United States Department of Defense United States Department of Defense The Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD, or DOD) is an executive branch department of the federal government charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government concerned directly with national security and the United States Armed Forces. The department is the largest employer in the world, with nearly 1.3 million active duty servicemen and women as of 2016. Adding to its employees are over 826,000 National Guardsmen and Reservists from the four services, and over 742,000 civilians bringing the total to over 2.8 million employees. Headquartered at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia,
Department of Urology, University of Virginia Department of Urology, University of Virginia The Department of Urology is one of twenty-one clinical departments at The University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville, Virginia. The Department of Urology is located on the University of Virginia Grounds adjacent to the historic Academical Village. The current Chair of the Department of Urology is Dr Raymond Costabile. Almost one hundred years after the establishment of the School of Medicine by Thomas Jefferson, it became evident and necessary to detach what was then known as genito-urinary practices from the general surgery and set it up as a separate service. Dr John