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  2. The Pentagon Keeps Losing Equipment and Buying Stuff It ... - AOL

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    The Department of Defense followed up on only 20,000 of those parts. Military officials don't know how many F-35 spare parts exist in total, paid for by American taxpayers but spread out at ...

  3. Expeditionary Combat Support System - Wikipedia

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    The purpose of the system was to enable the organisation to track all of its physical assets including airplanes, fuel, and even spare parts. The ECSS program was established through two main contracts. The first contract was with the database software company Oracle, to supply the commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software.

  4. Inventory Locator Service - Wikipedia

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    Inventory Locator Service, LLC (ILS) is an American company that started the first e-Marketplace for aviation, marine, and defense industries.ILS has its headquarters in Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America; with relationships globally, especially in North America, through its parent company CAMP Systems, Inc., a subsidiary of Hearst Corporation. [1]

  5. Blue force tracking - Wikipedia

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    Blue force tracking (BFT) systems consist of a computer, used to display location information, a satellite terminal and satellite antenna, used to transmit location and other military data, a Global Positioning System receiver (to determine its own position), command-and-control software (to send and receive orders, and many other battlefield support functions), and mapping software, usually ...

  6. List of components of the U.S. Department of Defense

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    The chain of command leads from the president (as commander-in-chief) through the secretary of defense down to the newest recruits. [2] [3] The United States Armed Forces are organized through the United States Department of Defense, which oversees a complex structure of joint command and control functions with many units reporting to various commanding officers.

  7. Defense Logistics Agency - Wikipedia

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    Defense Contract Management Regions Cleveland, Dallas, New York City, and St. Louis were disestablished. Defense Contract Management Districts Mid Atlantic and North Central were disestablished in May 1994. Throughout the 1990s the agency continued its effort to eliminate managerial and stockage duplication, reducing overhead costs.

  8. AN/PSN-13 Defense Advanced GPS Receiver - Wikipedia

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    The AN/PSN-13 Defense Advanced GPS Receiver (DAGR; colloquially, "dagger") is a handheld GPS receiver used by the United States Department of Defense and select foreign military services. It is a military-grade, dual-frequency receiver, and has the security hardware necessary to decode the encrypted P(Y)-code GPS signals .

  9. List of the United States military vehicles by model number

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    M26 Pershing tank, medium (originally classified as heavy), full-track, 47-ton, 90 mm M26E1 ... M1 spare parts, ... short-range air defense system; M1098 5000 gallon ...