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6,416 terms

Defense terms

  1. Physical Configuration Audit (PCA) Physical examination to verify that the configuration item(s) as built conforms to the technical documentation that defines the item.
  2. PI Program Integrator.
  3. PIA Personnel Identification/Authorization System (USA term).
  4. PIC (1) PLRS Interface Controller (US Army term). (2) Policy Integration Committee. (3) Program Information Center (Computer programmer term).
  5. Picture Element (PIXEL) The smallest element of a display space that can be independently assigned color and intensity; the finest detail that can be effectively reproduced on a…
  6. PIDS Prime Item Development Specification.
  7. Pilot Production Production line normally established during EMD to test new manufacturing methods and procedures. Normally funded by RDT&E until the line is proven.
  8. PIM Position of Intended Movement (USN term).
  9. PIMS Programmable Implantable Medication System.
  10. PIP (1) Predicted Impact Point. (2) Predicted Intercept Point. (3) Product Improvement Proposal/Program.
  11. PIPT Program Integrated Product (Process) Team.
  12. PIR Program Information Report.
  13. pixel Picture Element.
  14. PK Player Kill or Player Killer.
  15. PKCS Public Key Cryptography Standard.
  16. PKH Probability of Kill, given a hit. 225
  17. PKO Peacekeeping Operations.
  18. Pkss Probability of kill -- single shot.
  19. PL Ice pellets (sleet)
  20. PLA (1) Peoples Liberation Army (Chinas army). (2) Patent License Agreement.
  21. Plan A benefit your employer, union or other group sponsor provides to you to pay for your health care services.
  22. Planning, Programming, Budgeting System (PPBS) The primary resource allocation process of DoD . One of three major decisionmaking support systems for defense acquisition.
  23. PLCCE Program Managers Life Cycle Cost Estimate.
  24. PLISN Provisioning List Item Sequence Number (ILS term).
  25. PLRS Position Location Reporting System.
  26. Plume Data Center AEDC, Arnold AFB, TN.
  27. PLV Payload Launch Vehicle.
  28. PM See Program Manager.
  29. PMA President's Management Agenda
  30. PMASIT PMA Software Input Tool MDA/DPI S/W tool).
  31. PMC PCI Mezzanine Card (computer H/W term).
  32. PMD Prognostic Discussion
  33. PMEL Precision Measurement Equipment Laboratory.
  34. PMI Private Mortgage Insurance; privately-owned companies that offer standard and special affordable mortgage insurance programs for qualified borrowers with…
  35. PMIT PATRIOT Missile Integration Team (PAC-3 Program term).
  36. PMJEG Performance Measurement Joint Evaluation Group.
  37. PMO Program Management Office
  38. PMP (1) Parts, Materiel and Processes (US Army term) (See also MPP). (2) Program Master Plan. (3) Prime Mission Product. (4) Program Management Plan.
  39. PMR (1) Program Management Review. (2) Pacific Missile Range. (3) Program Managers Review (PAC-3 term).
  40. PMRF/KTF Pacific Missile Range Facility/Kauai Test Facility, Barking Sands, Kauai, HI.
  41. PMS (1) Planned Maintenance System (ILS term). (2) Performance Measurement System.
  42. PMTC Pacific Missile Test Center, Pt. Mugu , CA.
  43. PMWG Producibility and Manufacturing Working Group.
  44. PNE Peaceful Nuclear Explosion.
  45. PNET One of a group of cancers that develop from the same type of early cells, and share certain biochemical and genetic features.
  46. PO (1) [Acquisition] Program Office. (2) Purchase Order.
  47. POA&M Plan of Actions and Milestones.
  48. POC (1) Point of Contact. (2) Proof of Concept.
  49. POC/ET Proof of Concept/Experimental Test (e.g., modular USSTRATCOM ground mobile command post).
  50. POCT Passive Optical Component Technology.
  51. POD (1) Plan of the Day. (2) Probability of Detection. (3) Port of Debarkation.
  52. PODIUM Project Origination Design, Implementation and Maintenance.
  53. POE (1) Program Office Estimate. (2) Projected Operating Environment.
  54. POET A consortium of scientist and engineers from FFRDCs providing technical support to the MDA. (Formerly referred to as the Phase One Engineering Team.)
  55. Point Defense The defense or protection of special vital elements and installations; e.g., command and control facilities, air bases, etc.
  56. Point Defense System A terminal defense system using radars and large numbers of guided projectiles to defend ICBMs. This concept was considered in the early 1980s.
  57. Pointing The treatment of joints between bricks, stone, or other masonry components by filling with mortar; also, called tuck-pointing
  58. POL Petroleum, Oil, and Lubrication. 227
  59. POLAD Political Advisor.
  60. POM Program Objectives Memorandum.
  61. POMCUS Pre-positioning Of Materiel Configured to Unit Sets.
  62. POP Contraction of "Repopulation", often used as a shortened term for the re-spawn of monsters.
  63. Port Covers Mechanism for thrust termination of solid-propellant systems.
  64. Portability Portability is a provision of the INA intended to preserve the legal status of an H-1B worker who is already in the U.S.
  65. POS Positive
  66. Poseidon Class of US nuclear ballistic submarines (USN term).
  67. POSIX Portable Operating System Interface.
  68. Post After; later.
  69. Post-Attack The period following the attack, prior to the next wave.
  70. Post-Attack Period In nuclear warfare, that period which extends from the termination of the final attack until political authorities agree to terminate hostilities.
  71. Post-Boost Phase (PBP) That portion of the trajectory of a ballistic missile between the end of powered flight and release of the last RV.
  72. Post-Boost Vehicle (PBV) The portion of a rocket payload that carries multiple warheads and which has the maneuvering capability to independently target each warhead on a final…
  73. POSTPROD Post-Production.
  74. POTS OBSOLETE. Phase One Threat Specification.
  75. PP (1) Parallel Processing. (2) Principal Polarization. (3) Post Processing. (4) Program Plan.
  76. PPBES (1) Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution System. (2) Program Planning and Budgeting System.
  77. PPBS Planning, Programming, Budgeting System.
  78. PPG (1) Parallel Programming Group. (2) Program Planning Guidance.
  79. PPI Plan Position Indicator
  80. PPIP Program Protection and Implementation Plan.
  81. PPIRS Producibility Programming and Issues Resolution Strategies. 228
  82. PPL Provisioning Parts List (ILS term).
  83. PPLI Provisioning Parts List Index (ILS term).
  84. PPP Program Protection Plan.
  85. PPQT Pre-Production Qualification Test.
  86. PPS PowerPoint Show file - a type of encapsulated, non-editable Microsoft slideshow
  87. PPU Prime Power Unit (THAAD).
  88. PQT Production Qualification Test.
  89. PR Describes cells that do not have a protein to which the hormone progesterone will bind.
  90. PRA Program Review Authority. PRB 1. Planning and Resources Board. 2. Program Review Board.
  91. PRB (1) Planning and Resources Board. (2) Program Review Board.
  92. PRC Program Review Committee.
  93. PRD Public Records Division
  94. PRDA Program Research and Development Announcement.
  95. PRDR Pre-production Reliability Design Review.
  96. Pre Launch Survivability The probability that a delivery and/or launch vehicle will survive an enemy attack under an established condition of warning.
  97. Pre-Allocated Defense A preplanned decision to designate a specific number of defensive assets to be used against a specific target or set of targets or to defend a specified…
  98. Pre-Attack A period of time immediately prior to an attack, usually hours to minutes to tip-off.
  99. Pre-Authorized Engagement Criteria (PEC) Pre-specified quantitative operational parameter thresholds which when surpassed cause automated engagements to be enabled.
  100. Pre-Commit Strategy A tactic in which defense weapons are fired without being individually committed to specific targets.

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