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- AGM-114 Hellfire [r]: A U.S. Army guided missile, fired from attack helicopters, unmanned aerial vehiclea and ground platforms against tanks and other armored vehicles, bunkers, "soft" vehicles, and cave targets. [e]
- APG-78 [r]: A U.S. Army millimeter wave radar system shared among the Longbow versions of the AH-64 Apache heavy attack helicopter, AGM-114 Hellfire missiles, and the OH-58 Kiowa Warrior scout helicopter [e]
- C3I-ISR [r]: Command, control, communications and intelligence, combined with intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance [e]
- Controlling close support to ground forces [r]: A unified approach to deconflicting and controlling all forms of kinetic (i.e., physically destructive, such as artillery and close air support) and nonkinetic (e.g., electronic warfare) support to troops in contact with the enemy, when the proximity is close enough that there is a significant danger of fratricide or degrading troop capabilities (e.g., by interfering with their sensors) [e]
- Forward-looking infrared [r]: A device that can "see" objects by their heat emissions and difference from background, in conditions including night and fog [e]
- Future Combat Systems [r]: An architecture including a variety of military systems, including armored fighting vehicles, unmanned ground vehicles, artillery, precision guided munitions and unmanned aerial vehicles; an evolutionary step in the restructuring of the United States Army and tailored to the brigade combat team organizational structure [e]
- Human-source intelligence [r]: (HUMINT); the practice of acquiring information through interactions with people who can disclose relevant information, including but not limited to espionage, interrogation, debriefing and elicitation [e]
- Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance [r]: The synchronization of information collection and analysis, variously to gain strategic understanding, to detect anomalies, or to actively probe for information [e]
- M2 Bradley (armored fighting vehicle) [r]: A family of armored fighting vehicles, with roles including infantry fighting vehicle, scouting, forward observer, and other functions in a platform sufficiently survivable to accompany the M1 Abrams tank, although needing more protection [e]
- MQ-8 Fire Scout [r]: A multipurpose unmanned aerial vehicle, in the form of a helicopter with relatively long endurance, whose functions include surveillance and communications relay [e]
- Measurement and signature intelligence [r]: A variety of intelligence gathering disciplines complementary to the technical "mainstream" of imagery intelligence and signals intelligence. [e]
- Military Intelligence Company (Brigade Combat Team) [r]: As part of the restructuring of the United States Army, a new unit type, within Brigade Combat Team headquarters, which assists the Brigade Intelligence Officer with access to information from higher-level commands and intelligence organizations, analytical tools, etc.; it complements the enhanced field scouts of the Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Target Acquisition (RSTA) Squadron [e]
- PRD-13 [r]: A man-portable tactical signals intelligence collection system, originally developed for United States Army Special Forces [e]
- Restructuring of the United States Army [r]: A major doctrinal and organization redesign of the United States Army, with its chief feature being moving from the division to the Brigade Combat Team and new supporting brigade structures as the basic Unit of Action [e]
- SIGINT ground-based platforms [r]: Fixed, transportable or mobile facilities, on land, which contain signals intelligence sensors [e]
- Staff (military) [r]: A military organization to extend the capabilities of a commander, by providing services from personal assistance to presenting alternative plans and managing the details of warfare [e]
- United States Army [r]: Branch of the United States Armed Forces with the principal responsibility of conducting large-scale ground combat [e]
