jp1_02

As Amended Through 15 March 2013
develop and maintain the assigned joint publication under the cognizance of the lead
agent. Also called PRA. See also joint publication; lead agent. (CJCSM 5120.01)
prime contract — A contract or contractual action entered into by the United States
Government for the purpose of obtaining supplies, materials, equipment, or services of
any kind. (JP 4-10)
prime vendor — A contracting process that provides commercial products to regionally
grouped military and federal customers from commercial distributors using electronic
commerce. Customers typically receive materiel delivery through the vendor’s
commercial distribution system. Also called PV. See also distribution system.
(JP 4-09)
principal federal official — The federal official designated by the Secretary of Homeland
Security to act as his/her representative locally to oversee, coordinate, and execute the
Secretary’s incident management responsibilities under Homeland Security Presidential
Directive 5. Also called PFO. (JP 3-41)
principal officer — The officer in charge of a diplomatic mission, consular office, or other
Foreign Service post, such as a United States liaison office. (JP 3-08)
priority designator — A two-digit issue and priority code (01 through 15) placed in
military standard requisitioning and issue procedure requisitions. It is based upon a
combination of factors that relate the mission of the requisitioner and the urgency of
need or the end use and is used to provide a means of assigning relative rankings to
competing demands placed on the Department of Defense supply system.
priority intelligence requirement — An intelligence requirement, stated as a priority for
intelligence support, that the commander and staff need to understand the adversary or
other aspects of the operational environment. Also called PIR. See also information
requirements; intelligence; intelligence process; intelligence requirement.
(JP 2-01)
prisoner of war — A detained person (as defined in Articles 4 and 5 of the Geneva
Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War of August 12, 1949) who,
while engaged in combat under orders of his or her government, is captured by the
armed forces of the enemy. Also called POW or PW. (JP 3-50)
prisoner of war camp — An installation established for the internment and administration
of prisoners of war.
private sector — An umbrella term that may be applied in the United States and in foreign
countries to any or all of the nonpublic or commercial individuals and businesses,
specified nonprofit organizations, most of academia and other scholastic institutions,
and selected nongovernmental organizations. (JP 3-57)
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