The ALMA Program Management Group (PMG) is responsible for the day-to-day management of observation execution, tracking of the status of ALMA programs, data quality control, and coordination of these activities with staff at the three ALMA Regional Centers (ARCs). It consists of a Program Manager and eight Data Analyst, with the support of about thirty Astronomer on Duties (AoD) to carry out the ALMA observation executions, in service mode, at the ALMA Control rooms at the Operations Support Facility (OSF) and Santiago Central Offices (SCO). Here, we present the mission, core operational tasks, deliverables, and activities of the ALMA Program Management Group, as well as, a description of the entire ALMA Data Acquisition Process, and its last cycles performance based in the ALMA Key Performance Indicators (KPI). The ALMA Program Management Group and the ALMA Data Acquisition Process Juan R. Cortés1,2, Matías Radiszcz1, Celia Verdugo1, Cristián López1, Gabriel Marinello1, Jorge Morgado1, Priscilla Nowajewski1 & Kurt Plarre1. 1Joint ALMA Observatory, Santiago Central Offices, Alonso de Córdova 3107, Vitacura, Santiago, Chile 2National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Alonso de Córdova 2860, of. 702, Vitacura, Santiago, Chile Contact E-mail: juan.cortes@alma.cl Program Management Group Mission The ALMA Program Management Group (PMG) has the following Mission: To carry out Efficient and Effective, ALMA program management and quality assured data Acquisition. i.e. its responsibilities are –ALMA Program Management: • Tracking of ALMA programs. To know exactly what is the status of every ALMA Project, and SchedBlock (SB). • Ensure that Projects/SBs must be in the right status. SBs shouldn’t get stuck for any reason in data acquisition workflow. –Data acquisition: • Take the best possible data (effectiveness, QA0) • Making the best use of ALMA Observing time (Efficiency) • Ensure data acquisition –Antenna readiness for Science. –Data calibrations: Calibration Surveys, etc. PMG Operational Tasks Core Deliverables What PMG delivers: –Full Deliverables: »Calibratable Fully Observed MOUS/SBs »QA0 Pass EBs »Suitable calibrators candidates (BP, Phase, Flux, Check Sources, TP-off) »Key data for data processing: Calibration sources flux ingestion, Antenna Position. »Complete follow up of Data Acquisition workflow. »Reports on completion of Projects SB »Data Acquisition Metrics and KPI »Tools that allows accurate tracking of projects, SBs. »Management and Coordination of Data Acquisition activities. –Partial Deliverables: Calibratable Observing Timed Out MOUS/SBs. ALMA Data Acquisition Process ALMA Data taking and Reduction Processes can be divided in four stages: • Data Request: PI proposal approval and Phase 2 preparation (SBs) • Data Acquisition: Data taking itself. • Data Processing: Data reduction and analysis. • Data Delivery: Archive Ingestion and Delivery to PI Data Acquisition Metrics and KPIs Data Acquisition Workflow Fig. 4. Data Acquisition Workflow. Data acquisition starts with SB Generation by P2G. Antenna array are prepared and calibrated (Delay, and Focus). SB is observed using the Dynamical Scheduling Algorithm based on raking, observing conditions, etc. Execution is quality assured and once the SBs reach required rms is declared Fully Observed and goes to data processing. In parallel, calibration observations are done (Cal. Survey, TP-off, Cone-searches), and antennas are integrated to the array. Cycle 9 Performance Contact Information Fig. 5. Accumulated QA0 Pass time. Upper panel: 12m-Array. Data acquisition affected by Cyberattack. We reached 3362 hours. Lower panel: 7m-Array. We reached 3466 hours, almost all our allocated observations. TP-array (not shown) reached 2369 hours, a record in ALMA history for TP array. PMG Level 1 KPIs. • Operations Efficiency (target ≥ 90%): 88% • Remaining Time (≤ 290 hours): 281 hours. • QA0 failures + QA0 semi-pass time (≤ 200 hours). 233 hours. Fig 1. PMG Core Operational Tasks. These are th