ASROC ' Matchbox ' mounting installed just aft of the Otobreda 76 mm | 76 mm gun turret on the Japanese Self Defense Force Asagiri class destroyer DD 158 Umigiri, photographed 28 July 2008 departing from Portsmouth Naval Base, UK.

From August 1998 to February 2000, General Myers was Commander in Chief of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U. S. Space Command ; Commander of the Air Force Space Command ; and Department of Defense manager of the space transportation system contingency support at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado.

Had the planned STS-62-A mission from Vandenberg Air Force Base in 1986 for the United States Department of Defense gone ahead, Discovery would have flown it.

While the majority of the missile launches came from United States Department of Defense footage of ICBM missile tests ( mainly Minuteman IIIs from Vandenberg Air Force Base adjacent to Lompoc, California ), all of the stock footage of missile launches were acquired from declassified DoD film libraries.

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 ).

On the other side of the city was Kreuzberg Kasern, home to various units of the United States Army ; however, only one combat unit, Alpha battery 2nd Battalion, 60th Air Defense Artillery, was headquartered on the Ramstein Air Base.

Some of these programs include Ecosystem Restoration, Formerly Used Defense Sites, Environmental Stewardship, EPA Superfund, Abandoned Mine Lands, Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program, Base Realignment and Closure, 2005, and Regulatory.

The Defense Intelligence Analysis Center on Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling

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.

Many of these units are moving due to decisions by the Defense Base Realignment and Closure Commission.

From 1951 on, Beale trained Aviation Engineers and ran an Air Base Defense School.

* The 820th Base Defense Group is a Force Protection unit which provides Air Force Expeditionary Groups self-sustaining Force Protection capability for initial U. S. " first-in " forces to any operating location in support of the Air Force Global Engagement mission.

The Group consists of four squadrons – the 822nd Base Defense Squadron, which activated in September 2000, 823 BDS, which activated in January 2001, the 824th which activated in November and the 820th Combat Operations Squadron, activated in March 2009.

* A Handbook of Aerospace Defense Organization 1946-1980, by Lloyd H. Cornett and Mildred W. Johnson, Office of History, Aerospace Defense Center, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado

Great Falls was reassigned to the Central Air Defense Force at Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base in 1953.

In 2005, the United States Department of Defense announced that Fort Dix would be affected by a Base Realignment and Closure.

The preliminary 2005 Base Realignment and Closure ( BRAC ) list was released by the United States Department of Defense on May 13, 2005.

1988 marked the beginning of Cannon ’ s expansion as a result of decisions made by the Secretary of Defense ’ s Commission on Base Realignment and Closures ( BRAC ).

* A Handbook of Aerospace Defense Organization 1946-1980, by Lloyd H. Cornett and Mildred W. Johnson, Office of History, Aerospace Defense Center, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado

Research and development activities undertaken by the Secretary shall be coordinated or conducted jointly with the Department of Defense to the end that developments under this Act which are primarily of a civil nature will contribute to the defense of the Nation and that developments which are primarily of a military nature will, to the greatest practicable extent compatible with military and security requirements, be available to advance the purposes of this Act and to strengthen the civil economy of the Nation.

Similar restrictions on the strength of the Army National Guard contained in the 1960 Department of Defense Appropriation Act should likewise be dropped.

The latest major change in this program was introduced by the National Defense Education Act of 1958, Title 8, of which amended the George-Barden Act.

For the Smith-Hughes, George-Barden, and National Defense Act of 1958, the cumulative total of Federal expenditures in 42 years was only about $740 million.

The Title 8, program of the National Defense Education Act of 1958 was a great spur to this trend toward area schools.

What could rescue the bill would be some quick progress on a bill amending the National Defense Education Act of 1958.

* 1949 – U. S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act Amendment, streamlining the defense agencies of the United States government, and replacing the Department of War with the United States Department of Defense.

On September 21, 1996, barely three years after the " Don't Ask, Don't Tell " imbroglio, and further straining relations with the LGBT community, Clinton signed into law the Defense of Marriage Act ( DOMA ), which defines marriage as the legal union of one man and one woman.

In a July 2, 2011 editorial the New York Times opined, " The Defense of Marriage Act was enacted in 1996 as an election-year wedge issue, signed by President Bill Clinton in one of his worst policy moments.

Congress included text in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994 ( passed in 1993 ) requiring the military to abide by regulations essentially identical to the 1982 absolute ban policy.

The National Defense Authorization Act for 2012 would have authorized indefinite detention of suspected terrorists, but enforcement of the relevant section was blocked by a federal court on May 16, 2012, ruling on a suit brought by a number of private citizens, including Chris Hedges, Daniel Ellsberg, Noam Chomsky, and Birgitta Jonsdottir.

After the perpetrator of President Reagan's assassination attempt was found not guilty by reason of insanity, Congress passed the Insanity Defense Reform Act of 1984.

* 1916 – The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450, 000 men.

* 1947 – Cold War: U. S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council.

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 ( Public Law 105-85 ) changed the criteria to delete authorization for award of the Purple Heart to any civilian national of the United States while serving under competent authority in any capacity with the Armed Forces.

In 1958 the National Defense Education Act was passed with the encouragement of many legislators who feared the United States education system was falling behind that of the Soviet Union.

This came about when President Eisenhower enacted a bill called the National Defense Education Act.

The Defense Authorization Act of 2009, signed by President Bush, contained a provision that gave veterans and active-duty service members not in uniform the right to salute during the playing of the national anthem.

Teaching of evolution was effectively barred from United States public school curricula by the outcome of the 1925 Scopes Trial, but in the 1960s the National Defense Education Act led to Biological Sciences Curriculum Study reintroducing teaching of evolution.

* October 1 – U. S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Goldwater – Nichols Act into law, making official the largest reorganization of the United States Department of Defense since the Air Force was made a separate branch of service in 1947.

* November 25 – U. S. President George W. Bush signs the Homeland Security Act into law, establishing the Department of Homeland Security, in the largest U. S. government reorganization since the creation of the Department of Defense in 1947.

Gray worked with the Environmental Defense Fund ( EDF ), who worked with the EPA to write the bill that became law as part of the Clean Air Act of 1990.