Frank Carlucci Frank Carlucci Frank Charles Carlucci III (October 18, 1930 – June 3, 2018) was an American politician and diplomat who served as the United States Secretary of Defense from 1987 to 1989 in the administration of President Ronald Reagan. Carlucci served in a variety of senior-level governmental positions, including Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity in the Richard Nixon administration, Deputy Director of the CIA in the Jimmy Carter administration, and Deputy Secretary of Defense and National Security Advisor in the Reagan administration. Carlucci was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the son of Roxanne (née Bacon) and Frank Charles Carlucci,
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs Secretary of Defense and Assistant "to" the Secretary of Defense five times, largely because the Secretary of Defense has historically been authorized a limited number of assistant secretaries. The position was given statutory standing as the "Assistant Secretary of Defense (Legislative Affairs)" by the National Defense Authorization Act for FY1994 (P.L. 103-160), passed November 30, 1993. The table below includes both the various titles of this post over time, as well as all the holders of those offices. The annual budget for the ASD(LA) is contained in the OSD's budget, under the Defense-Wide Operation and Maintenance (O&M) account. The Obama