Back United States Secretary of the Army German Secretario del Ejército de los Estados Unidos Spanish وزیر ارتش ایالات متحده آمریکا Persian Yhdysvaltain maavoimaministeri Finnish Secrétaire à l'Armée des États-Unis French מזכיר הצבא של ארצות הברית HE Segretario all'Esercito degli Stati Uniti d'America Italian アメリカ合衆国陸軍長官 Japanese Setiausaha Tentera Darat Amerika Syarikat Malay Secretário do Exército dos Estados Unidos Portuguese
| United States Secretary of the Army | |
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| United States Department of the Army | |
| Style | Mr. Secretary |
| Reports to | United States Secretary of Defense |
| Appointer | President of the United States with Senate advice and consent |
| Term length | No fixed term |
| Precursor | Secretary of War |
| Formation | September 18, 1947 |
| First holder | Kenneth Claiborne Royall |
| Succession | 2nd in SecDef succession |
| Deputy | Under Secretary of the Army Chief of Staff of the Army |
| Salary | Executive Schedule, Level II |
| Website | Official website  |
The secretary of the Army (SA or SECARMY) is a senior civilian official within the United States Department of Defense, with statutory responsibility for all matters relating to the United States Army: manpower, personnel, reserve affairs, installations, environmental issues, weapons systems and equipment acquisition, communications and financial management.
The secretary of the Army is nominated by the president of the United States and confirmed by the United States Senate. The secretary is a non-Cabinet-level official, subordinate to the secretary of Defense.[2] This position was created on September 18, 1947, replacing the secretary of war, when the Department of War was split into the Department of the Army and Department of the Air Force.[3]
On January 20, 2025, Mark Averill was appointed Acting Secretary.
- ^ Archived 2010-06-07 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "10 U.S. Code § 7013 - Secretary of the Army". Retrieved December 13, 2022.
- ^ Bell, William Gardner (1992). ""Kenneth Claiborne Royall"". Secretaries of War and Secretaries of the Army: Portraits and Biographical Sketches. United States Army Center of Military History. Archived from the original on December 14, 2007. Retrieved September 22, 2007.