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1.2 Maximize the survivability capability
Survivability – Capability of a system to withstand a manmade hostile environment
without suffering an abortive impairment of its ability to perform its designated
mission. 128
2. Maximize the Force Awareness capability
Force Awareness: ability to maintain an accurate perception of the factors and conditions
affecting the environment by detecting and processing relevant information to create a
composite picture of the current situation and act on this picture to make a decision or to
perform further exploration. 129
2.1 Maximize the capability to detect targets
Detection – Act or effect of perceiving or making contact (visual, electromagnetic,
acoustic, among others) with a given target. 130 Includes ISR activities.
2.1.1 In the air (see 1.1.1)
2.1.2 In the surface (see 1.1.2)
2.1.3 In the subsurface (see 1.1.3)
2.2 Maximize the integration capability
Integration – 1. Action of connecting a set of subsystems in a logical whole,
so that the interactions between them are more important than their own subsystems,
or that the interactions between them could generate a synergistic effect. 131
2.3 Maximize the communication capability
Communication – To use any means or method to convey information of any kind
from one person or place to another 132 such that military components can be linked in
the battlefield.
128
Ibid., 614.
129
Schleher, Electronic Warfare in the Information Age, 31.
130
Ministério da Defesa, MD 35-G01 Glossário das Forças Armadas, 82.
131
Ibid., 138.
132
The U.S. Department of Defense, The Dictionary of Military Terms, 92.
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