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

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

 * 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

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)