title: ARA
text: # ARA
  
  ARA may refer to:
  
  ## Media and the arts
  
  * American-Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences
  * Artistička Radna Akcija, compilation album released in former Yugoslavia
  * Associate of the Royal Academy, 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, an organization created to involve students in scientific activities
  * Alliance for Retired Americans, a senior citizen organization
  * American Relief Administration, a relief mission after World War I
  * Amateur Rowing Association, 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, a national AFL-CIO affiliated labor union representing U.S. Flag Merchant Marine Licensed Communications and Electronics Officers
  * American Railway Association, 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, 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, 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)
  * Ant-based Routing Algorithm, a wireless mesh network routing protocol; see Swarm intelligence
  * 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
  * 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
  