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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health and status (H&S)

Military; Missile defense

Health and Status pertains to a unit’s ability to assess the conditions of its subsystem functions. The term H&S is used for units in remote locations, such as satellites, where ground controls must ...

mission critical system

Military; Missile defense

A system whose operational effectiveness and operational suitability are essential to successful completion or to aggregate residual combat capability. If this system fails, the mission likely will ...

limited test ban treaty

Military; Missile defense

The bilateral Treaty signed and ratified by the United States and the (former) U.S.S.R. in 1963 which prohibits nuclear tests in all locations except underground, and prohibits nuclear explosions ...

operational suitability

Military; Missile defense

The degree to which a system can be placed satisfactorily in field use with consideration given to availability, compatibility, transportability, interoperability, reliability, wartime usage rates, ...

president's budget (PB)

Military; Missile defense

The Federal Government's budget for a particular fiscal year transmitted in January (first Monday after January 3rd) to the Congress by the President in accordance with the Budget and Accounting Act ...

configuration item (CI)

Military; Missile defense

An aggregation of system elements that satisfies an end use function and is designated by the Government for separate configuration management. Configuration items vary widely in complexity, size, ...

inventory control point

Military; Missile defense

An organizational unit or activity within a DoD supply system that is assigned the primary responsibility for the materiel management of a group or items either for a particular Service or for the ...