IC3 System--Integrated C3 System (MSC)--The IC3 System is a command and control system used by MSC to track sealift assets, cargo and POL.

ICODES--Integrated Computerized Deployment System (MTMC)--Assists in the pre-stowage process by matching a vessel characteristics file against the cargo being offered for shipment to produce a vessel stowage plan.  Calculates critical sailing characteristics, including trim and stability.

in-transit visibility (ITV)--The ability to track the identity, status, and location of DOD unit and nonunit cargo (excluding bulk petroleum, oils, and lubricants) and passengers; medical patients; and personal property from origin to consignee or destination established by the Combatant Commanders, the Services, or DOD agencies during peace, contingencies or war.

immediate airlift requests--Requests generated which, due to their time-critical nature, cannot be filled by a planned mission.

immediate destination--The next destination of a ship or convoy, irrespective of whether or not onward routing instructions have been issued to it.

immediately vital cargo--A cargo already loaded which the consignee country regards as immediately vital for the prosecution of the war or for national survival, notwithstanding the risk to the ship. If the cargo is carried in a ship of another nation, then that nation must agree to the delivery of the cargo. The use of this term is limited to the period of implementation of the shipping movement policy.

inbound traffic--Traffic originating in an area outside continental United States destined for or moving in the general direction of continental United States.

inflammable cargo--Cargo such as drummed gasoline and oils.

initial unloading period--In amphibious operations, that part of the ship-to-shore movement in which unloading is primarily tactical in character and must be instantly responsive to landing force requirements. All elements intended to land during this period are serialized.

inner transport area--In amphibious operations, an area as close to the landing beach as depth of water, navigational hazards, boat traffic, and enemy action permit, to which transports may move to expedite unloading.

Institute of International Container Lessors--A technical committee consisting of container owners, operators, and manufacturers located in Bedford, NY, who prepare the Repair Manual for Steel Freight Containers. The repair manual implements the physical standards for general cargo containers established by the International Convention for Safe Containers (CSC-International Safe Container Act of 1980, 46 U.S.C. 1503).

intermodal--Type of international freight system that permits transshipping among sea, highway, rail, and air modes of transportation through use of American National Standards Institute/International Organization for Standardization containers, line-haul assets, and handling equipment.

intermodal support equipment--Fixed and deployable assets required to assist container operations throughout the intermodal container system. Included are straddle cranes, chassis, rough terrain container handlers, container cranes and spreader bars.

intermodal systems--Specialized transportation facilities, assets, and handling procedures designed to create a seamless transportation system by combining multimodal operations and facilities during the shipment of cargo.

International Convention for Safe Containers--A convention held in Geneva, Switzerland, on 2 Dec 1972, which resulted in setting standard safety requirements for containers moving in international transport. These requirements were ratified by United States on 3 January 1978.

international cooperative logistics--Cooperation and mutual support in the field of logistics through the coordination of policies, plans, procedures, development activities, and the common supply and exchange of goods and services arranged on the basis of bilateral and multilateral agreements with appropriate cost reimbursement provisions.

international loading gauge (GIC)--The loading gauge upon which international railway agreements are based. A load whose dimensions fall within the limits of this gauge may move without restriction on most of the railways of Continental Western Europe. GIC is an abbreviation for "gabarit international de chargement," formerly called PPI.

international logistics--The negotiating, planning, and implementation of supporting logistics arrangements between nations, their forces, and agencies. It includes furnishing logistic support (major end items, materiel, and/or services) to, or receiving logistic support from, one or more friendly foreign governments, international organizations, or military forces, with or without reimbursement. It also includes planning and actions related to the intermeshing of a significant element, activity, or component of the military logistics systems or procedures of the United States with those of one or more foreign governments, international organizations, or military forces on a temporary or permanent basis. It includes planning and actions related to the utilization of United States logistics policies, systems, and/or procedures to meet requirements of one or more foreign governments, international organizations, or forces.

international logistic support--The provision of military logistic support by one participating nation to one or more participating nations, either with or without reimbursement.

International Organization for Standardization--A specified international agency for standardization. This agency is comprised of members from more than 80 countries. The agency’s aim is to promote worldwide agreement of international standards. Also called ISO.

Intertheater--Between theaters or between the continental U.S. and theaters.

intransit inventory--That materiel in the military distribution system that is in the process of movement from point of receipt from procurement and production (either contractor’s plant or first destination, depending upon point of delivery) and between points of storage and distribution.

intransit stock--See intransit inventory.

in-transit visibility--The ability to track the identity, status, and location of Department of Defense units, and non-unit cargo (excluding bulk petroleum, oils, and lubricants) and passengers; medical patients; and personal property from origin to consignee or destination across the range of military operations.

Intratheater--Within a theater.

JOPES--Joint Operation Planning and Execution System.  The primary system used by the Joint Planning and Execution Community (JPEC) in the deliberate and crisis action planning process.  It is a comprehensive, integrated system of people, policies, procedures, and reporting systems supported by automated systems and applications.  It provides the capability both to develop a TPFDD and to monitor the execution of the deployment.  JOPES was initially designed to provide strategic deployment useful to the President, the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, the combatant commands, the defense agencies, and the Services.  A continuously evolving system that is being developed through the integration and enhancement of earlier planning and execution systems: Joint Operation Planning System and Joint Deployment System. It provides the foundation for conventional command and control by national- and theater-level commanders and their staffs. It is designed to satisfy their information needs in the conduct of joint planning and operations. Joint Operation Planning and Execution System (JOPES) includes joint operation planning policies, procedures, and reporting structures supported by communications and automated data processing systems. JOPES is used to monitor, plan, and execute mobilization, deployment, employment, and sustainment activities associated with joint operations.

joint deployment community--Those headquarters, commands, and agencies involved in the training, preparation, movement, reception, employment, support, and sustainment of military forces assigned or committed to a theater of operations or objective area. The joint deployment community usually consists of the Joint Staff, Services, certain Service major commands (including the Service wholesale logistic commands), unified and specified commands (and their Service component commands), transportation operating agencies, joint task forces (as applicable), Defense Logistics Agency, and other Defense agencies (e.g., Defense Intelligence Agency) as may be appropriate to a given scenario. Also called JDC.

joint deployment system--A system that consists of personnel, procedures, directives, communications systems, and electronic data processing systems to directly support time-sensitive planning and execution, and to complement peacetime deliberate planning. Also called JDS.

Joint Force Requirements Generator--The Joint Force Requirements Generator (JFRG) is an enhanced version of the USMC’s MAGTF II. Automated tool which accelerates deployment planning and execution. Single force integrator which will interface with the Joint Operation Planning and Execution System (JOPES). It will be used to build force structures to meet mission, source required forces, develop and assess phasing/travel mode, compute sustainment requirements, and estimate airlift and sealift requirements. (Note: JFRG II is slated to replace the USMC’s MAGTF II).

joint logistics--The art and science of planning and carrying out, by a joint force commander and staff, logistic operations to support the protection, movement, maneuver, firepower, and sustainment of operating forces of two or more Military Departments of the same nation.

joint logistics-over-the-shore--Logistics-over-the-shore operations conducted by two or more Military Services. Also called JLOTS.  See Logistics-over-the-shore.

Joint Mobility Control Group--The Joint Mobility Control Group is the focal point for coordinating and optimizing transportation operations. This group is comprised of seven essential elements. The primary elements are USTRANSCOM’s Mobility Control Center (MCC), Joint Operational Support Airlift Center (JOSAC), Global Patient Movement Requirements Center (GPMRC), Airlift Control Center (TACC), MSC Command Center, MTMC Command Operations and the Joint Intelligence Center-USTRANSCOM (JICTRANS).

joint movement center (JMC)--The center established to coordinate the employment of all means of transportation (including that provided by allies or host nations) to support the concept of operations. This coordination is accomplished through establishment of transportation policies within the assigned area of responsibility, consistent with relative urgency of need, port and terminal capabilities, transportation asset availability, and priorities set by a joint force commander.

Joint Operational Support Aircraft Center (JOSAC)-- JOSAC is part of the Joint Operational Support Airlift Division in USTRANSCOM’s Operations (J-3) Directorate. The center performs consolidated scheduling of CONUS operational support airlift (OSA) aircraft, achieving wartime readiness by supporting the highest priority peacetime DOD missions.

joint operations area--An area of land, sea, and airspace, defined by a geographic combatant commander or subordinate unified commander, in which a joint force commander (normally a joint task force commander) conducts military operations to accomplish a specific mission.  Also called JOA.

Joint Planning and Execution Community (JPEC)--Those headquarters, commands, and agencies involved in the training, preparation, movement, reception, employment, support, and sustainment of military forces assigned or committed to a theater of operations or objective area. It usually consists of the Joint Staff, Services, Service major commands (including the Service wholesale logistics commands), unified commands (and their certain Service component commands), subunified commands, transportation component commands, joint task forces (as applicable), Defense Logistics Agency, and other Defense agencies (e.g., Defense Intelligence Agency) as may be appropriate to a given scenario.

Joint Transportation Board (JTB)--JTB is responsible to the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) ensuring common-user transportation resources assigned or available to the DOD are used to achieve the maximum benefit in meeting DOD objectives. The JCS and each DOD component designates a general or flag-rank officer as principal member; an alternate member is also named to act for the principal. DOD Component representatives are the Directors of Transportation or the general or flag incumbent of a comparable billet. The JCS representative is designated by the Director of operations, Office of the JCS. The Deputy Director of Logistics (Strategic Mobility), Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, chairs the JTB.

Joint Traffic Management Office (JTMO)--The organization that provides freight management services, common-user ocean terminal support, operational management of defense intermodal containers, ocean cargo booking for sealift cargo, and transportation engineering support to the DOD. It serves as USTRANSCOM’s focal point for the execution of surface intermodal movements within the DTS. Its mission includes domestic and international freight, cargo, and container movements. Personal property and commercial travel movements are not part of the JTMO’s mission.

Joint Transportation Technology Focal Point (JTTFP)--The JTTFP will be the principal liaison with civil modal authorities and associations on the design and utilization of transportation resources and infrastructure. A part of USTRANSCOM, the JTTFP will serve as DOD’s focal point for the exploration, assessment, and exploitation of future and emerging transportation related technologies.

K-day--The basic date for the introduction of a convoy system on any particular convoy lane.

landing force--The landing force (LF) is a task organization of troop units, aviation and ground, assigned to an amphibious assault. It is the highest troop echelon in the amphibious operation

landing force support party--The landing force support party (LFSP) is a forward echelon of the combat service support element formed to facilitate the ship-to-shore movement. In MPF operations, the LFSP is responsible to the MAGTF commander for throughput of off-loaded MPE/S from the beach, port, and airfields. The LFSP is structured to perform the type of off-load (beach, port and airfield) anticipated for the MPF operation.

large-lot storage--A quantity of material which will require four or more pallet columns stored to maximum height. Usually accepted as stock stored in carload or greater quantities.

latest arrival date--A day, relative to C-day, that is specified by a planner as the latest date when a unit, a resupply shipment, or replacement personnel can arrive and complete unloading at the port of debarkation and support the concept of operations. Also called LAD.

less carload (LCL)--A quantity of cargo less than that required for the application of a carload rate.

less truckload (LTL)--A quantity of cargo less than that required for the application of a truckload rate. Also called "less than truckload."

level of detail--Within the current joint planning and execution systems, movement characteristics are described at five distinct levels of detail. These levels are: a. level I. aggregated level. Expressed as total number of passengers and total short tons, total measurement tons, total square feet and/or total hundreds of barrels by unit line number (ULN), cargo increment number (CIN), and personnel increment number (PIN). b. level II. summary level. Expressed as total number of passengers by ULN and PIN and short tons, measurement tons (including barrels), total square feet of bulk, oversize, outsize, and non-air-transportable cargo by ULN and CIN. c. level III. detail by cargo category. Expressed as total number of passengers by ULN and PIN and short tons, and/or measurement tons (including barrels), total square feet of cargo as identified by the ULN or CIN three-position cargo category code. d. level IV. detail expressed as number of passengers and individual dimensional data (expressed in length, width, and height in number of inches) of cargo by equipment type by ULN. e. level V. detail by priority of shipment. Expressed as total number of passengers by Service specialty code in deployment sequence by ULN individual weight (in pounds) and dimensional data (expressed in length, width, and height in number of inches) of equipment in deployment sequence by ULN.

loaded to capacity-- A conveyance loaded to its cube or weight-carrying capacity.

loading plan--All of the individually prepared documents which, taken together, present in detail all instructions for the arrangement of personnel, and the loading of equipment for one or more units or other special grouping of personnel or material moving by highway, water, rail, or air transportation.

loading point--A point where one aircraft can be loaded or unloaded.

loading site--An area containing a number of loading points.

loading time--In airlift operations, a specified time, established jointly by the airlift and airborne commanders concerned, when aircraft and loads are available and loading is to begin.

loadmaster--An Air Force technician qualified to plan loads, to operate auxiliary materials handling equipment, and to supervise loading and unloading of aircraft.

load signal--In evasion and recovery operations, a visual signal displayed in a covert manner to indicate the presence of an individual or object at a given location.

load spreader--Material used to distribute the weight of a load over a given floor area to avoid exceeding designed stress.

LOGMARS--Logistics Applications of Automated Marking and Reading Symbols (MTMC).  Produces bar code labels for major items, e.g., tanks, vehicles, weapons systems, and containers.   Associated equipment reads the labels on incoming cargo for automated tracking purposes.

logair--Long-term contract airlift service within continental United States for the movement of cargo in support of the logistics systems of the Military Services (primarily the Army and Air Force) and Department of Defense agencies.

logistic assessment--An evaluation of: a. The logistic support required to support particular military operations in a theater of operations, country, or area. b. The actual and/or potential logistics support available for the conduct of military operations either within the theater, country, or area, or located elsewhere.

logistic estimate of the situation--An appraisal resulting from an orderly examination of the logistic factors influencing contemplated courses of action to provide conclusions concerning the degree and manner of that influence.

logistic implications test--An analysis of the major logistic aspects of a joint strategic war plan and the consideration of the logistic implications resultant therefrom as they may limit the acceptability of the plan. The logistic analysis and consideration are conducted concurrently with the development of the strategic plan. The objective is to establish whether the logistic requirements generated by the plan are in balance with availabilities, and to set forth those logistic implications that should be weighed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff in their consideration of the plan.

logistics--The science of planning and carrying out the movement and maintenance of forces. In its most comprehensive sense, those aspects of military operations which deal with: a. design and development, acquisition, storage, movement, distribution, maintenance, evacuation, and disposition of materiel; b. movement, evacuation, and hospitalization of personnel; c. acquisition or construction, maintenance, operation, and disposition of facilities; and d. acquisition or furnishing of services.

Logistics Movement Control Center--The Logistics Movement Control Center (LMCC) is organized from service support elements (or the supporting establishment) in the geographic proximity of the marshaling units. They are tasked by the FMCC to provide organic/commercial transportation, transportation scheduling, materials handling equipment, and all other logistics support required by parent commands during marshaling and embarkation.

logistics-over-the-shore operations--The loading and unloading of ships without the benefit of fixed port facilities, in friendly or nondefended territory, and, in time of war, during phases of theater development in which there is no opposition by the enemy. Also called LOTS.

logistics sourcing--The identification of the origin and determination of the availability of the time-phased force and deployment data nonunit logistics requirements.

logistic support--Logistic support encompasses the logistic services, materiel, and transportation required to support the continental United States-based and worldwide deployed forces.

logistic support (medical)--Medical care, treatment, hospitalization, evacuation, furnishing of medical services, supplies, materiel, and adjuncts thereto.

long ton--2,240 pounds. Also called L/T or LTON.

line-haul--Transportation of cargo over carrier routes from point of origin to destination, excluding local pickup, delivery, local drayage, and switching services.