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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reengineering

Military; Missile defense

The process of examining, altering, and re-implementing an existing computer system to reconstitute it in a new form.

wastage (max)

Military; Missile defense

The maximum number of defense weapons which, when used, will be ineffective in contributing to the defeat of the offense.

checkpoint

Military; Missile defense

Event or point in time during the program before which decision criteria must be met. If decision criteria are not met, BMDO may decide that the program may not proceed through the checkpoint. A ...

allocation

Military; Missile defense

1. An authorization by a designated official of a DoD component making funds available within a prescribed amount to an operating agency for the purpose of making allotments (i.e., the first ...

counterair

Military; Missile defense

A US Air Force term for air operations conducted to attain and maintain a desired degree of air superiority by the destruction or neutralization or enemy forces. Both air offensive and air defensive ...

engagement

Military; Missile defense

1. A period of hostilities beginning when the first ballistic missile target undergoes fire from the first defensive weapon. 2. A period beginning whenever any hostile object is identified ...

scattering

Military; Missile defense

The diversion of radiation, including radio, radar, thermal, and nuclear, from its original path as a result of interactions (or collisions) with atoms, molecules, or larger particles in the ...