- 行业: Government; Military
- Number of terms: 79318
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The media, conditions, and/or physical objects in which a BMD asset is immersed or surrounded. For BMD systems and elements, the comprehensive environments definition consists of natural, hostile, induced, and storage, transportation and handling categories.
Industry:Military
The destruction of a target, using directed energy, by ablative shock. The intensity of directed energy may be so great that the surface of the target violently and rapidly boils off delivering a mechanical shock wave to the rest of the target and causing structural failure.
Industry:Military
1. The product, resulting from the collection, evaluation, analysis, integration and interpretation of all available information concerning foreign countries or areas. 2. Information and knowledge about an adversary obtained through observation, investigation, analysis, or understanding.
Industry:Military
The atmospheric shell extending from the top of the mesosphere to outer space; it is a region of more or less steadily increasing temperature with height, starting at 40 to 50 miles (70 to 80 kilometers); the thermosphere includes, therefore, the exosphere and most or all of the ionosphere.
Industry:Military
Title of BMDO program for development of a state-of-the-art simulation tool at the JNTF for use in CONOPS validation, missile defense program design verification, validation and accreditation, and support of CinC/Allied wargames and assessments. The goal is for a new tool to replace ARGUS by FY 2000.
Industry:Military
Labor specifically identified with a particular final cost objective. Manufacturing direct labor includes fabrication, assembly, inspection and test for constructing the end product. Engineering direct labor consists of engineering labor such as reliability, quality assurance, test, design, etc., that is readily identified with the end product.
Industry:Military
1. Confirmation that all data inputs, logic, calculations and engineering representations of a T&E resource accurately portray the characteristics, calculations, logic, and interactions of the system under evaluation. 2. The process of evaluating a system or component during or at the end of the development process to determine whether it satisfies specified requirements.
Industry:Military
1. The characteristic of software systems or designs or architectures or domain models that identifies and documents the derivation path (upward) and allocation/flowdown path downward) of requirements and constraints. 2. The degree to which a relationship can be established between two or more products having a predecessor-successor or mastersubordinate relationship to one another.
Industry:Military
1. Domains into which the battle space is partitioned. 2. A data processing approach implemented in the battle management computer which minimizes the processing load by partitioning (grouping) threat data (Virtual Battle Group). 3. A group of associated system elements which operate together in a segment of the battle, based upon their capabilities and relative location to each other and the threat.
Industry:Military
The total cost related to the production of a usable end item of military hardware. Flyaway cost includes the cost of procuring the basic unit (airframe, hull, chassis, etc.), a percentage of basic unit cost for changes allowance, propulsion equipment, electronics, armament, and other installed government-furnished equipment, and nonrecurring production costs. Flyaway cost equates to Rollaway and Sailaway cost.
Industry:Military
