Excerpt from Program Structure Dictionary: Planning, Programming, Budgeting System Hf The Program Structure of the U. S. Department of Agriculture is the basic framework for multi-year program planning, evaluation, programming, and budgeting. It is a key feature of the Department's Planning programming-budgeting System (ppbs). The Program Structure consists of a set of 19 program planning packages (called Subcategories in ppbs terminology) representing the major missions of the Department as a whole. These program planning packages consist of a set of Program Elements, each representing a system of inputs (comprised of men, money, facilities, administrative arrangements and processes) designed to produce specified outputs (goods, services, products, processes, technological developments, events, capabilities, etc.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.