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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Security system

Military; Missile defense

The aggregate of all mechanical and electronic equipment countermeasures in a system which contributes to its security from intelligence gathering and clandestine or overt attack, including organised ...

Risk assessment

Military; Missile defense

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. ...

Product manager

Military; Missile defense

The individual, designated by a materiel developer, who is delegated authority and assigned responsibility for centralised management of a development/ acquisition programme that does not qualify for ...

Homing guidance

Military; Missile defense

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 ...

Gamma-ray laser

Military; Missile defense

A laser which generates a beam of gamma rays; also called a "graser." A gamma-ray laser, if developed, would be a type of x-ray laser; although it would employ nuclear reactions, it need not (but ...

Fiscal guidance

Military; Missile defense

The annual guidance issued by the SECDEF in the defence Guidance which provides the fiscal constraints that must be observed by the DoD Components in the formulation of force structures and the FYDP, ...

Real world data

Military; Missile defense

Data derived from physical experimentation concerning phenomenology associated with technical functioning of SDS, particularly regarding target signatures, background observables, sensor functions, ...