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6,416 terms

Defense terms

  1. BDA Battle Damage Assessment.
  2. BDC A rare type of kidney cancer that grows and spreads quickly. It begins in the duct of Bellini in the kidney. Also called Bellini duct carcinoma.
  3. BDE Brigade
  4. BDL Battlefield Demonstration Laser.
  5. BDP Baseline Data Package
  6. BDPI Baseline Data Package Integration.
  7. BDS Boost Phase Detection System.
  8. BDT Birth-to-Death Tracking.
  9. BDY Burst Detector Y Sensor.
  10. BE OBSOLETE. See Brilliant Eyes. 32
  11. Beam Control Technologies associated with controlling the physical properties of high-energy beams and steering the energy transmitted by those beams to the target…
  12. BEAM WIDTH Angular width of antenna pattern. Usually that width where the power density is one-half that of the axis beam. (Half-Power or 3 dB point)
  13. BEAR Beam Experiment Aboard Rocket (NPB Technology Validation Experiment).
  14. BEAST Battle Experiment Area Simulator Tracker.
  15. BECO Before Engine Cutoff.
  16. BECS Battlefield Electronic CEOI System (See RBECS) .
  17. Bell- Lapadula Model A formal state transition model of computer security policy that describes a set of access control rules.
  18. BELLCORE Bell Communications Research, Incorporated.
  19. BEP Brilliant Eyes Probe.
  20. BES Budget Estimate Submission.
  21. BESAM OBSOLETE. Brilliant Eyes Sensor Algorithm Manager.
  22. BESC BM/C 3 Element Support Center
  23. BESim OBSOLETE. Brilliant Eyes Simulator.
  24. BESim /AT OBSOLETE. Brilliant Eyes Simulator Analysis Tool.
  25. BESim /RT OBSOLETE. Brilliant Eyes Simulator Real-Time.
  26. BEST budget estimate system tools.
  27. BET Best Estimate Trajectory.
  28. BFAC Blue Forces Analysis Center.
  29. BFTT Battle Force Tactical Training.
  30. BG Battleground
  31. BGM Battle Group Manager.
  32. BGSE Bus Ground Support System (USAF term).
  33. BGV Boost Glide Vehicle.
  34. BI (1) Background Investigation. (2) Briefing to Industry.
  35. BIB Blocked Impurity Band.
  36. BIC Battlefield Integration Center. 33
  37. BID The bid is the price a market maker or broker is willing to pay for a security, such as a stock or bond, at a particular time.
  38. BIDS Biological Integrated Detection System.
  39. Biennial Budget The FY86 DoD Authorization Act required the submission of two-year budgets for the Department of Defense beginning with FY88/89.
  40. Big Crow A suite of aircraft, helicopters, ground vans, and electronic equipment, which is used to emulate an electronic warfare environment for testing, weapon…
  41. BIM Ballistic Intercept Missile.
  42. Biological Weapon An item of material, which projects, disperses, or disseminates a biological agent including arthropod vectors.
  43. BIOS Basic Input/Output System.
  44. BIPS Billion Instructions Per Second.
  45. Birth-to-Death Tracking (BDT) The tracking of space objects (e.g., satellites, reentry vehicles, or decoys that simulate these) from the time they are deployed from a booster or…
  46. Bistatic Radar A radar system that has transmitters and receivers stationed at two geographically separate locations; a special case of multi-static radar.
  47. Bit A bit ( B inary dig IT ) is the smallest unit of computer data. A bit consists of either 0 or 1. There are eight bits in a byte.
  48. Bit Transfer Rate The number of bits transferred per unit time, usually expressed in bits per second (bps).
  49. BITE When a fish takes or touches a bait so that the fisherman feels it.
  50. Black Body A hypothetical object that absorbs all of the radiation that strikes it; also emits radiation at a maximum rate for its given temperature.
  51. Blackout The disconnection of the source of electricity from all the electrical loads in a certain geographical area brought about by an emergency forced outage or…
  52. BLADES BMD Long Wavelength Infrared Advanced Exo -atmospheric Sensor.
  53. BLADT Blast, Dust, Thermal Effects Model.
  54. Blast Effect Destruction of or damage to structures and personnel by the force of an explosion on or above the surface of the ground.
  55. Blast Wave A sharply defined wave of increased pressure rapidly propagated through a surrounding medium from a center of detonation or similar disturbance.
  56. BLCCE BMDO Life Cycle Cost Estimate.
  57. BLK Block (system production lot)
  58. Blk IVA Navy Standard Missile Block IV-A.
  59. block A repetition/replication of the Early, Mid and Late Seral Treatment plots and a Control plot. See Repetition/replication.
  60. Block Check Character (BCC) The result of a transmission verification algorithm accumulated over a transmission block, and normally appended at the end, e.g., CRC, LRC.
  61. Block Enhancement Plan (BEP) The BEP documents Ballistic Missile Defense System technology development objectives and defines the steps necessary to achieve those objectives.
  62. Block Manager The individual selected to exercise management over a development Block. BMDS Block management includes decision points at which activities will be…
  63. Blue Forces Those forces used in a friendly role during exercises.
  64. Blue Light Stand alone network development program
  65. BM (1) Battle Management. (2) Ballistic Missile.
  66. BM ATD Battle Management Advanced Technology Demonstration 35
  67. BM/C 3 Battle Management/Command, Control, and Communications. See also CC/SOIF.
  68. BM/C 3 I Battle Management/Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence.
  69. BM/C 3 WG BM/C 3 Working Group.
  70. BM/C 4 I Battle Management/ Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence.
  71. BMAAT Battle Management Architecture Analysis Tool.
  72. BMC Battle Management Center.
  73. BMC3 TEx BMC3 Test Exerciser.
  74. BMD A measure of the amount of minerals (mostly calcium and phosphorous) contained in a certain volume of bone.
  75. BMD Element Program Manager (PM) A highly qualified individual responsible for day-to-day management and execution of a BMD element program consistent with PM authorities and…
  76. BMD Event Assessment An evaluation of information that determines the potential or actual nature and objectives of an attack for the purpose of providing information for…
  77. BMD Event Validation The human evaluation of whether an observed event is real or false. It is a statement of validity of a warning event determined by a human analysis of…
  78. BMDA Ballistic Missile Defense Act.
  79. BMDAC Ballistic Missile Defense Advisory Committee.
  80. BMDAE Ballistic Missile Defense Acquisition Executive.
  81. BMDARC Ballistic Missile Defense Acquisition Review Council.
  82. BMDATC OBSOLETE. Ballistic Missile Defense Advanced Technology Center, Huntsville, AL.
  83. BMDCC Ballistic Missile Defense Command/Control Center.
  84. BMDM Ballistic Missile Defense Monitor.
  85. BMDN Ballistic Missile Defense Network. Encompasses the mission-oriented local area and wide area networks, facilities, hardware, software, network control and…
  86. BMDO OBSOLETE. See Ballistic Missile Defense Organization.
  87. BMDOC OBSOLETE. See Ballistic Missile Defense Operations Center.
  88. BMDOICA OBSOLETE. See BMDO Independent Cost Assessment.
  89. BMDP Ballistic Missile Defense Program.
  90. BMDSCOM OBSOLETE. Ballistic Missile Defense Systems Command (now USASSDC).
  91. BMDSSC OBSOLETE. Ballistic Missile Defense Systems Command. Changed to USASSDC and, as of October 1, 1997, changed to USASMDC, Huntsville, AL.
  92. BMEWS See Ballistic Missile Early Warning System.
  93. BMIC Battle Management Integration Center.
  94. BMO OBSOLETE. Ballistic Missile Office (AF).
  95. BMP A Windows file format for storing bit map images.
  96. BMT Ballistic Missile Threat.
  97. BN Blowing Sand
  98. BN HQ Battalion Headquarters (USA/USMC term).
  99. BN OC Battalion Operations Center
  100. BNL Brookhaven National Laboratory.

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