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DEPARTMENT of DEFENSE Office of the Secretary, the Pentagon, Washington, DC 20301–1155 Phone, 703–545–6700 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE Office of the Secretary, The Pentagon, Washington, DC 20301–1155 Phone, 703–545–6700. Internet, www.defenselink.mil. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE ROBERT M. GATES DEPUTY SECRETARY OF DEFENSE WILLIAM LYNN III Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, ASHTON B. CARTER Technology, and Logistics Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Business PAUL A. BRINKLEY Transformation) Deputy Under Secretary of Defense LOUIS W. ARNY III (Installations and Environment) Under Secretary of Defense for Policy MICHELE FLOURNOY Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense JAMES N. MILLER, JR. for Policy Assistant Secretary of Defense (International ALEXANDER R. VERSHBOW Security Affairs) Assistant Secretary of Defense (Special MICHAEL VICKERS Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict) Assistant Secretary of Defense (Homeland (VACANCY) Defense and America’s Security) Assistant Secretary of Defense (Global Strategic JOSEPH BENKERT Affairs Assistant Secretary of Defense (Asian and (VACANCY) Pacific Security Affairs) Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Plans) JANINE DAVIDSON Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (VACANCY) (Technology Security Policy/Counter Proliferation) Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Strategy, KATHLEEN HICKS Plans and Forces) Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Policy PETER VERGA Integration and Chief of Staff) Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense WILLIAM J. CARR, Acting for Personnel and Readiness Assistant Secretary of Defense (Reserve Affairs) DAVID L. MCGINNIS, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Reserve JENNIFER C. BUCK Affairs) Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Program JEANNE FITES Integration) Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Readiness) SAMUEL D. KLEINMAN Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Military WILLIAM J. CARR Personnel Policy) Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Military ARTHUR J. MYERS, Acting Community and Family Policy) Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Plans) GAIL H. MCGINN Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)/Chief ROBERT F. HALE Financial Officer 146 VerDate Nov 24 2008 15:47 Sep 23, 2009 Jkt 217558 PO 00000 Frm 00146 Fmt 6995 Sfmt 6995 M:\GOVMAN\217558\217558.026 APPS06 PsN: 217558 dkrause on GSDDPC29 with $$_JOB DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 147 Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense MICHAEL J. MCCORD (Comptroller) Under Secretary of Defense (Intelligence) JAMES R. CLAPPER, JR. Assistant Secretary of Defense (Networks and JOHN G. GRIMES Information Integration)/Chief Information Officer Assistant Secretary of Defense (Legislative (VACANCY) Affairs) Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) ROBERT L. HASTINGS, Acting General Counsel JEH CHARLES JOHNSON Director, Operational Test and Evaluation CHARLES E. MCQUEARY Principal Deputy Director for Operational Test DAVID W. DUMA and Evaluation Inspector General GORDON S. HEDDELL, Acting Director of Administration and Management MICHAEL L. RHODES, Acting Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman ADM. MICHAEL G. MULLEN, USN Vice Chairman GEN. JAMES E. CARTWRIGHT, USMC Chief of Staff, Army GEN. GEORGE W. CASEY, JR., USA Chief of Naval Operations ADM. GARY ROUGHEAD, USN Chief of Staff, Air Force GEN. NORTON A. SCHWARTZ, USAF Commandant, Marine Corps GEN. JAMES T. CONWAY, USMC [For the Department of Defense statement of organization, see the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 32, Chapter I, 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 1.3 million men and women on active duty. They are backed, in case of emergency, by the 825,000 members of the Reserve and National Guard. In addition, there are about 600,000 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 combatant commands, and defense agencies and field activities established for specific purposes. The National Security Act Amendments the defense agencies; DOD field of 1949 redesignated the National activities; and such other offices, Military Establishment as the Department agencies, activities, and commands as of Defense and established it as an may be established or designated by executive department (10 U.S.C. 111), law, or by the President or the Secretary headed by the Secretary of Defense. of Defense. Each military department is separately Structure organized under its own Secretary and The Department of Defense is composed functions under the authority, direction, of the Office of the Secretary of Defense; and control of the Secretary of Defense. the military departments and the military The Secretary of each military services within those departments; the department is responsible to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of Defense for the operation the Joint Staff; the combatant commands; and efficiency of his department. Orders VerDate Nov 24 2008 15:53 Oct 26, 2009 Jkt 217588 PO 00000 Frm 00147 Fmt 6995 Sfmt 6995 C:\JIM\GOVT MANUAL\LOC\217558.026 217558 dkrause on GSDDPC29 with $$_JOB dkrause on GSDDPC29 with $$_JOB VerDate Nov 242008 15:47 Sep 23, 2009 Jkt217558 PO00000 Frm00148 Fmt6995 Sfmt6995 M:\GOVMAN\217558\217558.026 APPS06 PsN: 217558 148 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE U . S DEPUTY SECRETARY OF DEFENSE . GOVERNMENT MANUAL DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY INSPECTOR GENERAL JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF OF DEFENSE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY SECRETARY OF THE NAVY SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE CHAIRMAN, JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF UNDER THE JOINT STAFF UNDER UNDER SECRETARY UNDER SECRETARIES SECRETARY SECRETARY CHIEF OF CHIEF OF COMMANDANT AND CHIEF OF ASSISTANT SECRETARIES VICE CHAIRMAN, AND AND STAFF NAVAL OF MARINE ASSISTANT STAFF OF DEFENSE ASSISTANT ASSISTANT JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF ARMY OPERATIONS CORPS SECRETARIES AIR FORCE AND EQUIVALENTS SECRETARIES SECRETARIES CHIEF OF STAFF, ARMY OF THE OF THE ARMY OF THE NAVY AIR FORCE CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS CHIEF OF STAFF, AIR FORCE COMMANDANT, MARINE CORPS MARINE AIR FORCE ARMY MAJOR NAVY MAJOR CORPS MAJOR MAJOR COMMANDS COMMANDS COMMANDS COMMANDS AND AND AND AND AGENCIES AGENCIES AGENCIES AGENCIES DEFENSE AGENCIES COMBATANT COMMANDS DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FIELD ACTIVITIES DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY AFRICA COMMAND DEFENSE MEDIA ACTIVITY DEFENSE BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION AGENCY CENTRAL COMMAND DEFENSE PRISONERS OF WAR / MILITARY POLICE OFFICE EUROPEAN COMMAND DEFENSE COMMISSARY AGENCY DEFENSE TECHNICAL INFORMATION CENTER JOINT FORCES COMMAND DEFENSE CONTRACT AUDIT AGENCY DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY SECURITY ADMINISTRATION NORTHERN COMMAND DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE EDUCATION ACTIVITY DEFENSE CONTRACT MANAGEMENT AGENCY PACIFIC COMMAND DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE HUMAN RESOURCES DEFENSE FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING SERVICE SOUTHERN COMMAND ACTIVITY DEFENSE INFORMATION SYSTEMS AGENCY SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE TEST RESOURCE DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY STRATEGIC COMMAND MANAGEMENT CENTER DEFENSE LEGAL SERVICES AGENCY TRANSPORTATION COMMAND OFFICE OF ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY TRICARE MANAGEMENT ACTIVITY DEFENSE SECURITY COOPERATION AGENCY WASHINGTON HEADQUARTERS SERVICES DEFENSE SECURITY SERVICE DEFENSE THREAT REDUCTION AGENCY MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY NATIONAL GEOSPATIAL-INTELLIGENCE AGENCY NATIONAL RECONNAISSANCE OFFICE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY/CENTRAL SECURITY SERVICE PENTAGON FORCE PROTECTION AGENCY E21fiMDSUfl7558fiMDNMfl.014 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 149 to the military departments are issued command authority over forces assigned through the Secretaries of these to them. The operational chain of departments or their designees, by the command runs from the President to the Secretary of Defense, or under authority Secretary of Defense to the commanders specifically delegated in writing by the of the combatant commands. The Secretary of Defense or provided by law. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff The commanders of the combatant functions within the chain of command commands are responsible to the by transmitting the orders of the President and the Secretary of Defense President or the Secretary of Defense to for accomplishing the military missions the commanders of the combatant assigned to them and exercising commands. Office of the Secretary of Defense Secretary of Defense The Secretary of Networks and Information Integration Defense is the principal defense policy The Assistant Secretary of Defense adviser to the President and is (Networks and Information Integration) is responsible for the formulation of the principal staff assistant and adviser to general defense policy and policy related the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of to DOD, and for the execution of Defense for achieving and maintaining approved policy. Under the direction of information superiority in support of the President, the Secretary exercises DOD missions, while exploiting or authority, direction, and control over the denying an adversary’s ability to do the Department of Defense. same. The Assistant Secretary of Defense Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics also serves as the Chief Information The Under Secretary of Defense for Officer. Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics is Personnel and Readiness The Under the principal staff assistant and adviser to Secretary of Defense
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