- Industry: Government; Military
- Number of terms: 79318
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
Military action involving the use of directed-energy weapons, devices, and countermeasures to either cause direct damage or destruction of enemy equipment, facilities, and personnel, or to determine, exploit, reduce, or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum through damage, destruction, and disruption. It also includes actions taken to protect friendly equipment, facilities, and personnel and retain friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Industry:Military
Methods, resources, and techniques that can be used to convey information to the deception target. There are three categories of deception means: a. Physical means. Activities and resources used to convey or deny selected information to a foreign power. B. Technical means. Military material resources and their associated operating techniques used to convey or deny selected information to a foreign power. C. Administrative means. Resources, methods, and techniques to convey or deny oral, pictorial, documentary, or other physical evidence to a foreign power.
Industry:Military
Methods and means to gain and maintain essential secrecy about critical information.
Industry:Military
Meteorological conditions expressed in terms of visibility, distance from cloud, and ceiling; less than minimums specified for visual meteorological conditions.
Industry:Military
Medical treatment provided to manage the casualty throughout the range of care. This includes all care and treatment to either return the patient to duty (within the theater evacuation policy), or begin initial treatment required for optimization of outcome, and/or stabilization to ensure the patient can tolerate evacuation.
Industry:Military
Medical services provided for patients with conditions that generally have a rapid onset and follow a short course or require immediate attention. Most battlefield care rendered after wounding, illness, or injury onset is acute care service. Acute care service is delivered after the onset of symptoms, which differentiates it from preventive care that is delivered before symptoms appear.
Industry:Military
Mechanical devices for handling of supplies with greater ease and economy.
Industry:Military
Medical care, treatment, hospitalization, and evacuation as well as the furnishing of medical services, supplies, materiel, and adjuncts thereto.
Industry:Military
Measures to promote, improve, or conserve the mental and physical well-being of Service members. These measures enable a healthy and fit force, prevent injury and illness, and protect the force from health hazards.
Industry:Military
Measures to identify, acquire, and plan the use of resources needed to anticipate, prevent, and/or resolve a threat or an act of terrorism. It is predominantly a law enforcement response, normally executed under federal law.
Industry:Military
