- Industry: Government; Military
- Number of terms: 79318
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- Company Profile:
A transportable workstation and communications suite that electronically extends a joint intelligence center to a joint task force or other tactical user.
Industry:Military
A worldwide federation of national standards bodies from some 100 countries, one from each country. The International Organization for Standardization is a nongovernmental organization, established to promote the development of standardization and related activities in the world with a view to facilitating the international exchange of goods and services, and to developing cooperation in the spheres of intellectual, scientific, technological, and economic activity.
Industry:Military
A worldwide radio and television broadcasting organization that provides United States military commanders overseas and at sea with sufficient electronic media resources to effectively communicate theater, local, Department of Defense, and Service-unique command information to their personnel and family members.
Industry:Military
A naval officer appointed to form merchant convoys and control and coordinate the routing and movements of such convoys, independently sailed merchant ships, and hospital ships in and out of a port or base.
Industry:Military
A person who is not a battle casualty but who is lost to the organization by reason of disease or injury, including persons dying of disease or injury, by reason of being missing where the absence does not appear to be voluntary, or due to enemy action or being interned.
Industry:Military
A table showing the assignment of personnel and materiel to each landing craft and amphibious vehicle and the assignment of the landing craft and amphibious vehicles to waves for the ship-to¬shore movement.
Industry:Military
A combatant commander asset composed of personnel from the combatant command and components’ staffs. The members are a joint, multidisciplined group of planners and operators who operationally report to the combatant commander’s operations directorate until deployed to a joint task force.
Industry:Military
Actions to disrupt, neutralize, or destroy a weapon of mass destruction threat before it can be used, or to deter subsequent use of such weapons.
Industry:Military
A specified area established for identification and flight following of aircraft in the vicinity of a fleet-defended area.
Industry:Military
Any occurrence, resulting from the use of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons and devices; the emergence of secondary hazards arising from counterforce targeting; or the release of toxic industrial materials into the environment, involving the emergence of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear hazards.
Industry:Military
