Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Initialisms

P-CMM
People Capability Maturity Model

P3I
Pre-Planned Product Improvement

PA
process area

PA
project administrator

PA&E
Program Analysis and Evaluation

PAA
Peer Access Approval

PAC
Privilege Attribute Certificate

PACC
Predictable Assembly from Certifiable Components

PACT
Pilot Ada Capabilities Transition

PAD
Packet Assembler/Disassembler

Padtech
Process Architecture Design Technology

PAE
Peer Access Enforcement

PAI
personal accident insurance

PAIS
Process Appraisal Information System

PAL
Permissive Action Link

PAL
process asset library

PAL
products accepted list

PAL
Public Ada Library

PAMELA
process abstraction method for embedded large applications

PAMELA-2
pictorial Ada method for every large application

PAP
Packet Authentication Protocol

PAP
Packet-Level Procedure

PAP
Password Authentication Protocol

PAR
project authorization request

PARAGON
Prototype Air Reporting And Ground Operations Node

PARC
Palo Alto Research Center

PARM
Program Acquisition Resource Manager

PASC
Portable Application Standards Committee

PAST
Program-Specific and Architecture-Specific Simulation Tool

PAT
Process Action Team

PAT&E
Production Acceptance Test and Evaluation

PBD
Program Baseline Document

PBD
Program Budget Decisions

PBE
password-based encryption

PBO
Performance Based Organization

PBX
Private Branch Exchange

PC
personal computer

PC
program counter

PC-AT
personal computer, advanced technology

PC-RT
personal computer, RISC technology

PC-XT
personal computer, extended technology

PCA
performance and coverage analyzer

PCA
physical configuration audit

PCAT
Personal Computer Access Tool

PCB
Printed Circuit Board

PCB
Process Control Block

PCB
Program Control Block

PCCIP
President's Commission for Critical Infrastructure Protection

PCE
professional continuing education

PCE
Program for Concentrated Expertise

PCG
Process Change Guide

PCI
Peripheral Component Interconnect

PCI
Physical Configuration Identification

PCIPB
President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board

PCIS
portable common interface set

PCL
portable common loops

PCL
Printer Control Language

PCM
Plug Compatible Mainframe

PCM
Process Change Management

PCM
Pulse Code Modulation

PCMCIA
Personal Computer Memory Card International Association

PCMS
Process Configuration Management Software

PCN
Personal Communications Network

PCN
Program Control Number

PCO
Procurement Contracting Office

PCO
Procuring Contract Officer

PCP
Priority Ceiling Protocol

PCP
process change process

PCP
process change proposal

PCPE
Post College Professional Education

PCR
Peak Cell Rate

PCR
problem change request

PCS
Performance-Critical Systems Initiative

PCS
Personal Communications Services

PCTE
portable common tool environment

PCTS
POSIX conformance test suite

PCZ
Protected Communication Zone

PD
Program Director

PDA
Personal Digital Assistant

PDAG
Process Definition Advisory Group

PDCA
plan, do, check, act

PDD
Program Development Division

PDES
Product Data Exchange Specification

PDES
Product Data Exchange Standard

PDF
portable document format

PDL
page description language

PDL
process description language

PDL
program design language

PDM
product data management

PDM
Program Decision Meeting

PDM
Program Decision Memorandum

PDP
product development proposal

PDP
Program Decision Package

PDR
preliminary design review

PDR
Program Deviation Report

PDS
program design stability

PDS
Protected Distribution System

PDSP
post-deployment support plan

PDSS
post-deployment software support

PDSS
post-deployment sustainment and support

PDSSA
post-deployment software support activity

PDSSC
post-deployment software support concept

PDSSCD
post-deployment software support concept document

PDSSIM
PDSS information management

PDSSP
post-deployment software support plan

PDU
Protocol Data Unit

PE
licensed Professional Engineer

PE
personnel equivalent

PEC
personal effects coverage

PECI
Productivity Enhancement Capital Investment

PECT
Prediction-Enabled Component Technology

PECT
prediction-enabled component technology

PEL
process example library

PEM
privacy enhanced mail

PEO
Program Executive Officer

PEO/SYSCOM
Program Executive Officer/System Commander

PEP
personal effects protection

PERT
Performance Evaluation and Review Technique

PERT
program evaluation and review technique

PES
Positive Enable System

PFF
Page Fault Frequency

PGA
Professional Graphics Adapter

PGA
Programmable Gate Array

PGP
pretty good privacy

PH
periodic harmonic

PhD
Doctor of Philosophy

PHIGS
Programer's Hierarchical Interactive Graphics Standard

PHIGS
Programer's Hierarchical Interactive Graphics System

PI
principal investigator

PI
process improvement

PI
Product Improvement

PI
Product Integration

PID
prime item development specification

PID
Process Innovation Deployment

PID
Program Integration Directorate

PIID
Process Improvement Indicator Database

PIDX
Petroleum Industry Data Exchange

PIF
Personnel Identification Feature

PIF
Process Improvement Forum

PIF
Productivity Improvement Fund

PIF
Project Initiation Form

PII
program independent interface

PII
protocol independent interface

PIM
Personal Information Manager

PIM
process improvement model

PIN
personal identification number

PIU
Path Information Unit

PIWG
Performance Interface Working Group

PKA
Public Key Algorithm

PKC
Public Key Cryptography

PKCS
public key cryptography standards

PKI
public key infrastructure

PKI PMO
Public Key Infrastructure Program Management Office

PKP
Public Key Partners

PKSD
Programmable Key Storage Device

PL
private line

PL
Programming Language

PL
Public Law

PLA
programmable logic array

PLAD
Plain Language Address

PLE
Product Line Engineering

PLEASE
Problems, Enhancements, & Requests Tracking System

PLL
Phased Lock Loop

PLP
Product Line Practice

PLS
Physical Layer Signaling

PLTP
Product Line Technical Probe

PLTP
Product Line Technical Probe

PM
Phase Modulation

PM
program manager

PM
project management

PM
project manager

PM-CMM
People Management Capability Maturity Model

PMA
Physical Medium Attachment

PMA
program management agreement

PMBOK
Project Management Body of Knowledge

PMC
Program Managers Course

PMC
Program/Project Management Charter

PMC
Project Management Committee

PMC
Project Monitoring and Control

PMD
Program Management Directive

PMF
postscript and context picture metafile

PMI
Production Masters, Inc.

PMI
Project Management Institute

PMIP
Program Management Improvement Project

PMIS
Project Management Information System

PMO
Program Management Office

PMP
Program Management Plan

PMPMTS
Program Management Performance Measurement Tracking System

PMR/b>
Project Management Review

PMRT
Program Management Responsibility Transfer

PMS
processor memory switch

PMSS
Program Management Support System

PMT
Program Management Team

PMTC
Pacific Missile Test Center

PMTRADE
Program Manager for Training Devices

PN
periodic nonharmonic

PNAMBIC
please ignore the man behind the curtain

PNEK
Post-Nuclear Event Key

PO
purchase order

POA&M
Plan of Action and Milestones

POC
point of contact

POE
Program Office Estimate

POET
Phase One Engineering Team

POL
problem-oriented language

POL
procedure-oriented language

POM
program objectives memorandum

POP
point of presence

POP
Post Office Protocol

POP3
Post Office Protocol version 3

POPL
principles of programming languages

POS
point of sale

POS
point of service

POS
Position line of the OTG message format

POSIX
Portable Operating System for Computer Environments

POSIX
portable operating system interface

POSIX
portable operating system interface standard

POST
Prototype Ocean Surveillance Terminal

POTS
Plain Old Telephone System

PP
Project Planning

PPBS
Program Planning and Budgeting System

PPL
Preferred Products List

PPM
Pages Per Minute

PPM
Period of Performance and Maintenance

PPM
project plan management

PPP
Point-to-Point Protocol

PPQA
Product and Process Quality Assurance

PPTO
Project Planning and Tracking Oversight

PPTP
Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol

PQC
Project Quality Coordinator

PQCC
production quality compiler-compiler

PR
Peer Review

PR
Public Relations

PRA
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995

PRAG
Performance Risk Management Group

PRAM
Pipelined Random Access Memory

PRBAC
Partition Rule Base Access Control

PREPnet
Pennsylvania Research and Economic Partnership Network

PRI
Primary Rate

PRICE-S
Parametric Review of Information for Costing and Evaluation - Software

PRISM
Electronic Systems Center's Portable Reusable Integrated Software Modules

PRMD
Private Administrative Management Domain

PROM
programmable read-only memory

PROPIN
Proprietary Information

PROSPECTA
Program Development by Specification and Transformation

PRP
Peer Review Plan

PRR
production readiness review

PRT
Program Requirements Team

PSA
Principal Staff Assistant

PSA
Program Support Agreement

PSC
Pittsburgh SuperComputing Center

PSC
prime support contractor

PSC
Profile Steering Committee

PSDN
Packet Switched Data Network

PSDU
Physical Layer Service Data Unit

PSE
programming support environments

PSESWG
Project Support Environments Standards Working Group

PSK
Phase Shift Keying

PSL
program specification language

PSL
Protected Services List

PSL/PSA
Problem Statement Language/Problem Statement Analyzer

PSM
personal security manager

PSM
Practical Software Measurement

PSN
packet switching node

PSP
Personal Software Process

PSP
problem-solving process

PSS
Physical Source Statements

PST
Pacific Standard Time

PSTN
Public Switched Telephone Network

PT
Test Plan

PT&O
[Software] Project Tracking and Oversight

PTDP
Preliminary Technical Development Plan

PTO
paid time off

PTR
Program Trouble Report

PTR
project time remaining

PTT
Postal, Telephone and Telegraph companies

PTT
push to talk

PTU
Process Technology Utilization

PU
physical unit

PUB
publication

PUP
PARC universal packet

PV
present value

PV
Product Verification

PVI
Pilot Vehicle Interface

PWA
Printed Wiring Assembly

PWDS
Protected Wireline Distribution System

PWS
Project Work Statement [replaces TO&P]

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