- Industrie: Government; Military
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Procurement of existing system or equipment without an RDT&E program or with minor development to make the system suitable for DoD needs. May be commercial system/equipment or one already in DoD inventory. See Non-Developmental Item.
Industry:Military
The relative ease of manufacturing an item or system. This relative ease is governed by the characteristics and features of a design that enable economical fabrication, assembly, inspection, and testing using available manufacturing techniques.
Industry:Military
A document (or other media) that specifies, in a complete, precise, verifiable manner, the requirements, design, behavior, or other characteristics of a system or component, and often, the procedures for determining whether or not these provisions have been satisfied.
Industry:Military
A positive angle measured clockwise in a reference horizontal plane from a reference direction to a given direction. For a topocentric-horizon coordinate reference frame, the reference direction is due north (true north or magnetic north, depending on the application).
Industry:Military
The technical evaluation of a system's security features, made as a part of and in support of the approval/accreditation process, that established the extent to which a particular computer system's design and implementation meet a set of specified security requirements.
Industry:Military
A collection of an item's descriptive and governing characteristics, which can be expressed (1) in functional terms (i.e., what performance the item is expected to achieve); and (2) in physical terms (i.e., what the item should look like and consist of when it is built).
Industry:Military
The transfer of funds between program element or line items within an appropriation for purposes other than those contemplated at the time of appropriation. Reprogramming is generally accomplished pursuant to consultation with and approval by appropriate congressional committees.
Industry:Military
Production of a defense system in two or more countries. Involves the transfer of production technology and complex or sensitive subsystem components from the country of origin to countries producing the system. Recipient may expand production to include subsystems and components.
Industry:Military
A volume around a space asset, which is off limits to parties not owners of the asset. Keep-out zones could be negotiated or unilaterally declared. The right to defend such a zone by force and the legality of unilaterally declared zones under the Outer Space Treaty remain to be determined.
Industry:Military
The process of communicating air surveillance and tactical data information between command and control systems or between facilities within the systems. Telling may be classified into the following types: back tell; cross tell; forward tell; lateral tell; overlap tell; and relateral tell.
Industry:Military
