best valuehas the meaning given in section 3101 of this title.
defense acquisition universityincludes the Defense Systems Management College.
deputy program managermeans the person who has authority to act on behalf of the program manager in the absence of the program manager.
extramural institutionsmeans participants in an activity established under section 4142 of this title, public sector organizations, and nonprofit credentialing organizations.
portfolio acquisition executivemeans an individual described in section 1732(a) of this title.
program managermeans, with respect to a defense acquisition program, the member of the acquisition workforce responsible for managing the program, regardless of the title given the member.
senior contracting officialmeans a director of contracting, or a principal deputy to a director of contracting, serving in the office of the Secretary of a military department, the headquarters of a military department, the head of a Defense Agency, a subordinate command headquarters, or in a major systems or logistics contracting activity in the Department of Defense.
significant nonmajor defense acquisition programmeans a Department of Defense acquisition program that is not a major defense acquisition program (as defined in section 4201 of this title) and that is estimated by the Secretary of Defense to require an eventual total expenditure for research, development, test, and evaluation of more than the dollar threshold set forth in section 3041(b)(1) of this title for such purposes for a major system or an eventual total expenditure for procurement of more than the dollar threshold set forth in section 3041(b)(1) of this title for such purpose for a major system.