Editing New Zealand Defence Force (section)

===Senior officers===
{{As of|September 2024}}:<ref>{{cite web |title=Our leadership |url=https://www.nzdf.mil.nz/nzdf/structure-and-leadership/ |website=www.nzdf.mil.nz |publisher=New Zealand Defence Force |access-date=13 September 2024 |language=en-NZ}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"  style="width:98%;"
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| colspan="8" style="text-align:center;" |'''[[Chief of Defence Force (New Zealand)|Chief of Defence Force]]'''<br />Air Marshal Tony Davies
|- align=center
| rowspan="2" |'''[[Vice Chief of Defence Force (New Zealand)|Vice Chief of Defence Force]]'''<br />Rear Admiral Mathew Williams
| colspan="4" |'''[[Commander Joint Forces New Zealand|Commander Joint Forces]]'''<br /> Major General Robert Krushka
|'''[[Chief of Navy (New Zealand)|Chief of Navy]]'''<br />Rear Admiral<br />Garin Golding
|'''[[Chief of Army (New Zealand)|Chief of Army]]'''<br />Major General<br />[[Rose King (army officer)|Rose King]]
|'''[[Chief of Air Force (New Zealand)|Chief of Air Force]]'''<br />Air Vice-Marshal<br />[[Darryn Webb]]
|- align=center
|'''Special Operations Component Commander'''<br />Unnamed NZSAS Colonel<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nzdf.mil.nz/about-us/nzsof/soc.htm|title=NZDF – soc|website=New Zealand Defence Force|access-date=27 September 2016}}</ref>
|'''Maritime Component Commander'''<br />Commodore<br />Shane Arndell
|'''Land Component Commander'''<br />Brigadier<br />Jason Dyhrberg
|'''Air Component Commander'''<br />Air Commodore<br />Andy Scott
|'''Deputy Chief of Navy'''<br />Commodore<br />Andrew Brown
|'''Deputy Chief of Army'''<br />Brigadier<br />Hamish Gibbons
|'''Deputy Chief of Air Force'''<br />Air Commodore<br />Daniel (DJ) Hunt
|}

The Defence Force created a joint-service corporate services organisation known as the Joint Logistics and Support Organisation (JLSO) in the 2000s, which later became Defence Shared Services.

Following the establishment of [[Special Operations Command (New Zealand)|Special Operations Command]] on 1 July 2015, the new position of Special Operations Component Commander was created. This officer reports to the Commander Joint Forces New Zealand, and is of equivalent status to the Maritime, Land and Air Component Commanders.<ref name="Army News July2015">{{cite news|title=Changes Afoot for Special Operations Command|url=http://army.mil.nz/downloads/pdf/army-news/armynews464.pdf|access-date=6 August 2015|work=Army News|publisher=New Zealand Army|date=July 2015|page=10}}</ref>

For the first time, two of the Deputy Chiefs of service, Navy and Air Force, [[One-star rank|one-star]] Commodores and Air Commodores, were women. Captain [[Melissa Ross]] was promoted to [[Commodore (rank)|Commodore]] and appointed as [[Deputy Chief of Navy]] in December 2019,<ref>{{Cite web |title=SunLive – First woman commodore takes over deputy chief role – the Bay's News First |date=9 December 2019 |url=https://www.sunlive.co.nz/news/228792-first-woman-commodore-takes-over-deputy-chief-role.html}}</ref> while in August 2019 Group Captain [[Carol Abraham]] was promoted to [[Air Commodore]] and appointed as [[Deputy Chief of Air Force]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Royal New Zealand Air Force |url=http://www.airforce.mil.nz/about-us/who-we-are/key-personnel/dcaf.htm}}</ref> Another female officer, Colonel Helen Cooper, had previously held the post of [[Deputy Chief of Army]] though in an acting capacity without being promoted to the customary rank of [[Brigadier]]. In an unusual move, as of February 2020, the Deputy Chief of Army, Evan Williams, holds not just the customary rank of Brigadier but that of [[Major General]], usually only held by the [[Chief of Army (New Zealand)|Chief of Army]].<ref>[http://army.mil.nz/about-us/who-we-are/our-leaders/dca.htm Major General Evan G. Williams], accessed February 2020.</ref>