The Defense Department is looking for an “energetic and imaginative executive” to run its newly formed Defense Media Activity, according to an advertisement on the agency’s Web site.

The executive would earn as much as $172,200 a year overseeing DMA, which since its establishment in January combines formerly separate Pentagon media organizations, such as the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service, the Stars and Stripes newspaper, and the Pentagon Channel on television. It also includes the DefenseLink Web site and the military services’ Web sites, the Bloggers Roundtable, and the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine magazines.

All told, the new chief would oversee 2,400 military, government and contract employees around the world, and a budget of more than $225 million.

The primary mission of DMA, according to the directive that set it up, is to “provide a wide variety of information products to the entire DoD family.” That “family” includes active, National Guard and Reserve service members; their dependents; retirees; Defense civilian and contract employees; and “external audiences.”

Along with communicating “messages and themes” from senior Defense officials, DMA will provide radio and television news and entertainment programming.

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