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Industry:Military
1. When applied to acquisition radars, to detect the presence and location of a target in sufficient detail to permit identification. 2. When applied to tracking radars, to position a radar beam so that a target is in that beam to permit the effective employment of weapons. (See Target Acquisition.)
Industry:Military
Radio transmitters accompanying attacking RVs and tuned to broadcast at the same frequency as a defensive radar. The broadcasts add "noise" to the signals reflected from the RVs and received by the radar. Susceptibility to jamming generally decreases with increasing radar frequency, with decreasing altitude, and with increasing radar power.
Industry:Military
A contraction for "excited dimer"; a type of lasant. A dimer is a molecule consisting of two atoms. Some dimers (e.g., xenon chloride and krypton fluoride) are molecules which cannot exist under ordinary conditions of approximate thermal equilibrium but must be created in an "excited" (e.g., energized) condition by special "pumping" processes in a laser.
Industry:Military
1. The task, together with the purpose, which clearly indicates the action to be taken and the reason therefor. 2. In common usage, especially when applied to lower military units, a duty assigned to an individual or unit; a task. 3. Missions are statements of the objective to be accomplished for a given situation. Missions will describe the situation and will include who, what, when, where, why, and how the BMD system will perform. They contain employment direction and procedures to BMD forces for a given situation to achieve specific defense objectives. (USSPACECOM)
Industry:Military
1. Synonymous with program in general usage. 2. Specifically, a planned undertaking having a finite beginning and ending, involving definition, development, production, and logistics support of a major weapon or weapon support system or systems. A project may be the whole or a part of a program. Within the Navy, a Designated Project is a project which, because of its importance or critical nature, has been selected for intensified project management. 3. A planned undertaking of something to be accomplished, produced, or constructed, having a finite beginning and a finite ending.
Industry:Military
Isolated resource - an SDS asset which has lost connectivity with other SDS assets with which it normally has connectivity, but is still capable of coordinating with SDS assets to conduct ballistic missile defense. Various combinations of connectivity losses are possible; for example, (1) an operations center has lost connectivity with Higher Authority, yet can still provide sufficient C2 and can still connect with sufficient weapons and sensors to conduct an engagement and (2) an operations center has loss of connectivity with another operations center with which it normally shares data, but can still conduct an engagement.
Industry:Military
1. A total collection of objects each of which is within some metric distance of at least one other object in the collection. 2. A total collection of objects each of whose image on the focal plane of a sensor is within some metric distance of the image of at least one other object in the collection. 3. A set of objects with similar state vectors (based on truth). For example, a reentry vehicle and its penaids deployed at virtually the same time from a post-boost vehicle. 4. For BM/C3 purposes, a cluster is a group of objects any one of which can be engaged by an interceptor launched at the centroid of the cluster, possibly before the cluster is resolved into separate objects.
Industry:Military
Firing-in-Extension (Target Launch site in White Sands Missile Range Northern Extension).
Industry:Military
