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The government contracting officer located at a contract administrative office who is assigned the responsibility for administration of Government contracts. (Defense Systems Management College Glossary)
Industry:Military
The process of acquiring within a given field of view a target (or targets) and maintaining a precision track of the same while enabling the pointing of a sensor or weapon at the target so that it may be destroyed.
Industry:Military
OBSOLETE. Space-based satellite sensors for surveillance, tracking, and discrimination of enemy objects during post-boost and midcourse phases. These sensors support groundbased interceptors for both theater and national defense.
Industry:Military
An Army segment of the Command and Control Element responsible for the SDS functions which task the associated sensors and weapons (e.g., WTA) and process the information resulting from those taskings (e.g., perform multi-sensor track function). Expected to consist of survivable computer hardware and software.
Industry:Military
Part of the SBIRS Low Program Definition and Risk Reduction (PDRR) program phase. The LADS will consist of a flight experiment and extensive ground demonstrations by Boeing North American. The LADS flight experiment will be launched in late FY 99 to demonstrate the sensor performance of a SBIRS Low concept and collect phenomenology data.
Industry:Military
A formal tool under MIL-STD 1388-2A that uses records/forms to document operations and maintenance requirements, RAM, task analyses, technical data, support/test equipment, facilities, skill evaluation, supply support, ATE and TPS, and transportability. LSAR is the basis for training, personnel, supply provisioning and allowances construction, support equipment acquisition, facilities construction and preparation, and for maintenance.
Industry:Military
The formal planning document for logistics support. It is kept current through the program life and sets forth the plan for operational support, provides a detailed ILS program to fit with the overall program, provides decision-making bodies with necessary ILS information to make sound decisions in system development and production, and provides the basis for ILS procurement packages/specifications RFPs, SOWs, source selection evaluation, terms and conditions, and CDRLs.
Industry:Military
The TEWG is the forum in which T&E coordination for test requirements, planning, execution, and reporting, is accomplished among members of the Acquisition Team. The primary purpose of the TEWG is to optimize the use of test data, instrumentation, facilities, and models/simulations to achieve test integration and reduce program costs. The TEWG is established by the program sponsor to integrate test requirements, resolve cost/scheduling problems, facilitate TEMP development, assist in preparation of RFPs and related contractual documents, and assist in evaluating contractor proposals when there are T&E implications.
Industry:Military
A single uniform system whereby all equipment, facilities, and services are planned, designed, developed, acquired, maintained, and disposed of within the Department of Defense. The system encompasses establishing and enforcing policies and practices that govern acquisitions, to include documenting mission needs and establishing performance goals and baselines; determining and prioritizing resource requirements for acquisition programs; planning and executing acquisition programs; directing and controlling the acquisition review process; developing and assessing logistics implications; contracting; monitoring the execution status of approved programs; and reporting to Congress.
Industry:Military
An acquisition program that is not a highly sensitive classified program (as determined by the Secretary of Defense) and that is: 1. Designated by the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology as a major defense acquisition program, or 2. Estimated by the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology to require: a) An eventual total expenditure for research, development, test, and evaluation of more than $200 million in fiscal year 1980 constant dollars approximately $300 million in fiscal year 1990 constant dollars), or b) An eventual total expenditure for procurement of more than $1 billion in fiscal year 1980 constant dollars (approximately $1.8 billion in fiscal year 1990 constant dollars).
Industry:Military
