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6,416 terms

Defense terms

  1. GMACC Ground Mobile Alternate Command Center.
  2. GMAOC Ground Mobile Alternate Operations Center.
  3. GMCC Ground Mobile Command Center.
  4. GMCP Ground Mobile Command Post.
  5. GMD (1) Ground-based Midcourse Defense (formally National Missile Defense) (2) Global Missile Defense (OBSOLETE).
  6. GMT Greenwich Mean Time (now known as Universal Coordinated Time)
  7. GMTT&C Ground Mobile Tracking, Telemetry, and Control.
  8. GN&C Guidance, Navigation, and Control.
  9. GNC&P Guidance, Navigation, Control and Propulsion.
  10. GND Ground
  11. GOCO Government Owned, Contractor Operated.
  12. GOES Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite- Satellites orbiting at 22,370 miles above the Earth's surface with the same rotational velocity as the…
  13. GOI Government of Israel.
  14. GOJ Government of Japan.
  15. GOSG General Officer Steering Group.
  16. GOSIP Government Open Systems Interconnect Profile (CALS term).
  17. GOSP Government Open System Protocol (CALS term).
  18. GOTS Government Off-the-Shelf.
  19. Government Furnished Property Property in the possession of, or directly acquired by, the Government and subsequently made available to the contractor. (See FAR 45.101.)
  20. Government Verification Management Plan (GVMP) A management document that provides the overall framework for BMDS verification.
  21. Govt Government.
  22. GP Group.
  23. GPALS Global Protection Against Limited Strikes.
  24. GPC Global Protection Center.
  25. GPMD General Manager Program Management Directive.
  26. GPO Government Printing Office (US).
  27. GPP General Purpose Processor.
  28. GPS An acronym for Global Positioning System. A network of satellites which provide extremely accurate position and time information.
  29. GPSIU GPS Interface Unit.
  30. GPU Guidance Processor Unit (US Army term).
  31. Graceful Degradation A condition in which a system continues to operate, providing service in a degraded mode rather than failing completely or catastrophically.
  32. GRASER Gamma-Ray Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. (See Gamma- Ray Laser.)
  33. GRC General Research Corporation.
  34. Green Code Interface Software.
  35. Ground Entry Point (GEP) OBSOLETE. GEPs provide the communications interfaces between the SDS space orbital/sub-orbital elements and the C 2 E. See IFICS.
  36. Ground Mobile Regional Operations Center (GMROC) Transportable ground segment of the Regional Operations Center.
  37. Ground Zero The point on the surface of the earth at, or vertically below or above, the center of a planned or actual nuclear detonation.
  38. Ground-Based Defense The ground-based sensor and weapon systems of BMD.
  39. Ground-Based Interceptor (GBI) A kinetic energy exoatmospheric interceptor with long flyout range to provide, where possible, a multiple engagement capability for defense of the U.S.
  40. Ground-Based Interceptor Experiment (GBI-X) Designed to infuse advanced technology and promote competitive environment for GBI.
  41. Ground-Based Radar (GBR) A task-able, modular, multi-function, phased-array radar that provides surveillance, tracking and engagement planning data in post-boost, midcourse, and…
  42. Ground-Based Radar Terminal (GBRT) The sensor for the NMD system. An X-band, ground-based, phased array radar capable of detecting, tracking, and providing discrimination information to a…
  43. Ground-based Surveillance and Tracking System (GSTS) A fast-response rocket-launched sensor, which can support the SDS midcourse sensor suite by employing multiple Long Wavelength Infrared (LWIR) wavebands…
  44. GS Goldshire
  45. GSA General Services Administration, an agency of the U. S. government.
  46. GSDC Ground Station Demonstration Lab.
  47. GSE Abbreviation for government sponsored enterprisesa collection of financial services corporations formed by the United States Congress to reduce interest…
  48. GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD.
  49. GSII Government Services Information Infrastructure.
  50. GSM Ground Station Module.
  51. GSO Geo-stationary Orbit.
  52. GSR Ground Station Radar.
  53. GSSP Generally-accepted Systems Security Principles.
  54. GSTS OBSOLETE. A fast-response, rocket-launched, Long Wavelength Infrared (LWIR) and visible waveband sensor, which would have enhanced the information…
  55. GSTS (F) GSTS Farm.
  56. GTA Ground Test Accelerator.
  57. GTACS Ground Theater Air Control System.
  58. GTE GTE Corporation.
  59. GTF Guided Test Flights.
  60. GTM Global Track Manager.
  61. GTN General Technical Note.
  62. GTR Greater
  63. GTSF Guidance Test and Simulation Facility (PATRIOT), Huntsville, AL.
  64. GTV Guided Test Vehicle.
  65. GUI Graphic User Interface. 123
  66. Guidance (1) Direction, altitude control, and navigation (where appropriate) of sensors or interceptor vehicles.
  67. Guidance Enhanced Missile (GEM) A companion program to PATRIOT PAC-2, which includes enhancements to the radar to increase intercept range and performance.
  68. Guidance System (Missile) A system, which evaluates flight information, correlates it with target data, determines the desired flight path of the missile, and communicates the…
  69. Guided Missile An unmanned vehicle moving above the surface of the earth, whose trajectory or flight path is capable of being altered by an external or internal…
  70. GVSC Generic VHSIC (Very High Speed Integrated Circuit) Spaceborne Computer.
  71. GWAPS Gulf War Air Power Survey, 1994 [a DoD -sponsored survey].
  72. Gwd Giga watt-days.
  73. GWEN Ground Wave Emergency Network.
  74. GZ Ground Zero. 124
  75. H Prefix used to designate the human form of an enzyme. For example, hGH is human growth hormone.
  76. H&S Health and Status.
  77. H/W Hardware.
  78. HA Higher Authority.
  79. HABE High Altitude Balloon Experiment.
  80. HAC Abbreviation for human artificial chromosome.
  81. HADS High Altitude Defense System.
  82. HALE High Altitude Long-Endurance.
  83. HALE UAV High Altitude Long Endurance Unmanned Aerial Vehicle.
  84. Half-Value Thickness (HVT) The thickness of a given material, which will absorb half the gamma radiation incident upon it.
  85. HALO II High Altitude Observatory II
  86. HAMS Hardness Assurance, Maintenance and Surveillance.
  87. 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…
  88. Handover This occurs when information is passed on to another sensor or system in which the first does not continue to track.
  89. HAOI High Altitude Optical Imaging.
  90. HAOIS High Altitude Optical Imaging System.
  91. HAP High Altitude Probe.
  92. Hard Kill (HK) Destruction of a target in such a way as to produce unambiguous visible evidence of its neutralization.
  93. Hardening Design and manufacturing process and other measures, which may be employed to render military assets less vulnerable.
  94. HARDMAN Hardware/Military Manpower Integration (Navy ILS term).
  95. 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…
  96. Hardware Security Computer equipment features or devices used in an ADP system to preclude unauthorized access to data or system resources.
  97. 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…
  98. HARM High Speed Anti-Radiation Missile. 125
  99. HASC House Armed Services Committee (US).
  100. HASP Hardened Ada Signal Processor.

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