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MINDEF's medical classification approach; its refreshed form gives more specific medical fitness, exemption and basic-training information than a single PES status for affected cohorts.
Systems essential to core operations whose failure could cause severe operational, safety or service consequences.
A MINDEF department providing corporate services and organisational support.
A common contract template designed to shorten legal and contracting timelines for sponsored clinical trials across public healthcare clusters.
The MINDEF entity designated to procure, manage or support goods and services commonly used across multiple units.
Singapore's principal legislation controlling dangerous drugs and providing for offences, enforcement and penalties relating to drug abuse and trafficking.
A course designed to strengthen managers' leadership, people-management and organisational capabilities.
The ministry responsible for digital development, information policy, media, public communications and the digital economy.
An SAF career and rank scheme that develops personnel with deep professional expertise in specialised military domains.
Technology for centrally configuring, securing, monitoring and managing mobile devices used by an organisation.
A MINDEF office responsible for dispatch, courier and internal document-delivery services.
A smaller-scale development project managed under simplified or lower-value governance arrangements.
A meeting for governance, review or coordination of MINDEF digital systems.
An MPA-developed shared environment that combines real-time and historical port data with simulation and modelling tools so agencies, industry and researchers can test scenarios, validate concepts and reduce decision risk.
A budget or funding provision used for minor development projects.
Worker holding a Work Permit to perform domestic work in a Singapore household.
A geographic portfolio covering the Middle East and related regional issues.
The entry substantive rank in the SAF Military Domain Experts Scheme.
A trainee stage for personnel preparing for appointment as a Military Expert 1.
A junior rank in the SAF Military Domain Experts Scheme, above Military Expert 1.
A mid-level rank in the SAF Military Domain Experts Scheme.
A commissioned-level rank in the SAF Military Domain Experts Scheme.
An apprentice stage for personnel progressing towards appointment as a Military Expert 4.
A trainee preparing for appointment as a Military Expert 4.
A senior professional rank in the SAF Military Domain Experts Scheme, below Military Expert 6.
A senior rank in the SAF Military Domain Experts Scheme, below Military Expert 7.
A senior rank in the SAF Military Domain Experts Scheme, below Military Expert 8.
A very senior rank in the SAF Military Domain Experts Scheme, below Military Expert 9.
The highest rank in the SAF Military Domain Experts Scheme.
The RSN formation that provides medical support for naval operations and maintains the medical competency of operational medical teams and RSN personnel afloat and ashore.
Singapore's national media company, operating television, radio, digital and entertainment services.
A government endowment fund providing a safety net for needy Singaporeans who cannot afford their medical bills after other means are used.
Outpatient MediSave scheme with annual withdrawal limits of $500 for eligible non-complex chronic conditions and $700 for eligible complex chronic conditions.
A mandatory scheme that rates regulated household appliances by energy efficiency.
The International Maritime Organization committee responsible for ship-source pollution, emissions and marine environmental protection.
Minimum energy-efficiency requirements that regulated products must meet before sale.
Singapore's real-time gross settlement system for large-value interbank payments and securities transactions.
An IRAS-administered scheme that alleviates import-GST cash-flow pressure for businesses that substantially re-export their imports.
An alternative name for Central European Summer Time, at UTC+2.
A list of the tasks a unit or capability must perform successfully to accomplish its mission.
The former ministry responsible for environmental and water policy before it was renamed MSE.
The ministry responsible for Singapore's foreign policy, diplomacy and relations with other countries and international organisations.
An authentication method requiring two or more independent forms of evidence before access is granted.
An SAF fitness-conditioning centre located at Maju Camp.
A plan coordinating digitalisation priorities across a ministry and its related agencies or statutory boards.
A MINDEF unit that receives, routes and follows up on feedback and enquiries.
A senior general-officer rank above Brigadier-General and below Lieutenant-General in the Singapore Armed Forces.
A package of healthcare subsidies and other benefits for eligible older Singaporeans, principally those born from 1950 to 1959.
An HDB priority scheme that allowed parents and children to jointly apply for flats in the same BTO project.
The ministry responsible for internal security, law and order, border security, emergency services and corrections.