Missile defense

Missile defense

Measures designed to detect, identify, track, and defeat attacking (ballistic) missiles in both strategic and theater tactical roles, during any portion of their flight trajectory (boost, post-boost, midcourse, or terminal) or to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of such attack.

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Missile defense

Military strategy selection

Military; Missile defense

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.

Defence support programme (DSP)

Military; Missile defense

A system of satellites in geostationary orbits, fixed and mobile ground processing stations, one multi-purpose facility, and a ground communications network (GCN). DSP's primary mission is to provide ...

Memorandum of agreement (MOA)

Military; Missile defense

1. In contract administration, an agreement between a programme manager and a Contract Administration Office, establishing the scope of responsibility of the Contract Administration Office with ...

Preferential defence strategy

Military; Missile defense

A tactic used as part of the SDS strategy to optimise the use of weapons and sensors by selecting high value targets for engagement by the defence while temporarily allowing less important targets to ...

Non- developmental item (NDI)

Military; Missile defense

1. Any item of supply that is available in the commercial marketplace; or 2. Any previously developed item of supply that is in use by a department or agency of the United States, a state or local ...

Information architecture (IA)

Military; Missile defense

A description of the information that is needed to support command and control decision making and battle management, where it comes from, the processing that must be performed to provide it, and the ...

Circular error probable (CEP)

Military; Missile defense

An indicator of the delivery accuracy of a weapon system, used as a factor in determining probable damage to a target. It is the radius of a circle within which half of a missile's projectiles are ...