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6,416 terms

Defense terms

  1. EUREKA European Research and Coordinating Agency.
  2. EUT Early User Test.
  3. EV Experimental Version
  4. EVA Extravehicular Activity.
  5. Evasive MRV A reentry vehicle, which maneuvers for the purpose of evading defensive weapons.
  6. Event Based Contracting Support event driven acquisition strategy by linking specific contractual events to the exit criteria for the acquisition phase, or to intermediate…
  7. Event Driven Acquisition Strategy An acquisition strategy that links program decisions to demonstrated accomplishments in development, testing, and production.
  8. Event Validation A sensor element internal process that results in a determination by the operator that the sensor is healthy and the event reported is real.
  9. Event Verification The process by which it is decided, from SDS external data, that the event reported is real. 99
  10. Evolutionary Acquisition (1) An approach in which a core capability is fielded, and the system design has a modular structure and provisions for future upgrades and changes as…
  11. Evolutionary Requirements Definition Mission needs are first expressed in broad operational capability terms, and then progressively evolved to system specific performance requirements.
  12. EVPA Experimental Version Performance Assessment.
  13. EVPA/TEVS Experimental Version Performance Assessment Test Environment System.
  14. EVS Enhanced Verdin System.
  15. EW (1) Electronic Warfare. (2) Early Warning.
  16. EW/AA Early Warning and Attack Assessment.
  17. EWCC Expanded Weapons Control Computer (PATRIOT).
  18. EWDA Energy and Water Development Appropriations (US).
  19. EWG Event Working Group.
  20. EWN Early Warning Net.
  21. EWO Electronic Warfare Officer.
  22. EWPE Electronic Warfare Pre-Processing Element.
  23. EWR Early Warning Radar.
  24. EWS - early warning system.
  25. EXCEDE Electron Accelerator Experiment.
  26. Excimer A contraction for excited dimer ; a type of lasant . A dimer is a molecule consisting of two atoms. Some dimers (e.g.
  27. Excimer Laser (EXL) A laser in which emission is stimulated when a gas is shocked with electrical energy and the excited medium emits light when returning to a ground state.
  28. EXCOM Executive Committee.
  29. Executable Program A program is executable if the PM has adequate near-term approved funding.
  30. Executing Agent The individual within the executing element assigned responsibility for managing MDA funded programs.
  31. Executing Elements Agencies or organizations ( DoD or non- DoD ) that are managing BMD-related programs.
  32. Executing Responsibility Program Manager responsibility.
  33. Exercise When you act on a buying or selling opportunity that you have been granted under the terms of a contract, you are said to exercise a right.
  34. EXIT External Interface and Test.
  35. Exit Criteria Program specific accomplishments that must be satisfactorily demonstrated before an effort or program can progress further in the current acquisition…
  36. EXL Excimer Laser.
  37. Exo Decoy A decoy that matches RV signature exoatmospherically . Exo decoys can use radar and/or optical means to deceive sensors.
  38. Exoatmospheric Outside the Earths atmosphere; generally considered to be altitudes above 100 km.
  39. Exoatmospheric Reentry Vehicle Interceptor Subsystem (ERIS) OBSOLETE. Interceptor designed to provide functional test validation of GBI.
  40. Exoatmospheric Test Bed (XTB) Flight qualified and range integrated vehicle to support other programs such as GBI-X.
  41. Expert Systems Software programs, which use artificial intelligence techniques to capture and apply the non-algorithmic knowledge and procedures of human experts.
  42. Expired Appropriation An appropriation that is no longer available for new obligation but is still available for disbursement to liquidate existing obligations.
  43. EXPLAN Exercise Plan.
  44. Explicit Coordination A battle management technique which communicates results, decisions or command from one battle manager to another, usually from a higher command to a…
  45. Extended Planning Annex A document providing program guidance for an additional 10 years beyond the POM. 103
  46. F 1) Fahrenheit- The standard scale used to measure temperature in the United States.
  47. F/O (1) Fiber Optic. (2) Follow-On.
  48. FA Forecast Area
  49. FA/RD Functional Analysis/Requirements Definition.
  50. FAA Federal Aviation Administration
  51. FAAD Forward Area Air Defense (US Army).
  52. FAAD C2I Forward Area Air Defense Command, Control and Intelligence.
  53. FAADS Forward Area Air Defense System (JCS term).
  54. FAAWC Fleet/Force Anti-Air Warfare Commander.
  55. FAB A product of hydrolysis of an IgG antibody, consisting of the variable region with some of the constant region of a heavy chain, and an entire light chain.
  56. Fac Facility (MILCON term).
  57. FACP Forward Area Control Post (JFACC term).
  58. FACSPMF Federal Agency Computer Security Program Managers Forum.
  59. FAD See: flavin adenine dinucleotide.
  60. FADEC Full-Authority Electronic Controls.
  61. FAFB Falcon AFB, CO.
  62. FAFBR Falcon AFB Regulation
  63. Fairing Structure to protect the payload during ascent phase.
  64. FAIT A fact; an act committed; a deed.
  65. FALCON Fission-Activated Light Concept.
  66. FAM Functional Area Management.
  67. FAMIS Financial Accounting Management Information System.
  68. FAMP Facilities Acquisition Management Plan.
  69. FAMSIM Family of Simulations (USA term).
  70. FAR See Federal Acquisition Regulation.
  71. Far Field The region far from an antenna compared to the dimensions of the antenna and the wavelength of the radiation.
  72. FAS Foreign Agricultural Service
  73. FAST First Action System for Trademarks
  74. Fast-Burn Booster (FBB) A ballistic missile that burns out much more quickly than current versions, possibly before exiting the atmosphere entirely.
  75. FAT (1) First Article Testing. (2) Factory Acceptance Test.
  76. Fault-Tolerance The ability of a processor to maintain mission effectiveness after some subsystems failed.
  77. FAX Short for facsimile. A process of transmitting documents by scanning them to digital, converting to analog, transmitting over phone lines and reversing…
  78. FBB Fast-Burn Booster.
  79. FBIS Foreign Broadcast Information Service (US).
  80. FBM Fleet Ballistic Missile.
  81. FBMS Fleet Ballistic Missile System (USN term).
  82. FBP Forward Based Probe.
  83. FBR Forward-Based Radar (US Army term).
  84. FBS Forward-Based System.
  85. FBXR Forward-Based X-band Radar.
  86. FC A product of hydrolysis of an IgG antibody, consisting of parts of the constant regions of two heavy chains held together by a disulphide bridge, but…
  87. FCA Functional Configuration Audit.
  88. FCC Federal Communications Commission.
  89. FCCM Facilities Capital Cost of Money.
  90. FCN Fully Connected Network.
  91. FCO Field Change Order.
  92. FCRC OBSOLETE. Federal Contract Research Center.
  93. FCS Fire Control Section.
  94. FCT Foreign comparative testing.
  95. FD First Deployment.
  96. FDA An agency in the U.S. federal government whose mission is to protect public health by making sure that food, cosmetics, and nutritional supplements are…
  97. FDC Final Data Capture Once the fee, any correspondence, and/or drawings are matched with the application and all requirements have been met for issuance as a…
  98. FDG Foreign Disclosure Guide.
  99. FDM Common abbreviation for Financial Disclosure Management, the online program to electronically file and manage financial disclosure reports.
  100. FDO Friant Dam Office (Friant, CA).

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