- Industry: Government; Military
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The ability to select and prioritize in near-real time what critical civilian and military assets and functions to defend and to efficiently employ defense in response to the characteristics of the attack while effectively enforcing defense priorities. (JOSDEPS)
Industry:Military
Document issued by SECDEF to DoD components providing strategic framework for developing the Service POMs. Result of planning effort by Joint Staff, OSD, and Services. Until 1986, issued annually in January. In connection with two-year budget process, is issued every other (even) year.
Industry:Military
A single official within a DoD component who is responsible for all acquisition functions within that Component. This includes Service Acquisition Executives for the Military Departments and Acquisition Executives in other DoD components who have acquisition management responsibilities.
Industry:Military
A collection of subsystems including weapon, sensor, and information processing equipment together with their interfaces installed for the purposes of early testing prior to the availability of a first production item, at a test facility designed to simulate the essential parts of the production item.
Industry:Military
A guidance mechanism designed to project a missile over a predetermined path, wherein the path of the missile is adjusted after launching by devices wholly within the missile and independent of outside information. The unit measures and converts accelerations experienced to distance traveled in a certain direction.
Industry:Military
All active and passive measures designed to detect, identify, track, and defeat attacking ballistic missiles (and entities), in both strategic and theater tactical roles, during any portion of their flight trajectory (boost, post-boost, midcourse, or terminal) or to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of such attack.
Industry:Military
A GEP which is not transportable. A GEP serves as a communications interface between a ground-based communications system and a communications satellite and performs both receive/transmit functions. The now OBSOLETE SDS would have had FGEPs as communications interfaces between the C2E and SDS space orbital/sub-orbital elements.
Industry:Military
A military or civilian official who has primary responsibility for directing several acquisition category I programs and for assigned Acquisition Category II, III, and IV programs. A Program Executive Officer has no other command or staff responsibilities within the Component, and only reports to and receives guidance and direction from the DoD Component Acquisition Executive.
Industry:Military
The NAVSTAR Global Positioning System is a space-based radio navigation network providing precise positioning and navigation needs of all the military services. In the fully operational configuration, there will be 18 satellites in six orbital planes with an orbit period of 12 hours at 10,900 nautical miles altitude. Each satellite transmits three L-band, pseudo-random noise-coded signals, one S-band, and one ultra high frequency for spacecraft-to-spacecraft data relay.
Industry:Military
Engagement strategy provided to USSPACECOM component forces to achieve specific military objectives against a ballistic missile attack. It defines hostile target priorities, provides assets to defend, and allocates SDS resources to be employed. A number of DEOs may reside in a particular Preplanned Response Option (PRO). However, default DEOs (those believed to be best suited to counter the threat initially) will be automatically processed and executed when Defense Activation Authority (DAA) is given by USCINCSPACE.
Industry:Military
