- Industri: Government; Military
- Number of terms: 79318
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An air defense zone established for the protection of key assets or facilities, other than air bases, where weapon systems may be fired at any target not positively recognized as friendly.
Industry:Military
An air defense zone established around an air base and limited to the engagement envelope of short-range air defense weapons systems defending that base. Base defense zones have specific entry, exit, and identification, friend or foe procedures established.
Industry:Military
An air controller specially trained and certified for civilian air traffic control.
Industry:Military
An aim or design (as distinct from capability) to execute a specified course of action.
Industry:Military
An agreement that provides the Department of Defense with assured access to US flag assets, both vessel capacity and intermodal systems, to meet Department of Defense contingency requirements. Carriers contractually commit specified portions of their fleet to meet time-phased Department of Defense contingency requirements.
Industry:Military
An agreement that is not binding solely because the United States Government representative who made it lacked the authority to enter into that agreement on behalf of the Unites States Government.
Industry:Military
An agreement that governs the relationship between allied armed forces located in a friendly country and the civil authorities and people of that country.
Industry:Military
An agreement that defines the legal position of a visiting military force deployed in the territory of a friendly state. Agreements delineating the status of visiting military forces may be bilateral or multilateral. Provisions pertaining to the status of visiting forces may be set forth in a separate agreement, or they may form a part of a more comprehensive agreement. These provisions describe how the authorities of a visiting force may control members of that force and the amenability of the force or its members to the local law or to the authority of local officials.
Industry:Military
An agreement established by the Maritime Administration to provide for US commercial tanker owners and operators to voluntarily make their vessels available to satisfy the Department of Defense needs. It is designed to meet contingency or war requirements for point-to-point petroleum, oils, and lubricants movements, and not to deal with capacity shortages in resupply operations.
Industry:Military
An agreement by a nation’s Military Services to agree to accept and abide by, with or without reservation, the details of a standardization agreement.
Industry:Military
