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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
red/blue exchange
Military; Missile defense
A process to identify and define potential countermeasures that would degrade aspects of ballistic missile defense. The process -- akin to a wargame -- pits a Red team fielded by DSIM and a Blue team ...
multilevel secure
Military; Missile defense
A class of system containing information with different classifications that simultaneously permits access by users with different security clearances and needs-toknow, but prevents users from ...
proprietary right
Military; Missile defense
A broad contractor term used to describe data belonging to the contractor. This data could be intellectual property, financial data, etc. This category is not recognized by the Government when ...
cinc decision set
Military; Missile defense
A group of decisions available to USCINCSPACE to control his forces, including determining operational state, DEFCON, hostile intent, authorizing engagement, selecting preplanned response options, ...
local environment
Military; Missile defense
The ISTC Local Environment contained within each node simulates the element to the degree necessary to generate a realistic input to the Element Processor of Element Processor Emulation and provide a ...
support personnel
Military; Missile defense
Individuals, in addition to operators, trainers, and maintainers, who are directly associated with an operational system(s), and who are critical to its continuous operation. Examples include program ...
Moscow BMD System
Military; Missile defense
The Soviet exoatmospheric system using the Dog House and Cat House phased-array radars for long-range acquisition. The system might also use the Hen House early warning radars for long-range ...
