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Department of Defense

noun

The federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States; created in 1947. Synonyms: Defense, Defense Department, DoD, United States Department of Defense.

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... General Samford's office and they brought in General Sory Smith of the Department of Defense, Office of Public Information. General Smith appointed a civilian on the Air Force Press Desk, Al Chop, to handle all inquiries from the press. The plan was that Al would try to get his answers from Major Dewey Fournet, Blue Book's liaison officer in the Pentagon, and if ...

— The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects • Edward Ruppelt

... (formerly Automatic Voice Network or Autovon); basic general-purpose, switched voice network of the Defense Communications System (US Department of Defense). ...

— The 2000 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... job he was doing was coming slowly, but what difference did it make? It would never be published. Probably it would be filed with a Department of Defense code number as Research Report DDNE-42 dash-dash-dash. And there it would remain, top-secret, guarded, unread, useless. Somewhere in the desk drawers was the directive worded in the stiff military manner describing the procedures for clearing papers for publication. When ...

— Security • Ernest M. Kenyon

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