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A system of homing guidance wherein the receiver in a missile utilizes radiations from a target which has been illuminated by an outside source.
Industry:Military
A general term applied to a commander authorized to exercise combatant command (command authority) or operational control over a joint force. Also called JFC.
Industry:Military
The protection that results from all measures designed to deny unauthorized persons information of value that might be derived from intercept and analysis of compromising emanations.
Industry:Military
An essential support item removed and replaced at field level to restore end item to an operationally ready condition. (Also called Weapon Replacement Assembly and Module Replaceable Unit).
Industry:Military
The determination of: (1) what targets to defend and their priorities in order to achieve the selected national strategy, and (2) the type of attackers (and/or their corridors) to be intercepted.
Industry:Military
A weapon that uses kinetic energy, or energy of motion to kill an object. Examples of weapons which use kinetic energy are a rock, a bullet, a nonexplosively armed rocket, and an electromagnetic rail gun.
Industry:Military
That time between the receipt of strategic warning and the beginning of hostilities. This time may include two action periods: strategic warning pre-decision time and strategic warning post-decision time.
Industry:Military
The office of the program manager and the point of contact with industry, government agencies, and other activities participating in the system acquisition process. (U.S. Army uses term “Project Office.”)
Industry:Military
Describes the acquisition approach to include streamlining, sources, competition, and contract types throughout the period from the beginning of Phase I, Demonstration and Validation, through the end of production.
Industry:Military
A publication setting forth the principles, doctrines, and functions governing the activities and performance of the Armed Forces of the United States when two or more Services or elements thereof are acting together.
Industry:Military
