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6,416 terms

Defense terms

  1. Attack Operations (Counterforce) Attack operations prevent launch of theater missiles by attacking all elements of the overall enemy system, including such actions as destroying launch…
  2. Attack Price A concept used to evaluate the performance of a BMD system that defines price as the number of Re-entry Vehicles required to ensure target destruction.
  3. Attack Warning/ Attack Assessment (AW/AA) Integrated air, missile, and space defense data used to determine whether an attack is underway and, if so, what is the type and strength of the attack.
  4. ATTD Advanced Technology Transition Demonstration.
  5. Attenuation A mechanism for controlling gene expression in prokaryotes that involves premature termination of transcription.
  6. ATV all-terrain vehicle.
  7. AULS Accidental or Unauthorized Limited Strike.
  8. AUPC Average Unit Procurement Cost.
  9. Aurora A display of colored light in the atmosphere, caused by collisions between charged particles from a planet’s magnetosphere and atmospheric gases near…
  10. Autonomous Acquisition Range (Max.) The maximum range at which a target can be acquired by a sensor operating in a non-cued mode.
  11. AV Alterac Valley Battleground
  12. AVATAR (SAIC) Flight dynamics simulator.
  13. AVC Advanced Vehicle Concept.
  14. AVCATT Aviation CATT (US Army term)
  15. Average Unit Procurement Cost (AUPC) Design to average unit procurement cost objectives, expressed in constant dollars, are established for Milestone I, Concept Demonstration Approval.
  16. AVHRR Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer. Main sensor on U.S. polar orbiting satellites.
  17. AVSCOM Aviation Systems Command (US Army).
  18. AW/AA Attack Warning/Attack Assessment.
  19. AWACS Airborne Warning and Control System.
  20. AWC Aviation Weather Center
  21. AWE Advanced Warfighting Experiment
  22. AWG The abbreviation for American Wire Gauge; the standard for gauging the size of wires (electrical conductors).
  23. AWS (1) AEGIS Weapons System (2) Advanced Warning System. (3) Arrow Weapons System (Joint US/Israeli BMD weapons system).
  24. Azimuth A direction in terms of a 360° compass. North is at 0°, east is at 90°, south is at 180°, and west is at 270°.
  25. Azimuth Angle The direction or bearing toward which a sloping surface faces (e.g., a north-facing slope has an azimuth angle of 360°; a northeast-facing slope, an…
  26. B Abbreviation used on long-term climate outlooks issued by CPC to indicate areas that are likely to be below normal for a given parameter (temperature…
  27. B Spec Development specification.
  28. B2C2 Brigade and Below Command and Control System (Army term).
  29. BA biological assessment.
  30. BAA Broad Agency Announcement.
  31. BAC Abbreviation for bacterial artificial chromosome.
  32. Backbone Network Consists of the space communications network, the ground communications network, and the interconnection between the two.
  33. Background Rejection (Surveillance) The suppression of background noise for the improvement of an object signal.
  34. BAE Battlefield Area Evaluation (USA term).
  35. BAFO Best and Final Offer.
  36. BAI Battlefield Air Interdiction.
  37. Balanced Technology Initiative (BTI) DoDs program to hasten application of advanced technology to the most critical and urgent operational needs.
  38. Ballistic Coefficient The weight of the object divided by the product of the coefficient of drag and the projected area (W/CDA), in kilograms per square meter.
  39. Ballistic Missile (BM) Any missile that does not rely upon aerodynamic surfaces to produce lift and consequently follows a ballistic trajectory when thrust is terminated.
  40. Ballistic Missile Boost Intercept (BAMBI) OBSOLETE. A 1966 system concept that a Lockheed study group developed in anticipation of possible government interest in the development of an ABM…
  41. Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) All active and passive measures designed to detect, identify, track, and defeat attacking ballistic missiles (and entities), in both strategic and theater…
  42. Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Cell This facility will be located in the USSPACECOM Consolidated Command Center (CCC) and Space Control Center (SPACC) to support the Space Force Application…
  43. Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) System (1) An integrated system that employs layered defenses to intercept missiles during their boost, midcourse, and terminal flight phases.
  44. Ballistic Missile Defense Battery An Army operations center, which operates and maintains BMD ground-based weapons and sensors. 28
  45. Ballistic Missile Defense Operations Center (BMDOC) OBSOLETE. Initially located at the NTF, and ultimately in the Cheyenne Mountain Complex, this facility supports the BMD Cell-USSPACECOM information…
  46. Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) OBSOLETE. The former name of an agency of the Department of Defense whose mission is to manage and direct the conduct of a research program examining the…
  47. Ballistic Missile Defense Organization Cost Position (BCP) The official position of BMDO reflecting a rigorous cost estimate reconciliation between the service program office estimate and the BMDO independent cost…
  48. Ballistic Missile Defense Organization Independent Cost Assessment (BMDOICA) The result of the BMDO cost estimating procedure which identifies the cost of a program described in a CARD or CARD-like document.
  49. Ballistic Missile Defense Program An architecture comprising three objectives: Theater Missile Defense (TMD), National Missile Defense (NMD), and Follow-on Research Programs.
  50. Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) Provides tactical warning of ballistic missile attacks, and is part of Spacetrack system.
  51. Ballistic Trajectory The trajectory traced after the propulsive force is terminated and the body is acted upon only by gravity and aerodynamic drag.
  52. Ballistics branch of physics that deals with the flights of projectiles.
  53. Balloon A spherical inflatable decoy used as a penetration aid to mask the location of reentry vehicles.
  54. BAMBI OBSOLETE. See Ballistic Missile Boost Intercept.
  55. Bandwidth The amount of information or data that can be sent over a network connection in a given period of time.
  56. Bar 1. Historically, the partition separating the general public from the space occupied by the judges, lawyers and other participants in a trial. 2.
  57. BARBB BMDO Acquisition Reporting Bulletin Board
  58. Barrage Jamming Simultaneous electronic jamming over a broad band of frequencies.
  59. Base Program The base program is the program described in the Future Years Defense Program base file, when updated to conform to the budget presented to Congress in…
  60. Base Year A reference period, which determines a fixed price level for comparison in economic escalation calculations and cost estimates.
  61. baseline An initial measurement that is taken at an early time point to represent a beginning condition, and is used for comparison over time to look for changes.
  62. Baseline Comparison System (BCS) A current operational system, or a composite of current operational subsystems, which most closely represents the design, operational, and support…
  63. Baseline Conditions The natural and human environmental conditions, which are present prior to implementation of a program and against which impacts are assessed.
  64. Baseline Cost Estimate (BCE) A detailed estimate of acquisition and ownership costs normally required for highlevel decisions.
  65. Battery A beating or wrongful physical violence. The threat to use force is an "assault;" the actual use of force is a battery, which usually includes an assault.
  66. Battle Damage Assessment (BDA) The estimate of damage resulting from the application of military force against a predetermined objective.
  67. Battle Debris Battle Debris are the fragments produced by the hypervelocity collision of an interceptor with a ballistic missile, post-boost vehicle, or reentry…
  68. Battle Group (1) Domains into which the battle space is partitioned. (2) A data processing approach implemented in the battle management computer, which minimizes the…
  69. Battle Integration Preplanning processes and/or real-time coordination that occur to minimize resource wastage between battle tiers or battle partitions. 30
  70. Battle Management (BM) Battle management is comprised of two parts: strategies and the collection of tasks to be performed to successfully implement chosen strategies.
  71. Battle Management Database Battle Management data files including: battle management message file, object file, track file, discrimination file, engagement file, kill assessment…
  72. Battle Management System The hub of the command and control process. It consists of computer hardware and software that integrates elements of the command and control system into…
  73. Battle Management System Configuration The battle management elements currently in the system together with their locations, connectivity and currently activated modes of operation.
  74. Battle Management/ Command, Control, Communications, and Computers (BM/C 4 ) BM/C 4 is a set of automated processes, which respond to the C 2 systems control directives.
  75. Battle Manager The automated set of hardware and software equipment that performs the battle management functions at an element.
  76. Battle Plan One of a set of BMD operational approaches to counter a ballistic missile attack.
  77. Battle Space A characterization of the BMD area of operation generally expressed by Tier (Boost, Post-Boost, Midcourse, and Terminal). (USSPACECOM)
  78. Battle Space Partitioning Assignment of management, sensing, control and firing responsibilities to specific platforms/facilities within the deployed constellation of…
  79. Battlefield Coordination Element An Army liaison provided by the Army component commander to the Air Operations Center (AOC) and/or to the component designated by the joint force…
  80. Battlefield Coordination Element (BCE) An Army liaison provided by the Army component commander to the Air Operations Center (AOC) and/or to the component designated by the joint force…
  81. BBS Bulletin Board System.
  82. BBSF Brass Board Seeker Flight
  83. BBT Booster Burn Time.
  84. BCA Basing Concept Analysis.
  85. BCAS (1) Battle Management and C3 Architecture Simulator. (2) Base Contracting Automated System.
  86. BCBL Battle Command Battle Laboratory, Ft. Leavenworth, KS.
  87. BCCE BM/C3 Consolidated Capabilities Effort.
  88. BCD Black Canyon Dam (Emmett, ID).
  89. BCE Battlefield Coordinating Element.
  90. BCFR Battle Command Focused Rotation.
  91. BCIS Battlefield Combat Identification System (US Army term).
  92. BCM Become
  93. BCO Bend Construction Office (Bend, OR).
  94. BCP Battery Command Post (HAWK).
  95. BCS Boston Computer Society, one of the first associations of PC/Apple users and one of the largest and most active.
  96. BCTP Battle Command Training Program, Ft. Leavenworth, KS
  97. BCV Battle Command Vehicle (US Army term).
  98. BCWP Budget Cost of Work Performed.
  99. BCWS Budget Cost of Work Scheduled
  100. BD Blowing Dust

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