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Terms for subject United States (7706 entries)

cost-type contract	A contract that provides for payment to the contractor of allowable cost, to the extent prescribed in the contract, incurred in performance of the contract
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Council For Education Technology	CET
Council Of Governments	COG
Counter Terrorist Force	CTF
Counter Terrorist Union	CTU
Counter Terrorist Unit	CTU
counter threat finance	Activities conducted to deny, disrupt, destroy, or defeat the generation, storage, movement, and use of assets to fund activities that support an adversary’s ability to negatively affect United States interests
counter-improvised explosive device operations	The organization, integration, and synchronization of capabilities that enable offensive, defensive, stability, and support operations across all phases of operations or campaigns in order to defeat improvised explosive devices as operational and strategic weapons of influence.
counterair	A mission that integrates offensive and defensive operations to attain and maintain a desired degree of air superiority and protection by neutralizing or destroying enemy aircraft and missiles, both before and after launch
counterdeception	Efforts to negate, neutralize, diminish the effects of, or gain advantage from a foreign deception operation. Counterdeception does not include the intelligence function of identifying foreign deception operations
counterdrug	Those active measures taken to detect, monitor, and counter the production, trafficking, and use of illegal drugs
counterdrug activities	Those measures taken to detect, interdict, disrupt, or curtail any activity that is reasonably related to illicit drug trafficking
counterdrug operational support	Support to host nations and drug law enforcement agencies involving military personnel and their associated equipment, provided by the geographic combatant commanders from forces assigned to them or made available to them by the Services for this purpose
counterdrug operations	Civil or military actions taken to reduce or eliminate illicit drug trafficking
counterespionage	That aspect of counterintelligence designed to detect, destroy, neutralize, exploit, or prevent espionage activities through identification, penetration, manipulation, deception, and repression of individuals, groups, or organizations conducting or suspected of conducting espionage activities
counterfire	Fire intended to destroy or neutralize enemy weapons.
counterforce	The employment of strategic air and missile forces in an effort to destroy, or render impotent, selected military capabilities of an enemy force under any of the circumstances by which hostilities may be initiated
counterguerrilla operations	Operations and activities conducted by armed forces, paramilitary forces, or nonmilitary agencies against guerrillas
countering weapons of mass destruction	Efforts against actors of concern to curtail the conceptualization, development, possession, proliferation, use, and effects of weapons of mass destruction, related expertise, materials, technologies, and means of delivery