- Industria: Government; Military
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To gather information from a person who is aware that information is being given although there is ignorance of the true connection and purposes of the interviewer. Generally overt unless the collector is other than purported to be.
Industry:Military
To effect visual or electronic contact by a friendly aircraft with another aircraft. Normally, the air intercept is conducted in the following five phases:
a. Climb phase - Airborne to cruising altitude. B. Maneuver phase - Receipt of initial vector to target until beginning transition to attack speed and altitude. C. Transition phase - Increase or decrease of speed and altitude required for the attack. D. Attack phase - Turn to attack heading, acquire target, complete attack, and turn to breakaway heading. E. Recovery phase - Breakaway to landing. See also close-controlled air interception.
Industry:Military
Those units and members of the Reserve Component (other than those in the Ready Reserve or Retired Reserve) who are liable for active duty only, as provided in Title 10, United States Code, Sections 10151, 12301, and 12306.
Industry:Military
Those measures taken to detect, interdict, disrupt, or curtail any activity that is reasonably related to illicit drug trafficking. This includes, but is not limited to, measures taken to detect, interdict, disrupt, or curtail activities related to substances, materiel, weapons, or resources used to finance, support, secure, cultivate, process, or transport illegal drugs.
Industry:Military
Those friendly frequencies used for a particular operation, identified and protected to prevent them from being inadvertently jammed by friendly forces while active electronic warfare operations are directed against hostile forces. These frequencies are of such critical importance that jamming should be restricted unless absolutely necessary or until coordination with the using unit is made. They are generally time-oriented, may change with the tactical situation, and must be updated periodically.
Industry:Military
The worldwide interconnection of communications networks, computers, databases, and consumer electronics that make vast amounts of information available to users. The global information infrastructure encompasses a wide range of equipment, including cameras, scanners, keyboards, facsimile machines, computers, switches, compact disks, video and audio tape, cable, wire, satellites, fiber-optic transmission lines, networks of all types, televisions, monitors, printers, and much more. The friendly and adversary personnel who make decisions and handle the transmitted information constitute a critical component of the global information infrastructure.
Industry:Military
The succession of commanding officers from a superior to a subordinate through which command is exercised.
Industry:Military
The unregulated movement of casualties that can include movement both to and between medical treatment facilities.
Industry:Military
The time required for the activity of a given radioactive species to decrease to half of its initial value due to radioactive decay. The half-life is a characteristic property of each radioactive species and is independent of its amount or condition. The effective half-life of a given isotope is the time in which the quantity in the body will decrease to half as a result of both radioactive decay and biological elimination.
Industry:Military
The time at which an aircraft or missile is scheduled to be airborne.
Industry:Military
