- Industrie: Government; Military
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The employment of strategic air and missile forces in an effort to destroy, or render impotent, selected military capabilities of an enemy force under any of the circumstances by which hostilities may be initiated.
Industry:Military
The phenomenon of two or more waves of the same frequency combining to form a wave in which the disturbance at any point is the algebraic or vector sum of the disturbances due to the interfering waves at that point.
Industry:Military
The technology of constructing and employing mirrors over 1 m aperture to direct and control high power beam weapons/systems with large coverage, or to provide high resolution or high sensitivity for detection and/or imaging.
Industry:Military
The space, expressed in feet or radius, that surrounds equipment that is used to process sensitive defense information and that is under sufficient physical and technical control to preclude an unauthorized entry or compromise.
Industry:Military
A mechanism by which a person at a terminal can communicate directly with the Trusted Computing Base. This mechanism can only be activated by the person of the Trusted Computing Base and cannot be imitated by untrusted software.
Industry:Military
A concept used to evaluate the performance of a BMD system that defines “price” as the number of RVs required to ensure target destruction. Target destruction is defined as a probability of target survivability using the drawdown curve.
Industry:Military
Technologies associated with controlling the physical properties of high energy beams and steering the energy transmitted by those beams to the target vehicle; also, the management of signal or image beams within a complex sensor system.
Industry:Military
The base program is the program described in the Future Years Defense Program base file, when updated to conform to the budget presented to Congress in January. It constitutes the base from which all current-year program changes are considered.
Industry:Military
A computer program with an apparently or actually useful function that contains additional (hidden) functions that surreptitiously exploit the legitimate authorizations of the invoking process to the detriment of security or mission performance.
Industry:Military
Destruction of or damage to structures and personnel by the force of an explosion on or above the surface of the ground. Blast effect may be contrasted with the cratering and ground-shock effects of a projectile or charge that goes off beneath the surface.
Industry:Military
