Defense terms starting with B

247 terms

  1. BPT See Business, professional, and technical services transactions (BPT)
  2. BPT ATD Boost Phase Tracking Advanced Technology Demonstration.
  3. BPTF OBSOLETE. Brilliant Pebbles Task Force.
  4. BPTS Boost Phase Tracking System.
  5. BPX Battle Plan Execution.
  6. BRAC Base Realignment And Closure. 38
  7. Brassboard Configuration An experimental device (or group of devices) used to determine feasibility and to develop technical and operational data.
  8. BRDI Baseline Recompetition Document Integration
  9. Breadboard Configuration An experimental device (or group of devices) used to determine feasibility and to develop technical data.
  10. Break-Up (1) In detection by radar, the separation of one solid return into a number of individual returns which correspond to the various objects or structure…
  11. Breakout Stock prices fluctuate constantly, but each stock typically moves within a fairly narrow range.
  12. Brightness A basic visual sensation describing the amount of light that appears to emanate from an object, or more precisely, the luminance of an object
  13. Brilliant Eyes (BE) OBSOLETE Successor to Space-Based Surveillance and Tracking System (SSTS). BE is also known as the Space and Missile Tracking System (SMTS), and is now…
  14. Brilliant Eyes Probe (BEP) OBSOLETE. The BE Probe is a concept for a ground launched probe version of the BE space-based satellite, analogous to the obsolete GSTS, that would…
  15. Brilliant Pebbles (BP) OBSOLETE. Proliferated singlet space-based weapon with autonomous capability. (Now a subset of the Air Forces Advanced Interceptor Technologies (AIT)…
  16. Broad Concept of Operations (BCO) An approved USSPACECOM planning concept for a complete SDS. It is a toplevel concept that is detailed in specific Phase Concepts of Operations.
  17. BRP Basic Research Plan. 39
  18. BRV Ballistic Reentry Vehicle.
  19. BS Blowing Snow
  20. BSD Battlefield Situation Display.
  21. BSL Base Support Listing.
  22. BSTS See Boost Surveillance and Tracking System.
  23. BT ATD Booster Typing Advanced Technology Demonstration.
  24. BTH Below the Horizon.
  25. BTI Balanced Technology Initiative.
  26. BTOC Battalion Tactical Operations Center (PATRIOT).
  27. BTRY Battery.
  28. BTS Baseline Target Set. An MDA-approved listing and description of ballistic missile targets, which have been (or are being) developed to meet a variety of…
  29. BTTV Ballistic Tactical Target Vehicle.
  30. BTY Battery.
  31. Budget Activity (1) A budget activity is a major subdivision of a budget appropriation, generally in mission areas.
  32. Budget Authority Authority provided by law to enter into obligations that will result in outlays of Federal funds.
  33. Budget Estimate Cost estimate prepared for inclusion in the DoD budget to support an acquisition program.
  34. Budget Estimate Submit (BES) The service submissions to OSD showing budget requirements for inclusion in the DoD budget.
  35. Built-in Test Equipment (BITE) Any device permanently mounted in the prime equipment and used for the express purpose of testing the prime equipment, either independently or in…
  36. Bulk Filter The signal processing rejection of detected signals as not being related to objects of interest.
  37. BUR Bottom-Up Review.
  38. Burden In blasting, the distance between the free face and the first row of holes or the distance between rows of holes parallel to the face.
  39. Burn Rate The monthly rate at which a contractors funds are expended during the period of the contract.
  40. Burn-Through Range The distance at which specific radar can discern targets through the external interference being received.
  41. Burnout The point in time or in the missile trajectory when combustion of fuels in the rocket engine is terminated by other than programmed cutoff.
  42. Bus A parallel circuit that connects the major components of a computer, allowing the transfer of electric impulses from one connected component to any other.
  43. Bus Deployment Phase That portion of a missile flight during which multiple warheads are deployed on different paths to different targets (also referred to as the post-boost…
  44. BV Boost Vehicle.
  45. BVR Beyond Visual Range.
  46. BW body weight.
  47. BY (1) Budget Year. (2) Base Year. 41