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

life cycle of a weapon system

Military; Missile defense

All phases of the system's life including research, development, test and evaluation, production, deployment (inventory), operations and support, and disposal.

birth-to-death tracking (BDT)

Military; Missile defense

The tracking of space objects (e.g., satellites, reentry vehicles, or decoys that simulate these) from the time they are deployed from a booster or post-boost vehicle until they are destroyed.

Theater Missile Defense (TMD)

Military; Missile defense

The strategies and tactics employed to defend a geographical area outside the continental United States against attack from short-range, intermediate-range, or medium-range ballistic missiles.

national warning center (NWC)

Military; Missile defense

Center in CMAFB which activates the radio, TV, and sirens that warn the U.S. population of impending ballistic missile attack. Also assists with national disaster relief, forest fires, and other ...

space-based interceptor (SBI)

Military; Missile defense

OBSOLETE. A distributed set of low earth orbit satellites that may provide launch detection and booster tracking, and that serve as kinetic or kinetic energy interceptors of boosters, PBVs, and/or ...

engineering development model

Military; Missile defense

An advanced prototype used during the Engineering and Manufacturing Development phase (EMD) to resolve design deficiencies, demonstrate maturing performance, and develop proposed production ...

environmental assessment (EA)

Military; Missile defense

A concise public document whose primary purpose is to provide sufficient analysis of environmental effects of an action to determine whether to prepare an environmental impact statement or a finding ...