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GovSpeak: A Guide to U.S. Government Acronyms & Abbreviations: P

The most current, extensive and fully-linked listing of U.S. government office, program, resource, and other acronyms.

P

P2 Pollution Prevention
P25 CAP Project 25 Compliance Assessment Program
P3 People, Prosperity and the Planet | Public-Private Partnership Unit
P4VE Partnering for Vaccine Equity
P&R Personnel and Readiness
P&SP Packers and Stockyards Program (changed to PSD)
PA Bureau of Public Affairs (changed to GPA)
PAAP Public Assistance Alternative Procedures
PAB Personnel Appeals Board | Program Analysis Branch
PAC Planetary Science Advisory Committee
PACA Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act Program
PACCARB Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
PACE Pandemic Analytics Center of Excellence | Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem | Pollution Abatement Costs and Expenditures Survey | Post Application Coverage Endorsement | Powering Affordable Clean Energy (unable to verify 2/25) | Prevention through Active Community Engagement (unable to verify 2/25) | Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly
PACEI Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity (discontinued 1/18); documents & correspondence (unable to verify 4/24)
PACER Payments, Claims and Enhanced Reconciliation | Public Access to Court Electronic Records
PACHA Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS
PACIFICA Pacific Ocean Interior Carbon database
PACT Partnering and Communicating Together to Act Against AIDS (unable to verify 1/25) | Perovskite PV Accelerator for Commercializing Technologies | Practices to Accelerate the Commercialization of Technologies | Protecting American Communities Task Force (archived)
PAD Policy Analysis Division (unable to verify 8/21) | Program Adjudication Division
PADD Petroleum Administration for Defense District | Product Acquisition & Deployment Directorate (page archived)
PADRECC Parkinson’s Disease Research, Education, and Clinical Center
PAD-US Protected Areas Database of the United States
PAEO Policy Analysis and Engagement Office (unable to verify 9/24)
PAER Performance Analysis and External Reporting Division
PAF Pregnancy Assistance Fund
PAFA Priority-based Assessment of Food Additives (unable to verify 5/19)
PAGER Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response
PAGES Public Access Gateway for Energy & Science
PAID Payroll Audit Independent Determination (terminated 1/21)
PAIMI Protection & Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness Program
PAIR Patent Application Information Retrieval (retired 7/22; replaced by Patent Center) | Protection and Advocacy of Individual Rights
PAIRS Partnerships to Advance Innovation and Regulatory Science (changed to DPI)
PAIVED Preventing and Addressing Intimate Violence when Engaging Dads
PAL FOIA Public Access Link | Project Activity Level
PAM Office of Acquisition and Property Management | Payment Automation Manager | Pesticide Analytical Manual | Poverty Area Measures
PAMA Pediatric, Adolescent & Maternal AIDS Branch (changed to MPIDB)
PAMS Portfolio Analysis And Management System
PANTHR Probabilistic Analysis for National Threats Hazards and Risks
PAO Privacy Act Office (changed to Privacy Office) | Public Affairs Office
PAPPG Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide
PAR NSF Public Access Repository
PARADIGM Platform Accelerating Rural Access to Distributed and InteGrated Medical Care
PARDON Office of the Pardon Attorney
PARIS Public Assistance Reporting Information System
PARISE Phased Array Radar Innovative Sensing Experiment
PARP Pandemic Assistance Revenue Program
PAS Post-Approval Studies Database
PASRR Preadmission Screening and Resident Review
PASS Physical Assessment Subsystem | Public Area Security Summits
PatEx Patent Examination Research Dataset
PatFT Patent Full-Text and Image Database (replaced by Patent Public Search)
PATH Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing | Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness
PATHH Pandemic Assistance for Timber Harvesters and Haulers (page archived 10/21)
PATRIOT Visa Security Program - Pre-Adjudicated Threat Recognition Intelligence Operations Team
PAUSE Public Alert: Unregistered Soliciting Entities
PAVE Interagency Task Force on Property Appraisal and Valuation Equity (unable to verify 1/25)
PAW Program to Achieve Wellness (unable to verify 3/19)
PBA Public and Business Affairs (changed to PAO)
PBEDs Person-borne Explosive Detection Training Guidelines
PBGC Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
PBI Plant Biotic Interactions Program
PBM Pharmacy Benefits Management Services
PBNDS Performance-Based National Detention Standards
PBRB Public Buildings Reform Board
PBRN Primary Care Practice-Based Research Networks
PBS Public Buildings Service
PC Office of Policy Coordination | Peace Corps | Preferred Communities program
PCA Plant Conservation Alliance (unable to verify 8/17) | Principal Cyber Advisor (unable to verify 3/24)
PCAFC Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers
PCAH President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities (unable to verify 1/25)
PCAOB Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
PCAST President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
PCB Prevention Communication Branch
PCBE President's Council on Bioethics (changed to PCSBI)
PCC Program for Cooperative Cataloging
PCCP Pandemic Cover Crop Program (site archived 5/23)
PCD Prevening Chronic Disease Journal | Program Complaints Division | Program Counsel Division
PCE Personal Consumption Expenditures
PCEA Presidential Commission on Election Administration
PCFSN President's Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition (changed to PCSFN)
PCGQR 2020 Post-Census Group Quarters Review
PCI Pharmaceutical Countermeasures Infrastructure
PCIE President's Council on Integrity and Effiency (changed to CIGIE)
PCII Protected Critical Infrastructure Information
PCIP Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan
PCIS Person Centric Identity Services
PCIT Phytosanitary Certificate Issuance & Tracking System
PCLD Privacy and Civil Liberties Directorate
PCLFD Privacy, Civil Liberties, and Freedom of Information Directorate (changed to PCLD)
PCLO Privacy and Civil Liberties Office (changed to OPCL)
PCLOB Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
PCMDI Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison
PCMH Patient Centered Medical Home
PCMSC Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
PCN Preassigned Control Number Program
PCNRC Performance Contracting National Resource Center
PCOR Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
PCOS Physics of the Cosmos Program
PCPG Personalized Career Planning and Guidance
PCPID President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities
PCRB Process of Care Research Branch (unable to verify 11/16) | Prepublication Classification Review Board
PCRM Program in Cellular Regulation and Metabolism (unable to verify 11/16)
PCRN Perkins Collaborative Resource Network
PCS Permit Compliance System
PCSBI Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (defunct; archived at Georgetown)
PCSF Procurement Collusion Strike Force
PCSFN President’s Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition
PCSP Provider Customer Service Program
PCSRF Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund
PCSS Providers Clinical Support System
PCSSP Private Charter Standard Security Program
PCT Patent Cooperation Treaty
PCTC Pacific Cod Trawl Cooperative Program
PD Presidential Directives
PDA Preliminary Damage Assessment | Presidential Drawdown Authority
PDB Planning Database | Population Dynamics Branch
PDBP Parkinson's Disease Biomarkers Program
PDC Prescott Dispatch Center | Proteomic Data Commons | Provider Data Catalog
PDCO Planetary Defense Coordination Office
PDD Presidential Decision Directives
PDE Planetary Data Ecosystem
PDEGEN Program on Developmental Endocrinology and Genetics (unable to verify 3/18)
PDG B-5 Preschool Development Birth through Five
PD Hub Public Defense Resource Hub
PDM Pre-Disaster Mitigation Grant Program
PDMP Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs
PDN Program in Developmental Neuroscience (unable to verify 3/18)
PDNB Pediatrics & Developmental Neuroscience Branch (changed to SBP)
PDP Pesticide Data Program
PDPS Problem Driver Pointer System
PDQ Physician Data Query
PD&R Office of Policy Development and Research
PDRs Program Data Reports
PDS Planetary Data System
PDSD Personnel Document Security Division
PDSI Palmer Drought Severity Index
PDT Position Designation Tool | Print Distribution Titles List
PE Partnerships for Equity (unable to verify 1/25) | Postal Explorer | Prevention Effectiveness
PEACE Public Expenditures for Administrative Capacity Endurance
PEADS Presidential Emergency Action Documents (non-gov site)
PEAP President's Education Awards Program
PEAR Provider Education Assessment and Reporting System
PEARS Program Evaluation and Reporting System (unable to verify 5/23; possibly replaced by N-PEARS)
PEATT PFAS Exposure Assessment Technical Tools
PEB Polio Eradication Branch
PeBL Personal eBook for Learning
PECAD Production Estimates and Crop Assessment Division (unable to verify 3/07; likely changed to IPAD)
PECE Policy for Evaluation of Conservation Efforts
PEDAR Postsecondary Education Descriptive Analysis Reports
PedNSS Pediatric Nutrition Surveillance System (discontinued 2012)
PEDS Patent Examination Data System (retired 3/25; merged into ODP)
PEER Program Evaluation and Evidence Registry | Protecting Employees, Enabling Reemployment Initiative
PEGASIS Program for Experimental Gaming & Analysis of Strategic Interaction Scenarios
PEHSU Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit
PEIR Program Evaluation and Information Resources
PEMAD Populations and Ecosystems Monitoring and Analysis Division
PEMAT Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool
PEMS Program to End Modern Slavery
PEO Performance and Evaluation Office (unable to verify 9/24)
PEP Population Estimates Program  | Priority Enforcement Program | Privacy Engineering Program
PEPC Planning, Environment and Public Comment
PEPFAR President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
PEPH Partnerships for Environmental Public Health
PEPS Postsecondary Education Participants System
PEQIS Postsecondary Education Quick Information System
PERILS Propagation, Evolution, and Rotation in Linear Storms
PERL Power and Energy Real-Time Laboratory
PES Post-Enumeration Survey
PESD Pacific Ecological Systems Division
PESP Pesticide Environmental Stewardship Program
PESTO Planetary Exploration Science Technology Office
PET Office of Pandemics and Emerging Threats
PETL Processing & Environmental Lab
PETS Postsecondary Education Transcript Studies
PEYA President’s Environmental Youth Award
PFA Preparedness Field Assignee
PFAS Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances
PFC Passenger Facility Charge Program
PFDS Precipitation Frequency Data Server
PFEL Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory (unable to verify 6/20)
PFIAB President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (changed to PIAB)
PFM Office of Financial Management
PFMD Park Facility Management Division
PfP Partnership for Patients
PFP Partnership for Food Protection
PFR Partners for Recovery (unable to verify 8/19)
PFS Pay for Success (unable to verify 9/23) | Pooled-Fund Study | Principal Follow-Up Survey
PGC Federal Highway Policy & Guidance Center
PGD Program on Genomics of Differentiation (unable to verify 3/18)
PGDI Pediatric Genomic Data Inventory (unable to verify 9/22)
PGIAI Partnership for Global Inclusivity on AI
PGNB Pediatric Growth and Nutrition Branch
PGP Policy and Global Presence Directorate
PGPRU Plant Germplasm Preservation Research Unit (unable to verify 8/19)
PGRCU Plant Genetic Resources Conservation Unit
PGRL Petroleum Geochemistry Research Laboratory
PGSS Program and Grantee Support Services
PHA Public Health Alert | Public Health Assessment | Public Housing Agency (see PIH)
PHAP Public Health Associate Program
PharmPAC Pharmacist Professional Advisory Committee (unable to verify 11/16)
PHAST Process Heating Assessment and Survey Tool | Public Health and Safety Teams
PHB Population Health Branch
PHDS Public Health Data Strategy
PHE Public Health Emergency
PHECC Public Housing Environmental and Conservation Clearinghouse
PHED Pesticide Handler Exposure Database
PHEFA Public Health Entomology for All
PHEMCE Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise
PHEP Public Health Emergency Preparedness Program and Guidance
PHESD Public Health and Environmental Systems Division
PHGKB Public Health Genomics Knowledge Base (discontinued 8/24)
PHGR Public Health Grand Rounds (page archived)
PHHO Population Health and Healthcare Office (changed to OPAPH)
PHIFP Public Health Informatics Fellowship Program
PHIG Public Health Infrastructure Grant
PHIL Public Health Image Library
PHILIS Portable High-throughput Integrated Laboratory Identification System
PHIN Public Health Information Network
PHIN DIR PHIN Public Health Directory
PHINMS PHIN Messaging System
PHIN VADS PHIN Vocabulary Access and Distribution System
PHIO Public Health Informatics Office (unable to verify 4/24)
PHITD Public Health and Integrated Toxicology Division
PHITPO Public Health Informatics and Technology Program Office (replaced by PHSIPO)
PHIVE Public Health Infrastructure Virtual Engagement
PH LEADS Public Health Leadership and Education, Advancing Health Equity and Data Science
PHLIC Public Health Library and Information Center (changed to CDC Library)
PHLP Public Health Law Program
PHMOD Public Housing Management and Occupancy Division
PHMSA Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Administration
PHNPO Public Health National Program Office
PHOD Physical Oceanography Division
PHPPO Public Health Practice Program Office (defunct)
PHPPP Plant Health and Production and Plant Products
PHPR Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (changed to CPR)
PHPS Public Health and Public Safety | Public Health Prevention Service (site archived)
PHR Public Health Reports
PHREO Program in Human Research Ethics and Oversight
PHS Division of Public Health Services | Public Health Service (changed to ASH then OASH) | Public Health Statements (unable to verify 2/24)
PHSIPO Public Health Surveillance and Informatics Program Office (unable to verify 6/14)
PHSPO Public Health Surveillance Program Office (changed to PHSIPO)
PHTN Public Health Training Network (defunct; some content absorbed by CDC Learning Connection)
PHU Periodic Health Update
PHWRC Public Health Workforce Research Center
PHY Physics Division
PI Office of Policy and International Affairs (changed to IA) | Pandemic Influenza programs | Promoting Interoperability
PIA Partnership on Inclusive Apprenticeship (unable to verify 1/25) | Privacy Impact Assessments (DHS) | Privacy Impact Assessments (DOJ)
PIAAC Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies
PIAB President's Intelligence Advisory Board (unable to verify 2/21)
PIADC Plum Island Animal Disease Center
PIAEE Presidential Innovation Award for Environmental Educators
PIC Performance Improvement Council | PNNL Institutional Computing (unable to verify 3/19)
PICARD Pursuing Intelligent Complex Aerosols for Rapid Detection
PI CASC Pacific Islands Climate Adaptation Science Center
PICH Partnerships to Improve Community Health (unable to verify 1/24)
PICOE Payment Integrity Center of Excellence
PICS / PICSWEB Procurement Information Control System (unable to verify 2/16)
PI CSC Pacific Islands Climate Science Center (changed to PI CASC)
PID Pathway Interaction Database (website retired; content merged into NDEx)
PIDB Public Interest Declassification Board
PIDP Port Infrastructure Development Program
PIE Public Interest Exclusion
PIECP Prison Industry Enhancement Certification Program
PIER Promoting Inclusive and Equitable Research (unable to verify 1/25)
PIERC Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center
PIERS Passport Information Electronic Records System (pdf)
PIF Pandemic Intervals Framework | Presidential Innovation Fellows | Public Inspection Files
PIFSC Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center
PIGWAD Planetary Interactive G.I.S.-on-the-Web Analyzable Database (retired 2/19; replaced by MRCTR)
PIH Office of Public and Indian Housing
PIL Prescription Interdiction & Litigation Task Force (page archived 2/25)
PILB Public Information and Liaison Branch (changed to CB)
PILOT Planetary Image Locator Tool
PILOTS Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress (changed to PTSDpubs)
PILT Payment in Lieu of Taxes
PIM Phytosanitary Issues Management
PIMS Pension Insurance Modeling System
PIN Public Integrity Section
PINC Potential Incident of Noncompliance
PINEMAP Pine Integrated Network: Education, Mitigation, and Adaptation project (terminated 10/24)
PINR Division of Price and Index Number Research
PIP President’s Intelligence Priorities (unable to verify 2/25)
PIP-II Proton Improvement Plan II
PIR Payment Information Repository
PIRLS Progress in International Reading Literacy Study
PISA Program for International Student Assessment
PISCES George F. Ames Performance and Innovation in the SRF Creating Environmental Success Program
PIT Point in Time homeless count
PITF President’s Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
PITL Pest Identification Technology Lab
PJAC Procedural Justice-Informed Alternatives to Contempt
PLACES Population Level Analysis and Community Estimates
PLAD Public Lands Access Data
PLAIN Plain Language Action and Information Network
PLANTS Plant List of Attributes, Names, Taxonomy, and Symbols
PLC Price Loss Coverage
PLCY DHS Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans
PLET Pollutant Load Estimation Tool
PLIP Pandemic Livestock Indemnity Program (page archived 10/21)
PLLI National Institute on Postsecondary Education, Libraries, and Lifelong Learning (defunct)
PLOTS Passport Lookout Tracking System
PLR Bureau for Planning, Learning, and Resource Management (unable to verify 2/25) | Polar Programs (changed to OPP)
PLS Physical and Life Sciences Directorate | Public Land Statistics | Public Libraries Survey
PLSS Public Land Survey System
PLT Patent Law Treaty
PLUM Periodically Listing Updates to Management, GPO | Periodically Listing Updates to Management, OPM
PM/WRA Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement (also, WRA)
PN Promise Neighborhoods
PNB Presidential Nominations Branch
PNGV Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles (unable to verify 12/12)
PNLMS Public Needs for Library and Museum Services Survey
PNNL Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
PNP Protection and National Preparedness (unable to verify 8/18)
PNR Passenger Name Record
PNSO Pacific Northwest Site Office
PNSP Pesticide National Synthesis Project
PNSS Pregnancy Nutrition Surveillance System (discontinued 2012)
PNT Positioning, Navigation and Timing
PNW Pacific Northwest Research Station
POB Pediatric Oncology Branch
PO.DAAC Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center
POE Port of Entry
POES Polar Operational Environmental Satellites
POINTER Precision Outdoor and Indoor Navigation and Tracking for Emergency Responders
POLAD Office of the Coordinator of the Foreign Policy Advisor Program (unable to verify 12/24)
POMS Program Operations Manual System | Property Owners and Managers Survey
PoNE Project Point of No Entry
POP Pelagic Observer Program
PORTS PHEP ORR Reporting and Tracking System | Physical Oceanographic Real-Time System
POS Provider of Services Current Files (unable to verify 5/23)
POSEIDON Platform Optimizing SynBio for Early Intervention and Detection in ONcology
POSSLQ partners of the opposite sex sharing living quarters
POST Public and Indian Housing One-Stop Tool
POTUS President of the United States
POV Pattern of Violations
POWER Partnerships for Opportunity and Workforce and Economic Revitalization | Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources | Providing Opportunities for Women's Economic Rise
PPA Office of Policy Analysis
PPAC Patent Public Advisory Committee
PPAD Program Planning and Accountability Division
PPB Pregnancy and Perinatology Branch | Program on Physical Biology (unable to verify 3/18)
PPBE Commission on Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution Reform
PPBL PrePub Book Link
PP&C Project Planning and Control
PPC Planning, Programming, and Coordination Group
PPCDL Plant Pathogen Confirmatory Diagnostics Laboratory
PPCETUCC Pilot Program for Cybersecurity Education Technological Upgrades for Community Colleges
PPCS Police-Public Contact Survey
PPD Particle Physics Division | Political Prisoner Database | Presidential Policy Directives
PPDB Pesticide Properties DataBase
PPDC Pesticide Program Dialogue Committee
PPE-Info Personal Protective Equipment Information
PPEO Program Performance and Evaluation Office (changed to PEO)
PPF Partnership for Peace Fund (unable to verify 2/25)
PPFL Park Planning, Facilities & Lands Directorate
PPFS Port Performance Freight Statistics Program
PPGC Precipitation Prediction Grand Challenge
PPH Patent Prosecution Highway
PPHO Prion and Public Health Office
PPI Policy, Planning, and Innovation  | Producer Price Index
PPIRS Past Performance Information Retrieval System (merged into CPARS)
PPITS Program on Pediatric Imaging and Tissue Sciences (unable to verify 11/16)
PPITW Prices Paid Index for Commodities and Services, Interest, Taxes, and Farm Wage Rates
PPL Bureau for Policy, Planning and Learning (changed to PLR)
PPLS Pesticide Product and Label System
PPM Office of Performance and Personnel Management (unable to verify 2/25) | Office of Program, Policy and Management (unable to verify 12/22)
PPMF Privacy-Protected Microdata Files
PPMS Personal Property Management System (requires login)
PP-NAP Purchase to Plate National Average Prices
PPNC Power Plants and Neighboring Communities
PPO Office of Policy and Public Outreach
PPOC Prints & Photographs Online Catalog
PPOHA Promoting Postbaccalaureate Opportunities for Hispanic Americans
PPOP Program Performance One-Pager
PPP Paycheck Protection Program | Prohibited Personnel Practices
PPPL Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
PPPO Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office
PPPR Project Plan Peer Review
PPPSR Poultry Production and Product Safety Research
PPQ Plant Protection and Quarantine
PPRA Plant Pest Risk Analysis
PPRO Program in Perinatal Research and Obstetrics (unable to verify 3/18)
PPRT Personal Property Reporting Tool
PPRTV Provisional Peer-Reviewed Toxicity Value
PPS Planetary Protection Subcommittee (unable to verify 10/23) | Precipitation Processing System | Procurement & Property Services
PPSS Park Planning and Special Studies Division
PP-Suite Purchase to Plate Suite
PPT Personal Protective Technology Program
PPTE Public-Private Talent Exchange
PPW Purchase Power and Wheeling Program
PQC Post-Quantum Cryptography Initiative
PQMP Pediatric Quality Measures Program
PQRS Physician Quality Reporting System (discontinued 2016; transitioned to MIPS)
PR4 Project Responder 4 (unable to verify 8/24)
PR5 Project Responder 5 (archived)
PR6 Project Responder 6
PR100 Puerto Rico Grid Resilience and Transitions to 100% Renewable Energy Study
PRA Presidential Records Act
PRAC Pandemic Response Accountability Committee
PRADO Policy Research, Analysis, and Development Office (unable to verify 9/24)
PRAE Program in Reproductive and Adult Endocrinology (unable to verify 11/16)
PRAMS Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System
PRAMS ARF PRAMS Automated Research File
PRAMStat PRAMS online data platform (discontinued)
PRAO Professional Responsibility Advisory Office
PRB Prevention Research Branch | Program Review Branch | Provider Relief Bureau | Publications Review Board (changed to PCRB)
PRC Postal Regulatory Commission | Prevention Research Centers
PRCC Prevention Research Coordinating Committee
PRCS Puerto Rico Community Survey
PRC VCN Prevention Research Centers Vaccine Confidence Network (unable to verify 10/24)
PRD Pilot Records Database | Presidential Review Directives | Program Review Division
PR-DRIFT Puerto Rico Demand Response Impact and Forecast Tool
PREA National Prison Rape Elimination Commission (unable to verify 2/18)
PRECISE-AI Performance and Reliability Evaluation for Continuous Modifications and Useability of Artificial Intelligence
PREESAT Puerto Rico Energy Efficiency Scenario Analysis Tool
PREFIRE Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment
PREIS Personal Responsibility Education Innovative Strategies Program (unable to verify 3/25)
PREMIS Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies
PREP National Preparedness for Response Exercise Program | Partnership for Resilience and Preparedness | Personal Responsibility Education Program | Portal for Readiness Exercises and Planning
PREPARE President’s Emergency Plan for Adaptation and Resilience (unable to verify 2/25)
PREPARED Promoting Readiness and Enhancing Proficiency to Advance Reporting and Data (unable to verify 2/25)
PREP PYP Personal Responsibility Education Program: Promising Youth Programs
PReSET Prioritizing Restoration of Sagebrush Ecosystems Tool
PRF Plasma Research Facility | Prevention Resource Finder | Provider Relief Fund
PRHP Puerto Rico Highway Program
PRICE Preservation and Reinvestment Initiative for Community Enhancement
PRIDE Port-Radiation Inspection, Detection, & Evaluation System
PRIME Program for Investors in Microentrepreneurs
PRINT Personalized Regenerative Immunocompetent Nanotechnology Tissue
PRISM Performance and Registration Information Systems Management | Primary Response Incident Scene Management | Procurement Request Information System Management
PRISM-ID Protective Research Information System Management System replaced by PTMS)
PRIV Privacy Office, DHS
PRM Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration | Presidential Review Memorandums
PRMP Public Risk Management Program
PRMS Precipitation-Runoff Modeling System
PRNI Pre-Ransomware Notification Initiative
PRO Housing Pathways to Removing Obstacles to Housing
Project AWARE Project Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education
Project I-LAUNCH Indigenous Project Linking Actions for Unmet Needs in Children’s Health (unable to verify 10/23)
Project LAUNCH Project Linking Actions Unmet Needs in Children Health
Project REACH Project Roundtable for Economic Access and Change
Project SERV School Emergency Response to Violence
PROSPERum Probability of Streamflow Permanence in the Upper Missouri River Basin
PROSPR PROactive Solutions for Prolonging Resilience
PROTECT Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-Saving Transportation Formula Program
PROWAG Public Right-of-Way Accessibility Guidelines
PRS HIV Prevention Research Synthesis Project (unable to verify 1/25) | Pandemic Response and Safety Grant Program | Peer Review System | Protocol Registration and Results System
PRSU Programs Research and Standards Unit
PSA Pretrial Services Agency | Project Shield America | Protective Security Advisor
PSAC Public Safety Advisory Committee
PSAF Pandemic Severity Assessment Framework
PSAP Participant Statistical Areas Program | public safety answering points
PSAT Pumping System Assessment Tool
PSB Payroll Services Branch
PSC Partnership for Sustainable Communities (unable to verify 8/18) | Post Summary Correction | Product Service Code | Program Support Center | Project Safe Childhood
PSCR Public Safety Communications Research
PSD Packers and Stockyard Division | Physical Sciences Division (changed to PSL) | Policy and Standards Division | Presidential Study Directives | Production, Supply and Distribution | Public Services Division (site archived 4/24)
PSDB Pyramid Servings Database
PSDP Precursor Safety Data Program
PSEL Photovoltaic Systems Evaluation Laboratory
PSEO Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes
PSEP Pharmacy Student Experiential Program
PSGP Port Security Grant Program
PSHSB Public Safety & Homeland Security Bureau
PSI Physical Science Informatics | Precision Surgical Interventions | Proliferation Security Initiative
PSL Physical Sciences Laboratory | Primary Standards Laboratory
PSLF Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program
PSN Project Safe Neighborhoods
PSNET Patient Safety Network
PSO Patient Safety Organization | Princeton Site Office
PSOB Public Safety Officers’ Benefits Program
PS-ON Physical Sciences–Oncology Network
PSOTP Protective Service Operations Training Program
PSP Parker Solar Probe
PSRs Prevention Status Reports (page archived 1/24)
PSS Preferred Sustainability Status | Private School Universe Survey
PSTG Power Sources Technology Group
PSTP Physical Security Training Program
PSVP Public Safety and Violence Prevention
PSW Pacific Southwest Research Station
PTAB Patent Trial and Appeal Board
PTAC Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee | Privacy Technical Assistance Center (unable to verify 2/25)
PTAI Periodic Table of Acquisition Innovations
PTASP Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan
PTB Predictive Toxicology Branch
PTCIB Pediatric Trauma and Critical Illness Branch
PTD Prevention through Design
PTEN Performance Test and Evaluation at NUSTL
PTFP Public Telecommunications Facilities Program
PTMS Protective Threat Management System
PTO Patent and Trademark Office
PTRB Pediatric Translational Research Branch
PTRC Patent and Trademark Resource Center
PTSAR Periodic Timber Sale Accomplishment Reports
PTSD National Center for PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)
PTSDpubs Post Traumatic Stress Disorder publications database
PTWC Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (website terminated 3/20)
PUDB Public Use Database
PULSE Poultry Processing Line Speed Evaluation Study
PUMS Public Use Microdata Sample
PUNCH Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere
PuRe Data Public Reusable Research Data
[PV]2 Present Value of PhotoVoltaics
PVAG Passenger Vessels Accessibility Guidelines
PV CAMPER Photovoltaic Collaborative to Advance Multi-climate Performance and Energy Research
PVSA President’s Volunteer Service Award
PWBA Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration (changed to EBSA)
PWID Persons Who Inject Drugs
PWRC Patuxent Wildlife Research Center (merged into EESC)
PWSD Public Workforce System Dataset
PWSS Public Water System Supervision
PYD Positive Youth Development
PZ Promise Zone