ARA
# 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
