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U.S. Department of Defence
Industri: Government; Military
Number of terms: 79318
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The employment and ordered arrangement of forces in relation to each other.
Industry:Military
The determination that official information requires, in the interests of national security, a specific degree of protection against unauthorized disclosure, coupled with a designation signifying that such a determination has been made.
Industry:Military
The desired result of a deception operation expressed in terms of what the adversary is to do or not to do at the critical time and/or location.
Industry:Military
The deception course of action forwarded to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for review as part of the combatant commander’s strategic concept.
Industry:Military
Any obstruction designed or employed to disrupt, fix, turn, or block the movement of an opposing force, and to impose additional losses in personnel, time, and equipment on the opposing force. Obstacles can exist naturally or can be man-made, or can be a combination of both.
Industry:Military
Any form of adversary communication, especially of a biased or misleading nature, designed to influence the opinions, emotions, attitudes, or behavior of any group in order to benefit the sponsor, either directly or indirectly.
Industry:Military
Any action that increases the effectiveness of allied forces through more efficient or effective use of defense resources committed to the alliance. Rationalization includes consolidation, reassignment of national priorities to higher alliance needs, standardization, specialization, mutual support or improved interoperability, and greater cooperation. Rationalization applies to both weapons and/or materiel resources and non-weapons military matters.
Industry:Military
An umbrella term that may be applied in the United States and in foreign countries to any or all of the nonpublic or commercial individuals and businesses, specified nonprofit organizations, most of academia and other scholastic institutions, and selected nongovernmental organizations.
Industry:Military
An organization formed around a specific function within a designated directorate of a joint force commander’s headquarters. The subordinate components of an element usually are functional cells.
Industry:Military
Those characteristics of equipment that pertain primarily to the engineering principles involved in producing equipment possessing desired military characteristics; e. G. , for electronic equipment, technical characteristics include such items as circuitry as well as types and arrangement of components.
Industry:Military