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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2012. Making Sense of Ballistic Missile Defense: An Assessment of Concepts and Systems for U.S. Boost-Phase Missile Defense in Comparison to Other Alternatives. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13189.
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D

Acronyms and Abbreviations

AAW antiaircraft warfare
ABI airborne-based interceptor
ABIR airborne infrared
ABL Airborne Laser
ABM antiballistic missile
ABMDA Advanced Ballistic Missile Defense Agency
ABT air-breathing threat
ADSAM air-directed surface-to-air missile
AEU antenna equipment unit
AHTK airborne hit-to-kill
ALHK air-launched hit-to-kill
ALTB airborne laser test bed
AMRAAM advanced medium-range air-to-air missile
AN/TPY Army Navy/transportable radar surveillance
AO adaptive optics
APS American Physical Society
ASAT antisatellite
ASUW antisurface warfare
ASW antisubmarine warfare
ATR automatic target recognition
AUPC average unit production cost
   
BAMBI ballistic missile boost intercept
BILL beacon illuminator laser
BMC2 battle management command and control
Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2012. Making Sense of Ballistic Missile Defense: An Assessment of Concepts and Systems for U.S. Boost-Phase Missile Defense in Comparison to Other Alternatives. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13189.
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BMC3 battle management command, control, and communications
BMC4I battle management command, control, communications, computing, and intelligence
BMD ballistic missile defense
BMDO Ballistic Missile Defense Office
BPI boost-phase intercept
   
C2 command and control
C2BMC command and control battle management center
C3 command, control, and communications
C3I command, control, communications, and intelligence
CAP combat air patrol
CBO Congressional Budget Office
CE capability enhancement
CEU cooling equipment unit
COCOM combatant commander
COIL chemical oxygen-iodine laser
CONOPS concept of operations
CONUS continental United States
CSV cable support vehicle
   
DACS divert and attitude control system
DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DEM/VAL demonstration and validation
DISA Defense Information System Agency
DOD Department of Defense
DOE Director of Estimating
DOF degrees of freedom
DOT Department of Transportation
DSP Defense Support Program
DTRM dual-thrust rocket motor
   
ECS engagement control station
EEU electronic equipment unit
EKV exoatmospheric kill vehicle
EMD engineering and manufacturing development
EO electro-optics
EOR engage on remote
EPP electronic power plant
ERIS exoatmospheric reentry interceptor system
EWS early warning system
   
FAIR fly along infrared
Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2012. Making Sense of Ballistic Missile Defense: An Assessment of Concepts and Systems for U.S. Boost-Phase Missile Defense in Comparison to Other Alternatives. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13189.
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FBX X-band radar (stand-alone version)
FEWS future early warning system
FGA Fort Greely, Alaska
FLIR forward-looking infrared
FOC final operational capability
FY fiscal year
FYDP future years defense plan
   
GBI ground-based interceptor
GBR ground-based radar
GBX ground-based X-band radar
GEO geosynchronous orbit
GMD Ground-Based Midcourse Defense
GMD-E Ground-Based Midcourse Defense-Evolved
   
HALO-2 High Altitude Observatory 2 (program)
HEL high-energy laser
HF/DF hydrogen fluoride/deuterium fluoride
HTK hit to kill
   
IBCS integrated battle command system
ICBM intercontinental ballistic missile
IDT IFICS data terminal
IFICS in-flight interceptor communications station
IFTU in-flight target update
IOC initial operational capability
IOT&E initial operational test and evaluation
IR infrared
IRBM intermediate-range ballistic missile
ITOF interceptor total time of flight
   
KEI kinetic energy interceptor
KKV kinetic-kill vehicle
KV kill vehicle
   
LADAR laser detection and ranging (laser radar)
LCC life-cycle cost
LOR launch on remote
LOS line of sight
LRIP low rate initial production
LSRBM long- and short-range ballistic missiles
LWIR long-wave infrared
Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2012. Making Sense of Ballistic Missile Defense: An Assessment of Concepts and Systems for U.S. Boost-Phase Missile Defense in Comparison to Other Alternatives. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13189.
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MCS mission control system
MDA Missile Defense Agency
MDIOC Missile Defense Integrated Operations Center
MEADS Medium Extended Air Defense System
MILCON military construction
MKV multiple kill vehicle
MRBM medium-range ballistic missile
MSE missile segment enhancement (improved PAC-3)
MSX midcourse space experiment
MTS-B multispectral targeting system, version B
   
NAS National Academy of Sciences
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NCADE network-centric airborne defense element
NGAM next-generation Aegis missile
NMD national missile defense
NRC National Research Council
   
O&S operations and support
O&S sunk operations and support (expended)
OC operations central
OSD Office of Secretary of Defense
   
PAA Phased Adaptive Approach
PAC-3 Patriot Advanced Capability 3
PB President’s budget
PBDI postboost, predeployment intercept
PG precision-guided
PTSS Precision Tracking and Surveillance System
   
R&D research and development
RCS radar cross-section
RDT&E research, development, testing, and evaluation
RF radio frequency
ROE rules of engagement
ROM rough order of magnitude
RS radar set
RV reentry vehicle
   
S&T science and technology
SAM surface-to-air missile
SBI space-based interceptor
Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2012. Making Sense of Ballistic Missile Defense: An Assessment of Concepts and Systems for U.S. Boost-Phase Missile Defense in Comparison to Other Alternatives. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13189.
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SBX sea-based X-band radar
SBIRS spaced-based infrared aystem
SDACS solid divert and atitude control system
SECDEF Secretary of Defense
SES shoot-engage-shoot
SFS shoot-fail-shoot
SLS shoot-look-shoot
SM standard missile
SM-3 Standard Missile-3
SMRBM short- and medium-range ballistic missiles
SPY-1 naval phased-array radar
SRBM short-range ballistic missile
STSS Space Tracking and Surveillance System
   
T2Go time to go
TBM theater ballistic missile
TBMD theater ballistic missile defense
TDACS Throttleable Divert and Attitude Control System
TEL transporter erector launcher
TFCC THAAD fire control and communications
THAAD Terminal (formerly theater) High-Altitude Area Defense
TILL tracking illuminator laser
TOM target object map
TOS tactical operations station
TPY-2 forward-based X-band radar
T/R transmit/receive
TRL technology readiness level
TSC theater surface combatant
TSG tactical support group
TSRM third-stage rocket motor
TWAA tactical warning and attack assessment
   
UAV unmanned aerial vehicle
UEWR upgraded early warning radar
UHF ultrahigh frequency
USA United States Army
USAF United States Air Force
USMC United States Marine Corps
USN United States Navy
Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2012. Making Sense of Ballistic Missile Defense: An Assessment of Concepts and Systems for U.S. Boost-Phase Missile Defense in Comparison to Other Alternatives. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13189.
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VAFB Vandenberg Air Force Base, California
Vbo Burnout velocity
VLS vertical launch system
   
WMD weapons of mass destruction
   
XBR X-band radar
Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2012. Making Sense of Ballistic Missile Defense: An Assessment of Concepts and Systems for U.S. Boost-Phase Missile Defense in Comparison to Other Alternatives. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13189.
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The Committee on an Assessment of Concepts and Systems for U.S. Boost-Phase Missile Defense in Comparison to Other Alternatives set forth to provide an assessment of the feasibility, practicality, and affordability of U.S. boost-phase missile defense compared with that of the U.S. non-boost missile defense when countering short-, medium-, and intermediate-range ballistic missile threats from rogue states to deployed forces of the United States and its allies and defending the territory of the United States against limited ballistic missile attack.

To provide a context for this analysis of present and proposed U.S. boost-phase and non-boost missile defense concepts and systems, the committee considered the following to be the missions for ballistic missile defense (BMD): protecting of the U.S. homeland against nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction (WMD); or conventional ballistic missile attacks; protection of U.S. forces, including military bases, logistics, command and control facilities, and deployed forces, including military bases, logistics, and command and control facilities. They also considered deployed forces themselves in theaters of operation against ballistic missile attacks armed with WMD or conventional munitions, and protection of U.S. allies, partners, and host nations against ballistic-missile-delivered WMD and conventional weapons.

Consistent with U.S. policy and the congressional tasking, the committee conducted its analysis on the basis that it is not a mission of U.S. BMD systems to defend against large-scale deliberate nuclear attacks by Russia or China. Making Sense of Ballistic Missile Defense: An Assessment of Concepts and Systems for U.S. Boost-Phase Missile Defense in Comparison to Other Alternatives suggests that great care should be taken by the U.S. in ensuring that negotiations on space agreements not adversely impact missile defense effectiveness. This report also explains in further detail the findings of the committee, makes recommendations, and sets guidelines for the future of ballistic missile defense research.

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