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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 ...
Career deputy assistant secretaries are generally appointed by the secretary who heads the department. Non-career SESs are appointed by the President of the United States and are assigned to specific department. [2] In sub-cabinet agencies, headed by an administrator or director rather than a secretary, a comparable position is referred to as a ...
The Department of Defense proposed having 10 of the DUSDs report to an Assistant Secretary of Defense and would be changed to Deputy Assistant Secretaries of Defense. This required redesignating a Director as Assistant Secretaries of Defense, in accordance with the reports plan of standardizing titles, under whom four of the former DUSDs would ...
Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Plans & Requirements (A5/8) (O-9) Chief Information Officer (SAF/CN) (Senior Executive Service) Director for Studies & Analyses, Assessments and Lessons Learned (A9) (Senior Executive Service) Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Deterrence and Nuclear Integration (A10) (O-9) Judge Advocate General (O-9)
The highest-ranking military officer in the department is the chief of staff of the Army, who is also a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Other senior officials of the department are the under secretary of the Army (principal deputy to the secretary) and the vice chief of staff of the Army (principal deputy to the chief of staff.)
A military staff or general staff (also referred to as army staff, navy staff, or air staff within the individual services) is a group of officers, enlisted, and civilian staff who serve the commander of a division or other large military unit in their command and control role through planning, analysis, and information gathering, as well as by relaying, coordinating, and supervising the ...
In the units of some military forces, the executive officer is the second-in-command, reporting to the commanding officer (CO). In most non-naval military services that are land-based (except the U.S. Army, where an executive officer is the second-in-command of certain units) or in joint military organizations, the executive officer is an ...
In the United States, the rank of Under Secretary denotes a high-level civilian official within the United States federal government.An official of sub-Cabinet rank, Under Secretaries are appointed by the President of the United States with the consent of the United States Senate and are assigned to assist a specific Cabinet Secretary.