United States Department of Defense

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The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is headed by Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. According to the Department's web site (http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/dod101/dod101_for_2002.html):

• The Army, Navy, and Marine Corps were established in 1775, in concurrence with the American Revolution. The War Department was established in 1789, and was the precursor to what is now the Department of Defense.
• The Department of the Navy, and the U.S. Coast Guard, were founded in 1798.
• Congress, in 1947, established a civilian, Cabinet-level Secretary of Defense to oversee an also newly created National Military Establishment.
• The U.S. Air Force was also created, along with a new Department of the Air Force. The War Department was converted to the Department of the Army.
• Finally, the three services, Army, Navy, and Air Force, were placed under the direct control of the new Secretary of Defense.
• In 1949, an amendment to the Act consolidated further the national defense structure, creating what we now know as the Department of Defense, and withdrawing cabinet-level status for the three Service secretaries.

Table of contents

1 Defense Agencies (and Related Links) 2 Personnel 3 Contact Information 4 SourceWatch Resources 5 External Links

Defense Agencies (and Related Links)

From the Defense Department website (http://www.defenselink.mil/sites/a.html#agencies):

• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
• Defense Commissary Agency (DECA)
• Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA)
• Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA)
• Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS)
• Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)
• Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
• Defense Legal Services Agency (DLSA)
• Defense Logistics Agency (DLA)
• Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA)
• Defense Security Service (DSS)
• Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)
• Missile Defense Agency (MDA)
• National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA)
• National Security Agency (NSA)
• Pentagon Force Protection Agency

Personnel

• Eric Ruff, DoD Spokesman

Contact Information

Website: http://www.defenselink.mil/

SourceWatch Resources

• American Forces Radio and Television Service
• Advanced Research and Development Activity
• Anita K. Blair
• Army War College
• Bureau of International Security Affairs
• Bush administration
• Combined Press Information Center (CPIC in Iraq)
• Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA)
• Defense Criminal Investigative Service
• Defense Planning Board
• Defense Policy Board
• Department of Justice
• Department of State
• Freedom of Information Act
• George W. Bush's domestic spying
• Homeland Security government agencies and programs
• Information Awareness Office
• Iraqi Media Engagement Team (IMET)
• Joint Intelligence Operational Command
• Institute for National Strategic Studies
• List of intelligence agencies
• national defense links
• National Defense Strategy
• national security organizations
• National War College
• Naval War College
• Novel Intelligence from Massive Data
• Office of Force Transformation
• Office of Net Assessment
• Office of Special Plans
• Office of Strategic Influence
• Pentagon Channel
• Strategic Support Branch
• USAF Institute for National Security Studies

External Links

• John Eggerton, "DOD's Big Flack Attack (http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA511831.html?display=Breaking+News)", Broadcasting & Cable, March 20, 2005. (Sub req'd). In response to a Freedom of Information request from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) the Defense Department stated that it at least 3000 line items related to PR contracts.
• Erica Iacono, "DoD requests audit of all PR contracts amid web debate (http://www.prweek.com/news/news_worldwire.cfm?ID=235377&site=3)", PR Week (sub. req'd.), February 14, 2005.

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