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Business Definition for: Chain Of Command
- the line of authority in a hierarchical organization through which instructions pass. The chain of command usually runs from the most senior personnel, through all reporting links in an organization's or department's structure, to a targeted person or to front-line employees. Line management relies on the chain of command in order for instructions to pass throughout an organization.
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- Links.(News)(Premier Automotive Group's chain of command)(Brief Article)
- PAG's new chain of command Nick Scheele, COO, Ford Motor Co. David Thursfield, executive vice president, Ford Motor Co. Mark Fields, president, Premier Automotive Group Bob Dover, COO, Aston Martin Jaguar Land Rover Hans-Olov Olsson,...
- Research articles 2002-11-18
- Cisco Introduces S.W.A.T. for Public Safety Unified Chain-of-Command Communications; Integrated Mobile Approach to 9-1-1, Voice, Video, Satellite, Radio Interoperability, Dispatch and Wireless Highlighted at Public Safety Conference
- ORLANDO, Fla. -- Cisco SystemsR (NASDAQ:CSCO) today announced its Solutions with Advanced Technologies (S.W.A.T.) program at the annual international conference of the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials APCO. S.W.A.T. represents Cisco's unique response to the call for effective public safety networking that for the first time unifies chain-of-command communications to...
- Research articles 2006-08-07
- An indefatigable investigative reporter: Seymour Hersh 'still comes through as an outsider hungry for the latest scraps of news.'.(Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib)(Book Review)
- Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib Seymour M. Hersh HarperCollins. 416 Pages. $25.95. It has become a maxim in newsrooms that all reporters should be investigative ones. While that may be true, the best of those who spend...
- Research articles 2005-03-22
- Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib
- Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib, by Seymour M. Hersh. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2004. xix plus 370 pages, with index. $25.95, hardcover. About one year after the United States launched the war against Iraq, Seymour Hersh obtained photographs and a copy of a report by...
- Research articles 2004-12-01
- AnviCom, Inc., a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Command Information, to Support Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command
- AnviCom, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Command Information, the premier provider of next generation network services, today announced that it has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Transportation Command to provide modernization and lifecycle engineering support for a mission-critical supply chain system for the Army's Military Surface Deployment...
- Research articles 2009-01-26
- Perspectives on Change: A Former Chief of Staff Reflects
- Leon Panetta discusses how to make change happen, public–private partnerships and their effect on policy, and the major management challenges confronting the new administration. A long-serving politician with a reputation for getting things done and telling it like it is, Leon Panetta has had...
- Articles 2009-02-27
- US lawmaker, ex-army lawyer says civilian command refused to send him to Iraq
- WASHINGTON AFP ? A US congressman and former army lawyer in the 1991 Gulf War said that the army wanted to send him to Iraq a year ago to supervise prisoner interrogation, but the civilian military command rejected the move. Representative Stephen Buyer -- a Republican from the midwestern...
- Research articles 2004-05-08
- Pentagon names new top generals for Iraq, Central Command
- WASHINGTON AFP — President George W. Bush replaced the US generals in charge of Iraq and crucial Central Command, in the latest moves in a shake-up of key US diplomatic, intelligence and military personnel. The move means that Bush, expected to unveil a new strategy for the violence-wracked nation next...
- Research articles 2007-01-05
- Air Force AD quits, cites 'ego'/ Command changes spur decision
- Col. Randall Spetman announced Wednesday he will retire as Air Force Academy athletic director, in part because he is unhappy adjusting to a lower position in the new chain of command. Spetman will remain as athletic director for the rest of the fall semester. If a replacement is...
- Research articles 2003-10-16
- No hearing for peace - lack of coverage of the call for nuclear disarmament by 21 retired US generals and admirals - Editorial
- On December 4, twenty-one retired U.S. generals and admirals--some at the highest level of our nuclear-weapons chain of command--did an astonishing thing: They renounced the nuclear orthodoxy and called for the "continuous, complete, and irrevocable elimination of nuclear weapons." General Lee Butler was head of the U.S. Strategic...
- Research articles 1997-02-01
- BofA Revamps Chain of Command.
- Bank of America has reconfigured its structured-finance area, consolidating responsibility for commercial, residential and asset-backed securitization under managing director Eric Dunn. Bank of America has reconfigured its structured-finance area, consolidating responsibility for commercial, residential and asset-backed securitization under managing director Eric Dunn.
- Research articles 2000-09-11
- Failure of leadership
- Byline: The Register-Guard The Bush administration has long insisted that a few "bad apples" were solely to blame for the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. Two new reports - one by a panel headed by a former defense secretary and one by a panel of Army generals - this...
- Research articles 2004-08-27
- Top US officials knew of prisoner abuse at Guantanamo in 2002: report
- LONDON AFP — Top officials in US President George W. Bush's administration knew of prisoner abuse at Guantanamo Bay by late 2002, according to extracts from a book by a US journalist published in the Guardian newspaper. In his new book "Chain of Command," US journalist Seymour Hersh quoted...
- Research articles 2004-09-13
- Bush intelligence plan reshapes chain of command
- WASHINGTON -- The immediate impact of the intelligence reorganization proposal President Bush outlined Monday would be to change the superstructure of the U.S. intelligence community while leaving the plumbing in place. Those who collect and analyze intelligence will continue their work, but under a new organization reshaped in the...
- Research articles 2004-08-03
- An FBI man's view of Waco
- Sen. Arlen Specter (IL-Pa.) is quietly conducting a special Senate Judiciary subcommittee probe of the Justice Department's handling of the siege at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Tex., on April 19, 1993. But if Specter wants to get at the whole truth about Waco, he cannot stop at the...
- Research articles 1999-12-10
- Letter to congressional leaders on the proposed "Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004"
- December 6, 2004 Dear Leaders and Conferees: My most solemn duty is protecting the American people, and reforming and strengthening our Nation's intelligence capabilities will help ensure the safety of our country. I call on Congress to pass an intelligence reform bill this week. An overarching principle for...
- Research articles 2004-12-13
- Boston Fire Officials Voice Concerns on Threat of LNG Explosion.
- By Mac Daniel, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 27--Boston fire officials told a state panel yesterday they are unprepared to deal with the potential disaster stemming from an explosion aboard one of the giant tankers that carries liquefied natural...
- Research articles 2004-02-27
- Public Safety Committee explores counterterrorism policies.(National League of Cities)
- "Having a plan to deal with weapons of mass destruction is no longer just an option for cities and towns, it is a must" Michael Keck, vice mayor of Little Rock, Ark., and chair of NLC's Public Safety and Crime Prevention Committee PSCP asserted. "For every ...
- Research articles 1998-06-15
- How to keep military personnel from going to jail for doing the right thing: jurisdiction, ROE & the Rules of Deadly Force - Rules of Engagement
- "[T]he willingness of our men and women in uniform to put their lives at risk is a national treasure. That treasure can never be taken for granted...."(1) Introduction A United States military patrol proceeds as trained-alert, camouflaged, and unified. They know the rules of engagement. They follow the...
- Research articles 2000-11-01
- Pinnacle Of Academia
- PINNACLE OF ACADEMIA: Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons is presented with the School Charter, the Chain of Command and the Manning Chair before more than 5,000 people during her recent inauguration at Brown University in Providence, RI. In November Dr. Simmons, 56, was named Brown's 18th president, the first...
- Research articles 2001-10-29
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