Independent agencies of the United States Government are also normally organized under the Executive Branch, but by definition are not subordinated under a cabinet position. Non-executive department independent government agencies are a group of very few exceptions, such as the Library of Congress, Congressional Budget Office, etcetera.

Executive branch

Executive Office of the President

• White House Office of Presidential Communications
• White House Office of Presidential Speechwriting
• White House Office
• White House Office of the Executive Clerk
• Office of the White House Counsel
• Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
• National Security Council (NSC)
• Homeland Security Council
• Office of the United States Trade Representative
• Office of National Drug Control Policy
• Council of Economic Advisers
• Council on Environmental Quality
• Domestic Policy Council
• National Economic Council
• Office of White House Administration
• Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
• Office of National AIDS Policy
• Office of Science and Technology Policy
• President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board
• President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
• USA Freedom Corps
• White House Military Office

Department of Agriculture

• Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS)
• Agricultural Research Service (ARS)
• Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
• Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (CNPP)
• Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CREES)
• Economic Research Service (ERS)
• Farm Service Agency (FSA)
• Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC)
• Food and Nutrition Service (FNS)
• Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)
• Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS)
• Forest Service (FS)
• Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA)
• National Agricultural Library (NAL)
• National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS)
• Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
• Risk Management Agency (RMA)
• Rural Development (RD)

Department of Commerce

• Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS)
• Economics and Statistics Administration (ESA)
• Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
• Bureau of the Census
• Economic Development Administration (EDA)
• International Trade Administration (ITA)
• United States Commercial Service
• Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA)
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
• National Weather Service (NWS)
• National Oceanic Service (NOS)
• National Geodetic Survey (NGS)
• National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS)
• National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)
• Patent and Trademark Office (PTO)
• Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI)
• Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB)
• Technology Administration (TA)
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
• National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
• Office of Technology Policy (OTP)

Department of Education

• Office of Communications and Outreach (OCO)
• Office of the General Counsel (OGC)
• Office of Inspector General
• Office of Legislation and Congressional Affairs (OLCA)
• Office for Civil Rights (OCR)
• Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
• National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
• National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
• Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)
• Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII)
• Office of the Chief Financial Officer
• Office of Management
• Office of the Chief Information Officer
• Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development
• Budget Service
• Risk Management Service Chief Operating Officer Office of the Under Secretary (OUS)
• Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE)
• Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE)
• Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA)
• President's Advisory Board on Tribal Colleges and Universities (WHITCU)
• President's Advisory Board on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (WHIHBCU) Office of the Deputy Secretary (ODS)
• Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE)
• Office of Migrant Education
• President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans
• Office of English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement and Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient Students (OELA)
• Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS)
• National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR)
• Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)
• Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA)
• Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools (OSDFS)
• Office of Innovation and Improvement Associated federal organizations
• Advisory Councils and Committees
• National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB)
• National Institute for Literacy (NIFL)
• Federal Interagency Committee on Education (FICE) Federally aided organizations
• American Printing House for the Blind
• Gallaudet University
• Howard University
• National Technical Institute for the Deaf

Department of Energy

• Energy Information Administration (EIA)
• Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
• National Laboratories & Technology Centers:
• Albany Research Center
• Ames Laboratory
• Argonne National Laboratory
• Argonne National Laboratory (West) (now part of Idaho National Laboratory)
• Brookhaven National Laboratory
• Center for Functional Nanomaterials (under design or construction)
• Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (under design or construction)
• Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (under design or construction)
• Center for Nanoscale Materials (under design or construction)
• Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
• Idaho National Engineering Laboratory
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Molecular Foundry (under design or construction)
• National Energy Technology Laboratory
• National Petroleum Technology Office
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• New Brunswick Laboratory
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
• Radiological & Environmental Sciences Laboratory
• Sandia National Laboratories
• Savannah River Ecology Laboratory
• Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
• Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator
• Yucca Mountain
• National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
• Power Marketing Administrations:
• Bonneville Power Administration
• Southeastern Power Administration
• Southwestern Power Administration
• Western Area Power Administration

Department of Health and Human Services

• Administration on Aging (AoA)
• Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
• Administration on Developmental Disabilities (ADD)
• Administration for Native Americans (ANA)
• Child Care Bureau (CCB)
• Children's Bureau (CB)
• Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB)
• Head Start Bureau (HSB)
• Healthy Marriage Initiative (HMI)
• Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)
• Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE)
• Office of Community Services Block Grant (OCS)
• Office of Family Assistance (OFA) / Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
• Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)
• President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities (PCPID)
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
• Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
• Indian Health Service (IHS)
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• Office for Civil Rights (OCR)
• Office of Minority Health (OMH)
• Program Support Center (PSC)
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
• Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT)

Department of Homeland Security

• Coast Guard (USCG)
• National Cyber Security Division
• Environmental Measurements Laboratory
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
• United States Federal Protective Service (ICE-FPS)
• U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
• Office of Immigration Statistics
• Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
• Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
• Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC)
• United States Secret Service (USSS)
• Office of State and Local Government Coordination and Preparedness
• Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
• National Communications System (NCS)

Department of Housing and Urban Development

• Community Development Block Grants
• Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity
• Federal Housing Administration (FHA)
• Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA, Ginnie Mae)
• Office of Policy Development and Research (Bridges to Work)
• Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH)

Department of the Interior

• Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
• Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)
• Office of Surface Mining (OSM)
• Bureau Of Reclamation (USBR)
• Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS)
• Minerals Management Service (MMS)
• National Park Service (NPS)
• United States Geological Survey (USGS)
• Office of Insular Affairs

Department of Justice

• Antitrust Division
• Asset Forfeiture Program
• Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATF / BATFE)
• Civil Division
• Civil Rights Division
• Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)
• Community Relations Service
• Criminal Division
• Diversion Control Program
• Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
• Environment and Natural Resources Division
• Executive Office for Immigration Review
• Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys (EOUSA)
• Executive Office for U.S. Trustees
• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• Federal Bureau of Prisons
• Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States
• U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
• Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (BCBP)
• Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
• INTERPOL - U.S. National Central Bureau
• Justice Management Division
• Marshals Service
• National Crime Information Center
• National Drug Intelligence Center
• National Institute of Corrections (FBOP)
• Office of the Federal Detention Trustee
• Office of the Inspector General
• Office of Intelligence Policy and Review
• Office of Intergovernmental and Public Liaison
• Office of Justice Programs (OJP)
• Bureau of Justice Assistance
• Bureau of Justice Statistics
• Community Capacity Development Office
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service
• National Institute of Justice
• Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
• Office for Victims of Crime
• Office of the Pardon Attorney
• Parole Commission
• Office of the Police Corps
• Office of Tribal Justice
• Office on Violence Against Women
• Solicitor General
• Tax Division
• United States Attorneys

Department of Labor

• Administrative Review Board (ARB)
• Benefits Review Board (BRB)
• Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB)
• Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
• Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (CFBCI)
• Employees' Compensation Appeals Board (ECAB)
• Employment Standards Administration (ESA)
• Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP)
• The Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS)
• Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (OWCP)
• Wage and Hour Division (WHD)
• Employment and Training Administration (ETA)
• Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA)
• Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
• Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA)
• Veterans' Employment and Training Service (VETS)
• Women's Bureau (WB)

Department of State

• Bureau of Administration
• Bureau of African Affairs
• Bureau of Consular Affairs
• Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
• Bureau of Diplomatic Security
• Office of Foreign Missions
• Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs
• Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs
• Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
• Internet Access and Training Program
• Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs
• Bureau of Human Resources
• Bureau of Information Resource Management
• Bureau of Intelligence and Research
• Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs
• Bureau of International Organization Affairs
• Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation
• Bureau of Legislative Affairs
• Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs
• Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs
• Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations
• Bureau of Political-Military Affairs
• Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration
• Bureau of Public Affairs
• Bureau of Resource Management
• Bureau of South Asian Affairs
• Bureau of Verification, Compliance, and Implementation
• Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs
• Counterterrorism Office (which produces the Patterns of Global Terrorism report)
• National Foreign Affairs Training Center (former Foreign Service Institute)
• Office of International Information Programs
• Office of the Legal Adviser
• Office of Management Policy
• Office of Protocol
• Office of the Science and Technology Adviser
• Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
• Office of War Crimes Issues

Department of Transportation

• Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
• Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
• Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)
• Federal Transit Administration (FTA)
• Maritime Administration (MARAD)
• Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)
• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
• Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA)
• Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA)
• Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation (SLSDC)
• Surface Transportation Board (STB)

Department of the Treasury

• Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB)
• Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP)
• Bureau of the Public Debt
• Community Development Financial Institution Fund (CDFI)
• Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)
• Financial Management Service (FMS)
• Inspector General
• Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA)
• Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
• Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)
• Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS)
• Office of the Secretary
• Domestic Finance
• Economic Policy
• General Counsel
• Information and Technology Management
• International Affairs
• Management
• Public Affairs
• Tax Policy
• Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI)
• Treasurer of the United States
• United States Mint

Department of Veterans Affairs

• Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA)
• Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
• National Cemetery Administration (NCA)
• Office of Information and Technology (OI&T)

Independent agencies

• Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP)
• Agency for International Development (USAID)
• American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC)
• AmeriCorps
• Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC)
• U.S. Arctic Research Commission (USARC)
• Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
• US Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR)
• Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE)
• Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
• Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)
• Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS)
• Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC)
• United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
• Export-Import Bank of the United States (ExIm)
• Farm Credit Administration (FCA)
• Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
• Federal Election Commission (FEC)
• Federal Maritime Commission
• Federal Mine Safety & Health Review Commission (FMSHRC)
• Federal Reserve System (The Fed)
• Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board
• Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
• Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States (FCSC)
• General Services Administration (GSA)
• Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
• Inter-American Foundation (IAF)
• International Trade Commission (ITC)
• Learn and Serve America (LSA)
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
• National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
• National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC)
• National Credit Union Administration (NCUA)
• National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
• National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
• National Ice Center (NIC)
• National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
• National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) (NRPC)
• National Science Foundation (NSF)
• National Transportation Research Center (NTRC)
• National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
• Office of Government Ethics (OGE)
• Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
• Peace Corps
• Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC)
• United States Postal Service (USPS)
• United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS)
• Office of the Inspector General (USPS-OIG)
• Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC)
• Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
• Selective Service System (SSS)
• Senior Corps
• Small Business Administration (SBA)
• Social Security Administration (SSA)
• Susquehanna River Basin Commission (SRBC)
• Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
• United States Trade and Development Agency (TDA)

Quasi-federal agencies

• Legal Services Corporation (LSC)
• Smithsonian Institution (SI)

Legislative branch

• Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
• Library of Congress (LOC)
• United States Copyright Office
• Government Accountability Office (GAO) (formerly the General Accounting Office)
• United States Comptroller General
• Government Printing Office (GPO)
• Architect of the Capitol
• Office of Compliance

Judicial branch

Courts

• United States Supreme Court
• United States court of appeals
• Bankruptcy Appellate Panels
• United States district courts
• United States bankruptcy courts
• United States Sentencing Commission
• United States Probation and Pretrial Services

Administration

• Administrative Office of the United States Courts
• Federal Judicial Center
• Judicial Conference of the United States

Historic / defunct agencies

• Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (in the Department of Agriculture) (ASCS)
• :Replaced in 1994 with the Farm Service Agency.
• Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AA)
• Board of Economic Warfare (BEW)
• Board of Tea Appeals
• :Abolished in 1996
• Bureau of Arms Control (in the Department of State)
• :Replaced September 13, 2005, by the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation
• Bureau of Nonproliferation (in the Department of State)
• :Replaced September 13, 2005, by the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation
• Bureau of Verification and Compliance (in the Department of State)
• :Replaced February 1, 2000 by the Bureau of Verification, Compliance, and Implementation
• Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (CIAA)
• Committee on Public Information (CPI)
• Farmers Home Administration
• :Replaced in 1994 with the Farm Service Agency.
• Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA or Fannie Mae)
• :Fannie Mae was partially privatized in 1968; its government administered portion was renamed the Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae); see Department of Housing and Urban Development, above
• Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA)
• :Renamed Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; see Department of Health and Human Services, above
• Student Loan Marketing Association (SLMA or Sallie Mae)
• :Sallie Mae has been fully privatized and is no longer administered by the federal government.
• Foreign Economic Administration (FEA)
• Federal Theatre Project (FTP)
• General Accounting Office (GAO)
• :Renamed "Government Accountability Office" in 2004; see #Legislative Branch, above.
• Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)
• Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)
• :Now The United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS)
• National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)
• U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
• :''Renamed U.S. National Geodetic Survey
• Office of Technology Assessment (OTA)
• :Congress closed the OTA in 2004.
• Office of War Information (OWI)
• Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
• United States Information Agency (USIA)
• Veterans Administration (VA)
• :Became a cabinet department in 1988; see United States Department of Veterans Affairs, above.
• War Production Board (WPB)
• Works Progress Administration (WPA)

External links

• Firstgov Guide to the Federal government
• US Government Manual (GPO)
• White House List of Agencies & Commissions
• CyberCemetery for defunct U.S. Federal Agencies, hosted by the University of North Texas Libraries