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6,416 terms

Defense terms

  1. 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…
  2. 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…
  3. 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…
  4. COTR Contracting Officers Technical Representative. See Contracting Officer.
  5. COTS commercial off-the-shelf an acquisition term refering to commercially available ready to use products that require no customization in order to meet…
  6. 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…
  7. Countercountermeasures (CCM) Measures taken by the defense to defeat offensive countermeasures.
  8. 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…
  9. Countermeasure A design or procedural measure taken against covert or overt attacks.
  10. 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…
  11. Countermeasure s Rejection (Surveillance) Improvement or rejection of an object signal in the presence of countermeasures.
  12. 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…
  13. Countermeasures Rejection (Surveillance) Improvement or rejection of an object signal in the presence of countermeasures.
  14. 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…
  15. coverage The scope of protection provided by an insurance contract which includes any of the listed benefits in an insurance policy.
  16. 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…
  17. CP Command Post.
  18. CPA Continued Prosecution Application a continuation or divisional application filed in a design application under 37 CFR 1.53(d)* -- see MPEP 201.
  19. CPAF Cost Plus Award Fee.
  20. CPAM Chief of Naval Operations Program Assessment Memorandum (Navy) 64
  21. CPAR Cost Performance Assessment Report.
  22. CPAT Critical Process Assessment Tool
  23. CPB Charged Particle Beam.
  24. CPEV Communications/Processor [Network] Experimental Version.
  25. CPFF Cost Plus Fixed Fee.
  26. CPIF Cost Plus Incentive Fee.
  27. CPIPT Cost-Performance Integrated Product (Process) Team.
  28. CPM (1) Critical Path Method. (2) Contractor Performance Measurement.
  29. CPP Critical Performance Parameter.
  30. CPR Cost Performance Report.
  31. CPR/NC Cost Performance Report/No Criteria (Contract management term).
  32. CPS (1) Consolidated Program Summary. (2) Competitive Prototyping Strategy. (3) Current Program Status.
  33. CPU Central Processing Unit ( TelComm /Computer term).
  34. CPX See Command Post Exercise.
  35. CQAE Chief/Contract Quality Assurance Evaluator.
  36. CR Corpse Retrevial
  37. CR-UAV Close Range Unmanned Aerial Vehicle.
  38. CRA (1) Coordinating Review Authority. (2) Command Relationships Agreement
  39. CRADA Cooperative Research and Development Agreement.
  40. CRAM (1) Control Random Access Memory. (2) Cross-tie Random Access Memory (Computer term).
  41. CRB Configuration Review Board.
  42. CRC Control and Reporting Center.
  43. CRD (1) Capstone Requirements Document. (2) Component Requirements Document.
  44. CRDA Cooperative Research and Development Agreement.
  45. CRG Communications Relay Groups (PATRIOT).
  46. CRI Classification, Recognition and Identification.
  47. CRISD Computer Resources Integrated Support Document 65
  48. Critical Design Review (CDR) A review conducted to determine that the detailed design satisfies the performance and engineering requirements of the development specification; to…
  49. Critical Information Specific facts about friendly intentions, capabilities, and activities vitally needed by adversaries for them to plan and act effectively so as to…
  50. 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…
  51. 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…
  52. Critical Operational Issue A key operational effectiveness or operational suitability issue that must be examined in operational test and evaluation to determine the systems…
  53. Critical Path Method A technique that aids dependency of other activities and the time required to complete.
  54. Critical Risk The existence of a vulnerability that could cause exceptionally grave damage to the viability or the operational effectiveness of the SDS.
  55. 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…
  56. Critical Supporting Technology A technology that program management personnel consider a critical part of the program being described.
  57. CRLCMP Computer Resources Life-Cycle Management Plan.
  58. CRM Computer Resources Management.
  59. CRMP Computer Resources Management Plan.
  60. CRO Chemical Release Observation.
  61. CRP Abbreviation for catabolite regulator protein. See: catabolite activator protein.
  62. CRS Console Replacement System for NOAA Weather Radio
  63. CRT Cathode Ray Tube.
  64. CRWG Computer Resource Working Group.
  65. Cryocoolers Cryogenic Coolers.
  66. Cryogenic At very low temperature.
  67. CRYPTO A designation or marking which identifies classified operational keying material, and which indicates that this material requires special consideration…
  68. 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).
  69. Cryptology The science that deals with hidden, disguised, or encrypted communications. It includes communications security and communications intelligence.
  70. CS (1) OBSOLETE. See Corps SAM. (2) Contracting Specialist. (3) Contract Start.
  71. CS/CSS Combat Support and Combat Service Support (USAF budget term).
  72. CSA Chief of Staff of the Army.
  73. CSAF Chief of Staff of the Air Force.
  74. CSC Computer Software Component.
  75. CSCE OBSOLETE Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. (See OSCE)
  76. CSCSC Cost/Schedule Control System Criteria.
  77. CSD (1) Constant Speed Drive. (2) Critical System Demonstration.
  78. CSE Center for Security Evaluations (DCI).
  79. CSEDS Combat System Engineering Development Site, supporting the AEGIS Weapon System, located in Cherry Hill, NJ.
  80. CSF The fluid that flows in and around the hollow spaces of the brain and spinal cord, and between two of the meninges (the thin layers of tissue that cover…
  81. CSI Conditional Symmetric Instability
  82. CSIP Current Systems Improvement Program.
  83. CSIZE Constellation Size.
  84. CSL Computer Systems Laboratory.
  85. CSM (1) Core Support Module (*C2E term). (2) Communications Support Model.
  86. CSNI Communications Shared Network Interface (NATO term). 67
  87. CSO Closely Spaced Objects.
  88. CSOC See Consolidated Space Operations Center.
  89. CSOM Computer System Operators Manual
  90. CSOSS Combat System Operational System Sequencing
  91. CSP A type of tumor found in breast or prostate tissue. It is often large and bulky and grows quickly.
  92. CSRD Computer System Requirements Document.
  93. CSS Cascading Style Sheet - a technology used for webpages to format fonts and control layouts on the computer display.
  94. CSSCS Combat Service Support Control System (USA term).
  95. CSSLAB Computer System Security and Privacy Advisory Board.
  96. CSSO Computer Systems Security Officer.
  97. CSSPAB Computer System Security and Privacy Advisory Board.
  98. CSSTSS Combat Service Support Training Simulation System (US Army term).
  99. CSTC Consolidated Space Test Center.
  100. CSTI Civil Space Technology Initiative.

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