact, signed into law by President John F...
  
  
• Denali Commission
• Endangered Species Committee
  Endangered Species Act
  The Endangered Species Act of 1973 is one of the dozens of United States environmental laws passed in the 1970s. Signed into law by President Richard Nixon on December 28, 1973, it was designed to protect critically imperiled species from extinction as a "consequence of economic growth and...
  
  
• Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board
  Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board
  The Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board is a United States federal advisory committee whose mission is to develop generally accepted accounting principles for federal financial reporting entities....
  
  
• Federal Advisory Committees
  Federal Advisory Committee Act
  The Federal Advisory Committee Act is a United States federal law , which governs the behavior of federal advisory committees. There are now approximately 1,000 such committees...
  
  
• Federal Executive Boards
  Federal Executive Boards
  The Federal Executive Boards were created in 1961 to foster communication, coordination and collaboration among Federal agencies outside of Washington, DC. They are under the jurisdiction of the Office of Personnel Management. Currently, approximately 88% of Federal employees are located outside...
  
  
• Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council
  Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council
  The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council, or FFIEC, is a formal interagency body of the United States government empowered to prescribe uniform principles, standards, and report forms for the federal examination of financial institutions by the Board of Governors of the Federal...
  
  
• Federal Financing Bank
• Federal Geographic Data Committee
  Federal Geographic Data Committee
  The Federal Geographic Data Committee is a United States government committee which promotes the coordinated development, use, sharing, and dissemination of geospatial data on a national basis. Its 19 members are representatives from the Executive Office of the President, and Cabinet level and...
  
  
• Federal Interagency Committee for the Management of Noxious and Exotic Weeds
• Federal Interagency Committee on Education
• Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy
• Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer
  Federal Laboratory Consortium
  The Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer is a U.S.-based nationwide network of federal laboratories that provides the forum to develop strategies and opportunities to help transfer laboratory mission technologies into commercial products for the global marketplace.The FLC was...
  
  
• Federal Library and Information Center Committee
• Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission
  Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission
  The Commission reported its findings in January 2011. It concluded that "the crisis was avoidable and was caused by: Widespread failures in financial regulation, including the Federal Reserve’s failure to stem the...
  
  
• Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation
• Illinois and Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor Commission
• Indian Arts and Crafts Board
• Interagency Alternate Dispute Resolution Working Group
• Interagency Council on Homelessness
  Interagency Council on Homelessness
  The United States Interagency Council on Homelessness is a United States independent federal agency within the executive branch and is composed of 19 Cabinet secretaries and agency heads. The current chairperson is Department of Labor Secretary Hilda Solis; Department of Health and Human Services...
  
  
• Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin
• J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
  J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
  The J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board was established by Congress for the purpose of supervising the Fulbright Program and certain programs authorized by the Fulbright-Hays Act and for the purpose of selecting students, scholars, teachers, trainees, and other persons to participate in...
  
  
• James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation
  James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation
  The James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation was established by Congress in 1986 to encourage outstanding current and future secondary school teachers of American history, American government, and social studies in grades 7 through 12 to undertake graduate study of the roots, framing,...
  
  
• Japan-United States Friendship Commission
• Joint Board for the Enrollment of Actuaries
  Joint Board for the Enrollment of Actuaries
  The Joint Board for the Enrollment of Actuaries licenses actuaries to perform a variety of actuarial tasks required of pension plans in the United States by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974...
  
  
• Joint Fire Science Program
• Marine Mammal Commission
  Marine Mammal Commission
  The Marine Mammal Commission is an independent agency of the U.S. government, established under Title II of the Marine Mammal Protection Act.The Marine Mammal Commission provides independent oversight of the marine mammal conservation policies and programs being carried out by other American...
  
  
• Migratory Bird Conservation Commission
• Millennium Challenge Corporation
• Mississippi River Commission
• Morris K. Udall Foundation
  Morris K. Udall Foundation
  The Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation is an Executive Branch office of the United States Government. The Foundation was established by the Congress in 1992 to honor Morris Udall’s thirty years of service in the House of Representatives. Congress amended the name in 2009 to include...
  
  
• National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare
• National Indian Gaming Commission
  National Indian Gaming Commission
  The National Indian Gaming Commission is an independent federal regulatory agency within the Department of the Interior. Congress established this agency through the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act in 1988. The agency has the duty to "promulgate such regulations and guidelines as it deems...
  
  
• National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling
• National Park Foundation
  National Park Foundation
  Chartered by Congress, the National Park Foundation is the official charity of America’s nearly 400 national parks. Funds contributed to the Foundation are invested directly into the national parks...
  
  
• Northwest Power and Conservation Council (Northwest Power Planning Council)
  Northwest Power and Conservation Council
  The Northwest Power and Conservation Council is a regional organization that develops and maintains a regional power plan and a fish and wildlife program to balance the Northwest's environment and energy needs. Based in Portland, Oregon, the Council was created in 1980 when the U.S. Congress passed...
  
  
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission
  Nuclear Regulatory Commission
  The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is an independent agency of the United States government that was established by the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 from the United States Atomic Energy Commission, and was first opened January 19, 1975...
  
  
• Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board
• Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues
  Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues
  The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues was created by Executive Order 13521 on November 24, 2009, to succeed the disbanded President's Council on Bioethics. The Commission's leadership and members were appointed by President Barack Obama...
  
  
• President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports
  President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports
  The President's Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition , is an American government organization that aims to "promote, encourage and motivate Americans of all ages to become physically active and participate in sport"...
  
  
• Presidents Management Council
• Presidio Trust
  Presidio of San Francisco
  The Presidio of San Francisco is a park on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula in San Francisco, California, within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area...
  
  
• Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
  Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
  The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board is an advisory body to assist the President of the United States and other senior executive branch officials in ensuring that concerns with respect to privacy and civil liberties are appropriately considered in the implementation of all laws,...
  
  
• Regulatory Service Center (Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs)
  Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
  The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs is an office of the United States Government that Congress established in the 1980 Paperwork Reduction Act. OIRA is located within the Office of Management and Budget, which is an agency within the Executive Office of the President...
  
  
• Social Security Advisory Board
• Susquehanna River Basin Commission
  Susquehanna River Basin Commission
  The Susquehanna River Basin Commission is federal-interstate compact commission created by the Susquehanna River Basin Compact between three U.S states: , and the federal government, and signed into law by President Richard Nixon on Christmas Eve 1970 to be effective 30 days later on January 23,...
  
  
• Taxpayer Advocacy Panel
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is the United States' official memorial to the Holocaust. Adjacent to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., the USHMM provides for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history...
  
  
• Veterans Day National Committee
• Vietnam Educational Foundation
• White House Commission on Presidential Scholars (Presidential Scholars Program)
  Presidential Scholars Program
  The United States Presidential Scholars Program is the highest possible honor for graduating high school seniors in the United States of America....
  
  
• White House Commission on the National Moment of Remembrance
  National moment of remembrance
  The National Moment of Remembrance, established by Congress, asks Americans, wherever they are at 3 p.m., local time, on Memorial Day, to pause in an act of national unity for a duration of one minute. The time 3 p.m. was chosen because it is the time when most Americans are enjoying their freedoms...
  
  

Quasi-Official Agencies

• Legal Services Corporation
  Legal Services Corporation
  The Legal Services Corporation is a private, non-profit corporation established by the United States Congress. It seeks to ensure equal access to justice under the law for all Americans by providing civil legal assistance to those who otherwise would be unable to afford it...
  
  
• Smithsonian Institution
  Smithsonian Institution
  The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, licensing activities, and magazines...
  
  
• John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
  John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
  The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is a performing arts center located on the Potomac River, adjacent to the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C...
  
  
• State Justice Institute
• United States Institute of Peace
  United States Institute of Peace
  The United States Institute of Peace was created by Congress as a non-partisan, federal institution that works to prevent or end violent conflict around the world...
  
  
• American Institute in Taiwan
  American Institute in Taiwan
  The American Institute in Taiwan is a non-profit, public corporation established under the auspices of the United States government to serve its interests in Taiwan...
  
  

Private Regulatory Corporation

• Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
  Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
  The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is a private-sector, non-profit corporation created by the Sarbanes–Oxley Act, a 2002 United States federal law, to oversee the auditors of public companies. Its stated purpose is to 'protect the interests of investors and further the public interest...
  
  
• Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

Self-Regulatory Boards

• Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
  Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
  In the United States, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc., or FINRA, is a private corporation that acts as a self-regulatory organization . FINRA is the successor to the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. ...
  
  
• Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board
  Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board
  The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board, often referred to as the MSRB, writes investor protection rules and other rules regulating broker-dealers and banks in the United States municipal securities market, including tax-exempt and taxable municipal bonds, municipal notes, and other securities...
  
  
• National Futures Association
  National Futures Association
  The National Futures Association is an independent self-regulatory organization and watchdog of the commodities and futures industry in the United States. The NFA oversees and protects investors from fraudulent commodities and futures activities. The NFA also provides mediation and arbitration...
  
  
• North American Electric Reliability Corporation

Government Enterprises

• Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation (Farmer Mac)
• Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac)
• Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)
• NeighborHood Reinvestment Corporation (NeighborWorks America)
  NeighborWorks America
  The Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, doing business as NeighborWorks America,is a Congressionally chartered nonprofit organization that supports community development in the United States. The organization provides grants and technical assistance to 235 U.S...
  
  
• COMSAT
  COMSAT
  The Communications Satellite Corporation is a global telecommunications company, based in the USA, and with branches in Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and several other countries in the Americas. It is present also in Turkey...
  
  

Historic or renamed agencies

See also

• List of federally funded research and development centers
• Arctic Policy of the United States
  Arctic policy of the United States
  The Arctic Policy of the United States refers to the foreign policy of the United States in regards to the Arctic region. In addition, the United States' domestic policy toward Alaska is part of its Arctic policy....
  
  

External links

• Firstgov Guide to the Federal government
• US Government Manual (GPO)
• Federal Agency Directory maintained by LSU Libraries in partnership with the Federal Depository Library Program of GPO
• A-Z Index of US departments and agencies
• CyberCemetery for defunct U.S. Federal Agencies, hosted by the University of North Texas Libraries