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6,416 terms

Defense terms

  1. BOA (1) Battlefield Ordnance Awareness. (2) Basic Operating Agreement.
  2. BOD Abbreviation for biological oxygen demand.
  3. BOE Basis of Estimate.
  4. BOIP Basis of Issue Plans.
  5. BOM U.S. Bureau of Mines.
  6. Boost Defense Segment (BDS) The portion of the BMDS that defeats ballistic missiles in the period of flight prior to the termination of powered flight.
  7. Boost Phase The first phase of a ballistic missile trajectory during which it is being powered by its engines.
  8. Boost Segment Defense The first phase of a ballistic missile trajectory during which it is being powered by its engines.
  9. Boost Surveillance and Tracking System (BSTS) OBSOLETE. An Air Force sensor system in high earth orbit used for early warning, tracking of ballistic missiles, and attack assessment.
  10. Booster In medicine, refers to a vaccination given after a previous vaccination. A booster helps maintain or increase a protective immune response.
  11. Booster Inventory Total force inventory. 37
  12. BORRG Ballistic Missile Operational Requirements Review Group.
  13. BOS Battlefield Operating System
  14. BOSS Background Optical Suppression Sensor.
  15. Bottom-Up Review (BUR) A comprehensive review, initiated in March 1993, of the nations defense strategy, force structure, modernization, infrastructure, and foundations.
  16. BP See Base pair.
  17. BPAC Budget Program Activity Code.
  18. BPBM Boost Phase Battle Management.
  19. BPHIT OBSOLETE. Brilliant Pebbles Hover Interceptor Test.
  20. BPI (1) Boost Phase Intercept. (2) Boost Phase Interceptor.
  21. BPI/E Boost Phase Intercept/ Exoatmospheric Intercept
  22. BPL Boost Phase Leakage.
  23. BPM Business Program Manager (Acquisition management term).
  24. BPPBS Biennial Planning, Programming and Budget System.
  25. BPS bits per second.
  26. BPT See Business, professional, and technical services transactions (BPT)
  27. BPT ATD Boost Phase Tracking Advanced Technology Demonstration.
  28. BPTF OBSOLETE. Brilliant Pebbles Task Force.
  29. BPTS Boost Phase Tracking System.
  30. BPX Battle Plan Execution.
  31. BRAC Base Realignment And Closure. 38
  32. Brassboard Configuration An experimental device (or group of devices) used to determine feasibility and to develop technical and operational data.
  33. BRDI Baseline Recompetition Document Integration
  34. Breadboard Configuration An experimental device (or group of devices) used to determine feasibility and to develop technical data.
  35. Break-Up (1) In detection by radar, the separation of one solid return into a number of individual returns which correspond to the various objects or structure…
  36. Breakout Stock prices fluctuate constantly, but each stock typically moves within a fairly narrow range.
  37. Brightness A basic visual sensation describing the amount of light that appears to emanate from an object, or more precisely, the luminance of an object
  38. Brilliant Eyes (BE) OBSOLETE Successor to Space-Based Surveillance and Tracking System (SSTS). BE is also known as the Space and Missile Tracking System (SMTS), and is now…
  39. Brilliant Eyes Probe (BEP) OBSOLETE. The BE Probe is a concept for a ground launched probe version of the BE space-based satellite, analogous to the obsolete GSTS, that would…
  40. Brilliant Pebbles (BP) OBSOLETE. Proliferated singlet space-based weapon with autonomous capability. (Now a subset of the Air Forces Advanced Interceptor Technologies (AIT)…
  41. Broad Concept of Operations (BCO) An approved USSPACECOM planning concept for a complete SDS. It is a toplevel concept that is detailed in specific Phase Concepts of Operations.
  42. BRP Basic Research Plan. 39
  43. BRV Ballistic Reentry Vehicle.
  44. BS Blowing Snow
  45. BSD Battlefield Situation Display.
  46. BSL Base Support Listing.
  47. BSTS See Boost Surveillance and Tracking System.
  48. BT ATD Booster Typing Advanced Technology Demonstration.
  49. BTH Below the Horizon.
  50. BTI Balanced Technology Initiative.
  51. BTOC Battalion Tactical Operations Center (PATRIOT).
  52. BTRY Battery.
  53. BTS Baseline Target Set. An MDA-approved listing and description of ballistic missile targets, which have been (or are being) developed to meet a variety of…
  54. BTTV Ballistic Tactical Target Vehicle.
  55. BTY Battery.
  56. Budget Activity (1) A budget activity is a major subdivision of a budget appropriation, generally in mission areas.
  57. Budget Authority Authority provided by law to enter into obligations that will result in outlays of Federal funds.
  58. Budget Estimate Cost estimate prepared for inclusion in the DoD budget to support an acquisition program.
  59. Budget Estimate Submit (BES) The service submissions to OSD showing budget requirements for inclusion in the DoD budget.
  60. Built-in Test Equipment (BITE) Any device permanently mounted in the prime equipment and used for the express purpose of testing the prime equipment, either independently or in…
  61. Bulk Filter The signal processing rejection of detected signals as not being related to objects of interest.
  62. BUR Bottom-Up Review.
  63. Burden In blasting, the distance between the free face and the first row of holes or the distance between rows of holes parallel to the face.
  64. Burn Rate The monthly rate at which a contractors funds are expended during the period of the contract.
  65. Burn-Through Range The distance at which specific radar can discern targets through the external interference being received.
  66. Burnout The point in time or in the missile trajectory when combustion of fuels in the rocket engine is terminated by other than programmed cutoff.
  67. Bus A parallel circuit that connects the major components of a computer, allowing the transfer of electric impulses from one connected component to any other.
  68. Bus Deployment Phase That portion of a missile flight during which multiple warheads are deployed on different paths to different targets (also referred to as the post-boost…
  69. BV Boost Vehicle.
  70. BVR Beyond Visual Range.
  71. BW body weight.
  72. BY (1) Budget Year. (2) Base Year. 41
  73. C Abbreviation for cytosine.
  74. C Spec Product specification.
  75. C&D (1) Cover and Deception. (2) Command and Decision
  76. C&D/A Command and Decision/Auxiliary
  77. C&DH Communications and Data Handling.
  78. C-B Chemical-Biological.
  79. C/AHRS Compass, Attitude Heading Reference System (US Army term).
  80. C/SCSC Cost/Schedule, Control System Criteria.
  81. C/SSR Cost Schedule Status Report.
  82. C1 Capability One [C2=Capability Two, etc.] Nomenclature given to NMD Weapons Systems evolutionary designs.
  83. C<sup>2</sup> See Command and Control.
  84. C<sup>2</sup>E See Command and Control Element.
  85. C<sup>2</sup>I Command, Control and Intelligence
  86. C<sup>2</sup>P Command and Control Processor.
  87. C<sup>2</sup>S Command and Control System.
  88. C<sup>2</sup>SC Command and Control Simulation Center.
  89. C<sup>2</sup>Sims Command and Control Simulations.
  90. C<sup>2</sup>STN Command and Control System Test Network
  91. C<sup>2</sup>TED Theater Exploitation Demonstration.
  92. C<sup>2</sup>V Command and Control Vehicle (USA term)
  93. C<sup>2</sup>W Command and Control Warfare
  94. C<sup>3</sup> Command, Control, and Communications.
  95. C<sup>3</sup>CM See Command, Control, and Communications Countermeasures.
  96. C<sup>3</sup>I See Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence.
  97. C<sup>3</sup>IIT C3I Integration Test.
  98. C<sup>3</sup>TED C3 Theater Exploitation Demonstration.
  99. C<sup>4</sup> Command, Control, Communications, and Computer Systems.
  100. C<sup>4</sup>I Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence.

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