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The '''United States Secretary of Defense''' is the head of the [[Department of Defense]]. The current Secretary of Defense is [[Leon Panetta]], who was nominated by [[President of the United States of America|President]] [[Barack H. Obama]] on November 8, 2006 and unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate Armed Services Committee on December 5, 2006.

The '''United States Secretary of Defense''' is the head of the [[Department of Defense]]. The current Secretary of Defense is [[Leon Panetta]], who was nominated by [[President of the United States of America|President]] [[Barack H. Obama]] on July 11, 2011, and approved by the US Senate shortly after.

==History==

==History==

|[[Donald Rumsfeld]]||January 20, 2001|||December 18, 2006

|[[Donald Rumsfeld]]||January 20, 2001|||December 18, 2006

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|[[Robert Gates]]||December 18, 2006|||Incumbent

|[[Robert Gates]]||December 18, 2006|||July 11, 2011

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