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The Office of the United States Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology (ASA(ALT)) is known as OASA(ALT). OASA(ALT) serves, when delegated, as the Army Acquisition
Military acquisition
Military acquisition is the bureaucratic management and procurement process dealing with a nation's investments in the technologies, programs, and product support necessary to achieve its national security strategy and support its armed forces...

Executive, the Senior Procurement

Procurement

Procurement is the acquisition of goods or services. It is favourable that the goods/services are appropriate and that they are procured at the best possible cost to meet the needs of the purchaser in terms of quality and quantity, time, and location...

Executive, the Science Advisor to the Secretary of the Army, and as the senior research and development

Research and development

The phrase research and development , according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, refers to "creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of man, culture and society, and the use of this stock of...

official for the Department of the Army. The OASA(ALT) also has the principal responsibility for all Department of the Army matters related to logistics

Logistics

Logistics is the management of the flow of goods between the point of origin and the point of destination in order to meet the requirements of customers or corporations. Logistics involves the integration of information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling, and packaging, and...

Office Symbol

In accordance with Army Regulation (AR) 25–59, OASA(ALT)'s office symbol is SAAL-ZA.

Components

ASA(ALT) SAAL-ZA
- Principal Deputy ASA(ALT)
  - Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Elimination of Chemical Weapons SAAL-ZC
  - Deputy Assistant Secretary for Plans, Programs and Resources SAAL-ZR
    - Chief Information Officer
  - Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology SAAL-ZT
  - Chairman Army Science Board SAAL-ASB
  - Deputy Assistant Secretary for Procurement SAAL-ZP
  - Deputy Assistant Secretary for Strategic Communication & Business Transformation SAAL-ZG
  - Deputy Assistant Secretary for Acquisition Policy and Logistics SAAL-ZL
  - Deputy Assistant Secretary for Defense Exports and Cooperation SAAL-ZN
  - Deputy for Acquisition and Systems Management SAAL-ZS
- Principal Military Deputy/Director Acquisition Career Management/Chief Integration OfficerBy law, Program Executive Offices (PEO's) have direct access, and report directly to the Army Acquisition Executive in connection with all program matters.
  - Deputy for Medical Systems
  - Director US Army Acquisition Support Center USAASC
  - Director Chemical Materials Agency (CMA)
    United States Army Chemical Materials Agency
    The United States Army Chemical Materials Agency is a major sub-command of the United States Army Materiel Command and a reporting element of the United States Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology. Its role is to enhance national security by securely storing...
  - JPEO Chemical and Biological Defense (CBD)
  - JPEO Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS)
  - PEO Ammunition (AMMO)
  - PEO Aviation (AVN)
  - PEO Command Control Communications Tactical (C3T)
    Program Executive Office Command Control Communications Tactical
    Program Executive Office: Command, Control and Communications Tactical is a United States Army procurement office.- Overview :Headquartered at Aberdeen, MD., the Army’s Program Executive Office for Command, Control and Communications Tactical’s capabilities and support staff reach Warfighters at...
  - PEO Combat Support & Combat Service Support (CS&CSS)
  - PEO Enterprise Information Systems (EIS)
  - PEO Ground Combat Systems (GCS)
  - PEO Intelligence, Electronic Warfare, and Sensors (IEW&S)
  - PEO Missiles and Space (M&S)
  - PEO Simulation, Training, & Instrumentation (STRI)
  - PEO Soldier
  - PEO Integration
- Direct Reports
  - United States Army Acquisition Support Center (USAASC)
  - Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (MRMC)
    United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command
    The United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command is the United States Army's medical materiel developer, with responsibility for medical research, development, and acquisition and medical logistics management. The USAMRMC's expertise in these critical areas helps establish and maintain...
  - Army Science Board
    Army Science Board
    The Army Science Board is a Federal Advisory Committee organized under the Federal Advisory Committee Act. It is the Department of the Army senior scientific advisory body that was chartered in 1977 to replace the Army Scientific Advisory Panel...
- Life Cycle Management
  Product life cycle management
  Product life-cycle management is the succession of strategies used by business management as a product goes through its life-cycle. The conditions in which a product is sold changes over time and must be managed as it moves through its succession of stages.Product life-cycle Like human beings,...
  - Acquisition, Logistics,and Technology Futures Office (ALT FO)
  - Deputy for Life Cycle Integration
  - Tank-Automotive Life Cycle Management Command (TACOM LCMC)
    U.S. Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command
    The United States Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command , formerly known as Tank-automotive and Armaments Command , headquartered at the Detroit Arsenal in Warren, Michigan, is part of the United States Army Materiel Command . It generates, provides, and sustains mobility, lethality, and...
  - Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command (AMCOM LCMC)
    United States Army Aviation and Missile Command
    The United States Army Aviation and Missile Command is primarily responsible for life cycle management of army missile, helicopter, unmanned ground vehicle and unmanned aerial vehicle weapon systems. The central part of AMCOM's job involves acquisition and sustainment support for aviation and...
  - Communication-Electronics Life Cycle Management Command (C-E LCMC)
    United States Army Materiel Command
    The U.S. Army Materiel Command is the primary provider of materiel to the United States Army.The Command's mission includes the research & development of weapons systems as well as maintenance and parts distribution....
  - Joint Munitions & Lethality Life Cycle Management Command (JM&L LCMC)
    United States Army Materiel Command
    The U.S. Army Materiel Command is the primary provider of materiel to the United States Army.The Command's mission includes the research & development of weapons systems as well as maintenance and parts distribution....

Mission

To effectively and efficiently develop, acquire, field, and sustain materiel by leveraging domestic, organic, commercial, and foreign technologies

Technology

Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...

and capabilities to meet the US Army's current and future mission requirements.

Chronological list of ASA(ALT)'s

Name	Assumed Office	Left Office	President President of the United States The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces.... Appointed By	Secretary United States Secretary of the Army The Secretary of the Army is a civilian official within the Department of Defense of the United States of America with statutory responsibility for all matters relating to the United States Army: manpower, personnel, reserve affairs, installations, environmental issues, weapons systems and... Served Under
Paul J. Hoeper Paul J. Hoeper Paul J. Hoeper is a United States consultant who served as United States Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology from 1998 to 2001-Biography:...	May 29, 1998	January 21, 2001	Bill Clinton Bill Clinton William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...	Louis Caldera Louis Caldera Louis Caldera was Director of the White House Military Office from January 20, 2009, until May 22, 2009, and served as the 17th United States Secretary of the Army from July 2, 1998, until January 20, 2001.-Family and education:...
Kenneth J. Oscar Kenneth J. Oscar Kenneth J. Oscar was Acting United States Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology from 2001 to 2002.-Biography:... (acting)	January 21, 2001	February 1, 2002	George W. Bush George W. Bush George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....	Thomas E. White Thomas E. White Thomas E. White, Jr. is an American businessman and former United States Army officer who served as senior executive at the now collapsed Enron and as the United States Secretary of the Army from May 31, 2001 until April 25, 2003.-Military career and education:In 1963 White graduated from Cass...
Claude M. Bolton, Jr. Claude M. Bolton, Jr. Claude M. Bolton, Jr. is a retired United States Air Force officer who served as United States Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology from 2002 to 2008.-Biography:...	February 1, 2002	January 2, 2008	George W. Bush George W. Bush George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....	Thomas E. White Thomas E. White Thomas E. White, Jr. is an American businessman and former United States Army officer who served as senior executive at the now collapsed Enron and as the United States Secretary of the Army from May 31, 2001 until April 25, 2003.-Military career and education:In 1963 White graduated from Cass... , Francis J. Harvey Francis J. Harvey Francis Joseph Harvey served as the 19th Secretary of the United States Army from November 19, 2004 to March 9, 2007.-Education and family:Harvey was born and raised in Latrobe, Pennsylvania... , Pete Geren Pete Geren Preston M. "Pete" Geren, III served as the 20th United States Secretary of the Army from July 16, 2007 to September 16, 2009...
Dean G. Popps Dean G. Popps Dean G. Popps was Acting United States Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology from 2008 to 2010.-Biography:... (acting)	January 2, 2008	March 4, 2010	George W. Bush George W. Bush George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000.... , Barack Obama Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...	Pete Geren Pete Geren Preston M. "Pete" Geren, III served as the 20th United States Secretary of the Army from July 16, 2007 to September 16, 2009... , John M. McHugh John M. McHugh John Michael McHugh is the 21st United States Secretary of the Army and a former Republican politician from the state of New York, formerly representing the state's 23rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives.On June 2, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated him to...
Malcolm Ross O'Neill Malcolm Ross O'Neill Malcolm Ross O'Neill was the United States Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology, having been sworn into office by United States Under Secretary of the Army Joseph W. Westphal on March 10, 2010, and resigned June 3, 2011 ....	March 4, 2010	June 3, 2011	Barack Obama Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...	John M. McHugh John M. McHugh John Michael McHugh is the 21st United States Secretary of the Army and a former Republican politician from the state of New York, formerly representing the state's 23rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives.On June 2, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated him to...
Heidi Shyu	June 4, 2011	Present	Barack Obama Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...	John M. McHugh John M. McHugh John Michael McHugh is the 21st United States Secretary of the Army and a former Republican politician from the state of New York, formerly representing the state's 23rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives.On June 2, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated him to...

United States Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology

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Mission

Chronological list of ASA(ALT)'s

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