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The secretary of defense, appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, is by federal law (10 U.S.C. § 113) the head of the Department of Defense, "the principal assistant to the President in all matters relating to Department of Defense", and has "authority, direction and control over the Department of Defense".
Lloyd James Austin III (born August 8, 1953) is a retired United States Army officer and current civil servant who has served as the 28th United States secretary of defense since January 22, 2021. Before retiring from the military in 2016, Austin served as the 12th commander of United States Central Command (CENTCOM), beginning in March 2013. [1]
At the age of 43, Rumsfeld became the youngest person to serve as United States Secretary of Defense as of 2024. [55] Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and President Ford share a laugh in a Cabinet meeting, 1975. Rumsfeld with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General George S. Brown at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on ...
William Sebastian Cohen (born August 28, 1940) is an American lawyer, author, and politician from the U.S. state of Maine.A Republican, Cohen served as both a member of the United States House of Representatives (1973–1979) and Senate (1979–1997), and as Secretary of Defense (1997–2001) under Democratic President Bill Clinton.
By 2019, the 27th secretary of defense had begun a line-by-line review of the defense budget; in 2020 the secretary identified items amounting to $5.7 billion, out of a $106 billion subtotal (the so-called "fourth estate" agencies such as missile defense, and defense intelligence, amounting to 16% of the defense budget), [38] [39] He will re ...
The Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) is a headquarters-level staff of the United States Department of Defense.It is the principal civilian staff element of the U.S. Secretary of Defense, and it assists the Secretary in carrying out authority, direction and control of the Department of Defense in the exercise of policy development, planning, resource management, fiscal, and program ...
Kathleen Anne Holland Hicks [1] [2] (born September 25, 1970) [1] [3] is an American civil servant who has served as the United States deputy secretary of defense since 2021. She is the first Senate-confirmed woman in this role and is the highest ranking woman to have served in the United States Department of Defense.
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs) Lester Martínez López: March 1, 2023 (Confirmed February 16, 2023, 61–34) [RC 16] — — Assistant Secretary of Defense (Manpower and Reserve Affairs) Ronald Keohane: March 13, 2024 (Confirmed March 6, 2024, 69–30) [RC 17] — — Assistant Secretary of Defense (Readiness) Shawn Skelly [40 ...