CAF or caf may refer to:

Armed forces

Canadian Armed Forces } The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF; french: Forces armées canadiennes, ''FAC'') are the unified military forces of Canada, including sea, land, and air elements referred to as the Royal Canadian Navy, Canadian Army, and Royal Canadian Air Force. ...

(Canadian Forces), the Canadian Air Force, Army, and Navy *Canadian Air Force, now the

Royal Canadian Air Force The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF; french: Aviation royale canadienne, ARC) is the air and space force of Canada. Its role is to "provide the Canadian Forces with relevant, responsive and effective airpower". The RCAF is one of three environm ...

Republic of China Air Force The Republic of China Air Force, retroactively known by its historical name the Chinese Air Force and unofficially referred to as the Taiwanese Air Force, is the military aviation branch of the Republic of China Armed Forces, currently based i ...

, the air force of the Republic of China (Taiwan) *

Chief of Air Force (Australia) Chief of Air Force (CAF) is the most senior appointment in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), responsible to the Chief of the Defence Force (CDF) and the Secretary of the Department of Defence. The rank associated with the position is air m ...

, the commander of the Royal Australian Air Force *

Cactus Air Force Cactus Air Force refers to the ensemble of Allied air power assigned to the island of Guadalcanal August 1942 until December 1942 during the early stages of the Guadalcanal Campaign, particularly those operating from Henderson Field. The term " ...

, an American aviation force in the Battle of Guadalcanal *

Croatian Armed Forces The Armed Forces of the Republic of Croatia ( hr, Oružane snage Republike Hrvatske – OSRH) is the military service of Croatia. The President is the Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief, and exercises administrative powers in times of war by giv ...

, the Croatian Air Force, Army and Navy *

Continental Air Force Continental Air Forces (CAF) was a United States Army Air Forces major command, active 1944–1946. It was tasked with combat training of bomber and fighter personnel, and for Continental United States (CONUS) air defense after the Aircraft Warn ...

, a former major command of the United States Army Air Forces

Computing and networking

*Canadian Access Federation, a service of CANARIE Inc *

SAP Composite Application Framework SAP Composite Application Framework (SAP CAF) is a composition tool in NWDS (SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio, an Eclipse-based IDE) and runtime on SAP Web Application Server Java for developing, testing, deploying, running and configuring composi ...

, a tool by SAP AG *

Core Audio Format The Core Audio Format is a container for storing audio, developed by Apple Inc. It is compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 and higher; Mac OS X 10.3 needs QuickTime 7 to be installed. Core Audio Format is designed to overcome limitations of older digi ...

, a file format from Apple for storing audio data *

Coarray Fortran Coarray Fortran (CAF), formerly known as F--, started as an extension of Fortran 95/2003 for parallel processing created by Robert Numrich and John Reid in the 1990s. The Fortran 2008 standard (ISO/IEC 1539-1:2010) now includes coarrays (spel ...

, a parallel extension to Fortran language

Organisations

Governmental organisations

Caisse d'allocations familiales Family allocations make up the family-oriented sector of the French social security system, through a network known as the Caisse nationale des allocations familiales National Office for Family Allocations or CNAF and the 101 Caisse d'allocation ...

, French governmental agencies for family-supporting subsidies *

Centro Andaluz de la Fotografía The Centro Andaluz de la Fotografía, created in 1992, is a photographic institution based in Almería, Spain. In 1996 this center was placed under the Directorate General of Historical Heritage Institutions (Dirección General de Instituciones ...

, a photography institution based in Almeria *

Congressional Award Foundation The Congressional Award is an award for young Americans, established by the United States Congress in 1979 to "recognize initiative, service, and achievement in young people." It is nonpartisan, voluntary, non-competitive, and open to all youth ag ...

, a public-private organization which recognizes youth achievement in the United States

Political organisations

Campaign for America's Future Campaign for America's Future (CAF) is an American nonprofit progressive political advocacy organization. Founded in 1996, the organization bills itself as "the strategy center for the progressive movement." Within the Democratic Party, it often ...

, an American political organization *

Pentapartito The Pentapartito (from Greek , "five", and Italian , "party"), commonly shortened to CAF (from the initials of Craxi, Andreotti and Forlani), refers to the coalition government of five Italian political parties that formed between June 1981 an ...

, an Italian political coalition

Sport organisations

Club alpin français Club may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Club'' (magazine) * Club, a ''Yie Ar Kung-Fu'' character * Clubs (suit), a suit of playing cards * Club music * "Club", by Kelsea Ballerini from the album ''kelsea'' Brands and enterprises ...

, French mountain club *

Confederation of African Football The Confederation of African Football, or CAF for short (french: link=yes, Confédération Africaine de Football, ar, link=yes, الاتحاد الأفريقي لكرة القدم, al-Ittiḥād al-Afrīqī li-Kurat al-Qadam), is the administ ...

, the governing body for association football in Africa *

Challenged Athletes Foundation The Challenged Athletes Foundation (CAF), established in 1997, assists, supports, and provides opportunity to people with physical challenges, so that they can lead active lifestyles and compete in athletic events. It is founded in the belief th ...

, a US nonprofit foundation

Transnational organisations

Central African Federation Central is an adjective usually referring to being in the center of some place or (mathematical) object. Central may also refer to: Directions and generalised locations * Central Africa, a region in the centre of Africa continent, also known as ...

, a federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland between 1953 and 1963 *

CAF – Development Bank of Latin America The Corporacion Andina de Fomento (CAF) – Banco de Desarrollo de América Latina ( pt, Corporação Andina de Fomento (CAF) – Banco de Desenvolvimento da América Latina, is a development bank that has a mission of stimulating sustainable deve ...

(Corporación Andina de Fomento), Latin American development bank

Other organisations

Canadian Arab Federation The Canadian Arab Federation (CAF) was formed in 1967 to represent the interests of Arab Canadians with respect to the formulation of public policy in Canada. It presently consists of over 40 member organizations. CAF's stated objectives include ...

, a group representing Arab Canadians *

Charities Aid Foundation The Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) is a registered UK charity that operates in the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Canada. It works with companies, private philanthropists, regular donors, fellow foundations, governments, cha ...

, a UK charity *

Commemorative Air Force The Commemorative Air Force (CAF), formerly known as the Confederate Air Force, is an American non-profit organization based in Dallas, Texas, that preserves and shows historical aircraft at airshows, primarily in the U.S. and Canada. The CAF h ...

, a Texas-based organisation that preserves and shows historical aircraft; formerly known as the Confederate Air Force *

Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (Grupo CAF, literally "Construction and Other Railway Services") is a Spanish publicly listed company which manufactures railway vehicles and equipment and buses through its Solaris Bus & Coach subsidia ...

, a Spanish rail equipment manufacturer *

Cooley's Anemia Foundation Cooley’s Anemia Foundation (CAF) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that funds medical research and education to benefit individuals living with the genetic blood disorder thalassemia. The major form of this disorder is also known ...

, United States non-profit organisation

Science

Calcium fluoride Calcium fluoride is the inorganic compound of the elements calcium and fluorine with the formula CaF2. It is a white insoluble solid. It occurs as the mineral fluorite (also called fluorspar), which is often deeply coloured owing to impurities. ...

(), a chemical compound *

Cancer-associated fibroblast A cancer-associated fibroblast (CAF) (also known as tumour-associated fibroblast; carcinogenic- associated fibroblast; activated fibroblast) is a cell type within the tumor microenvironment that promotes tumorigenic features by initiating the remode ...

, a tumorous cell type *

Cellular angiofibroma Cellular angiofibroma (CAF) is a rare, benign tumor of superficial soft tissues that was first described by M. R. Nucci et al. in 1997. These tumors occur predominantly in the distal parts of the female and male reproductive systems, i.e. in the v ...

, a benign tumor of superficial soft tissues *

CHAF1A Chromatin assembly factor 1 subunit A is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''CHAF1A'' gene. Function Chromatin assembly factor I ( CAF-1) is a nuclear complex consisting of p50, p60 ( CHAF1B; MIM 601245), and p150 (CHAF1A) subunits th ...

(chromatin assembly factor-1), a protein complex maintaining chromatin *

Conductive anodic filament Conductive anodic filament, also called CAF, is a metallic filament that forms from an electrochemical migration process and is known to cause printed circuit board (PCB) failures. Mechanism CAF formation is a process involving the transport of c ...

, an

electrochemical migration Electrochemical migration (ECM) is the dissolution and movement of metal ions in presence of electric potential, which results in the growth of dendritic structures between anode and cathode. The process is most commonly observed in printed circuit ...

-type failure in printed circuit boards

Other uses

Central African Republic The Central African Republic (CAR; ; , RCA; , or , ) is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Chad to the north, Sudan to the northeast, South Sudan to the southeast, the DR Congo to the south, the Republic of th ...

, by ISO 3166-1 country code *

Common Assessment Framework The Common Assessment Framework (CAF) is the common European quality management instrument for the public sector. It is a free tool to assist public sector organisations to improve their performance. The CAF helps the organisations to perform a se ...

, an EU tool to bring quality improvements to public sector services *

Community Adjustment Fund The Canadian federal budget for the 2009-2010 fiscal year was presented to the House of Commons of Canada by Canadian Minister of Finance, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty on January 27, 2009. The Canadian federal budget, federal budget included $40 ...

, part of the 2009 Canadian federal budget *

Canadian Fur Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...

, pronounced as 胳肋底毛 in Cantonese spoken in Hong Kong and Macau .