- 行业: Government; Military
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A digital computer system interfaced with the aircraft sensor suite to provide Open Skies Treaty required data annotation onto recorded media (i.e. photographic film). The system also provides the capability for the collection and recording of mission/sensor events, sensor status, and flight/navigation data for post-mission analysis and reporting. The integration of digital map information, mission route data, sensor status, aircraft navigation information, and other data generates a continuously updated map display of current aircraft location, planned and actual flight path, sensor footprints, and other related information to provide situational awareness and verify system operation and treaty compliance.
Industry:Military
Secure from destruction, violence, infringement, search, seizure, or desecration. Inviolability of inspectors, as used in arms control agreements, is the same as that afforded diplomatic agents, pursuant to Articles 29 and 31 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
Industry:Military
Since 1993, Open Skies mission training flights have been conducted between States Parties. Before the Open Skies Treaty entered into force on January 1, 2002, signatory states participated in JTFs to increase confidence and refine operational procedures. It is estimated that a small number of JTFs will continue as new States Parties accede to the Treaty.
Industry:Military
Method for securing documents, records, or inspection equipment at a point of entry or inspectable site in a container with locks and/or seals of each party affixed.
Industry:Military
United States government agency designated to have primary responsibility to coordinate arms control verification activities.
Industry:Military
The use of methods, other than granting full access, to protect critical information while demonstrating compliance with an arms control treaty or agreement. Examples of managed access methods include: removal of nonrelated, sensitive items; shrouding of sensitive displays, stores, and equipment; logging off computer systems and turning off data-indicating devices; random selective access, whereby inspectors are requested to select only a certain number, or percentage, of areas, buildings, or items for inspection; exceptional access, whereby the inspected party limits access to certain parts of the inspectable area to individual inspectors rather than allowing the full team access; allowing inspectors to view a sensitive area only from a window or doorway rather than granting them full access to the area; restricting access to sensitive areas only during specified times; pre-planning the manner in which inspectors are escorted onto a site and from area-to-area, building-to-building, and room-to-room; limiting inspector access to personnel by dismissing nonessential personnel; monitoring the use of, or operating, inspection equipment for inspectors; proposing personnel for interviews; and volunteering records for review. Whenever less than full access is provided, the inspected party is obligated to make every reasonable effort to demonstrate compliance by alternate means; for example, by partially removing a shroud or by showing inspectors convincing photos or documentation related to the compliance concern rather than granting physical access to an area.
Industry:Military
The term “maximum flight distance” means the maximum distance over the territory of the observed Party from the point at which the observation flight may commence to the point at which that flight may terminate, as specified in Annex A in the Open Skies Treaty.
Industry:Military
Any written agreement as to how a treaty protocol or a program will be administered.
Industry:Military
Department of Defense organization, established by Defense Directive 5134.9, which manages, directs, and executes the Missile Defense Program. Objectives include developing and deploying Theater Missile Defenses to meet existing missile threats to U.S. and allied forces, developing options to deploy a National Missile Defense for the United States, and continuing to support research on more advanced missile defense technologies.
Industry:Military
Under the Open Skies Treaty, a document that is presented by the observing Party to the observed Party and forms the basis for the elaboration of the flight plan. The mission plan contains the route, profile (altitudes), order of execution and support required to conduct the observation flight.
Industry:Military
