Our executive summaries routinely generate responses from the 3- and 4-star general/flag officers and their civilian equivalents.

NRO's technology is likely more advanced than its civilian equivalents.

Any commander Colonel and above, or civilian equivalent may approve this award.

Now he was returning as the winter site manager, the civilian equivalent of a ship's captain.

Ms. McFarland's campaign said that she had claimed only to be the civilian equivalent of "a two-and-a-half-star general."

It is the civilian equivalent to the Victoria Cross.

The civilian equivalent is a business suit.

They were the civilian equivalents of himself.

Almost a dozen bills before Congress would create a civilian equivalent of Darpa.

The civilian equivalent is the Hazmat suit.