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  2. National Disaster Medical System - Wikipedia

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    The National Disaster Medical System ( NDMS) is a federally coordinated disaster medical system and partnership of the United States Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Homeland Security (DHS), Defense (DOD), and Veterans Affairs (VA). The purpose of the NDMS is to support State, local, Tribal and Territorial authorities following ...

  3. Federal Emergency Management Agency - Wikipedia

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    The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), initially created under President Jimmy Carter by Presidential Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1978 and implemented by two Executive Orders on April 1, 1979.

  4. Defense Threat Reduction Agency - Wikipedia

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    In Section 1532 of the NDAA, Congress directed the DoD to move JIDA to a military department or under an existing defense agency. [12] [13] DTRA requested a base budget of $2.0 billion for fiscal year 2023 (FY23), including $998 million for Operation and Maintenance, $654 million for Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, $342 million for ...

  5. Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape - Wikipedia

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    Survival handbook of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) from 1944. Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape ( SERE) is a training program, best known by its military acronym, that prepares U.S. military personnel, U.S. Department of Defense civilians, and private military contractors to survive and "return with honor" in survival ...

  6. Army Knowledge Online - Wikipedia

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    Army Knowledge Online ( AKO) was a web application that provided enterprise information services to the United States Army, joint, and Department of Defense customers. AKO was sunset in 2021. [1] The remaining following information is historical in nature. Enterprise services were provided to those customers on both classified and unclassified ...

  7. United States Cyber Command - Wikipedia

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    United StatesArmed Forces. United States Cyber Command ( USCYBERCOM) is one of the eleven unified combatant commands of the United States Department of Defense (DoD). It unifies the direction of cyberspace operations, strengthens DoD cyberspace capabilities, and integrates and bolsters DoD's cyber expertise which focus on securing cyberspace.

  8. Thousandth of an inch - Wikipedia

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    25.4 μm. A thousandth of an inch is a derived unit of length in a system of units using inches. Equal to of an inch, a thousandth is commonly called a thou / ˈθaʊ / (used for both singular and plural) or, particularly in North America, a mil (plural mils ). The words are shortened forms of the English and Latin words for "thousand" ( mille ...

  9. Desert Patrol Vehicle - Wikipedia

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    60 miles per hour (97 km/h) [1] The Desert Patrol Vehicle (DPV), formerly called the Fast Attack Vehicle (FAV), is a Chenowth high-speed, lightly armored sandrail -like vehicle first used in combat during the Gulf War in 1991. [2] Due to their dash speed and off-road mobility, the DPVs were used extensively during Operation Desert Storm.