Has a special chamber beneath the Pentagon where he is kept safe and his predictions are recorded.

On September 12, 2002, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and General Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, dedicated the Victims of Terrorist Attack on the Pentagon Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery.

The Chief of Naval Operations is an administrative position based in the Pentagon, and while the CNO does not have operational command authority over Naval forces as the title implies ( that is nowadays within the purview of the Combatant Commanders who report to the Secretary of Defense ), the CNO does exercise supervision of Navy organizations as the designee of the Secretary of the Navy.

During Labor Day weekend in 1973, a meeting of about 12 military officers at the Pentagon discussed the creation of a Defense Navigation Satellite System ( DNSS ).

Prime Minister Harold Holt with US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara at The Pentagon in July 1966.

Menzies meets with US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara at the Pentagon in June 1964

Herbert W. Homer, a civilian employee of the Defense Contract Management Agency, was previously listed in error as unaccounted for at the Pentagon ; he was among the passengers aboard United Airlines Flight 175.

The Chief of Staff Gen. Shaul Mofaz ( right foreground ) meets with U. S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz ( left ), and other senior U. S. Department of Defense officials in the Pentagon

Among the federal developments was the Pentagon, built during World War II as the headquarters for the Department of Defense.

* Pentagon Library: Homeland Defense

The other entities encompassed by the Defense Media Activity ( the Pentagon Channel and Armed Forces Radio and Television Service, for example ), are command publications of the Department of Defense ; only Stars and Stripes maintains complete editorial independence.

This includes the Renewable Energy and Defense Database project with the Pentagon.

This provision was highly favored by the Pentagon which authorized the Department of Defense ( DoD ) to allow individuals who, on or after August 1, 2009, have served at least 6 years in the Armed Forces and who agree to serve at least another 4 years in the U. S. Armed Forces to transfer unused entitlement to their surviving spouse.

This decision disappointed Defense officials who hoped that the Secretary of Defense ( then James Forrestal ) would be allowed to preside in the President's absence and had offered to locate the NSC staff in the Pentagon.

Ellsberg served in the Pentagon from August 1964 under Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara ( and, in fact, was on duty on the evening of the Gulf of Tonkin incident, reporting the incident to McNamara ).

The new Secretary did not change the management system McNamara had installed at The Pentagon, and for the most part assigned internal administration to Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul H. Nitze.

DIA is headquartered at the Defense Intelligence Analysis Center ( DIAC ) on Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington, D. C., with major operational activities at the Pentagon, at each Unified Combatant Command, United States Defense Attache Offices worldwide, the National Center for Medical Intelligence ( NCMI ) in Fort Detrick, Maryland, and the Missile and Space Intelligence Center ( MSIC ) in Huntsville, Alabama and is in the process of building the new Defense Intelligence Support Center ( DISC ) in Reston, Virginia.

The Defense Intelligence Agency has conflicted with the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) in collection and analysis on the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and has often represented the Pentagon in the CIA-DoD intelligence rivalry due to DIA's alleged clandestine HUMINT collection and often overlapping analysis products.

The Office of Strategic Influence, or OSI, was a department created by the United States Department of Defense on October 30, 2001, to support the War on Terrorism through psychological operations in targeted countries, which did not include the United States because the Pentagon is barred from PSYOPs in the U. S. Although the closure of the office was announced by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld soon after its existence became publicly known, later comments by Secretary Rumsfeld imply that the actual operations of the OSI have continued unabated.

The Pentagon, the headquarters of the U. S. Department of Defense in Arlington, Virginia, was thought of as the most likely target of a nuclear missile strike during the Cold War.

Whenever some Washington circles were really ready for talks to eliminate friction they have always succumbed to pressure from the war clique in the Pentagon and in Bonn.

They deliberately crashed it into the Pentagon near Washington, D. C., killing all 59 people on board plus the hijackers, as well as 125 people in the building.

Connections with the Pentagon and lobbyists in Washington are described by critics as more important than actual competition, due to the political and secretive nature of defense contracts.

The Guns Platoon ( as it is known for short ) has the task of rendering military honors in the National Capital Region, including armed forces full-honors funerals ; state funerals ; presidential inaugurations ; full-honors wreath ceremonies at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery ; state arrivals at the White House and Pentagon, and retirement ceremonies for general-grade officers in the Military District of Washington, which are normally conducted at Fort Myer.

After the hijackers took control of the plane, several passengers and flight attendants were able to make telephone calls and learn that attacks had already been made by other hijacked airlines on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon outside Washington, D. C.

** Tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters march in Washington, D. C .. Allen Ginsberg symbolically chants to ' levitate ' The Pentagon.

The base area of The Pentagon, Washington DC, United States, is 100, 000 m < sup > 2 </ sup >, if the courtyard is excluded.

* Gates Assails Pentagon on Resources for Battlefields Washington Post April 22, 2008

* WashingtonPost. com-' Poindexter to Leave Pentagon Research Job: Project to Create Futures Market on Events in Middle East Caused Controversy ', Bradley Graham, Washington Post ( August 1, 2003 )

Residents of the former portion of the District of Columbia that was returned to Virginia ( through retrocession ) vote under the same rules as other Virginia residents, despite a significant Federal presence, including the Pentagon, Washington Reagan National Airport, the Patent and Trademark Office, US Marshals Headquarters, Drug Enforcement Agency Headquarters, US State Department's training campus, and Central Intelligence Agency offices.

In October 2003, the role of the U. S. government in the massacre was publicized when the National Security Archive at George Washington University published a series of records from the CIA, the Pentagon, the State Department, the FBI and the White House which were released in response to Freedom of Information Act requests.

Her tenure is credited with seeing The Post rise in national stature through effective investigative reporting, most notably to ensure that The New York Times did not surpass its Washington reporting of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate scandal.

Bailey's Crossroads is formed by the junction of State Route 7 connecting Alexandria, Virginia with the Shenandoah Valley and State Route 244 ( Columbia Pike ) connecting the Pentagon and Washington, D. C., with Annandale, Virginia.

It is also served by the Metrobus ( Washington, D. C .) system, via the 18P, R, and S routes, with rush hour only service to the Pentagon and Springfield metro stations.

The general entered service as a sergeant with the Washington National Guard in June 1916 and died while on duty in the Pentagon in March 1950.

* Washington Headquarters Services, a U. S. DoD Field Activity, located at The Pentagon

Shot in Washington, D. C. where thousands of anti-war activists had gathered in front of the Pentagon to protest against America ’ s involvement in Vietnam, the picture shows a young girl, Jan Rose Kasmir, with a flower in her hands and a kindly gaze in her eyes, standing in front of several rifle-wielding soldiers stationed to block the protesters.

The for the Bush administration's conceptual War on Terror, which resulted in the 2001 Afghanistan war and the 2003 Iraq war, was the September 11 attacks in 2001 on the World Trade Center in New York City, The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia and the apparently intended attack on the United States Capitol in Washington, D. C.

Thousands of protesters marched from the Mall in Washington D. C. to the grounds of the Pentagon, and then to the Crystal City district of Arlington, Virginia.

The ruling made it possible for the New York Times and Washington Post newspapers to publish the then-classified Pentagon Papers without risk of government censorship or punishment.

On September 11, 2001, Baker watched television coverage of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon from the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington DC, where Baker and representatives of Osama bin Laden's family were among those attending the annual conference for the Carlyle Group.

In 1968, Hoyle's computer business collapsed, and he and Diane moved to Newport Beach ; at the same time Drake accepted a two year secondment to The Pentagon, and moved to Washington DC.

He focuses on the presidency, intelligence, and Washington institutions such as the U. S. Supreme Court, The Pentagon, and the Federal Reserve.

F-16s of the 119th Fighter Wing, North Dakota Air National Guard, fly a combat air patrol over Washington, DC, and the Pentagon in Operation Noble Eagle.