What does PGS stand for?

Prompt Global Strike

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Military and Government

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Committee on Conventional Prompt Global Strike Capability.

U.S. conventional prompt global strike; issues for 2008 and beyond

It's a very important capability to give future presidents additional options for this prompt global strike requirement that we don't have today for terrorists transferring nuclear material, a ballistic missile launch, or perhaps a space-control antisatellite launcher," Rear Adm.

United States: Senior US Official Doubts Conventional Global Strike ...

For the orbital launch, ATK will develop a 160,000-pound, three-stage small rocket for orbital payloads and prompt global strike.

Market slowdown: low-cost space launch vehicles await liftoff

I think Senator Sessions' comments on Prompt Global Strike (PGS) were right on the mark.

Global missions ... meeting the challenge

In addition to the SR ICE effort, the space division is heavily involved with the Prompt Global Strike (PGS) analysis of alternatives and the review of nearly $10 billion of FY08 POM inputs.

Notes from the Deputy Assistant Secretary, Cost and Economics

Options for conventional, prompt global strike would provide a range of selective lethality and could be fielded in the midterm.

Forging space warriors

Furthermore, he chairs three committees of the National Academies: the Committee on Conventional Prompt Global Strike Capability, the Committee on Nuclear Forensics, and the Committee on America's Climate Choices.

NanoPacific Holdings, Inc. Announces Appointment of UCLA Chancellor ...

is being awarded a $16,709,000 unpriced modification #PH0015 to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (N00030-07-C-0100) to provide support to the Prompt Global Strike Medium Lift Reentry Body development effort.

United States: Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company win contract of ...