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unusual facts about U.S. Department of Defense



Albin Francisco Schoepf

Befriended by Joseph Holt, Schoepf served as a clerk first in the U.S. Coastal Survey and later in the U.S. Patent Office and the War Department (working under Holt).

American Civil Liberties Union v. Department of Defense

In late September, 2005, Federal Judge Alvin Hellerstein, though affirming the Glomar response ("can neither confirm nor deny") for some documents, found that the ACLU case for FOIA disclosure was stronger, and that the Glomar application to certain documents was not valid.

C. Herschel Schooley

In 1953 he received his M.A. degree from the University of Maryland, College Park and became the acting director of the Office of Public Information, U.S. Department of Defense, under Secretary Charles E. Wilson; and the director of the Office of Public Information, Department of Defense, for Secretaries Wilson and Neil H. McElroy.

Defense Science Board

The Defense Science Board (or DSB) is a committee of civilian experts appointed to advise the U.S. Department of Defense on scientific and technical matters.

Dreamkind

The app is produced by Sesame Workshop (the producers of Sesame Street) and the U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Centers of Excellence.

Glomar response

The "Glomar response" precedent still stood, and has since had bearing in FOIA cases such as in the recent American Civil Liberties Union v. Department of Defense, wherein Federal Judge Alvin Hellerstein rejected the Department of Defense and CIA's use of the Glomar response in refusing to release documents and photos depicting abuse at Abu Ghraib prison.

James Wieghart

He reported on the U.S. Department of Defense during the waning years of the Vietnam War (writing from Vietnam for several weeks in 1971) and covered the White House during the Watergate scandal.

Nathan Wolfe

Wolfe has been awarded more than $40 million in funding from a diverse array of sources including The U.S. Department of Defense, Google.org and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense

The Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency includes 73 statutory Inspectors General of a number of large governmental agencies as well as smaller independent agencies.

Pennington Biomedical Research Center

With a U.S. Department of Defense contract and funding from the Louisiana Public Facilities Authority, Governor Buddy Roemer proclaimed the official opening of the Center in 1988.

Roger Masters

He was a founding member and serves on the Executive Council of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, and leads an ongoing consultancy on biology and politics for the U.S. Department of Defense in collaboration with anthropologist Lionel Tiger and neuroscientist Michael T. McGuire.

San Diego Pride

In 2012 the U.S. Department of Defense granted permission for military personnel to wear their uniforms while participating the San Diego Pride Parade.

Theodore S. Westhusing

Westhusing served with what the U.S. Department of Defense called the "Multi-national Security Transition Command - Iraq".

Tom Kilgore

Earlier in his career, Kilgore worked for Arkansas Power & Light (a subsidiary of Entergy), Carolina Power & Light, and for the U.S. Department of Defense at Pine Bluff Arsenal in Jefferson County, Arkansas.


see also

AFCB

Armed Forces Chaplains Board, a U.S. Department of Defense organization of military Chiefs and Deputy Chiefs of Chaplains

AIM-47 Falcon

The missile was renamed AIM-47 in the fall of 1962 as part of the transition to common naming for aerospace vehicles across the U.S. Department of Defense in 1962.

DCIS

Defense Criminal Investigative Service, the criminal investigative arm of the Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense

Mantech

ManTech International, a U.S. Department of Defense contractor specializing in national security and technology issues.

NSPS

National Security Personnel System, a human resources program of the U.S. Department of Defense

SLEP

Shelf Life Extension Program of the Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Department of Defense

William Haynes

William J. Haynes, II (born 1958), American lawyer, General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Defense