American Samoa is an unincorporated and unorganized territory of the United States, administered by the Office of Insular Affairs, US Department of the Interior.

In February 2009, the US State Department issued a travel alert directed at college students planning spring break trips to Acapulco.

In December 2011, Aon Corporation paid a $ 16. 26 million penalty to the US Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) and the US Department of Justice ( DOJ ) for violations of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ( FCPA ).

The newest upgrade is a joint venture by the Italian Ministry of Defense and the US Department of Defense: the AGM-88E Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile ( AARGM ), produced by Alliant Techsystems.

In November 2005, the Italian Ministry of Defense and the US Department of Defense signed a Memorandum of Agreement on the joint development of the AGM-88E AARGM missile.

* Benjamin Franklin: First American Diplomat, 1776 – 1785 US State Department

Nowadays, the agencies that are responsible for the biotechnology regulation are: US Department of Agriculture ( USDA ) that regulates plant pests and medical preparation from living organisms, Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) that regulates pesticides and herbicides, and the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) which ensures that the food and drug products are safe and effective

* US Board on Geographic Names ( Department of the Interior )

* US Transportation Command ( Department of Defense )

David Rothkopf, managing director of Kissinger Associates and an adjunct professor of international affairs at Columbia University ( who also served as a senior US Commerce Department official in the Clinton Administration ), wrote about cultural imperialism in his provocatively titled In Praise of Cultural Imperialism?

* California Department of Corrections, the US state of California's prison system

The metaphor has been useful in helping a new generation of thought leaders to reason through new military strategies around the world, led largely by the US Department of Defense ( DoD ).

Active development of the model by the US Department of Defense Software Engineering Institute ( SEI ) began in 1986 when Humphrey joined the Software Engineering Institute located at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania after retiring from IBM.

In 2000 they were the defendants in a US Department of Justice antitrust lawsuit.

Following World War II, the US Navy Department adopted the dog tags used by the US Army and Air Force, so a single shape and size became the American standard.

In 1958 African-American Eugene Wright joined for the group's US State Department tour of Europe and Asia.

Featuring the album art of S. Neil Fujita, the album contained all original compositions, almost none of which were in common time: 9 / 8, 5 / 4, 3 / 4, and 6 / 4 were used inspired by Eurasian folk music they experienced during that US State Department sponsored tour.

In the early 1960s, Brubeck and his wife Iola developed a jazz musical, The Real Ambassadors, based in part on experiences they and their colleagues had during foreign tours on behalf of the US State Department.

* Defense Mapping Agency, a former ( 1972 – 1996 ) agency of the US Department of Defense.

* Defense Media Activity, an organization of the US Department of Defense

Micro was used to manage very large data sets by the US Department of Labor, the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, and researchers from the University of Alberta, the University of Michigan, and Wayne State University.

* Department of State, Academics see the military in decline, but retaining strong influence, 23 September 2009 ( US Embassy Cables, The Guardian, 2011 )

ISI's government customers include the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, US Geological Survey, and Departments of Agriculture, Defense, Energy, Homeland Security and Justice.

For US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, the plot bore " all the hallmarks of al-Qaeda and in particular ".

Ministries of the Interior correspond primarily to the Department of Homeland Security in the US cabinet and secondarily to the Department of Justice.

" Homeland defense ( HD ) is the protection of US sovereignty,

After three years of searching for an occupant, the Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ) announced on March 20, 2007 that it would spend approximately US $ 4. 1 billion to move its headquarters and most of its Washington-based offices to a new facility on the site, beginning with the United States Coast Guard in 2010.

The US Department of Homeland Security defines right-wing extremism as hate groups who target racial, ethnic or religious minorities and may be dedicated to a single issue.

* The US Department of Homeland Security's code orange on its terror threat scale represents a high risk, second highest to severe.

* Charles E. Allen ( former Undersecretary for Intelligence and Analysis at the US Department of Homeland Security )

* Clark Kent Ervin – first Inspector General of the US Department of Homeland Security.

In the UK, commonly used shared protocols include CHALET and ETHANE while in the US, the Department of Homeland Security has called for nationwide implementation of the National Incident Management System ( NIMS ), of which the Incident Command System ( ICS ) is a part.

With this market shift, more critical systems are beginning to rely on open-source offerings, allowing greater funding ( such as US Department of Homeland Security grants ) to help " hunt for security bugs.

In 2011, several former senior US officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, three former chairmen of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, two former directors of the CIA, former commander of NATO Wesley Clark, two former US Ambassadors to the United Nations, the former U. S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey, a former White House Chief of Staff, a former commander of the United States Marine Corps, former U. S. National Security Advisor Frances Townsend, and US President Barack Obama's retired National Security Adviser General James L. Jones called for the MEK to be removed from its official listing on the U. S. State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, on the grounds that they constituted a viable opposition to the Iranian regime.

Hersh also reported several former U. S. officials from both of the main political parties in the US have been paid to speak in support of the group, including former CIA directors James Woolsey and Porter Goss ; former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge ; New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani ; former Vermont Governor Howard Dean ; former Attorney General Michael Mukasey ; former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Louis Freeh ; former U. N.

* Accenture Federal Services provides services directly to United States government entities such as the US Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, and Justice.

On December 7, 2006, the Departments of Homeland Security ( DHS ) and Energy ( DOE ) announced the first phase of the Secure Freight Initiative, an unprecedented effort to build upon existing port security measures by enhancing the US federal government ’ s ability to scan containers for nuclear and radiological materials overseas and to better assess the risk of inbound containers.

At a Homeland Security Committee hearing on radical Muslims in the US, held in March 2011, Jackson Lee said that Peter King's hearings were helping al-Qaeda and “ going the same route as Arizona .” She complained that the hearings were scaring Muslim Americans and called them “ an outrage .”

After a demonstration of the system at the White House in January 2003 Matrix received US $ 4 million in grants from the U. S. Justice Department and the program was earmarked US $ 8 million by the U. S. Department of Homeland Security.

It has received funding from Gaddafi's Libya and training from the Maoist Guerrilla group New People's army, a Foreign Terrorist Organization designated by the US Department of Homeland Security.

* US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, 12 May 2005, " Report on oil allocations granted to Charles Pasqua & George Galloway "

In October 2007, the United Kingdom's first Muslim government minister, Shahid Malik, rebuked US authorities after having been detained and searched for explosives at a Washington airport on his way home from a meeting with the US Department of Homeland Security.