- Industry: Government; Military
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The corrective and preventive maintenance operations that do not require a deployment decision; it includes correction and subsequent validation testing and the update of relevant status configuration, maintenance, and inventory data bases.
Industry:Military
Management of all or any of the activities within the broad spectrum of “acquisition.” Also includes management of the training of the defense acquisition workforce, and management activities in support of PPBS for defense acquisition systems/programs.
Industry:Military
Mechanical impulse per unit area. The System Internationale unit of impulse intensity is the pascal-second (abbreviated Pa-s). A conventionally used unit of impulse intensity is the "tap", which is one dyne-second per square centimeter; hence, 1 tap = 0.1 Pa-s.
Industry:Military
1. All defensive measures designed to destroy attacking enemy aircraft, missiles, and space vehicles after they leave the Earth’s surface, or to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of such attacks. 2. An inclusive term encompassing air defense and space defense.
Industry:Military
The essential logistic functions, activities, and tasks necessary to sustain all elements of an operating force in an area of operations. Combat service support includes administrative services, chaplain services, civil affairs, finance, legal services, laundry, etc.
Industry:Military
Fundamental principals that guide the employment of forces of two or more Services in coordinated action toward a common objective. It is ratified by two or more Services, and is promulgated in multi-Service publications that identify the participating Services. See also Joint Doctrine.
Industry:Military
A comprehensive review, initiated in March 1993, of the nation’s defense strategy, force structure, modernization, infrastructure, and foundations. The BUR examined U.S. missile defense requirements from a perspective of identifying options that could meet future needs at an affordable cost.
Industry:Military
Technical data or information, including computer listings and printouts, in humanreadable form, that describe or specify the design or details, explain the capabilities, or provide operating instructions for using the software to obtain desired results from a software system. (See Documentation.)
Industry:Military
The configuration documentation formally designated by the Government at a specific time during a system’s or configuration item’s life cycle. Configuration baselines, plus approved changes from those baselines, constitute the current configuration baselines, namely the functional, allocated, and product baselines.
Industry:Military
A systematic approach to the integrated, simultaneous design of products and their related processes, including manufacture and support. This approach is intended to cause developers, from the beginning, to consider all elements of the system life cycle from requirements development through dispersal, including cost, schedule, and performance.
Industry:Military
