The current SecDef is Leon Panetta, who took over for Robert Gates on July 1, 2011.
Robert M. Gates
We do not have one anymore in 2014
United States Secretary of Defense was created in 1947.
The first Secretary of Defense of the United States was James Forrestal. He was previously Secretary of the Navy before the creation of a consolidated Department of Defense.
The Secretary of Defense reports to the President of the United States.
The current US Secretary of Defense is Robert Gates.
Robert Gates is currently the secretary of defense of the United States. He will step down from his position on June 30, 2011, and will be replaced by Leon E. Panetta.
The state of North Carolina does not have a secretary of defense. Only the government of the United States has that post. No state has it.
The United States Secretary of War is today called the United States Secretary of Defense. In 2007, it was Robert Gates.
Robert Gates is United States Secretary of Defense and Hillary Rodham Clinton is United States Secretary of State .
The President of the United States of America, or the Secretary of Defense.
As of June 2014, Chuck Hagel is the United States Secretary of Defense. He previously was a US Senator from Nebraska.
United States Secretary of Defense (1950-1951),
As of September 2021, the secretary of defense of the United States is Lloyd J. Austin III.