Reachback

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Reachback

The ability of a tax shelter or limited partnership to deduct certain costs and expenses at the end of the year that were incurred throughout the entire year.

Reachback

The ability for a tax shelter or limited partnership to wait until the end of a calendar year to apply deductions or credits it incurred over the entire previous year.

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While much has been written and revealed about contractual abuses, fraud, and mismanagement, the overwhelming majority of personnel, both military and civilian, deployed and performing reachback operations, in support of contingency contracting operations are hard working, well-trained professionals to whom we owe a huge "thank-you" for the dedication and caring they bring to the support of contingency operations.

The misperception of contingency contracting

Reachback would then be used only for the hardest-to-resolve cases.

Chapter 2. Advanced technologies: GADRAS: a gamma-ray spectrum analysis application using multiple algorithms

In a matter of days after the reachback effort started, the LOGCAP office took on over $1 billion in annual requirements.

Contracting agility in LOGCAP-Kuwait: to end fraud and waste in contracting and improve support to Soldiers, the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program in Kuwait has expanded its responsibilities beyond supporting the LOGCAP contract

They are also responsible for directing sensors for optimal effects and guiding exploitation at reachback sites.

Transforming Air Force ISR for the long war and beyond

In the Second Gulf War, the Air Force employed a "reachback" concept that allowed on-site commanders to tap into intelligence and logistics experts back in the U.S.--a kind of reverse offshoring that reduced the number of troops in the war zone requiring housing, food and protection.

Military pinstripes: all hoopla aside, the Armed Forces are getting serious about learning from business

There is value in developing support capabilities away from front lines, relying on so-called reachback technology.

Transforming the United States global defense posture

There is value in developing support capabilities away from front lines--relying on so-called "reachback" technology.

Transforming the U.S. global defense posture

Communication systems must have maximum reachback capability.

Special operators seeking a technological advantage

A key feature of the emerging Air Force way of war is the notion of "reachback." This is keeping with the idea that the size of the forward deployed force will be kept as small as possible.

The revolution in military legal affairs: Air Force legal professionals in 21st century conflicts

While some personnel in the major commands may be skeptical about the operational value of an entity that calls itself a battlelab, the IWBL has already performed one demonstration of its capabilities for the AFIWC called SCI Reachback. According to IWBL personnel, IW Support Teams (IWSTs) deployed from the AFIWC will sometimes arrive at their destination without any Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) connectivity the bread and butter of AIA field operations.

IW Battlelab to go operational this month

Another group that used our advertising pages to great PR advantage was a West Virginia business organization called Reachback Coalition.

The power of advocacy advertising in newspapers

This architecture will also provide a reachback or "anchor point" of intelligence data and information for the USARAF/USAFRICOM area of operations.