Defense terms starting with A

525 terms

  1. Attack Operations (Counterforce) Attack operations prevent launch of theater missiles by attacking all elements of the overall enemy system, including such actions as destroying launch…
  2. Attack Price A concept used to evaluate the performance of a BMD system that defines price as the number of Re-entry Vehicles required to ensure target destruction.
  3. Attack Warning/ Attack Assessment (AW/AA) Integrated air, missile, and space defense data used to determine whether an attack is underway and, if so, what is the type and strength of the attack.
  4. ATTD Advanced Technology Transition Demonstration.
  5. Attenuation A mechanism for controlling gene expression in prokaryotes that involves premature termination of transcription.
  6. ATV all-terrain vehicle.
  7. AULS Accidental or Unauthorized Limited Strike.
  8. AUPC Average Unit Procurement Cost.
  9. Aurora A display of colored light in the atmosphere, caused by collisions between charged particles from a planet’s magnetosphere and atmospheric gases near…
  10. Autonomous Acquisition Range (Max.) The maximum range at which a target can be acquired by a sensor operating in a non-cued mode.
  11. AV Alterac Valley Battleground
  12. AVATAR (SAIC) Flight dynamics simulator.
  13. AVC Advanced Vehicle Concept.
  14. AVCATT Aviation CATT (US Army term)
  15. Average Unit Procurement Cost (AUPC) Design to average unit procurement cost objectives, expressed in constant dollars, are established for Milestone I, Concept Demonstration Approval.
  16. AVHRR Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer. Main sensor on U.S. polar orbiting satellites.
  17. AVSCOM Aviation Systems Command (US Army).
  18. AW/AA Attack Warning/Attack Assessment.
  19. AWACS Airborne Warning and Control System.
  20. AWC Aviation Weather Center
  21. AWE Advanced Warfighting Experiment
  22. AWG The abbreviation for American Wire Gauge; the standard for gauging the size of wires (electrical conductors).
  23. AWS (1) AEGIS Weapons System (2) Advanced Warning System. (3) Arrow Weapons System (Joint US/Israeli BMD weapons system).
  24. Azimuth A direction in terms of a 360° compass. North is at 0°, east is at 90°, south is at 180°, and west is at 270°.
  25. Azimuth Angle The direction or bearing toward which a sloping surface faces (e.g., a north-facing slope has an azimuth angle of 360°; a northeast-facing slope, an…