VLA or vla may refer to:

Organizations

* Vermont Library Association, professional organization for librarians from Vermont *

Veterinary Laboratories Agency The Veterinary Laboratories Agency (VLA) was an executive agency of the UK government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). It carried out animal disease surveillance, diagnostic services and veterinary scientific research ...

, a UK government agency for researching animal and public health *

Victoria Legal Aid Victoria Legal Aid (VLA), formerly the Legal Aid Commission of Victoria, is an organisation that provides information, legal advice and education with a focus on the prevention and early resolution of legal problems. They prioritise intensive l ...

, an Australian Government agency supplying legal assistance to financially disadvantaged persons in the state of Victoria *

Victorian Legislative Assembly The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria in Australia; the upper house being the Victorian Legislative Council. Both houses sit at Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne. The presidin ...

, the lower house of the State Parliament of Victoria, Australia *

Virginia Library Association The Virginia Library Association (VLA) is a nonprofit organization whose purpose is "to develop, promote, and improve library and information services, library staff, and the profession of librarianship in order to advance literacy and learning a ...

, professional organization for librarians from Virginia *

Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (VLA) is both a generic term for legal service organizations located throughout the United States and the proper name of the organization in New York City. Founded in 1969, that organization is the oldest VLA in the ...

, any of a number of organizations providing ''pro bono'' legal assistance to members of the arts community

Science and technology

Very Large Array The Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) is a centimeter-wavelength radio astronomy observatory located in central New Mexico on the Plains of San Agustin, between the towns of Magdalena and Datil, ~ west of Socorro. The VLA comprises twent ...

, a radio telescope array in the US *

Variable-length array In computer programming, a variable-length array (VLA), also called variable-sized or runtime-sized, is an array data structure whose length is determined at run time (instead of at compile time). In C, the VLA is said to have a variably modified t ...

, a dynamically-sized data structure in several programming languages

Other uses

* EASA CS-VLA, the European Aviation Safety Agency certification specification for Very Light Aircraft *

RUM-139 VL-ASROC The RUM-139 VL-ASROC is an anti-submarine missile in the ASROC family, currently built by Lockheed Martin for the U.S. Navy. History Design and development of the missile began in 1983 when Goodyear Aerospace was contracted by the U.S. Navy to de ...

(Vertical Launch ASROC), an anti-submarine weapon of the US Navy * The VLA, a band, performers of the title sequence for the television series ''

Damages At common law, damages are a remedy in the form of a monetary award to be paid to a claimant as compensation for loss or injury. To warrant the award, the claimant must show that a breach of duty has caused foreseeable loss. To be recognised at ...

'' * Vla, a Dutch custard-like dairy product typically eaten for dessert {{disambiguation