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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 Office of the United States Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology (ASA(ALT) pronounced A-salt) is known as OASA(ALT).OASA(ALT) serves, when delegated, as the Army Acquisition Executive, the Senior Procurement Executive, the Science Advisor to the Secretary of the Army, and as the senior research and development official for the Department of the Army.
The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition has the following people reporting to them: [3] Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition Enablers; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategic, Space, and Intelligence Portfolio Management
SETA is an industry term, which the DoD has used since at least 1995, for example in the Software Engineering Institute; [1] 'Defense Acquisition Deskbook, "S"; the An Acronym List for the Information Age (Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association); the DoD Guide to Integrated Product and Process Development. [2]
The official United States Government Manual offers no definition. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] While the Administrative Procedure Act definition of "agency" applies to most executive branch agencies, Congress may define an agency however it chooses in enabling legislation, and through subsequent litigation often involving the Freedom of Information Act and the ...
NIMA was established on October 1, 1996, by the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997. [18] The creation of NIMA followed more than a year of study, debate, and planning by the defense, intelligence, and policy-making communities (as well as the Congress) and continuing consultations with customer organizations.
DoDAAC – Department of Defense Activity Address Code (U.S. Military) DoDAF – Department of Defense Architecture Framework (U.S. Military) DoDIC – Department of Defense Identification Code (U.S. Military) DOEHRS – Defense Occupational and Environmental Health Readiness System (U.S. Military) DOP – Drop-Off Point; DPMs – Disruptive ...
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 ...