In April 1943 when Chief Counterintelligence Directorate of the People's Commissariat of Defence of the USSR ( or GUKR NKO USSR ) better known as SMERSH was created, Abakumov was put in charge of it, in the rank of Commissar ( 2nd rank ) of State Security, and held the title of vice-Commissar of Defense.

* A person who is directed by an intelligence organization to use his position to influence public opinion or decision-making in a manner that will advance the objective of the country for which that organization operates ( Counterintelligence Glossary — Terms & Definitions of Interest for Department of Defense Counterintelligence Professionals ).

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.

He led intelligence analysis of the Middle East and South Asia for the Defense Department and world-wide HUMINT activities in a high-level equivalent to the rank of a lieutenant general.

Lang was responsible for all the human intelligence " HUMINT " in the Department of Defense " DOD ".

In 2007, U. S. Department of Defense ’ s Telemedicine and Advanced Technologies Research Center ( TATRC ) began to study the antimicrobial properties of copper alloys, including four brasses ( C87610, C69300, C26000, C46400 ) in a multi-site clinical hospital trial conducted at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center ( New York City ), the Medical University of South Carolina, and the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center ( South Carolina ).

* Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center ( Department of Defense )

The Imperva Application Defense Center ( ADC ) did an analysis on the strength of the passwords.

* People Against Gangsterism and Drugs ( PAGAD ), Center for Defense Information

These include the Institute for National Strategic Studies, Institute for Homeland Security Studies, and the Center for Technology and National Security Policy, at the National Defense University ; the Center for Naval Warfare Studies at the Naval War College and the Strategic Studies Institute at the U. S. Army War College.

Soviet-built thrusters were introduced to the West in 1992 after a team of electric propulsion specialists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Glenn Research Center, and the Air Force Research Laboratory, under the support of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, visited Soviet laboratories and experimentally evaluated the SPT-100 ( i. e., a 100 mm diameter SPT thruster ).

* Air Defense Control Center

* Center for Homeland Defense and Security ( in California )

* Naval Postgraduage Center for Homeland Defense and Security

The Defense Technical Information Center is also following up research on plasma reducing RCS technologies.

The Air Force Office of Commercial Communications Management ( now the Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization ), the White House Signal Agency ( now the White House Communications Agency ), and the DoD Damage Assessment Center ( now the Joint Staff Support Center ) all became a part of DCA.

The Joint Spectrum Center and the Defense Technical Information Center also became part of DISA.

In July 2009, the Air Force Personnel Center at Randolph Air Force Base confirmed that DISA will host the Air Force instantiation of the RightNow Technologies ' Commercial off-the-shelf personnel customer service and self-service applications at its Defense Enterprise Computing Centers ( DECC ).

** Natural Resources Defense Council site on the Environmental Impacts of the World Trade Center Attacks

Many cadets are involved in research via their major, coordinated in more than a dozen Academy research centers, including the Institute for Information Technology Applications, the Institute for National Security Studies, the Air Force Humanities Institute, the Eisenhower Center for Space and Defense Studies, the Life Sciences Research Center, the Academy Center for Physics Education Research, among others.

* Army Geospatial Center ( AGC ) — provides geospatial information, standards, systems, support, and services across the Army and the Department of Defense.

The 90, 000 acre instillation is home to the US Army Field Artillery Training Center and the Air Defense Artillery.

* Defense Ammunition Center in McAleseter, Oklahoma

It is still unclear whether the Defense Clandestine Service will supplant DX similarly to how the National Clandestine Service supplanted the CIA's Directorate of Operations or whether the Defense Clandestine Service will operate separately and concurrently to DIA's current capabilities.

* Ping-ti Ho, " In Defense of Sinicization: A Rebuttal of Evelyn Rawski's " Reenvisioning the Qing "," Journal of Asian Studies 57 ( 1998 ): 123-155.

* Advanced Distributed Learning Job Performance Lab ( Alexandria, Virginia ): Their mission is to act as a catalyst for the advancement of research, development and implementation of dynamic capability-based job performance technology solutions across the Department of Defense

" Defense News, ( 29 January-4 February 1996 ): 4.

" Defense News, ( 5 – 11 February 1996 ): 20.

" Defense News, ( 8 – 14 April 1996 ): 4.

" Arsenal Ship fails to Hit the Mark ," Defense News, ( 16 October 1995-22 October 1995 ): 55.

Also notable is the following provision within Title 10 of the United States Code ( which concerns generally the organization and regulation of the armed forces and Department of Defense ):

* First ( 36 / 18-bit words ): 701 ( Defense Calculator )

* 12: 00 p. m. EDT ( approx ): Department of Defense officials report a second round of attacks.

* 2008 Gleemie Awards ( 1x $ 5, 000, 1x $ 3, 000, 1x $ 2, 000 ): Desktop Tower Defense, Skyrates, Quadradius

Seattle was voted the United States ' most " green " city by the NRDC ( Natural Resources Defense Council ), which gave the following reasons for the designation ( among others ):

Deprecating the past efficacy of the Natural Resources Defense Council, the White House Council on Environmental Quality, and the United Nations Development Programme — as well as the actions of the former George W. Bush administration — Speth writes ( as cited in the TIME article listed in the " References " section ): " The climate convention is not protecting climate, the biodiversity convention is not protecting biodiversity, the desertification convention is not preventing desertification.

** S ( also A, acc to Cassuto, Israeli Defense Forces Bibles ): Hosea 11: 7 – 12: 12

* Korean Defense Summer-Fall, 1952 ( USMC, Army, Navy, USAF ): May 1 to November 30, 1952

* Joseph E. Schmitz ( son ): Department of Defense Inspector General, George W. Bush administration ; Chief Operating Officer and Chief Legal Counsel, Blackwater USA.

* Izbicki, Thomas M., " Juan de Torquemada's Defense of the Conversos ," Catholic Historical Review, 1999 85 ( 2 ): 195-207

* 1st Military Region ( Vietnam People's Army ): It is directly under the Ministry of Defense of Vietnam ; tasked to protect against foreign invaders ; and to organize, build, manage and command forces in northeastern Vietnam.

* 2nd Military Region ( Vietnam People's Army ): It is directly under the Ministry of Defense of Vietnam ; tasked to organize, build, manage and command armed forces defending northwestern Vietnam.

* 3rd Military Region ( Vietnam People's Army ): It is directly under the Ministry of Defense of Vietnam ; tasked to organize, build, manage and command armed forces defending the Red River Delta area.

* 4th Military Region ( Vietnam People's Army ): It is directly under the Ministry of Defense of Vietnam ; tasked to organize, build, manage and command armed forces defending north central Vietnam.

* 5th Military Region ( Vietnam People's Army ): It is directly under the Ministry of Defense of Vietnam ; tasked to organize, build, manage and command armed forces defending south central Vietnam, including the western highlands and south central coastal provinces.

* 7th Military Region ( Vietnam People's Army ): It is directly under the Ministry of Defense of Vietnam ; tasked to organize, build, manage and command armed forces defending southeastern Vietnam.