- Industry: Government; Military
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A solicitation used in negotiated acquisition to communicate government requirements to prospective contractors and to solicit a quotation. A response to an RFQ is not an offer. It is informational in character.
Industry:Military
A covert channel in which one process signals information to another by modulating its own use of system resources in such a way that this manipulation affects the real response time observed by the second process.
Industry:Military
The portion of the baseline SDS architecture that is responsible for preserving the confidentiality, integrity, and assured service of any of the sensitive, system-valued functions and information elements (assets).
Industry:Military
The capability of a unit/formation, ship, weapon system or equipment to perform the missions or functions for which it is organized or designed. May be used in a general sense or to express a level or degree of readiness.
Industry:Military
In air defense, the normal mode whereby a higher echelon monitors unit actions, making direct target assignments to units only when necessary to ensure proper fire distribution or to prevent engagement of friendly aircraft.
Industry:Military
One of the Configuration Management tasks that involves the systematic evaluation, coordination, approval, or disapproval of proposed changes to the design and construction of a configuration item whose configuration has been formally approved.
Industry:Military
A document that sets forth the requirements for a system or system component; for example, a software configuration item. Typically included are functional requirements, performance requirements, interface requirements, design requirements, and development standards.
Industry:Military
Many independent battle managers (computers) use the same algorithms to derive a common calculated result. Decisions resulting from these calculations will be identical even though the calculated results may not be identical. Decisions or results are not communicated between Battle Managers.
Industry:Military
Assesses alternatives in an operational context, identifying what force capabilities would be gained by pursuing any of a designated set of alternatives. Assesses the strengths and weaknesses of a military force when confronting a postulated threat in a specified scenario or set of circumstances.
Industry:Military
A test employing representative users to examine materiel concepts, training or logistics planning, or inter-operability issues. EUT can be accomplished during DEM/VAL on brassboard configurations, experimental prototypes, or surrogates to provide data leading to the decision to enter full-scale development.
Industry:Military
