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The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial warfare branch of the United States Armed Forces which was created under the National Security Act of 1947 signed President Harry S Truman. The Air Force ended a 40-year association with the U.S. Army to become a separate service two years after the ...
Critical capabilities required to execute successful air, space, and information operations and produce integrated effects for the joint fight. Includes intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, network operations, and precision navigation and timing.
Industry:Military
Integrated capabilities to collect, process, exploit and disseminate accurate and timely information that provides the battlespace awareness necessary to successfully plan and conduct operations.
Industry:Military
Interference is any electrical disturbance that causes undesirable responses in electronic equipment.
Industry:Military
Actions taken by a nation to promote its growth by building viable institutions (political, military, economic, and social) that respond to the needs of its society.
Industry:Military
Movement of a unit or force within another nation’s specified operational area outside of territorial seas and territorial airspace for surveillance or intelligence gathering in time of peace or tension. Intrusion is intentionally inserting electromagnetic energy into transmission paths in any manner. The object is to deceive equipment operators or cause confusion. The enemy conducts intrusion operations against us by inserting false information into our receiver paths. This false information may consist of voice instructions, ghost targets, coordinates for fire missions, or even rebroadcasting or prerecorded data transmissions.
Industry:Military
A jointly staffed facility established for planning, directing, and executing joint air operations in support of the joint force commander’s operation or campaign objectives.
Joint operational campaign planning and execution is conducted through the joint air and space operations center (AOC). The joint air and space component commander (JFACC) uses the JAOC to command and control the integrated air and space effort to meet JFC objectives.
Industry:Military
The commander within a unified command, subordinate unified command, or joint task force responsible to the establishing commander for making recommendations on the proper employment of assigned, attached, and/or made available for tasking air forces; planning and coordinating air operations; or accomplishing such operational missions as may be assigned. The joint force air component commander is given the authority necessary to accomplish missions and tasks assigned by the establishing commander.
The joint air and space component commander (JFACC) uses the joint air and space operations center to command and control the integrated air and space effort to meet the joint force commander’s objectives. This title emphasizes the Air Force position that air power and space power together create effects that cannot be achieved through air or space power alone.
Industry:Military
A general term applied to a combatant commander, subunified commander, or joint task force commander authorized to exercise combatant command (command authority) or operational control over a joint force.
According to Joint Publication 0-2, Unified Action Armed Forces, Chapter III, Paragraph 3, Page III-3, COCOM is the command authority over assigned forces vested only in the commanders of combatant commands by title 10, USC, section 164 (or as directed by the President in the UCP) and cannot be delegated or transferred.
Industry:Military
A primary joint personnel recovery (PR) node. The center is suitably staffed by supervisory personnel and equipped for planning, coordinating, and executing joint PR within the geographical area assigned to the joint force. The facility is operated jointly by personnel from two or more Service or functional components or it may have a multinational staff of personnel from two or more allied or coalition nations.
Industry:Military
