Composite Groupings of types of duty for the purpose of sea shore rotation (1 = Shore, 3 = Sea Duty, 4 = Submarine Duty)
A type of managed care organization created to facilitate the enrollment of Medicare beneficiaries into managed care plans CMPs are organized and financed much like HMOs but are not bound by all the regulatory requirements facing HMOs
(Congestion Management Program) is an integrated approach to programming transportation improvements This approach requires detailed consideration of the complex relationships among transportation, land use and air quality
Command Module Pilot The CMP is the second in command of the mission and remains on board the command module while the commander and lunar module pilot descend to the lunar surface in the LM He occupies the left seat in the command module during launch and cruise
Container-Managed Persistence: An Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) term for automatically managed database interaction In a nutshell, it means the J2EE container (also known as an application server) will automatically save and load your EJB's to and from the database, thus saving you the tedious and error-prone job of writing JDBC code yourself
corrugated metal pipe, generally galvanised and/or tarred for corrosion resistance
Common Mid Point; having the same midpoint between source and detector A recording-processing method where each source is recorded at a number of geophone locations and each geophone location is used to record from a number of source locations These data are corrected for normal moveout and combined (stacked) to provide a CMP section that simulates the traces that would be recorded by a coincident source and geophone