Reagan Doctrine legal barriers prohibiting private organizations and citizens from supporting these resistance movements. Within the Reagan administration, the doctrine was quickly embraced by nearly all of Reagan's top national security and foreign policy officials, including Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, UN Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, and a series of Reagan National Security advisers including John Poindexter, Frank Carlucci, and Colin Powell. Reagan himself was a vocal proponent of the policy. Seeking to expand Congressional support for the doctrine in the 1985 State of the Union Address in February 1985, Reagan said: "We must not break faith with those who are risking their lives...on
Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment 5134.1 in February 1987. As part of this act, the position of "Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering" (USD(R&E)) was redesignated as the "Director of Defense Research and Engineering" (DDR&E), a lower-ranking position which reported to the new USD(A). The title of USD(A) was changed to "Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology" (USD(A&T)) by the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994, and the position was later redesignated as the "Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics" (USD(AT&L)) by the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000. The USD(AT&L) served as the