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Any optical system containing reflecting components for the purpose of reducing the physical length of the system or for the purpose of changing the path of the optical axis.
Industry:Military
The defensive aspect of space control operations which includes all active or passive measures planned or taken to defeat attacks against friendly space systems or enemy attacks from space.
Industry:Military
Any defense acquisition system, subsystem, component, or technology program that involves formal management or funding by more than one DoD Component during any phase of a system's life-cycle.
Industry:Military
The stress range in which a material will recover its original form when the force (or loading) is removed. Elastic deformation refers to dimensional changes occurring within the elastic range.
Industry:Military
Primarily a term used in automatic data processing (ADP); it connotes a machine (hardware) or program (software) that is compatible with a person's ability to operate it successfully and easily.
Industry:Military
A flying vehicle that uses the oxygen in the atmosphere as the oxidizer in its propulsion system. Examples are jet aircraft and cruise missiles. This category does not include ballistic missiles.
Industry:Military
1. The process of defining the hardware and software architectures, components, modules, interfaces, and data for a system to satisfy specified system requirements. 2. The result of the system design process.
Industry:Military
1. Early detection of an enemy ballistic missile launch, usually by means of surveillance satellites and long range radar. 2. Early notification of the launch or approach of unknown weapons or weapon carriers.
Industry:Military
The topological classification of a class of phenomena. Phenomenology efforts collect and analyze optical and radar signature data, and model phenomena required by systems developers to design and evaluate SDS elements.
Industry:Military
The maximum allowable threat objects passing through a BMD system expressed as a percentage of the design-to threat. To ensure overall system performance, permitted leakage is “budgeted” among individual BMD phases and functions.
Industry:Military
