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Terms for subject United States (7770 entries)

INS	Insert
Ins.LJ.	Insurance Law Journal
Inspection Services Information System	ISIS
Instant Runoff Voting	IRV
Institute of Museum and Library Science	IMLS
Institutional Program	IP
instrument approach procedure	A series of predetermined maneuvers for the orderly transfer of an aircraft under instrument flight conditions from the beginning of the initial approach to a landing or to a point from which a landing may be made visually or the missed approach procedure is initiated
instrument meteorological conditions	Meteorological conditions expressed in terms of visibility, distance from cloud, and ceiling; less than minimums specified for visual meteorological conditions
instruments of national power	All of the means available to the government in its pursuit of national objectives. They are expressed as diplomatic, economic, informational and military
insurgency	The organized use of subversion and violence to seize, nullify, or challenge political control of a region. Insurgency can also refer to the group itself
integrated air and missile defense	The integration of capabilities and overlapping operations to defend the homeland and United States national interests, protect the joint force, and enable freedom of action by negating an adversary’s ability to create adverse effects from their air and missile capabilities
Integrated Business Environment	IBE
integrated consumable item support	A decision support system that takes time-phased force and deployment data and calculates the ability of the Defense Logistics Agency to support those plans
Integrated Data Environment/Global Transportation Network Convergence	The in-transit visibility system of record providing expanded common integrated data and application services enabling a common logistics picture, distribution visibility, and materiel asset/in-transit visibility for distribution solutions
Integrated Disability Action	IDA
Integrated Document Management	IDM
integrated financial operations	The integration, synchronization, prioritization, and targeting of fiscal resources and capabilities across United States departments and agencies, multinational partners, and nongovernmental organizations against an adversary and in support of the population
Integrated Information Environment	IIE
integrated logistic support	A composite of all the support considerations necessary to assure the effective and economical support of a system for its life cycle
integrated materiel management	The exercise of total Department of Defense-level management responsibility for a federal supply group or class, commodity, or item for a single agency, which normally includes computation of requirements, funding, budgeting, storing, issuing, cataloging, standardizing, and procuring functions