- Industry: Government; Military
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OBSOLETE. A number of geographically separated simulation and test facilities that are linked through communications to simulate various portions of the ballistic missile defense (BMD) system for testing and validating operational and technical concepts and technologies.
Industry:Military
Health and Status pertains to a unit’s ability to assess the conditions of its subsystem functions. The term H&S is used for units in remote locations, such as satellites, where ground controls must interface with BITE to determine operational status of the satellite and its equipment.
Industry:Military
A system whose operational effectiveness and operational suitability are essential to successful completion or to aggregate residual combat capability. If this system fails, the mission likely will not be completed. Such a system can be an auxiliary or supporting system, as well as a primary mission system.
Industry:Military
The bilateral Treaty signed and ratified by the United States and the (former) U.S.S.R. in 1963 which prohibits nuclear tests in all locations except underground, and prohibits nuclear explosions underground if they cause radioactive debris to be present outside the territorial limits of the state under whose jurisdiction or control the test would be conducted.
Industry:Military
The degree to which a system can be placed satisfactorily in field use with consideration given to availability, compatibility, transportability, interoperability, reliability, wartime usage rates, maintainability, safety, human factors, manpower supportability, logistics supportability, natural environmental effects and impacts, documentation, and training requirements.
Industry:Military
The Federal Government's budget for a particular fiscal year transmitted in January (first Monday after January 3rd) to the Congress by the President in accordance with the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921, as amended. Includes all agencies and activities of the executive, legislative and judicial branches (For FY 88/89, two-year budget for DoD submitted in January 1987.)
Industry:Military
An aggregation of system elements that satisfies an end use function and is designated by the Government for separate configuration management. Configuration items vary widely in complexity, size, and type. Any item required for logistic support and designated for separate procurement is a configuration item. Configuration items are traceable to the work breakdown structure (WBS).
Industry:Military
An organizational unit or activity within a DoD supply system that is assigned the primary responsibility for the materiel management of a group or items either for a particular Service or for the DoD as a whole. Materiel inventory management includes cataloging direction, requirements computation, procurement direction, distribution management, disposal direction, and, generally, rebuild direction.
Industry:Military
The ISTC Global Environment is responsible for the creation, propagation, and maintenance of test scenario common knowledge, how subsets of this information will be determined, and how common knowledge will be disseminated to the various element representations (nodes). The Global Environment performs functions which are common to the scenario such as timing, health, status, state vectors of objects, and effects models.
Industry:Military
Optical systems which can be modified (e.g., by controlling the shape of a mirror) to compensate for distortions. An example is the use of information from a beam of light passing through the atmosphere to compensate for the distortion suffered by another beam of light on its passage through the atmosphere. Used to eliminate the "twinkling" of stars in observational astronomy and to reduce the dispersive effect of the atmosphere on laser beam weapons.
Industry:Military
