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A Glossary of Information Warfare Terms


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GLOSSARY OF INFORMATION WARFARE TERMS

AIA

Air Intelligence Agency at Kelly Air Force Base.

AFIWC

Air Force Information Warfare Center

C2W

Command-and-control warfare. Command systems, rather than commanders, are the chief target, as in Persian Gulf War.

C4I

Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence

Copernicus

The code-name under which the Navy plans to reformulate its command and control structures in response to the realization that information is a weapon. Through Copernicus warfighters will get the information that they need to make tactical decisions. The architecture of Copernicus was designed by Vice Admiral Jerry O. Tuttle.

DES

Data Encryption Standard

DISA

Defense Information Security Administration. Military organization charged with resposibility to provide information systems support to fighting units.

DoD

Department of Defense.

van Eck monitoring

Monitoring the activity of a computer or other electronic equipment by detecting low levels of electromagnetic emissions from the device. Named after Dr. Wim van Eck who published on the topic in 1985.

EMP/T Bomb

A device similar to a HERF Gun but many times more powerful.

EW

Electronic warfare.

GCCS

Global Command and Control System.

HERF

High Energy Radio Frequency. As in HERF gun: a device that can disrupt the normal operation of digital equipment such as computers and navigational equipment by directing HERF emissions at them.

IBW

Intelligence-based warfare

NAIC

National Air Intelligence Center at Wright Patterson Air Force Base.

INFOSEC

Protection of classified information that is stored on computers or transmitted by radio, telephone teletype, or any other means.

IW/C2W

Information warfare/command and control warfare

JC2WC

The Joint Command and Control Warfare Center.

NSA

National Security Agency. This agency is charged with the tasks of exploiting foreign electromagnetic signals and protecting the electronic information critical to U. S. national security.

RMA

Revolution in Military Affairs. The realization by the military that information, and information technologies must be considered as a weapon in achieving national objectives via military activity.

SIGINT

The interception and analysis of electromagnetic signals

TEMPEST

Military code-name for activities related to van Eck monitoring, and technology to defend against such monitoring.

 
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