Test Flashcards

1
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What is ORM

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Operation Risk Management, Decision making tool to make informed decisions and minimize risk

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What are the steps of ORM

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  1. Identifying Hazards
  2. Assessing Hazards
  3. Making risk decisions
  4. Implementing controls
  5. Supervising
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3
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Define hazard severity.

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An assessment of the expected consequence defined by degree of injury or occupational illness that could occur from exposure to a hazard

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What are the 4 hazard severity categories

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Cat 1-hazard may cause death, loss of facility/asset or result in grave damage to national interests
Cat 2-may cause severe injury, illness, property damage, damage to national or service interests.
Cat 3-minor injury, illness, property damage
Cat 4-minial threat to personnel safety or health

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Define RAC and list 5 RAC’s

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A structured process to identify and assess hazards. An expression of potential harm, described in terms of hazard severity, accident probability, and exposure to hazards.

  • Critical Risk
  • Serious Risk
  • Moderate Risk
  • Minor Risk
  • Negligible Risk
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6
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State the 3 objectives of first aid

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  1. Save lives
  2. Prevent further injury
  3. Prevent infection
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State the 3 methods of controlling bleeding

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  1. Direct pressure
  2. Pressure points
  3. Tourniquet
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State the difference between an open and closed fracture

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-Open fracture is one in which bone protrudes from the skin and closed is when the skin remains intact

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9
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Effects and treatment of hypothermia

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A general cooling of the whole body caused by exposure to low or rapidly falling temperature, cold moisture, snow or ice.
-Patient should be wrapped in warm blankets in a warm room. Do not give hot drinks or other stimulants until he has regained consciousness. Get medical attention immediately.

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Effects and treatment of frostbite

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-superficial frostbite-ice crystals forming in upper skin layers
deep frostbite-ice crystals forming in the deeper tissues.
-treatment is to get victim indoors and warming the area by placing them in warm water. Never rub the frostbite area. Get medical attention immediately.

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Effects and treatment of heat stress

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Sweating and hot skin

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12
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Effects of heat exhaustion

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sweating

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Effects of heat stroke

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No longer sweating, difficulty breathing.

-Seek medical attention immediately

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14
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HERO

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Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation to Ordnance

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HERP

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Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation to Personnel

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HERF

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Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation to Fuels

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Define HAZMAT

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Any material that because of its quantity, concentration, or physical or chemical characteristics may pose a substantial hazard to human health or the environment when purposefully released or accidentally spilled

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How to store HAZMAT

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Store acides separately from bases; oxidizers away from combustibles and flammables; and compressed gasses separately from other Hazardous material. Store dry materials above liquids or wet materials. Ensure containers are labeled and properly sealed. Inspect frequently for leaks

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19
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What is an MSDS and what does it provide

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  • Material Safety Data Sheet
  • Provides users of hazardous material the dangers and precautions of that material.
  • Contains: General information, emergency phone number for materials manufacturer, ingredients and identity information, characteristics, fire and explosion data, health data, first aid, precautions for safe handling and use.
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20
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State the first navy ship named after an enlisted man

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  • Osmond Ingram (DD255)
  • Launched 28 Feb 1919
  • Ingram was the first enlisted man killed in action in World War One.
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21
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Battle of Coral Sea

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-7-8 May 1942
-First Carrier vs carrier battle
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Voyage of the Great White Fleet

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  • December 16, 1907

- Great White Fleet left Hampton Roads, Virgina, for a round-the-world cruise to show the flag

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23
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Battle of Normandy

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  • June 6, 1944

- Largest amphibious operation in history

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Battle of Midway

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  • 3-5 June, 1942

- Turning point of the Pacific War

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Guadalcanal

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  • 13-15 November, 1942
  • After 3 days of bitter fighting, the Japanese naval forces retreated and U.S. Marines were able to secure the island of Guadalcanal
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Battle of Leyte Gulf

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Final blow to the Japanese navy came on October 23, 1944.

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27
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Mercury 3

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5 May 1961

  • Alan B Shepard
  • First US manned spaced flight
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Gemini 3

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23 March 1965

  • John W Young
  • First US two-manned space mission, first spacecraft to maneuver from one orbit to another
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Apollo 11

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16-24 July 1969

  • Neil Armstrong
  • First manned lunar landing
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30
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Apollo 17

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7-19 December 1972

  • Eugene A Cernan
  • Ronald E Evens
  • 7th and final lunar landing
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STS-1

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12-14 April 1981

  • John W. Young
  • Robert L Crippen
  • First orbital test flight of space shuttle
  • All navy crew
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32
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The On-the-Roof Gang

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A total of 176 (150 navy and 26 marines) enlisted radio operators were specially trained at a unique school located on the roof of the old Navy Dept building. Trained to intercept and analyze foreign radio communications

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33
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The Purple Code

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Japanese Type B cipher machine codenamed Purple by the US. was a diplomatic cryptographic machine used by Japanese

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34
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The Battle of Midway information dominance importance

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Japanese radio communications were intercepted and broken

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The attack on the USS Liberty

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  • Six day war

- Technical research ship

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Capture of USS Pueblo

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January 23, 1968

-While the ship was off Wonsan, North Korea, it was attacked by local forces and seized

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Attack on USS Stark

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May 17, 1987
-While on patrol in Persian Gulf, two Iraqi missiles struck the side, the crew and help from other ships fought the fire through the night and saved the ship

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38
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State the 3 levels of war

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Tactical, Operational, and Strategic

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39
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Discuss the National Security Act of 1947

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Established the CIA. The CIA served as the primary civilian intelligence gathering organization in the government. The act also merged the War Department and Navy Department into a single Department of Defense under the Secretary of Defense

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40
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State RADM Grace Hopper’s contributions to the US Navy

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She worked on the Mark 1 and Mark 2 electromechanical computing machine. In 1949 she joined the newly formed Eckert-Mavehly Corporation, founded by the builders of ENIAC.

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41
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State the oldest intelligence organization in the US Navy

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General Order No. 292 on March 23, 1882. Office of Intelligence in the Bureau of Navigation

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Explain when ONI was established and by whom it was founded

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In the early 1880s, LT Theodorus Bailey Myers Mason was a part of a group of reformers who acknowledged the need to modernize the US Navy

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State the first CIO/DNI

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Chief Information Officer/Director of National Intelligence

-John Negroponte on April 5, 2005

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Name the two departments that were combined to form the ONI

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Department Library and the Office of Intelligence under the Chief of the Bureau of Navigation

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Discuss the NCA, its members and functions

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National Command Authority, refers t o the ultimate lawful force of military orders. Collectively refers to the President, US Secretary of Defense and the communications with the commanding officers of the United Combatant to put US forces into action

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COCOM

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Combatant Commander

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FLTCOM

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Fleet Commander. Overall responsible for operations of the Fleet in their AOR

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TYCOM

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Type Commander, responsible for the operations of their specific platform, for example, Surface, Air, Submarine, and Expeditionary

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PACOM

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US Pacific Command

  • Camp Smith, HI
  • Asia-Pacific region
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EUCOM

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European Command

-Stuttgart, Germany

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JFCOM

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Joint Forces Command

-Norfolk and Suffolk, VA

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SOUTHCOM

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Southern Command

-Miami, FL

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CENTCOM

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Central Command

-Tampa, FL

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NORTHCOM

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Northern Command

-Peterson AFB, CO

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SOCOM

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Special Operations Command

-MacDill AFB, Tampa, FL

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TRANSCOM

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Transportation Command

-Scott AFB, IL

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STRATCOM

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Strategic Command

  • Offutt AFB, NE
  • Deter attacks on US vial interests
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AFRICOM

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Africa Command

-Stuttgart, Germany

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USCYBERCOM

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US Cyber Command
-Created in 2009 by order of Secretary of Defense. Naval Network Warfare Command was reorganized and mission revised to operate and defend the Navy portion of the GIG

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CNO N2/N6

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Director of Naval Intelligence - critical link to the US Intelligence Community
-Deputy Chief of Naval Operations-N6 - Leads the navy Space Team for the Chief of Naval Operations

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CNMOC

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Commander Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command.

-John C. Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi

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NNWC

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Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek, VA

-Direct operations of navy portion of the GIG

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NOAA

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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Naval Space Operations Center

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  • Dahlgren, Virginia

- provide space related operational intelligence to deployed Navy and Marine forces

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65
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2nd Fleet

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Atlantic Ocean

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66
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3rd Fleet

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Pacific Ocean, EastPac

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67
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4th Fleet

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Africa and South America

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5th Fleet

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Central Command AOR waters

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69
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6th Fleet

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Med, North Atlantic

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7th Fleet

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Western Pacific and Indian Oceans

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71
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10th Fleet

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NAVSECGRU

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72
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TF

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Task Force

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73
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TG

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Task Group

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74
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TU

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Task Unit

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75
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TE

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Task Element

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76
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CTI

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Linguists, use foreign language skills and computer systems

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CTM

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Maintenance technicians

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What is C4ISR

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Encompasses the gathering, processing, and distribution of information vital to the conduct of military planning and operations

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DISA

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Defense Information Systems Agency

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NASIC

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National Air and Space Intelligence Center

81
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NCDOC

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Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command

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ODNI

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Office of the Director of Naval Intelligence

83
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NSA

A

National Security Agency

84
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NRO

A

National Reconnaissance Office

85
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Secretary of Defense

A

Mr. Chuck Hagel

86
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CCRI

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Command Cyber Readiness Inspection

-An assessment of information assurance readiness and compliance to DOD policies and configuration requirements

87
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State NAVYCYBERFOR’s role in CCRI

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Prepare, train, and equip subordinate commands and ensure they are in compliance with standards

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EDVR

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Enlisted Distribution Verification Report

-Lists all personnel assigned

89
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Page 2

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Dependent info, SGLI, emergency info

90
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Page 4

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Qualifications, education, training

91
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Page 13

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Administrative remarks

92
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OPREP 3 Pinnacle

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Notify national command authority

-events that could result in local, national, or international public reaction

93
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OPREP 3 Navy Blue

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Notify CNO

-Incidents of military, political or press interests which are of high navy interest

94
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OPREP 3 Navy Unit Sitrep

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Provide higher authority or other senior with notification of an incident not meeting OPREP3 special interests

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DLPT

A

Defense Language Proficiency Test

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PAO

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Public Affairs Officer

-Communicate NETWARCOM information of interest to the public through various media sources

97
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Purpose of 3M/PMS System

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Maintenance and Material Management/Planned Maintence

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DPAS

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Defense Property Accounting System

-Track physical accountability of personal property

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MOV

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Material Obligation Validation

-represents that unfilled quantity of a requisition that is not immediately available for issue

100
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DLR

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Depot Level Repairable

-Repairable items for which the condemnation should be made at the depot level

101
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Procedures for NRFI DLR

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Not Ready For Issue DLR

  • Turn-in-requires turn in to repair facility
  • RIP-Remain in Place, must remain in place until replacement arrives
102
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MAM

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Maintenance Assistance Modules

-Parts used for isolating faults within an avionics system or test set

103
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CASREP and 4 Types

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Casualty Report

  1. Initial-Identifies casualty and any parts or assistance needed
  2. Update-Submit changes
  3. Correction-When equipment is repaired and is back in operational condition
  4. Cancellation-when equipment is scheduled to be repaired during and overall or another availability
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CHRIMP

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The Consolidated Hazardous Material Re utilization and Inventory Management Program
-Life cycle control and management of Hazardous Material

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OPTAR

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Operating Target

  • An estimate of the amount of money that will be required by an operating unit to perform assigned tasks and functions
  • Includes repair/repairable and Consumables
106
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Define classification categories and their colors

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  1. Top Secret - Orange - exceptionally grave damage
  2. Secret- Red, serious damage
  3. Confidential- Blue, damage
  4. Unclassified- Green,
107
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Identify events that should be reported to SSO

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Foreign influence, criminal sexual behavior, change in marital status

108
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SF700

A

Security Container Information

109
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SF701

A

Activity Security Checklist

110
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SF702

A

Security Container Check Sheet

111
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SF703

A

Top Secret Cover Sheet

112
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SF153

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Secret Cover Sheet

113
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SF312

A

Confidential Cover Sheet

114
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Purpose of DCS

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Defense Currier Service

-Support the three military departments and DOD activities

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THREATCON

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  • Normal-no current terrorist activity
  • Alpha-small general terrorist activity not predictable
  • Bravo-somewhat predictable terrorist threat
  • Charlie-terrorist activity imminent
  • Delta-vulnerable to or have been attacked
116
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EAP

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Emergency Action Plan
-A plan for destroying classified material due to its potential effect on national security should holdings fall into hostile hands

117
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Define SCI

A

Sensitive Compartmented Information
-Information and material that requires special controls for restricted handling within compartmented intelligence systems

118
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SCIF / T-SCIF

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Sensitive Compartment Information Facility / Top Secret Sensitive Compartment Information Facility

119
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ICD System

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Intelligence Community Directive

-Principal means by which the DNI provides guidance, policy, and direction to the intelligence community

120
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Who can be a CSM

A

GS-11 or Officer, be appointed by the CO, and have a SSBI within the last 5 years

121
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Purpose of JPAS

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Joint Personnel Adjudication System

-Virtual consolidation of the DOD Central Adjudication Facility’s

122
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Define IA

A

Information Assurance is measures that protect and defend information and information systems by ensuring their availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and non-repudiation

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DAA

A

Designated Approving Authority

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ATO

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Official management decision given by a senior organizational official to authorize operation of an information system and to explicitly accept the risk to organizational operations

125
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IATO

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Temporary authorization granted by a DAA for an information system to process information based on preliminary results of a security evaluation of the system

126
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What are the five attributes of IA

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  1. Confidentiality-information not disclosed to unauthorized individual
  2. Integrity- quality of information
  3. Availability- timely reliable access
  4. Non-repudiation-assurance sender of data is provided proof of receiver and vise versa
  5. Authentication-security measure to establish validity of an individual
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IAVA

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Information Assurance Vulnerability Alert

-Considered High Risk/Threat

128
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IAVB

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Information Assurance Vulnerability Bulletin

-Considered Medium-Risk/Threat

129
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CTO

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Computer Tasking Order

-An immediate order to perform a specific task on their networks

130
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Duties and responsibilities of IAM

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Individual responsible for the information assurance program of a DOD information system

131
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JWICS

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Joint Worldwide Intelligence Comms System

132
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DISN

A

Defense Information System Network

-Composite of DOD owned and leased telecommunications subsystems and networks

133
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Virus

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Malicious code with the intention to damage the computer. Attach to other files for movement

134
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Worm

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Self replicating malware, uses a computer network to send copies of itself to other computers on the network

135
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Trojan

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malware that appear to perform a desirable function for the user, but gains unauthorized access to computer files as a result

136
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Backdoor

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program to target a system at a later time

137
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Phishing

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Criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details

138
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CUDIXS

A

2400 baud full duplex interface over a satellite link, for the receipt and transmission of narrative message traffic

139
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VERDIN

A

Very Low Frequency Digital Information Network
-Broadcast system provides a highly reliable and secure system for worldwide delivery of operational, tactical, and administrative messages from Fleet Broadcast System

140
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NOVA

A

Store and forward terminal to relay messages

141
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What is BEADWINDOW

A

Real time procedure which brings immediate attention of circuit operators the fact that an EEFI disclosure has or may have occurred

142
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What is GINGERBREAD

A

encroachment, someone got on your line

143
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Message Precedences

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R-Routine, 6 hours
P-Priority, 3 hours
O-Immediate-30 minutes
Z-Flash-10 minutes
W-Critical, 3 minutes
144
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COMPLAN

A

Used to setup frequencies for underway

145
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TSO

A

Telecommunication Service Order

-Authorization to start, change, or discontinue circuits or trunks and effect administrative changes

146
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OTAT/OTAR

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Over-the-air-rekey / over-the-air-transfer

147
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State purpose of EMCON

A

Emissions Control, control of all electromagnetic and acoustic radiations

148
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ASW

A

Anti-Submarine Warfare

-Destruction or neutralization of enemy submarines

149
Q

SUW

A

Anti-Surface Warfare

-Destruction or neutralization of enemy surface combatants and merchant ships

150
Q

IW

A

Information Warfare

-Action taken to achieve information superiority over the adversary by influencing his information

151
Q

AW

A

Air Warfare

-Action required to destroy or reduce an enemy’s air and missile threat

152
Q

STW

A

Strike Warfare

-Destruction or neutralization of enemy land based targets with conventional or nuclear missles

153
Q

NSW

A

Special Warfare

-Distinguished by unique objectives, weapons, and forces

154
Q

Define CCIR

A

Commander’s Critical Intelligence Requirements
-Comprehensive list of information requirements identified by the commander as being critical in facilitating timely information management and the decision making process that affect successful mission accomplishment

155
Q

HUMINT

A

Human Intelligence

-Involves people on the ground gathering information from human sources

156
Q

OSINT

A

Open Source Intelligence

-Information gathered from non-classified sources including news media

157
Q

MASINT

A

Measurement and Signature Intelligence
-Involves a highly technical, multi-disciplinary approach to intelligence collection to provide detailed characteristics of targets

158
Q

SIGINT

A

Signal Intelligence

-Intercepted signals

159
Q

COMINT

A

Communications Intelligence

-Sub-category of signals intelligence that engages in dealing with messages or voice information

160
Q

FISINT

A

Foreign Instrumentation Signals Intelligence

-Technical information and intelligence derived from the intercept of foreign electromagnetic emissions

161
Q

ELINT

A

Electronic Intelligence

-Intelligence gathering by use of electronic sensors

162
Q

IRINT

A

Infrared Intelligence

-Derived by monitoring the electromagnetic spectrum from ultraviolet through far infrared

163
Q

ACINT

A

Acoustic Intelligence

-Derived from the collection and processing of acoustic phenomena

164
Q

Frequency Spectrum

A
Extremely Low upto 300hz
Voice 300-3khz
Very Low 3-30khz
Low 30-300khz
Medium 300-3mhz
High 3-30mhz
Very High 30-300mhz
Ultra High 300-3ghz
Super High 3-30ghz
Extremely High 30-300ghz
165
Q

Frequency

A

The number of cycles per unit of time, usually expressed in hertz

166
Q

Wavelength

A

The distance in space occupied by one cycle of a radio wave at any given instant. Distance from the leading edge of one cycle to the corresponding point on the next cycle

167
Q

Ducting

A

Trapping of an RF wave between two layers of the earth’s atmosphere or between an atmospheric layer and the earth

168
Q

Refraction

A

Occurs when a wave traveling through two different mediums passes through the boundary of the mediums and bends toward or away from the normal

169
Q

Layers

A

The earths atmosphere is divided into three separate regions, or layers.

  1. Troposphere
  2. Stratosphere
  3. Ionosphere
170
Q

Azimuth

A

Angular measurement in the horizontal plane in a clockwise direction

171
Q

Elevation

A

Angle between the horizontal plane and the line of sight

172
Q

Half Duplex

A

One-way flow of information between terminals at one time

173
Q

Duplex

A

communications between stations takes place simultaneously in both directions using two different frequencies

174
Q

Simplex

A

uses a single channel or frequency to exchange information between two or more terminals. Communications are in one direction only

175
Q

GOES

A

Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite

-weather forecasting

176
Q

POES

A

Polar Operational Environmental Satellite

-Offers advantage of daily global coverage by making nearly polar orbits roughly 14.1 times daily

177
Q

Solar Wind

A

Travels at one million mph, carrying various particles from the sun

178
Q

Solar Cycle

A

Solar activity is cyclic in nature following an 11 year cycle

179
Q

Van Allen Radiation Belts

A

Two concentric, donut-shaped regions of stable, trapped charged particles that exist because the geomagnetic field near the earth is strong and field lines are closed

180
Q

Atmospheric Drag

A

Low orbiting objects (less than 1000 km altitude), energy deposited in the earth’s upper atmosphere by charged particle bombardment heats the atmosphere, causing it to expand outward over a period of time

181
Q

Low Earth Orbit

A

Satellite at altitudes between approximately 150 and 800 miles above the earths surface

182
Q

Medium Earth Orbit

A

Satellites at an altitude below 22,300 miles and above the altitude of LEO satellites

183
Q

Highly Elliptical Orbit

A

Molniya orbit has an apogee nearly equivalent to the geosynchronous altitude and an inclination of approximately 63 to 64 degrees

184
Q

Geosynchronous Orbit

A

Satellite placed in orbit with an average altitude of approximately 19,300 nautical miles

185
Q

Polar Orbit

A

Passes over the entire surface of the earth, has an inclination of 90 degrees and is usually circular

186
Q

Apogee

A

Point in the orbit of a satellite that is the greatest distance from the center of the earth

187
Q

Perigee

A

Point in the orbit of a satellite nearest to the center of the earth

188
Q

MMS

A

Multi-Level Mail Server

-provides secure dial-in messaging services to up to 500 subscribers

189
Q

MUA

A

Master Update Authority

-Single point for directory updates and is hosted by NCTAMS PAC

190
Q

Port 20

A

FTP

191
Q

Port 21

A

FTP

192
Q

Port 22

A

SSH

193
Q

Port 23

A

Telnet

194
Q

Port 25

A

SMTP

195
Q

Port 53

A

DNS

196
Q

Port 80

A

HTTP

197
Q

Port 110

A

POP

198
Q

Port 443

A

HTTPS