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The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment (OUSD(A&S)) is focused on forming an acquisition system that moves at the speed of relevance, and to do that, has been shaped into an organization that provides a defense-wide adaptive acquisition framework from need identification to disposal.
The position is the principal advisor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, the Deputy Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Defense on matters relating to acquisition program management; the Department of Defense Acquisition System; and the development of strategic, space, intelligence, tactical warfare ...
2 November 2005 – 20 November 2007: Donald H. Rumsfeld Robert M. Gates: George W. Bush: Alan R. Shaffer: 21 November 2007 – 1 July 2009: Robert M. Gates: George W. Bush Barack Obama: Zachary J. Lemnios: 2 July 2009 – 7 January 2011: Robert M. Gates: Barack Obama: Assistant Secretary of Defense (Research and Engineering) Zachary J. Lemnios
Responsibility over installations and environmental affairs at the Defense Department was spread out across a variety of positions over time. Oversight for installations has been lumped together in the past with manpower, acquisition, and logistics functions (see, for example, the history of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Logistics and Materiel Readiness and the Assistant Secretary of ...
2 June 2017 [12] – 31 July 2019 Patrick M. Shanahan (Acting) Elaine McCusker (Acting) 31 July 2019 – 26 June 2020: Mark Esper: Thomas Harker (Acting) 26 June 2020 [17] – 9 April 2021 Anne McAndrew (Acting) 9 April 2021 – 3 June 2021: Lloyd Austin: Joe Biden: Michael J. McCord: 3 June 2021 – 20 January 2025 Anne McAndrew (Acting) 20 ...
As the principal logistics official within the senior management of the DoD, the ASD(Sustainment) exercises authority, direction and control over the director of the Defense Logistics Agency. Like all other Assistant Secretaries of Defense, the ASD(Sustainment) is considered a part of the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
Ellen M. Lord is an American businesswoman and government official who previously served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment in the first Trump administration. [2] She was previously the CEO of Textron Systems, a global aerospace, defense, security, and advanced technologies industrial conglomerate.
OLDCC is a Department of Defense field activity under the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD); more specifically, within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment (OUSD(A&S)), [2] and under the purview of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations and Environment.