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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control abstraction

Military; Missile defense

(Software) The process of extracting the essential characteristics of control by defining abstract mechanisms and their associated characteristics while disregarding low-level details and the ...

centralized command

Military; Missile defense

Operational concept which specifies that critical C2 is collected and key C2 decisions are performed at a central location by USCINCSPACE, or his designee, to ensure continuous and positive human ...

command center (CC)

Military; Missile defense

A facility from which a commander and his representatives direct operations and control forces. It is organized to gather, process, analyze, display, and disseminate planning and operational data and ...

contract definition

Military; Missile defense

A funded effort, normally by two or more competing contractors, to establish specifications, to select technical approaches, to identify high-risk areas, and to make cost and production time ...

single-level device

Military; Missile defense

A device that is used to process data of a single security level at any one time. Since the device need not be trusted to separate data of different security levels, sensitivity labels do not have to ...

communications zone

Military; Missile defense

Rear part of the theater of operations (behind but contiguous to the combat zone) which contains the lines of communications, establishments for supply and evacuation, and other agencies required for ...

system architecture

Military; Missile defense

The structure and relationship among the components of a system. The system architecture may also include the system’s interface with its operational environment. A framework or structure that ...