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

As Amended Through 15 August 2011
equipment. Also called emergency decontamination. See also contamination;
decontamination. (JP 3-11)
immediate message — A category of precedence reserved for messages relating to
situations that gravely affect the security of national and multinational forces or
populace and that require immediate delivery to the addressee(s). See also precedence.
immediate mission request — A request for an air strike on a target that, by its nature,
could not be identified sufficiently in advance to permit detailed mission coordination
and planning. See also preplanned mission request. (JP 3-09.3)
immediate response — Any form of immediate action taken to save lives, prevent human
suffering, or mitigate great property damage under imminently serious conditions when
time does not permit approval from a higher authority. (JP 3-28)
immediate response authority — A Federal military commander’s, Department of
Defense component head’s, and/or responsible Department of Defense civilian
official’s authority temporarily to employ resources under their control, subject to any
supplemental direction provided by higher headquarters, and provide those resources to
save lives, prevent human suffering, or mitigate great property damage in response to a
request for assistance from a civil authority, under imminently serious conditions when
time does not permit approval from a higher authority within the United States.
Immediate response authority does not permit actions that would subject civilians to the
use of military power that is regulatory, prescriptive, proscriptive, or compulsory.
(DODD 3025.18)
impact area — An area having designated boundaries within the limits of which all
ordnance will detonate or impact.
implementation — Procedures governing the mobilization of the force and the deployment,
employment, and sustainment of military operations in response to execution orders
issued by the Secretary of Defense. Also called IMP. (JP 5-0)
implied task — In the context of joint operation planning, a task derived during mission
analysis that an organization must perform or prepare to perform to accomplish a
specified task or the mission, but which is not stated in the higher headquarters order.
See also essential task; specified task. (JP 5-0)
imprest fund — A cash fund of a fixed amount established through an advance of funds,
without appropriation change, to an authorized imprest fund cashier to effect immediate
cash payments of relatively small amounts for authorized purchases of supplies and
nonpersonal services.
imprest funds — Funds issued by Army and Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) to a
military organization to purchase beginning inventory for the operation of an AAFES
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