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command and control (C2) system

The facilities, equipment, communications, procedures, and personnel essential to a commander for planning, directing, and controlling operations of assigned forces pursuant to the missions assigned. [JP 1-02]

command and control warfare (C2W)

The integrated use of operations security (OPSEC), military deception, psychological operations (PSYOP), electronic warfare (EW), and physical destruction, mutually supported by intelligence, to deny information to, influence, degrade, or destroy adversary command and control capabilities, while protecting friendly command and control capabilities against such actions.
Note: Command and control warfare applies across the operational continuum and all levels of conflict.… (Read More →)

command frame

In data transmission, a frame, containing a command, transmitted by a primary station.

command line

1. The form or point of interface, usually indicated by a command prompt, on some operating systems in which a command is entered. [Bahorsky]
2. Describing a system that uses a command-line interface. [Bahorsky]

command menu

A list of all the different commands that may be given to a computer or communications system by an operator.
Note: Commands on a command menu may be selected by the operator by (a) using an electromechanical pointer, such as a light pen, (b) touching the display screen with a finger, (c) speaking to a voice-recognition system, or (d) positioning… (Read More →)

command net

A communications network which connects an echelon of command with some or all of its subordinate echelons for the purpose of command and control. [JP 1-02]

command protocol data unit

A protocol data unit (PDU) transmitted by a logical link control (LLC) sublayer in which the PDU command/response (C/R) bit is equal to "0".

command, control, communications, and computer systems (C4S)

1. Integrated systems of doctrine, procedures, organizational structures, personnel, equipment, facilities, and communications designed to support a commander's exercise of command and control, through all phases of the operational continuum. [JP1]
2. Integrated systems of doctrine, procedures, organizational structures, personnel, equipment, facilities, and communications designed to support a commander's exercise of command and control, across the range of military operations.… (Read More →)

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