Department of Defense
U.S. Department of Defense — cabinet department.
No scorecard yet
Aletheca has not filed with this body, so there is nothing to measure. A zero here would read as “releases nothing” rather than “never asked”, which is why the row is absent instead of empty. Be the first to file.
How it takes requests
- 01portalAgency FOIA Portalverified
https://pal.foia.gov
- 02emailEmailunconfirmed
dodfoia@dod.gov
- 03mailPostal mailunconfirmed
Department of Defense FOIA Office, FOIA Requester Service Center, Washington DC 20208
Routes marked unconfirmed are inferred from the agency’s domain pattern in the source dataset and have not been proven by a delivered letter. Aletheca confirms an endpoint before the first request goes to it and records the confirmation as a public event — a request sent to a plausible-looking address that bounces silently is worse than no request at all.
What it holds
- budget
- policy
- contracts
- grants
- correspondence
- reports
Record classes this kind of body normally keeps. Useful for drafting a request a records officer can act on without guessing — a request describing records the agency does not hold is refused as no-records, which costs a filing fee and teaches nobody anything.
Filing tips
- Be specific on date range and custodians
- Cite public-interest fee waiver and news-media status if applicable
- Request Vaughn index for withholdings
- Ask for rolling release
Components — 45
- Air Force Office of Special InvestigationsAFOSI
- All-domain Anomaly Resolution OfficeAARO
- Army Criminal Investigation DivisionArmy CID
- Army Intelligence and Security CommandINSCOM
- Defense Advanced Research Projects AgencyDARPA
- Defense Contract Management AgencyDCMA
- Defense Counterintelligence and Security AgencyDCSA
- Defense Finance and Accounting ServiceDFAS
- Defense Health AgencyDHA
- Defense Health Agency - MedicalDHA-Medical
- Defense Human Resources ActivityDHRA
- Defense Intelligence AgencyDIA
- Defense Logistics AgencyDLA
- Defense POW/MIA Accounting AgencyDPAA
- Defense Threat Reduction AgencyDTRA
- Department of the Air ForceUSAF
- Department of the ArmyArmy
- Department of the NavyNavy
- Joint Chiefs of StaffJCS
- Joint Staff FOIA OfficeJoint Staff
- Marine Corps IntelligenceMCIA
- Missile Defense AgencyMDA
- National Air and Space Intelligence CenterNASIC
- National Background Investigation ServicesNBIS
- National Geospatial-Intelligence AgencyNGA
- National Reconnaissance OfficeNRO
- National Security AgencyNSA
- Naval Criminal Investigative ServiceNCIS
- Office of Naval IntelligenceONI
- Office of the Secretary of Defense / Joint StaffOSD/JS
- U.S. Africa CommandAFRICOM
- U.S. Army Corps of EngineersUSACE
- U.S. Central CommandCENTCOM
- U.S. Cyber CommandCYBERCOM
- U.S. European CommandEUCOM
- U.S. Indo-Pacific CommandINDOPACOM
- U.S. Navy Fleet Forces CommandFFC
- U.S. Northern CommandNORTHCOM
- U.S. Southern CommandSOUTHCOM
- U.S. Space CommandSPACECOM
- U.S. Special Operations CommandSOCOM
- U.S. Strategic CommandSTRATCOM
- U.S. Transportation CommandTRANSCOM
- United States Marine CorpsUSMC
- United States Space ForceUSSF
Components process their own requests. Filing with the department when the records sit in a component is the commonest cause of a referral, and a referral costs months.