The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) was established in 1960 as the Defense Communications Agency (DCA) and later reorganized and renamed in 1991 as DISA.

The decision to combine the departments of war and the navy into the Department of Defense was made to create a more efficient and unified approach to national security. By merging these departments, it allowed for better coordination and communication between the different branches of the military, streamlining operations and improving overall effectiveness in protecting the country. Additionally, it helped to eliminate redundancy and duplication of efforts, resulting in cost savings.

The framers of the constitution did not explicitly place a limit on the Department of Defense, as it did not exist in its current form during their time. However, they did establish checks and balances within the government to prevent the concentration of power, which indirectly applies to all branches, including the Department of Defense. Additionally, the constitution outlines the power of Congress to declare war and appropriate funds for defense, giving some control over the department.

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Robert Gates is the Secretary of Defense.

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Congress sets the resource ceiling and provides the budget authority for DoD.

Department of War is used during a wartime period. It changes to Department of Defense in peace time...............

James V. Forrestal was the first Secretary of Defense. Forrestal was previously the Secretary of the Navy until the Department of Defense came in to being when president Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947. On September 18, 1947, the Department of War was divided into the Department of the Army and the Department of the Air Force, both of which joined the Department of the Navy as part of the new National Military Establishment (NME)--changed to Department of Defense in 1949, in part because the acronmy sounds like the word "enemy."

It was formed on August 10, 1949. That's 62 years ago at the time I'm answering this question. - 03/22/2012

Created in 1949, the Department of Defense was an outgrowth of the National Security Act of 1947, which had "unified" the armed services. The debate in Congress leading up to the 1947 legislation had its origins in the experiences of World War II, which, despite the overall success, had revealed numerous problems in command and control and the allocation of resources. Aiming to avoid similar situations in the future, President Harry S. Truman recommended a War Department plan calling for a highly centralized and closely unified structure, including a separate air force, under a single secretary of defense. The primary function of the DOD is national defense.

Robert Strange (yes, that is his middle name) McNamara was the Sectretary of Defense (SecDef) for part of the the latter half of the war, 1961-1968.

The U.S. classification system is currently established under Executive Order 13292 and has three levels of classification - Confidential, Secret, and Top Secret. There is a designation of "unclassified" but by definition that means it is not "classified".

Other markings may be added to these categories. Subsets of these classifications may include: Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) - sometimes also referred to as FOUO (for official use only) or Sensitive but Unclassified (SBU) - although use of the term SBU is supposed to be discontinued, Secret No-foreign, Secret with restrictions to certain countries, Secret-Compartmentalized, Top-Secret Special Compartmentalized Information (most TS is also SCI), Sources and Methods Intelligence (SAMI), ATOMAL (for atomic energy).

The number of rooms in the Pentagon change with every remodeling project.

The web site of the Pentagon building lists many numbers relating to the building, but does not give a count of rooms. However with some 25,000 occupants, you can expect that there are more than 1000 rooms, probably a lot more.

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No, the President does not have the power to declare war. That power is reserved to Congress by Article I, Section 8. The President is empowered to deploy troops for limited purposes and limited periods of time under the War Powers Act, but he has no power to declare war.

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Other than the President (who serves as Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces), the most powerful DoD official is the Secretary of Defense. The Secretary is superior to the Joint Chiefs of Staff (the highest-ranking officers from each branch of the military). The current Secretary of Defense is Robert M. Gates, who was originally appointed by President George W. Bush after the firing of Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and was asked by President Barack Obama to continue as Secretary of Defense in the new administration.

which of the following is an objective of the department of defense's personnel security program

The president

Yes. The Secretary of Defense.