United States Department of Defense

The United States Department of Defense (DOD or DoD) is the federal department charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government relating directly to national security and the military. The organization and functions of the DOD are set forth in Title 10 of the United States Code. The DOD is the major tenant of The Pentagon building near Washington, D.C., and has three major components – the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, and the Department of the Air Force. Among the many DOD agencies are the Missile Defense Agency, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Pentagon Force Protection Agency (PFPA), the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), and the National Security Agency (NSA). The department also operates several joint service schools, including the National War College.

The Pentagon is known to have had a rivalry with the CIA during the Cold War because they had a fight over budget and over handling military missions and incidents.

Cunningham joined the United States Department of Defense when the CIA gave him a desk job after he lost his leg in Vietnam. They also were some of the key people behind the FOX unit rebellion and were hoping to ruin the CIA's reputation as a Intelligence and military agency. They were in command of Solid Snake's mission during the Shadow Moses incident.''

The DIA were researching Foxdie at the Pentagon during the early 21st century for assassination use. They were also supporting the Metal Gear Rex project, so they sent FOXHOUND and the Genome Army and the Next Generation Special Forces to Shadow Moses Island to oversee the test exercise.

Members

 * Big Boss
 * ADAM
 * Lieutenant Cunningham
 * Gene
 * Jim Houseman
 * Donald Anderson
 * Colonel Campbell
 * Nastasha Romanenko
 * Richard Ames
 * Emma Emmerich
 * Solid Snake
 * Mei Ling
 * Master Miller
 * Doctor Naomi Hunter