Departmento Admiralitatis

The Departmento Admiralitatis is the main agency responsible for overseeing the administrative and logistical management of the Imperial Navy within the Adeptus Administratum. Answering to the Lord High Admiral, the Departmento Admiralitatis is divided into multiple offices and is responsible for everything ranging from personnel matters and ship assignments to construction of new vessels and equipping Navy crews with the necessary provisions. It is headquartered on Terra and is overseen by the First Lord of the Admiralty, who often holds the rank of Lord Admiral or Admiral and answers directly to the Lord High Admiral of the Navy. It is largely regarded as naval equivalent of the Departmento Munitorum, an agency with which it often works with as they play the same role for their respective branches, but is smaller and generally considered to be less important.

Due to the vast size of the Imperium, central management of the Emperor's Fleet was a difficult task and often one that was nearly impossible to carry out. In many occasions it took years or even decades before orders and directives from the Departmento Admiralitatis could be fully implemented. However, as the head of logistics and management for the Imperial Navy, the Departmento Admiralitatis is nonetheless responsible for general fleet administration. Its many offices, directorates, and bureaus oversee many aspects, which include (but are not limited to) the following: personnel affairs, transportation and supply, long term strategic and operational planning, construction and ship assignments.

Organization
The department is divided into numerous smaller offices that carry out specific functions, and usually there are several offices that are answerable to one of the multiple Naval Lords. The First Lord, the senior most such office, acts as the overall head of the Departmento Admiralitatis as well as the chief of several sub-divisions. It is up to the Naval Lords to coordinate the activities of the department itself as the situation demands, which is is a challenging task alone, while working together with the Navy commander-in-chief as well as the five Lord High Admirals of the Segmentae and their local commands. Listed here is the general structure of the department as well as some of the more notable branches within it.
 * Departmento Admiralitatis
 * Office of the First Lord of the Admiralty
 * Admiralty Board
 * Office of the Second Lord of the Admiralty
 * Admiralty War Staff
 * Fleet Reserve Command
 * Office of the Third Lord of the Admiralty
 * Fleet Intelligence Office
 * Surveyor's Office
 * Office of the Fourth Lord of the Admiralty
 * Naval Security Office
 * Office of the Fifth Lord of the Admiralty
 * Naval Engineering and Controller Department
 * Fleet Medical Services
 * Office of the Lord-Commissar Admiral
 * Fleet Commissariat