Defense terms starting with H

161 terms

  1. H Prefix used to designate the human form of an enzyme. For example, hGH is human growth hormone.
  2. H&S Health and Status.
  3. H/W Hardware.
  4. HA Higher Authority.
  5. HABE High Altitude Balloon Experiment.
  6. HAC Abbreviation for human artificial chromosome.
  7. HADS High Altitude Defense System.
  8. HALE High Altitude Long-Endurance.
  9. HALE UAV High Altitude Long Endurance Unmanned Aerial Vehicle.
  10. Half-Value Thickness (HVT) The thickness of a given material, which will absorb half the gamma radiation incident upon it.
  11. HALO II High Altitude Observatory II
  12. HAMS Hardness Assurance, Maintenance and Surveillance.
  13. handoff This occurs when information on positions, velocities and tracks are given by one sensor or system to another and the first sensor or system continues to…
  14. Handover This occurs when information is passed on to another sensor or system in which the first does not continue to track.
  15. HAOI High Altitude Optical Imaging.
  16. HAOIS High Altitude Optical Imaging System.
  17. HAP High Altitude Probe.
  18. Hard Kill (HK) Destruction of a target in such a way as to produce unambiguous visible evidence of its neutralization.
  19. Hardening Design and manufacturing process and other measures, which may be employed to render military assets less vulnerable.
  20. HARDMAN Hardware/Military Manpower Integration (Navy ILS term).
  21. Hardness A characteristic of water determined by the levels of calcium and magnesium. Water hardness is largely the result of geological formations of the water…
  22. Hardware Security Computer equipment features or devices used in an ADP system to preclude unauthorized access to data or system resources.
  23. Hardware-in-the- Loop (HWIL) Tests in which BM/C 3 computer and communication test systems will be in communication with some of the hardware test facilities developed for other BMD…
  24. HARM High Speed Anti-Radiation Missile. 125
  25. HASC House Armed Services Committee (US).
  26. HASP Hardened Ada Signal Processor.
  27. HATELM High-speed Anti-TEL Missile.
  28. HATMD High-Altitude Theater Missile Defense. (U.S. Army)
  29. HAVE STARE Name assigned a proven sensor capability.
  30. HAWK Homing All-the-Way Killer.
  31. HBCU/MI Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Minority Institutions.
  32. HBHO Hard-body Hand-over [algorithms].
  33. HCO High Consequence Option (Safety Engineering term).
  34. HCT Mercury Cadmium Telluride.
  35. HDA Hybrid Detector Assembly.
  36. HDBK Handbook.
  37. HDR An amount of radiation that is greater than that given in typical radiation therapy.
  38. HDX Half Duplex ( TelComm /Computer term).
  39. HE (1) High Explosive. (2) High Energy.
  40. Health and Status (H&S) Health and Status pertains to a units ability to assess the conditions of its subsystem functions.
  41. Heavy Replicas (HREPS) Decoys, which by virtue of shape, size, and mass, closely approximate an RVs signature. HREPS have significant off- load penalty.
  42. HEDI OBSOLETE. See High Endoatmospheric Defense Interceptor.
  43. HEDR High Endoatmospheric Defense Radar.
  44. HEDS High Endoatmospheric Defense System.
  45. HEI High Endoatmospheric Interceptor.
  46. HEL High Energy Laser.
  47. HELKS High Energy Laser Kill System.
  48. HELLO High Energy Laser Light Opportunity.
  49. HELSTF High Energy Laser Systems Test Facility.
  50. HELWS High Energy Laser Weapon System.
  51. HEMP High Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse. 126
  52. HEMTT Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck (US Army prime mover).
  53. Hen House Soviet area defense radar used as a component of the Moscow ABM system that provides VHF coverage of space to monitor orbiting satellites and early…
  54. HEO See High Earth Orbit.
  55. HERA (1) An improved surrogate TBM test target. (2) Two-stage, ground launched solid propellant theater target vehicle. (MDA Lexicon)
  56. HERO Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation to Ordnance (SM-2 Bk IVA).
  57. HESP High Efficiency Solar Panel.
  58. HEU Highly Enriched Uranium.
  59. HF (1) High Frequency. (2) Hydrogen fluoride.
  60. HF/DF (1) High Frequency/Direction Finding. (2) Hydrogen Fluoride/Deuterium Fluoride. (Chemicals used in IR chemical lasers).
  61. HFCNR High Frequency Combat Net Radio.
  62. HFE Human Factors Engineering.
  63. HgCdTe Mercury Cadmium Telluride.
  64. HHB Headquarters and Headquarters Battery.
  65. HIBEX High-Acceleration Boost Experiment.
  66. HIBREL High Brightness Relay.
  67. HIC Hydrologist In Charge
  68. HICOM High Command (Navy term).
  69. HICTB Human-in-Control Test Bed.
  70. HIDACZ High Density Aerospace Control Zone.
  71. HIDAR High Data Rate.
  72. High Density Aerospace Control Zone (HIDACZ) Airspace designated in an airspace control plan or airspace control order, in which there is a concentrated employment of various weapons and users.
  73. High Earth Orbit (HEO) An orbit about the earth at an altitude greater than 3,000 nautical miles (about 5,600 kilometers).
  74. High Endoatmosphere That portion of the earths atmosphere, generally above 40 km altitude.
  75. High Endoatmospheric Defense Interceptor (HEDI) OBSOLETE. Interceptor concept designed to engage RVs within the (upper or high endo ) atmosphere. (Predecessor to Endo- Exoatmospheric Interceptor (E2I).
  76. High Order Language (HOL) A programming language that requires little knowledge of the computer on which a program will run, can be translated into several different machine…
  77. Higher Authority Interface Policy, strategy, doctrine, readiness conditions, and rules of engagement from higher authorities for use by the defense system in conducting system…
  78. HIL Human In-the-Loop.
  79. HIMAD High to Medium Altitude Air Defense.
  80. HIMEZ High Altitude Missile Engagement Zone.
  81. HIP Hot Isostatic Processing.
  82. HIRAM High Resolution Infrared Auroral Measurements.
  83. HISEM High Speed Environmental Multi-burst Model.
  84. Hit To take another card.
  85. HK Hard Kill.
  86. HKV Hit to Kill Vehicle.
  87. HLD Hardware Description Language.
  88. HLLV Heavy Lift Launch Vehicle.
  89. HMC&M Hazardous Material Control and Management.
  90. HMI Human Machine Interface.
  91. HMMWV High Mobility Mutli -purpose Whealed Vehicle (USA term) (pronounced Hum Vee ).
  92. HMPC Hazardous Maintenance Procedure Code.
  93. HMSC Hughes Missile System Corporation.
  94. HNSC House National Security Committee, formerly the House Armed Services Committee. See HASC.
  95. HOB Height of Burst.
  96. HOE A shovel that digs by pulling a broom-and-stick-mounted bucket toward itself.
  97. HOL High Order Language. 128
  98. Homing All-the- Way Killer (HAWK) (1) Upgrades to the HAWK interceptor and radar system to provide the Marine Corps with a mobile point theater ballistic missile defense capability.
  99. Homing Device A device, mounted on a missile, to aid its guidance to a target. The homing device uses sensors to detect the position of, or to help predict the future…
  100. Homing Guidance A system by which a missile steers itself towards a target by means of a selfcontained mechanism which is activated by some distinguishing characteristics…