Fourth Estate (Department of Defense)
The Fourth Estate is a jargon term for the portions of the United States Department of Defense that are not the military Services including:
- the Defense Acquisition University
- the Defense Contract Audit Agency
- the Defense Contract Management Agency
- the Defense Finance and Accounting Service
- the Defense Health Agency
- the Defense Human Resources Activity
- the Defense Information Systems Agency
- the Defense Legal Services Agency
- the Defense Logistics Agency
- the Defense Media Activity
- the Defense Technology Security Administration
- the Missile Defense Agency
- the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency
- the Defense Threat Reduction Agency
- the Office of Economic Adjustment.
Together they consumed 18% of the Department of Defense budget in 2018.