Department of Defense

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Department of Defense
AS-100, Lesson 24
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Overview

• Who we are
• Who we work for
• How we are organized
• What we do

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We are Americas...

• Oldest Company
• Largest Company
• Busiest Company
• Most Successful Company

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Americas Oldest CompanyHow We Evolved

• ArmyJune 14, 1775
• NavyOctober 13, 1775
• Marine CorpsNovember 10, 1775
• Air Force September 18, 1947

Dept of the Army
War Department (Aug 7, 1789)
Department of the Navy (April 30, 1798)
Dept of the Air Force
SecDef position created with cabinet rank given
control of Services (Sep 17, 1947)
Natl Mil Estab
DoD created SecDef role strengthened (Aug 10,
1949)
Dept of Defense
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Americas Oldest CompanyFor over 50 years

• Army Navy Marine Corps Air Force

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Americas Largest Company5.3 million strong

• 1.4 million active duty
• 705,000 civilians
• 1.35 million Guard and Reserve
• 1.8 million retirees families receiving benefits

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Americas Largest CompanyOur global
infrastructure

• 600 fixed facilities
• 40,000 properties
• 18 million acres
• 100,000 vehicles
• 22,000 aircraft
• 550 public utility systems
• Hundreds of oceangoing vessels

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Americas Largest CompanyWorldwide presence

• More than 140 countries
• Some 340,000 personnel overseas or afloat

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Americas Largest CompanyAs a comparison...
1998 Fortune 500 corporate data
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Americas Largest CompanyOur Headquarters

• Pentagon facts and figures
• Construction 16 months/83 million
• Corridors 17 ½ miles
• Employees 25,000
• Bldg size 29 acres
• Office Space 3.8M ft2
• Parking Space 67 acres
• Circumference 9/10th mile

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Americas Busiest CompanyEvery month we...

• Cut 5 million paychecks
• Take 920,000 contracts or purchase actions
• Fit 50,000 pairs of boots
• Serve 3.4 million meals

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Americas Busiest CompanyOn any given day we...

• Buy enough fuel to drive a car around the world
  13,000 times
• Maintain 12,000 miles of waterways
• Operate 24 of US hydropower capacity
• Manage 232 high schools and elementary schools
• Provide day care for more than 200,000 children

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Americas Busiest CompanyLast Year we...

• Recruited 217,000 military
• Hired 19,700 civilians
• Separated 220,000 military and 50,000 civilians
• 24 turnover
• 97-98 figures

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Americas Busiest CompanyMajor
Deployments/Operations
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Americas Busiest CompanyEmergency deployments

• Kenya Tanzania
• Hurricane Mitch
• Operation Allied Force

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Americas Busiest CompanyGuard and Reserve
Deployments

• In 1998...
• Stateside 325,000 averaging 22 days each
• Overseas 235,000 averaging 19 days each
• Increased 13 times!

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Americas Busiest CompanyOn the home front

• From 1994-98
• 285 federal disasters or emergency declarations
• From 1997-98
• 616 National Guard commitments
• From 1992-96
• 9,937 requests for military support to civilian
  law enforcement

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Americas Busiest CompanyOn the home front

• Search and rescue
• Distribution of Water and relief supplies
• Security
• Debris removal
• Traffic and flood control
• Fire fighting

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Most Successful CompanyWe hire the best
Source Dept of Labor Bureau of Statistics
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Most Successful CompanyWe instill values

• Leadership
• Professionalism
• Technical know-how
• Core Values

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Most Successful CompanyOur system works

• Confidence in institutions

• Military
• Medicine
• Supreme Court
• Education
• Religion
• TV News
• Big Business
• Wall Street
• Press
• Labor
• Law Firms

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Who We Work For

• Chief Executive Officer The President
• Board of Directors Congress
• Stockholders People

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How We Are Organized
National Command Authority

• President
• Secretary of Defense

Office of the Secretary of Defense
Military Departments
Chairman of the JCS

• Train equip

• Plan coordinate

Unified Commands

• Conduct operations

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Office of the Secretary of DefenseOversees

• Ideas
• Money
• People
• Things

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Office of the Secretary of DefenseIdeas...Policy

• Formulates national security/defense policy
• Integrates DoD policy and plans to achieve
  security objectives

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Office of the Secretary of DefenseMoney...Finance

• Budget and fiscal matters
• Program analysis and evaluation
• Management improvement

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Office of the Secretary of DefensePeople and
Readiness

• Personnel management
• National Guard and Reserve
• Military readiness
• Equal opportunity morale, welfare, quality of life

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Office of the Secretary of DefenseThings...acquir
ing and hi-tech

• Researching, testing, buying, producing and
  building
• Advising on new technology
• Ensuring environmental compliance
• Guiding Departmental use of atomic energy

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Military DepartmentsServe train and equip
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Army

• Defend US territory and any occupies areas
• Overcome any aggressor that imperils our nations
  peace and security

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Navy

• Maintain, train and equip combat-ready Naval
  forces capable of winning wars, deterring
  aggression and maintaining freedom of the seas

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Marines

• Maintain expeditionary forces in readiness
• Provide sea-based integrated air-ground units for
  contingency and combat operations
• Suppress or contain international disturbances

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Air Force

• Defend the United States through control and
  exploitation of air and space

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Guard and Reserve

• Wartime military support
• Humanitarian
• Peacekeeping
• Law enforcement assistance
• Disaster assistance

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Guard and Reserve

• Army National Guard 367,158
• Army Reserve 204,968
• Naval Reserve 93,171
• Marine Corps Reserve 40,842
• Air National Guard 108,096
• Air Force Reserve 71,970
• Individual Ready Reserve 459,066
• Total 1,340,557
• Coast Guard Reserve w/IRR 12,871

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Coast Guard

• Provide law enforcement, maritime safety, marine
  and environmental protection services and
  military support

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Office of the Chairman, JCS
Secretary of Defense Deputy Secretary of Defense
Chairman, JCS Vice Chairman, JCS Chief of Staff,
Army Commandant, Marine Corps Chief Naval
Operations Chief of Staff, Air Force
Director, Joint Staff
J-1 Manpower and Personnel
J-2 Intelligence
J-3 Operations
J-4 Logistics
J-5 Strategic Plans Policy
J-6 Command, Control Communications Computer
Systems
J-7 Operational Plans Interoperability
J-8 Force Structure, Resources Assessment
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Unified CommandsCINCs Execute Policy

• Direct link to President Secretary of Defense
• 5 CINCs have geographic responsibility
• 4 CINCs have worldwide responsibility

Secretary of Defense Deputy Secretary of Defense
European Command
Central Command
Southern Command
Pacific Command
Joint Forces Command
Has some worldwide missions
Space Command
Special Operations Command
Transportation Command
Strategic Command
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Unified CommandsSpace Command

• Launch and operates satellites
• Supports joint-service military forces worldwide
  with intelligence, communications, weather,
  navigation, and ballistic missile attack warning
  information
• Engage adversaries from space
• Assure US access to and operation in space, and
  deny enemies that same freedom

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Unified CommandsSpecial Operations Command

• Provide counter-paramilitary, counternarcotics,
  guerilla, psychological warfare, civil education,
  and insurgency capability in support of US
  national and international interests

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Unified CommandsTransportation Command

• Provide air, land and sea transportation for the
  Department of Defense in time of peace and war

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Unified CommandsStrategic Command

• Deter military attack on the United States and
  its allies, and should deterrence fail, employ
  forces so as to achieve national objectives
• Deter/control nuclear forces

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What We Do

• Warfighting
• Humanitarian
• Peacekeeping
• Disaster assistance
• Law enforcement assistance

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Our Most Important Resource

• Its not thanks, planes, or ships, its...
• PEOPLE!

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Our Bottom Line

• Provide the military forces needed to deter war
• Protect the security of the United States

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Summary

• Who we are
• Who we work for
• How we are organized
• What we do

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Department of Defense