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Information returned from system elements that verify that directions have been received and carried out. Also includes information regarding system effectiveness.
Industry:Military
Measurement information. For a passive sensor it is usually irradiance time, and LOS. For an active sensor it may include range, doppler, cross section, etc., as well.
Industry:Military
A restricted area (air, land, or sea) that is established to prevent or minimize mutual interference between friendly forces engaged in combat operations. See also Combat Zone.
Industry:Military
The life support storage container for a Brilliant Pebbles singlet. The life jacket contains subsystems that perform power, communications, and environmental protection functions.
Industry:Military
Test of an aircraft, rocket, missile, or other vehicle by actual flight or launching. Flight tests are planned to achieve specific test objectives and gain operational information.
Industry:Military
Any cost that is specifically identified with a particular final cost objective. Is not necessarily limited to items that are incorporated into the end product as labor or material.
Industry:Military
A stand alone system (e.g., a weapon or satellite) which is the smallest entity capable of performing a designated function with specified results within the Strategic Defense System.
Industry:Military
The spreading out of electromagnetic radiation as it leaves an aperture. The angle of spread, which cannot be eliminated by focusing, is proportional to the ratio of the wavelength of radiation to the diameter of the aperture.
Industry:Military
The line connecting the successive positions occupied, or to be occupied, by an aircraft, missile, or space vehicle as it moves through air or space. (It is more commonly referred to as trajectory for space vehicles, especially ICBMs.)
Industry:Military
The region of the atmosphere, immediately above the earth's surface and up to the tropopause, in which the temperature falls fairly regularly with increasing altitude, clouds form, convection is active, and mixing is continuous and more or less complete.
Industry:Military
