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In the United States the title is Secretary. Robert Michael Gates has been the U.S. Secretary of Defense since December of 2006, when he was sworn in under President George W. Bush.
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Because NASA had never had the extensive and bloated base inventory that the Department of Defense had acquired.
The United States Marine Corps, as with all armed services, falls under the Department of Defense. Robert Gates is currently the Secretary of Defense in the Bush Administration and has been nominated as the Secretary of Defense by Presidet-elect Obama as well.
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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."
No U.S. Defense Secretary has been a U.S. President to date, but one, Dick Cheney, has been a U.S. Vice President. Two U.S. Presidents had been U.S. Secretary of War. The War Department became part of the Defense Department in 1947. The two were James Monroe and William Howard Taft.
The US Coast Guard is not considered part of the Department of Defense; since 2003, it has been a part of the Department of Homeland Security. Prior to 2003, the USCG was part of the Department of Transportation. However, the USCG can be transferred over to the Department of Defense during wartime- the last time this happened was during World War II.
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VHDL was first developed by US department of defense and then it has been developed by a team of IBM, TEXAS INSTRUMENTS and INTERMETRICS.
The Department of Defense approved baseline certifications for Management Level I are:Certification ProviderCertification NameSANS InstituteGIAC Information Security Fundamentals (GISF)SANS InstituteGIAC Security Leadership Certificate (GSLC)CompTIASecurity+
Dick Cheney. He was the secretary of Defense under George H. W. Bush and vice president under George W. Bush.