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DEFCON levels. The defense readiness condition (DEFCON) is an alert state used by the United States Armed Forces. [1] [2] For security reasons, the US military does not announce a DEFCON level to the public. [1] The DEFCON system was developed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) and unified and specified combatant commands. [3]
Examples scales indicating alert state are the DEFCON levels of the US military, [2] South Korea's "Jindogae" system, [3] and the UK Threat Levels. [4] High alert states are synonymous with "red alert".
McConnell AFB entrance displaying THREATCON DELTA on the day of the 9/11 attacks. In United States military security parlance, the force protection condition (FPCON for short) is a counter-terrorist (otherwise known as antiterrorism (AT for short)) [1]:1 threat system employed by the United States Department of Defense.
The Chiefs nearly hit DEFCON 1 on the injury report this week. Patrick Mahomes was injured in Kansas City's Week 15 game vs. the Cleveland Browns , suffering an ankle sprain that seemed a bit more ...
There are five levels of INFOCON, which recently changed to more closely correlate to DEFCON levels. They are: INFOCON 5 describes a situation where there is no apparent hostile activity against computer networks. Operational performance of all information systems is monitored, and password systems are used as a layer of protection.
COGCON ("continuity of government readiness condition") is a United States government readiness level, roughly analogous to the DEFCON alert state system, tracking the readiness of the government in the event of an emergency.
The U.S. is expected to announce $500 million in military aid for Ukraine on Thursday at a final gathering of President Joe Biden's weapons pledging conferences, meetings Kyiv says have been ...
Global military spending continues at Cold War levels amid concerns about post-Soviet nuclear proliferation of weapons and brainpower. 1998 9 23:51 −5 Both India and Pakistan test nuclear weapons in a tit-for-tat show of aggression; the United States and Russia run into difficulties in further reducing stockpiles. 2002 7