STINFO Center Science and Technical Information data centers archiving and providing user
access and support to a variety of missile defense test and evaluation data.
STM Significant Technical Milestone.
STO (1) Special Technical Operations (JFACC term).
(2) Science and Technology Objective.
STOAL Short Takeoff/Arrested Landing.
STOM System Test Object Model.
Storage,
Handling, and
Transportation
Environments
These environment categories cover the applicable free field or ambient
environments, which the system assets must be capable of withstanding during
storage, handling and transportation. They include the full array of applicable
atmospheric and ground environments to which BMD assets will be exposed
during these non-operational aspects of system deployment such as pressure,
shock and vibration environments, among others.
Storm Name of a theater ballistic missile test target system, part of the Baseline Target
Set.
Storm Shadow Conventionally Armed Stand Off Missile weapon based on Matra of France’s
Apache missile.
STOW Synthetic Theater of War (US Army term).
STP (1) System Test Plan (2) Sensor Task Plan.
STRAP HATMD System Training Plan.
STRATCOM Strategic Command.
Strategic
Defense
All active and passive measures to detect, identify, assess, degrade and defeat
ballistic missile, air, and space threats to North America, including measures to
nullify or reduce the effectiveness of such attacks.
Strategic
Defense
Emergency
Declarations that attack is imminent or taking place.
Strategic
Defense System
(SDS)
A generic descriptor, which refers to all architectural elements of the evolving
ballistic missile defense system.
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Strategic Level of
War
The level of war at which a nation or group of nations determines national or
alliance security objectives and develops and uses national resources to
accomplish those objectives.
Strategic
Offensive Forces
(SOF)
Those forces under the command of the Commander in Chief, USSTRATCOM,
the Commander in Chief, Atlantic Command, the Commander in Chief, Pacific
Command, and other forces assigned to execute the Single Integrated
Operations Plan (SIOP). These forces include but are not limited to B-52s, B-1s,
FB-111s, Minuteman IIs and IIIs, Peacekeepers, Poseidons, and Tridents.
Strategic
Reserve
That quantity of material that is placed in a particular geographic location due to
strategic considerations or in anticipation of major interruptions in the supply
distribution system. It is over and above the stockage objective.
Strategic
Warning
A warning prior to the initiation of a threatening act.
Strategic
Warning Lead
Time
That time between the receipt of strategic warning and the beginning of
hostilities. This time may include two action periods: strategic warning predecision time and strategic warning post-decision time.
Strategic
Warning Post-
Decision Time
That time which begins after the decision, made at the highest levels of
government(s) in response to strategic warning, is ordered executed and ends
with the start of hostilities or termination of the threat. It is that part of strategic
warning lead-time available for executing pre-hostility actions to strengthen the
national strategic posture; however, some preparatory actions may be initiated in
the pre-decision period.
Strategic
Warning Pre-
Decision Time
That time which begins upon receipt of strategic warning and ends when a
decision is ordered executed. It is that part of strategic warning lead time
available to the highest levels of government(s) to determine the strategic course
of action to be executed.
STREAD Standard TRE Display.
STRICOM Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation Command (USA term).
Structured
Attack
An attack in which the arrival of warheads on their diverse targets is precisely
timed for maximum strategic impact.
Structured
Design
A disciplined approach to software design that adheres to a specified set of rules
based on principles such as top-down design, stepwise refinement, and data
flow analysis.
Structured
Program
A program constructed of a basic set of control structures, each one having one
entry point and one exit. The set of control structures typically includes:
sequence of two or more instructions, conditional selection of one of two or more
instructions, conditional selection of one of two or more instructions or
sequences of instructions, and repetition of an instruction or a sequence of
instructions.
STRV Space Technology Research Vehicle.
STS See Space Transportation System.
STSC Software Technology Support Center.
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STT (1) Small Tactical Terminal (USAF term).
(2) Stockpile-to-Target (US Army term).
STTR Small Business Technology Transfer.
STU Secure Telephone Unit.
STW Strike Warfare.
STWC Strike Warfare Commander.
STWG Simulation Tools Working Group.
Subassembly Two or more parts joined together to form a unit, capable of disassembly, which
is only a part of a complete machine, structure, or other article.
Subcontractor A contractor who enters into a contract with a prime contractor.
Subject Security
Level
A subject's security level is equal to the security level of the objects to which it
has both read and write access. A subject's security level must always be
dominated by the clearance of the user and with the associated subject.
Submarine-
Launched
Ballistic Missile
(SLBM)
A ballistic missile launched from a submarine, with a range of 3,000 to 6,000
miles.
SUBROC Submarine Rocket.
Subsystem A functional grouping of components that combine to perform a major function
within an element, such as attitude control and propulsion.
Subtractive
Defense
First come first engaged as long as weapons last.
SUCCESS Synthesized UHF Computer Controlled Equipment Subsystem.
Succession of
Command
The planned or actual sequence in which subordinate commanders, in turn,
become de facto commanders of a senior organization. Devolution of command
is a synonymous term.
SUM Software Users Manual (Computer term).
Sunk Costs 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.
Sup Pro Supporting Programs (MDA term).
Super Survivable Solar Power Subsystem Demonstrator.
Super Radiance The process used by a super radiant laser to generate or amplify a laser beam in
a single pass through a lasant material, or, in the case of a free electron laser,
through an electric or magnetic field in the presence of an electron beam. Super
radiance is actually a form of stimulated emission. Also known as
superfluorescence, or amplified spontaneous emission.
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Superradiant
Laser (SRL)
A laser in which the beam passes through the lasant only once; mirrors are not
required for the operation of such a laser, as they are with more conventional
lasers which are sometimes called "cavity lasers" to distinguish them from
superradiant lasers. Free electron lasers may also be superradiant; the laser
beam of a superradiant free electron laser would pass once through the electric
or magnetic field (instead of a lasant) in the presence of an electron beam.
Supervisory
Programs
Computer programs that have the primary function of scheduling, allocating, and
controlling system resources rather than processing data to produce results.
Supplemental
Appropriation
An appropriation enacted as an addition to a regular annular appropriation act.
Support
Equipment
All system equipment required to support the ground and flight phases of the
mission. Support equipment includes aerospace ground equipment (AGE),
maintenance ground equipment (MGE), transportation and handling (T&H)
equipment, and equipment used to support system deployment (i.e., assembly
tools and fixtures, test and checkout equipment, personnel support and
protection equipment).
Support
Personnel
Individuals, in addition to operators, trainers, and maintainers, who are directly
associated with an operational system(s), and who are critical to its continuous
operation. Examples include program management offices, security, supply,
administrative support, and the like.
Support Software Software that aids in the development or maintenance of other software, for
example compilers, loaders, and other utilities.
Suppression Temporary or transient degradation of the performance of a weapons system,
below the level needed to fulfill its mission objectives, by an opposing force.
SUPSHIP Superintendent of Shipbuilding.
SURCOM Surveillance Constellation.
Surge Production An increased rate of production necessary to meet demands for defense items
due to a need for accelerated production to meet a threat or for a wartime or
mobilization situation. This increased rate can be obtained by having excess
production capacity available or by utilizing multiple shifts of normal capacity
measures.
Surveillance An observation procedure that includes tactical observations, strategic warning,
and meteorological assessments, by optical, infrared, radar, and radiometric
sensors on space-borne and terrestrial platforms.
Surveillance
Requirements
Requirements are requests for surveillance, including relative priorities for
coverage and sensitivity levels, based on operational orders, selected response
options and current surveillance system availability.
Surveillance,
Satellite and
Missile
The systematic observation of aerospace for the purpose of detecting, tracking,
and characterizing objects, events, and phenomena associated with satellites
and in-flight missiles, friendly and enemy.
Surveillance
System
Configuration
The sensor types and locations and the modes of operation currently activated
in the surveillance system.
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Survivability
Operating Modes
The operating modes not including but in addition to the self-defense modes
that all the elements can use to protect themselves against direct enemy attack.
Survivable and
Enduring
Command Center
(SECC)
The USSTRATCOM mobile C2 facility.
SUS Site Utilization Study.
Sustainer Propulsion stage of a missile usually operating after the booster cutoff.
SV Space Vehicle.
SVS (1) OBSOLETE. SSTS Validation Satellite. (2) Scientific Visualization Suite.
SW (1) Software or (S/W). (2) Space Wing.
SWC Strike Warfare Commander.
Sweep Jamming A narrow band of jamming that is back and forth over a relatively wide operating
band of frequencies.
SWG Scenario Working Group.
SWIL Software-in-the-Loop.
SWIR Short Wavelength Infrared.
SWSA Spatial Weapons System Analysis.
SWSC Space and Warning System Center.
SYDP Six-Year Defense Program.
Synchronization For data streams, the process whereby a received set of data is placed in one to
one correspondence with the data assumed to have been transmitted.
Synthesis The automatic generation of a run able system from a specialized design where
each module description has associated implementations.
Synthetic
Aperture Radar
(SAR)
A radar technique that processes echoes of signals emitted at different points
along a satellite's orbit. The highest resolution achievable by such a system is
theoretically equivalent to that of a single large antenna as wide as the distance
between the most widely spaced points along the orbit that are used for
transmitting positions. In practice, resolution will be limited by the radar receiver's
signal processing capability or by the limited coherence of the radio signal
emitted by the radar transmitter.
SYS System.
Sys C/O System Check Out.
Sys Cmn System Common.
Sys T&E System Test and Evaluation.
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SYSCOM Systems Command.
System (1) The organization of hardware, software, materials, facilities, personnel,
data, and services needed to perform a designated function with
specified results, such as the gathering of specified data, its processing,
and delivery to users.
(2) A combination of two or more interrelated equipment (sets) arranged in a
functional package to perform an operational function or to satisfy a
requirement.
System
Activation
That set of coordination, assessment, decision, direction and control functions
implemented to enable defense weapons, and to initiate the automated, realtime aspects of Battle Management, Engagement Control, and Weapon System
Control.
System
Architecture
System
Capability
Specification
(SCS)
The structure and relationship among the components of a system. The system
architecture may also include the system’s interface with its operational
environment. A framework or structure that portrays relationships among all the
elements of missile defense systems.
The government document that translates capabilities into functional
specifications for the overall BMDS and allocates functional specifications among
the elements of the BMDS.
System Center
(SC)
A center in CMAFB responsible for the scheduling of maintenance for worldwide
sensors and supporting equipment as well as maintenance responsibility of
equipment in CMAFB.
System Concept
Paper (SCP)
OBSOLETE. For a major program, was used to summarize the results of the
concept exploration phase up to Milestone I and to describe the acquisition
strategy, including the identification of the concepts to be carried into the
demonstration and validation phase and the reasons for elimination of other
concepts. Now an Integrated Program Summary (IPS).
System
Configuration
Control Board
(SCCB)
The senior SDS configuration control board. The SCCB will manage the systemlevel configuration of the SDS and the interfaces between elements of the SDS.
System Control Function or task of monitoring the maintenance status of assigned sensors and
computer systems.
System-Critical
Function
A function that is necessary for the successful accomplishment of the system's
mission.
System Definition
Review (SDR)
The formal review, in briefing format, for periodically deciding on updates to the
system plans for development based on estimates of the program schedules and
funding. The SDR summarizes candidate development plans and their potential
impacts on system design, cost, and schedule. The SDR provides a systemsengineering basis for the MDA program planning activities. Following the SDR,
detailed element planning will result will result in a Configuration Control Board,
final trades, and program documentation in the PPBS.
System
Deployment
Delivery of the completed production system to the using activity.
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System Design (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.
System Design
Concept
An idea expressed in terms of general performance, capabilities, and
characteristics of hardware and software oriented either to operate or to be
operated as an integral whole in meeting a mission need.
System Design
Review (SDR)
Evaluates the optimization, correlation, completeness, and risks associated with
the allocated technical requirements.
System
Effectiveness
The measure of the extent to which a system may be expected to achieve a set
of specific mission requirements. It is a function of availability, dependability, and
capability.
System Evolution
Plan (SEP)
The documented plan that establishes the strategy to evolve the BMDS
capabilities over time. It reflects the BMD Acquisition Executive (AE) and Senior
Executive Council’s (SEC) development decisions; documents the current BMDS
Development Baseline; and summarizes the capability, integration and
assessment of the BMDS evolution. It identifies opportunities (items that provide
significant improvements in BMD capability), identifies challenges (impediments to
achieving opportunity), and points to promising alternatives that can overcome
those challenges.
System Families A collection or grouping of interrelated software systems in the domain that share
a set of common characteristics.
System
Generated
Electromagnetic
Pulse (SGEMP)
Transient electromagnetic radiation caused by the photoelectron emission of the
surface of an object subjected to a pulse of photon energy. Although local
fields close to the object surface may reach quite high values (kilovolts), the
primary disturbance mechanism is the flow of replacement current through the
object in order to produce charge equalization.
System
Integration Test
A live flight system-level test utilizing actual system command and control,
sensors, and weapon hardware.
System Manager A general term of reference to those organizations directed by individual
managers, exercising authority over the planning, direction, and control, of tasks
and associated functions essential for support of designated weapons or
equipment systems.
System
Operational
Concept
A formal document that describes the intended purpose, employment,
deployment, and support of a system.
System
Operation and
Integration
Functions (SOIF)
The automated activities of tracking, communications, asset management, and
battle plan execution, which are executed under the guidance of the Command
and Control Element. The allocation of these functions (and sub-functions) to
the system elements will be specified in the architecture(s).
System Posture A USSPACECOM system of graduated readiness steps to bring the strategic
BMD system to fully generated alert, similar to the USSTRATCOM concept of
posturing aircraft and missile forces to reduce reaction time.
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System Program
Office (SPO)
The office of the program manager and the point of contact with industry,
government agencies, and other activities participating in the system acquisition
process. (U.S. Army uses term “Project Office.”)
System
Readiness
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.
System
Readiness
Objective
A criterion for assessing the ability of a system to undertake and sustain a
specified set of missions at planned peacetime and wartime utilization rates.
System readiness measures take explicit account of the effects of reliability and
maintainability system design, the characteristics and performance of the support
system, and the quantity and location of support resources. Examples of
system readiness measures are combat sortie rate over time, peacetime mission
capable rate, operational availability, and asset ready rate.
System
Requirements
Analysis (SRA)
An analysis of the operational system requirements, as defined in the System
Concept Paper and other approved requirements documents, used to determine
specific system functional and performance requirements.
System
Requirements
Review (SRR)
Conducted to ascertain progress in defining system technical requirements.
Determines the direction and progress of the systems engineering effort and the
degree of convergence upon a balanced and complete configuration.
System Security
Engineering
(SSE)
An element of system engineering that applies scientific and engineering
principle to identify security vulnerabilities and minimize or contain risks
associated with these vulnerabilities. It uses mathematical, physical, and related
scientific disciplines, and the principles and methods of engineering design and
analysis to specify, predict, and evaluate the vulnerability of the system to
security threats.
System Security
Engineering
Management
Program
(SSEMP)
The contractor shall establish a SSE program to support economical
achievement of overall program objectives. To be considered efficient, the SSE
program: (1) enhances the operational readiness and mission success of the
defense resource; (2) identifies and reduces potential vulnerabilities to the
resource from sabotage, theft, damage, destruction, etc.; (3) provides
management information essential to system security planning and (4) minimizes
its own impact on overall program cost and schedule.
System Security
Management
Plan (SSMP)
A formal document that fully describes the planned security tasks required to
meet system security requirements, including organizational responsibilities,
methods of accomplishment, milestones, depth of effort, and integration with
other program engineering, design and management activities, and related
systems.
Systems
Engineering
An interdisciplinary approach to evolve and verify an integrated and life cycle
balanced set of system product and process solutions.
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Systems
Engineering
Management
Plan (SEMP)
This plan documents: (1) Management of the systems engineering process, (2)
Integration of the required technical specialties; (3) Performance measures
development and reporting, including intermediate performance criteria, and (4)
Key engineering milestones and schedules.
Systems Test
Integration and
Coordination
The combination of SDS elements tests to reflect SDS performance contribution.
System Threat
Assessment
Report (STAR)
Required by DoD 5000.2 and validated by DIA. Establishes the threat (to a
Service's Mission Area) and is part of basis for considering mission deficiency
and potential program new start. Updated to support a DAB Milestone or when
the threat changes significantly.
System-Valued
Asset
A system element/component, function, or information element, which is critical to
the proper operation and well being of the SDS.
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T&C (1) Tracking and Control. (2) Test and Control.
T&E Test and Evaluation.
T&T Transportation and Transportability.
T-MACH Trusted MACH.
T-UAV Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle.
T/R Transmit/Receive.
T/REA Transmit/Receive Element Assembly (of a radar).
T
2
Technology Transfer.
T
2
E Technical Training Equipment.
TA (1) Threat Assessment. (2) Target Acquisition. (3) Test Articles.
TAA Technical Assistance Agreement.
TAACOM Tactical Air Area Commander.
TAADCOM Theater Army Air Defense Commander.
TAAF Test, Analyze and Fix.
TAC Tactical Advanced Computer.
TAC-3 Tactical Advanced Computer – Three (USN term).
TACAIR Tactical Air.
TACAMO Take Charge And Move Out .
TACC Tactical Air Command Center.
TACC USMC Tactical Air Command Center (USMC term).
TACC USN Tactical Air Command Center (USN term).
TACCS Theater Air Command and Control System.
TACCSF Tactical Air Command and Control Simulation Facility.
TACDAR Tactical Detection and Reporting.
TACFIRE Tactical Fire.
TACINTEL Tactical Intelligence Information (USN term).
TACOM Tank and Automotive Command (US Army term).
TACON Tactical Control.
TACS Theater Air Control System.
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TACSAT Tactical Satellite.
TACSIM Tactical Simulation
Tactical Air
Doctrine
Fundamental principles designed to provide guidance for the employment of air
power in tactical air operations to attain established objectives.
Tactical Air
Operation
An air operation involving the employment of air power in coordination with
ground or naval forces.
Tactical Air
Operations
Center
A subordinate operational component of the Marine Air Command and Control
System designed for direction and control of all en route air traffic and air
defense operations in an assigned sector.
Tactical Air
Support
Air operations carried out in coordination with surface forces and which directly
assist land or maritime operations.
Tactical Area of
Responsibility
(TAOR)
A defined area of land for which responsibility is specifically assigned to the
commander of the area as a measure for control of assigned forces and
coordination of support.
Tactical Ballistic
Missile (TBM)
A land-based missile generally having a range of <3000 miles that can be
employed within a continental theater of operations.
Tactical Concept A statement, in broad outline, which provides a common basis for future
development of tactical doctrine.
Tactical Control The detailed and, usually, local direction and control of movements or
maneuvers necessary to accomplish missions or tasks assigned.
Tactical Data
Information link
A netted link in which one unit acts as a net control station and interrogates
each unit by roll call. Once interrogated, that unit transmits its data to the net.
This means that each unit receives all the information transmitted.
Tactical Level of
War
The level of war at which battles and engagements are planned and executed to
accomplish military objectives assigned to tactical units or task forces.
Tactical
Operations Area
(TOA)
That area between the fire support coordination line and the rear operations
area where maximum flexibility in the use of airspace is needed to assure mission
accomplishment.
Tactical
Operations
Center (TOC)
A physical grouping of those elements of an Army general and special staff
concerned with the current tactical operations and the tactical support thereof.
Tactical Warning
(TW)
(1) A warning after initiation of a threatening or hostile act based on an
evaluation of information from all available sources.
(2) In satellite and missile surveillance, a notification to operational command
centers that a specific threat event is occurring. The component
elements that describe threat events are: country of origin, event type
and size, country under attack, and event time.
Tactical
Warning/Attack
Assessment
(TW/AA)
A composite term. See separate definitions for Tactical Warning and for Attack
Assessment.
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TAD (1) Tactical Air Defense.
(2) Theater Air Defense.
(3) Technical Acceptance Demonstration.
TAD C2 Theater Air Defense Command and Control.
TADAP Theater Air Defense Asset Planner.
TADC Tactical Air Direction Center.
TADCOM Theater Air Defense Command.
TADIL Tactical Digital Information Link.
TADIL A Tactical Digital Information Link “A”.
TADIL B Tactical Digital Information Link “B”
TADIL J Tactical Digital Information Link “J”
TADIX Tactical Data Information Exchange.
TADIXS Tactical Data Information Exchange System.
TADL Tactical Data Link.
TADS Tactical Air Defense System.
TADSIM Theater Air Defense Simulation.
TAF Tactical Air Force.
TAFIM Tactical Architecture Framework for Information Management.
TAI International Atomic Time.
TAIS Technology Applications Information System.
TALDT Total Administrative and Logistics Downtime.
TALON NIGHT TALON programs, which support SOF.
TALON SHIELD An effort using stereo DSP processing to provide ballistic missile burnout vector
and impact prediction for interceptor cueing, counterforce tasking, and passive
defense.
TAM (1) Theater Attack Model. (2) Theater Analysis Model.
TAMD Theater Air and Missile Defense.
Tank Final Propulsion Stage (used interchangeably with sustainer).
Tank Debris Hardware associated with tank.
Tank
Fragmentation
The breakup of a tank, either intentionally to serve as a penaid or naturally as a
result of aerodynamic loads and heating upon reentry.
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TAOC Tactical Air Operations Center.
TAOM Tactical Air Operations Module.
TAOS Technology for Autonomous Operation of Satellites.
TAR (1) The NMD Threat Assessment Report.
(2) Threat Activity Report.
(3) Target Acquisition Radar.
TARA Technology Area Reviews and Assessments.
TARGET Theater Analysis and Re-planning Graphical Execution Toolkit.
Target
Acquisition
The detection and initiation of track on a target in the surveillance coverage
region of a sensing system.
Target
Classification
and Type
Identification of the estimated target category based on surveillance,
discrimination, and intelligence data.
Target
Discrimination
The ability of a surveillance or guidance system to identify or engage any one
target when multiple targets are present.
Target Object
Map (TOM)
A data set, which contains three-dimensional position, estimates for target and
other objects predicted to be in a weapon interceptor's field of view for use in
target designation. (USSPACECOM)
Target Resolution The splitting of a single target into two or more targets.
Target Signature (1) The characteristic pattern of a target displayed by detection and
identification equipment.
(2) In naval mine warfare, the variation in the influence field produced by the
passage of a ship or sweep.
Target System
Requirements
Document (TSRD)
BMD Program level program management document. Developed by each BMD
Program Office, it outlines to MDA/TC and MDA/TE what the PO’s target
requirements are for each specific flight test based on the test objectives.
Producing the TSRD is the first step in the target development process.
TASA Task and Skills Analysis.
Tasks The required actions to accomplish all or part of a COA. Tasks contain guidance
to the Battle Management/Command, Control and Communications (BM/C3 )
engagement planning function concerning resource allocation, constraints, and
required performance.
TASM Tactical Air-to-Surface Missile.
TASO Terminal Area Security Officer.
TAT Technical Area Task.
TAUL Teat and Upgrade Link.
TAV Transatmospheric Vehicle.
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TAWG Threat Accreditation Working Group.
TB Test Bed.
TBA (1) Theater Battle Arena. (2) To be Announced.
TBD (1) To Be Determined. (2) To Be Developed.
TBIG TMD BM/C3 Integration Group.
TBIP TOMAHAWK Baseline Improvement Program.
TBM See Tactical Ballistic Missile/Theater Ballistic Missile.
TBMD Theater Ballistic Missile Defense.
TBMDSE Theater Ballistic Missile Defense System Exercise.
TBN To be Negotiated.
TBR To Be Resolved.
TBS (1) Tactical Broadcast System (US Army term).
(2) To Be Supplied.
(3) To Be Scheduled
.
TCAMS Technical Control and Monitoring System.
TCC Tactical Command Center.
TCCF Tactical Communications Control Facility.
TCE Three Color Experiment.
TCF Tactical Combat Force.
TCMD Theater Cruise Missile Defense.
TCMP Theater (Missile Defense) Countermeasures Mitigation Program.
TCMP I Theater Countermeasures Mitigation Program One.
TCMP II Theater Missile Defense Critical Measurement Program Two (Replaces TMD
Countermeasures Mitigation).
TD (1) Test Director.
(2) Technical Data.
(3) Technical Director.
(4) Training Device
TDA Table of Distribution and Allowance.
TDADT Total Distribution Advanced Technology Demonstration.
TDAS Theater Defense Architecture Study.
TDASS Theater Defense Architecture Scoping Study.
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TDBM Track Data Base Manager.
TDC (1) Tactical Display Console.
(2) Theater Deployable Communications (USAF MDAP).
TDCC Test Data Collection Center.
TDD Target Detection Device.
TDDS TRAP Data Dissemination System.
TDI Target Data Inventory.
TDK Two-Dimensional Kinetics nozzle performance.
TDM Time Division Multiplexed.
TDMA Time Division Multiple Access (TelComm/Computer term).
TDNS Theater Defense Netting Study.
TDOA Time Difference of Arrival.
TDP (1) Technical Data Package.
(2) Test Design Package.
(3) Threat Design Program.
TDORC Technology Demonstration, Quick Reaction Capability.
TDR Terminal Defense Radar.
TDRSS Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System.
TDSSPA Technology development for Solid State Phased Arrays.
TDT Target Development Test.
TDTC Test, Development and Training Center.
TDU Target Data Update.
TDUGS (1) Target Data Uplink Ground Station. (2) Target Data Update Ground Station.
TE (1) Thermo-electric. (2) Test Engineer. (3) Training Element.
(4) (BMC3) Test Exerciser.
TEA Transportation Engineering Agency.
TEAS Test and Experiment Activity Summary.
Tech (1) Technical. (2) Technology. (3) Technician
TECH Technical
TECHON Technical Control.
TECHEVAL Technical Evaluation (USN term).
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Technical Data Scientific or technical information recorded in any form or medium (such as
manuals and drawings). Computer programs and related software are not
technical data; documentation of computer programs and related software are.
Also excluded are financial data or other information related to contract
administration.
Technical Data
Package (TDP)
A technical description of an item adequate for supporting an acquisition
strategy, production, engineering, and logistics support. The description defines
the required design configuration and procedures to ensure adequacy of item
performance. It consists of all applicable technical data such as drawings,
associated lists, specifications, standards, performance requirements, quality
assurance provisions, and packaging details.
Technical
Evaluation
The study, investigation, or test and evaluation by a developing agency to
determine the technical suitability of materiel, equipment, or a system, for use in
the military services. (See Development Test and Evaluation.)
Technical
Objectives
The “target” values for the development effort when insufficient data is available
for stating binding technical requirements.
Technical
Objectives &
Goals (TOG)
High-level acquisition document to guide decision making for BMDS
development; communicates objectives and goals.
Technical
Parameters (TPs)
A selected subset of the system’s technical metrics tracked in Technical
Performance Measurement. Critical technical parameters are identified from risk
analyses and contract specification or incentivization, and are designed by
management.
Technical
Performance
Measurement
(TPM)
Describes all the activities undertaken by the government to obtain design status
beyond that treating schedule and cost. TPM is defined as the product design
assessment, which estimates, through tests the values of essential performance
parameters of the current design of WBS product elements. It forecasts the
values to be achieved through the planned technical program effort, measures
differences between achieved values and those allocated to the product
element by the system engineering process, and determines the impact of these
differences on system effectiveness.
Technical
Specification
A detailed description of technical requirements stated in terms suitable to form
the basis for actual design development and production.
Technical
Surveillance
Intelligence gathering methods in which clandestine listening, photographic or
emanations gathering instruments are placed within SDS facilities, or otherwise
targeted against SDS assets to gain access to denied information.
Technology
Executing Agent
The Service or agency (DoD or non-DoD) that has been delegated management
responsibility for a particular critical supporting technology by MDA or Executing
Agent.
Technology
Program
Description
The generic description of the applicable supporting technology or critical
supporting technology.
TECOM Test and Evaluation Command.
TED Technology Exploitation Demonstration.
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TEIPT Test and Evaluation Integrated Product Team.
TEL Transporter-Erector-Launcher.
Telemetry,
Tracking, and
Command (TT&C)
Functions performed by the satellite control network to maintain health and
status, measure specific mission parameters and processing over time a
sequence of these measurement to refine parameter knowledge, and transmit
mission commands to the satellite.
Teleprocessing The combining of telecommunications and computer operations interacting in the
automatic processing, reception, and transmission of data and/or information.
TELESAT Telecommunications Satellite.
TELINT Telemetry Intelligence.
TEMO Training Exercises and Military Operations.
TEMP See Test and Evaluation Master Plan.
TEMPEST TEMPEST is an unclassified short name referring to investigation and studies of
compromising emanations. It is often used synonymously for the term
"compromising emanations,” e.g. TEMPEST tests, TEMPEST inspection. (See
Compromising Emanations.)
TENCAP Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities.
TEP Test and Evaluation Plan.
TER Test and Evaluation Report
TERC Test and Evaluation Resource Committee.
TERCOM Terrain Contour Matching.
Terminal Defense
Segment (TDS)
The portion of the BMDS that defeats ballistic missiles in period of flight between
atmospheric reentry and impact.
Terminal
Guidance
The guidance applied to a guided missile between midcourse and arrival in the
vicinity of the target.
Terminal Phase That final portion of a ballistic missile's trajectory between the midcourse phase
and trajectory termination.
Terminal Phase
Interceptor
A ground-based interceptor designed to intercept and destroy RVs in the
terminal phase of flight. It may also be assigned to intercept and destroy enemy
PBVs and RVs in the midcourse phase. (USSPACECOM)
Terminator Transition from sunlight to earth's shadow in space.
TERS Tactical Event Reporting System.
TES Tactical Event System.
TESP Test and Evaluation Security Plan.
TESSE Test Environment Support System Enhancement.
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Test and Control 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.
Test and
Evaluation (T&E)
Process by which components or systems are tested and the results evaluated
to assess progress of design, performance, supportability, etc. There are three
types of T&E -- Development (DT&E), Operational (OT&E), and Production
Acceptance (PAT&E)--occurring during the acquisition cycle. DT&E is conducted
to assist the engineering design and development process, to proof
manufacturing processes and control and to verify attainment of technical
performance specifications and objectives. OT&E is conducted to estimate a
system's operational effectiveness and suitability, identify needed modifications,
and provide information on tactics, doctrine, organization, and personnel
requirements. PAT&E is conducted on production items to demonstrate that
those items meet the requirements and specifications of the procuring contracts
or agreements. OT&E is further subdivided into two phases--Initial Operational
(IOT&E) and Follow-on Operational (FOT&E). IOT&E must be conducted before
the production decision (Milestone III) to provide a credible estimate of
operational effectiveness and suitability. Therefore, IOT&E is a field test
conducted on a production representative system in an operationally realistic
environment, by typical user personnel and includes use of realistic threats.
FOT&E is conducted on the production system to verify operational effectiveness
and suitability, to fill data voids from the IOT&E, or to verify correction of
deficiencies in materiel, training, or concepts.
Test and
Evaluation
Master Plan
(TEMP)
An overall test and evaluation plan, designed to identify and integrate
objectives, responsibilities, resources, and schedules for all test and evaluation
to be accomplished prior to the subsequent key decision points. Prepared as
early as possible in the acquisition process, it is updated as development
progresses.
Test and
Evaluation
Working Group
(TEWG)
The TEWG is the forum in which T&E coordination for test requirements,
planning, execution, and reporting, is accomplished among members of the
Acquisition Team. The primary purpose of the TEWG is to optimize the use of
test data, instrumentation, facilities, and models/simulations to achieve test
integration and reduce program costs. The TEWG is established by the
program sponsor to integrate test requirements, resolve cost/scheduling
problems, facilitate TEMP development, assist in preparation of RFPs and
related contractual documents, and assist in evaluating contractor proposals
when there are T&E implications.
Testbed A system representation consisting partially of actual hardware and/or software
and partially of computer models or prototype hardware and/or software.
Test Criteria Standards by which test results and outcome are judged.
Test Integration
Working Group
(TIWG)
A working group designed to facilitate the integration of test requirements in
order to minimize development time and cost and preclude duplication between
developmental and operational testing.
Test Plan A document prescribing the approach to be taken for intended testing activities.
The plan typically identifies the items to be tested, the testing to be performed,
test schedules, personnel requirements, reporting requirements, evaluation
criteria, and any risk requiring contingency planning.
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Test Target
Vehicle (TTV)
Single stage, ground launched, solid propellant theater target developed for
SMD Program. Also called “Aries”.
Test Validity The degree to which a test accomplishes its specified goal.
TEV Test, Evaluation and Verification.
TEVS (1) Test Environment System. (2) Test Environment Support Systems.
TEWG See Test and Evaluation Working Group.
TEx Test Exerciser (NMD BMC3 Term).
TEXCOM Test and Experimentation Command.
TF Task Force.
TFC Tactical Fusion Center.
TFCC Tactical Flag Command Center (USN term).
TFD Technical Feasibility Decision.
TFE Thermionic Fuel Element(s).
TFIM Technical (Architecture) Framework for Information Management
TFOV Theoretical Field of View.
TFR Terrain Following Radar.
TFRAMES Tools to Facilitate the Rapid Assembly of Missile Engagement Simulations.
TFT Time Off Target (JFACC term).
TFW Tactical Fighter Wing (USAF term).
TG (1) Threat Generator. (2) Trajectory Generator.
TGINFOREP Target Information Report (JFACC term).
TGS Track Generation System (USN term).
TGW Terminally-Guided Warhead.
THAAD See Theater High Altitude Area Defense System.
Theater The geographical area outside the continental United States for which a
commander of a unified or specified command has been assigned.
Theater Attack Attack on a geographical area outside the continental United States.
Theater Ballistic
Missile Defense
(TBMD) System
The aggregate TMD C3I and TBMD forces that, in total, provide defense against
ballistic missile attacks within an overseas theater of operations.
(USSPACECOM)
