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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