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

weapons initiation

Military; Missile defense

State when a weapon system is to be placed in the highest state of readiness shy of weapon allocation. It is possible to go direct to weapons allocation or release without first initiation or ...

weapons assignment

Military; Missile defense

In air defense, the process by which weapons are assigned to individual air weapons controllers for use in accomplishing an assigned mission. Assignment of a particular interceptor to a particular ...

production control

Military; Missile defense

The procedure of planning, routing, scheduling, dispatching, and expediting the flow of materials, parts, subassemblies, and assemblies within the plant from the raw state to the finished product in ...

off-the-shelf item

Military; Missile defense

An item which has been developed and produced to military or commercial standards and specifications, is readily available for delivery from an industrial source, and may be procured without change ...

deviation criteria

Military; Missile defense

Limits established beyond which a Program Manager may not trade-off cost, schedule, or performance without authorization from the milestone decision authority. Acquisition Program Baseline (APB) ...

active air defense

Military; Missile defense

Direct defensive actions taken to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air action. It includes such measures as the use of aircraft, air defense weapons, weapons not used primarily in an ...

operations profile

Military; Missile defense

An identification of all participants in an operation, their actions, and the time those actions occur in the operation. Includes assessment of operational procedures to ascertain whether stereotyped ...