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1. A congressional authorization to procure goods and services within a specified amount by appropriation or other authorization. 2. The administrative extension of such authority, as by apportionment of funding. 3. The amount of authority so granted.
Industry:Military
The process whereby a gamma ray (or x-ray photon) with energy somewhat greater than that of the binding energy of an electron in an atom, transfers all its energy to the electron which is consequently removed from the atom. Since it has lost all its energy, the photon ceases to exist. (See Photon.)
Industry:Military
1. Energy in the form of atomic particles, pellets, or focused electromagnetic beams that can be sent long distances at, or nearly at, the speed of light. 2. An umbrella term covering technologies that relate to the production of a beam of concentrated electromagnetic energy or atomic or subatomic particles.
Industry:Military
The act of allocating frequencies, or bandwidths to a telecommunications system, necessary to minimize the potential interference between transmitting/receiving devices. Approval of authorized use of a particular frequency, frequencies, or bands are controlled by governing agencies and international agreement.
Industry:Military
A feasibility review of the design of a specific hardware item or system to determine the relative ease of producing it using available production technology considering the elements of fabrication, assembly, inspection, and test. This is a generic term for the concurrent engineering portions of MIL-STD 1521 system design reviews.
Industry:Military
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 phase). The warheads on a single missile are carried on a platform or “bus” (also referred to as a post-boost vehicle), which has small rocket motors to move the bus slightly from its original path.
Industry:Military
1. A discipline whose objectives are to define, create, and apply a well-defined methodology that addresses a software life cycle of planning, development, and maintenance. 2. The application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software, that is, the application of engineering to software.
Industry:Military
The process by which the efforts of all personnel responsible for an acquisition are coordinated and integrated through a comprehensive plan for fulfilling the need in a timely manner and at a reasonable cost. It is performed throughout the life cycle and includes developing an overall acquisition strategy for managing the acquisition and a written acquisition plan.
Industry:Military
That portion of a ballistic missile's trajectory between the boost phase and the reentry phase when reentry vehicles and penaids travel at ballistic trajectories above the atmosphere. During this phase, a missile releases its warheads and decoys and is no longer a single object, but rather a swarm of RVs and penaids falling freely along present trajectories in space.
Industry:Military
Induced environments are defined at the system level as the disturbances in the natural environments caused by BMD system influences on other BMD assets (Self- Induced..e.g., GBR radar energy impacting and effecting a GBI in flight) or the influence of other systems external to BMD on BMD assets (Externally-Induced..e.g., high power electric line electromagnetic field effects on C2E electronic equipment).
Industry:Military
