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What does IWS stand for?

Individual Weapon System


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Samples in periodicals archive:
The new MILES Individual Weapon System, or MILES IWS, is manufactured by Cubic Defense Applications, the defense systems business of Cubic Corporation and features lighter weight components to lighten the load of Soldiers on the move during combat training exercises.
Approximately 1,100 individual weapon system programs were assessed for a computed net book value of about $300 billion.
Your efforts also identified areas where we needed to adjust policy and employ international standards to ensure individual weapon system support strategies fit within our overall support structure for the joint force and coalition operations.
Using these few examples it becomes apparent that the trained foot soldier can act as a more efficient individual weapon system as well as amplifying the individual's subsystem importance within an overall unit-based weapon system.
The experiments covered everything from headquarters command and control to individual weapon systems.
The need to better understand the cost per flying hour resulted in a new spares requirement based on annual projected consumption of spares and repair parts by individual weapon systems.
The company is also supplying a next-generation MILES Individual Weapon System (IWS) to the U.
Early in the phase of an acquisition program, DSMs holding the single-manager title lack a true peer who is the proponent for long-term sustainment of individual weapon systems and the Air Force enterprise as a whole.

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