He selected as Comptroller of Defense, not a veteran accountant, but a former Rhodes Scholar, Charles Hitch, who is author of a study on The Economics Of Defense In The Nuclear Age.

Singer has worked as a consultant for several government agencies, including the House Select Committee on Space, NASA, the Government Accountability Office, the National Science Foundation, the United States Atomic Energy Commission, National Research Council, the Department of Defense Strategic Defense Initiative, Department of Energy Nuclear Waste Panel, and the Department of the Treasury.

As Vice Chairman, General Myers served as the Chairman of the Joint Requirements Oversight Council, Vice Chairman of the Defense Acquisition Board, and as a member of the National Security Council Deputies Committee and the Nuclear Weapons Council.

* Nuclear Files. org Ronald Reagan on the Strategic Defense Initiative

More recently an advanced engine design was studied under Project Timberwind, under the aegis of the Strategic Defense Initiative (" Star Wars "), which was later expanded into a larger design in the Space Thermal Nuclear Propulsion ( STNP ) program.

LLNL's principal sponsor is the Department of Energy / National Nuclear Security Administration ( DOE / NNSA ) Office of Defense Programs, which supports its stockpile stewardship and advanced scientific computing programs.

Funding to support LLNL's global security and homeland security work comes from the DOE / NNSA Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation as well as the Department of Homeland Security.

In addition, LLNL conducts work-for-others research and development for various Defense Department sponsors, other federal agencies, including NASA, Nuclear Regulatory Commission ( NRC ), National Institutes of Health, and Environmental Protection Agency, a number of California State agencies, and private industry.

* The Stockpile Stewardship and Management Program: Maintaining Confidence in the Safety and Reliability of the Enduring U. S. Nuclear Weapon Stockpile U. S. Department of Energy, Office of Defense Programs.

* Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 435 U. S. 519 ( 1978 ), which held that courts could not impose additional procedural requirements on administrative agencies beyond that required by the agency's organic statute or the Administrative Procedure Act.

Co. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 462 U. S. 78 ( 1983 ) is a United States Supreme Court decision which held to be valid a Nuclear Regulatory Commission ( NRC ) rule that the permanent storage of nuclear waste should be assumed to have no environmental impact during the licensing of nuclear power plants.

* Penetration Resistance of Concrete: A Review, James R. Clifton, The Physical Security and Stockpile Directorate, Defense Nuclear Agency

* Headquarters Platoon consists of Marines from S-1, S-2, S-3, the Nuclear, Biological, Chemical Defense section, and the Chaplain section ( one Navy chaplain and an enlisted religious program specialist ).

Operation Argus was a series of nuclear weapons tests and missile tests secretly conducted during August and September 1958 over the South Atlantic Ocean by the United States's Defense Nuclear Agency, in conjunction with the Explorer 4 space mission.

He is a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and serves as co-director of the Nuclear Risk Reduction initiative and the Preventive Defense Project.

From August 1983 until November 1987, Gaffney held the position of Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control Policy in the Reagan Administration, again serving under Perle.

Kirkpatrick served on Reagan's Cabinet on the National Security Council, Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, Defense Policy Review Board, and chaired the Secretary of Defense Commission on Fail Safe and Risk reduction of the Nuclear Command and Control System.

The airport hosted USAF Air Defense Command interceptor units during the Cold War ; used for air defense of Hanford Nuclear Reservation and Grand Coulee Dam.

" Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., v. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 216 F. 3d 1180, 1182 ( D. C. Cir.

* Defense Nuclear Agency, a United States Department of Defense combat support agency

* Walsh, Roger ( 1989 ) Psychological Chauvinism and Nuclear Holocaust: A Response to Albert Ellis and Defense of Non-Rational Emotive Therapies.

* Naval Facilities Engineering Command ( Department of Defense )

Additionally the US Department of Defense ( DoD ) has created a Facilities Engineering career field as part of the Acquisition, Technology and Logistics workforce.

Subsequently, its Defense Facilities Administrative Agency was integrated into the MOD.

* Central Council on Defense Facilities （ 防衛施設中央審議会 ）

The Support Activity has expanded its mission and Department of Defense support role with over 40 tenant commands, and today is a training center, with the Naval Nuclear Power Training Command ( NNPTC ), Nuclear Power Training Unit, Propulsion Facility, and Border Patrol satellite academy ; Naval Consolidated Brig, Charleston ; Mobile Mine Assembly Unit ; Explosive Ordnance Detachments ; Marine Corps Reserve Center ; an engineering complex, with the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center ( SPAWAR, this is the largest employer in the Charleston area ) and is close to the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southeast ; 269 above-ground ammunition magazines, maintenance and storage of military ordnance including mines, and serves as an Army logistics hub, the busiest continental United States surface port in the defense transportation system.

The U. S. Department of Defense Standard Practice for System Safety ( MIL – STD – 882 ) places the highest priority on elimination of hazards through design selection.

Mofaz became the 16th IDF's Chief of the General Staff, and served as Israel's Minister of Defense, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transportation and Road Safety.

In 1954, the National Safety Agency became the Japan Defense Agency, and the National Police Reserve became the Japan Self-Defense Forces ( JSDF ).

Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bioinformatics, Genetics, Chemistry, Computer Science, Defense / Military, Earth Sciences, Engineering, Environment, Government and Legal, Health and Safety, Humanities, Information and Library Science, International Affairs, Materials Science, Mathematics, Medicine, Nanotechnology, Physics, and Social Sciences.

For AFGE, collective bargaining responsibilities are delegated to Councils of Locals at major agencies, including the VA, the Food Safety Inspection Service ( USDA ), HUD, the Social Security Administration, the Bureau of Prisons ( DOJ ), major components of the Department of Defense, such as the Air Force Materiel Command and the Marine Corps, and major components of the Department of Homeland Security, including the Border Patrol, Federal Protective Service, ICE, CIS, and the Coast Guard.

Naval Safety School Top Graduate ; Naval Test Pilot School Distinguished Graduate Award ; Defense Superior Service Medal ( 2 ); Distinguished Flying Cross ; Navy Meritorious Service Medal ; NASA Distinguished Service Medal ; NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal ( 2 ); NASA Exceptional Service Medal ( 2 ); NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal ; NASA Silver Snoopy Award ; AIAA System Effectiveness and Safety Award ; AIAA Barry M. Goldwater Education Award ; Aviation Week & Space Technology Laureate ( Space and Missiles ).

Until 2002, when he rejoined NASA as Chief Safety and Mission Assurance Officer, O ' Connor served as Director of Engineering for Futron Corporation, a Bethesda, Maryland based company providing risk management and aerospace safety and dependability services to government and commercial organizations including the Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Defense, NASA, Department of Energy, Westinghouse, AlliedSignal and others.

On February 2012, The FAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act of 2012 requires a joint plan to be submitted in 180 days by the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Secretary of Defense.

In 2006, the Defense Safety Oversight Council ( DSOC ) of the U. S. Department of Defense recognized the mishap prevention value of this maintenance safety program by partially funding a variant of ANG MRM for training throughout the U. S. Air Force.

Safety engineering is often strictly controlled by governments ( e. g. Nuclear, Aerospace, Defense, Rail and Oil industries ).

Title XVI of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 ( Public Law 104-106, 10 February 1996 ) created the Corporation for the Promotion of Rifle Practice & Firearms Safety ( CPRPFS ) to take over administration and promotion of the CMP.

But the Latin American republics who have been rather inclined to drag their feet on taking action against Castro also reacted swiftly last week by finally throwing Cuba off the Inter-American Defense Board.

of Defense, Research and Development Board

* Defense Science Board ( 1983 – 86 )

In addition, he acted for the Chairman in all aspects of the Planning, Programming and Budgeting System including participation in the Defense Resources Board.

He also has advised the Defense Health Board and served on the Army War College Board of Visitors.

He serves as a senior advisor with Booz Allen Hamilton, the Defense Policy Board, the advisory boards of Fleishman-Hillard, Computer Science Corporation, the Comptroller General ’ s Advisory Board of the GAO, and the Executive Committee of Military Ministry.

In later years, she served on the Chemical Warfare Board and on Harry Truman's Civil Defense Advisory Council.

The Secretary of the Navy is a member of the Defense Acquisition Board ( DAB ), chaired by the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics.

* Inter-American Defense Board, an international committee of nationally appointed defense officials in North, Central, and South America

This was only intended to be a short term fix, however, and disagreements between the services quickly led to the establishment of the Service Academy Board by Secretary of Defense James Forrestal.

The Board meets at least four times per year and prepares semi-annual reports containing its views and recommendations submitted concurrently to the Secretary of Defense, the Senate Armed Services Committee, and the House Armed Services Committee.

The National Security Act of 1947 created the National Security Council under the chairmanship of the President, with only the following seven officials as permanent members: the President, the Secretaries of State, Defense, Army, Navy, Air Force, and the Chairman of the National Security Resources Board.

In 1951, the Psychological Strategy Board ( PSB ), made up of the deputies at State and Defense and the Director of Central Intelligence, was created to coordinate the response to Soviet unconventional Cold War tactics.

This major legislation also provided for a Secretary of Defense, a National Military Establishment, Central Intelligence Agency, and National Security Resources Board.

He was also a consultant to the U. S. Office of Science and Technology Policy, and was a member of the Defense Science Board and the NASA Advisory Council.

PNAC member and the chairman of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee ( DPBAC ), Neoconservative Richard Perle, later expressed regret over the Iraq invasion and ultimately put the blame for the invasion on President George W. Bush ; while other renowned neoconservative ideologists like Joshua Muravchik and Norman Podhoretz claim that neoconservatives must take intellectual leadership and that traditional conservatives lack the insight on how to solve terrorism.

The Defense Intelligence Community is headed by the DIA, through its Director ( who chairs the Military Intelligence Board ), and it coordinates the activities of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force intelligence components.

Under the support of the Military Intelligence Board, the DIA unifies the Defense Intelligence Community on major issues such as the number of deployed forces, assessments, policy, and resources.

During World War II, he was appointed to the National Defense Board, and then to the Office of the Solicitor General.

The arrangement requires certain telephone circuits ( private wire or direct line to Toll Board ) between the Air Defense Control Centers ( A. D. C. C.

Originally the Civil Defense Board, and then briefly called Disaster Control in the 1990s, the Office of Emergency Management is charged with Emergency Preparedness and Planning.