- Industry: Government; Military
- Number of terms: 79318
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A center in CMAFB responsible for the scheduling of maintenance for worldwide sensors and supporting equipment as well as maintenance responsibility of equipment in CMAFB.
Industry:Military
State when a weapon system is to be placed in the highest state of readiness shy of weapon allocation. It is possible to go direct to weapons allocation or release without first initiation or allocation.
Industry:Military
In air defense, the process by which weapons are assigned to individual air weapons controllers for use in accomplishing an assigned mission. Assignment of a particular interceptor to a particular target.
Industry:Military
The procedure of planning, routing, scheduling, dispatching, and expediting the flow of materials, parts, subassemblies, and assemblies within the plant from the raw state to the finished product in an orderly and efficient manner.
Industry:Military
An item which has been developed and produced to military or commercial standards and specifications, is readily available for delivery from an industrial source, and may be procured without change to satisfy a military requirement.
Industry:Military
Limits established beyond which a Program Manager may not trade-off cost, schedule, or performance without authorization from the milestone decision authority. Acquisition Program Baseline (APB) thresholds represent these parameters.
Industry:Military
Direct defensive actions taken to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air action. It includes such measures as the use of aircraft, air defense weapons, weapons not used primarily in an air defense role and electronic warfare.
Industry:Military
An identification of all participants in an operation, their actions, and the time those actions occur in the operation. Includes assessment of operational procedures to ascertain whether stereotyped or predictable patterns are discernible.
Industry:Military
The law that states when thermal or nuclear radiation is uniformly emitted from a point source, the amount received per unit area at any given distance from the source, assuming no absorption, is inversely proportional to the square of that distance.
Industry:Military
One that does not generate radiation itself, but that detects radiation reflected by targets when they are illuminated by other BMD components. Such devices are used for tracking and identification and can operate without revealing their own locations.
Industry:Military
