Defense terms starting with L

236 terms

  1. L&TH Lethality and Target Hardening.
  2. L1SS Level 1 System Simulator.
  3. L2SS Level 2 System Simulator - NTF.
  4. LAA Limited Access Area.
  5. LAAD Low Altitude Air Defense.
  6. LAAFB Los Angeles Air Force Base, CA.
  7. LABCOM Laboratory Command.
  8. LABM Local Area Battle Manager.
  9. LABP Look Ahead Battle Planner
  10. LAC Low Authority Control.
  11. LACE this is where cards a re placed at random into a stack of cards one at a time.
  12. LACM Land Attack Cruise Missile.
  13. LADAR Laser Detection and Ranging.
  14. Laddering Down A hypothetical technique for overcoming a terminal phase missile defense. Successive salvos of salvage-fused RVs attack.
  15. LADL Lightweight Air Defense Launcher (USA TBMD term).
  16. LADS Low Altitude Demonstration System.
  17. LAFB Langley AFB, VA.
  18. LAMP A light source composed of a metal base, a glass tube filled with an inert gas or a vapor, and base pins to attach to a fixture.
  19. LAN Local Area Network.
  20. Landsat Land Satellite (NASA programs satellite).
  21. LANL Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM.
  22. LANTIRNS Low Altitude Navigation and Targeting Infrared Night System.
  23. LANTRINS Low Altitude Navigation and Targeting Infrared Night System.
  24. LAO Limited Attack Option.
  25. LAPL Lead Allowance Parts List (Navy term).
  26. LARC Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA. 162
  27. Large Optics The technology of constructing and employing mirrors over 1 m aperture to direct and control high power beam weapons/systems with large coverage, or to…
  28. LASA Large Aperture Seismic Array.
  29. Lasant A material that can be stimulated to produce laser light. Many materials can be used as lasants ; these can be in solid, liquid, or gaseous form…
  30. LASE LIDAR Acquisition and Sizing Experiment.
  31. laser (LAY-zer) A device that concentrates light into an intense, narrow beam used to cut or destroy tissue.
  32. Laser Designator A device that emits a beam of laser energy to mark a specific place or object.
  33. Laser Detection and Ranging (LADAR) A technique analogous to radar, but which uses laser light rather than radio or microwaves.
  34. Laser Guided Weapon A weapon that uses a seeker to detect laser energy reflected from a laser marker/designated target and, through signal processing, provides guidance…
  35. Laser Imaging Radar A technology whereby a laser beam can be used in a way similar to the use of a radar beam to produce a high-quality image of an object.
  36. Laser Optics Technology associated with the use and control of laser beams with flux greater than 1 watt/cm2.
  37. Laser Seeker A device based on a direction sensitive receiver that detects the energy reflected from a laser designated target and defines the direction of the target…
  38. Laser Target Designating System A system that is used to direct (aim or point) laser energy at a target. The system consists of the laser designator or laser target marker with its…
  39. Laser Tracker A device that locks on to the reflected energy from a laser marked/designated and defines the direction of the target relative to itself.
  40. Laser Weapons Devices, such as photon generators, which produce a narrow beam of coherent radiated power greater than 1 MW.
  41. LASERCOM Laser Communications.
  42. LATS Long Wave Infrared Advanced Technology Seeker/Sensor. 163
  43. Launch Azimuth Missile launch location measured in degrees clockwise from the local northpointing longitude line at the launch site. (USSPACECOM)
  44. Launch Detection Initial indication by any one of a variety of sensors that a booster has been launched from some point on the surface of the earth, with initial…
  45. Launch Point Determination With computer methods, uses missile track observation to estimate the point on the earths surface from which the missile was launched, expressed in terms…
  46. Launch Under Attack (LUA) Execution by National Command Authorities of Single Integrated Operational Plan forces subsequent to tactical warning of strategic nuclear attack against…
  47. Launch Verification Confirmation of a detection of a booster launch by receiving a report from a sensor separate and independent of the sensor that initially detected a…
  48. Layered Defense A defense that consists of several sets of weapons that operates at different phases in the trajectory of a ballistic missile.
  49. lb Pound.
  50. LBL Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA.
  51. LBM Localized Battle Management/Manager(s).
  52. LBTS Land Based Test Site.
  53. LCC (1) See Life-Cycle Cost. (2) Launch Control Center.
  54. LCCE (1) Life-Cycle Cost. (2) Launch Control Center. (3) Land Component Commander (JCS term).
  55. LCCS Life-Cycle Contractor Support.
  56. LCF Launch Control Facility.
  57. LCM (1) Life Cycle Management. (2) Lightweight Communications Module (USAF TelComms /Computer term).
  58. LCN Logistics Control Number (ILS term).
  59. LCOM Logistics Composite Model.
  60. LCS Laser Crosslink System.
  61. LDC Less Developed Country.
  62. LDEF Long Duration Exposure Facility (NASA).
  63. LDR Low Data Rate.
  64. LDS Lightning Detection System
  65. LE Lethality Enhancer (PAC-3).
  66. Lead Component/ Service The DoD Component designated by SECDEF to be responsible for management of a system acquisition involving two or more DoD Components in a joint program.
  67. LEAF Law Enforcement Access Field.
  68. Leakage Free flow loss of water through a hole or crack.
  69. Leakage (Max) The maximum allowable threat objects passing through a BMD system expressed as a percentage of the design-to threat.
  70. LEAP Lightweight Exoatmospheric Projectile.
  71. LEASAT Leased Satellite.
  72. Least Privilege This principle requires that each subject in a system be granted the most restrictive set of privileges (or lowest clearance) needed for the performance…
  73. LED (1) Low Endoatmospheric Defense. (2) Light Emitting Diode.
  74. LEDI Low Endoatmospheric Defense Interceptor.
  75. LEDS (1) Low Endoatmospheric Defense System. (2) Link Eleven Display System (USN term).
  76. LEI Low Endoatmospheric Interceptor.
  77. LEIP Link Eleven Improvement Program (USN term).
  78. LEL Low Energy Laser.
  79. LELWS Low Energy Laser Weapon System.
  80. LEM Logistics Element Manager (ILS term).
  81. LEO Low Earth Orbit.
  82. LETS LWIR Environment and Threat Simulation.
  83. Level of Effort (LOE) Effort of a general or supportive nature that does not produce definite end products or results, e.g. contract man-hours.
  84. Leverage Leverage is an investment technique in which you use a small amount of your own money to make an investment of much larger value.
  85. LF (1) Landing Force. (2) Low Frequency. 165
  86. LFIE Live Flight Integration Exercise.
  87. LFOV Limited Field of View.
  88. LFS Loral Federal System, Gaithersburg, MD.
  89. LFT&E Live Fire Test and Evaluation.
  90. LGB Laser Guided Bomb.
  91. LGM (1) Laser Guided Missile. (2) Loop Group Multiplexer.
  92. LGSM Light Ground Station Module (USA CECOM term).
  93. LHO Amphibious Assault Ship.
  94. LI Lifted Index. A common measure of atmospheric instability. Its value is obtained by computing the temperature that air near the ground would have if it…
  95. LIC Low Intensity Conflict.
  96. LIDAR An instrument similar to a radar but uses a laser to generate light pulses rather than radio waves, generally used to measure aerosol content and particle…
  97. life cycle The sequence of events from a given developmental stage in one generation to the same stage in the following generation.
  98. Life Cycle of a Weapon System All phases of the system's life including research, development, test and evaluation, production, deployment (inventory), operations and support, and…
  99. Life Jacket The life support storage container for a Brilliant Pebbles singlet. The life jacket contains subsystems that perform power, communications, and…
  100. Life-Cycle Cost (LCC) The total cost to the Government of acquisition and ownership of that system over its useful life.