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US Army Tank-Automobile and Armaments Command (TACOM). US Department of Defense (DoD). 

US Department of Defense, DOD 5015.2-STD—Design Criteria for Electronic Records Management Software Applications, November 1997. 

In 2003, the total daily oil-based consumption in the USA was 16 million barrels per day, of which only 1.8% was consumed by the US Department of Defense (US DoD) - equivalent to 330,000 barrels per day. This indicates that the civil sector accounts for 98.2% of US oil-based consumption, and indicates that the civil sector will strongly influence the availability of propulsion and fuel technologies for the military customer. 

Method - Military Standard Test Methods and Procedures for Microelectronics MIL-STD 883C (US Department of Defense, Washington, D.C., August 1983) ]... 

Military Standardization Handbook 17, Polymer Matrix Composites Guidelines, MIL-HDBK17B, Vol. 1, 1988 Plastics for Aerospace Vehicles, Part I. Reinforced Plastics, MIL HDBK17A, 1971, US Department of Defense, Washington, DC. 

What role is the Chemical Weapons Convention portrayed as playing in the ongoing wrangling over chemical weapons destruction Public policy experts seem to focus on the international treaty as a motivational force driving chemical weapons disposal. " In the media, there is an underlying effort to impute culpability for the need to destroy the US chemical weapons stockpile to international treaties, often without recognizing that the weapons were declared obsolete by the US Department of Defense 10 years before the CWC was signed and 15 years before it came... 

US Department of Defense (2000). Depleted manium in the Gulf. Environmental exposme report (http //fhp.osd.mil/ factsheetDetail.jsp fact=8). 

US Department of Defense (2002). Population representation in the military services, fiscal year 2000. 

These products are provided by Meridian Medical Technologies, which has partnered with the US Department of Defense to be the only FDA-approved supplier of nerve agent antidotes. The Mark I kit and the single autoinjector devices deliver 600 mg of 2-PAM Cl and 2 mg of atropine (AtroPen ) in seconds. This kit was developed originally... 

There have been, however, concerted efforts in breaching the barriers between disciplines, a noteworthy example of which is the US Department of Defense Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative that funds cross-departmental efforts to address specific technological objectives, many of which involve exploiting or mitigating the forces... 

The author s research is supported by grants from the US National Science Eoundation, the National Aeronautical and Space Administration, the US Department of Energy, and the US Department of Defense. 

The views of the authors do not purport to reflect the position of the US Department of Defense. The use of trade names does not constitute official endorsement or approval of the use of such commercial products. 

Non-lethal weapons (NLW) or less-than-lethal weapons have been defined by the US Department of Defense (DoD) to be explicitly designed and primarily employed so as to incapacitate personnel or materiel, while minimizing fatalities, permanent injury to personnel, and undesired damage to property and the environment. NLWs are being developed and evaluated because the US military and other military and law enforcement organizations... 

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