Missile defense

Missile defense

Measures designed to detect, identify, track, and defeat attacking (ballistic) missiles in both strategic and theater tactical roles, during any portion of their flight trajectory (boost, post-boost, midcourse, or terminal) or to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of such attack.

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Missile defense

static analysis

Military; Missile defense

The process of evaluating a program without executing the program. See also desk checking, code audit, inspection, static analyzer, walk-through. Contrast with dynamic analysis.

physical agents

Military; Missile defense

Descriptive term that includes non-ionizing EMR, static electric and magnetic fields, ionization radiation, energy beams, noise, explosions, de-orbiting debris, and extreme cold.

track formation

Military; Missile defense

The process of determining the track or tracks of detected objects. It is usually a threestep process of data association, track initialization, and track improvement by filtering.

threat scenario

Military; Missile defense

A hypothetical example of the employment of threat systems against ballistic missile defenses for the purpose of analysis and evaluation of those defensive systems and architectures.

top-down design

Military; Missile defense

The process of designing a system by identifying its major components, decomposing them into their lower level components, and iterating until the desired level of detail is achieved.

track extension

Military; Missile defense

This term usually applies to improvements in track estimates by use of new data. It is sometimes used to describe a process of target extrapolation to a future time or place (e.g., reentry).

mission element

Military; Missile defense

A segment of a mission area critical to the accomplishment of the mission area objectives and corresponding to a recommendation for a major system capability as determined by the DoD Component.