Office of the Secretary of Defense

office in the U.S. Department of Defense with civilian executive staff
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Office of the Secretary of Defense

Summary

Office of the Secretary of Defense is a government agency[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of government_agency entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (196 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Office of the Secretary of Defense is in the country of United States[3].
  • Office of the Secretary of Defense's instance of is recorded as government agency[4].
  • Office of the Secretary of Defense's seal image is recorded as Office of the Secretary of Defense identification badge.svg[5].
  • Office of the Secretary of Defense's headquarters location is recorded as The Pentagon[6].
  • Office of the Secretary of Defense's ISNI is recorded as 0000000403901322[7].
  • Office of the Secretary of Defense's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 151351092[8].
  • Office of the Secretary of Defense's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n87874797[9].
  • Office of the Secretary of Defense's child organization or unit is recorded as Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency[10].
  • Office of the Secretary of Defense's child organization or unit is recorded as Defense Threat Reduction Agency[11].
  • Office of the Secretary of Defense's child organization or unit is recorded as Defense Logistics Agency[12].
  • Office of the Secretary of Defense's child organization or unit is recorded as Missile Defense Agency[13].
  • Office of the Secretary of Defense's child organization or unit is recorded as Defense Security Cooperation Agency[14].
  • Office of the Secretary of Defense's child organization or unit is recorded as Defense Technical Information Center[15].
  • Office of the Secretary of Defense's child organization or unit is recorded as Defense Technology Security Administration[16].
  • Office of the Secretary of Defense's child organization or unit is recorded as Defense Contract Audit Agency[17].
  • Office of the Secretary of Defense's Commons category is recorded as Office of the Secretary of Defense[18].
  • +1947-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Office of the Secretary of Defense[19].
  • Office of the Secretary of Defense's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/07fqgn[20].
  • Office of the Secretary of Defense's parent organization or unit is recorded as United States Department of War[21].
  • Office of the Secretary of Defense's official website is recorded as http://www.defense.gov/osd[22].
  • Office of the Secretary of Defense's GRID ID is recorded as grid.473761.0[23].
  • Office of the Secretary of Defense's Open Funder Registry funder ID is recorded as 100005713[24].
  • Office of the Secretary of Defense's Ringgold ID is recorded as 143496[25].
  • Office of the Secretary of Defense's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 1296703163[26].
  • Office of the Secretary of Defense's ROR ID is recorded as 00q4sx826[27].

Body

Founding

+1947-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Office of the Secretary of Defense[19].

Operations

Office of the Secretary of Defense's headquarters location is recorded as The Pentagon[6]. Its parent organization or unit is recorded as United States Department of War[21]. Subsidiaries include Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency[10], an United States federal agency[28], in United States[29], founded in 1958[30], headquartered in Arlington County[31]; Defense Threat Reduction Agency[11], a government agency[32], in United States[33], founded in 1998[34], headquartered in Fort Belvoir[35]; Defense Logistics Agency[12], a government agency[36], in United States[37], founded in 1961[38], headquartered in Andrew T. McNamara Headquarters Complex[39]; Missile Defense Agency[13], a government agency[40], in United States[41], founded in 2002[42]; Defense Security Cooperation Agency[14], a government agency[43], in United States[44], founded in 1961[45]; and Defense Technical Information Center[15], a government agency[46], in United States[47], founded in 1945[48], headquartered in Fort Belvoir[49].

Why It Matters

Office of the Secretary of Defense ranks in the top 2% of government_agency entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (196 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[50] It is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[51]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Revised Organizational Structure for the Office of the Secretary of Defense: Report to Congress. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . GRID Release 2016-12-06. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Open Funder Registry. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . Aligned ISNI and Ringgold identifiers for institutions. wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . Microsoft Academic Knowledge Graph. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
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  11. [38] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
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  18. [45] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  19. [46] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  20. [47] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  21. [48] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  22. [49] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [50] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [51] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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