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As Amended Through 15 March 2013
the purposes of preventing technological surprise, assessing foreign scientific and
technical capabilities, and developing countermeasures designed to neutralize an
adversary’s technological advantages. Also called TECHINT. See also exploitation;
intelligence. (JP 2-0)
technical nuclear forensics — The collection, analysis and evaluation of pre-detonation
(intact) and post-detonation (exploded) radiological or nuclear materials, devices, and
debris, as well as the immediate effects created by a nuclear detonation. (JP 3-41)
technical operational intelligence — A Defense Intelligence Agency initiative to provide
enhanced scientific and technical intelligence to the commanders of unified commands
and their subordinates through a closed loop system involving all Service and Defense
Intelligence Agency scientific and technical intelligence centers. Through a system
manager in the National Military Joint Intelligence Center, the technical operational
intelligence program provides timely collection, analysis, and dissemination of area of
responsibility-specific scientific and technical intelligence to combatant commanders
and their subordinates for planning, training, and executing joint operations. Also
called TOPINT. (JP 2-0)
technical review authority — The organization tasked to provide specialized technical or
administrative expertise to the primary review authority or coordinating review
authority for joint publications. Also called TRA. See also coordinating review
authority; joint publication; primary review authority. (CJCSM 5120.01)
technical surveillance countermeasures — Techniques and measures to detect and
neutralize a wide variety of hostile penetration technologies that are used to obtain
unauthorized access to classified and sensitive information. Technical penetrations
include the employment of optical, electro-optical, electromagnetic, fluidic, and
acoustic means as the sensor and transmission medium, or the use of various types of
stimulation or modification to equipment or building components for the direct or
indirect transmission of information meant to be protected. Also called TSCM. See
also counterintelligence. (JP 2-01.2)
techniques — Non-prescriptive ways or methods used to perform missions, functions, or
tasks. See also procedures; tactics. (CJCSM 5120.01)
telecommunications — Any transmission, emission, or reception of signs, signals, writings,
images, sounds, or information of any nature by wire, radio, visual, or other
electromagnetic systems. (JP 6-0)
telemedicine — Rapid access to shared and remote medical expertise by means of
telecommunications and information technologies to deliver health services and
exchange health information for the purpose of improving patient care. (JP 4-02)
tempest — An unclassified term referring to technical investigations for compromising
emanations from electrically operated information processing equipment; these
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