Definition Rule
Official terms use established Navy, DOD, government, or industry meanings. TriSeadon terms are names created for this proposal. A named concept is not automatically a fielded capability.
A-D
| Term | Definition | Type |
|---|---|---|
| AAW | Anti-Air Warfare: detection, control, and engagement of aircraft and airborne missile threats. | Official |
| AEGIR | Adaptive Energy Grid Integration & Redundancy: TriSeadon's proposed segmented, cross-connected electric-distribution and control architecture. | TriSeadon |
| Aegis | U.S. Navy integrated combat system family for sensor, command, fire-control, and weapon coordination. | Official |
| APM | Advanced Payload Module: large-payload launcher pathway associated with Zumwalt and Virginia CPS integration. The locked TriSeadon APM-IWM uses four 87-inch tubes with three CPS rounds per tube. | Program / TriSeadon use |
| ASROC | Anti-Submarine Rocket: a rocket-delivered antisubmarine weapon. | Official |
| ASuW | Anti-Surface Warfare: operations against ships and other surface targets. | Official |
| ASW | Anti-Submarine Warfare: detection, tracking, deterrence, and engagement of submarines. | Official |
| Mk 51 AGS | Advanced Gun System: the 155 mm automated gun-and-magazine system developed for DDG 1000. A Mk 51 AGS IWM remains conditional on technical-data rights, physical fit, affordable ammunition, and Navy certification. | Official system / proposal integration path |
| ATC | Air Traffic Control: management of aircraft movement, recovery, separation, and flight-deck coordination. | Official |
| ATLAS | Adaptable Transformable Living Architecture System: proposed common berthing-outfit standard for bunks, stowage, partitions, furnishings, attachment points, and interfaces installed inside fixed ship compartments. It does not make command, engineering, food-service, ship-service, or damage-control rooms removable modules. | TriSeadon |
| CS | Culinary Specialist: Navy rating responsible for shipboard food service, galleys, and mess operations. | Official rating |
| DC | Damage Controlman: Navy rating specializing in firefighting, ship stability, emergency repair, and damage-control readiness. | Official rating |
| BMD | Ballistic Missile Defense. | Official |
| C2 | Command and Control. | Official |
| CAG | Guided-Missile Heavy Cruiser. The proposal combines CA heavy-cruiser designation logic with G for guided missile. | TriSeadon designation |
| CANES | Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services: Navy afloat network infrastructure. | Official |
| CB90 | Combat Boat 90: a fast military assault and transport craft family used as a reference point for the Admiral's Launch. | Industry / military |
| CDS | Common Display System: Navy common console/display family used as the bridge before ONE-Consul. | Official |
| CEC | Cooperative Engagement Capability: networked sharing of high-quality sensor and engagement data. | Official |
| Cerberus | Proposed common terminal-defense mounting and service standard for complete CIWS, RAM/SeaRAM, directed-energy, and future integrated point-defense payloads. | TriSeadon |
| CG | Guided-Missile Cruiser. | Official hull designation |
| CIC | Combat Information Center. | Official |
| CIWS | Close-In Weapon System: terminal defense against selected missiles, aircraft, drones, or surface threats. | Official |
| COCO | Contractor-Owned, Contractor-Operated facility. | Acquisition / industrial |
| COCOM | Combatant Command: a unified or specified command with a broad continuing mission under a single commander. | Official organization term |
| COTS | Commercial Off-the-Shelf. | Acquisition |
| CPS | Conventional Prompt Strike: U.S. Navy conventional hypersonic weapon program. | Official |
| DDG | Guided-Missile Destroyer. | Official hull designation |
| DEW | Directed-Energy Weapon, including laser or high-power microwave pathways. | Official/general |
| DLA | Defense Logistics Agency. | Official organization |
| DMC | Drone Monitor and Control: proposed dedicated space and watch organization for unmanned-system operations. | TriSeadon |
| DOD | Department of Defense. | Official organization |
| DOT&E | Director, Operational Test and Evaluation. | Official organization |
E-L
| Term | Definition | Type |
|---|---|---|
| EMI | Electromagnetic Interference. | Engineering |
| EO/IR | Electro-Optical / Infrared sensing. | Official/general |
| EW | Electronic Warfare. | Official |
| FFG | Guided-Missile Frigate. | Official hull designation |
| GAO | Government Accountability Office. | Official organization |
| GOGO | Government-Owned, Government-Operated facility. | Acquisition / industrial |
| GOCO | Government-Owned, Contractor-Operated facility. | Acquisition / industrial |
| Government Arsenal Standard | TriSeadon acquisition policy requiring new program development RFPs to establish government ownership or equivalent perpetual controlling rights in foreground IP and to deliver validated technical, software, manufacturing, test, and lifecycle packages for secure qualified multi-source production. It does not confiscate pre-existing privately funded background IP or publicly release sensitive data. | TriSeadon acquisition policy |
| Foreground IP | Intellectual property newly created in performing a TriSeadon development award. The solicitation requires government ownership or equivalent perpetual controlling rights and a reproducible production package. | Acquisition and intellectual property |
| Background IP | Intellectual property created before or outside the TriSeadon award, particularly with private funding. It remains protected unless the government already possesses sufficient rights or separately negotiates a purchase or license. | Acquisition and intellectual property |
| Production-award freeze | Rule prohibiting new capability or stakeholder-directed design changes after a ship, module, or system production award. Enhancements move to the next hull, lot, flight, or scheduled refit; only tightly controlled corrective actions may alter current work. | Configuration control |
| Corrective action | A configuration-authority-approved change limited to a verified defect, safety, cybersecurity, physical or information security, legal or regulatory compliance, or unavailable-part form-fit-function need. It cannot add mission capability, payload, performance, or stakeholder preference. | Configuration control |
| Earned Program Continuity | Proposed framework under which independently verified fleet need and acceptable cost, schedule, quality, delivery, industrial, environmental, workforce, and ROI performance require the Navy to retain a minimum viable TriSeadon rate in its program and budget submission. It does not appropriate funds or bind Congress. | Budget and acquisition policy |
| Minimum viable economic rate | The lowest independently validated annual production and sustainment rate that preserves qualified workforce, suppliers, tooling, learning, facilities, schedule, and affordable unit cost without buying unneeded output. | Industrial and budget planning |
| Technology ladder | Progression from a fielded mission baseline through controlled TriSeadon integration, off-ship development, certification, later-hull or refit insertion, and DLA-supported replacement. The mature fallback remains available until the successor is accepted, producible, supported, and stocked. | Technology governance |
| GPI | Glide Phase Interceptor: developmental Missile Defense Agency interceptor for hypersonic glide-phase defense. | Official developmental program |
| GT-Gen | Gas-Turbine Generator package. | Engineering / TriSeadon shorthand |
| HELIOS | High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance. | Official program |
| HMI | Human-Machine Interface. | Engineering |
| IMM | Integrated Mission Module: deeply integrated mission package installed in an LCB during build or refit. | TriSeadon |
| IPS | Integrated Power System. | Official/general |
| ISO module | TriSeadon term for a mission package sized around standard intermodal-container geometry and intended for in-port exchange. It still requires naval interfaces and certification. | TriSeadon |
| ISR | Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance. | Official |
| IWM | Integrated Weapon Module: deeply integrated weapon or combat-system package installed in an LCB during build or refit. | TriSeadon |
| JADC2 | Joint All-Domain Command and Control. | Official concept |
| JP-5 | High-flash-point kerosene aviation fuel used aboard ships; TriSeadon proposes it as the common fleet fuel wherever practicable. | Official fuel / proposal policy |
| LCB | Large Configuration Bay: permanent 60 ft x 25 ft x 15 ft ship integration volume accepting an IWM or IMM. The 60-ft axis may be longitudinal or rotated crosswise according to the locked class position; stern slide-ins remain longitudinal. | TriSeadon |
| LCS | Littoral Combat Ship. | Official class type |
| LS | Logistics Specialist: Navy rating responsible for supply, inventory, cargo, records, and related afloat logistics. The rating succeeded the former Storekeeper rating through Navy rating consolidation. | Official rating |
| LM2500+G4 | GE Aerospace LM2500 marine gas-turbine variant proposed as the TriSeadon gas-turbine prime mover. | Industry product |
M-R
| Term | Definition | Type |
|---|---|---|
| MANPADS | Man-Portable Air-Defense System. TriSeadon treats the weapon and trained team as threat-driven mission equipment and provides Navy-certified shipboard firing-station pathways through SCUTUM. | Official category / proposal integration path |
| MFTA | Multi-Function Towed Array. | Official/general |
| MH-60R | Seahawk maritime helicopter variant focused on ASW and surface warfare. | Official aircraft |
| MH-60S | Seahawk maritime helicopter variant supporting logistics, SAR, surface warfare, and other missions. | Official aircraft |
| Mk 41 VLS | Fielded U.S. Navy Vertical Launching System and the TriSeadon compatibility-IWM launcher for missiles qualified only in the Mk 41 VLS ecosystem. | Official system / proposal integration path |
| Mk 45 Mod 4 | Fielded 5-inch/62-caliber U.S. Navy naval gun and the mature TriSeadon 5-inch baseline. | Official system / proposal integration path |
| Mk 46 Mod 2 GWS | Fielded remotely operated 30 mm Gun Weapon System used as the bridge payload for the proposed SCUTUM interface. | Official system / proposal integration path |
| Mk 57 PVLS | Peripheral Vertical Launching System fielded on the Zumwalt class and the primary TriSeadon distributed-launcher architecture. | Official system / proposal integration path |
| Mk 38 Mod 4 | Next-generation remotely operated 30 mm defense system and the preferred new-production 30 mm SCUTUM adapter study. | Official system / proposal integration path |
| Mk 75 76 mm Gun | Fielded 76 mm/62-caliber rapid-fire naval gun. TriSeadon carries it as an optional IWM with an integrated magazine and handling package. | Official system / proposal integration path |
| MOSA | Modular Open Systems Approach. | Official acquisition approach |
| NAVSEA | Naval Sea Systems Command. | Official organization |
| NRE | Non-Recurring Engineering cost. | Acquisition / engineering |
| NSM | Naval Strike Missile. | Official weapon name |
| TDP | Technical Data Package: the controlled collection of design, manufacturing, configuration, quality, test, and support information needed for an identified acquisition and lifecycle purpose. | Acquisition / engineering |
| SLCM-N | Nuclear-Armed Sea-Launched Cruise Missile. TriSeadon reserves Mk 41 VLS IWM, Mk 57 PVLS, and APM-IWM integration paths, but no TriSeadon launcher fit is treated as certified until the Navy completes the missile, launcher, canister, nuclear-surety, and ship-integration program. | Official program / proposal integration path |
| ODIN | Optical Dazzling Interdictor, Navy. | Official system |
| ONE | Operational Networked Environment, the government-owned software and interface environment proposed for ONE-Consul. | TriSeadon |
| ONE-Consul | Proposed common fleet console runtime, hardware family, role-based HMI, and programmable physical-control architecture. | TriSeadon |
| Odyssey | Proposed common removable, fully azimuthing electric-propulsion pod family rated at 25 MW continuous with a 27 MW short-duration sprint objective. | TriSeadon |
| PA6B STC | Fairbanks Morse Defense medium-speed diesel-engine family selected as the basis for the proposed diesel-generator sled. | Industry product / proposal use |
| PRIME | Primary & Reserve Integrated Modular Energy: proposed replaceable battery-energy module. | TriSeadon |
| PVLS | Peripheral Vertical Launching System. | Official/general |
| QRF | Quick Reaction Force. | Official/general |
| RAM | Rolling Airframe Missile. | Official weapon |
| RCB | Riverine Command Boat. | Official/general craft type |
| RHIB | Rigid-Hull Inflatable Boat. | Official/general craft type |
| ROI | Return on Investment. | Financial |
| RS | Retail Services Specialist: Navy rating responsible for shipboard laundry, barber, tailor, retail, and ship's-store services. | Official rating |
S-Z
| Term | Definition | Type |
|---|---|---|
| SAR | Search and Rescue. | Official |
| SCUTUM | Standardized Close-in Universal Tactical Utility Mount: proposed common light-defense hardpoint for certified 30 mm, .50-caliber, MANPADS, and nonlethal force-protection adapters. The Latin word scutum means shield. | TriSeadon |
| SeaRAM | Close-in defense system combining RAM missiles with autonomous sensor/fire-control elements. | Official system |
| SEWIP | Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program. | Official program |
| SIGINT | Signals Intelligence. | Official |
| SM | Standard Missile family designation. | Official weapon family |
| SPY-6 | Air and Missile Defense Radar family. | Official radar family |
| SQQ-90 | Zumwalt-class integrated undersea-warfare sonar suite designation used as the TriSeadon ASW system centerline. | Official system / proposal use |
| SQR-20 | Multi-Function Towed Array designation associated with modern Navy ASW systems. | Official system |
| SSN | Nuclear-powered attack submarine. | Official hull designation |
| SK | Storekeeper: former Navy rating familiar to earlier crews. Current supply functions largely fall under Logistics Specialist, while shipboard laundry, barber, and retail services fall under Retail Services Specialist. | Historical rating |
| TAL | TriSeadon Admiral's Launch: proposed 16-meter-class protected command, VIP, evacuation, medical-transfer, and support craft based on RCB/CB90 concepts. | TriSeadon |
| Trinion | Proposed 10-inch naval gun family and associated ammunition-development program. | TriSeadon |
| TTG | TriSeadon Task Group: flexible planning formation normally centered on CAG, DDG, FFG, and SSN elements. | TriSeadon |
| UAS | Unmanned Aircraft System. | Official/general |
| UAV | Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. | Official/general |
| UUV | Unmanned Undersea Vehicle. | Official/general |
| USV | Unmanned Surface Vehicle. | Official/general |
| UxV | Collective shorthand for unmanned vehicles across domains. | General shorthand |
| VDS | Variable Depth Sonar. | Official/general |
| VLS | Vertical Launching System. | Official/general |
| VTOL | Vertical Takeoff and Landing. | Official/general |