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DEFENSE INFORMATION SYSTEMS AGENCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Defense Information Systems Agency mean? 

DEFENSE INFORMATION SYSTEMS AGENCY (noun)
  The noun DEFENSE INFORMATION SYSTEMS AGENCY has 1 sense:

1. a combat support agency in the Department of Defense responsible for developing and operating and supporting information systems to serve the needs of the President and the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staffplay

  Familiarity information: DEFENSE INFORMATION SYSTEMS AGENCY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DEFENSE INFORMATION SYSTEMS AGENCY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A combat support agency in the Department of Defense responsible for developing and operating and supporting information systems to serve the needs of the President and the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Defense Information Systems Agency; DISA

Hypernyms ("Defense Information Systems Agency" is a kind of...):

agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)

Holonyms ("Defense Information Systems Agency" is a part of...):

Defense; Defense Department; Department of Defense; DoD; United States Department of Defense (the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States; created in 1947)


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