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Field activities are DoD agencies which "perform a supply or service activity common to more than one military department". [1] Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) Defense Technology Security Administration (DTSA) Department of Defense Education Activity (DOD EA) Department of Defense Test Resource Management Center (DOD TRMC)
Of the 52 Defense components and the many offices and commands within those components, [41] three entities are §2302(c) certified: The U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Inspector General, the Naval Research Laboratory Office of the Inspector General, and the United States Air Force's 375th Airlift Wing headquartered at Scott Air Force ...
The Department of Defense Inspector General was established in 1982. The mission of DoD IG; as established by the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended, (5 U.S.C. Appendix); and implemented by DoD Directive 5106.01, "Inspector General of the Department of Defense", is to serve as an independent and objective office in DoD to:
The President of the United States is, according to the Constitution, the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces and Chief Executive of the Federal Government. The Secretary of Defense is the "Principal Assistant to the President in all matters relating to the Department of Defense", and is vested with statutory authority (10 U.S.C. § 113) to lead the Department and all of its component ...
The Office for the Administrative Review of the Detention of Enemy Combatants, established in 2004 by the Bush administration's Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, [1] is a United States military body responsible for organising Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRT) for captives held in extrajudicial detention at the Guantanamo Bay detention camps in Cuba and annual Administrative ...
North Dakota lawmakers chose not to ban the plant-based substance kratom, but one lawmaker indicated a bill to regulate the substance is in the works. House Bill 1101 would have added mitragynine ...
[12] In contrast, GAO reports show that the Defense Department's 2,200 overlapping financial systems cost $18 billion a year to operate. [5] In March 2016, the Project on Government Oversight reported that, "The Department of Defense remains the only federal agency that can't get a clean audit". DoD sources said, "I think we are on the right ...
Previous National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The Department of National Defence was established by the National Defence Act, which merged the Department of Militia and Defence (which was created in 1906 when the British Army withdrew its forces stationed in Canada), the Department of Naval Services (the department responsible for the administration of the Royal Canadian ...