DPA

DPA may refer to:

Organisations

• Dartmoor Preservation Association, a group which monitors development on Dartmoor in South West England
• Dental Professionals Association, a trade union supporting and representing primary dental care in the UK
• Deutsche Presse-Agentur (German News Agency), a news agency founded in 1949 in Germany
• DPA Microphones, a Danish manufacturer
• Drug Policy Alliance, an American anti-Drug-War advocacy group
• Dubai Ports Authority, merged with Dubai Ports International in 2005 to form DP World

Government and politics

• California Department of Personnel Administration
• Defence Procurement Agency, an Executive Agency of the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence
• Defense Production Administration, a former independent agency of the United States government
• Democratic Party of Albanians, an ethnic Albanian political party in the Republic of Macedonia
• Democratic Progressive Alliance, an alliance of Indian political parties
• United Nations Department of Political Affairs
• Data Protection Authority, a role specified by EU General Data Protection Regulation

Law

• Deputy Prosecuting Attorney, another name for Assistant District Attorney
• Defensive patent aggregation, the practice of purchasing patents or patent rights
• Deferred prosecution agreement, a voluntary alternative to adjudication in which a prosecutor agrees to grant amnesty in exchange for the defendant agreeing to fulfill certain requirements
• Data Protection Act 1998, a United Kingdom Act of Parliament to regulate the processing of information relating to individuals
• Durable power of attorney

Computing

• Data presentation architecture, a skill-set that seeks to identify, locate, manipulate, format and present data
• Deterministic pushdown automaton
• Differential power analysis, a cryptographic attack

Entertainment

• Down Peninsula Audio, a record label
• Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure!, a manga series
• Drag Point Average, the grading system used on the television show RuPaul's Drag U

Science and technology

• Decipascal (dPa), a SI unit equivalent to one tenth of a pascal
• Diagnostic peritoneal aspiration, a surgical investigation to assess abdominal bleeding
• Diphenylamine, a chemical stabiliser used in homogeneous propellants to absorb the catalyst produced by the autocatalytic decomposition of propellants
• 9,10-Diphenylanthracene, an organic compound
• Dipicolinic acid, a chemical compound found in bacterial spores
• Dipicolylamine, an organic compound used as a chelating ligand
• Docosapentaenoic acid, a group of fatty acids
• D-phenylalanine, a stereoisomer of the amino acid, phenylalanine
• Displacements per atom (dpa), in radiation material science, a measure of damage in nuclear materials
• 16-DPA (16-Dehydropregnenolone acetate). The progenitor for making laboratory steroids.

Other uses

• Doctor of Public Administration, a terminal research degree in government
• DuPage Airport (IATA code), an airport in West Chicago, DuPage County, Illinois, US