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A department (French: département, Spanish: departamento) is an administrative or political division in several countries. Departments are the first-level divisions of 11 countries, nine in the Americas and two in Africa .
In September 2021, Prime Minister Boris Johnson reverted the ministry to a department, renaming it the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and giving it the responsibility of overseeing his government's levelling up policy. It was then subsequently reverted to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government under the ...
The departmental seat of government is known as the prefecture (préfecture) or chef-lieu de département and is generally a town of some importance roughly at the geographical centre of the department. This was determined according to the time taken to travel on horseback from the periphery of the department.
These five divisions represent the major departments within a publicly traded company, though there are often smaller departments within autonomous firms. Many businesses have a CEO and a Board of Directors, usually composed of the directors of each department, potentially with the addition of one or more non-executive directors.
Office of the General Counsel of the Department of Defense; Office of the Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation; Office of the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation; Office of the Chief Information Officer of the Department of Defense; Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs
Executive non-departmental public bodies, which do work for the government in specific areas Advisory non-departmental public bodies , which provide independent and expert advice to ministers Tribunal non-departmental public bodies , which are part of the justice system and have jurisdiction over a specific area of the law
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 ...