GLOSSARY
The words of field operations, explained plainly.
Each term gets a short definition and an example from the field. Where Sinkaos has something to do with it, we say so.
- After-action review
- A structured debrief after an operation or exercise: what was meant to happen, what did, why, and what changes.
- CIMIC
- Civil-military cooperation: how armed forces coordinate with authorities, emergency services and NGOs.
- End-to-end encryption
- Encryption where only the sender’s and recipients’ devices hold the keys, so the server passing the data along cannot read it.
- Geofence
- A virtual boundary on the map that raises an alert when someone or something enters, leaves or stays too long.
- Incident command system
- A common command structure for an incident: one commander, clear functions, and a span of control people can manage.
- METHANE report
- A seven-part message that the first responders on scene use to describe a major incident to control and to other services.
- MGRS
- The Military Grid Reference System: a grid coordinate format used by NATO forces and many rescue teams.
- Offline-first
- A way of building apps that treats no signal as normal: work is saved on the device and synced when a link appears.
- SITREP
- A situation report: a short, regular summary of where an operation stands and what comes next.
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