DPA may refer to:

Organizations

  • 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
  • Digital Pathology Association, a medical society for advancing the field of digital pathology
  • 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
  • Definers Public Affairs, an American commercial research and PR firm
  • Democratic Party of Albanians, an ethnic Albanian political party in the Republic of North Macedonia
  • Democratic Progressive Alliance, an alliance of Indian political parties
  • United Nations Department of Political Affairs, a department of the United Nations Secretariat
  • Data protection authority, a role specified by EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
  • Supreme Advisory Council (Dewan Pertimbangan Agung), a defunct Indonesian government body

Law

  • Durable power of 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

Laws

  • Defense Production Act of 1950, a United States law
  • Defence Production Act (Canada)
  • Data Protection Act 1998, a United Kingdom Act of Parliament to regulate the processing of information relating to individuals
  • Data Protection Act 2018, a United Kingdom Act of Parliament which updates the Data Protection Act 1998

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

  • 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

  • <small>D</small>-Phenylalanine, an enkephalinase inhibitor, antidepressant, and stereoisomer of the natural amino acid phenylalanine
  • 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
  • 2,2'-Dipyridylamide an organic ion ligand.
  • Docosapentaenoic acid, a group of fatty acids
  • Displacements per atom (dpa), in radiation material science, a measure of damage in nuclear materials
  • 16-Dehydropregnenolone acetate (16-DPA), an intermediate in the production of many semisynthetic 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
  • Data Processing Agreement, according to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)