Department of Defense

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary, The Pentagon, Washington, DC 20301-1155

Phone, 703-545-6700. Internet, www.defenselink.mil.

SECRETARY OF DEFENSE Donald H. Rumsfeld

Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul D. Wolfowitz

Chief of Staff (vacancy)

The Special Assistant to the Jaymie Durnan

Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense

Special Assistant to the Secretary Jacqueline G. Arends

of Defense for White House Liaison

Special Assistant to the Secretary (vacancy)

and Deputy Secretary of Defense for Protocol

Director, Defense Reform Initiative (vacancy)

Executive Secretary Col. Maria I. Cribbs, USAF

Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Edward C. Aldridge, Technology, and Logistics Jr.

Principal Deputy Under Secretary of David R. Oliver, Jr.

Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics

Deputy Under Secretary of Defense David R. Oliver, Jr.

(Acquisition and Technology)

Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (vacancy)

(Logistics and Materiel Readiness)

Director, Defense Research and (vacancy)

Engineering

Assistant to the Secretary of (vacancy)

Defense for Nuclear and Chemical and Biological

(NCB) Defense Programs

Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (vacancy)

(Acquisition Reform)

Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Joseph J. Eash III

(Advanced Systems and Concepts)

Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Sherri W. Goodman

(Environmental Security)

Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (vacancy)

(Industrial Affairs)

Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Randall A. Yim

(Installations)

Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Delores Etter

(Science and Technology)

Director, Small and Disadvantaged Robert L. Neal, Jr.

Business Utilization

Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (vacancy)

Principal Deputy Under Secretary of (vacancy)

Defense for Policy

Assistant Secretary of Defense (vacancy)

(International Security

Assistant Secretary of Defense (vacancy)

(Special Operations and Low-

Intensity Conflict)

Assistant Secretary of Defense (vacancy)

(Strategy and Threat Reduction)

Deputy Under Secretary of Defense David Tarbell

(Technology Security Policy)

Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Peter F. Verga

(Policy Support)

Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and David S.C. Chu

Readiness

Assistant Secretary of Defense Charles S. Abell

(Force Management Policy)

Assistant Secretary of Defense (vacancy)

(Health Affairs)

Assistant Secretary of Defense (vacancy)

(Reserve Affairs)

Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (vacancy)

(Planning)

Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Jeanne Fites

(Program Integration)

Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (vacancy)

(Readiness)

Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)/Chief Dov S. Zakheim

Financial Officer

Principal Deputy Under Secretary (vacancy)

(Comptroller)

Director, Program Analysis and Barry D. Watts

Evaluation

Assistant Secretary of Defense (Command, (vacancy)

Control, Communications, and Intelligence)

Assistant Secretary of Defense (Legislative Powell A. Moore

Affairs)

Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) Victoria Clarke

General Counsel William J. Haynes II

Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (vacancy)

Inspector General (vacancy)

Assistant to the Secretary of Defense George B. Lotz II

(Intelligence Oversight)

Director of Administration and Management D.O. Cooke

Director, Net Assessment Andrew W. Marshall

Joint Chiefs of Staff

Chairman Gen. Henry H. Shelton, USA

Vice Chairman Gen. Richard B. Myers, USAF

Chief of Staff, Army Gen. Eric K. Shinseki, USA

Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Vernon E. Clark, USN

Chief of Staff, Air Force Gen. Michael E. Ryan, USAF

Commandant, Marine Corps Gen. James L. Jones, USMC

Joint Staff

Director Vice Adm. Scott A. Fry, USN

Vice Director Maj. Gen. Garry R. Trexler, USAF

Director for Manpower and Brig. Gen. Robert L. Personnel--J-1 Smolen, USAF

Director, Intelligence--J-2 Rear Adm. Lowell E. Jacoby, USN

Director for Operations--J-3 Lt. Gen. Gregory S. Newbold, USMC

Director for Logistics--J-4 Lt. Gen. John M. McDuffie, USA

Director for Strategic Plans and Lt. Gen. John P. Policy--J-5 Abizaid, USA

Director for Command, Control, Lt. Gen. Joseph K. Communications, and Computer Kellogg, Jr., Systems--J-6 USA

Director for Operational Plans and Maj. Gen. Henry P. Interoperability--J-7 Osman, USMC

Director for Force Structure, Lt. Gen. Bruce A. Resources, and Assessment-- Carlson, USAF

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The Department of Defense is responsible for providing the military forces needed to deter war and protect the security of our country.

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The major elements of these forces are the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force, consisting of about 1.4 million men and women on active duty. They are backed, in case of emergency, by the 1 million members of the Reserve and National Guard. In addition, there are about 700,000 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 defense agencies and field activities 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.

Structure

The Department of Defense is composed of the Office of the Secretary of Defense; 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 defense agencies; DOD field activities; and such other offices, agencies, activities, and commands as may be established or designated by law, or by the President or the Secretary of Defense.

Each military department is separately organized under its own Secretary and functions under the authority, direction, and control of the Secretary of Defense. The Secretary of each military department is responsible to the Secretary of Defense for the operation and efficiency of his department. Orders to the military departments are issued through the Secretaries...