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Fourth Estate (Department of Defense)

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The Fourth Estate is a jargon term for the portions of the United States Department of Defense that are not the military Services[1] including:

Fourth Estate entities are all organizational entities in DoD that are not in the military departments, IC agencies, or combatant commands. These include the defense agencies and DoD field activities.

Together they consumed 18% of the Department of Defense budget in 2018.[2]

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Footnotes

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  1. ^ The first member of the Fourth Estate, created in 1960[2]

References

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  1. ^ DoDI 7730.64 (PDF). Department of Defense. 11 December 2004. p. 12. Retrieved 3 August 2023.
  2. ^ a b Mark Cancian (May 25, 2018), Why Chairman Thornberry failed to tame DOD's fourth estate, breakingdefense.com

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from Fiscal Year 2019 National Defense Authorization Act Chairman's Mark Summary (PDF). House Armed Services Committee. Retrieved 2019-02-22.

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from Human Capital: DOD Needs Better Internal Controls and Visibility over Costs for Implementing Its National Security Personnel System (PDF). Government Accounting Office. Retrieved 2022-03-05.