- Industry: Government; Military
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The process of designing a system by identifying its major components, decomposing them into their lower level components, and iterating until the desired level of detail is achieved.
Industry:Military
This term usually applies to improvements in track estimates by use of new data. It is sometimes used to describe a process of target extrapolation to a future time or place (e.g., reentry).
Industry:Military
A segment of a mission area critical to the accomplishment of the mission area objectives and corresponding to a recommendation for a major system capability as determined by the DoD Component.
Industry:Military
The time that a weapon takes while engaging a given target. This includes not only firing at the target but all other necessary weapon functions involved that are unique to that particular target.
Industry:Military
A system by which a missile steers itself towards a target by means of a self-contained mechanism which is activated by some distinguishing characteristics of the target, such as an infrared signature.
Industry:Military
Those components of a system for which the times to design and fabricate are the longest, and, therefore, to which an early commitment of funds may be desirable in order to meet the earliest possible date of system completion.
Industry:Military
The individual, designated by a materiel developer, who is delegated authority and assigned responsibility for centralized management of a development/ acquisition program that does not qualify for system/program/project management.
Industry:Military
Data derived from physical experimentation concerning phenomenology associated with technical functioning of SDS, particularly regarding target signatures, background observables, sensor functions, weapon functions, and survivability.
Industry:Military
The process of subjectively determining the probability that a specific interplay of performance, schedule, and cost as an objective, will or will not be attained along the planned course of action. (Defense Systems Management College)
Industry:Military
The annual guidance issued by the SECDEF in the Defense Guidance which provides the fiscal constraints that must be observed by the DoD Components in the formulation of force structures and the FYDP, and by the OSD in reviewing proposed programs.
Industry:Military
