Doug LaFon; U.S. Army photo Photo by John B. Snyder
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: The U.S. Army Research Laboratory, or ARL, is a leader in protecting and defending defense networks. In 2013, ARL established a collaborative research alliance to explore the basic foundations of cyber science issues in context of Army networks. ARL is part of the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM), which is a major subordinate command of the U.S. Army Materiel Command. • When the Watervliet Arsenal, New York, was established in 1813, it was used to provide equipment to U.S. Soldiers during the War of 1812. Today, the arsenal provides equipment such as these two tank cannon barrels that are awaiting the next machining operation. • An AMCOM logistics assistance representative (LAR) works with a combat aviation brigade. AMCOM LARs achieve cost savings with their supported units by maintenance engineering calls that authorize depot-level work to be completed in theater and eliminate the need to return aircraft to a source of repair in the United States and by providing training to units to enable them to better maintain their aircraft.
Summer Barkley
touches every phase of the materiel life cycle. AMC, as the Army’s Lead Materiel Integrator, commands the global supply chain by delivering materiel readiness to our joint forces worldwide. AMC Major Subordinate Commands • Army Contracting Command at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama • Army Sustainment Command at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois • Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama • Communications-Electronics Life Cycle Management
Sustaining the Strength of the Nation
Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland • Joint Munitions and Lethality Life Cycle Management Command at Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey • Joint Munitions Command at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois • Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois • Research, Development and Engineering Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland • TACOM Life Cycle Management Command at Warren, Michigan • U.S. Army Security Assistance Command at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama
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