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  • Darrell Quarles, an Army product manager, said the service planned to award two development contracts in January for something called the Common Infrared Countermeasure, or CIRCM, an improved, lighter-weight version of a defensive system that has already been fielded.

    Military Aims to Reduce Helicopter Vulnerability to Low-Tech Weapons Nathan Hodge 2011

  • And the half-mythical Countermeasure, if it exists, is lost with two human children on primitive Tines World.

    Ten Science Fiction Books That Should Be Movies | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2008

  • Problem Solutions – Solution/Countermeasure Comparison ‚Äì Examine and compare possible solutions.

    Project Justification Guidelines — Meandering Passage 2006

  • The Directed Infrared Countermeasure, a technology currently used in the military's Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasure system, uses a high-intensity modulated laser beam to defeat the threat missile's guidance system.

    Ten Years Later 2005

  • To prevent certain oil spills, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) rule in 1973.

    Archive 2007-08-01 2007

  • Countermeasure drones do their best to confuse the enemy targeting sensors, but the narrow confines of the vault almost make such systems irrelevant.

    The Dreaming Void Hamilton, Peter F. 2007

  • To prevent certain oil spills, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) rule in 1973.

    Literary Warrant [16] 2007

  • The Directed Infrared Countermeasure, a technology currently used in the military's Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasure system, uses a high-intensity modulated laser beam to defeat the threat missile's guidance system.

    Ten Years Later 2005

  • Even if the Blight won, its fleet might ignore the natives, might settle for killing the OOB and winning back the Countermeasure.

    A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992

  • Or maybe, Countermeasure used the Straumers to escape the Perversion.

    A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992

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