Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management and Comptroller)

United States Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management and Comptroller)
Seal of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management and Comptroller)
Incumbent R. Wesley Robinson Acting   since 20 January 2025
United States Department of the Army
Style	Mr. Secretary The Honorable (formal address in writing)
Reports to	Secretary of the Army Under Secretary of the Army
Seat	The Pentagon, Arlington County, Virginia, United States
Nominator	The President with Senate advice and consent
Term length	No fixed term
Constituting instrument	10. U.S.C. § 7016
Formation	1954
First holder	George H. Roderick
Succession	Joint 18th in SecDef succession in seniority of appointment
Deputy	Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Financial Management and Comptroller
Salary	Executive Schedule, Level IV [1]
Website	Official website

Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management and Comptroller) (abbreviated ASA(FM&C)) is a civilian office in the United States Department of the Army.

The office of Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management and Comptroller) grows out of a reorganization of the Department of the Army initiated in 1954 by United States Secretary of the Army Robert T. Stevens and largely designed by United States Under Secretary of the Army John Slezak. ^[2]

The mission of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management and Comptroller) is to formulate, submit, and defend the United States Army's budget to the United States Congress and the American public; to oversee the proper and effective use of appropriated resources to accomplish the Army's assigned missions; to provide timely, accurate, and reliable financial information to enable leaders and managers to incorporate cost considerations into their decision-making; to provide transparent reporting to Congress and the American public on the use of appropriated resources and the achievement of established Army-wide performance objectives; and manage and coordinate programs for the accession, training, and professional development of Army resource managers. ^[3]

List of Assistant Secretaries of the Army (Financial Management and Comptroller), 1954—present (incomplete)

Name	Assumed office	Left office	President appointed by	Secretary served under
George H. Roderick [4]	9 February 1954	25 August 1954	Dwight D. Eisenhower	Robert T. Stevens
Charles C. Finucane [4]	26 August 1954	8 February 1955
Chester R. Davis [4]	10 March 1955	15 December 1956		Robert T. Stevens, Wilber M. Brucker
George H. Roderick [4]	1 March 1957	20 January 1961		Wilber M. Brucker
William F. Schaub [4]	2 March 1961	31 December 1962	John F. Kennedy	Elvis Jacob Stahr Jr., Cyrus Vance
Edmund T. Pratt Jr. [4]	23 March 1963	25 November 1964	John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson	Cyrus Vance, Stephen Ailes
Michael P. W. Stone	27 May 1986	12 May 1988	Ronald Reagan	Frank Carlucci
Kenneth B. Kramer	14 October 1988 [5]	1989
Douglas A. Brook [6]	28 February 1990 [7]	1992	George H. W. Bush	Michael P. W. Stone
Helen T. McCoy	January 1994	January 2001	William J. Clinton	Togo D. West Jr, Louis Caldera
Sandra L. Pack [8]	November 2001	December 2003	George W. Bush	Thomas E. White
Valerie L. Baldwin [9]	July 2004	2006		Francis J. Harvey
Nelson M. Ford [10]	October 2006	December 2007		Francis J. Harvey, Pete Geren
Mary Sally Matiella [11]	16 February 2010	27 February 2014	Barack Obama	John M. McHugh
Robert M. Speer [12] [13]	20 November 2014	19 January 2017
John E. Whitley [13] [14]	26 September 2018	28 May 2021 [15]	Donald Trump	Mark Esper, Ryan McCarthy
Caral Spangler	17 August 2021	20 January 2025	Joe Biden	Christine Wormuth
R. Wesley Robinson (Acting)	20 January 2025	Incumbent	Donald Trump	Mark Averill (Acting)

Deputy Assistant Secretaries

One Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army and three Deputy Assistant Secretaries of the Army roles reporting to the Assistant Secretary (ASA(FM&C)): ^[16]

• Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Financial Management & Comptroller (PDASA-FM&C) – (non-career appointment)
  • Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Financial Operations & Information (DASA-FOI)
  • Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Cost & Economics (DASA-CE)
  • Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Budget (DASA-BU)

A Military Deputy also reports to the Assistant Secretary, with the grade of lieutenant general.

References

1. 5 U.S.C.   § 5315
2. "James E. Hewes, Jr., ', From Root to McNamara: Army Organization and Administration', (1975), pp. 233–234". History.army.mil. Retrieved 27 May 2011.
3. "Army Financial Management Homepage". Assistant Secretary of the Army for Financial Management and Comptroller. Retrieved 22 December 2010.
4. "James E. Hewes, Jr., ', From Root to McNamara: Army Organization and Administration', (1975), pp. 381–382". History.army.mil. Archived from the original on 22 May 2011. Retrieved 27 May 2011.
5. "PN1165 - Nomination of Ken Kramer for Department of Defense, 100th Congress (1987-1988)". 14 October 1988.
6. Kevin D. Jones. "Profile of Douglas A. Brock at the Naval Postgraduate School". Research.nps.edu. Retrieved 27 May 2011.
7. "PN924 - Nomination of Douglas Alan Brook for Department of Defense, 101st Congress (1989-1990)". 28 February 1990.
8. Nomination of Pack, Congressional Record, 8 Nov. 2001, p. D551, Memo from Pack while Assistant Secretary Archived 22 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
9. McIntire, Katherine (15 September 2005). "Katherine McIntire Peters, "Chief Financial Officers: Army: Valerie Lynn Baldwin", ', Government Executive',, 15 Sept. 2005". Govexec.com. Retrieved 27 May 2011.
10. ""Ford named acting undersecretary of the Army", ', Army Times',, 5 Dec. 2007". Armytimes.com. 4 December 2007. Retrieved 27 May 2011.
11. ""Army swears in new financial management secretary", 17 Feb. 2010". Army.mil. Retrieved 27 May 2011.
12. ""Congressional Actions on Presidential Nomination (PN) 1559"". United States Congress. 20 November 2014. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
13. "Nominations Confirmed (Civilian)". United States Senate. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
14. "Trump nominations tracker: See which key positions have been filled so far". Washington Post. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
15. "John E. Whitley Biography". Army Financial Management & Comptroller. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
16. "Army Financial Management & Comptroller > About This Site > Organization". www.asafm.army.mil. Retrieved 6 July 2021.

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