- Industri: Government; Military
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An appropriation that is no longer available for new obligation but is still available for disbursement to liquidate existing obligations. Under current legislation no disbursement may be recorded or paid after a five year expiration period. Maintains all original accounting identity, e.g. FY, appropriation, PE, etc.
Industry:Military
These satellites are at altitudes between 100 and 400 nautical miles. They have short duration revolutions (about 90 minutes), short visibility envelopes (2.5 minutes up to 10 minutes over a tracking station), short life spans, and are most subject to orbital perturbations due to atmospheric drag and earth gravitational anomalies.
Industry:Military
A preplanned decision to designate a specific number of defensive assets to be used against a specific target or set of targets or to defend a specified asset or set of assets. The defense will select the best tactic to use based on the number of interceptors available, their probability to kill, the number of targets under attack to be defended, and the scope of the attack.
Industry:Military
1. A warning after initiation of a threatening or hostile act based on an evaluation of information from all available sources. 2. In satellite and missile surveillance, a notification to operational command centers that a specific threat event is occurring. The component elements that describe threat events are: country of origin, event type and size, country under attack, and event time.
Industry:Military
Radioactivity produced in certain materials as a result of nuclear reactions, particularly the capture of neutrons, which are accompanied by the formation of unstable radioactive) nuclei. In a nuclear explosion, neutrons can induce radioactivity in the weapon materials, as well as in the surroundings (e.g., by interaction with nitrogen in the air and with sodium, manganese, aluminum, and silicon in soil and sea water).
Industry:Military
The first phase of a ballistic missile trajectory during which it is being powered by its engines. During this phase, which usually lasts 3 to 5 minutes for an ICBM, the missile reaches an altitude of about 200 km whereupon powered flight ends and the missile begins to dispense its reentry vehicles. The other phases of missile flight, including midcourse and terminal, take up to the remainder of an ICBM’s flight time of 25 to 30 minutes. (USSPACECOM)
Industry:Military
The implementation of solutions to the problems in the domain. It becomes a model for constructing applications and mapping requirements from the domain model to reusable components. A generic architecture provides a high-level generic design for a family of related applications as well as a set of components intended for any instance of that application. The generic design eliminates the need to develop a high-level design for each application within the domain. As a result, domain developers use these representations as specifications for reusable components.
Industry:Military
Active defense protects against theater missiles by destroying them in flight. Engagement capability is required throughout all phases of the missile’s trajectory (boost, post-boost, mid-course, and terminal) to prevent saturation of point defense, to negate warhead effects, and to ensure minimal leakage in defending critical assets. Therefore, active defenses must consist of defense in depth to provide multiple engagement opportunities with differing technologies, increasing the probability of kill, and countering the enemy’s counter-measure efforts. Active defenses could consist of space-, air-, ground-, and sea-based systems. If a strategic ballistic missile defense system is deployed, the active TMD should be supported by, but not limited by, those systems to increase the defense in the theater of operations. Active defense is considered one of the four pillars of TMD capability. (JCS J-38 CONOPS)
Industry:Military
Area where entry into the radiation hazard area is controlled.
Industry:Military
Plan to ensure smooth transition of system from developer to user.
Industry:Military
