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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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Unresolved objects
Military; Missile defense
Objects so closely spaced with respect to the sensor focal plane as to be indistinguishable from a single object.
Digital processing
Military; Missile defense
The most familiar type of computing, in which problems are solved through the mathematical manipulation of streams of bits.
Burn-through range
Military; Missile defense
The distance at which a specific radar can discern targets through the external interference being received.
Functional support
Military; Missile defense
Systematised methodologies and procedures, or a common set of standards, applied to materiel acquisition programs.
Readiness postures
Military; Missile defense
A specific status defining the relative responsiveness of BMD assets and personnel to perform a USSPACECOM BMD mission.
Weapons commitment
Military; Missile defense
Authorization to allocate certain weapons to designated targets thus permitting checklist actions to be taken.
Combined operation
Military; Missile defense
An operation conducted by forces of two or more allied nations acting together to accomplish a single mission.
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