CPM Dictionary: J

Jerusale: Early MS-DOS file infector virus known to be in the wild; originally known as Israeli virus; also known as PLO, Friday the 13th, and 1813

JIC: See Joint Information Center

Jitter: Also called noise, the modification of fields in a database while preserving the aggregate characteristics of that make the database useful in the first place; also, distortion of a signal or image caused by poor synchronization

JOC: See Joint Operations Center

Joint Damage Assessment: Process of conducting a damage assessment by a team of Federal, state and/or local inspectors and/or engineers viewing the aftermath of an incident simultaneously

Joint Emergency Evaluation Plan: Provides emergency helicopter transportation for designated personnel to emergency sites during national emergency situations

Joint Information Center (JIC): Contact point for all news media at the scene of an extraordinary situation; keeps news media informed of activities and events via public information officials from participating Federal, state, and local agencies who are collocated in JIC; may also be called the Joint Public Information Center (JPIC)

Joint Information System (JIS): Integrated standard operating procedures, plans, facilities and personnel with common goal of providing, during or following an emergency, coordinated, accurate, timely and appropriate instruction and information to the public, media, and other interested parties; also includes measures designed to monitor feedback from media, public, and other groups to ensure the system participants are aware of required actions in response to detected problems

Joint Management Center (JMC): Focal point for coordination and management of emergency response activities, in conjunction with Federal, state and local requirements and priorities. See also Joint Operations Center

Joint Operations Center (JOC): Focal point for management of onsite activities, coordination and establishment of state requirements and priorities, as well as coordination of Federal response; typically established by Lead Federal Agency (LFA) and are under operational control of the Federal On-Scene Commander. See also Federal On-Scene Commander

Joint Transportation Office: Established under a Joint Management Center to procure commercial transportation, issue documentation, manage commercial funding, and provide quality assurance

Journaling: Logging changes or updates to a database since last full backup; used to recover previous versions of a file before updates were made; can facilitate disaster recovery, if performed remotely, by applying changes to the last safe backup. See also File Shadowing, Data Replication, Disk Mirroring

Jump Bag: Container with key items needed to respond to an incident and to help mitigate effects of delayed reactions

Jurisdiction: Range or sphere of authority, based on public, private, local, state and/or Federal mandates; public agencies have jurisdiction at an incident related to their legal responsibilities and authority for incident mitigation; jurisdictional authority at an incident can be political/geographical (e.g., special district city, county, state or federal boundary lines), or functional (e.g., police department, health department, etc.). See Multi-jurisdiction Jurisdictional Agency: Agency with jurisdiction and responsibility for a specific geographical area, or a mandated function

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