# 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

* D-Phenylalanine, an enkephalinase inhibitor and antidepressant
* 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)