The History of the Department of Defense
The History of the Department of Defense
SEPTEMBER 17, 1947. The National Military Establishment begins operations under the direction of Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal, who had stepped down ...
U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) | Britannica
It was formed in 1947 by an act of Congress (amended 1949) combining the War and Navy Departments. The mission of the Department of Defense is to provide, ...
Pentagon History - OSD Historical Office - Department of Defense
From 1942 to 1947 it housed the War Department and since then the major elements of the Department of Defense: the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint ...
United States Department of Defense - Wikipedia
The Department of Defense is headed by the secretary of defense, a cabinet-level head who reports directly to the president of the United States, the latter of ...
General Information and History of the Defense Department
On November 10, 1775, the 2nd Continental Congress established the Continental Marines, the predecessor of the U.S. Marine Corps. In August 1789, Congress ...
Department of Defense Timeline
1789: Congress creates the Department of War.1; 1794: Congress authorizes construction of six navy frigates. 1796: In his farewell address, George Washington ...
The Department of Defense (DOD) is the successor agency to the National Military Establishment created by the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 401). It ...
U.S. Department of Defense - Ballotpedia
The Department of Defense (DoD) is responsible for providing military force to ensure the nation's security. Established in 1949, it is the ...
81-216), as an executive department of the United States Government with the Secretary of Defense as its head. The DoD mission depends on our military and ...
U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) | Library of Congress
The Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD, or DOD) is an executive branch department of the federal government of the United States charged with coordinating ...
Defense Department History | C-SPAN.org
Colonel Miguel Monteverde, Director of Defense Information at the Department of Defense, outlined the history of the Department of Defense, ...
National Security Act of 1947 - Office of the Historian
The 1947 law also caused far-reaching changes in the military establishment. The War Department and Navy Department merged into a single Department of Defense ...
A History of the Department of Defense Federally Funded Research ...
Twenty-three federal research centers existed in. 1950, three of them study and analysis centers. The number of centers grew, especially in DoD. In. 1962, when ...
United States Secretary of Defense - Wikipedia
The United States Secretary of Defense (SecDef) is the head of the United States Department of Defense, the executive department of the U.S. Armed Forces, ...
The Department of the Army established the first dependents schools - on and off military installations - in 1946 in the occupied countries of Germany, Austria ...
A Brief History of Military-to-Civilian Conversions in the Department ...
Achieving an efficient mix of military and civilian manpower within the Defense establishment is influenced by the ever-changing tug of war between balancing ...
The Department of Defense and Its Precursors: History ...
Its policies and actions have resulted in tremendous social, political, and environmental change. Although many of these transformations occurred during wartime ...
Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review
December 5, 1950 – Security Review was designated by the Secretary of Defense as the channel for clearances on foreign policy for the DoD with the Department of ...
Office of the Secretary of Defense Historical Office - Facebook
Shanahan (Acting Secretary of Defense from 1 January to 23 June) and Mark T. Esper (Secretary of Defense since 23 July 2019). It brings the total number of ...
DINFOS History - Defense Media Activity
21, 1964, the Department of Defense issued a charter for the Defense Information School. In September 1965, DINFOS was moved to Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind ...