ARA may refer to:

Media and the arts

American-Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences The American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences (ARA) is a scholarly organization dedicated to the analysis, study and dissemination of Romanian contributions and accomplishments. To enhance these efforts, ARA combines Western and Romanian intel ...

* '' Artistička Radna Akcija'', compilation album released in former Yugoslavia *

Associate of the Royal Academy The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its purpo ...

, denoting membership in the British Royal Academy of Arts *

ARA News '' ARA News'' ( ar, آرانيوز, ʾĀrā Niyūz) was an online news service focused on the consequences of war in Syria and Iraq. Although described as a Kurdish news agency by its director, the site started as an Arabic-only news service an ...

, an online Arabic and English language news service focussed on Syrian and Kurdish events

Organisations

* Academic Research Alliance, an organization created to involve students in scientific activities * Alliance for Retired Americans, a senior citizen organization *

American Relief Administration American Relief Administration (ARA) was an American relief mission to Europe and later post-revolutionary Russia after World War I. Herbert Hoover, future president of the United States, was the program director. The ARA's immediate predeces ...

, a relief mission after World War I *

Amateur Rowing Association British Rowing, formerly the Amateur Rowing Association (ARA), is the national governing body for the sport of rowing (both indoor and on-water rowing). It is responsible for the training and selection of individual rowers and crews representi ...

, the governing body of rowing in the United Kingdom, now renamed British Rowing *

Amateurs Radio Algeriens The Amateurs Radio Algeriens (ARA; English: Association of Algerian Radio Amateurs) is a national non-profit organization for amateur radio enthusiasts in Algeria. The organisation was founded on March 23, 1963.Amateurs Radio Algeriens (2008)"Ass ...

, the national amateur radio organization of Algeria * American Radio Association, a national AFL-CIO affiliated labor union representing U.S. Flag Merchant Marine Licensed Communications and Electronics Officers *

American Railway Association The American Railway Association (ARA) was an industry trade group representing railroads in the United States. The organization had its inception in meetings of General Managers and ranking railroad operating officials known as Time Table Conventi ...

, precursor to the Association of American Railroads * American Rally Association, governing body of rallying and championship in the United States * Anti-Racist Action, a network of anti-racist activists * Anti-Racist Alliance, a defunct anti-racist organisation in the United Kingdom * Applied Research Associates, a research and engineering company *

Arcade and Attica Railroad The Arcade & Attica Railroad is a shortline railroad that hauls freight between Arcade and North Java, New York. The railroad originally connected Arcade with Attica, however the right of way from North Java north to Attica was abandoned in 1957 ...

, from its reporting mark *

Archives and Records Association The Archives and Records Association (ARA) is the principal professional body for archivists, archive conservators and records managers in the UK and Ireland. The Archives and Records Association (ARA, UK & Ireland) came into existence on 1 J ...

, professional body for UK and Irish archivists, archive conservators and records managers *

Assets Recovery Agency The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) was a non-ministerial government department in the United Kingdom. It was established under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA) to reduce crime by confiscating the proceeds of any crime. It was granted a new pow ...

, a British agency for the recovery of the proceeds of crime * Athénée Royal d'Auderghem, a school in Brussels, Belgium * Australasian Raptor Association, a special interest group of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union

Military

Aerial Rocket Artillery Aerial rocket artillery (abbreviated ARA, also called aerial artillery) is a type of armed helicopter unit that was part of the artillery component of the United States Army's two airmobile divisions during the Vietnam War. Controlled by divisi ...

, helicopter artillery units used by the U.S. Army in the Vietnam War mainly to engage ground targets *

Armada de la República Argentina The Argentine Navy (ARA; es, Armada de la República Argentina). This forms the basis for the navy's ship prefix "ARA". is the navy of Argentina. It is one of the three branches of the Armed Forces of the Argentine Republic, together with the ...

, the Argentine Navy *

Armenian Revolutionary Army The Armenian Revolutionary Army (ARA) (in Armenian Հայ Յեղափոխական Բանակ (ՀՅԲ) - pronounced Hay Heghabokhakan Banak) was an Armenian militant organization that attacked at least 7 times resulting in at least 6 fatalities and 8 ...

, an armed militant group *

Aryan Republican Army The Aryan Republican Army (ARA), also dubbed "The Midwest Bank bandits" by the FBI and law-enforcement, was a white nationalist terrorist gang which robbed 22 banks in the Midwest from 1994 to 1996. The bank robberies were spearheaded by Donna ...

, white nationalist criminal group *

Australian Regular Army The Australian Army is the principal land warfare force of Australia, a part of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) along with the Royal Australian Navy and the Royal Australian Air Force. The Army is commanded by the Chief of Army (CA), who is ...

Government

Auckland Regional Authority The Auckland Regional Council (ARC) was the regional council (one of the former local government authorities) of the Auckland Region. Its predecessor the Auckland Regional Authority (ARA) was formed in 1963 and became the ARC in 1989. The ARC ...

, a former local government council in New Zealand

Sciences

Angiotensin II receptor antagonist Angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs), formally angiotensin II receptor type 1 (AT1) antagonists, also known as angiotensin receptor blockers, angiotensin II receptor antagonists, or AT1 receptor antagonists, are a group of pharmaceuticals tha ...

, more often called angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB) * Aldosterone receptor antagonist (mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist, that is,

antimineralocorticoid An antimineralocorticoid, also known as a mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist (MRA or MCRA) or aldosterone antagonist, is a diuretic drug which antagonizes the action of aldosterone at mineralocorticoid receptors. This group of drugs is ofte ...

) * Ant-based Routing Algorithm, a wireless mesh network routing protocol; see

Swarm intelligence Swarm intelligence (SI) is the collective behavior of decentralized, self-organized systems, natural or artificial. The concept is employed in work on artificial intelligence. The expression was introduced by Gerardo Beni and Jing Wang in 1989, ...

AppleTalk Remote Access AppleTalk Remote Access, or ARA, was a protocol stack that allowed AppleTalk to be run over modems. It became a fairly major product for Apple Computer in the early to mid-1990s when their first portable and laptop computers were available (and v ...

, a communications protocol *

Audio Random Access Audio Random Access (commonly abbreviated to ARA) is an extension for audio plug-in interfaces, such as AU, VST and RTAS, allowing them to exchange a greater amount of audio information with digital audio workstation (DAW) software. It was dev ...

, an extension to audio plug-in interfaces *

Arachidonic acid Arachidonic acid (AA, sometimes ARA) is a polyunsaturated omega-6 fatty acid 20:4(ω-6), or 20:4(5,8,11,14). It is structurally related to the saturated arachidic acid found in cupuaçu butter. Its name derives from the New Latin word ''ara ...

(also AA), as found in breast milk and infant formula * The Arrow-Pratt measure of absolute risk aversion *

Askaryan Radio Array The Askaryan Radio Array (ARA) is a new detector designed to detect a few GZK neutrinos a year. It measures the enhanced radio-frequency radiation emitted during the interaction of the neutrino in Antarctic ice sheet. The detection is based on th ...

(ARA), a GZK neutrino detector based on the Askaryan effect and will be positioned in the Antarctic ice sheet

Computer science

Application release automation Application-release automation (ARA) refers to the process of packaging and deploying an application or update of an application from development, across various environments, and ultimately to production. ARA solutions must combine the capabilitie ...

People

* Amedeo Rocco Armentano (1886–1966), Italian esotericist and musician