http://www.usa.gov/Agencies/Federal/All_Agencies/index.shtml Ralph Hodgson $Revision: 1347 $ A Level 1 Ontology of the Organizational Structure of the Agency DOS Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License $Id: us1gov_dos.n3 1347 2009-08-20 00:37:03Z RalphHodgson $ $Date: 2009-08-19 17:37:03 -0700 (Wed, 19 Aug 2009) $ http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gmanual/ http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/3.0/us/88x31.png US Government Bodies http://www.state.gov/t/ dos-acis The Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security serves as Senior Adviser to the President and the Secretary of State for Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and Disarmament. In this capacity, the Under Secretary attends and participates, at the direction of the President, in National Security Council (NSC) and subordinate meetings pertaining to arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament and has the right to communicate, through the Secretary of State, with the President and members of the NSC on arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament concerns. Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security http://www.state.gov/r/pa/index.htm# dos-bpa The Department of State Bureau of Public Affairs (PA) carries out the Secretary's mandate to help Americans understand the importance of foreign affairs. The PA Bureau vigorously pursues the State Department's mission to inform the American people and to feed their concerns and comments back to the policymakers. DOS-BPA dos