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  2. United States customary units - Wikipedia

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    United States customary units (often incorrectly referred to as imperial units) [1] form a system of measurement units commonly used in the United States and most U.S. territories, [2] since being standardized and adopted in 1832. [3] The United States customary system developed from English units that were in use in the British Empire before the U.S. became an independent country. The United ...

  3. eu-LISA - Wikipedia

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    The Entry/Exit System (EES) is a new large-scale IT system being developed by eu-LISA that will enable the recording of entry and exit of third country nationals (TCN) to and from the Schengen Area.

  4. Systems engineering - Wikipedia

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    Issues such as requirements engineering, reliability, logistics, coordination of different teams, testing and evaluation, maintainability, and many other disciplines, aka "ilities", necessary for successful system design, development, implementation, and ultimate decommission become more difficult when dealing with large or complex projects. Systems engineering deals with work processes ...

  5. CROWS - Wikipedia

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    The Common Remotely Operated Weapon Station ( CROWS) is a series of remote weapon stations used by the US military on its armored vehicles and ships. It allows weapon operators to engage targets without leaving the protection of their vehicle. The US military has fielded both the M101 CROWS and M153 CROWS II systems.

  6. Defense Integrated Military Human Resources System

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    The Defense Integrated Military Human Resources System was an enterprise program of the Business Transformation Agency 's Defense Business Systems Acquisition Executive, within the United States Department of Defense (DoD). As the largest enterprise resource planning program ever implemented for human resources, DIMHRS (pronounced dime-ers) was to subsume or replace over 90 legacy systems. The ...

  7. Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System

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    The United States Army Integrated Air and Missile Defense [IAMD] Battle Command System (IBCS) is a plug-and-fight network intended to let a radar or any other defensive sensor feed its data to any available weapon—colloquially, "connect any sensor to any shooter". [1] : p.42 The IBCS is designed to link radars across thousands of miles and ...

  8. Operating system - Wikipedia

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    An operating system ( OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs . Time-sharing operating systems schedule tasks for efficient use of the system and may also include accounting software for cost allocation of processor time, mass storage, peripherals, and ...

  9. FireFly Acoustic Threat Detection System - Wikipedia

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    The FireFly Acoustic Threat Detection System is a system for detecting hostile fire. It has been developed jointly by the US Army Aviation and Missile Research Development and Engineering Command (AMRDEC), the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and industry partners. The FireFly acoustic and electro-optical (EO) sensor can operate with Serenity Payload or be deployed as a stand-alone unit ...