Acquisition Program Baseline (APB) is a term used by the United States Department of Defense

United States Department of Defense

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 to refer to a program

Program

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 threshold

Threshold

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 and objective values for the minimum number of cost

Cost

In production, research, retail, and accounting, a cost is the value of money that has been used up to produce something, and hence is not available for use anymore. In business, the cost may be one of acquisition, in which case the amount of money expended to acquire it is counted as cost. In this...

, schedule

Schedule

Schedule generally refers to:* a timetable * an airline timetable* the act of Scheduling Schedule may also refer to:* Schedule , a list of actions from a set of transactions in databases...

, and performance

Performance

A performance, in performing arts, generally comprises an event in which a performer or group of performers behave in a particular way for another group of people, the audience. Choral music and ballet are examples. Usually the performers participate in rehearsals beforehand. Afterwards audience...

 attribute

Attribute

Attribute may refer to:* In research, a characteristic of an object - see attribute * In philosophy, property , an abstraction of a characteristic of an entity or substance...

s that describe the program over its life cycle. The APB initially was developed by the PM for the Milestone B decisions and contains parameter

Parameter

Parameter from Ancient Greek παρά also “para” meaning “beside, subsidiary” and μέτρον also “metron” meaning “measure”, can be interpreted in mathematics, logic, linguistics, environmental science and other disciplines....

s for the program such as key cost, schedule, and performance.