Challenges to national defence in contemporary geopolitical situation

This paper substantiates the need to standardize terminology governance in the Armed Forces of Ukraine as a strategic component of defence standardization, multilingual military communication, and interoperability. Based on an author-developed draft framework entitled “Terminological Work. Fundamental Principles” the study reconstructs a unified model of terminology management based on the stages of collection, description, processing, and presentation. Particular attention is paid to translation-oriented terminography, terminology databases, and concept harmonization in Ukrainian-English military communication. The article suggests that regulated terminology management improves the quality of standards, translations, doctrinal texts, and digital language resources, thereby strengthening institutional memory, conceptual coherence, and operational compatibility with NATO partners.