Command Data Buffer

CDB was a method to transfer targeting information from a Minuteman Launch Control Center to an individual missile by communications lines.

Prior to CDB, new missile guidance would have to be physically loaded at the launch facility; the process usually took hours.

[1] CDB was replaced in the late 1990s by the Rapid Execution and Combat Targeting system, currently in use by United States ICBM forces.

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