Based on article 30 of the Organic Law of the Federal Public Administration, among other actions the Secretariat is mandated to: • Organize and administer the affairs of the Mexican Navy • Manage the assets and reserves of the Navy in all its aspects • Grant licenses and withdrawals, and intervene in the pensions of Navy service personnel • Exercise sovereignty in territorial waters, as well as monitoring the coast of the territory, waterways, national islands and the
exclusive economic zone • Organize, administer and operate the naval aviation service • Conduct naval public education • Organize and administer the maritime police service • Inspect the services of the Navy • Build, rebuild and conserve the port works required by the Navy • Establish and manage the stores and fuel stations and lubricants of the Navy • Execute the topohydrographic works of the coasts, islands, ports and waterways, as well as organize the maritime chart file and relative statistics • Intervene in the granting of permits for expeditions or scientific explorations abroad or international in national waters • Build, maintain and operate, shipyards, dams, boatyards and naval establishments destined to the ships of the Mexican Navy • Organize and provide naval health services • Integrate the national oceanographic information archive • Help in the organization and enforcement of National Naval Military Service • Organize Maritime SAR operations • Administer and operate the Mexican Merchant Marine Fleets ==List of secretaries==