Maximale AIS (Abbreviated Injury Scale)

Major Automated Information Systems. An AIS acquisition program that is designated by Assistant Secretary of Defense (Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence) (ASD(C3I)) as a MAIS, or estimated to require program costs in any single year in excess of 32 million in fiscal year(FY)2000 constant dollars, total program costs in excess of 126 million in FY2000 constant dollars, or total life cycle costs in excess of 378 million in FY2000 constant dollars. MAISs do not include highly sensitive classified programs (as determined by the Secretary of Defense), or tactical communication systems. For the purpose of determining whether an AIS is a MAIS, the following shall be aggregated and considered a single AIS: the separate AISs that constitute a multi-element program; the separate AISs that make up an evolutionary or incrementally developed program; or the separate AISs that make up a multi-DoD component ASI program (DoDI 5000.2).

mice corn

French corn

corn millet miglio

maisonette

'well', a common way for a Cajun to begin a sentence.