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The United States Army Medical Materiel Agency (USAMMA), is a subordinate unit of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command at Fort Detrick, Maryland, and serves as the U.S. Army's life cycle management command (LCMC) and executive agent for strategic medical acquisition, project management and logistics programs.
On 1 May 1956, the U.S. Army Logistics Management Center (ALMC) was established under the operational control of the Department of the Army Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics. Shortly thereafter, five new functional courses in management of requirements, procurement, distribution, maintenance, and property disposal were added to the curriculum.
A large extramural research program and numerous cooperative research and development (R&D) agreements provide additional S&T capabilities by the leading R&D organizations in the civilian sector. Five USAMRDC subordinate commands perform medical materiel advanced development, strategic and operational medical logistics, and contracting, to ...
In 1995, the name of the program was changed to the Advanced Operational Art Studies Fellowship (AOASF), and in the early 21st century its curriculum was more closely aligned to the strategic level of war. In 2013, the program was again modified in part to bring it more in alignment with TRADOC policies, and to prepare it for Joint Professional ...
The 6th Medical Logistics Management Center (6MLMC), a direct reporting unit of U.S. Army Forces Command at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, with administrative control and training readiness authority to the Medical Research and Development Command at Fort Detrick, Maryland, and serves as the Army's only deployable medical materiel management center worldwide.
The United States Air Force Medical Service (AFMS) consists of the five distinct medical corps of the Air Force and enlisted medical technicians. The AFMS was created in 1949 after the newly independent Air Force's first Surgeon General , Maj. General Malcolm C. Grow (1887–1960), convinced the United States Army and President Harry S. Truman ...
The Basic Officer Leader Course (BOLC) is a two-phased training course designed to commission officers and prepare them for service in the United States Army.Prospective officers complete Phase I (BOLC A) as either a cadet (United States Military Academy or Reserve Officers' Training Corps) or an officer candidate (Officer Candidate School (United States Army)) before continuing on to BOLC B ...
The Defense Health Agency (DHA) is a joint, integrated combat support agency that enables the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Air Force medical services to provide a medically ready force and ready medical force to Combatant Commands in both peacetime and wartime. The DHA is in charge of integrating clinical and business operations across the ...