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Originally Posted by IROC View Post
I was in a meeting with the military once and they were talking about phasing out a particular weapons system. They said they were going to "sunset it". It seemed odd to use "sunset" as a verb.
We also call it, "sundowning".

DoD acquisition speak is formitable:

- "Tee it up" is big these days, as in, "let's tee that idea up ..." How about we tee up never saying tee up again.
- "Enterprise resource management/planning" . Sounds dandy, but no one is quite sure WTF it means.

So many more...
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