- Industry: Government; Military
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OBSOLETE. A fast-response, rocket-launched Long Wavelength Infrared (LWIR) and visible waveband sensor which would have enhanced the information available from the SDS’ mid-course sensor suite by providing tracking and discrimination data on potentially lethal targets.
Industry:Military
Those requirements imposed on acquisition systems to ensure they are operationally ready for use when needed, will successfully perform assigned functions, and can be economically operated and maintained within the scope of logistics concepts and policies. RAM programs are applicable to materiel systems, test measurement and diagnostic equipment, training devices, and facilities developed, produced, maintained, procured, or modified for use. (See individual definitions for Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability.)
Industry:Military
A ground-based, air transportable sensor that provides search, tracking and discrimination capabilities for the THAAD interceptor system. Also referred to as THAAD Radar.
Industry:Military
An air-launched direct-ascent ("pop-up") kinetic energy anti-satellite weapon.
Industry:Military
A joint service, jam-resistant, secure communications system that permits the interchange of essential tactical information between aircraft, surface vessels, and mobile or fixed-base land stations.
Industry:Military
The contractor shall establish a SSE program to support economical achievement of overall program objectives. To be considered efficient, the SSE program: (1) enhances the operational readiness and mission success of the defense resource; (2) identifies and reduces potential vulnerabilities to the resource from sabotage, theft, damage, destruction, etc.; (3) provides management information essential to system security planning and (4) minimizes its own impact on overall program cost and schedule.
Industry:Military
The deposit and/or absorption of residual radioactive material or biological or chemical agents on or by structures, areas, personnel, or objects. •Nuclear Contamination. Residual radioactive material resulting from fallout or rainout, and residual radiation from a system produced by a nuclear explosion, and persisting longer than one minute after burst. •Biological Contamination. Microorganisms and toxins that cause disease in humans, plants, or animals or cause deterioration of material. •Chemical Contamination. Chemical substances intended for use in military operations to kill, seriously injure, incapacitate, or temporarily irritate humans.
Industry:Military
A continuously evolving system that is being developed through the integration and enhancement of earlier planning and execution systems: Joint Operation Planning System and Joint Deployment System. It provides the foundation for conventional command and control by national and theater level commanders and their staffs. It is designed to satisfy their informational needs in the conduct of joint planning and operations. JOPES includes joint operation planning policies, procedures, and reporting structures supported by communications and automated data processing systems. JOPES is used to monitor, plan, and execute mobilization, deployment, employment, and sustainment activities associated with joint operations.
Industry:Military
The system that provides the means for operational direction and technical administrative support involved in the function of command and control of U.S. military forces. The system comprises: The NMCS - The command and control systems of the unified and specified commands - The WWMCCS-related management/information systems of the headquarters of the Military Departments - The command and control systems of the headquarters of the service component commands - The command and control support systems of DoD agencies. The system furnishes a multi-path channel of secure communications to transmit information from primary sources to those who must make decisions (including the President) and to transmit their decisions (in the form of military orders) to subordinates.
Industry:Military
A reentry vehicle carried by a delivery system that can place one or more reentry vehicles over each of several separate targets.
Industry:Military
