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 purp ...

, denoting membership in the British Royal Academy of Arts * ARA News, an online Arabic and English language news service focussed on Syrian and Kurdish events

Organisations

Academic Research Alliance ARA is an organization founded as the Academic Research Alliance on February 18, 2001. Currently the organization's name is ara. ARA was originally created to involve students in scientific Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and ...

, 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 representin ...

, the governing body of rowing in the United Kingdom, now renamed British Rowing * Amateurs Radio Algeriens, the national amateur radio organization of Algeria *

American Radio Association The American Radio Association (ARA) is a labour union representing marine radio operators and electronic officers in the United States. The union's origins lie in the Marine Division of the American Communications Association, which was created in ...

, 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 Convent ...

, 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, from its reporting mark * Archives and Records Association, 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 po ...

, a British agency for the recovery of the proceeds of crime *

Athénée Royal d'Auderghem Athénée Royal d'Auderghem (ARA) is a secondary school in Brussels, Belgium, supported by the French Community of Belgium. It has three campuses: * Section fondamentale in Auderghem * Section secondaire Implantation Auderghem * Implantation La Bris ...

, a school in Brussels, Belgium *

Australasian Raptor Association The Australasian Raptor Association (ARA) was founded in 1978 as a special interest group of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, also known as Birds Australia. It is now a special interest group of BirdLife Australia. It promotes the stud ...

, 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 * Armenian Revolutionary Army, an armed militant group * Aryan Republican Army, white nationalist criminal group * Australian Regular Army

Government

* Auckland Regional Authority, a former local government council in New Zealand

Sciences

* Angiotensin II receptor antagonist, 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 often ...

) * 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, a communications protocol * Audio Random Access, an extension to audio plug-in interfaces * Arachidonic acid (also AA), as found in breast milk and infant formula * The Arrow-Pratt measure of

absolute risk aversion In economics and finance, risk aversion is the tendency of people to prefer outcomes with low uncertainty to those outcomes with high uncertainty, even if the average outcome of the latter is equal to or higher in monetary value than the more ce ...

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

Computer science

* Application release automation

People

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