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Glossary of Terms and Acronyms

North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA

15 CFR 30.1 The formal agreement, or treaty, among Canada, Mexico, and the United States to promote trade amongst the three countries. It includes measures for…

North Atlantic Treaty Organization – Countries NATO

15 CFR 772 Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, and the United…

NOT

NIH’s Funding Notices, e.g. NOT-OD-11-004

Notice of Award

This is a formal notice from an external sponsor to the university giving notice of an award for a specific research project. Normally, the notice will…

Notice of Funding Opportunity

Notice of Funding Opportunity or NOFO is sometimes also known as Funding Opportunity Announcement  or FOA NIH Definition “A publicly available document by which a Federal…

NRC

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

NRSA

National Research Service Award

NSF

National Science Foundation

NSPIRES

NASA Solicitation and Proposal Integrated Review and Evaluation System

NTTEE-NPC

National Center for Charitable Statistics Codes (ARRA)