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A tactic in which defense weapons are fired without being individually committed to specific targets. Target commitment would occur relatively late in the defensive weapon's trajectory.
Industry:Military
Civil and/or military assistance rendered by a nation to foreign forces within its territory during peacetime, crisis or emergencies, or war based on agreements concluded between nations.
Industry:Military
All measures, other than active air defense, taken to minimize the effectiveness of hostile air action. These measures include deception, dispersion, and the use of protective construction.
Industry:Military
OBSOLETE. Successor to Space-Based Surveillance and Tracking System (SSTS). BE is also known as the Space and Missile Tracking System (SMTS), and is now the LEO element of the SBIRS. See SBIRS.
Industry:Military
A contractual procurement document used primarily to procure supplies and nonpersonal services when the aggregate amount involved in any one transaction is relatively small (e.g., not exceeding $10,000).
Industry:Military
Physical process by which an excited molecule is induced by incident radiation to emit radiation at an identical frequency and in phase with the incident radiation. Lasers operate by stimulated emission.
Industry:Military
In parallel processing multiple processors (CPUs) divide up a large task into smaller ones and each CPU acts on the subdivided task simultaneously so that much higher effective processing speeds can be attained.
Industry:Military
(Software) The process of extracting the essential characteristics of control by defining abstract mechanisms and their associated characteristics while disregarding low-level details and the entities to be controlled.
Industry:Military
Operational concept which specifies that critical C2 is collected and key C2 decisions are performed at a central location by USCINCSPACE, or his designee, to ensure continuous and positive human control over the system.
Industry:Military
A facility from which a commander and his representatives direct operations and control forces. It is organized to gather, process, analyze, display, and disseminate planning and operational data and perform other related tasks.
Industry:Military