Lt. Col. Daniel E. Bauer, USA Capt. Steven C. Taylor, USN Lt. Col. Gene C. Sands, USAF Capt. Douglas S. McCurrach, USN Lt. Col. William Birdseye, USA Maj. Eugenia Thornton, USA Lt. Comdr. Ross Kudlick, USN Comdr. Richard W. Schram, USN Robert B. Sims Jordan Rizer (Vacancy) (Vacancy) Col. Norman E. Qualtrough, USA Maj. Gen. Hugh J. Quinn, USA John B. Rosamond Chief, Radio/TV Branch Director for Plans Deputy Director Director for Community Relations Business and Labor Organizations Director, American Forces Information Assistant Secretary of Defense (Reserve Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Senior Enlisted Advisor Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary Guard/ Deputy Assistant Secretary Guard/Reserve John L. Laughlin Deputy Assistant Secretary Guard/Reserve J. Anthony English Col. Edward Kufeldt, USMCR Maj. Gen. William R. Berkman, USA (Vacancy) Gary K. Carlson H. Lawrence Garrett III (Program and Budget) Director, Analysis Director, Mobilization Policy and Plans National Chairman, National Committee for Executive Director General Counsel and Director, Defense Legal Leonard Niederlehner Deputy General Counsel and Deputy Col. Arthur H. Bair, USA Robert J. Lieberman Stephen A. Trodden James H. Curry Executive Assistant Deputy Inspector General for Program Assistant Inspector General for Auditing Assistant Inspector General for Audit Policy and Oversight Michael C. Eberhardt Assistant Inspector General for Criminal Brig. Gen. Robert A. Harleston, USA Capt. J.W. Hegeman, USN David S.C. Chu Charles R. Roll, Jr. John E. Coon Michael Leonard Investigations Policy and Oversight Assistant Inspector General for Inspections Assistant Inspector General for Investigations Director for Special Programs Director (Program Analysis and Evaluation) Executive Assistant Deputy Director (General Purpose Programs) Deputy Director (Theater Assessments and Michael L. loffredo Deputy Director (Strategic Programs) Adm. William J. Crowe, Jr., USN Gen. Robert T. Herres, USAF Gen. John A. Wickham, Jr., USA Adm. Carlisle A.H. Trost, USN Gen. Larry D. Welch, USAF Gen. P.X. Kelley, USMC Lt. Gen. John H. Moellering, USA Col. William J. Lucas, USAF Vice Adm. Powell F. Carter, Jr., Maj. Gen. Howard D. Graves, USA Maj. Gen. Martin J. Ryan, USAF Maj. Gen. T.W. Kelly, USA Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff The Joint Staff: Vice Director Director for Manpower and Personnel—|-1 Director for Strategic Plans and Policy-1-5 Interoperability—)-7 Director for Information and Resource Director for Force Structure Resource and Director, Joint Special Operations Agency [For the Department of Defense statement of organization, see the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 32, Chapter 1, Parts 40-399] The Department of Defense is responsible for providing the military forces needed to deter war and protect the security of our country. The major elements of these forces are the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force, consisting of about 2.2 million men and women on active duty. Of these, some 525,000—including about 72,000 on ships at sea—are serving outside the United States. They are backed, in case of emergency, by the 1.7 million members of the reserve components. In addition, there are about 1.2 million civilian employees in the Defense Department. Under the President, who is also Commander in Chief, the Secretary of Defense exercises direction, authority, and control over the Department, which includes the separately organized military departments of Army, Navy, and Air Force, the Joint Chiefs of Staff providing military advice, the unified and specified combatant commands, and various defense agencies established for specific purposes. Every State in the Union has some defense activities. Central headquarters of the Department is at the Pentagon, the "world's largest office building. The Department of Defense (DOD) is the successor agency to the National Military Establishment created by the National Security Act of 1947 (61 Stat. 495). It was established as an executive department of the Government by the National Security Act Amendments of 1949 with the Secretary of Defense as its head (63 Stat. 578; 5 U.S.C. 101). Since that time, major amendments have been made to the act by Reorganization Plan 6 of 1953, and the Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1958 (67 Stat. 638; 72 Stat. 514). The act of October 21, 1977 (91 Stat. 1172), provided for the establishment of the two positions of Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. The Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended (92 Stat. 1101), provided for the establishment of the Inspector General within the Department of Defense, effective May 2, 1983. The Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1984 (97 Stat. 614), provided for the establishment of the following positions: Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, Assistant Secretary of Defense (Reserve Affairs), Assistant Secretary of Defense (Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence), Assistant Secretary of Defense (Development and Support), and " Assistant Secretary of Defense (Research and Technology). In February 1985, under authority of 10 U.S.C. 136, the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Development and Support) was disestablished, and the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Acquisition and Logistics) was established. On April 15, 1987, the position was renamed Assistant Secretary of Defense (Production and Logistics). The Military Retirement Reform Act of 1986 (10 U.S.C. 1401 note) provided for the establishment of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and redesignated the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering as the Director of Defense Research and Engineering. The Defense Acquisition Improvement Act of 1986 (10 U.S.C. 133a) provided for the establishment of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, and the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1987 (100 Stat. 3816) provided for the establishment of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict. The Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 (10 U.S.C. 111 note) designated the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as the principal military adviser to the President, the Secretary of Defense, and the National Security Council. It also created the position of Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Structure The Department of Defense is composed of the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), the military departments and the military services within those departments, the Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (OJCS), the unified and specified combatant commands, the Armed Forces Policy Council (AFPC), the Defense agencies, DOD field activities, and such other offices, agencies, activities, and commands as may be established or designated by law, or by the President, or the Secretary of Defense. In providing immediate staff assistance and advice to the Secretary of Defense, the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, though separately identified and organized, function in full coordination and cooperation. The Office of the Secretary of Defense includes the offices of the Deputy Secretary of Defense, the Executive Secretary of the Department of Defense, the Assistant to the Secretary and the Deputy Secretary of Defense, the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, the Comptroller of the Department of Defense, who also serves as the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Comptroller), Assistant Secretaries of Defense, the General Counsel, the Director of Defense Research and Engineering, the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, the Director for Program Analysis and Evaluation, the Inspector General, and such other staff offices as the Secretary of Defense establishes to assist him in carrying out his duties and responsibilities. The heads of these offices are civilian staff advisers to the Secretary and perform such functions as he assigns to them. The Joint Chiefs of Staff, consisting of the Chairman; the Chief of Staff, U.S. Army; the Chief of Naval Operations; the Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force; and the Commandant of the Marine Corps, and supported by the Joint Staff, constitute the immediate military staff of the Secretary of Defense. The Chairman is the principal military adviser to the President, the National Security Council, and the Secretary of Defense. The other members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are the senior military officers of their respective services and are military advisers to the President, the National Security Council, and the Secretary of Defense. The Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs acts as Chairman when there is a vacancy in the Office of the Chairman or in the absence or disability of the Chairman. Each military department (the Department of the Navy includes naval aviation and the United States Marine Corps) is separately organized under its own Secretary and functions under the direction, authority, and control of the Secretary of Defense. The Secretary of a military department is responsible to the Secretary of Defense for the operation of his department as well as its efficiency. Orders to the military departments are issued through the Secretaries of these departments, or their designees, by the Secretary of Defense or under authority specifically delegated in writing by the Secretary of Defense or provided by law. The commanders of unified and specified combatant commands are responsible to the President and the Secretary of Defense for accomplishing the military missions assigned to them and exercising command authority over forces assigned to them. The operational chain of command runs from the President to the Secretary of Defense to the commanders of the unified and specified combatant commands. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff functions within the chain of command by transmitting the orders of the President or the Secretary of Defense to the commanders of the unified and specified combatant commands. The Armed Forces Policy Council (AFPC) advises the Secretary of Defense on matters of broad policy relating to the Armed Forces and such other matters as |