Head of the agency definition

Head of the agency or "Secretary" shall mean the Secretary, the Under Secretary, and Assistant Secretary, or any other head or assistant head of the executive or military department or other Federal agency.
Head of the agency means, for DoD, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Secretary of the Air Force. Subject to the direction of the Secretary of Defense, the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics), and the Director of Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy, the directors of the defense agencies have been delegated authority to act as head of the agency for their respective agencies (i.e., to perform functions under the FAR or DFARS reserved to a head of agency or agency head), except for such actions that by terms of statute, or any delegation, must be exercised within the Office of the Secretary of Defense. (For emergency acquisition flexibilities, see 218.270.)
Head of the agency means the Secretary, Deputy Secretary, or Under Secretary of the Department of Energy (DOE).

Examples of Head of the agency in a sentence

  • Grants to fund Covered Costs of a PPA shall be made pursuant to Grant Agreements between the Agency and the CPAF that have been approved and signed by the Head of the Agency and the Executive Director of the CPAF (the “Executive Director”) or persons acting with appropriate authority on their behalf.

  • CPAF grants to fund Plan Development Costs shall be made pursuant to an MP Development Costs Grant Agreement (as defined in Section 3.3) approved and signed by the Head of the Agency and the Executive Director or by persons acting with appropriate authority on their behalf, following approval by the Board of the related proposal described in Section 3.2.


More Definitions of Head of the agency

Head of the agency means the chief official of the Federal agency responsible for all aspects of the agency's actions. If a State, local or tribal government has assumed or hasbeen delegated responsibility for section 106 compliance, the head of that unit of government shall be considered the head of the agency.
Head of the agency means the chief official of the Federal agency re- sponsible for all aspects of the agency’s Advisory Council on Historic Preservation § 800.16 actions. If a State, local, or tribal gov- ernment has assumed or has been dele- gated responsibility for section 106 compliance, the head of that unit of government shall be considered the head of the agency.
Head of the agency means, pursuant to HAF MD 1-10 , the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition) (ASAF(A)), unless the terms of a statute or delegation indicate that an action must be done by the Secretary of the Air Force (SecAF) or the Under Secretary of the Air Force (USecAF).
Head of the agency or “agency head” means the Administrator or Deputy Administrator of NASA.
Head of the agency means the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
Head of the agency means the chief official of the Federal agency re- sponsible for all aspects of the agency’s