Dictionary-of-government-K

• Kimberley process certificate  - a forgery resistant document of a Participant that demonstrates that an importation or exportation of rough diamonds has been controlled through the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme and contains the minimum elements set forth in Annex I to the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme.
• Kimberley process certification scheme  - those standards, practices, and procedures of the international certification scheme for rough diamonds presented in the document entitled Kimberley Process Certification Scheme referred to in the Interlaken Declaration on the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme for Rough Diamonds of November 5, 2002.
• Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities  - The attributes required to perform a job as generally demonstrated through qualifying experience, education, and/ or training. Knowledge is a body of information applied directly to the performance of a function. Skill is a present, observable competence to perform a task proficiently. Ability is a present competence to perform an observable behavior or a behavior resulting in an observable product. Also called KSAs.
• Korean conflict  - the period beginning on June 27, 1950, and ending on January 31, 1955.
• jail  - a confinement facility of a Federal, State, or local law enforcement agency to hold — (A) persons pending adjudication of criminal charges; or (B) persons committed to confinement after adjudication of criminal charges for sentences of 1 year or less.
• java  - A powerful programming language originally developed by Sun Microsystems that is used by software developers to build a variety of applications, including web pages.
• job aid  - A checklist or other visual aid intended to ensure that specific steps for completing a task or assignment are accomplished. job analysis - Systematic, documented analysis of a position to be filled to identify the basic duties and responsibilities; the KSAs and level of competence required to perform those duties and responsibilities; and the factors important in evaluating candidates.
• job opportunity announcement  - A document informing potential applicants of a vacancy. JOAs describe the requirements of the job and instruct applicants how to apply for the vacancy. Whenever applications are accepted from sources outside of the Department, a JOA must be posted on the USAJOBS website to satisfy public notice requirements. Also called JOA.
• joint air attack team  - A combination of attack and/ or scout rotary-wing aircraft and fixed-wing close air support aircraft operating together to locate and attack high priority targets and other targets of opportunity. Also called JAAT. See also close air support.
• joint air component coordination element  - A general term for the liaison element that serves as the direct representative of the joint force air component commander for joint air operations. Also called JACCE.
• joint air operations center  - A jointly staffed facility established for planning, directing, and executing joint air operations in support of the joint force commander’s operation or campaign objectives. Also called JAOC. See also joint air operations.
• joint air operations plan  - A plan for a connected series of joint air operations to achieve the joint force commander’s objectives within a given time and joint operational area. Also called JAOP. See also joint air operations.
• joint air operations  - Air operations performed with air capabilities/ forces made available by components in support of the joint force commander’s operation or campaign objectives, or in support of other components of the joint force.
• joint air-ground integration center  - A staff organization designed to enhance joint collaborative efforts to deconflict joint air-ground assets in the division’s airspace. Also called JAGIC.
• joint base  - In base defense operations, a locality from which operations of two or more of the Military Departments are projected or supported and which is manned by significant elements of two or more Military Departments or in which significant elements of two or more Military Departments are located. See also base.
• joint captured materiel exploitation center  - An element responsible for deriving intelligence information from captured enemy materiel. It is normally subordinate to the intelligence directorate of a joint staff. Also called JCMEC.
• joint civil-military operations task force  - A joint task force composed of civil-military operations units from more than one Service. Also called JCMOTF. See also civil-military operations; joint task force.
• joint combined exchange training  - A program conducted overseas to fulfill United States forces training requirements and at the same time exchange the sharing of skills between United States forces and host nation counterparts. Also called JCET.
• joint communications network  - The aggregation of the joint multichannel trunking and switching system and the joint command and control communications system(s) in a theater. Also called JCN.
• joint concept  - Links strategic guidance to the development and employment of future joint force capabilities and serve as “engines for transformation” that may ultimately lead to doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership and education, personnel and facilities (DOTMLPF) and policy changes.
• joint contracting support board  - A board established to coordinate all contracting support and to determine specific contracting mechanisms to obtain commercially procured common logistic supplies and services within the operational area. Also called JCSB. See also combatant commander logistic procurement support board; joint requirements review board.
• joint counterintelligence unit  - An organization composed of Service and Department of Defense agency counterintelligence personnel that is formed under the authority of the Secretary of Defense, assigned to a combatant commander, and focused on strategic and operational counterintelligence missions. Also called JCIU.
• joint counterintelligence unit  — An organization composed of Service and Department of Defense agency counterintelligence personnel that is formed under the authority of the Secretary of Defense, assigned to a combatant commander, and focused on strategic and operational counterintelligence missions. Also called JCIU.
• joint data network operations officer  - The joint task force operations directorate officer responsible to the commander for integrating data from supporting components into a common database used to generate the common tactical picture. Also called JDNO.
• joint deployable intelligence support system  - A transportable workstation and communications suite that electronically extends a joint intelligence center to a joint task force or other tactical user. Also called JDISS.
• joint deployment and distribution enterprise  - The complex of equipment, procedures, doctrine, leaders, technical connectivity, information, shared knowledge, organizations, facilities, training, and materiel necessary to conduct joint distribution operations. Also called JDDE.
• joint deployment and distribution operations center  - A combatant command movement control organization designed to synchronize and optimize national and theater multimodal resources for deployment, distribution, and sustainment, Also called JDDOC.
• joint desired point of impact  - A unique, alpha-numeric coded precise aimpoint associated with a target to achieve an explicit weaponeering objective, and identified by a three dimensional (latitude, longitude, elevation) mensurated coordinate. Also called a JDPI. See also aimpoint; desired point of impact.
• joint distribution  - The operational process of synchronizing all elements of the joint logistic system using the Joint Deployment and Distribution Enterprise for end-to-end movement of forces and materiel from point of origin to the designated point of need.
• joint doctrine development community  - The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Services, the combatant commands, the Joint Staff, the combat support agencies, the doctrine development agencies of the Services and the joint community, the National Defense University, the United States Element, North American Aerospace Defense Command, the National Guard Bureau, and
• joint doctrine planning conference  - A forum convened by the Joint Staff Directorate for Joint Force Development that meets semiannually to address and vote on project proposals; discuss key joint doctrinal and operational issues; discuss potential changes to the joint doctrine development process; keep up to date on the status of the joint publication projects and emerging publications; and keep abreast of other initiatives of interest to the members. Also called JDPC.
• joint doctrine  - Fundamental principles that guide the employment of United States military forces in coordinated action toward a common objective and may include terms, tactics, techniques, and procedures. See also Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff instruction; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff manual; doctrine; joint publication; joint test publication; multinational doctrine.
• joint document exploitation center  - An element, normally subordinate to the intelligence directorate of a joint staff, responsible for deriving intelligence information from captured adversary documents including all forms of electronic data and other forms of stored textual and graphic information. Also called JDEC. See also intelligence.
• joint electromagnetic spectrum management operations  - Those interrelated functions of frequency management, host nation coordination, and joint spectrum interference resolution that together enable the planning, management, and execution of operations within the electromagnetic operational environment during all phases of military operations. Also called JEMSMO.
• joint electromagnetic spectrum operations  - Those activities consisting of electronic warfare and joint electromagnetic spectrum management operations used to exploit, attack, protect, and manage the electromagnetic operational environment to achieve the commander’s objectives. Also called JEMSO.
• joint engagement zone  - In air defense, that airspace of defined dimensions within which multiple air defense systems (surface-to-air missiles and aircraft) are simultaneously employed to engage air threats. Also called JEZ.
• joint exercise  - A joint military maneuver, simulated wartime operation, or other event designated by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff or by a combatant commander, that involves planning, preparation, execution, and evaluation. The forces of two or more military departments interact with a combatant commander or subordinate joint force commander, as well as with joint forces and/ or staffs. The exercise is conducted using joint doctrine or joint tactics, techniques, and procedures.
• joint facilities utilization board  - A joint board that evaluates and reconciles component requests for real estate, use of existing facilities, inter-Service support, and construction to ensure compliance with Joint Civil-Military Engineering Board priorities. Also called JFUB.
• joint field office  - A temporary multiagency coordination center established at the incident site to provide a central location for coordination of federal, state, local, tribal, nongovernmental, and private-sector organizations with primary responsibility for incident oversight, direction, or assistance to
• joint fire support  - Joint fires that assist air, land, maritime, and special operations forces to move, maneuver, and control territory, populations, airspace, and key waters. See also fire support; joint fires.
• joint fires element  - An optional staff element that provides recommendations to the operations directorate to accomplish fires planning and synchronization. Also called JFE. See also fire support; joint fires.
• joint fires observer  - A trained Service member who can request, adjust, and control surface-to-surface fires, provide targeting information in support of Type 2 and 3 close air support terminal attack control, and perform autonomous terminal guidance operations. Also called JFO.
• joint fires  - Fires delivered during the employment of forces from two or more components in coordinated action to produce desired effects in support of a common objective. See also fires.
• joint flow and analysis system for transportation  - System that determines the transportation feasibility of a course of action or operation plan; provides daily lift assets needed to move forces and resupply; advises logistic planners of channel and port inefficiencies; and interprets shortfalls from various flow possibilities. Also called JFAST. See also course of action; operation plan; system.
• joint force air component commander  - The commander within a unified command, subordinate unified command, or joint task force responsible to the establishing commander for recommending the proper employment of assigned, attached, and/ or made available for tasking air forces; planning and coordinating air operations; or accomplishing such operational missions as may be assigned. Also called JFACC. See also joint force commander.
• joint force chaplain  - The military chaplain designated by the joint force commander to serve as the senior chaplain for the joint force. Also called the JFCH.
• joint force commander  - A general term applied to a combatant commander, subunified commander, or joint task force commander authorized to exercise combatant command (command authority) or operational control over a joint force. Also called JFC. See also joint force.
• joint force land component commander  - The commander within a unified command, subordinate unified command, or joint task force responsible to the establishing commander for recommending the proper employment of assigned, attached, and/ or made available for tasking land forces; planning and coordinating land operations; or accomplishing such operational missions as may be
• joint force maritime component commander  - The commander within a unified command, subordinate unified command, or joint task force responsible to the establishing commander for recommending the proper employment of assigned, attached, and/ or made available for tasking maritime forces and assets; planning and coordinating maritime operations; or accomplishing such operational missions as may be assigned. Also called JFMCC. See also joint force commander.
• joint force special operations component commander  - The commander within a unified command, subordinate unified command, or joint task force responsible to the establishing commander for recommending the proper employment of assigned, attached, and/ or made available for tasking special operations forces and assets; planning and coordinating special operations; or accomplishing such operational missions as may be assigned. Also called JFSOCC. See also joint force commander.
• joint force surgeon  - A general term applied to a Department of Defense medical department officer appointed by the joint force commander to serve as the joint force special staff officer responsible for establishing, monitoring, or evaluating joint force health service support. Also called JFS. See also health service support; joint force.
• joint force  - A general term applied to a force composed of significant elements, assigned or attached, of two or more Military Departments operating under a single joint force commander. See also joint force commander.
• joint functions  - Related capabilities and activities placed into six basic groups of command and control, intelligence, fires, movement and maneuver, protection, and sustainment to help joint force commanders synchronize, integrate, and direct joint operations.
• joint harbor operations center  - operational command and control facilities focused around a single port and on coordinating operations and information sharing staffed by the Navy and Coast Guard, as well as other port centric stakeholders.
• joint individual augmentee  - An unfunded temporary duty position (or member filling an unfunded temporary duty position) identified on a joint manning document by a supported combatant commander to augment headquarters operations during contingencies. Also called JIA.
• joint information center  - An interagency entity established to coordinate and disseminate information for the public and media concerning an incident. JICs may be established locally, regionally, or nationally depending on the size and magnitude of the incident. Also called JIC.
• joint information system  - Mechanism that integrates incident information and public affairs into a cohesive organization designed to provide consistent, coordinated, accurate, accessible, timely, and complete information during crisis or incident operations. The mission of the JIS is to provide a structure and system for developing and delivering coordinated interagency messages; developing, recommending, and executing public information plans and strategies on behalf of the Incident Commander; advising the Incident Commander concerning public affairs issues that could affect a response effort; and controlling rumors and inaccurate information that could undermine public confidence in the emergency response effort. Also called JIS.
• joint integrated prioritized target list  - A prioritized list of targets approved and maintained by the joint force commander. Also called JIPTL. See also target.
• joint intelligence architecture  - A dynamic, flexible structure that consists of the Defense Joint Intelligence Operations Center, combatant command joint intelligence operations centers, and subordinate joint task force intelligence operations centers or joint intelligence support elements to provide national, theater, and tactical commanders with the full range of intelligence required for planning and conducting operations. See also intelligence.
• joint intelligence operations center  - An interdependent, operational intelligence organization at the Department of Defense, combatant command, or joint task force (if established) level, that is integrated with national intelligence centers, and capable of accessing all sources of intelligence impacting military operations planning, execution, and assessment. Also called JIOC.
• joint intelligence preparation of the operational environment  - The analytical process used by joint intelligence organizations to produce intelligence estimates and other intelligence products in support of the joint force commander’s decision-making process. Also called JIPOE.
• joint intelligence support element  - A subordinate joint force element whose focus is on intelligence support for joint operations, providing the joint force commander, joint staff, and components with the complete air, space, ground, and maritime adversary situation. Also called JISE. See also intelligence; joint force; joint operations.
• joint intelligence  - Intelligence produced by elements of more than one Service of the same nation.
• joint interagency coordination group  - A staff group that establishes regular, timely, and collaborative working relationships between civilian and military operational planners. Also called JIACG.
• joint interface control officer  - The senior interface control officer for multi-tactical data link networks in the joint force who is responsible for development and validation of the architecture, joint interoperability and management of the multi-tactical data link networks, and overseeing operations of a joint interface control cell. Also called JICO.
• joint intermediate level school  - the National Defense Intelligence College.
• joint interrogation and debriefing center  - Physical location for the exploitation of intelligence information from detainees and other sources. Also called JIDC. See also intelligence.
• joint interrogation operations  - 1. Activities conducted by a joint or interagency organization to extract information for intelligence purposes from enemy prisoners of war, dislocated civilians, enemy combatants, or other uncategorized detainees. 2. Activities conducted in support of law enforcement efforts to adjudicate enemy combatants who are believed to have committed crimes against US persons or property. Also called JIO. See also enemy combatant.
• joint inventor and coinventor  - any 1 of the individuals who invented or discovered the subject matter of a joint invention.
• joint land operations plan  - A plan for a connected series of joint land operations to achieve the joint force commander’s objectives within a given time and operational area.
• joint land operations  - Land operations performed across the range of military operations with land forces made available by Service components in support of the joint force commander’s operation or campaign objectives, or in support of other components of the joint force.
• joint logistics enterprise  - A multi-tiered matrix of key global logistics providers cooperatively engaged or structured to achieve a common purpose without jeopardizing the integrity of their own organizational missions and goals. Also called JLEnt.
• joint logistics over-the-shore commander  - The commander selected by the joint force commander and tasked to organize the efforts of all elements participating in accomplishing the joint logistics over- the-shore mission. See also joint logistics over-the-shore operations.
• joint logistics over-the-shore operations  - Operations in which Navy and Army logistics over-the-shore forces conduct logistics over-the-shore operations together under a joint force commander. Also called JLOTS operations. See also joint logistics; logistics over-the-shore operations.
• joint logistics  - The coordinated use, synchronization, and sharing of two or more Military Departments’ logistic resources to support the joint force. See also logistics.
• joint manpower program  - The policy, processes, and systems used in determination and prioritization within and among joint Service manpower requirements. Also called JMP.
• joint matters  - matters related to the achievement of unified action by integrated military forces in operations conducted across domains such as land, sea, or air, in space, or in the information environment, including matters relating to- (A) national military strategy; (B) strategic planning and contingency planning;(C) command and control of operations under unified command;(D) national security planning with other departments and agencies of the United States;(E) combined operations with military forces of allied nations; or(F) acquisition matters addressed by military personnel and covered under chapter 87 of this title.
• joint meteorological and oceanographic coordination cell  - A subset of a joint meteorological and oceanographic coordination organization, which is delegated the responsibility of executing the coordination of meteorological and oceanographic support operations in the operational area. Also called JMCC.
• joint meteorological and oceanographic coordination organization  - A Service meteorological and oceanographic organization that is designated within the operations order as the lead organization responsible for coordinating meteorological and oceanographic operations support in the operational area. Also called JMCO.
• joint meteorological and oceanographic officer  - Officer designated to provide direct meteorological and oceanographic support to a joint force commander. Also called JMO. joint military requirement - a capability necessary to fulfill a gap in a core mission area of the Department of Defense.
• joint mission-essential task  - A mission task selected by a joint force commander deemed essential to mission accomplishment and defined using the common language of the Universal Joint Task List in terms of task, condition, and standard. Also called JMET. See also condition, universal joint task list.
• joint mortuary affairs office  - Plans and executes all mortuary affairs programs within a theater. Provides guidance to facilitate the conduct of all mortuary programs and to maintain data (as required) pertaining to recovery, identification, and disposition of all US dead and missing in the assigned theater. Serves as the central clearing point for all mortuary affairs and monitors the deceased and missing personal effects program. Also called JMAO. See also mortuary affairs; personal effects.
• joint network operations control center  - An element of the communications system directorate of a joint staff established as the single control agency for the management and direction of the joint force communications systems. Also called JNCC.
• joint nuclear weapons life cycle process  - the process developed and maintained by the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Energy for the development, production, maintenance, and retirement of nuclear weapons.
• joint operation planning process  - An orderly, analytical process that consists of a logical set of steps to analyze a mission, select the best course of action, and produce a joint operation plan or order. Also called JOPP. See also joint operation planning; Joint Operation Planning and Execution System.
• joint operation planning  - Planning activities associated with joint military operations by combatant commanders and their subordinate joint force commanders in response to contingencies and crises. See also execution planning; Joint Operation Planning and Execution System; joint operation planning process.
• joint operations area forecast  - The official baseline meteorological and oceanographic forecast for operational planning and mission execution within the joint operations area. Also called JOAF.
• joint operations area  - An area of land, sea, and airspace, defined by a geographic combatant commander or subordinate unified commander, in which a joint force commander (normally a joint task force commander) conducts military operations to accomplish a specific mission. Also called JOA. See also area of responsibility; joint special operations area.
• joint operations center  - A jointly manned facility of a joint force commander’s headquarters established for planning, monitoring, and guiding the execution of the commander’s decisions. Also called JOC.
• joint operations center  - A jointly manned facility of a joint force commander’s headquarters established to plan, monitor, and guide the execution of the commander’s decisions. Also called JOC.
• joint operations center  - An interagency command post established by the Federal Bureau of
• joint operations  - A general term to describe military actions conducted by joint forces and those Service forces employed in specified command relationships with each other, which of themselves, do not establish joint forces.
• joint patient movement requirements center  - A joint activity established to coordinate the joint patient movement requirements function for a joint task force operating within a unified command area of responsibility. Also called JPMRC. See also health service support; joint force surgeon; joint operations area; medical treatment facility.
• joint patient movement team  - Teams comprised of personnel trained in medical regulating and movement procedures.
• joint personnel accountability reconciliation and reporting  - A data repository developed and implemented by the Defense Manpower Data Center that consumes and reconciles data from existing Service deployment systems. Also called JPARR.
• joint personnel processing center  - A center established in an operational area by the appropriate joint force commander with the responsibility for the in-processing and out-processing of personnel upon their arrival in and departure from the theater. Also called JPPC.
• joint personnel recovery center  - The primary joint force organization responsible for planning and coordinating personnel recovery for military operations within the assigned operational area. Also called JPRC. See also combat search and rescue; search and rescue.
• joint personnel training and tracking activity  - The continental United States center established to facilitate the reception, accountability, processing, training, and onward movement of individual augmentees preparing for overseas movement to support a joint military operation. Also called JPTTA.
• joint photographic expert group  - A method of compressing bitmapped images that allows for variable degrees of compression (low, medium, high, and maximum quality). There is some loss of image quality when a compressed image is decompressed. Also called JPEG.
• joint planning and execution community  - Those headquarters, commands, and agencies involved in the training, preparation, mobilization, deployment, employment, support, sustainment, redeployment, and demobilization of military forces assigned or committed to a joint operation. Also called JPEC.
• joint planning group  - A planning organization consisting of designated representatives of the joint force headquarters principal and special staff sections, joint force components (Service and/ or functional), and other supporting organizations or agencies as deemed necessary by the joint force commander. Also called JPG. See also crisis action planning; joint operation planning.
• joint procedure  - element of joint action that involves developing procedures, processes, and concepts that apply to two or more entities in conducting operations coordination.
• joint professional military education  - rigorous and thorough instruction and examination of officers of the armed forces in an environment designed to promote a theoretical and practical in-depth understanding of joint matters and, specifically, of the subject matter covered. The subject matter to be covered by joint professional military education shall include at least the following: (1) National Military Strategy.(2) Joint planning at all levels of war.(3) Joint doctrine.(4) Joint command and control.(5) Joint force and joint requirements development. (6) Operational contract support.
• joint project/ program  - project or program that involves DHS Components and outside agencies,
• joint proponent  - A Service, combatant command, or Joint Staff directorate assigned coordinating authority to lead the collaborative development and integration of joint capability with specific responsibilities designated by the Secretary of Defense.
• joint public affairs support element  - A deployable unit assigned to assist a joint force commander in developing and training public affairs forces in joint, interagency, and multinational environments. Also called JPASE.
• joint publication  - A compilation of agreed to fundamental principles, considerations, and guidance on a particular topic, approved by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff that guides the employment of a joint force toward a common objective. Also called JP. See also Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff instruction; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff manual; joint doctrine; joint test publication.
• joint reception coordination center  - An organization that, when established, ensures that Department of Defense personnel and noncombatant evacuees receive adequate assistance and support for an orderly and expedient debarkation, movement to final destination in the United States, and appropriate follow-on assistance at the final destination. Also called JRCC.
• joint reception, staging, onward movement, and integration  - A phase of joint force projection occurring in the operational area during which arriving personnel, equipment, and materiel transition into forces capable of meeting operational requirements. Also called JRSOI. See also integration; joint force; reception; staging.
• joint regional strategies  - An integrated strategic plan developed jointly between the State and USAID Regional Bureaus that involves the equities of both agencies, and involves both non-regional bureaus and interagency partners with a stake in the region. The JRS is used to inform budget decisions, advise integrated country strategies, and shape performance reviews. Also called JRS. joint requirements coordination team - advisory group that provides requirements-related advice to the Deputy Secretary, and to validate the products of the Strategic Requirements Planning Process (SRPP) as well as confirming alignment of requirements-related acquisition documents with the SRPP.
• joint requirements council  - advisory body that governs all Department level and/ or multi-Component mission execution requirements efforts and provides the Deputy Management Action Group (DMAG) with recommendations for investment, as well as changes to training, organization, laws, and operational processes and procedures.
• joint requirements review board  - The joint task force or subunified commander’s established board to review, validate, approve, and prioritize selected Service component contract support requests. Also called JRRB. See also combatant commander logistic procurement support board; joint contracting support board.
• joint research agreement  - a written contract, grant, or cooperative agreement entered into by 2 or more persons or entities for the performance of experimental, developmental, or research work in the field of the claimed invention.
• joint restricted frequency list  - A time and geographically oriented listing of TABOO, PROTECTED, and GUARDED functions, nets, and frequencies and limited to the minimum number of frequencies necessary for friendly forces to accomplish objectives. Also called JRFL. See also electronic warfare; guarded frequencies; protected frequencies; TABOO frequencies.
• joint security area  - A specific surface area, designated by the joint force commander to facilitate protection of joint bases and their connecting lines of communications that support joint operations. Also called JSA.
• joint security coordination center  - A joint operations center tailored to assist the joint security coordinator in meeting the security requirements in the joint operational area. Also called JSCC.
• joint security coordinator  - The officer with responsibility for coordinating the overall security of the operational area in accordance with joint force commander directives and priorities. Also called JSC.
• joint servicing  - That function performed by a jointly staffed and financed activity in support of two or more Services.
• joint special operations air component commander  - The commander within a joint force special operations command responsible for planning and executing joint special operations air activities. Also called JSOACC.
• joint special operations area  - An area of land, sea, and airspace assigned by a joint force commander to the commander of a joint special operations force to conduct special operations activities. Also called JSOA.
• joint special operations task force  - A joint task force composed of special operations units from more than one Service, formed to carry out a specific special operation or prosecute special operations in support of a theater campaign or other operations. Also called JSOTF.
• joint staff doctrine sponsor  - A Joint Staff directorate assigned to coordinate a joint doctrine project with the Joint Staff. Also called JSDS. See also joint doctrine.
• joint staff  - 1. The staff of a commander of a unified or specified command, subordinate unified command, joint task force, or subordinate functional component (when a functional component command will employ forces from more than one Military Department), that includes members from the several Services comprising the force. 2. (capitalized as Joint Staff) The staff under the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff that assists the Chairman and the other members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in carrying out their responsibilities. Also called JS.
• joint state/ USAID summary of performance and financial information report (JSR)  - This report provides a summary of State and USAID performance and financial information. The JSR is one of three annual financial and performance reports that also include the AFR and APR. The JSR provide information on both agencies performance in promoting greater accountability and accessibility to Congress, the American public, and other key constituencies. Also called JSR.
• joint strategic capabilities plan  - A plan that provides guidance to the combatant commanders and the Joint Chiefs of Staff to accomplish tasks and missions based on current military capabilities. Also called JSCP. See also combatant commander; joint.
• joint strategic planning system  - One of the primary means by which the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in consultation with the other members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the combatant commanders, carries out the statutory responsibilities to assist the President and Secretary of Defense in providing strategic direction to the Armed Forces. Also called JSPS.
• joint table of distribution  - A manpower document that identifies the positions and enumerates the spaces that have been approved for each organizational element of a joint activity for a specific fiscal year (authorization year), and those accepted for the four subsequent fiscal years (program years). Also called JTD. See also joint manpower program.
• joint target list  - A consolidated list of selected targets, upon which there are no restrictions placed, considered to have military significance in the joint force commander’s operational area. Also called JTL. See also joint; target.
• joint targeting coordination board  - A group formed by the joint force commander to accomplish broad targeting oversight functions that may include but are not limited to coordinating targeting information, providing targeting guidance, synchronization, and priorities, and refining the joint integrated prioritized target list. Also called JTCB. See also joint integrated prioritized target list; targeting.
• joint task force-civil support  - A standing joint task force established to plan and integrate Department of Defense support to the designated lead federal agency for domestic chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high-yield explosives consequence management operations. Also called JTF-CS.
• joint task force  - A joint force that is constituted and so designated by the Secretary of Defense, a combatant commander, a subunified commander, or an existing joint task force commander. Also called JTF.
• joint terminal attack controller  - A qualified (certified) Service member who, from a forward position, directs the action of combat aircraft engaged in close air support and other offensive air operations. Also called JTAC. See also terminal attack control.
• joint test publication  - A proposed publication produced for field-testing an emergent concept that has been validated through the Joint Experimentation Program or a similar joint process. Also called JTP. See also Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff instruction; joint doctrine; joint publication.
• joint training  - Military instruction that is based on joint doctrine or tactics, techniques, and procedures, and that prepares joint forces and/ or staffs to respond to the strategic and operational mission requirements of combatant commanders. The forces of two or more military departments interact with a combatant commander or subordinate joint force commander, as well as with joint forces and/ or staffs. The exercise is conducted using joint doctrine or joint tactics, techniques, and procedures.
• joint transportation board  - Responsible to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Joint Transportation Board assures that common-user transportation resources assigned or available to the Department of Defense are allocated to achieve maximum benefit in meeting Department of Defense objectives. Also called JTB. See also common-user transportation.
• joint urban operations  - Joint operations planned and conducted on, or against objectives within a topographical complex and its adjacent natural terrain, where man-made construction or the density of population are the dominant features. Also called JUOs. See also joint operations.
• joint use airport  - an airport owned by the Department of Defense, at which both military and civilian aircraft make shared use of the airfield.
• joint worldwide intelligence communications system  - The sensitive compartmented information portion of the Defense Information Systems Network, which incorporates advanced networking technologies that permit point-to-point or multipoint information exchange involving voice, text, graphics, data, and video teleconferencing. Also called JWICS.
• joint worldwide intelligence communications system  - network designed to meet the requirements for secure (TS/ SCI) multimedia intelligence communications worldwide.
• joint  - Connotes activities, operations, organizations, etc., in which elements of two or more Military Departments participate.
• joint  - Involving more than one Service (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines). Also purple.
• judge advocate  - An officer of the Judge Advocate General’s Corps of the Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy, and the United States Coast Guard who is designated as a judge advocate. Also called JA.
• judge of the United States  - judges of the courts of appeals, district courts, Court of International Trade and any court created by Act of Congress, the judges of which are entitled to hold office during good behavior.
• judgment  - a judgment, order, or decree entered in favor of the United States in a court and arising from a civil or criminal proceeding regarding a debt.
• judgment  - any judgment, decree, order, or ruling, final or temporary.
• jumpmaster  - The assigned airborne qualified individual who controls paratroops from the time they enter the aircraft until they exit.
• junk automobile  - an automobile that: (A) is incapable of operating on public streets, roads, and highways; and (B) has no value except as a source of parts or scrap.
• junk yard  - an individual or entity engaged in the business of acquiring or owning junk automobiles for
• jurat  - A certificate added to an affidavit stating when, where, and before whom it was sworn - A jurat is similar to an acknowledgment, except that the jurat contemplates an oath or affirmation, whereas an acknowledgment does not - The usual form of a jurat is - Subscribed and sworn before me this day.
• jurisdiction  - A range or sphere of authority. Public agencies have jurisdiction at an incident related to their legal responsibilities and authority. Jurisdictional authority at an incident can be political or geographical (e.g., Federal, State, tribal, and local boundary lines) or functional (e.g., law enforcement, public health).
• jurisdictional agency  - The agency having jurisdiction and responsibility for a specific geographical area, or a mandated function.
• jury summons  - a summons issued by a clerk of court, jury commission, or their duly designated deputies, containing either a preprinted or stamped seal of court, and containing the name of the issuing clerk imprinted in preprinted, type, or facsimile manner on the summons or the envelopes transmitting the summons.
• jury wheel  - any device or system similar in purpose or function, such as a properly programed electronic data processing system or device.
• just-in-time training  - training provided when it is actually needed and used on the job.
• justice of the United States  - the Chief Justice of the United States and the associate justices of the Supreme Court.
• key component of a binary or multicomponent chemical system  - the precursor which plays the most important role in determining the toxic properties of the final product and reacts rapidly with other chemicals in the binary or multicomponent system.
• key indicator  - The most important performance measure used to track progress toward achieving a strategic objective. The Department currently measures these indicators.
• key intelligence official  - senior intelligence official designated by the Heads of Components for their respective CIPs with the approval of the CINT.
• key management  - Key management is the supervision and control of the process whereby encryption- keying material, to include fortezza-type certificate, is generated, stored, protected, transferred, loaded, used, and destroyed.
• key management  - The supervision and control of the process whereby encryption keying material, including fortezza type certificates, is generated, stored, protected, transferred, loaded, used, and destroyed.
• key performance indicator  - metric for critical results tied to a service, process, plan, project or other activity.
• key performance parameter  - attributes or characteristics of a system/ program/ project that are considered critical or essential parts of an effective system/ program/ project capability failure to meet a key performance parameter normally requires high-level management review (e.g., ADA) of the system/ program/ project to determine whether to continue pursuit of the particular solution.
• key position  - A civilian position, public or private (designated by the employer and approved by the Secretary concerned), that cannot be vacated during war or national emergency.
• key program administrator  - The individual in the Business Operations Division (A/ LM/ AQM/ BD ) responsible for managing the purchase card program in a specific geographic region and who is the Departments day-to-day liaison with the bank provider. The KPA is authorized to make direct changes to account information on behalf of the individual program participant. Other responsibilities of the KPA include processing applications, fielding questions, processing toolkit requests from the bureaus and posts, monitoring bureau and post transactions, and providing overall program quality control. Also called KPA.
• key resources  - Any publicly or privately controlled resources essential to the minimal operations of the economy and government.
• key resources  - publicly or privately controlled resources essential to the minimal operations of the economy and government.
• key specification  - characteristic of a material, product, or service, including, but not limited to, physical attributes, history of use, maintenance record, and purpose.
• key stakeholders  - actors engaged in efforts to advance global food security programs and objectives, including- (A) relevant Federal departments and agencies;(B) national and local governments in target countries;(C) other bilateral donors;(D) international and regional organizations;(E) international, regional, and local financial institutions;(F) international, regional, and local private
• key strategy  - Represents a key approach or initiative that will be pursued to advance the related objective. These may include, but are not limited to major organizational or business model change, service delivery model change, new focus, new strategic approach, value chain refinement, spreading promising practices, and/ or process improvement reforms.
• key terrain  - Any locality, or area, the seizure or retention of which affords a marked advantage to either combatant.
• keystone publications  - Joint doctrine publications that establish the doctrinal foundation for a series of joint publications in the hierarchy of joint publications. See also capstone publications; joint publication.
• kickback  - any money, fee, commission, credit, gift, gratuity, thing of value, or compensation of any kind that is provided to a prime contractor, prime contractor employee, subcontractor, or subcontractor employee to improperly obtain or reward favorable treatment in connection with a prime contract or a subcontract relating to a prime contract.
• kidnapping  - intentional taking of an individual or group through force or threat of force.
• kill box  - A three-dimensional permissive fire support coordination measure with an associated airspace coordinating measure used to facilitate the integration of fires.
• kind  - one or more related species or subspecies singly or collectively known by one common name, such as soybean, flax, or radish.
• knock  - the combustion of a fuel spontaneously in localized areas of a cylinder of a spark-ignition engine, instead of the combustion of such fuel progressing from the spark.
• knowingly  - a person has actual knowledge, or should have known, of the conduct, the circumstance, or the result.
• knowledge management strategy  - detailed plan outlining how to implement knowledge management principles and practices in order to achieve organizational objectives.
• knowledge management  - process in which an enterprise consciously and systematically gathers, organizes, shares, and exploits its vital knowledge in pursuit of its objectives.
• knowledge product  - report or briefing package documenting conclusions from a study or assessment conducted by an S&T project and delivered to a customer can be captured in written form such as a study report, best practices/ guidelines, standard, intellectual property, product specification, manual, etc.
• knowledge  - comprehension and awareness of concepts and their relationships in a particular context is developed through a fluid mix of experience, values, intelligence, insight, and inspiration that provides a framework for decision-making.
• known error database  - database containing all known error records.
• known error record  - document containing the details of a known error and documents the lifecycle of a known error includes the status, root cause and workaround.
• known error  - problem for which the root cause is understood and there is a temporary workaround or a permanent fix has been identified.
• known wind resource  - a site with an estimated average annual wind velocity of at least twelve miles per hour.

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