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Product Manager The individual, designated by a materiel developer, who is delegated authority and assigned responsibility for centralized management of a…
product rationale A description of the security capabilities of a product, giving the necessary information for a prospective purchaser to decide whether it will help to…
Product Security (PRODSEC) That physical security provided for selected DoD products (major, high cost, politically sensitive systems with significant military value) at Department…
Production The process of delivering to another party, or making available for that partys review, documents deemed responsive to a discovery request.
Production Acceptance Test and Evaluation T&E of production items to demonstrate that items procured fulfill the requirements and specifications of the procuring contract or agreements.
Production and Deployment Normally the fourth phase in the acquisition process following Milestone III. Systems are procured, items are manufactured, operational units are trained…
Production Baseline The Acquisition Program Baseline (APB) approved at Milestone III, applicable to the effort in Phase III, Production and Deployment.
Production Control The procedure of planning, routing, scheduling, dispatching, and expediting the flow of materials, parts, subassemblies, and assemblies within the plant…
Production Feasibility The likelihood that a system design concept can be produced using existing production technology while simultaneously meeting quality, production rate…
Production Qualification Test (PQT) A technical test conducted post MS III to ensure the effectiveness of the manufacturing process, equipment, and procedures.
Production Readiness The state or condition or preparedness of a system to proceed into production. A system is ready for production when the producibility of the production…
Production Readiness Review (PRR) A formal examination of a program to determine if the design is ready for production, production-engineering problems have been resolved, and the producer…
profile A sectional view showing grades and distances, usually taken along the centerline.
profile dip Synonym index dip.
profile dispersion See dispersion.
profile parameter (g) In the power-law index profile of an optical fiber, the parameter, g, that defines the shape of the refractive-index profile.
profiles A profile is a collection of Java APIs that complements one or more Java 2 Platform Editions by adding domain-specific capabilities.
Profiling Measuring the characteristics of expected activity so that changes to it can be more easily identified.
Profit Elasticity A measure of the profit potential of different economic conditions based on adjusting price, supply, or other variables to create a different profit…
Prograde Orbit An orbit having an inclination of between 0 and 90 with the object moving in an easterly direction. (Retrograde Orbit.) 233
Program (1) A DoD acquisition program. (2) As a verb, schedule funds to meet requirements and plans. (3) A major, independent part of a software system.
Program Acquisition Cost The estimated cost of development (RDT&E), procurement, and system specific military construction (MILCON) necessary to acquire the defense system.
program architecture For a computer program, (a) the structure, relationships, and arrangement of the components of the program, (b) the program interfaces, and (c) the…
Program Baseline Acquisition Program Baseline.
Program Budget Decision (PBD) Secretary of Defense decision documents that affirm or change dollar amounts or manpower allowances in the services budget estimate submissions.
Program Change Decision A decision by SECDEF issued in a prescribed format that authorizes changes in the structure of the FYDP.
Program Change Request Prepared in a prescribed format, it is a proposal for out-of-cycle changes to data recorded in the approved FYDP.
Program Cost Categories Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation. Appropriations to fund the efforts performed by contractors and government activities, including procurement…
program counter A program counter is an integral part of a computer's Central Processing Unit. It contains a reference to the memory address of the next instruction to be…
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…