- Industrie: Government; Military
- Number of terms: 79318
- Number of blossaries: 0
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The costs of resources already committed or spent. In comparing two alternatives, such costs are "non-additive," and they are not germane to decisions about future use of resources.
Industry:Military
A firm administrative reservation of funds for future obligations by the local comptrollers. Based upon firm procurement directives, orders, requisitions, authorizations to issue travel orders, or requests.
Industry:Military
Confirmation that the processes and outputs from a test resource parallel real world processes and are realistically sensitive to change in the environment, tactical situation, system design, tactics, and threat.
Industry:Military
The science or art that deals with the motion, behavior, appearance, or modification of missiles or other vehicles acted upon by propellants, wind, gravity, temperature, or any other modifying substance, condition, or force.
Industry:Military
An individual responsible for retaining the major defense system in or restoring it to a specified condition. Maintenance activities include inspection, testing, servicing, classification as to serviceability, repair, rebuilding, and reclamation.
Industry:Military
The location of the center of a burst of a nuclear weapon at the instant of detonation. The zero point may be in the air or on or beneath the surface of land or water, dependent upon the type of burst; it is thus to be distinguished from ground zero.
Industry:Military
An action by the President canceling budget authority previously appropriated but not yet obligated or spent. If both Houses of Congress do not approve the proposed rescission within 45 days, the President must obligate the BA as intended by Congress.
Industry:Military
USSPACECOM global system of radar, optical, and radiometric sensors linked to a computation and analysis center in the Space Surveillance Center. The Spacetrack mission is detection, tracking, and cataloging of all man-made objects in orbit about the earth.
Industry:Military
1. The ability of a sensor to measure the separation of an image into its constituent objects so that single objects are visible and distinguishable. 2. A measurement of the smallest detail that can be distinguished by a sensor system under specific conditions.
Industry:Military
A duty to make a future payment of money. The duty is incurred as soon as an order is placed, or a contract is awarded. The placement of an order is sufficient. An obligation “legally” encumbers a specified sum of money that will require outlays or expenditures in the future.
Industry:Military
