Program Description

The Secretary of the Army (SECARMY) designated the Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Army (AASA) as the focal point for Department of Defense (DoD) Executive Agent (EA) responsibilities assigned to the Secretary and to oversee and manage all SECARMY delegations of authority (DoAs). The focal point coordinates on all Army matters associated with the establishment, maintenance, or cancellation of SECARMY EA and non-EA DoAs and ensures responsible officials comply with policy.

Department of Defense (DoD) Executive Agent (EA)

The DoD Component head, or official required in statue, to whom the Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) or Deputy Secretary of Defense (DEPSECDEF) has assigned specific responsibilities, functions, and authorities to provide defined levels of support for operational missions, or administrative or other designated activities that involve two or more of the DoD Components. The nature and scope of the assigned responsibilities, functions, and authorities are set at the time of assignment and remain in effect until the SECDEF or DEPSECDEF revokes or supersedes them.

DoD EA Website: DoD Executive Agent (osd.mil)

Army DoD EA By-Name Listing

  • LIST OF ARMY'S DESIGNATION AS DOD EXECUTIVE AGENT
    • Administrative and Resource Support for the U.S. Military Entrance Processing Command (MEPCOM)
    • Advanced Cyber Training
    • Biological Select Agent and Toxin (BSAT) Biosafety and Biosecurity Program
    • Chemical and Biological Defense Program (CBDP)
    • Classified DoD EA
    • Cold War Recognition Certificates
    • Commanders' Emergency Response Program (CERP)
    • Contract Foreign Language Support to the DoD Components
    • Coordination of Contracting Activities in the USCENTCOM Area of Responsibility (AOR)
    • Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-sUAS) for Unmanned Aircraft Groups 1, 2 and 3
    • CREW Technology
    • Cyber Training Ranges
    • Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC)
    • DoD Biometrics
    • DoD Combat Feeding Research and Engineering Program
    • DoD Detainee Operations Policy
    • DoD Level III Corrections
    • DoD Passport and Passport Agent Services
    • DoD Support to United Nations Missions
    • Enterprise-wide Mass Warning and Notification
    • Explosives Safety Management
    • Financial Disclosure Management (FDM) - Ethics Reporting System
    • Forensics
    • Georgia-U.S. BioSurveillance & Research Center (GUSBRC)
    • Homeowners Assistance Program (HAP)
    • Joint Center for International Security Force Assistance (JCISFA)
    • Management of Land-Based Water Resources in Support of Contingency Operations
    • Medical Research for Prevention, Mitigation, and Treatment of Blast Injuries
    • Military Postal Service (MPS) and Official Mail Program (OMP)
    • Multinational Force & Observers (MFO) Sinai
    • Operation of the After Government Employment Advice Repository (AGEAR) System
    • Recovered Chemical Warfare Material (RCWM) Program within the United States
    • Recruiting Facilities Program
    • Specified DoD Support to Scouting Organizations and the American Red Cross
    • Unexploded Ordnance Center of Excellence
    • Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC)

EA and Non-EA SECARMY Delegations of Authority (DoAs)

EA DoA: This type of SECARMY DoA is associated with a DoD EA and is the action by which the SECARMY wholly or partly assigns authority to a subordinate, otherwise known as an EA responsible official (RO).

Non-EA DoA: This type of SECARMY DoA is not associated with a DoD EA and is the action by which the SECARMY wholly or partly assigns authority to a subordinate. The nature and scope of the assigned responsibilities, functions, and authorities are set in an associated policy or law from which the SECARMY’s authority derives and remains in effect until the SECARMY revokes or supersedes them.

Army Regulation 1-19 (Secretary of the Army Delegations of Authority)

AR 1-19 27 Apr 2024.pdf [PDF - 228.3 KB]

Department of Defense Directive 5101.01 (DoD Executive Agent)

SECARMY DoA Inbox

usarmy.pentagon.hqda-oaa.mbx.delegations-of-authority@army.mil