Defense terms starting with C

573 terms

  1. Contract Work Breakdown Structure The complete WBS for a contract developed and used by a contractor within the guidelines of MIL-STD 881A, and in accordance with the contract statement of…
  2. Contracting Officer (CO) A person with the authority to enter into, administer, or terminate contracts and make related determinations and findings.
  3. Control a test with predictable results performed with an experimental procedure to confirm the reliability of the experimental results.
  4. Control Abstraction (Software) The process of extracting the essential characteristics of control by defining abstract mechanisms and their associated characteristics while…
  5. Control and Reporting Center An element of the US Air Force tactical air control system, subordinate to the tactical air control center, from which radar control and warning…
  6. Control and Reporting Post An element of the US Air Force tactical air control system, subordinate to the control and reporting center, that provides radar control and surveillance…
  7. Control area An electric power system or combination of electric power systems to which a common automatic control scheme is applied in order to: Match, at all times…
  8. Control Procedure The means used to control the orderly communication of information between stations on a data link. Also called line discipline.
  9. Control Station The station on a network, which supervises the network control procedures such as polling, selecting, and recovery.
  10. Control Zone The space, expressed in feet or radius, that surrounds equipment that is used to process sensitive defense information and that is under sufficient…
  11. Controlled Environment A closed environment in which parameters, such as light, temperature, relative humidity and sometimes the partial gas pressure (and possibly its…
  12. CONUS Continental United States
  13. Conventional Co- Production An effort between governments to produce the same end item, or components of the same end item, in concert.
  14. Conventional Weapon A weapon that is neither nuclear, biological, nor chemical.
  15. Coop Cooperative
  16. Coordinated Engagement Planning/Actions Necessary coordination among engagement components to ensure maximum effectiveness of the SDS and resources are not wasted on targets already targeted.
  17. Coordinating Authority A commander or individual assigned responsibility for coordinating specific functions of activities involving forces of two or more Services or two or…
  18. COP Committee of Principals
  19. COR Correction
  20. CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture.
  21. CORM Commission on Roles and Missions. 62
  22. Corner Reflector (1) A device, normally consisting of three metallic surfaces or screens perpendicular to one another, designed to act as a radar target or marker.
  23. Corps SAM OBSOLETE. See Medium Extended Air Defense System.
  24. Correlation In investment terms, correlation is the extent to which the values of different types of investments move in tandem with one another in response to…
  25. COSEMS Evolving architecture operations support tool.
  26. COSM Computer System Operators Manual
  27. COSMIC Having to do with the universe as a whole.
  28. Cost Analysis Improvement Group (CAIG) An organization within the office of OSD Director, PA&E which advises the DAB on all matters concerning the estimation, review, and presentation of cost…
  29. Cost Analysis Requirements Document (CARD) The document describing the technical baseline, which is a subset of current system technical data and is used to generate the baseline cost estimate for…
  30. Cost and Operational Effectiveness Analysis (COEA) An analysis of the estimated costs and operational effectiveness of alternative materiel systems to meet a mission need, and the associated program for…
  31. Cost Risk Cost estimating risk and schedule/technical risk. Cost estimating risk is the risk due to cost estimating errors and the statistical uncertainty in the…
  32. COTR Contracting Officers Technical Representative. See Contracting Officer.
  33. COTS commercial off-the-shelf an acquisition term refering to commercially available ready to use products that require no customization in order to meet…
  34. Counterair A US Air Force term for air operations conducted to attain and maintain a desired degree of air superiority by the destruction or neutralization or enemy…
  35. Countercountermeasures (CCM) Measures taken by the defense to defeat offensive countermeasures.
  36. Counterforce The employment of strategic air and missile forces in an effort to destroy, or render impotent, selected military capabilities of an enemy force under any…
  37. Countermeasure A design or procedural measure taken against covert or overt attacks.
  38. Countermeasure s (CM) That form of military science that by the employment of devices and/or techniques has as its objective the impairment of the operational effectiveness of…
  39. Countermeasure s Rejection (Surveillance) Improvement or rejection of an object signal in the presence of countermeasures.
  40. Countermeasures (CM) That form of military science that by the employment of devices and/or techniques, has as its objective the impairment of the operational effectiveness of…
  41. Countermeasures Rejection (Surveillance) Improvement or rejection of an object signal in the presence of countermeasures.
  42. Course of Action (COA) (1) Any sequence of acts that an individual or unit may follow. (2) A possible plan open to an individual or command that would accomplish or is related…
  43. coverage The scope of protection provided by an insurance contract which includes any of the listed benefits in an insurance policy.
  44. Covert Timing Channel A covert channel in which one process signals information to another by modulating its own use of system resources in such a way that this manipulation…
  45. CP Command Post.
  46. CPA Continued Prosecution Application a continuation or divisional application filed in a design application under 37 CFR 1.53(d)* -- see MPEP 201.
  47. CPAF Cost Plus Award Fee.
  48. CPAM Chief of Naval Operations Program Assessment Memorandum (Navy) 64
  49. CPAR Cost Performance Assessment Report.
  50. CPAT Critical Process Assessment Tool
  51. CPB Charged Particle Beam.
  52. CPEV Communications/Processor [Network] Experimental Version.
  53. CPFF Cost Plus Fixed Fee.
  54. CPIF Cost Plus Incentive Fee.
  55. CPIPT Cost-Performance Integrated Product (Process) Team.
  56. CPM (1) Critical Path Method. (2) Contractor Performance Measurement.
  57. CPP Critical Performance Parameter.
  58. CPR Cost Performance Report.
  59. CPR/NC Cost Performance Report/No Criteria (Contract management term).
  60. CPS (1) Consolidated Program Summary. (2) Competitive Prototyping Strategy. (3) Current Program Status.
  61. CPU Central Processing Unit ( TelComm /Computer term).
  62. CPX See Command Post Exercise.
  63. CQAE Chief/Contract Quality Assurance Evaluator.
  64. CR Corpse Retrevial
  65. CR-UAV Close Range Unmanned Aerial Vehicle.
  66. CRA (1) Coordinating Review Authority. (2) Command Relationships Agreement
  67. CRADA Cooperative Research and Development Agreement.
  68. CRAM (1) Control Random Access Memory. (2) Cross-tie Random Access Memory (Computer term).
  69. CRB Configuration Review Board.
  70. CRC Control and Reporting Center.
  71. CRD (1) Capstone Requirements Document. (2) Component Requirements Document.
  72. CRDA Cooperative Research and Development Agreement.
  73. CRG Communications Relay Groups (PATRIOT).
  74. CRI Classification, Recognition and Identification.
  75. CRISD Computer Resources Integrated Support Document 65
  76. Critical Design Review (CDR) A review conducted to determine that the detailed design satisfies the performance and engineering requirements of the development specification; to…
  77. Critical Information Specific facts about friendly intentions, capabilities, and activities vitally needed by adversaries for them to plan and act effectively so as to…
  78. Critical Intelligence Parameter A threat capability or threshold established by the program, changes to which could critically impact on the effectiveness and survivability of the…
  79. Critical Issues Those aspects of a systems capability, either operational, technical, or other, that must be questioned before a systems overall suitability can be known…
  80. Critical Operational Issue A key operational effectiveness or operational suitability issue that must be examined in operational test and evaluation to determine the systems…
  81. Critical Path Method A technique that aids dependency of other activities and the time required to complete.
  82. Critical Risk The existence of a vulnerability that could cause exceptionally grave damage to the viability or the operational effectiveness of the SDS.
  83. Critical Security Risk The existence of a security vulnerability that, if exploited by an adversary, could cause exceptionally grave damage to the viability of the BMD or the…
  84. Critical Supporting Technology A technology that program management personnel consider a critical part of the program being described.
  85. CRLCMP Computer Resources Life-Cycle Management Plan.
  86. CRM Computer Resources Management.
  87. CRMP Computer Resources Management Plan.
  88. CRO Chemical Release Observation.
  89. CRP Abbreviation for catabolite regulator protein. See: catabolite activator protein.
  90. CRS Console Replacement System for NOAA Weather Radio
  91. CRT Cathode Ray Tube.
  92. CRWG Computer Resource Working Group.
  93. Cryocoolers Cryogenic Coolers.
  94. Cryogenic At very low temperature.
  95. CRYPTO A designation or marking which identifies classified operational keying material, and which indicates that this material requires special consideration…
  96. Cryptographic System The documents, devices, equipment, and associated techniques that are used as a unit to provide a single means of encryption (enciphering or encoding).
  97. Cryptology The science that deals with hidden, disguised, or encrypted communications. It includes communications security and communications intelligence.
  98. CS (1) OBSOLETE. See Corps SAM. (2) Contracting Specialist. (3) Contract Start.
  99. CS/CSS Combat Support and Combat Service Support (USAF budget term).
  100. CSA Chief of Staff of the Army.