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The Chief of Naval Operations (acronym: CNO) is a statutory office ( ) held by a four-star admiral in the United States Navy, and is the most senior uniformed officer assigned to serve in the Department of the Navy, and as such is, alongside with the Commandant of the Marine Corps, a military advisor and deputy to the Secretary of the Navy; and is in a separate capacity a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ( ), and thereby a military advisor to the National Security Council, the Secretary of Defense, and the President. The Chief of Naval Operations is typically the highest ranking officer on active-duty in the U.S. Navy unless the Chairman and/or the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are Naval officers.
The Chief of Naval Operations is an administrative position based in the Pentagon, and while the CNO do not have operational command authority over Naval forces as the title implies (that is nowdays within the purview of the Combatant Commanders who reports to the Secretary of Defense), the CNO does exercise supervision of Navy organizations as the designee of the Secretary of the Navy.
The current Chief of Naval Operations is Admiral Jonathan W. Greenert.
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