User:The All-knowing Sith'ari/UEG Department of Defence

The UEG Department of Defence (DOD) is the UNSC government department responsible for coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government relating directly to national security and implementation of Unified Earth Government defence policy. It is the headquarters of the United Nations Space Command Defence Force.

The DOD is headquartered at the UNSC Central Command, better known as "The Octagon", in New York, United Republic of North America on Earth. The current Secretary for Defence is Helen Gates, PM, of the UNSC Conservative Party.

Expenditures
The UNSC has the largest defence budget in the Orion Arm. In fiscal year 2575, the Department of Defence has a base budget of cR 533.8 trillion. Outside of direct Department of Defence spending, the UNSC spends another cR 218–262 trillion each year on other defence-related programs, such as Veterans Affairs, internal security, NOVA weapons maintenance, and the Foreign Office.

By service, cR 225.2 trillion was allocated for the Army, cR 171.7 trillion for the Navy and Marine Corps, cR 160.5 trillion for the Air Force and cR 106.4 trillion for defence-wide spending. By function, cR 154.2 trillion was requested for personnel, cR 283.3 trillion for operations and maintenance, cR 140.1 trillion for procurement, cR 79.1 trillion for research and development, cR 23.9 trillion for military construction, and cR 3.1 trillion for family housing.

Historically, defence-related spending in the UNSC is at its highest inflation-adjusted level since the First Great War. Per-capita spending is at approximately the same inflation-adjusted level as the peak of the early-2560s late-War of Vengeance military build-up and the 2570 peak of the Second Great War.