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.

Industry: Military

Add a new term

Contributors in Missile defense

Become a Contributors

Missile defense

phenomenology

Military; Missile defense

The topological classification of a class of phenomena. Phenomenology efforts collect and analyze optical and radar signature data, and model phenomena required by systems developers to design and ...

leakage (max)

Military; Missile defense

The maximum allowable threat objects passing through a BMD system expressed as a percentage of the design-to threat. To ensure overall system performance, permitted leakage is “budgeted” among ...

off the shelf

Military; Missile defense

Procurement of existing system or equipment without an RDT&E program or with minor development to make the system suitable for DoD needs. May be commercial system/equipment or one already in DoD ...

producibility

Military; Missile defense

The relative ease of manufacturing an item or system. This relative ease is governed by the characteristics and features of a design that enable economical fabrication, assembly, inspection, and ...

specification

Military; Missile defense

A document (or other media) that specifies, in a complete, precise, verifiable manner, the requirements, design, behavior, or other characteristics of a system or component, and often, the procedures ...

azimuth angle

Military; Missile defense

A positive angle measured clockwise in a reference horizontal plane from a reference direction to a given direction. For a topocentric-horizon coordinate reference frame, the reference direction is ...

certification

Military; Missile defense

The technical evaluation of a system's security features, made as a part of and in support of the approval/accreditation process, that established the extent to which a particular computer system's ...