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United States Navy [r]: That part of the United States Department of Defense responsible for combat on, over, and under water ^[e]
Guided missile [r]: A weapon that flies through air or space, under its own power, which adjusts its course to hit its target. ^[e]

Submarine-launched ballistic missile [r]: A ballistic missile launched from a normally submerged submarine, which has multiple engineering challenges, chief among them being computing a correct ballistic trajectory from a varying point of launch (POL) ^[e]
- UGM-27 Polaris [r]: The first operational submarine-launched ballistic missile, of medium to intermediate range ^[e]
Ballistic missile submarine [r]: A submarine armed with submarine-launched ballistic missiles ^[e]
- George Washington-class [r]: The first class of fleet ballistic missile submarines in the U.S. Navy, now all decommisioned. ^[e]
Management [r]: The act of directing and controlling a group of people for the purpose of coordinating and harmonizing the group towards accomplishing a goal beyond the scope of individual effort. ^[e]
- Program Evaluation and Review Technique [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Logistics (military) [r]: "The science of planning and carrying out the movement and maintenance of forces." (Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms) ^[e]
Director of Central Intelligence [r]: Formerly, the U.S. official that headed both the Central Intelligence Agency and the United States intelligence community; the responsibility is now split between the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (currently Leon Panetta) and the Director of National Intelligence (currently Dennis Blair) ^[e]