- Industry: Government; Military
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The military worth of a system performing its mission in a competitive environment, including versatility (or potential) of the system. It is measured against the operational concept, operational effectiveness, safety, security, and cost/worth. Military utility estimates form a rational basis for making management decisions.
Industry:Military
1. A device, normally consisting of three metallic surfaces or screens perpendicular to one another, designed to act as a radar target or marker. 2. In radar interpretation, an object that, by means of multiple reflections from smooth surfaces, produces a radar return of greater magnitude than might be expected from the physical size of the object.
Industry:Military
The ISTC Test and Control provides the human interface for testing system hardware and software. The Test and Control will consist of the necessary consoles, processors, and storage devices in order to be able to control all operations of the ISTC such as configuring the system, running a scenario, analyzing data, generating reports, and testing system hardware and software.
Industry:Military
An operating budget is the annual budget of an activity stated in terms of Budget Classification Code, functional/subfunctional categories, and cost accounts. It contains estimates of the total value of resources required for the performance of the mission, including reimbursable work or services for others. It also includes estimates of workload in terms of total work units identified by cost accounts.
Industry:Military
1. Established by the detailed design documentation for each configuration item. Normally includes Process baseline (type D spec), Material baseline (type E spec), type C spec, and drawings. 2. In configuration management, the initial approved technical documentation (including, for software, the source code listing) defining a configuration item during the production, operation, maintenance, and logistic support of its life cycle.
Industry:Military
A quantitative description of the resistance of a system or component to malfunction (temporary and permanent) and/or degraded performance induced by a nuclear weapon environment. Hardness is measured by resistance to physical quantities such as overpressure, peak velocities, energy absorbed, and electrical stress. Hardness is achieved through adhering to appropriate design specifications and is verified by one or more test and analysis techniques.
Industry:Military
An authorization by an act of Congress that permits Federal agencies to incur obligations and make payments from the Treasury. An appropriation usually follows an enactment of authorizing legislation. An appropriation act is the most common means of providing budget authority. Appropriations do not represent cash actually set aside in the Treasury; they represent limitations of amounts which agencies may obligate during a specified time period. See Authorization.
Industry:Military
Human-in-Control provides for the positive control of automated system processes. This is accomplished by requiring human action to provide essential high-level commands such as initiate, terminate, and interrupt. With regards to BMD, 10 USC 2431, Section 224 states that: "No agency of the Federal Government may plan for, fund, or otherwise support the development of command and control systems for strategic defense in the boost or post-boost phase against ballistic missile threats that would permit such strategic defenses to initiate the directing of damaging or lethal fire except by affirmative human decision at an appropriate level of authority." (USSPACECOM)
Industry:Military
System Readiness includes the development of OPLANs necessary to carry out the assigned mission, using strategy and guidance provided by higher authority along with knowledge of current system performance and planned capabilities. It includes peacetime tests and exercises to maintain the system in an operational state, and the demonstration and evaluation of alternate tactics and the verification of system performance, to the extent practicable. It provides for the continued training and exercise of personnel in operating the system under realistic conditions, and provides for control of other system test functions necessary to keep the system operating. It provides for detection of anomalies and for corrective action. It also provides for maintenance schedule control, historical maintenance data retention, maintenance training, and test results status reporting.
Industry:Military
