Department of Defense

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

Department of Defense
    n 1: the federal department responsible for safeguarding
         national security of the United States; created in 1947
         [syn: {Department of Defense}, {Defense Department},
         {United States Department of Defense}, {Defense}, {DoD}]

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

Department of Defense

   <body> (DoD) The US military body responsible for sponsoring
   many software engineering standards.

   (1996-05-29)

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