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Unit, team, or force (leader) – Such as "communications unit," "medical strike team," or a "reconnaissance task force." A strike team is composed of same resources (four ambulances, for instance) while a task force is composed of different types of resources (one ambulance, two fire trucks, and a police car, for instance). Individual resource.
In the United States, the hospital incident command system (HICS) is an incident command system (ICS) designed for hospitals and intended for use in both emergency and non-emergency situations. It provides hospitals of all sizes with tools needed to advance their emergency preparedness and response capability—both individually and as members ...
In the Incident Command System, a unified command is an authority structure in which the role of incident commander is shared by two or more individuals, each already having authority in a different responding agency.
Strike Team, a special unit of firefighters in South Australia's Country Fire Service Strike Team, a special unit of firefighters in Victoria's Country Fire Authority ; in Victoria, a Strike Team usually refers to a unit of five appliances used to fight large, campaign-sized wildfires such as those in the Black Saturday bushfires
[2] [3] The NCC is tasked with protecting the U.S. Government's communications networks. The Center monitors, collects and shares information on systems belonging to NSA , FBI , DoD , and DHS. The first Director appointed to head the Center was Rod Beckstrom , an entrepreneur and co-author of The Starfish and the Spider .
The concept of a national Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) for the United States was proposed by Marcus Sachs (Auburn University) when he was a staff member for the U.S. National Security Council in 2002 to be a peer organization with other national CERTs such as AusCERT and CERT-UK, and to be located in the forthcoming Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Incident Command System, an emergency response management system; InterCity Slovenia, a premium train service in Slovenia; Israeli Cassini Soldner, a historical geographic coordinate system; Investor court system; Inmate Calling Service, a type of specialized telephone service provisioned for use by inmates at correctional facilities
List of initialisms, acronyms ("words made from parts of other words, pronounceable"), and other abbreviations used by the government and the military of the United States. Note that this list is intended to be specific to the United States government and military—other nations will have their own acronyms.