FM 100-6: Information Operations
Glossary
- ABCS
- Army Battle Command System
- ACCS
- Army Command and Control System
- adversary
- often used in this manual in lieu of enemy; the term enemy is reserved to indicate adversaries engaged in lethal operations against US forces
- AEA
- army executive agent
- AES
- Army Enterprise Strategy
- ACE
- air combat element
- AC
- active component
- ACU
- area common user
- ACUS
- Army common user system
- ADP
- automatic data processing
- ADSO
- assistant division signal officer
- AFATDS
- advanced field artillery tactical data system
- AFGWC
- Air Force Global Weather Central
- AGCCS
- Army Global Command and Control System
- AHFEWS
- Army High Frequency Electronic Warfare System
- AID
- United States Agency for International Development
- AMOPES
- Army Mobilization and Operations Planning and Execution System
- ANGLICO
- air/naval gunfire liaison company
- AO
- area of operation
- AOR
- area of responsibility
- appliqué
- a family of laptop-sized computers connected to navigation devices and radios to provide processing and display capabilities to platforms without an embedded processor
- appreciation
- personal conclusions, official estimates, and assumptions about another partyís intentions, capabilities, and activities used in planning and decision making
- ARAT-TA
- Army Reprogramming Analysis Team-Threat Analysis
- ARCENT
- Army component to Central Command
- ARFOR
- Army force headquarters
- ARSOF
- Army special operations forces
- ASAS
- all-source analysis system
- ASCC
- Army service component command
- assured communications
- certain electronic transmission capabilities needed throughout the strategic, operational, and tactical areas of operations
- ATACMS
- Army Tactical Missile System
- ATCCS
- Army Tactical Command and Control System
- ATSS
- Army Target Sensing System
- B2C2
- Brigade and Below Command and Control System
- battle command
- the art of battle decision making, leading, and motivating soldiers in their organizations into action to accomplish missions; includes visualizing current state and future state, then formulating concepts of operations to get from one to the other at least cost; also includes assigning missions, prioritizing and allocating resources, selecting the critical time and place to act, and knowing how and when to make adjustments during the fight (FM 100-5)
- battle dynamics
- five major interrelated dynamics that define significant areas of change from current operations to Force XXI Operations; dynamics are battle command, battlespace, depth and simultaneous attack, early entry, and combat service support
- battlefield visualization
- the process whereby the commander develops a clear understanding of the current state with relation to the enemy and environment, envisions a desired end state that represents mission accomplishment, and then subsequently visualizes the sequence of activity that moves the commanderís force from its current state to the end state
- battlespace
- components determined by the maximum capabilities of friendly and enemy forces to acquire and dominate each other by fires and maneuver and in the electromagnetic spectrum
- BCE
- battlefield coordination element
- BCTP
- Battle Command Training Program
- BDA
- battle damage assessment
- BOS
- battlefield operating system
- C2
- command and control
- C2-attack
- command and control-attack
- C2-protect
- command and control-protect
- C2W
- command and control warfare
- C2W-I
- command and control warfare-intelligence
- C3I
- command, control, communications, and intelligence
- C4
- command, control, communications, and computers
- C4FMO
- command, control, communications, and computers for mobile operations
- C4I
- command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence
- CA
- civil affairs
- CCIR
- commander's critical information requirements
- CEOI
- communications-electronics operation instructions
- CERT
- computer emergency response team
- CI
- counterintelligence
- CIA
- Central Intelligence Agency
- CINC
- commander-in-chief
- CIOS
- commanderís information operations staff
- CIOSO
- commanderís information operations staff officer
- CJCS
- Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- CJCSI
- Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruction
- CJCS MOP
- Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Memorandum of Policy
- CMO
- civil-military operations
- CMOC
- civil-military operations center
- CNR
- combat net radio
- COA
- course of action
- COE
- common operating environment
- command and control
- the exercise of authority and direction by a properly designated commander over assigned or attached forces in the accomplishment of the mission; C2 functions are performed through an arrangement of personnel, equipment, communications, computers, facilities, and procedures employed by a commander in planning, directing, coordinating, and controlling forces and operations in the accomplishment of the mission (Joint Pub 1-02)
- command and control-attack
- the synchronized execution of actions taken to accomplish established objectives that prevent effective C2 of adversarial forces by denying information to, by influencing, by degrading, or by destroying the adversary C2 system
- command and control-protect
- the maintenance of effective C2 of own forces by turning to friendly advantage or negating adversary efforts to deny information to, to influence, to degrade, or to destroy the friendly C2 system; C2-protect can be offensive or defensive in nature; offensive C2-protect uses the five elements of C2W to reduce the adversaryís ability to conduct C2-attack; defensive C2-protect reduces friendly C2 vulnerabilities to adversary C2-attack by employment of adequate physical, electronic, and intelligence protection (adapted from CJCSI 3210.03)
- command and control system
- the combination of personnel, equipment, communications, computers, facilities, and procedures employed by the commander in planning, directing, coordinating, and controlling forces and operations in the accomplishment of the mission; the basic functions of a command and control system are sensing valid information about events and the environment, reporting information, assessing the situation and associated alternatives for action, deciding on an appropriate course of action, and ordering actions in correspondence with the decision (Joint Pub 1-02)
- command and control, warfare
- the integrated use of operations security, military deceptionpsychological operations, electronic warfare, and physical destruction, mutually supported by intelligence, to deny information to, influence, degrade, or destroy adversary C2 capabilities, while protecting friendly C2 capabilities against such actions; command and control warfare applies across the operational continuum and all levels of conflict (Joint Pub 1-02)
- common operating environment
- an environment that provides a familiar look, touch, sound, and feel to the commander, no matter where the commander is deployed; information presentation and command, control, communication, computers, and intelligence system interfaces are maintained consistently from platform to platform, enabling the commander to focus attention on the crisis at hand; also called COE
- communications
- a method or means of conveying information of any kind from one person or place to another (Joint Pub 1-02)
- communications security
- the protection resulting from all measures designed to deny unauthorized persons information of value which might be derived from the possession and study of telecommunications or to mislead unauthorized persons in their interpretation of the results of such possession and study; also called COMSEC; includes cryptosecurity, transmission security, emission security, and physical security of communications security materials and information
- computer security
- involves the measures and controls that ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the information processed and stored by a computer; these include policies, procedures, and the hardware and software tools necessary to protect the computer systems and the information processed, stored, and transmitted by the systems
- COMPUSEC
- computer security
- COMSEC
- communications security
- CONPLAN
- contingency plan
- CONUS
- continental United States
- counterintelligence
- those activities which are concerned with identifying and counteracting the threat to security posed by hostile services, organizations, or by individuals engaged in espionage, sabotage, subversion, or terrorism (Joint Pub 1-02)
- COUNTERRECON
- counterreconnaissance
- CP
- command post
- critical information
- specific facts about friendly intentions, capabilities, and activities vitally needed by adversaries for them to plan and act effectively so as to guarantee failure or unacceptable consequences for friendly mission accomplishment (Joint Pub 1-02)
- CSS
- combat service support
- CTC
- combat training center
- DALIS
- Disaster Assistance Logistics Information System
- DAMMS-R
- Department of the Army Movements Management System- Redesign
- DDN
- Defense Data Network
- DDS
- data distribution system
- DEA
- Drug Enforcement Agency
- defense information infrastructure
- the shared or interconnected system of computers, communications, data, applications, security, people, training, and other support structures serving DODís location and worldwide information needs; the DII connects DOD mission support, command and control, and intelligence computers and users through voice, data, imagery, video, and multimedia services and provides information processing and value-added services to subscribers of the DISN
- DEERS
- Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System
- DEW
- directed-energy weapon
- DII
- defense information infrastructure
- DISA
- Defense Information Systems Agency
- DISE
- deployable intelligence support element
- DISN
- Defense Information Systems Network
- DJMS
- Defense Joint Military Pay System
- DOD
- Department of Defense
- DOS
- Department of State
- DSN
- Defense Switch Network
- DTLOMS
- doctrine, training, leader development, organizations, materiel, and soldiers
- electronic mail
- EA
- electronic attack
- EAC
- echelons above corps
- ECM
- electronic countermeasures
- ECCM
- electronic counter countermeasures
- EEFI
- essential elements of friendly Information
- electromagnetic spectrum
- the range of frequencies of electromagnetic radiation from zero to infinity; it is divided into 26 alphabetically designated bands (Joint Pub 1-02)
- electronics security
- the protection resulting from all measures designed to deny unauthorized persons information of value that might be derived from their interception and study of noncommunications electromagnetic radiation, e.g., radar (Joint Pub 1-02)
- electronic warfare
- any military action involving the use of electromagnetic and directed energy to control the electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) or to attack the enemy. The three major subdivisions within electronic warfare are electronic attack (EA), electronic protection (EP), and electronic warfare support (ES)
- EM
- electromagnetic
- EMI
- electromagnetic interference
- EMP
- electromagnetic pulse
- EMS
- electromagnetic spectrum
- EOB
- electronic order of battle
- EOC
- emergency operations center
- EP
- electronic protection
- EPLRS
- enhanced position location reporting system
- ES
- electronic warfare support
- essential elements of friendly information
- key questions likely to be asked by adversary officials and intelligence systems about specific friendly intentions, capabilities, and activities so they can obtain answers critical to their operational effectiveness (Joint Pub 1-02)
- EW
- electronic warfare
- EWIR
- electronic warfare integrated reprogramming
- FAADC3I
- forward air defense command, control, communications, and intelligence
- FBCB2
- Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below System
- FEMA
- Federal Emergency Management Agency
- FFIR
- friendly forces information requirements
- FM
- frequency modulation; field manual
- force protection
- any collection or combination of measures to prevent or mitigate damage or disruption to an aggregation of military personnel, weapon systems, vehicles, installations, or support
- FORSCOM
- United States Forces Command
- FST
- field support team
- full-dimensional operations
- the application of all capabilities available to an Army commander to accomplish his mission decisively and at the least cost across the full range of possible operations
- G2
- division intelligence
- G3
- division operations
- G5
- division civil affairs
- G6
- division communications
- GCCS
- Global Command and Control System
- GIE
- global information environment
- GII
- global information infrastructure
- global information environment
- all Individuals, organizations, or systems, most of which are outside the control of the military or National Command Authorities, that collect, process, and disseminate information to national and international audiences
- GPS
- global positioning system
- GR/CS
- Guardrail/Common Sensor
- HCA
- host civil affairs
- HF
- high frequency
- HN
- host nation
- HNS
- host nation support
- HQDA
- Headquarters, Department of Army
- HUMINT
- human intelligence
- HVT
- high-value target
- I&W
- indications and warnings
- IADS
- Integrated Air Defense System
- IBDA
- information battlefield damage assessment
- ICP
- intertheater communications security package
- IEW
- intelligence and electronic warfare
- IMETS
- Integrated Meteorological System
- information
- data collected from the environment and processed into a usable form
- Information Age
- the future time period when social, cultural, and economic patterns will reflect the decentralized, nonhierarchical flow of information; contrast this to the more centralized, hierarchical, social, cultural, and economic patterns that reflect the Industrial Ageís mechanization of production systems
- information data bases
- visualization of a future system where commanders and units can continually access and update a common data base of relevant information (for example, logistics, intelligence, movement)
- information dominance
- the degree of information superiority that allows the possessor to use information systems and capabilities to achieve an operational advantage in a conflict or to control the situation in operations other than war while denying those capabilities to the adversary
- information operations
- continuous military operations within the military information environment that enable, enhance, and protect the friendly forceís ability to collect, process, and act on information to achieve an advantage across the full range of military operations; information operations include interacting with the global information environment and exploiting or denying an adversary's information and decision capabilities
- information security
- the protection of unauthorized access to or modification of information, whether in storage, processing, or transit, and against the denial of service to authorized users or the provision of service to unauthorized users, including those measures necessary to detect, document, and counter such threats
- information systems
- the entire infrastructure, organization, personnel, and components that collect, process, store, transmit, display, disseminate, and act on information (Joint Pub 6-0)
- information systems security
- a composite means to protect telecommunications systems and automated information systems and the information they transmit and/or process
- information warfare
- actions taken to achieve information superiority by affecting adversary information, information-based processes, information systems, and computer-based networks while defending oneís own information, information-based processes, information systems and computer-based networks (CJCSI 3210.01)
- INFOSEC
- information security
- infosphere
- the rapidly growing global network of military and commercial command, control, communications, and computer systems and networks linking information data bases and fusion centers that are accessible to the warrior anywhere, anytime, in the performance of any mission; provides the worldwide automated information-of-exchange backbone support to joint forces; and provides seamless operations from anywhere to anywhere that is secure and transparent to the warrior; this emerging capability is highly flexible to support the adaptive command and control infrastructures of the twenty-first century
- INFOSYS
- information systems
- infrastructure
- the basic facilities, equipment, and installations needed for the function of a system, network, or integrated network
- INMARSAT
- international maritime satellite
- intelligence
- the product resulting from the collection, processing, integration, analysis, evaluation, and interpretation of available information concerning foreign countries or areas; also, information and knowledge about an adversary obtained through observation, investigation, analysis, or understanding (Joint Pub 1-02)
- INTELSAT
- intelligence satellite
- internet
- interoperable network
- IO
- information operations
- IOBS
- information operations battle staff
- IOC
- information operations center
- IPB
- intelligence-preparation-of-the-battlefield
- ISB
- installation sustaining bases
- ISS
- information systems security
- ISYSCON
- integrated systems control
- ITU
- International Telecommunications Union
- IW
- information warfare
- J2
- joint staff intelligence
- J3
- joint staff operations
- J5
- joint staff plans and policy
- J6
- joint staff communications-electronics
- JAARS
- Joint After-Action Reporting System
- JCS
- Joint Chiefs of Staff
- JC2WC
- Joint Command and Control Warfare Center
- JCEWS
- joint commanderís electronic warfare staff
- JDISS
- Joint Deployable Intelligence Support System
- JEWC
- Joint Electronic Warfare Center
- JFC
- joint force commander
- JOA
- joint operational area
- JOPES
- Joint Operations Planning and Execution System
- JRFL
- joint restricted frequency list
- JSOI
- joint signal operating instructions
- J-STARS
- Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System
- JTACS
- Joint Theater Air Control System
- JTB
- joint targeting board
- JTF
- joint task force
- JTTP
- joint tactics, techniques, and procedures
- JULLS
- Joint Universal Lessons Learned System
- JWICS
- Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communication System
- LAM
- Louisiana Maneuvers
- LAN
- local area network
- LCC
- land component commander
- LIWA
- Land Information Warfare Activity
- LO
- liaison officer
- MACOM
- major Army command
- MASINT
- measurement signature
- MCS
- maneuver control system
- METL
- mission-essential task list
- METT-T
- mission, enemy, terrain, troops, and time available
- MIE
- military information environment
- MI
- military intelligence
- MIID/IDB
- Military Integrated Intelligence Data Base System/ Integrated Data Base
- military deception
- actions executed to deliberately mislead adversary military decision makers as to friendly military capabilities, intentions, and operations, thereby causing the adversary to take specific actions (or inactions) that will contribute to the accomplishment of the friendly mission
- military information environment
- the environment contained within the global information environment, consisting of information systems and organizationsófriendly and adversary, military and nonmilitaryóthat support, enable, or significantly influence a specific military operation
- mls
- multilevel security
- MNS
- mission needs statement
- MOBLAS
- Mobilization-Level Application Software
- MP
- military police
- MOP
- memorandum of policy
- MSC
- major subordinate command
- MSE
- mobile subscriber equipment
- MTP
- mission training plan
- NATO
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- NCA
- National Command Authorities
- NEO
- noncombatant evacuation operations
- NII
- national information infrastructure
- NGO
- nongovernment organization
- NMS
- National Military Strategy
- NTSDS
- National Target/Threat Signature Data System
- OA
- operational architecture
- OB
- order of battle
- ODCSOPS
- Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations
- OOTW
- operations other than war
- OPFOR
- opposing force
- OPCON
- operational control
- operations security
- a process of identifying critical information and subsequently analyzing friendly actions attendant to military operations and other activities; identifying those actions that can be observed by adversary intelligence systems; determining indicators adversary intelligence systems might obtain that could be interpreted or pieced together to derive critical information in time to be useful to adversaries; and selecting and executing measures that eliminate or reduce to an acceptable level the vulnerabilities of friendly actions to adversary exploitation; also called OPSEC
- OPLAN
- operations plan
- OPORD
- operations order
- OPSEC
- operations security
- OPTEMPO
- operation tempo
- PA
- public affairs
- PAO
- public affairs officer
- PC
- personal computer
- PEO
- program executive office
- PIR
- priority intelligence requirements
- physical destruction
- the application of combat power to destroy or neutralize enemy forces and installations; includes direct and indirect fires from ground, sea, and air forces; also includes direct actions by special operations forces
- physical security
- that part of security concerned with physical measures designed to safeguard personnel, to prevent unauthorized access to equipment, installations, material and documents, and to safeguard them against espionage, sabotage, damage, and theft (Joint Pub 1-02)
- PM
- project manager
- POS/NAV
- position/navigation
- PRC
- populace and resource control
- priority intelligence requirements
- those intelligence requirements for which a commander has an anticipated and stated priority in his task of planning and decision making (Joint Pub 1-02)
- PSN
- public switch network
- psychological operations
- operations to convey selected information and indicators to foreign audiences to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and, ultimately, the behavior of foreign governments, organizations, groups, and individuals; the purpose of PSYOP is to induce or reinforce foreign attitudes and behavior favorable to the originatorís objectives
- PSYOP
- psychological operations
- PVO
- private voluntary organization
- RAP
- remedial action project
- RC
- reserve components
- RCAS
- Reserve Component Automation System
- RCP
- relevant common picture
- RDT&E
- research, development, test, and evaluation
- RECBASS
- Reception Battalion Automated Support System
- RECON
- reconnaissance
- relevant common picture of the battlefield
- the aggregate of data that is shared among all friendly forces on the disposition of friendly and enemy force; this data is used to build a tailored relevant graphic display for the warfighter that increases in detail shown as the echelon served is closer to the soldier; commonly called situational awareness
- relevant information
- information drawn from the military information environment that significantly impacts, contributes to, or is related to the execution of the operational mission at hand
- RII
- relevant information and intelligence
- RISC
- reduced instruction set computing
- RISTA
- reconnaissance, intelligence, surveillance, and target acquisition
- ROE
- rules of engagement
- SAMS-I/TDA
- Standard Army Maintenance System-Installation/ Table of Distribution and Allowances
- SARSS-O
- Standard Army Retail Supply System-Objective
- SF
- Special Forces
- SIDPERS
- Standard Installation/Division Personnel System
- SIGINT
- signals intelligence
- signal security
- a generic term that includes both communications security and electronic security (Joint Pub 1-02)
- SIGSEC
- signal security
- SINCGARS
- single-channel ground and airborne radio system
- SJA
- staff judge advocate
- SOF
- special operations forces
- SOP
- standard operating procedure
- SPBS-R
- Standard Property Book System-Redesign
- spectrum management
- planning, coordinating, and managing operational, engineering, and administrative procedures, with the objective of enabling electronic systems to perform their functions in the intended environment without causing or suffering unacceptable interference (Joint Pub 1-02)
- STAMIS
- Standard Army Management Information Systems
- STO
- special technical operations
- STOD
- special technical operations division
- TAA
- total Army analysis
- tactical internet
- a battlefield communication system networked together using commercially based internet protocols
- TAMMIS
- The Army Munitions Management Information System
- TAFIM
- technical architectural framework for information management
- TEARS
- Telecommunications Equipment Automated Retrieval System
- TECHINT
- technical intelligence
- TF
- task force
- TPN
- tactical packet network
- TRADOC
- United States Army Training and Doctrine Command
- TRANSEC
- transmission security
- transmission security
- see communications security
- TRI-TAC
- triservice tactical
- TROJAN-SPIRIT
- TROJAN-special purpose integrated remote intelligence terminal
- TSP
- training support package
- TSS
- target-sensing system
- TTP
- tactics, techniques, and procedures
- UAV
- unmanned aerial vehicle
- UHF
- ultrahigh frequency
- ULLS
- unit-level logistics system
- UN
- United Nations
- US
- United States
- USAF
- United States Air Force
- USAID
- United States Agency for International Development
- USAINSCOM
- United States Army Information Systems Command
- USIA
- United States Information Agency
- USN
- United States Navy
- USSOCOM
- United States Special Operations Command
- VHF
- very high frequency
- WAN
- wide area network
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