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• ALE-47 [r]: An intelligent countermeasures dispenser for military aircraft, which can receive commands directly from warning receivers, and dispense expendable radar and infrared decoys, as well as manage a retrievable decoy towed via an fiber optic cable [e]
• Alpha particle [r]: helium nucleus; particle of charge 2e and mass 4 u. [e]
• Astronomy [r]: The study of objects and processes in the observable universe, e.g. stars, planets, comets or asteroids. [e]
• Battlefield air interdiction [r]: Air warfare intended to support ground troops, not by direct firepower but interfering with enemy supplies, reinforcements and communications [e]
• Catalog of magnetic nuclei [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Chaff (electronic warfare) [r]: A passive, disposable radar countermeasure using strips of metal foil or aluminized plastic, cut to match the wavelength of the expected radar, and used to send false reflections back to the radar receiver [e]
• Circuit switching [r]: Constituent electric circuit of a switching or digital processing system which receives, stores, or manipulates information in coded form to accomplish the specified objectives of the system. [e]
• Computer networking reference models [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Convergence of communications [r]: Technical specifications and infrastructure to allow all types of communications (e.g., telephone, web, television) to interface over a common set of information transfer technologies [e]
• Decontamination [r]: The efforts to safeguard property and people that have been exposed to chemical, nuclear, or biological agents. [e]
• Differential equation [r]: An equation relating a function and its derivatives. [e]
• Electro-optical MASINT [r]: A subdiscipline of measurement and signature intelligence (MASINT), which has similarities to but complements imagery intelligence (IMINT); it does not form images, but validates them and produces information on phenomena that emit, absorb, or reflect electromagnetic energy in the infrared, visible light, or ultraviolet spectra, where the value is knowledge of the type of energy detected [e]
• Electromagnetic radiation [r]: a collection of electromagnetic waves, usually of different wavelengths. [e]
• Electromagnetic wave [r]: a change, periodic in space and time, of an electric field E(r,t) and a magnetic field B(r,t); a stream of electromagnetic waves, referred to as electromagnetic radiation, can be seen as a stream of massless elementary particles, named photons. [e]
• FIM-92 Stinger [r]: A second-generation United States Army surface-to-air missile that can be fired from a soldier's shoulder, from vehicle-mounted launchers, and, in an air-to-air missile configuration, from attack helicopters. Uses combined infrared-ultraviolet guidance to resist countermeasures. [e]
• Flare (electronic warfare) [r]: An expendable electronic warfare decoy form of infrared countermeasures [e]
• Food and Drug Administration [r]: The agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services responsible for regulating food, dietary supplements, drugs, biological medical products, blood products, medical devices, radiation-emitting devices, veterinary products, and cosmetics. [e]
• Fratricide (military) [r]: The killing of one's brother, but in a military context, the killing of one's own forces ("friendly fire"). [e]
• Frequency [r]: For a periodic (i.e., repeating) phenomena, the number of repetitions per unit of time, usually one second; measured in Hertz [e]
• Full duplex [r]: A property of a communications medium that allows simultaneous transmission by all endpoints [e]
• GALEX [r]: An orbiting ultraviolet space telescope that was launched on April 28, 2003. [e]
• Galileo Probe [r]: An unmanned spacecraft sent by NASA to study the planet Jupiter and its moons. [e]
• Geographic Information System [r]: Combined database and mapping system for the capture, storage, and manipulation of geographic data. [e]
• Geography [r]: Study of the surface of the Earth and the activities of humanity upon it. [e]
• Geospatial intelligence [r]: Information derived from combining images, from a variety of sources, with geographical locations, resolving conflicts of coordinates and different imaging techniques, and analyzing the results [e]
• HAVE QUICK II [r]: A family of military UHF jam-resistant radios, intended for air-to-air and air-to-ground use [e]
• Half duplex [r]: A communications transmission medium that can transmit only in one direction at a time. [e]
• IEEE Project 802 [r]: The main standards body, with many working groups, that specifies technical standards for wired and wireless local area networks, with ranges up to tens of kilometers [e]
• Imagery intelligence [r]: the practice of taking and interpreting visible and infrared light photographs and video, radar imagery, and other ways to form pictures of subjects of interest [e]
• Information operations [r]: The integrated employment of the core capabilities of electronic warfare, computer network operations, psychological operations, military deception, and operations security. [e]
• Infrared light [r]: In physics and engineering, a non-visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum ranging from wavelengths of 750 nm to 1 mm, between the darkest visible red and the shortest submillimeter wave radar [e]
• Integrated circuit [r]: Miniaturized electronic circuit that has been manufactured in the surface of a thin substrate of semiconductor material. [e]
• International Ultraviolet Explorer [r]: An astronomical satellite designed primarily to observe ultraviolet spectra. [e]
• Internet Protocol version 6 laboratory [r]: An example of a testing and learning facility for familiarization with Internet Protocol version 6 [e]
• Ionizing radiation [r]: Subatomic particles or electromagnetic waves that are energetic enough to detach electrons from atoms or molecules, ionizing them. [e]
• Joint Tactical Information Distribution System [r]: The primary communications system used for sharing tactical information internally, and among NATO, Australia, and other U.S. allies [e]
• Landscape ecology [r]: Science of studying and improving the relationship between spatial pattern and ecological processes on a multitude of landscape scales and organizational levels. [e]
• Light [r]: The part of the electromagnetic spectrum visible to a species' biological eye. [e]
• Local area network [r]: A range of techniques for interconnecting multiple computers, over physical media such as wire or over wireless radio, within a limited geographic area, typically multiples of 100 meters. [e]
• MAC (disambiguation) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Man-portable air defense system [r]: A surface-to-air missile that can be carried and fired by a single soldier. [e]
• Medium access control [r]: The set of protocols and administrative conventions that let multiple computers or communications devices share a common network medium, usually referring to a local area network medium, but also an area of radio communications on a given part of the electromagnetic spectrum [e]
• Microbial metabolism [r]: The means by which a microbe obtains the energy and nutrients (e.g. carbon) it needs to live and propagate. [e]
• Missile warning receiver [r]: An electronic warfare subsystem that detects the thermal energy, or other signatures, of a missile launch or its flight, in order to take defensive measures [e]
• Network medium [r]: A physical medium, including a designated frequency and physical scope, of the electromagnetic spectrum, over which multiple devices can communicate [e]
• Optical Disc [r]: A flat, circular disc which can contain data encoded in microscopic pits (or bumps) on a special material (often aluminum) on one of its flat surfaces. [e]
• Packet switching [r]: Network communications method that groups all transmitted data, irrespective of content, type, or structure into suitably-sized blocks, called packets. [e]
• Photon [r]: elementary particle with zero rest mass and unit spin associated with the electromagnetic field. [e]
• Planck's constant [r]: The constant of proportionality relating the energy of a photon to the frequency of that photon, named sfter Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck. [e]
• Prion [r]: Simple proteins that do not contain any nucleic acid, thought to act as an infectious agent responsible for Creutzfeld-Jacob disease, kuru and possibly other degenerative diseases of the brain in humans, scrapie in sheep, and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). [e]
• RNA world hypothesis [r]: Proposes that a world filled with life based on ribonucleic acid (RNA) predated current life based on deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). [e]
• Radar [r]: A contraction of radio direction and ranging, used for detecting and tracking targets, navigation, imagery, and special applications. [e]
• Radiation-emitting product [r]: An electronic device or physical product that emits defined types of ionizing radiation, non-ionizing radiation in the electromagnetic spectrum, or sound energy, and makes claims to have medical benefits [e]
• Radiation [r]: Transmission of energy through space. [e]
• Radioactivity [r]: The property of the unstable nuclei of chemical elements to decay into another isotope, emitting energy or particles [e]
• Radiology [r]: A physician specialty with a core competence in obtaining and diagnosing by means of instruments that receive energy transmitted through the body; there are a number of subspecialties. [e]
• Radiometry [r]: The detection and measurement of radiant electromagnetic energy, especially that associated with infrared radiation. [e]
• Radio [r]: Transmission and reception of information, which can be voice, data or imagery over electromagnetic radiation in free space (i.e., wireless). The information is modulated onto a carrier wave [e]
• Remote sensing [r]: The art and science of obtaining information about Earth (or, for that matter, other planets) features from measurements made at a distance, by instruments that detect reflected or transmitted energy in the electromagnetic spectrum [e]
• Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System [r]: A family of military radios, intended for ground combat and operating in the very high frequency (VHF) part of the electromagnetic spectrum; it uses frequency agility and is otherwise designed to operate in an electronic warfare environment [e]
• Solar system [r]: The sun and the planets orbiting it. [e]
• Spectrometry [r]: Spectroscopy is the study of interaction of electromagnetic radiation with matter in those cases where the interaction causes transitions between the allowed states of matter. Spectrometry is the quantitative measurement of spectroscopic signal amplitudes. Light scattering also involves interaction of electromagnetic radiation with matter, however, in light scattering the energy of the electromagnetic field is NOT absorbed by matter (it is scattered). [e]
• Spectroscopic MASINT [r]: A electro-optical measurement and signature intelligence technique to measure the electromagnetic spectrum reflected from or emitted by an object, typically within the infrared through ultraviolet wavelength range, and compare it to spectral signatures of known objects [e]
• Speed of light [r]: Is in vacuum c ≡ 299 792 458 m/s (exact). [e]
• Stellar classification (astrophysics) [r]: The categorization of stars by various properties. [e]
• Sun [r]: The star that defines our solar system. [e]
• TRC-190 [r]: A High Capacity Line of Sight (HCLOS) microwave radio, used with the Joint Network Node of the U.S. Army to provide high-speed connectivity between nodes. [e]
• Telecommunications network [r]: A system of end user devices, transmission media, and intermediate relays, through which end users communicate using parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. [e]
• U.S. Department of Energy [r]: The department responsible for advancing the national, economic, and energy security of the United States. [e]
• Ultraviolet [r]: The part of the electromagnetic spectrum between the visible light and X-ray regions [e]
• United States Air Force [r]: One of the uniformed services of the United States, with principal responsibility for land-based long-range and high-performance aircraft, as well as land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles [e]
• United States intelligence community [r]: The United States' intelligence agencies coordinated by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. [e]
• Visible light [r]: Electromagnetic radiation of a wavelength that is detectable by the human eye. [e]
• Wavelength [r]: For a repeating phenomenon such as a radio signal with a given frequency, the wavelength is the length, in meters, of a single repetition [e]
• Wavenumber [r]: A wave property inversely related to wavelength, having SI units of reciprocal meters (m−1). [e]
• Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimeter Experiment [r]: One of three ultraviolet telescopes on the ASTRO-1 mission flown on the space shuttle Columbia during December, 1990. [e]
• X-ray [r]: An ionizing type of electromagnetic radiation often used for structural investigations of matter. [e]