- Industri: Government; Military
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The rate of inclination to horizontal expressed as a ratio, such as 1:25, indicating a one unit rise to 25 units of horizontal distance.
Industry:Military
The rapid movement of personnel, materiel and forces to and from or within a theater by air. This includes both airlift and air refueling.
Industry:Military
The radiation, essentially neutrons and gamma rays, resulting from a nuclear burst and emitted from the fireball within one minute after burst.
Industry:Military
The range of frequencies of electromagnetic radiation from zero to infinity. It is divided into 26 alphabetically designated bands.
Industry:Military
The quantity of supplies required to be on hand within, and which can be moved by, a unit or formation. It is expressed according to the wartime organization of the unit or formation and maintained at the prescribed levels.
Industry:Military
The quantity of property in possession of any component of the Department of Defense that exceeds the quantity required or authorized for retention by that component.
Industry:Military
The quantity of an item that is physically available in a storage location and contained in the accountable property book records of an issuing activity.
Industry:Military
The quantity of an item required to equip and support the approved forces specified in the current Secretary of Defense guidance through the period prescribed for war materiel planning purposes.
Industry:Military
The quantity of an item required to be on hand and on order on M-day in order to equip, provide a materiel pipeline, and sustain the approved US force structure (active and reserve) and those Allied forces designated for US materiel support, through the period prescribed for war materiel planning purposes. It is the quantity by which the war materiel requirement exceeds the war materiel procurement capability and the war materiel requirement adjustment. It includes the M-day force materiel requirement and the war reserve materiel requirement.
Industry:Military
The quantities of latitude and longitude which define the position of a point on the surface of the Earth with respect to the reference spheroid.
Industry:Military
