DFA

DFA may refer to:

Business

 * Dairy Farmers of America, in agriculture
 * Design For All, produced for the Target Corporation

Education

 * Doctor of Fine Arts, an academic degree
 * John S. Davidson Fine Arts Magnet School ("Davidson Fine Arts"), in Augusta, Georgia, U.S.

Engineering

 * Design for All, as a design philosophy
 * Design for assembly, manufacturing improvement to allow faster or automated assembly or assembly with fewer parts

Gaming

 * “Dart Farm Ace”, a strategy in the online PvP game Bloons TD Battles
 * Diverse Filmmakers Alliance (DFA)
 * Death From Above, a jump-jet attack tactic in the BattleTech game universe
 * Double Fine Adventure, working title of the point-and-click adventure game Broken Age

Music

 * Death from Above 1979, a Toronto-based Canadian alternative rock duo
 * DFA (Italian rock band), an Italian progressive rock band from Verona, Italy
 * DFA Records, an independent record label and production team

Sports

 * Darwin Football Association, an Australian rules football league in Tasmania
 * Designated for assignment, a type of player transaction in Major League Baseball
 * Dominica Football Association, the governing body of football in Dominica

Finance

 * Dimensional Fund Advisors, in finance
 * Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, a US federal law signed in 2010
 * Dynamic financial analysis, in finance

Government and politics

 * Democracy for America, a progressive political action committee in the United States
 * Department of Foreign Affairs, an executive office of a sovereign state that helps form its foreign policy
 * Partnership for a Drug-Free America, a nonprofit organization

Computing

 * Data-flow analysis, a technique for gathering information about the possible set of values calculated at various points in a computer program
 * Deterministic finite automaton, a finite state machine accepting finite strings of symbols
 * Differential fault analysis, in cryptography, a type of side channel attack
 * Dual factor authentication

Science

 * Descent from antiquity, the process of establishing a generation-by-generation descent of living persons
 * Direct fluorescent antibody, a medical test
 * Humid continental climate in climate classification (Dfa), with hot summers and cold winters and ample precipitation in all seasons

Statistics

 * Detrended fluctuation analysis, a variation of the Hurst Exponent technique, used in the analysis of fractal time series
 * Discriminant function analysis, a classification procedure