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Countersign
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The inscription of one's name at the end of a writing, done by a secretary or a subordinate, to attest to the fact that such a writing has been signed by a principal or a superior, thereby vouching for the genuineness of the signature. To write one's name at the end of a document—in addition to the inscription of a name by another—to attest to the authenticity of the signature.


COUNTERSIGN. To countersign is to sign on the opposite side of an instrument already signed by some other person or officer, in order to secure its character of a genuine paper; as a bank note is signed by the president and countersigned by the cashier.


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Of this 120 day time line, IPT #4 found that roughly eighteen days were spent by the military departments in sending paper copies of LOAs to DSCA; the DSCA staff reviewing them; the obtaining of State Department approval; physically countersigning them; and sending them back to the implementing agency.
At the time, we were looking for a solution to help address and define the internal processes around the claim tracking system between our back-end support teams in the Geneva headquarters, who are responsible for reviewing and countersigning client requests to ensure approval, and our traders in offshore offices who are working directly with our clients.
 
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