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U.S. Department of Defence
Industry: Government; Military
Number of terms: 79318
Number of blossaries: 0
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The government’s estimate of the resources and projected cost of the resources a contractor will incur in the performance of the contract.
Industry:Military
The globally interconnected, end-to-end set of information capabilities, and associated processes for collecting, processing, storing, disseminating, and managing information on demand to warfighters, policy makers, and support personnel. The Global Information Grid includes owned and leased communications and computing systems and services, software (including applications), data, security services, other associated services and National Security Systems.
Industry:Military
The geospatial area or systems node or link against which information that will satisfy a specific information requirement can be collected. Named areas of interest are usually selected to capture indications of adversary courses of action, but also may be related to conditions of the operational environment.
Industry:Military
The geographical area where high-value targets can be acquired and engaged by friendly forces. Not all target areas of interest will form part of the friendly course of action; only target areas of interest associated with high priority targets are of interest to the staff. These are identified during staff planning and wargaming. Target areas of interest differ from engagement areas in degree. Engagement areas plan for the use of all available weapons; target areas of interest might be engaged by a single weapon.
Industry:Military
The geographical area for which a commander of a geographic combatant command has been assigned responsibility.
Industry:Military
The geographical area associated with a combatant command within which a geographic combatant commander has authority to plan and conduct operations.
Industry:Military
The geographic point in a routing scheme from which cargo or personnel depart. This may be a seaport or aerial port from which personnel and equipment flow to a port of debarkation; for unit and non-unit requirements, it may or may not coincide with the origin.
Industry:Military
The geographic point at which cargo or personnel are discharged. This may be a seaport or aerial port of debarkation; for unit requirements; it may or may not coincide with the destination.
Industry:Military
The function of managing an organization’s information resources by the handling of knowledge acquired by one or many different individuals and organizations in a way that optimizes access by all who have a share in that knowledge or a right to that knowledge.
Industry:Military
The function of acquiring a decentralized item of supply from sources outside the Department of Defense.
Industry:Military