- Industry: Government; Military
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An airborne optical platform operated by the Air Force’s Phillips Laboratory. Argus is sometimes used by BMDO to collect flight test signatures, phenomenology, and intercept data.
Industry:Military
A portion of the CTEIP program which funds the development and demonstration of technologies which have significant potential for improving testing.
Industry:Military
Activities, operations, organizations, etc., in which elements of more than one Service of the same nation participate. When all services are not involved, the participating Services shall be identified, e.g., Joint Army-Navy.)
Industry:Military
The required actions to accomplish all or part of a COA. Tasks contain guidance to the Battle Management/Command, Control and Communications (BM/C3) engagement planning function concerning resource allocation, constraints, and required performance.
Industry:Military
A remote system or terminal whose functions are controlled by a central "master" system. It is similar in concept to a host system in that it responds to remotely generated requests, but unlike a host system, is usually capable of performing a limited range of operations.
Industry:Military
Situational conditions or categories under which selective Rules of Engagement apply. Examples include: Peacetime: Day to day operation when training, exercises, and routine maintenance and operations occur. Prior to crisis or war. Crisis: The transition state between peacetime and war. War: Self-explanatory.
Industry:Military
1. A series of related contacts displayed on a plotting board. 2. To display or record the successive positions of a moving object. 3. To lock onto a point of radiation and obtain guidance therefrom. 4. To keep a gun properly aimed, or to point continuously a targetlocating instrument at a moving target. 5. The actual path of an aircraft above, or a ship on, the surface of the earth.
Industry:Military
1. Radar confusion reflectors, which consist of thin, narrow metallic strips of various lengths and frequency responses, used to create false echoes for confusion purposes. 2. Confetti-like metal foil ribbons which can be ejected from spacecraft (or terrestrial vehicles) to reflect enemy radar signals, thereby creating false targets or screening actual targets from the “view” of radar.
Industry:Military
(Formerly an acronym for Radio Detection and Ranging.) A technique for detecting targets in the atmosphere or in space by transmitting radio waves (e.g., microwaves) and sensing the waves reflected by objects. The reflected waves (called "returns" or "echoes") provide information on the distance to the target and the velocity of the target, and also may provide information about the shape of the target.
Industry:Military
An active electron device that converts input power into a very narrow, intense beam of coherent visible or infrared light; the input power excites the atoms of an optical resonator to a higher energy level, and the resonator forces the excited atoms to radiate in phase. Derived from Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation and classified from Class I - Class IV according to its potential for causing damage to the eye.
Industry:Military
