| ACTD | Advanced Concept
Technology Demonstration
|
| AFSCN | Air Force
Satellite
Control Network
|
| AFSPC | Air Force Space
Command
|
| ARPA | Advanced
Research
Projects Agency
|
| ASCAT | Advanced
Spacecraft Computing and Autonomy Testbed
|
| ATD | Advanced
Technology
Demonstration
|
| AWACS | Airborne
Warning
and Control System
|
| BMDO | Ballistic Missile
Defense Organization
|
| B/OT | Boost And Orbit
Transfer
|
| CDMA | Code Division
Multiple Access
|
| CHFET | Complementary
Heterojunction Field Effect Transistor
|
| COTS | Commercial Off
The
Shelf
|
| CRDA | Cooperative
Research and Development Agreement
|
| DNA | Defense Nuclear
Agency
|
| DOC | Department Of
Commerce
|
| DoD | Department Of
Defense
|
| DOE | Department Of
Energy
|
| DOT | Department Of
Transportation
|
| DTAP | Defense
Technology
Area Plan
|
| DTD | Digital Terrain
Database
|
| DTO | Defense Technology
Objective
|
| ECM | Electronic
CounterMeasures
|
| EHF | Extremely High
Frequency
|
| EELV | Evolved
Expendable
Launch Vehicles
|
| ELV | Expendable Launch
Vehicles
|
| EMI | Electromagnetic
Interference
|
| EOS | Earth Observing
System
|
| FLEETSATCOM | Fleet
Satellite Communications System
|
| FPA | Focal Plane Array
|
| GaAs | Gallium Arsenide
|
| Gbps | Gigabits Per Second
|
| GEO | Geosynchronous
Earth Orbit
|
| GN&C | Guidance,
Navigation and Control
|
| GPS | Global Positioning
System
|
| HEXSAT | Nanosatellite
System Concept
|
| Hz | Hertz
|
| IFOG | Interferometric
Fiber
Optic Gyroscope
|
| IHPRPT | Integrated High
Payoff Rocket Propulsion Technology Program
|
| IPT | Integrated Product
Team
|
| IR | InfraRed
|
| IR&D | Independent
Research and Development
|
| ISTD | Integrated Space
Technology Demonstration
|
| JCS | Joint Chiefs of Staff
|
| JSTARS | Joint Service
Tactical Radar Surveillance
|
| JWSTP | Joint Warfighter
Science and Technology Plan
|
| LEO | Low Earth Orbit
|
| LOX | Liquid Oxygen
|
| LWIR | Long Wavelength
Infrared
|
| MAGIC | Multimission
Advanced Ground Intelligent Control
|
| MAP | Mission Area Plan
|
| Mbps | Megabits Per
Second
|
| MCT | Mercury Cadmium
Telluride
|
| MEMS | Micro
Electromechanical Systems
|
| MILSATCOM | Military
Satellite Communications Architecture
|
| MILSTAR | Military
Strategic, Tactical, & Relay (Satellite)
|
| MMIC | Monolithic
Microwave Integrated Circuits
|
| MPTB | Microelectronics
And Photonics Test Bed
|
| MRAM | Magneto-resistive
Random Access Memory
|
| MSLS | Multi-Service
Launch System
|
| MTBF | Mean Time
Between
Failures
|
| MWIR | Medium Wave
Infrared
|
| NaS | Sodium Sulfur
|
| NASA | National
Aeronautics
and Space Administration
|
| NPOESS | National
Polar-Orbiting Environmental Satellite System
|
| NAVSPAWARS | Navy
Space Warfare Center
|
| O&M | Operation and
Maintenance
|
| O&S | Operations and
Support
|
| ONR | Office Of Naval
Research
|
| PCS | Personal
Communication System
|
| PHEMT | Pseudomorphic
High Electron Mobility Transistor
|
| PMAD | Power
Management
and Distribution
|
| PMD | Program
Management
Directive
|
| QWIP | Quantum Well
Infrared Photon
|
| QWIPM | Quantum Well
Infrared Photon Multiplier
|
| RF | Radio Frequency
|
| RLG | Ring Laser
Gyroscope
|
| S&T | Science and
Technology
|
| SBR | Space Based Radar
|
| SBIRS | Space Based IR
System
|
| S/C | Spacecraft
|
| SEE | Single Event Effect
|
| SERB | Space Experiments
Review Board
|
| SMATH | Satellite Material
Hardening
|
| SMC | Space and Missile
Systems Command
|
| SMTS | Space and Missile
Tracking System
|
| SPO | System Program
Office
|
| SOA | State of the Art
|
| SRAM | Static Random
Access Memory
|
| SRMU | Solid Rocket
Motor
Unit
|
| STIG | Space Technology
Interdependency Group
|
| STP | Space Test Program
|
| SWIR | Short Wavelength
Infrared
|
| TAV | Transatmospheric
Vehicle
|
| TT&C | Telemetry,
Tracking, and Control
|
| USA | United States Army
|
| USAF | United States Air
Force
|
| USASSDC | United States
Army Space and Strategic Defense Command
|
| UV | UltraViolet
|
| VLWIR | Very Long Wave
InfraRed
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