Technology terms starting with P

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Program Decision Memorandum (PDM) SECDEFs approval of Military Department or Defense Agency POM with tentative specific guidance. Issued in July every two years during biennial PPBS.
Program Development and Risk Reduction (PDRR) The acquisition phase when major program characteristics and product designs are refined through extensive study and analysis, hardware development, test…
Program Element (PE) The 11 major force elements are subdivided into Program Elements. The program element is the basic building block of the FYDP.
Program Element Monitor (PEM) Person within HQ USAF office who is directly responsible for a given program and all documentation needed to harmonize the program in the budget.
Program Evaluation Review Technique A technique for management of a program through to completion by constructing a network model of integrated activities and events and periodically…
Program Executive Officer (PEO) A military or civilian official who has primary responsibility for directing several acquisition category I programs and for assigned Acquisition Category…
program generator A system that algorithmically writes code for you in a high-level language. See also "code generator".
Program Management The process whereby a single leader and team are responsible for planning, organizing, coordinating, directing, and controlling the combined efforts of…
Program Management Agreement (PMA) The guiding agreement between the BMDAE and the SAEs covering the broad objectives, funding, and expectations of each Service with respect to a specific…
Program Management Plan The document developed and issued by the program manager, which shows the integrated multi-functional time-phased actions and resources required to…
Program Manager (PM) A military or civilian official who is responsible for managing an acquisition program.
Program Objectives Memorandum (POM) An annual memorandum in prescribed format submitted to the SECDEF in May by the DoD Component Head, which recommends the total resource requirements and…
program origin See computer program origin.
program record A record relating to the mission or the unique, substantive functions of an office.
program records Records created or received and maintained by an agency in the conduct of the substantive functions for which it is responsible.
Program/Project Integrator (PI) The MDA staff member assigned responsibility for integrating all tasks within a project.
programmable Pertaining to a device that can accept instructions that alter its basic functions.
programmable logic array (PLA) An array of gates having interconnections that can be programmed to perform a specific logical function.
programmable read-only memory (PROM) A storage device that, after being written to once, becomes a read-only memory.
Programmatic Pertaining to the cost, schedule, and performance characteristics of an acquisition program. 235
programmatic security Security decisions that are made by security-aware applications. Programmatic security is useful when declarative security alone is not sufficient to…
programmer The part of digital equipment that controls the timing and sequencing of operations. 2. A person who prepares computer programs, i.e.
Programming The projection of activities to be accomplished and the resources that will be required for a specified period in the future.
programming language An artificial language that is used to generate or to express computer programs.
programming language API The interface between applications and application platforms traditionally associated with programming language specifications, such as program control…
programming system One or more programming languages and the software necessary for using these languages with particular automatic data processing equipment.
progressive matching Pattern matching that picks up where it left off before.
PROGRUS Program Update Studies.
Project A single financial entity which can be composed of several units or divisions, integrated projects, or participating projects.
Project 25 A joint effort of U.S. Federal, state, and local governments to develop standards for interoperable digital, narrowband radios to meet public-safety user…
Project eLiza An initiative launched by IBM in April 2001 to integrate autonomic capabilities into its products and services, including servers, storage, middleware…
project file An assembly of records and other data regardless of media (e.g., hardcopy, electronic, film) that pertains to a set of activities or pursuits designated…
Project Office The office of the program manager and the point of contact with industry, government agencies, and other activities participating in the system…
Project Planning Guidance (PPG) High-level summary document that defines the work to be performed by each Executing Agent in support of the BMD program.
Project Summary Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) A summary WBS tailored to a specific defense materiel item by selecting applicable elements from one or more summary WBSs or by adding equivalent elements…
projection See map projection.
projection file A coverage file that stores the parameters for the map projection and coordinate system of a geographic data set (e.g., a coverage).
Proliferation (Nuclear Weapons) The process by which nations sequentially come into possession of, or acquire the right to determine the use of, nuclear weapons, thus enabling each to…
prolog The part of an XML document that precedes the XML data. The prolog includes the declaration and an optional DTD.
PROM Acronym for programmable read-only memory.
promote To copy the property values found in a Microsoft Office document to the properties of a SharePoint Portal Server document profile.
prompt An audio message played over the telephone to explain valid options to users. [Exchange 2007]
prompt publishing point A file share where storage space is available for Unified Messaging custom prompts. Each dial plan has only one prompt publishing point.
Proof of Possession Protocol (PoP Protocol) A protocol where a claimant proves to a verifier that he/she possesses and controls a token (e.g., a key or password).
Proof of Principle (POP) Technical demonstration and troop experimentation conducted with brassboard configuration, subsystems, or surrogate systems, using troops in a realistic…
propagation The duplication of a whole plant from a range of vegetative materials; adapted for in vitro culture as micropropagation.
propagation constant For an electromagnetic field mode varying sinusoidally with time at a given frequency, the logarithmic rate of change, with respect to distance in a given…
propagation delay 1. The time required for a signal to travel from one point to another. 2. In cryptography, the delay between the presentation of a clear text block to a…
propagation mode The manner in which radio signals travel from a transmitting antenna to a receiving antenna, such as ground wave, sky wave, direct wave, ground…
propagation path obstruction A man-made or natural physical feature that lies near enough to a radio path to cause a measurable effect on path loss, exclusive of reflection effects.
propagation time delay The time required for a signal to travel from one point to another.
Proper name recognition Proper name recognition is a way of identifying word sequences in text that are defined as proper names or phrases in the appropriate dictionary.
properties See resource property.
property For this survey, property means real estate; that is, land and anything permanently affixed to the land, such as buildings and those things attached to…
Property and Land For example, resources describing cadastral surveys and land ownership.
property definition The scope and behavior for a single element of metadata that can be applied to a resource.
property rule A JSON-compliant markup standard for declaring properties, mappings, and output values in an AWS CloudFormation template.
property set A property set is a grouping of Active Directory attributes. You can control access to this grouping of Active Directory attributes by setting one access…
Property store Table of properties and their values used and maintained by the Search service. Each row in the table corresponds to a document in the full-text index.
property value The value of a single element of metadata that has been applied to a resource. It can be either single valued or multi valued.
property weighting The ability to manipulate the rank of a search result by assigning more importance to particular property values.
proprietary information Information that is not generally known and that has competitive value, e.g., trade secrets and business information not generally known.
Proprietary Right A broad contractor term used to describe data belonging to the contractor. This data could be intellectual property, financial data, etc.
proprietary software data processing software that is obtained under a license and that is protected by copyright or trade secret laws.
proprietary standard Documentation by a commercial entity specifying equipment, practices, or operations unique to that commercial entity.
proprietary system a system that is exclusive to and relies solely upon the support of a single vendor and that may very well not be compatible with any other system or…
proration The proportional distribution or allocation of parameters, such as noise power and transmission losses, among a number of tandem-connected items, such as…
protected A Java keyword used in a method or variable declaration. It signifies that the method or variable can only be accessed by elements residing in its class…
protected access Protected access is available to a class member prefixed with the protected access modifier.
protected communications Telecommunications delivering their protection through use of type 2 products or data encryption standard equipment. [INFOSEC-99]
protected data A record that is classified protected as provided by UCA 63G-2-305. Protected records usually contain non-personal data and are only accessible by those…
protected distribution system (PDS) [A] wireline or fiber-optic distribution system used to transmit unencrypted classified national security information through an area of lesser…
Protected Forest Root Domain (PFRD) Contains critical forest-wide management groups and users as well as critical forest-wide services.
protected frequency A frequency that is not to be deliberately jammed by friendly forces, usually during a specified period. [From Weik '89]
protected statement A statement within the try clause of a try statement.
Protection For purposes of the National System of MPAs, must have existing laws or regulations that are designed and applied to afford the site with increased…
protection channel The channel allocated to transport the working traffic during diversity routing.
protection equipment Type 2 product or data encryption standard equipment that the National Security Agency has endorsed to meet applicable standards for the protection of…
protection interval (PI) In high-frequency (HF) radio automatic link establishment, the period between changes in the time-of-day portion of the time-varying randomization data…
protection level The Microsoft implementation of an integrity level. In particular, a protection level, refers to an integrity label that contains only level information…
protection mapping Information that relates a protection requirement to a security transformation that is used to satisfy the specification. [After X9.41]
protection philosophy An informal description of the overall design of a system that delineates each of the protection mechanisms employed.
Protection Priorities The aggregated value for each impact point prediction specifying the order of protection.
protection profile (PP) An implementation-independent set of security requirements for a family or category of targets of evaluation (TOEs) that meet specified consumer needs.
protection profile family Privileges that allow an entity to act on behalf of another entity [ECMA138].
protection ratio The minimum value of the wanted-to-unwanted signal ratio, usually expressed in decibels, at the receiver input determined under specified conditions such…
protection ring One of a hierarchy of privileged modes of an information system (IS) that gives certain access rights to user programs and processes that are authorized…
protection switching (PS) A feature of a transmission entity that enables data on a failed facility to be moved to an alternate facility.
protection-critical portion of the TCB Those portions of the TCB whose normal function is to deal with the control of access between subjects and objects [TCSEC].
Protective Distribution System Wire line or fiber optic system that includes adequate safeguards and/or countermeasures (e.g.
protective packaging [In INFOSEC,] packaging techniques for COMSEC material that discourage penetration, reveal a penetration has occurred or was attempted, or inhibit viewing…
protective storage use of special fire-resistant and environmentally controlled records protection equipment and vaults designed for the protection of the media being stored
protective technologies Special tamper-evident features and materials employed for the purpose of detecting tampering and deterring attempts to compromise, modify, penetrate…
protector In telecommunications systems, a device used to protect facilities and equipment from abnormally high voltages or currents.
Proto Prototype. 236
protocol An action plan for a clinical trial. The plan states what the study will do, how, and why.
protocol abnormality In ISDN, a protocol event (a protocol error or other event) that indicates that a potential trouble condition exists on the ISDN interface.
Protocol Analysis agent The underlying agent that is used by the Sender Reputation feature in Exchange Server 2007.
protocol converter A functional unit that uses a specified algorithm to translate a bit stream from one protocol to another, for interoperation.
Protocol Data Unit A unit of data specified in a protocol and consisting of protocol information and, possibly, user data.