Downloaded from https://www.everyspec.com FM 34-54 systems, equipment, apparatus, documents, and supplies of a foreign military force or nonmilitary organization. Foreign Material Program The Army program for exploiting, developing, or providing foreign military materiel, commercial representations of foreign materiel with potential miliary application, related foreign documents in the Army inventory, and exploitation reports on this materiel of value to US intelligence, RDTE, and military planning, operations, and training.
This includes planning concerning intelligence and non-intelligence acquisition requirements, management of signature and simulator programs, participation in evacuation efforts, and support to the Opposing Forces Program. joint operations The integrated military activities of two or more service components—Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps—of the US military.
measurement and signature intelligence S&TI information obtained by quantitative and qualitative analysis of data (metric, angle, spatial, wavelength, time dependence, modulation, plasma, and hydromagnetic) derived from specific technical sensors for the purpose of identifying any distinctive features associated with the source, emitter, or sender and to facilitate subsequent identification and/or measurement of the same. Also called MASINT. materials Raw substances, scrap, semifinished and finished; supplies.
materiel All items (including ships, tanks, self-propelled weapons, aircraft, and so forth, and related spares, repair parts and support equipment, but excluding real property, installations, and utilities) necessary to equip, operate, maintain, and support military activities without distinction as to its application for administrative or combat purposes. Glossary-8