- Industry: Government; Military
- Number of terms: 79318
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Categories established to facilitate decentralized decision making and execution and compliance with statutorily imposed requirements. The categories determine the level of review, decision authority, and applicable procedures. 1. Acquisition Category I. These are “major defense acquisition programs.” They have unique statutorily imposed acquisition strategy, execution, and reporting requirements. Milestone decision authority for these programs is: (a) the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology -- acquisition category ID; (b) if delegated by the Under Secretary, the Cognizant DoD Component Head -- acquisition category IC; (c) if delegated by the Component Head, the Component Acquisition Executive. 2. Acquisition Category II. Milestone decision authority for these programs is delegated no lower than the DoD Component Acquisition Executive. They have unique statutorily imposed requirements in the test and evaluation area 3. Acquisition Category III and IV. The additional distinction of acquisition categories III and IV allow DoD Component Heads to delegate milestone decision authority for these programs to the lowest level deemed appropriate within their respective organizations.
Industry:Military
1. Any sequence of acts that an individual or unit may follow. 2. A possible plan open to an individual or command that would accomplish or is related to the accomplishment of his mission. 3. The scheme adopted to accomplish a job or mission. 4. A line of conduct in an engagement. 5. A plan to accomplish a mission. It describes the execution concept for BMD of North America. It will specify the engagement priorities, resource allocation and desired results by Area of Operation (AO). (USSPACECOM) 6. The scheme adopted to accomplish a task or mission. It is a product of the Joint Operation Planning and Execution System concept development phase. The supported commander will include a recommended course of action in the commander’s estimate. The recommended course of action will include the concept of operations, evaluation of supportability estimates of supporting organizations, and an integrated time-phased data base of combat, combat support, and combat service support forces and sustainment. Refinement of this data base will be contingent on the time available for course of action development. When approved, the course of action becomes the basis for the development of an operation plan or operation order.
Industry:Military
The surveillance required to support RV negation in the midcourse tier.
Industry:Military
An assessment of the nature, magnitude and intent of an attack in progress.
Industry:Military
A signal used to intentionally activate the destruction system in a missile.
Industry:Military
A document providing program guidance for an additional 10 years beyond the POM.
Industry:Military
The billets in the manpower requirements structure that are planned to be filled.
Industry:Military
The process by which the parameters of an attack in progress are developed, updated and defined.
Industry:Military
The distributed and integrated implementation of USCINCSPACE direction by the BMD forces. (AFSPACECOM)
Industry:Military
This testing of links to create bit error estimates and monitors natural or induced link interference.
Industry:Military
