RWA may refer to:

Organizations

Race Walking Association The Race Walking Association (RWA) is the major competition provider for the event of race walking in England, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands answerable to England Athletics. It was founded in 1907 as the Road Walking Association, and permi ...

, a professional sports body in the UK *

Resident welfare association A resident welfare association (frequently abbreviated as RWA) is a Non-governmental organization that represents the interests of the residents of a specific urban or suburban locality, particularly in Indian cities. Membership Membership is v ...

, any self-organised group (particularly in India) which claims to represent the residents of a specified region *

Romance Writers of America Romance Writers of America (RWA) is an American non-profit writers' association founded in 1980. Its mission is to "advance the professional and common business interests of career-focused romance writers through networking and advocacy and by incr ...

, a genre-specific writers association *

Rot Weiss Ahlen Rot Weiss Ahlen is a German football club based in Ahlen, North Rhine-Westphalia. Until 2006 the club was known as ''LR Ahlen'' for its major sponsor, but underwent a name change when the sponsor withdrew its support after the team was relegate ...

, a football club in Ahlen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany *

Royal West of England Academy The Royal West of England Academy (RWA) is Bristol's oldest art gallery, located in Clifton, Bristol, near the junction of Queens Road and Whiteladies Road. Situated in a Grade 2* listed building, it hosts five galleries and an exhibition progr ...

, an art gallery and academy in Clifton, Bristol, UK *

Royal West Academy Royal West Academy (commonly referred to as Royal West or RWA; french: Académie Royal West) is a public alternative anglophone secondary school in Montreal West, Quebec. Royal West has limited enrollment, and prospective students are only admi ...

, a secondary school in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Science and technology

* Reaction wheel assembly, in spacecraft control *

Right-wing authoritarianism In psychology, the right-wing authoritarian (RWA) is a personality type that describes somebody who is highly submissive to their authority figures, acts aggressively in the name of said authorities, and is conformist in thought and behavior. Th ...

, a psychological personality variable *

Rotating wave approximation The rotating-wave approximation is an approximation used in atom optics and magnetic resonance. In this approximation, terms in a Hamiltonian that oscillate rapidly are neglected. This is a valid approximation when the applied electromagnetic rad ...

, a mathematical simplification used in atom optics and magnetic resonance *

Routing and wavelength assignment The routing and wavelength assignment (RWA) problem is an optical networking problem with the goal of maximizing the number of optical connections. Definition The general objective of the RWA problem is to maximize the number of established conne ...

, a process in optical network routing

Other uses

Research Works Act The Research Works Act, 102 H.R. 3699, was a bill that was introduced in the United States House of Representatives at the 112th United States Congress on December 16, 2011, by Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA) and co-sponsored by Carolyn B. Mal ...

, proposed US law (2011) to prohibit requiring free public access to results of federally funded research *

Risk-weighted asset Risk-weighted asset (also referred to as RWA) is a bank's assets or off-balance-sheet exposures, weighted according to risk. This sort of asset calculation is used in determining the capital requirement or Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR) for a financ ...

, a bank risk management variable usually used in the context of Basel II *RWA, abbreviation for Rwanda, an east-central African country *Ryan White Act (

Ryan White CARE Act The Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency Act (Ryan White CARE Act), ), was an act of the United States Congress and is the largest federally funded program in the United States for people living with HIV/AIDS. In exchange for State ...

), US law providing assistance to people living with HIV/AIDS {{Disambiguation