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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
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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
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Problem Solutions – Solution/Countermeasure Comparison Äì Examine and compare possible solutions.
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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
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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
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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
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To prevent certain oil spills, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) rule in 1973.
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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
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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
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Or maybe, Countermeasure used the Straumers to escape the Perversion.
A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992
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