ADTS

abbreviation for

1. Automated Data and Telecommunications Service: an agency within the General Services Administration from 1972 to 1982, tasked with coordinating federal information management and records improvement.

Example Sentences

Do-it-yourself home security companies aren’t like the ADTs and Vivints of the world.

From Seattle Times

The missile agency insisted that the report say the redesigned thrusters — technically known as alternate divert thrusters or ADTs — worked flawlessly, and that the mishap stemmed from an unrelated problem with the interceptor’s electronics.

From Los Angeles Times

“They made a big deal about, ‘The ADTs worked as designed.’

From Los Angeles Times

Just behind the nose is a shaped charge weighing 660 grams and consisting of a RDX/TNT mixture, which is detonated by an ADTS-583 impact fuze.

From Scientific American

Dwyer says of the currently stationed ADTs.

From Time