Defense terms starting with S

703 terms

  1. SS Southshore
  2. SS-18 Largest ICBM in former Soviet inventory credited with carrying 10 RVs, but capable of holding many more.
  3. SS96 Summer Study 1996 [Director, MDA].
  4. SSA See Source Selection Authority.
  5. SSAC Source Selection Authority Council/Committee (Acquisition term). 276
  6. SSB Single Side Band.
  7. SSBN Ballistic Missile Submarine (nuclear).
  8. SSC (1) See Space Surveillance Center. (2) Scan-to-Scan Correlation. (3) Strategic Systems Committee. (4) Skill Specialty Code (USAF ILS term).
  9. SSCM Surface-to-Surface Cruise Missile.
  10. SSD OBSOLETE. Space Systems Division. (Now USAF/SMC.)
  11. SSDA Solid State Demonstration Array.
  12. SSDC Space and Strategic Defense Command (US Army).
  13. SSDD System/Segment Design Document.
  14. SSDO System/Segment Design Document.
  15. SSDR Subsystem Design Review.
  16. SSE (1) See System Security Engineering. (2) Space Surveillance Experiment. (3) System Simulator Environment.
  17. SSEB Source Selection Evaluation Board.
  18. SSEKP Single Shot Engagement Kill Probability.
  19. SSGM Strategic Scene Generation Model.
  20. SSI (1) Sensor Segment Interface. (2) Sensor System Interface.
  21. SSIMU Solid State Inertial Measurement Unit.
  22. SSKEP Single Shot Kill Estimated Probability .
  23. SSKP Single Shot Kill Probability.
  24. SSL See definition for: Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
  25. SSM Surface-to-Surface Missile.
  26. SSM/I Special Sensor Microwave Imagery (Weather Satellite term).
  27. SSM/T2 Special Sensor Meteorology Temperature and Vapor (Weather Satellite term).
  28. SSM/TI Special Sensor Meteorology Temperature (Weather Satellite term).
  29. SSMP See System Security Management Plan.
  30. SSMS See Standard Survivable Message Set.
  31. SSMTR Sary Shagan Missile Test Range. 277
  32. SSN (1) Space Surveillance Network. (2) Submarine, Nuclear powered (navy Ship Designation term).
  33. SSO Special Security Office.
  34. SSOD Special Session On Disarmament.
  35. SSP Shortened Statutory Period -- see MPEP §710.02(b) for more
  36. SSPAR Solid State Phased Array Radar.
  37. SSPK Single Shot Probability of Kill.
  38. SSPM (1) Solid State Photo Multiplier. (2) Software Standards and Procedures Manual.
  39. SSPO Strategic Systems Program Office. (U.S. Navy)
  40. SSR Abbreviation for simple sequence repeat. See: microsatellite.
  41. SSRMP Space Sounding Rocket Measurement Program.
  42. SSRT Single Stage Rocket Technology.
  43. SSS (1) Space Sensor System. (2) System/Segment Specification.
  44. SSSG Space System Support Group.
  45. SST Sea Surface Temperature
  46. SSTB System Simulation Test Bed.
  47. SSTS OBSOLETE. See Space-Based Surveillance and Tracking System.
  48. SSUP System Supplement.
  49. SSWG System Safety Working Group.
  50. ST Stratus
  51. ST/STE Special Tooling/Special Test Equipment.
  52. STA Stamina
  53. Stage The extent of a cancer in the body. Staging is usually based on the size of the tumor, whether lymph nodes contain cancer, and whether the cancer has…
  54. STANAG Standardization Agreement (NATO).
  55. Standard Missile A shipboard, surface-to-surface/air missile.
  56. Standard Mobile Segment (SMS) SMS is to be the standard for all future ground mobile, air transportable command centers. 278
  57. Standard Survivable Message Set (SSMS) Message set, which contains the standard format used by ITW/AA data sources.
  58. Standardization The process by which DoD achieves: (1) the closest practicable cooperation among forces; (2) the most efficient use of research, development, and…
  59. STAR System Threat Assessment Report.
  60. STARS (1) Strategic Target System. (2) Strategic Tactical Airborne Range System. (3) Surveillance and Target Attack Radar System.
  61. START Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.
  62. STASS Space Transportation Architecture System Study.
  63. Statement of Work (SOW) That portion of a contract that establishes and defines all non-specification requirements for contractors efforts either directly or with the use of…
  64. Static Analysis The process of evaluating a program without executing the program. See also desk checking, code audit, inspection, static analyzer, walk-through.
  65. STB Surveillance Test Bed.
  66. STC SHAPE Technical Center.
  67. STD System Technology Demonstration.
  68. STDN Secure Tactical Data Network.
  69. STE See Special Test Equipment.
  70. Stealth A technique used to frustrate discrimination that uses the decoy shape and material content to reduce the reflected IR, radar, optical or acoustic…
  71. Stellar Guidance A system wherein a guided missile may follow a predetermined course with reference primarily to the relative position of the missile and certain…
  72. STEP Surveillance and Tracking Experiment Program.
  73. Steradian The unit of measure of solid angles equal to the angle subtended at the center of a sphere of unit radius by unit area on its surface.
  74. Stereo Using two or more sensors. 279
  75. STF Static Test Facility.
  76. STILAS Scientific and Technical Information Library Automation System (USASSDC term).
  77. Stimulated Emission Physical process by which an excited molecule is induced by incident radiation to emit radiation at an identical frequency and in phase with the incident…
  78. STINFO Scientific Technological Information.
  79. STINFO Center Science and Technical Information data centers archiving and providing user access and support to a variety of missile defense test and evaluation data.
  80. STM Stratiform
  81. STO (1) Special Technical Operations (JFACC term). (2) Science and Technology Objective.
  82. STOAL Short Takeoff/Arrested Landing.
  83. STOM System Test Object Model.
  84. Storage, Handling, and Transportation Environments These environment categories cover the applicable free field or ambient environments, which the system assets must be capable of withstanding during…
  85. Storm Any disturbed state of the atmosphere, especially affecting the Earth's surface, and strongly implying destructive and otherwise unpleasant weather.
  86. Storm Shadow Conventionally Armed Stand Off Missile weapon based on Matra of Frances Apache missile.
  87. STOW Synthetic Theater of War (US Army term).
  88. STP (1) System Test Plan (2) Sensor Task Plan.
  89. STR Strength
  90. STRAP HATMD System Training Plan.
  91. STRATCOM Strategic Command.
  92. Strategic Defense All active and passive measures to detect, identify, assess, degrade and defeat ballistic missile, air, and space threats to North America, including…
  93. Strategic Defense Emergency Declarations that attack is imminent or taking place.
  94. Strategic Defense System (SDS) A generic descriptor, which refers to all architectural elements of the evolving ballistic missile defense system. 280
  95. Strategic Level of War The level of war at which a nation or group of nations determines national or alliance security objectives and develops and uses national resources to…
  96. Strategic Offensive Forces (SOF) Those forces under the command of the Commander in Chief, USSTRATCOM, the Commander in Chief, Atlantic Command, the Commander in Chief, Pacific Command…
  97. Strategic Reserve That quantity of material that is placed in a particular geographic location due to strategic considerations or in anticipation of major interruptions in…
  98. Strategic Warning A warning prior to the initiation of a threatening act.
  99. Strategic Warning Lead Time That time between the receipt of strategic warning and the beginning of hostilities.
  100. Strategic Warning Post- Decision Time That time which begins after the decision, made at the highest levels of government(s) in response to strategic warning, is ordered executed and ends with…