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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE Office of the Secretary, The Pentagon, Washington, DC 20301–1155 Phone, 703-545-6700 SECRETARY OF DEFENSE Deputy Secretary of Defense Special Assistants to the Secretary and Executive Secretary Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology Director, Defense Research and Engineering Nuclear and Chemical and Biological Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Space) (Advanced Technology) Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Environmental Security) Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Logistics) Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition Reform) Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (International and Commercial Programs) Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Industrial Affairs and Installations) Director, Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Assistant Secretary of Defense (Strategy, Director of Net Assessment Assistant Secretary of Defense (Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict) Defense Adviser, U.S. Mission NATO Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and WILLIAM J. PERRY JOHN P. WHITE ROBERT B. HALL, SCOTT A. HARRIS, COL. ROBERT P. MCALEER, USMC NOEL LONGUEMARE, JR. ANITA K. JONES ROBERT V. Davis SHERRI W. GOODMAN JOHN F. PHILLIPS COLLEEN A. PRESTON PAUL J. HOEPER JOHN B. GOODMAN SUSAN E. HALEY, Acting WALTER B. SLOCOMBE FREDERICK C. SMITH, Acting ASHTON B. CARTER EDWARD L. Warner III ANDREW W. MARSHALL H. ALLEN HOLMES CATHERINE KELLERHER LINTON WELLS II EDWIN DORN Director for Force Structure, Resources, and Assessment-18 REAR ADM. FRANCIS W. LACROIX, USN For the Department of Defense statement of organization, see the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 32, Chapter 1, Subchapter R) The Department of Defense is responsible for providing the military forces needed to deter war and protect the security of our country. The major elements of these forces are the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force, consisting of about 1.5 million men and women on active duty. They are backed, in case of emergency, by the 1 million members of the Reserve components. In addition, there are about 900,000 civilian employees in the Defense Department. Under the President, who is also Commander in Chief, the Secretary of Defense exercises authority, direction, and control over the Department, which includes the separately organized military departments of Army, Navy, and Air Force, the Joint Chiefs of Staff providing military advice, the unified combatant commands, and various defense agencies established for specific purposes. The National Security Act Amendments of 1949 redesignated the National Military Establishment as the Department of Defense and established it as an executive department (10 U.S.C. 111), with the Secretary of Defense as its head. Since that time, many legislative and administrative changes have occurred, evolving the Department into the structure under which it currently operates. Structure The Department of Defense is composed of the Office of the Secretary of Detense; the military departments and the military services within those departments; the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Joint Staff: the unified combatant commands, the Detense agencies: DOD field activities, and such other offices, agencies, activities, and commands as may be established or designatec by law o by the President of the Secretary o' Defense In providing immediate staf assistance and advice to the Secretary of Detense the Office of the Secretary of Detense and the Chairmar of the loin: Chiefs of Stafi and the loin: Stafi though senaratek identified and organized function in tul coordination anc cooperation. The Office of the Secretary of Defense includes the offices of the Deputy Secretary of Defense: the Under Secretary of Defense to Acquisition and Technology; the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)/Chief Financial Officer; the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness; the Director of Defense Research and Engineering; Assistant Secretaries of Defense; the General Counsel; the Inspector General; the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation; and such other staff offices as the Secretary of Defense establishes to assist him in carrying out his duties and responsibilities. The heads of these offices are staff advisers to the Secretary and perform such functions as he assigns to them. The Joint Chiefs of Staff consist of the Chairman; the Vice Chairman: the Chief of Staff LS. Army: the Chief of Naval Operations the Chief of Staff U.S. Air Force: and the Commandant of the Marine Corps. Supported subiect to the authority of the Chairman, by the joint Stafi they constitute the immediate militan staf of the Secretary of Detense. The Chairman is the principal military adviser to the President the Nationa Security Council and the Secretary of Detense The other members of the loint Chiets of Stat are the senior military officers of the respective services and are military advisers to the President the National Security Counci, and the Secretan o Detense. The Vice Charmmar o'the lo as Chairman, in the a "man. |