- Industry: Government; Military
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A strategic estimate of the capabilities, vulnerabilities, and probable courses of action of foreign nations produced at the national level as a composite of the views of the intelligence community.
Industry:Military
A structure built of open rather than solid construction along a shore or a bank that provides cargo-handling facilities. A similar facility of solid construction is called a quay.
Industry:Military
A statement of work for performance based acquisitions that describe the results in clear, specific, and objective terms with measurable outcomes.
Industry:Military
A stated movement mode and time-phased need for the transport of units, personnel, and/or materiel from a specified origin to a specified destination.
Industry:Military
A state of international tension wherein political, economic, technological, sociological, psychological, paramilitary, and military measures short of overt armed conflict involving regular military forces are employed to achieve national objectives.
Industry:Military
A state of aircraft readiness wherein combat-equipped aircraft are airborne and ready for immediate action. (DOD only) It is designed to reduce reaction time and to increase survivability.
Industry:Military
A standing operational naval task force organization of carriers, surface combatants, and submarines assigned to numbered fleets. A battle force is subdivided into battle groups.
Industry:Military
A standing naval task group consisting of a carrier, embarked airwing, surface combatants, and submarines as assigned in direct support, operating in mutual support with the task of destroying hostile submarine, surface, and air forces within the group’s assigned operational area and striking at targets along hostile shore lines or projecting power inland.
Industry:Military
A standing joint task force established to plan and integrate Department of Defense support to the designated lead federal agency for domestic chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high-yield explosives consequence management operations.
Industry:Military
A standing facility that is activated to coordinate regional response efforts, until a joint field office is established and/or the principal federal official, federal or coordinating officer can assume their National Response Plan coordination responsibilities.
Industry:Military
