DPA

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

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

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

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

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

Drag Point Average, the grading system used on the television show RuPaul's Drag U

<small>D</small>-Phenylalanine, an enkephalinase inhibitor and antidepressant
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
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-Dehydropregnenolone acetate (16-DPA), an intermediate in the production of many semisynthetic steroids

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)