Editing Robert McNamara (section)

===Reorganizations===
====Combat commands====
McNamara took other steps to increase U.S. deterrence posture and military capabilities. In December 1961, he established the [[United States Strike Command]] (STRICOM). Authorized to draw forces when needed from the [[Strategic Army Corps]] (STRAC), the [[Tactical Air Command]] (TAC), and the airlift units of the [[Military Air Transport Service]] (MATS) and the military services, Strike Command had the mission "to respond swiftly and with whatever force necessary to threats against the peace in any part of the world, reinforcing unified commands or... carrying out separate contingency operations." McNamara also increased long-range [[Strategic airlift|airlift]] and [[sealift]] capabilities and funds for space research and development.

On 8 January 1966, the Military Air Transport Service would be replaced with the [[Military Airlift Command]] (MAC).

====Support commands and agencies====
After reviewing the separate and often uncoordinated service efforts in intelligence and communications, McNamara in 1961 consolidated these functions in the [[Defense Intelligence Agency]] and the [[Defense Communications Agency]] (the latter originally established by SoD [[Thomas S. Gates Jr.]] in 1960), having both report to the Secretary of Defense through the JCS. The end effect was to remove the Intelligence function from the control of the military and to put it under the control of the Secretary of Defense. In the same year, he set up the [[Defense Supply Agency]] to work toward unified supply procurement, distribution, and inventory management under the control of the Secretary of Defense rather than the uniformed military.

Prior to 1962 each military service used a unique system to designate aircraft. On 18 September 1962, a unified [[1962 United States Tri-Service aircraft designation system|Tri-Service aircraft designation system]] was adopted. Anecdotally, the Tri-Service system was partly brought about due to McNamara's confusion and frustration with the different designation systems the Navy and Air Force used at the time.{{sfn|Scott|2001}}

The [[United States Navy bureau system|bureau system]] was the Navy's materiel-support organization from 1842. It was responsible for the design of all ships, aircraft, and weapons. The bureau chiefs were largely autonomous, reporting directly to the Secretary of the Navy and managing their respective organizations without the influence of other bureaus. In 1966, the bureaus were gradually replaced by unified commands (generally known as "[[United States Navy systems commands|systems commands]]" or SYSCOMs) reporting to the [[Chief of Naval Operations]]. Consequently, the [[Ship Characteristics Board]], which was the postwar coordinator between the bureaus, became less relevant.{{sfn|Friedman|2002|p=13}}