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C4ISR

C4ISR
 n.— «The programs generally eschew big new weapon systems, focusing instead on developing software to pull together all the strands of military intelligence gathering and communications into manageable formats. In US military parlance, this is “C4ISR.”» —“Today’s terrorist threats among Pentagon’s military research priorities” by Jim Mannion Agence France-Presse July 25, 1996. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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