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The DoD SIOO is responsible to the Secretary of Defense for the independent oversight of all intelligence, counterintelligence, and intelligence-related activities in the Department of Defense. The organization's charter can be found in DoD Directive 5148.13.
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Of the 52 Defense components and the many offices and commands within those components, [41] three entities are §2302(c) certified: The U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Inspector General, the Naval Research Laboratory Office of the Inspector General, and the United States Air Force's 375th Airlift Wing headquartered at Scott Air Force ...
General Counsels of the Department of Defense [3] Image Name Tenure SecDef(s) served under President(s) served under H. Struve Hensel: August 17, 1953 – March 4, 1954: Charles Erwin Wilson: Dwight Eisenhower: Wilber M. Brucker: April 23, 1954 – July 20, 1955 Mansfield D. Sprague: October 6, 1955 – February 27, 1957 Robert Dechert
The United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM or SOCOM) is the unified combatant command charged with overseeing the various special operations component commands of the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, and Air Force of the United States Armed Forces.
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".
The Department of Defense Inspector General was established in 1982. The mission of DoD IG; as established by the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended, (5 U.S.C. Appendix); and implemented by DoD Directive 5106.01, "Inspector General of the Department of Defense", is to serve as an independent and objective office in DoD to:
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 ...