- Industry: NGO
- Number of terms: 31364
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- Company Profile:
The United Nations Organization (UNO), or simply United Nations (UN), is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace.
PGM refers to bombs, missiles and artillery projectiles with a single-shot kill probabilities from ten to one hundred times greater than unguided munitions; this increase in accuracy is made possible by new guidance technologies that reduce the circular error probability of delivery vehicles to twenty meters or less.
Industry:Military
Physical verification of all contingent owned stores, equipment and vehicles and UN owned accountable items upon rotation of a contingent of change in Commanding Officer; the actual amount of the reimbursement for COE is based on the 'marching-in survey' (done when the contingent enters the mission area), and on the 'marching-out survey' (in the case of equipment/stores deployed for less than four years); these surveys are carried out by the contingent as well as by UN experts who assess the actual value of the equipment as it enters and leaves the mission area and are used by the UN as a basis for settlement of government claims for reimbursement.
Industry:Military
Physical verification of all contingent owned stores, equipment and vehicles and UN owned accountable items when a member nation's contingent enters the mission area; the actual amount of the reimbursement for COE is based on the marching-in survey (which is thereafter constantly updated as issues and receipts are posted and as write-offs occur), and, in the case of equipment/stores deployed for less than four years, a 'marching-out survey' is done when it leaves the mission area; these surveys are carried out by the contingent as well as by UN experts who assess the actual value of the equipment as it enters and leaves the mission area and are used by the UN as a basis for settlement of government claims for reimbursement.
Industry:Military
Planned psychological operations activities in peace and war directed to enemy, friendly, and neutral audiences in order to influence attitudes and behavior affecting the achievement of political and military objectives. They include strategic psychological activities, psychological consolidation activities, and battlefield psychological activities.
Industry:Military
Point on a railway where loads are transferred between trains and other means of transport.
Industry:Military
Point on the BZ boundary, where the police stops vehicles to check the drivers' and passengers' passes.
Industry:Military
Possible function of the military in the future: to prevent use of the air, sea or land for proscribed activities, or to enforce embargoes, no-fly-zones or civil order.
Industry:Military
Predetermined point on a patrol route where the patrol calls in its position to base on the radio net.
Industry:Military
Prefabricated, relocatable units (usually 10' or 20' ISO containers) for use by up to 30 people, and equipped with showers, mirrors, WCs, wash basins, urinals, hot water tanks, fans, electrical wirings and fittings etc. They are often made of sandwich panel construction and washable surfaces.
Industry:Military
Procedure when, for the maintenance of peace, a nation intervenes in a friendly manner between two powers whose differences might well lead to armed conflict, and offers its suggestions as to possible ways and means of settling the differences; when the third power takes an actual part in the subsequent negotiations (as the channel of communication, etc.) good offices then become mediation; more generally, the disinterested use of one's official position or office in order to help others settle their differences; the term can also refer to the acts of a diplomatic officer of a third power who takes charge of the interests of a country that has severed diplomatic relations with the state to which he is accredited.
Industry:Military
