Glossary
Area of Operation (AO) – A geographic area assigned to an Army
commander by a higher commander. An AO has lateral and rear boundaries,
which usually define it within a larger joint geographical area.
Action Plan – Two-year plans derived from 10-year Future Reach Plan objectives and strategies.
Aerospace – Describes the seamless operational medium that encompasses the domains of air and space flight.
Aerospace power – The use of lethal and non-lethal means by aerospace forces to overwhelm an adversary for achieving strategic, operational and tactical objectives. Rapidly provides the national leadership with a full range of military options for meeting national objectives and protecting national interests.
Air Expeditionary Force (AEF) – Wing, group, squadron and/or individual assigned and attached to an Aerospace Expeditionary Task Force (AEF) or attached to an in-place numbered air force (NAF) by Department of the Air Force orders.
Air Force/Air National Guard Corporate Process – An organized methodology where positions on issues are developed, acted upon, elevated and presented to cross-functional organic boards and working groups to effectively staff and promote programs.
Base Realignment and Closure – Effective Facilities Initiative (BRAC-EFI) – The commission charged by Congress with responsibility for trimming excess DOD domestic base infrastructure based on mandated criteria.
Basing – the location of all-component programs and services.
Brilliant Weapons – Next generation, high technology systems characterized by exponential increase in lethality, precision, and stealth. Represented by digitalization, high-speed microprocessors, laser, miniature autonomous robotic vehicles, microwave, and charged particle or neutral particle beam devices.
Capabilities-Based Planning – This concept is rooted in the fact that while we may not know with precision how or where threats to U.S. interests may arise, we can anticipate the capabilities necessary to deter and defeat potential adversaries who will rely on surprise, deception, and asymmetric warfare to achieve their objectives.
Combat Arms (CA) - Those maneuver units that directly engage the enemy in combat. They include infantry, armor and cavalry organizations.
Combat Support (CS) – Those units that directly assist the maneuver
forces on the battlefield engaged in combat and directly influence the
fight. They include, but are not limited to field artillery, engineers,
military police, etc.
Combat Service Support (CSS) – The focus of logistics at the tactical level of war; the synchronization of essential functions, activities and tasks necessary to sustain soldiers and their weapon systems in an area of operations; includes but is not limited to that support rendered by service support troops at arm, fuel, fix, move, man, and sustain the force.
Commissioned Officer (CO) – An officer holding a rank by commission (authority designed by Congress) ranging from second lieutenant to general.
Contemporary Operational Environment (COE) – The range of missions and assignments where units may be deployed. These include combat operations, counter-terrorism, operations other than war (OOTW), peacekeeping (PK), peace enforcement (PE), nation building, and post-conflict activities.
Demobilization – The act of returning the force and material to a pre-mobilization posture or to some other approval posture; also involves returning the mobilized portion of the industrial base to peacetime conditions.
Education Programs – State Approving Agency for college and non-college level programs, state vocational education programs.
Effects-Based – End result, type of weapon used to defeat objective.
Effects-Based Operations – Effects-based operations strive to negate the will and fighting ability of an adversary by achieving desired actions and reactions through predetermined effects. Effects-based operations do not focus on destroying the enemy or linear movement of battle lines. Rather, coordinated sets of actions combined with technology result in more precise, concentrated and less destructive targeting.
Expeditionary – Force Package deployed to meet threat (Fighter, Bomber, Refuel, etc) Implies capabilities used for OCONUS or overseas operations.
Flight Plan – A chartered course of action for the future viability of the NJANG.
Force Structure – all components of services and programs.
Future Reach Plan – Strategic Planning Document projecting outward 10 years into future and based on assumptions developed by the DMAVA Executive Steering Committee.
Homeland Defense – Protection of U.S. sovereignty, territory, domestic population, and critical defense infrastructure against external threats and aggression.
Homeland Security – A concerted national effort to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, reduce America’s vulnerability to terrorism, and minimize the damage and recover from attacks that do occur. Operations for securing key assets and protect citizens within New Jersey and the Northeast Region.
Homeless Programs – Transitional housing, homeless intervention, semi-independent housing, stand-down.
Infrastructure – All fixed and permanent installations, fabrications,
or facilities for support or control of military forces.
Information Technology (IT) – A term that encompasses a wide range of communication systems, including computers, telephones, pagers, etc. and the systems used to support them (i.e. servers, fiber optics, wireless contracts, etc.).
Infostructure – System architecture for supporting information operations and includes network cabling and wiring, routers, hubs, etc.
Joint Vision 2020 – A document published by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It is a template for guiding the continued transformation of America’s Armed Forces. Joint Vision 2020 promotes a vision of a fully joint force for 2020: intellectually, operationally, organizationally, doctrinally, and technically.
Liaison – That contact of inter-communication maintained between
elements of military forces or military and civilian authorities, to
ensure mutual understanding and unity of purpose and action.
Logistics – The process of planning and executing the movement
and sustainment of forces in the execution of military operations.
Manning – those activities that provide component programs and services with appropriately qualified personnel.
Mission – The primary task assigned to an individual, unit, or force. It usually contains the elements of who, what, when, where, and the reason therefore, but seldom specifies the how.
Mobilization – The process by which the Armed Forces or a portion thereof is brought to a state of readiness for war or other national emergency; includes the assembling and organizing of personnel supplies and equipment.