OSI
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OSI is primarily used as an abbreviation and has many meanings:
- OSI Pharmaceuticals, an American pharmaceutical company
- Office of Scientific Intelligence, former name of a department of the Central Intelligence Agency now called the Directorate of Science and Technology
- Office of Strategic Influence, a short-lived former American government agency created in 2001, part of the Department of Defense and focused on psychological warfare
- Olomouc Summer Institute, an educational program for high-school students
- Ontario Swine Improvement, a pig breeding company based in Ontario, Canada
- Open Society Institute, a private charitable foundation established by George Soros to promote open societies around the world
- Ordinance Survey Ireland (Suirbhéireacht Ordanáis Éireann)
- U.S. DOJ Office of Special Investigations, an American government agency that detects and investigates individuals in the United States who took part in Nazi-sponsored acts of persecution abroad before and during World War II
- U.S. GAO Office of Special Investigations, a specialized unit within the American Government Accounting Office created to meet Congress' need for quick responses to issues of serious wrongdoing involving federal matters
- OSI Systems Inc a company that manufactures security scanners and medical equipment based in California.
- Office of Special Investigations
- Open Systems International
Technology
- Open Systems Interconnection, a joint ISO and ITU-T standard for computer networks and communication protocols
- OSI model, a layered abstract description for communications and computer network protocol design
- Open Source Initiative, an organization dedicated to promoting open source software
Entertainment
- OSI, an American progressive rock supergroup
- Origin Systems, a computer game developer
- Office of Strategic Influence, the 2003 debut album by the forementioned band OSI
Fiction
- OSI: a fictional government agency in The Six Million Dollar Man television program
- Office of Secret Intelligence: a United States government secret agency in the animated series The Venture Bros. Character Brock Samson is employed by this organization.
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