DoD (United States Department of Defense)

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The United States Department of Defense.

Appears throughout security standards work for a reason that is structural rather than patriotic: the department buys enormous quantities of technology, and its procurement requirements become de facto standards for everyone who wants to sell to it. Several frameworks and certifications on this site exist in their current shape because a defence buyer needed them to.

Also known as: department of defense, us dod, pentagon

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