- Industry: Government; Military
- Number of terms: 79318
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The surroundings, which include conditions, resources, and natural phenomena, in and through which the joint force operates. The complete environment extends from the sub-bottom of the Earth’s oceans, through maritime, land areas, airspace, ionosphere, and outward into space.
Industry:Military
The Surface Deployment and Distribution Command activity that books Department of Defense sponsored cargo and passengers for surface movement, performs related contract administration, and accomplishes export and import surface traffic management functions for Department of Defense cargo moving within the Defense Transportation System.
Industry:Military
The sum of the total active aircraft inventory and the inactive aircraft inventory.
Industry:Military
The sum of the peacetime force material requirement and the war reserve material requirement.
Industry:Military
The sum of military, diplomatic, and civil efforts to prepare for and execute the recovery and reintegration of isolated personnel.
Industry:Military
The sum of holdings of intelligence data and finished intelligence products at a given organization.
Industry:Military
The succession of commanding officers from a superior to a subordinate through which command is exercised.
Industry:Military
The subset of joint strategic planning conducted to support the Department of Defense’s security cooperation program. This planning supports a combatant commander’s theater strategy.
Industry:Military
The principal information, communications, and operations center from which all aircraft, antiaircraft operations, air defense artillery, guided missiles, and air warning functions of a specific area of air defense responsibility are supervised and coordinated.
Industry:Military
The study of the sea, embracing and integrating all knowledge pertaining to the sea and its physical boundaries, the chemistry and physics of seawater, and marine biology. From a military perspective, oceanography includes basic oceanography plus the study of bathymetry, hydrography, geophysics, astrometry and precise time; supported by ocean engineering, operational supercomputing, and operations research.
Industry:Military
