Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness

Overview

History

Reporting officials

• Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness
• Military Deputy to the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness
• * Director, Office of Diversity Management and Equal Opportunity
• ** Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute
• * Director, Defense Suicide Prevention Office
• * Director, Personnel Risk Reduction Office
• Assistant Secretary of Defense for Readiness
• Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs
• * Military Health System
• * Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Wounded Warrior Care & Transition Policy
• Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower and Reserve Affairs
• * Director, Defense Commissary Agency
• * Director, Department of Defense Education Activity
• * Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Civilian Personnel Policy
• * Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Personnel Policy
• * Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Community and Family Policy
• * Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Readiness
• * Director, Office of Total Force Planning & Requirements
• * Director, Transition to Veterans Program Office
• Director, Defense Human Resources Activity
• Director, DoD/VA Collaboration Office

Budget

Budget totals

Budget features

• Contracts and other Support Services - Funds contracts and other support services for mission requirements, including Intergovernmental Personnel Act requirements
• Advancing Diversity and Equal Opportunity Program - Funding to increase the number of people with targeted disabilities in the federal civilian workforce to support the DoD goal of two percent DoD-wide, emphasizing the benefit for wounded service members
• Assistant Secretary of Defense - ASD is the principal medical staff advisor to the Secretary of Defense and principal program manager for all DoD health matters to include medical readiness, health care delivery, preventive medicine, medical military construction, and the procurement, development, training and retention of medical military and civilian personnel
• Assistant Secretary of Defense - Funds managed by ASD are utilized to conduct valuable research and analysis for specific topics and issues that arise related to the National Guard and military Reserve components
• Combatant Commander's Exercise Engagement and Training Transformation - The program was established as a result of direction from the Quadrennial Defense Review that re-aligned and consolidated joint training programs and applies resulting efficiencies against new mission areas and existing joint training shortfalls
• Defense Safety Oversight Council - Supports safety initiatives to reduce and prevent injuries to Defense Department personnel
• Defense Readiness Reporting System - Allows for quick analysis of force capability issues, effective program oversight, operator training, and data maintenance
• Lost Work Days System - Lost Work Days aims to increase operational readiness by providing data and analysis to eliminate preventable mishaps
• Military Personnel Policy Naturalization Support - Funding to pay U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in the United States Department of Homeland Security to not charge fees to military members applying for naturalization to become US citizens
• Military Spouse Intern Program - Assists eligible spouses of active duty military in obtaining positions in federal agencies by paying the spouses' salary and benefits for the first year of employment
• Studies Program - The Department contracts for assistance in facilitating studies that improve the overall operation and efficiency of the OUSD and the programs over which it exercises oversight
• Training Transformation - Provides oversight of the Department's Joint training effort
• Wounded Warrior Care and Transition Policy - Funds WWCTP operations that provide OSD-level oversight of the development and implementation of comprehensive disability, non-medical care and case management, and transition programs, policies and standards Department-wide
• Travel - Funds employee travel to support USD mission

Office holders

Principal Deputy