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Warning/Threat Detection.
- Browse Related Terms: AEW, Attack and Launch Early Reporting to Theater (ALERT), AWACS, E, EWN, EWS, FEWS, I&W, IWS, Low, mw, Negate Early Warning, PAVE PAWS, Satellite Reconnaissance, SEWS, Strategic Warning, Strategic Warning Lead Time, W/TD, WNINTEL, WS
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Warfare Analysis Laboratory Exercise.
- Browse Related Terms: CONEX, FTX, LIVEX, Queue Quick Reaction Launch Vehicle, WALEX
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(1) Worldwide Military Command and Control System (WWMCCS). (2) Wide Area Munition . (3) Wide Area Mine. (4) Wide Area Missile.
- Browse Related Terms: ABCCC, ACCS, AES, ATCCS, B2C2, BDE, C2, C2E, C2I, C2P, C2S, C2SC, C2Sims, C2STN, C2V, C2W, CCE, CCIS, CRP, Emission Control (EMCON), GCCS, ICS, JINTACCS, LCCE, MACCK, NCCOSC, NCCS, NUICCS, OLC 2, RADIC System, SPADCCS, Special Data Commands, System Integration Test, WAM, WWMCCS
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A simulation, by whatever means, of a military operation involving two or more opposing forces, using rules, data, and procedures designed to depict an actual or assumed real life situation.
- Browse Related Terms: Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTD), Devolution of Command, Element Control Directives (ECDs), Event Validation, Mission Need Analysis, RTOV, RTOVF, War Game, Wargame
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A simulation, by whatever means, of a military operation involving two or more opposing forces, using rules, data, and procedures designed to depict an actual or assumed real life situation.
- Browse Related Terms: Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTD), Devolution of Command, Element Control Directives (ECDs), Event Validation, Mission Need Analysis, RTOV, RTOVF, War Game, Wargame
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Title of MDA program for development of a state-of-the-art simulation tool at the JNTF for use in CONOPS validation, missile defense program design verification, validation and accreditation, and support CinC /Allied wargames and assessments.
- Browse Related Terms: Application, CIF, closure, Design Parameters, Effectivity, Full Rate Production, Hardening, Long Lead Items, Nuclear Hardness, Reliability and Maintainability (R&M), Software Documentation, Source Selection Authority, Top-Down Design, Wargame 2000
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A weapon, usually thermonuclear, contained as the payload of a missile.
- Browse Related Terms: ASAT, AWS, BW, CIWS, CW, Defense Satellite (DSAT) Weapon, DSAT, EWCC, IJSOW, JDAM, MDW, OPCW, OSWR, RW, SDS Element, Storm Shadow, Suppression, Warhead, WCP, WCS, Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), WLR, WMD, WPN, WTA
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The act of attaching a warhead section to a rocket or missile body, torpedo, airframe, motor, or guidance section.
- Browse Related Terms: booster, Cease Engagement, Cease Fire, Command Guidance, ESSM, Firing Rate, GEM, M&LC, MCTR, MTCR, Preset Guidance, Sustainer, Warhead Mating
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A completely assembled warhead including appropriate skin sections and related components.
- Browse Related Terms: Acquisition (ACQ), Acquisition Streamlining, Co-Production, Level of Effort (LOE), Preproduction Test, Production Control, Project, System Deployment, Warhead Section, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
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A warning to national policymakers that an adversary is not only preparing its armed forces for war, but intends to launch an attack in the near future.
- Browse Related Terms: ARFOR, BFAC, BFTT, Blue Forces, Booster Inventory, FO, FOFA, FRN, ICAF, LOGFOR, MBFR, MEF, MLF, NAVFOR, Organic, SOFA, TCF, UNAAF, USFJ, USFK, Warning of Attack, ZIF
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A preliminary notice of an order or action that is to follow.
- Browse Related Terms: CE/D, certification, Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP), do, Industrial Resource Analysis (IRA), Logistics Supportability, Major Modification, Mtg, Non- Developmental Item (NDI), Production Feasibility, System Security Management Plan (SSMP), Warning Order
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Characteristics and operating procedures of sensor, communications, navigation aids, threat recognition, weapons, and countermeasures systems that (1) will contribute to military effectiveness if unknown to or misunderstood by opposing commanders before they are used, but (2) could be exploited or neutralized if known in advance. Wartime reserve modes are deliberately held in reserve for wartime or emergency use and seldom, if ever, applied or intercepted prior to such use.
- Browse Related Terms: Hard Kill (HK), NAAF, SOJ, Unk, Wartime Reserve Modes (WARM)