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Weapon (ASAT)
A weapon designed to destroy satellites in space. The weapon may be
launched from the ground, from an aircraft, or be based in space. Either a
nuclear or conventional explosion may destroy the target, by collision at high
speed, or by a directed energy beam.
Anti-Simulation The process of introducing random variations to the signature characteristics of
an object in order to cause misidentification of the object by the sensors. The
disguising of an RV to resemble a non-threatening object such as a piece of
debris, a balloon, or a decoy.
Ao Operational Availability
AO (1) Associated Object. (2) Action Officer. (3) Area of Operations (4) Acousto-
Optical. (5) Attack Operations.
AOA OBSOLETE. Airborne Optical Adjunct (now called AST).
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AOC Air Operations Center.
AOCC Air Operations Control Center.
AOEC Aero-Optic Evaluation Center, Buffalo, NY.
AOI Active Optical Imager.
AOP Airborne Optics Platform.
AOR Area of Responsibility.
AOS OBSOLETE. Airborne Optical Sensor.
AOSP Advanced On-Board Signal Processor.
AOTF Acousto-Optic Tunable Filter.
AP Acquisition Plan.
APB Acquisition Program Baseline.
APBI Advanced Planning Briefing to Industry (MDA).
APCC Alternate Processing and Correlation Center.
APDP Acquisition Professional Development Program.
APEX Active Plasma Experiment
API Ascent-Phase Intercept.
APIPT Acquisition Planning IPT (PAC-3 term).
APL Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
APLE Average Power Laser Experiment.
APM Advanced Penetration Model.
APMA Acquisition Program Management Agreement.
APO (1) Apache Point Observatory. (2) Arrow Project Office.
APOD Aerial Point of Debarkation.
Application (1) (Software) It refers to a process; usually implemented as a software
routine, at the highest level (Level 7) of the ISO open system
architecture. (2) (SDS) It refers to such processes as the Battle
Management, Navigation, Network Control, and other high level functions
which may originate or receive messages over the SDS Communication
network, via underlying lower-level protocols. (3) Software designed to
fulfill specific needs of a user. (4) (Acquisition) The process of selecting
requirements that are pertinent and cost effective for the particular
materiel acquisition and contractually invoking them at the most
advantageous times in the acquisition cycle.
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Apportionment (1) A determination made by the Office of Management and Budget which
limits the amount of obligations or expenditures that may be incurred
during a specified time period. An apportionment may limit all obligations
to be incurred during the specified period or it may limit obligation to be
incurred for a specific activity, function, project, object, or a combination
thereof. The third of four phases of the DoD resource allocation process.
(2) The determination and assignment of the total expected effort by
percentage and/or by priority that should be devoted to the various air
operations and/or geographic areas for a given period of time. (3) In the
general sense, distribution for planning of limited resources among
competing requirements. Specific apportionments (e.g. air sorties and
forces for planning) are described as apportionment of air sorties and
forces for planning, etc.
Appropriation An authorization by an act of Congress that permits Federal agencies to incur
obligations and make payments from the Treasury. An appropriation usually
follows an enactment of authorizing legislation. An appropriation act is the most
common means of providing budget authority. Appropriations do not represent
cash actually set aside in the Treasury; they represent limitations of amounts,
which agencies may obligate during a specified time period. See Authorization.
Approved
Program
The technical and operational, schedule, and quantity requirements reflected in
the latest approved USD (A) ADM, or other document reflecting a more current
decision of the USD (A) or other approval authority, such as the President’s
Budget, the FYDP, and supporting documentation.
APPS Automated POM Preparation Instruction.
APS (1) Axial Propulsion System. (2) Automatic Phasing System.
APT Acquisition, Pointing, and Tracking.
APU Auxiliary Power Unit.
AR Army
ARB Accreditation Review Board.
ARC (1) Advanced Research Center, US Army, Huntsville, AL.
(2) Atlantic Research Corporation.
ARC/SC Advanced Research Center/Simulation Center.
ARCCC Army Component Command Center.
ARCT Advanced Radar Component Technology.
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