Joint Publication 1-02 DoD Dictionary of Military ... - AcqNotes.com

As Amended Through 15 August 2011
to warrant United States foreign disaster relief to a foreign country, foreign persons, or to an
intergovernmental organization. See also foreign disaster relief. (JP 3-29)
foreign disaster relief — Prompt aid that can be used to alleviate the suffering of foreign
disaster victims. Normally it includes humanitarian services and transportation; the
provision of food, clothing, medicine, beds, and bedding; temporary shelter and
housing; the furnishing of medical materiel and medical and technical personnel; and
making repairs to essential services. See also foreign disaster. (JP 3-29)
foreign humanitarian assistance — Department of Defense activities, normally in support
of the United States Agency for International Development or Department of State,
conducted outside the United States, its territories, and possessions to relieve or reduce
human suffering, disease, hunger, or privation. Also called FHA. See also foreign
assistance. (JP 3-29)
foreign instrumentation signals intelligence — Technical information and intelligence
derived from the intercept of foreign electromagnetic emissions associated with the
testing and operational deployment of non-US aerospace, surface, and subsurface
systems. Foreign instrumentation signals intelligence is a subcategory of signals
intelligence. Foreign instrumentation signals include but are not limited to telemetry,
beaconry, electronic interrogators, and video data links. Also called FISINT. See also
signals intelligence. (JP 2-01)
foreign intelligence — Information relating to capabilities, intentions, and activities of
foreign powers, organizations, or persons, but not including counterintelligence, except
for information on international terrorist activities. See also intelligence. (JP 2-0)
foreign intelligence entity — Any known or suspected foreign organization, person, or
group (public, private, or governmental) that conducts intelligence activities to acquire
US information, block or impair US intelligence collection, influence US policy, or
disrupts US systems and programs. The term includes foreign intelligence and security
services and international terrorists. Also called FIE. (JP 2-01.2)
foreign internal defense — Participation by civilian and military agencies of a government
in any of the action programs taken by another government or other designated
organization to free and protect its society from subversion, lawlessness, insurgency,
terrorism, and other threats to its security. Also called FID. (JP 3-22)
foreign military intelligence collection activities — Entails the overt debriefing, by trained
human intelligence personnel, of all US persons employed by the Department of
Defense who have access to information of potential national security value. Also
called FORMICA. (JP 2-01.2)
foreign military sales — That portion of United States security assistance authorized by the
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, and the Arms Export Control Act of
1976, as amended. This assistance differs from the Military Assistance Program and
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