Defense and military terminology · MLC-0115

Defense and military terms: I (93)

• identification1. The process of determining the friendly or hostile character of an unknown detected contact.
• identification, friend or foeA device that emits a signal positively identifying it as a friendly.
• identity activitiesA collection of functions and actions that definitively recognize and differentiate one person or persona...
• identity intelligenceThe intelligence resulting from the processing of identity attributes concerning individuals, groups...
• imageryA likeness or presentation of any natural or man-made feature or related object or activity, and the...
• imagery exploitationThe cycle of processing, using, interpreting, mensuration, and/or manipulating imagery, and any assembly or...
• imagery intelligenceThe technical, geographic, and intelligence information derived through the interpretation or analysis of...
• immediate air supportAir support to meet specific requests that arise during the course of a battle and cannot be planned in...
• implementationProcedures governing the mobilization of the force and the deployment, employment, and sustainment of...
• implied taskIn the context of planning, a task derived during mission analysis that an organization must perform or...
• improvised explosive deviceA weapon fabricated or emplaced in an unconventional manner incorporating destructive, lethal, noxious...
• improvised threatDevices; systems; and associated tactics, techniques, and procedures designed, fielded, or employed...
• in support ofAssisting or protecting another formation, unit, or organization while remaining under original control.
• inactive duty trainingAuthorized training performed by a member of a Reserve Component not on active duty or active duty for...
• incapacitating agentA chemical agent, which produces temporary disabling conditions that can be physical or mental and persist...
• incident awareness and assessmentThe processing, analysis, and dissemination of information collected or acquired through the authorized use...
• incremental costsCosts additional to the Service appropriations that would not have been incurred absent support of the...
• indicationsIn intelligence usage, information in various degrees of evaluation, all of which bear on the intention of an...
• indicator1. In intelligence usage, an item of information that reflects the intention or capability of an enemy and/or...
• individual mobilization augmenteeAn individual reservist attending drills who receives training and is preassigned to an Active Component...
• individual protective equipmentThe personal clothing and equipment provided to all military, government civilians, and contractors...
• Individual Ready ReserveA manpower pool consisting of individuals who have had some training or who have served previously in the...
• industrial mobilizationThe transformation of industry from its peacetime activity to the industrial program necessary to support the...
• industrial preparednessThe state of preparedness of industry to produce essential materiel to support the national military...
• industrial preparedness programPlans, actions, or measures for the transformation of the industrial base, both government-owned and...
• information environmentThe aggregate of social, cultural, linguistic, psychological, technical, and physical factors that affect how...
• information exchange requirementA set of characteristics that define who exchanges what information with whom, why the information exchange...
• information managementThe function of managing an organization’s information resources for the handling of data and information...
• information operations forceA force consisting of units, staff elements, individual military professionals in the Active and Reserve...
• information requirementsThose items of information regarding the relevant aspects of the operational environment that need to be...
• infrared pointerA low-power laser device operating in the near infrared light spectrum that is visible with light-amplifying...
• initial contingency locationA locale occupied by a force in immediate response to a contingency operation and characterized by austere...
• initial reception pointIn personnel recovery, a secure area or facility under friendly control where initial reception of recovered...
• initial unloading periodIn amphibious operations, that part of the ship-to-shore movement in which unloading is primarily tactical in...
• initiating directiveAn order to a subordinate commander to conduct military operations as directed.
• injury1. A term comprising such conditions as fractures, wounds, sprains, strains, dislocations, concussions, and...
• inland petroleum distribution systemA multi-product system consisting of both commercially available and military standard petroleum equipment...
• inner transport areaIn amphibious operations, an area as close to the landing beach as depth of water, navigational hazards, boat...
• institutional capacity buildingSecurity cooperation activities that support partner efforts to establish or improve enduring policies and...
• instruments of national powerAll of the means available to the government in its pursuit of national objectives, expressed as diplomatic...
• insurgencyThe organized use of subversion and violence to seize, nullify, or challenge political control of a region...
• integrated air and missile defenseThe integration of capabilities and overlapping operations to defend the homeland and United States national...
• integrated consumable item supportA decision support system that takes time-phased force and deployment data and calculates the ability of the...
• Integrated Data Environment/Global Transportation Network ConvergenceThe in-transit visibility system of record providing expanded common integrated data and application services...
• integrated financial operationsThe integration, synchronization, prioritization, and targeting of fiscal resources and capabilities across...
• integrated logistic supportThe support necessary for a system during its life cycle.
• integrated materiel managementThe exercise of total Department of Defense-level management responsibility for a federal supply group or...
• integrated staffA staff in which one officer only is appointed to each post on the establishment of the headquarters...
• integrated tasking orderAn order promulgated by a joint force commander that integrates effects using fires from all domains...
• integrationIn intelligence usage, the application of the intelligence to appropriate missions, tasks, and functions.
• intelligence1. The product resulting from the collection, processing, integration, evaluation, analysis, and...
• intelligence assetAny resource utilized by an intelligence organization for an operational support role.
• intelligence communityAll departments or agencies of a government that are concerned with intelligence activity, either in an...
• intelligence disciplineA well-defined area of intelligence planning, collection, processing, exploitation, analysis, and reporting...
• intelligence estimateThe appraisal, expressed in writing or orally, of available intelligence relating to a specific situation or...
• intelligence federationAn agreement in which a combatant command joint intelligence operations center receives intelligence support...
• intelligence information reportA formatted message utilized as the primary vehicle for providing human intelligence information to the...
• intelligence operationsThe variety of intelligence and counterintelligence tasks that are carried out by various intelligence...
• intelligence planningThe intelligence component of the joint planning process that coordinates and integrates all available...
• intelligence processThe process by which information is converted into intelligence and made available to users.
• intelligence productionThe integration, evaluation, analysis, and interpretation of information from single or multiple sources into...
• intelligence reportA specific report of information, usually on a single item, made at any level of command in tactical...
• intelligence requirement1. Any subject, general or specific, upon which there is a need for the collection of information or the...
• intelligence sourceThe means or system that can be used to observe and record information relating to the condition, situation...
• intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance1. An integrated operations and intelligence activity that synchronizes and integrates the planning and...
• intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance visualizationThe capability to graphically display the current and future locations of collection platforms; their...
• interagencyOf or pertaining to United States Government agencies and departments, including the Department of Defense.
• interagency coordinationThe planning and synchronization of efforts that occur between elements of Department of Defense and...
• intercontinental ballistic missileA long-range ballistic missile with a range capability greater than 5,500 kilometers (2,969 nautical...
• interdiction1. An action to divert, disrupt, delay, or destroy the enemy’s military surface capability before it can be...
• intermediate staging baseA tailorable, temporary location used for staging forces, sustainment, and/or extraction into and out of an...
• intermediate-range ballistic missileA ballistic missile with a range capability between 3,000 kilometers (1,620 nautical miles/1,864 statute...
• intermodalType of international freight system that permits transshipping among sea, highway, rail, and air modes of...
• internal audienceIn public affairs, United States military members and Department of Defense civilian employees and their...
• internal defense and developmentThe full range of measures taken by a nation to promote its growth and to protect itself from subversion...
• internal securityThe state of law and order prevailing within a nation.
• internally displaced personAny person who has been forced or obliged to flee or to leave their home or places of habitual residence, in...
• international chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear responseUnited States Government activity that assists foreign governments in responding to the effects from an...
• interoperabilityThe ability to act together coherently, effectively, and efficiently to achieve tactical, operational, and...
• interorganizational cooperationThe interaction that occurs among elements of the Department of Defense; participating United States...
• intertheater airliftThe common-user airlift linking theaters to the continental United States and to other theaters, as well as...
• intertheater patient movementMoving patients between, into, and out of the different theaters of the combatant commands.
• in-transit visibilityThe ability to track the identity, status, and location of Department of Defense units, and non-unit cargo...
• intratheater airliftAirlift conducted within a theater with forces assigned to a combatant commander or attached to a subordinate...
• intratheater patient movementMoving patients within the theater of a combatant command.
• inventory controlThat phase of military logistics that includes managing, cataloging, requirements determinations...
• inventory control pointAn organizational unit or activity within a Department of Defense supply system that is assigned the primary...
• ionizing radiationRadiation of sufficient energy to displace electrons from atoms, producing ions.
• irregular warfareA form of warfare where states and non-state actors campaign to assure or coerce states or other groups...
• isolated personnelUnited States military, Department of Defense civilians, and Department of Defense contractor personnel...
• isolated personnel reportA Department of Defense form containing information designed to facilitate the identification and...
• isolating eventAn incident where United States military, Department of Defense civilians, or Department of Defense...
• item managerAn individual within the organization of an inventory control point or other such organization assigned...

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