U.S. Army Materiel Command Resource Guide 2016-2017

AMC RESOURCE GUIDE

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U.S. AR MY MATERIEL COMMAND On Any Given Day in AMC 47,800 Gallons of Fuel Issued U.S. Army Sustainment Command/The Logistics Civil Augmentation Program

$8.5 Billion Foreign Military Sales U.S. Army Security Assistance Command

139 Pieces of Equipment Reset AMC Operations and Logistics, G-3/4

508 Contract Actions Army Contracting Command

3.6 Million Rounds of Ammo Produced Joint Munitions Command

$1.38 Million Joint Parts Supply for FY15 AMC Operations and Logistics, G-3/4

$1.9 Million Joint Depot Work for FY15 AMC Operations and Logistics, G-3/4

217 POVs Shipped Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command

$148.5 Million Contracts Obligated Army Contracting Command

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306,000 Meals Provided U.S. Army Sustainment Command/The Logistics Civil Augmentation Program

2,500 Bags of Laundry Cleaned U.S. Army Sustainment Command/The Logistics Civil Augmentation Program

1,390 Household Goods Shipped Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command

1.1 Million Gallons of Water Produced U.S. Army Sustainment Command/The Logistics Civil Augmentation Program

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 11 Steps to Doing Business with the Army....................................... 11 U.S. Army Materiel Command Headquarters................................... 14 U.S. Army Contracting Command (ACC)........................................... 18 • U.S. Army Expeditionary Contracting Command............................. 20 • U.S. Army Mission and Installation Contracting Command......................................................................................... 22 • ACC-Aberdeen Proving Ground........................................................ 25 • ACC-New Jersey............................................................................... 26 • ACC-Orlando.................................................................................... 29 • ACC-Redstone.................................................................................. 31 • ACC-Rock Island............................................................................... 33 • ACC-Warren..................................................................................... 35 U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM)....................... 36 • Corpus Christi Army Depot.............................................................. 39 • Letterkenny Army Depot.................................................................. 41 U.S. Army Sustainment Command (ASC).......................................... 42 • Distribution Management Center..................................................... 44 • 401st Army Field Support Brigade................................................... 47 • 402nd Army Field Support Brigade................................................. 49 • 403rd Army Field Support Brigade.................................................. 51 • 404th Army Field Support Brigade.................................................. 53 • 405th Army Field Support Brigade.................................................. 55 • 406th Army Field Support Brigade.................................................. 57 • 407th Army Field Support Brigade.................................................. 59 U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM).......... 60 • Tobyhanna Army Depot................................................................... 62 U.S. Army Joint Munitions Command (JMC)..................................... 64 • Anniston Munitions Center............................................................... 66 • Crane Army Ammunition Activity.................................................... 69 • Holston Army Ammunition Plant..................................................... 70 • Iowa Army Ammunition Plant.......................................................... 71 • Lake City Army Ammunition Plant................................................... 72 • Letterkenny Munitions Center.......................................................... 73 • McAlester Army Ammunition Plant.................................................. 74 • Milan Army Ammunition Plant......................................................... 75 • Radford Army Ammunition Plant..................................................... 77 • Scranton Army Ammunition Plant................................................... 78 • Blue Grass Army Depot.................................................................... 79 • Hawthorne Army Depot................................................................... 80 • Pine Bluff Arsenal............................................................................. 81 • Tooele Army Depot........................................................................... 83

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U.S. Army Joint Munitions & Lethality Life Cycle Management Command........................................................... 84 U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM)............................................. 86 • U.S. Army Research Laboratory....................................................... 89 • U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center................................................................... 91 • U.S. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center................................................................... 92 • U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center................................................................... 93 • U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center............................ 94 • U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center................................................................... 96 • U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center................................................................... 99

land systems Delivered Construction Equipment to the Total Army Force

U.S. Army Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC)................................................... 100 U.S. Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command (TACOM LCMC)................................................................. 102 • Anniston Army Depot....................................................................... 104 • Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center.................................... 105 • Red River Army Depot...................................................................... 106 • Sierra Army Depot........................................................................... 108 • Watervliet Arsenal............................................................................ 110

aerospace Cleaning Engines of USAF Aircraft Worldwide to Improve Mission Performance

U.S. Army Security Assistance Command (USASAC)........................ 112 • U.S. Army Security Assistance Training Management Organization..................................................................................... 113 • The Ministry of Interior-Military Assistance Group.......................... 114 • Office of the Program Manager-Saudi Arabian National Guard Modernization Program................................................................... 115

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U.S. Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity (AMSAA).................. 117

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U.S. Army Chemical Materials Activity (CMA).................................. 118 U.S. Army Logistics Support Activity (LOGSA).................................. 121 Notes................................................................................................... 122

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11 STEPS TO DOING BUSINESS WITH THE ARMY

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he Army awards billions of contracting dollars annually in order to support its mission. Historically, more than 20 percent of this total goes to small businesses. A strong small business industrial base is essential to supporting the Warfighter and accomplishing the Army mission. This guide to doing business with the Army is an effort to increase the number of small businesses capable of supporting the Army mission, thereby strengthening this industrial base.

Step 1 Determine what you want to sell and your business size It is very important that you first determine the exact product or service you wish to sell to the Army. There are different marketing strategies and customers within the Department for each product or service.

Once you have chosen your product/service, find the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code under which it falls.

Then use the Small Business Administration (SBA) size standard table to determine your business size in that NAICS code. It’s not uncommon for companies to qualify as small for one type of product they sell, but as large for another.

Step 2 Register in the System for Award Management (SAM) You must be registered in the SAM in order to be awarded a contract by any federal agency. You will need a Data Universal Number System (DUNS) number, which you can obtain from Dun and Bradstreet by calling 1-800-333-0505 or by visiting their website at www. dnb.com/get-a-duns-number.html.

Whenever there is a change in your business status, it is necessary to update your company’s profile in SAM (e.g. if your company attains 8(a) status).

Contracting officers, contract specialists, small business specialists and others utilize SAM as a tool to identify small business concerns for potential prime contracts and subcontracts.

Step 3 Identify which Army organizations buy your product or service AMC generally purchases in the following areas: Combat and

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Information Systems, Installation Supplies and Services, Development and Operational Testing of Weapon Systems, Research Intelligence Security Information Systems.

• Use the Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS) to find past contracts relevant to you. This system contains records of all federal contracts since the 1970s. Begin by using the ezSearch tool to find recently awarded contracts in your NAICS code. As you progress, you may find it useful to create an account and put together your own ad hoc reports to hone in on past contracts that are set to expire soon. To request assistance in using FPDS, call us at 703-697-2868.

• Sell local. Use our Army Small Business Directory to locate small business specialists at Army locations near you. Call them or schedule a meeting to introduce yourself and ask for information on upcoming contracting opportunities.

Step 4 Identify current Army procurement opportunities All federal business opportunities are posted on the Federal Business Opportunities website. This is a single point of entry for federal government and should be monitored daily.

Step 5 Become familiar with contracting regulations and procedures There are regulations applicable to contracts that are awarded by the Department of the Army and the Federal Government that you need to be familiar with. Beware that they do change from time to time. Regulations applicable to the Army are: • Federal Acquisitions Regulations • The Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations Supplement • The Army Federal Acquisition Regulations Supplement

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Step 6 Utilize the Army Small Business Programs The Army runs several socioeconomic programs that provide assistance to small businesses of various types. These are: • Army Service-Disabled / Veteran-Owned Small Business Program • Army HUBZone Small Business Program • Army Small Disadvantaged / 8(a) Business Program • Army Woman-Owned Small Business Program • Army Small Business Innovation Research Program • Army Small Business Technology Transfer Program • Army Historical Black Colleges and Universities / Minority Institutions Program • Army Mentor-Protégé Program

Step 7 Be prepared to sell Be well versed on your company’s capabilities and ready to discuss in detail the product or service you provide. Always be ready to give an “elevator speech.” Know how your products/services support the Army mission. Fill out our Army Small Business Capability Briefing Template and bring this with you when you meet with an Army buyer, small business specialist, or contracting officer. Have an expanded version for those occasions which require a more in-depth understanding of your company.

Step 8 Be familiar with simplified acquisition procedures Smaller acquisitions (typically below $150,000) are done via simplified acquisition procedures (SAP) and are set aside for small businesses (with some exceptions). Solicitations for these types of acquisitions are simpler, using a request for quote (RFQ) either over the telephone, by e-mail, or by some other electronic business system such as FedBid, Army Single Face to Industry (ASFI), or an RFQ via a combined synopsis/solicitation on FedBizOpps. The resulting contract from a SAP is a purchase order. The government can usually provide payment more quickly by using a Government Purchase Card (GPC) for acquisitions below $3,000. If you can accept a government purchase card, let your Army customer know. If you cannot, you may want to investigate this option. Some activities may provide you with a list of the purchase card holders to whom you can directly market your products or services.

Step 9 Seek additional assistance in the Defense marketplace There are numerous agencies that can assist small business firms seeking to do business with the Army and other federal agencies, including: • The Small Business Administration (SBA), which provides a wide array of services to small businesses including counseling, certifications, financial assistance, small business management assistance and free or low cost training.

• Procurement Technical Assistance Centers (PTAC), which serve as a resource for businesses that are both pursuing and performing under government contracts. They are located in most states and are partially funded by the Department of Defense. Services provided by PTACS include counseling, registration assistance for systems such as SAM, identification of contract opportunities, help in understanding requirements, and training at minimal or no cost • Small Business Development Centers (SBDC), which provide aspiring and current small business owners a variety of free business consulting and low-cost training services including: business plan development, manufacturing assistance, financial packaging and lending assistance, exporting and importing support, disaster recovery assistance, procurement and contracting aid, market research help, 8(a) program support, and healthcare guidance.

Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE), a nonprofit association dedicated to helping small businesses gets off the ground, to grow and to achieve their goals through education and mentorship. They are supported by the SBA and thousands of volunteers and are consequently able to deliver their services at no charge or at very low cost.

Step 10 Pursue subcontracting opportunities Regardless of what you sell, it is important that you do not neglect the Army’s very large secondary market: Subcontracting.

Details on the Defense Subcontracting Program can be found here.

Large Defense contracts are typically required to have subcontracting plans. Large prime contractors negotiate goals with the contracting activities for subcontracting to small business concerns.

To find subcontracting opportunities: • Visit the websites of large Defense prime contractors. Locate their Small Business Liaison or Supplier Diversity Office and make contact with them.

• List your firm as an interested party on sources sought notices, requests for information (RFI), and pre-solicitation notices posted on Federal Business Opportunities.

• Search the SBA’s Subcontracting Network, SUB-Net, a database where prime contractors post “solicitations” or “notice of sources sought” for small businesses.

Step 11 Investigate Federal Supply Schedules (FSS) on www.gsa.gov As the Army downsizes its acquisition workforce, more and more acquisitions are being done through General Services Administration (GSA) schedules. If you are interested in obtaining information about GSA schedules, please contact: General Services Administration www.gsa.gov FSS Schedule Information Center (FM) Washington, D.C. 20406 1-800-488-3111 Department of the Army Office of Small Business Programs

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U.S. ARMY MATERIEL COMMAND

HEADQUARTERS AMC is headquartered at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, and impacts or has a presence in all 50 states and 143 countries. AMC is one of three Army commands and oversees 10 major subordinate commands. Manning these organizations is a workforce of more than 63,000 dedicated military and civilian employees, many with highly developed specialties in weapons development, manufacturing, and logistics.

The command’s complex missions range from development of sophisticated weapons systems and cuttingedge research to maintenance and distribution of spare parts. AMC operates the research, development, and engineering centers; Army Research Laboratory; depots, arsenals, and ammunition plants; and maintains the Army’s Prepositioned Stocks, both on land and afloat. The command is the Department of Defense (DOD) Executive Agent for the chemical weapons stockpile and for conventional ammunition.

To develop, buy, and maintain materiel for the Army, AMC works closely with program executive offices, the Army acquisition executive, industry, academia, and other related agencies. AMC also handles the majority of the Army’s contracting, including a full range of contracting services for deployed units and installation-level services, supplies, and common-use information technology hardware and software. With the only contingency contracting capability in DOD, AMC accounts for more than 70 percent of the Army’s contract dollars.

The command leads, manages, and operates the Army’s Organic Industrial Base (OIB). Consisting of 23 one-of-a-kind facilities, the OIB overhauls, modernizes, and upgrades major weapons systems – not just making them like new, but inserting technology to make them better and more reliable. The OIB manufactures and resets our Army’s equipment, generating readiness in our formations.

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The AMC Science and Technology program develops, integrates, and sustains unique science, technology, and engineering solutions to ensure the Army and joint forces have a competitive advantage. AMC is on the front lines of modernization, innovation, and transformation.

Managing a comprehensive S&T portfolio averaging $6.5 billion annually (includes reimbursables), representing about 75 percent of the Army’s annual investment in S&T, AMC plays a critical role in the research, design, and development for every item a Soldier wears, drives, flies, communicates with, or operates on the battlefield.

AMC is regionally aligned and globally responsive, providing assets through a team of teams that includes Army Field Support Brigades, Contracting Support Brigades,

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U.S. Army photo by Doug LaFon

The U.S. Army Materiel Command (AMC) is the Army’s premier provider of materiel readiness – technology, acquisition support, materiel development, logistics power projection, and sustainment – to the total force, across the spectrum of joint military operations.

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If a Soldier shoots it, drives it, flies it, wears it, communicates with it, or eats it, AMC produces and provides it.

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Transportation Brigades, and Field Assistance Science and Technology Teams, all of which identify and resolve equipment and maintenance problems, and materiel readiness issues for Combatant Commands. The command handles diverse missions that reach far beyond the Army.

For example, AMC manages the multibillion-dollar business of selling Army equipment and services to partner nations and allies of the United States, and negotiates and implements agreements for co-production of U.S. weapons systems by foreign nations. AMC includes global transportation experts who provide the warfighter with a single surface-distribution provider for adaptive solutions that deliver capability and sustainment on time.

AMC is the premier provider of Army and joint readiness to sustain the strength of the nation. From research and development to contracting, acquisition, and manufacturing, from supply and distribution to sustainment and resale, AMC touches every phase of the materiel life cycle.

AMC Major Subordinate Commands: • Army Contracting Command at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama • Army Sustainment Command at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois

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• Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama • Communications-Electronics Life Cycle Management 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

Contact information: U.S. Army Materiel Command 4400 Martin Road Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898

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U.S. ARMY CONTRACTING COMMAND

Headquartered at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, ACC is a two-star command with two subordinate one-star commands – the Expeditionary Contracting Command (ECC, for locations outside the continental United States) and the Mission and Installation Contracting Command (MICC, for locations inside the continental United States) – and six major contracting centers that provide support to AMC’s life cycle management commands.

These centers also provide contracting support to several program executive offices and program managers supporting the U.S. Army’s major acquisition programs.

From a Soldier’s food and clothing to bullets and bombs; from tanks and trucks to watercraft, aircraft, and small satellites; from their weapons to the installations where they work and live with their families, ACC leverages the world’s most powerful economic force, the free enterprise system, to bring innovative products and services to America’s warfighters.

As the Army’s principal buying agent, ACC offers the contracting expertise of some of the best-trained people in the Army, ready to support the warfighter while ensuring responsible stewardship of taxpayers’ funds.

ACC ensures contracting support to the Soldier as mission requirements emerge and as the Army transforms and operates within the continental United States and around the globe.

An international business enterprise, the command executed more than 174,000 contracts in fiscal year 2015 valued at more than $55 billion, which is equal to 73 percent of the Army’s contract dollars. ACC accomplishes this with more than 6,000 military and civilian employees at more than 100 locations worldwide.

In fiscal year 2015, ACC supported Army and joint operations in more than 50 countries.

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A subordinate command of the U.S. Army Materiel Command, the U.S. Army Contracting Command (ACC) delivers readiness to the U.S. Army by contracting for equipment and services vital to the Army’s global mission. From bullets and beans to tanks, aircraft, and ammunition, if a Soldier needs it, ACC buys it.

On April 7-8, 2016, the U.S. Mission to Greece and the U.S. Army’s 409th Contracting Support Brigade donated essential humanitarian supplies for migrants and refugees in Greece on behalf of the U.S. government. Thousands of beds, sleeping bags, blankets, pillows, diapers, and other necessities were provided to the Hellenic Republic First Reception Service for distribution at sites across Greece.

The ECC provides effective and agile contracting service across the full spectrum of military operations for U.S. Army service component commanders in support of Army and joint operations as well as to other defense organizations at locations outside the continental United States.

In FY 2015, ECC completed more than 20,000 contracting actions valued at more than $1.93 billion.

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Gen. Dennis L. Via, commanding general, Army Materiel Command; Maj. Gen. James Simpson, commanding general, Army Contracting Command; and other distinguished guests cut the ribbon in front of the new ACC Headquarters, Jan. 7, 2016.

After restructuring the contracting force, ECC’s strength at the beginning of FY 2017 will be nine contracting support brigades, 15 contracting battalions, and 68 contracting teams throughout the world.

MICC provides contracting support for the Soldier across Army commands, installations, and activities located throughout the continental United States and Puerto Rico.

Its customers include the U.S. Army Installation Management Command, U.S. Army Forces Command, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, U.S. Army North, U.S. Army Reserve Command, and U.S. Army Medical Command. MICC consists of a field directorate office and 32 field offices. In fiscal year 2015, the command executed almost 37,000 contract actions worth more than $5.22 billion.

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Headquarters’ Locations: • ACC Headquarters, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama • ECC Headquarters, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama • MICC Headquarters, Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas Major Contracting Center Locations: • Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland • Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey • Orlando, Florida • Redstone Arsenal, Alabama • Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois • Detroit Arsenal, Michigan

Contact information: U.S. Army Contracting Command 4505 Martin Road Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898 (256) 955-5718

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U.S. ARMY EXPEDITIONARY CONTRACTING COMMAND The U.S. Army Expeditionary Contracting Command (ECC) is a subordinate command of the U.S. Army Contracting Command. ECC Soldiers, civilians, and contractors provide the Army with effective and agile contracting support for U.S. Army service component commanders in support of Army, joint, and installation operations outside the continental United States. The command’s responsive, worldwide contracting support acquires equipment, supplies, and services vital to Soldiers’ missions and well-being.

ECC is headquartered at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama.

It is a one-star command with contracting support brigades, contracting battalions, and contracting teams that provide expeditionary contracting support to Army and joint forces.

ECC supports Army readiness by utilizing best practices and expert-level oversight to provide warfighters with premier contracting support. It accomplishes its global operational missions with a professional workforce of Soldiers, Department of the Army civilians, foreign local nationals, and contractors at more than 30 locations worldwide – the sun never sets on ECC. It provides direct support across the full spectrum of military operations to Army and joint warfighters and Department of Defense organizations around the globe.

Its Soldiers and civilians also provide contracting support to activities and organizations supporting Soldiers and their families stationed overseas on U.S. Army garrisons – assisting in keeping America’s Soldiers and their families ready and resilient.

ECC supports approximately 180 expeditionary missions in 50 countries each year. In fiscal 2015, ECC completed more than 20,000 contracting actions valued at more than $1.93 billion – enhancing readiness by providing effects-based contracting to its global customer base.

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Since 2015, the Army has been designated as the lead service for contracting in Afghanistan. ECC deploys a contracting support brigade (CSB) and two contracting support battalions (CBNs) to support contracting for Operation Freedom’s Sentinel in Afghanistan.

With a wealth of contracting expertise, ECC professionals are dedicated to providing the highest-quality contracting support to all of their customers, whenever and wherever needed. The responsive contracting solutions and oversight provided by the command serve as a force multiplier for keeping the Army capable and ready for any mission requirement.

ECC executes mission command for seven CSBs aligned to support Army service component commands: the 408th CSB (U.S. Army Central), 409th CSB (U.S. Army Europe), 410th CSB (U.S. Army South), 411th CSB (U.S. Forces Korea), 412th CSB (U.S. Army North), 413th CSB (U.S. Army Pacific), and 414th CSB (U.S. Army Africa). Two more CSBs, the 418th and 419th, are in direct support to III Corps and XVIII Airborne Corps, respectively. Additionally, ECC executes direct mission command of the 905th Contracting Battalion, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, providing direct support to U.S. Army Special Operations Command.

After restructuring the contracting force, ECC’s force structure at the beginning of fical year 2017 will consist of nine contracting support brigades, 15 contracting battalions, and 68 contracting teams located around the world.

HEADQUARTERS ECC Headquarters, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama CONTRACTING SUPPORT BRIGADES • 408th Contracting Support Brigade, Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina and Camp Arifjan, Kuwait • 409th Contracting Support Brigade, Kaiserslautern, Germany - 928th Contracting Battalion, Grafenwoehr, Germany • 410th Contracting Support Brigade, Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas - 916th Contracting Battalion, Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas

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• 411th Contracting Support Brigade, Camp Coiner, Korea - 906th Contracting Battalion, Camp Coiner • 413th Contracting Support Brigade, Fort Shafter, Hawaii - 921st Contracting Battalion Wheeler Army Airfield, Hawaii • 414th Contracting Support Brigade, Vicenza, Italy DIRECT REPORT BATTALION • 905th Contracting Battalion, Fort Bragg, North Carolina ECC CONTRACTING UNITS INTEGRATED INTO STATESIDE OPERATIONS • 412th Contracting Support Brigade, Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston • 418th Contracting Support Brigade, Fort Hood, Texas - 901st Contracting Battalion, Fort Hood - 902nd Contracting Battalion, Joint Base LewisMcChord, Washington.

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Col. Carol Tschida and Command Sgt. Maj. Charles Williams, 419th Contracting Brigade command team, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, uncase their colors during a transfer of authority ceremony, Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, April 10, 2016.

- 918th Contracting Battalion, Fort Carson, Colorado.

- 919th Contracting Battalion, Fort Bliss, Texas - 923rd Contingency Contracting Battalion Fort. Riley, Kansas • 419th Contracting Support Brigade, Fort Bragg, North Carolina - 900th Contracting Battalion, Fort Bragg - 904th Contracting Battalion, Fort Stewart, Georgia - 922nd Contracting Battalion, Fort Campbell, Kentucky - 925th Contracting Battalion, Fort Drum, New York - 926th Contracting Battalion under ACC-Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland

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U.S. ARMY MISSION AND INSTALLATION CONTRACTING COMMAND The U.S. Army Mission and Installation Contracting Command (MICC) is a major subordinate command of the U.S. Army Contracting Command (ACC). MICC Soldiers, civilians, and contractors support Soldiers and their families in the continental United States and Puerto Rico by providing Army commands, installations, and activities with disciplined and responsive contracting solutions and oversight. It also, on order, aligns and provides contracting forces in support of the Army’s top priority: readiness.

Headquartered at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas, the MICC is a one-star command made up of more than 1,500 military and civilian members assigned to three contracting support brigades, one field directorate office, and 31 contracting offices that provide contracting support across the Army.

MICC supports warfighter readiness by acquiring equipment, supplies, and services vital to the U.S. Army mission and well-being of Soldiers and their families. The command also supports the Army’s contingency and wartime missions by rapidly deploying trained and ready contingency contracting Soldiers around the world to procure goods and services in austere environments.

MICC-contracted services and supplies touch virtually every Soldier in the Army – from facilities support services, commercial and institutional building construction, and administrative and general management consulting services to wired telecommunication and engineering services, contracted food services, advertising, and transition services. The MICC ensures America’s Soldiers and their families have what they need during and after their military service.

ACC has charged the MICC to be the most efficient and effective contracting organization the Army can afford to meet the needs of its customers and military partners. It focuses its resources and expertise on the timely award of contracted solutions.

Contracting Soldiers from across the command play a vital operational role in support of combatant commanders. MICC members provided operational contract support in 2014 as part of Operation United Assistance in Western

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Africa, helping combat the Ebola epidemic. MICC Soldiers and civilians have also provided contingency contracting in support of a number of named operations including Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Freedom’s Sentinel, Operation Inherent Resolve, and the NATO-led Resolute Support as well as multiple contingencies across the globe.

MICC’s primary supported activities include the U.S. Army Forces Command, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, U.S. Army North, U.S. Army Installation Management Command, U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command, U.S. Army Reserve Command, U.S. Army Military District of Washington, U.S. Army Medical Command, and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

In fiscal year 2015, the command executed more than 36,000 contract actions valued at more than $5.2 billion across the Army, including $2.25 billion to American small businesses. The command also managed more than 600,000 Government Purchase Card Program transactions in fiscal 2015 valued at an additional $747 million.

With a wealth of contracting expertise, MICC professionals are dedicated to providing the highest quality of contracting support to all of their customers, whenever and wherever needed. The responsive contracting solutions and oversight provided by the Mission and Installation Contracting Command serve as a force multiplier for keeping the Army strong.

HEADQUARTERS MICC Headquarters, Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas CONTRACTING SUPPORT BRIGADES, FIELD DIRECTORATE OFFICE, AND SUBORDINATE ACTIVITIES 419th Contracting Support Brigade, Fort Bragg, North Carolina • MICC-Fort Belvoir, Fort Belvoir, Virginia • 900th Contracting Battalion/MICC-Fort Bragg, North Carolina • 922nd Contracting Battalion/MICC-Fort Campbell, Kentucky

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• 925th Contracting Battalion/MICC-Fort Drum, New York • MICC-Fort Polk, Louisiana • 904th Contracting Battalion/MICC-Fort Stewart, Georgia 418th Contracting Support Brigade, Fort Hood, Texas • 919th Contracting Battalion/MICC-Fort Bliss, Texas • MICC-Dugway Proving Ground, Utah • MICC-Fort Irwin, California • 901st Contracting Battalion/MICC-Fort Hood, Texas • 918th Contracting Battalion/MICC-Fort Carson, Colorado • MICC-Fort Riley, Kansas • MICC-Yuma Proving Ground, Yuma, Arizona • 902nd Contracting Battalion/MICC-Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington • MICC-White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico 412th Contracting Support Brigade, Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas • MICC-Fort Sam Houston, Joint Base San AntonioFort Sam Houston, Texas • MICC-Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico

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Uniformed and civilian operational contract support professionals from the Mission and Installation Contracting Command ensure the needs of Soldiers and their families are met through disciplined and responsive contracting solutions and oversight.

• MICC-Fort Jackson, South Carolina • MICC-Fort Knox, Kentucky • MICC-Fort McCoy, Wisconsin • MICC-Moffett Field, California FDO-Fort Eustis, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia • MICC-Carlisle Barracks, Carlisle, Pennsylvania • MICC-Fort Benning, Georgia • MICC-Fort Eustis, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia • MICC-Fort Gordon, Georgia • MICC-Fort Leavenworth, Kansas • MICC-Fort Lee, Virginia • MICC-Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri • MICC-Fort Rucker, Alabama • MICC-Fort Sill, Oklahoma • MICC-Presidio of Monterey, Seaside, California • MICC-West Point, New York

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ARMY CONTRACTING COMMAND

U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Christophe D. Paul

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND As one of six contracting centers of the U.S. Army Contracting Command, ACC-Aberdeen Proving Ground (ACCAPG) provides responsive, efficient, cost-effective, and compliant contracts and business solutions to ensure customer mission success in support of national defense and homeland security. ACC provides administrative oversight of ACC-APG and the Communications-Electronics Command provides operational control to support life cycle sustainment readiness.

Headquartered at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, ACC-APG provides comprehensive contracting and business advisory support to a diverse customer base. ACC-APG provides sustained expertise in all areas of contracting including research and development, production and testing, installation and base operations, systems and system support, depot-level maintenance, fielding and sustaining Army weapon systems, Foreign Military Sales, grants, cooperative agreements, and other transactions.

These acquisitions consist of a wide range of products and services to include state-of-the-art technology and complex weapon systems. The mission support services provided by ACC-APG are crucial to equip the Soldier with the latest technology, goods, and services, on time and at a reasonable cost.

ACC-APG Contributes to the Mission of Its Customers Through Six Major Competency Areas: • Research and development • Command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance • Cybersecurity • Test and evaluation • Chemical and biological defense • Soldier protection ACC-APG’s executive director and staff are located in northern Maryland at APG. Although this contracting center was officially stood up in 2008 with the activation of the Army Contracting Command, Army contracting has experienced a proud history of bringing critical procurement support to APG since 1917.

ACC-APG is comprised of 12 contracting divisions with associate directors providing oversight for Soldier, chemical, research, and test, and the command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance organizational components. There are seven contracting divisions located at APG and five geographically dispersed divisions:

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U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Joshua Montgomery, assigned to the 55th Signal Company (COMCAM), adjusts his Monocular Night Vision Device (MNVD) AN/PVS-14 before a night live fire during a bi-annual field training exercise, Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia, Sept.

23, 2015. Among the major commodities provided by ACC-APG is night vision devices.

• Adelphi Division, Adelphi, Maryland • Natick Division, Natick, Massachusetts • Research Triangle Park Division, North Carolina • Belvoir Division, Fort Belvoir, Virginia • Huachuca Division, Fort Huachuca, Arizona Collectively, the divisions awarded nearly 36,000 contracting actions in fiscal year 2015 valued at $11 billion. ACC-APG provides customers with contracting expertise from an employee base of nearly 900 military and civilian contracting professionals. This workforce embodies ACC-APG’s vision to be a premier contracting center viewed by its customers as superior and recognized throughout the Department of Defense as “best in class.”

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ARMY CONTRACTING COMMAND

NEW JERSEY Army Contracting Command-New Jersey (ACC-NJ) is one of six U.S. Army Contracting Command contracting centers. It is located at Picatinny Arsenal and Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey. ACC-NJ has a broad customer base with both on-site and globally remote customers.

ACC-New Jersey plans, directs, controls, manages, and executes the full spectrum of contracting, acquisition support, and business advisory services in support of major weapons, armaments, ammunition systems, information technology, and enterprise systems for the Army and other Department of Defense (DOD) customers. It supports all phases of research and development through initial and follow-on production. ACC-NJ utilizes the full spectrum of contract types and contract instruments in support of its customers, with an emphasis on cost and fixed price incentive-type contracts. The center also has unique expertise with executing grants, cooperative agreements, and other transaction agreements. ACC-NJ has the largest Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) mission in the Army.

ACC-NJ’s Major Customers Include: • Program Executive Office for Ammunition • PEO Soldier • PEO Enterprise Information Systems • PEO Command, Control and CommunicationsTactical • Armaments Research, Development and Engineering Center • Special Operations Command • Army Innovation Logistics Agency • Army Cyber Command • U.S. Army Reserve • Navy Sea Systems Command

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• Picatinny Garrison • Department of the Army G3/5/7 • Army Business Transformation Office Some New Primary Customers for ACC-NJ Include: • Department of the Army Inspector General • Office of the General Counsel • Army Audit Agency • Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals ACC-NJ also services the Army Research Laboratory, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense. ACC-NJ’s flexible organization allows for easy deployment of personnel and appropriate skill sets to accommodate customer demand.

In fiscal year 2015, ACC-NJ awarded more than 9,700 contract actions obligating over $2.3 billion. Currently, ACC-NJ manages more than $23.4 billion in active contracts.

ACC-NJ’s expertise in executing and managing OTAs in support of Army and DOD requirements has earned it the designation as the Army’s Center of Excellence for OTAs. ACC-NJ’s 326 civilian associates are highly educated.

One hundred percent of the contracting associates have bachelor’s degrees, 32 percent have completed postgraduate degrees, 99.7 percent are Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act certified, and 25 percent are certified in both contracting and another field.

ACC-NJ has four military contracting teams stationed at Picatinny Arsenal and Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. They are integrated within the eight contracting centers across ACC-NJ. Every Soldier is receiving training and contracting experience required to successfully support contingency operations.

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U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Jon Soucy

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ORLANDO

As one of six U.S. Army Contracting Command (ACC) contracting centers, ACC-Orlando provides sound business advice and tailored contracting solutions to acquire a variety of products and services managed by its primary customer, the Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation (PEO STRI) in support of the U.S. Army.

Headquartered in Orlando, Florida, ACC-Orlando is a $2 billion acquisition agency and a contracting center of excellence that focuses on customer satisfaction and promotes innovative and flexible business practices such as calculated risk-taking, empowerment, and partnering with industry, and emphasizes diversity in the workforce and professional development. ACCOrlando consists of government civilians, military personnel, and contractor teams. It is an integral member of Team Orlando, which consists of military, industry, and academia working together in the world of training and simulation.

On Feb. 9, 2015, Heidi Shyu, then-assistant secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology, signed a memorandum aligning the PEO STRI Contracting Center in Orlando with ACC. Under the operational control of ACC, ACC-Orlando remained in its present location and continues to support PEO STRI and other Army contracting missions. This continues the history of Army contracting, providing critical procurement support to PEO STRI since February 2007.

This acquisition support consists of procuring a wide range of training and testing products and services to include non-system and system training aids, devices, simulators, and simulations (TADSS); operations, maintenance, and service support for non-system and system TADSS, test range instrumentation, ground, and aerial targets; and services and threat systems for the Army.

The contracting support services provided by ACCOrlando are crucial to Army readiness. They provide Soldiers with the latest live, virtual, constructive, and gaming training simulation and instrumentation,

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Army Contracting Command-Orlando (ACC-Orlando) personnel at the Army Contracting Center in Warfighter Park, Orlando, Florida.

ACC-Orlando is a contracting center of excellence.

goods, and services, on time and at the best value for the government.

ACC-Orlando’s primary contract vehicles are the Warfighter Field Operations Customer Support contract that provides live, virtual, constructive, and gaming training operations support; the PEO STRI Omnibus contract that provides training products and services; and the Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance contract that provides support services to the PEO. ACC-Orlando is comprised of four contracting divisions. It has supporting staff offices of: policy, cost, and pricing, systems, business operations, plans and operations, and a source selection center of excellence.

In fiscal year 2015, ACC-Orlando executed more than 2,300 contracting actions valued at more than $1.7 billion with approximately 16 percent awarded to small businesses.

ACC-Orlando provides contracting expertise from its staff of approximately 150 people, 93 percent of whom are civil service employees and about 7 percent military. ACC-Orlando’s vision is to be a contracting center of excellence, one that is viewed by its customers as superior and is recognized for outstanding support throughout the Department of Defense. Its staff is Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act certified at the appropriate level.

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REDSTONE

A major contracting center of the U.S. Army Contracting Command (ACC), ACC-Redstone’s (ACC-RSA) civilians and Soldiers support Soldiers worldwide by contracting for major weapon system production and services vital to Soldiers’ mission, readiness, and well-being.

ACC-RSA, located at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is one of six major ACC contracting centers.

ACC-RSA provides support to the U.S. Army Material Command; Aviation and Missile Command; Program Executive Office, Missiles and Space; PEO Aviation; Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center; Redstone Arsenal-Garrison; Test, Measurement, and Diagnostic Equipment Activity; Space and Missile Defense Command; and the Department of Defense Counter-narcoterrorism Technology Program Office. ACC-RSA also provides contracting support to several other program executive offices and program managers supporting the U.S. Army’s major acquisition programs.

ACC-RSA’s civilians and Soldiers support warfighters worldwide by contracting for research and development, major weapon system production, sub-systems, and services vital to Soldier readiness.

From helicopters to missiles; systems engineering and technical assistance; research and development to technology and engineering; counter-narcotics deterrence; concept development, prototyping, and limited production capability; Foreign Military Sales; contingency support; range support; and operational support, ACC-RSA ensures Soldiers have what they need to be successful.

ACC-RSA offers the contracting expertise of some of the best-trained people in the Army, ready to support the Soldier while ensuring responsible stewardship of taxpayers’ funds.

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ACC-RSA awarded more than 18,000 contract actions in fiscal year 2015 valued at more than $18.1 billion. ACC-RSA accomplished this with more than 800 military and civilian personnel.

ACC-RSA ensures contracting support to the warfighter as mission requirements emerge and as the Army transforms and moves within the continental United States and around the globe.

ACC-RSA awarded more than 18,000 contract actions in fiscal year 2015 valued at more than $18.1 billion.

ACC-RSA accomplishes this with more than 800 military and civilian personnel.

Army Contracting Command-Redstone Locations: • Corpus Christi Army Depot, Texas • Fort Rucker, Alabama • Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia • Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands • Letterkenny Army Depot, Pennsylvania • Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado • Redstone Arsenal, Alabama

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ROCK ISLAND As one of six U.S. Army Contracting Command (ACC) contracting centers, Army Contracting Command-Rock Island (ACC-RI) provides worldwide procurement support to Soldiers, civilians, and contractors from the middle of the Mississippi River.

Located on a historic island in the Mississippi River, the ACC-RI, Illinois, supports Army and Department of Defense readiness by providing worldwide procurement support to Soldiers, civilians, and contractors. ACC-RI has the talent and capability to execute and administer contracts in support of Army requirements anywhere around the world. ACC-RI employs more than 550 people managing contracts valued at more than $70 billion.

ACC-RI provides the full spectrum of contracting support to a diverse customer base including the U.S. Army Sustainment Command; the Joint Munitions & Lethality Life Cycle Management Command; Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center; Joint Munitions Command; Program Executive Office Ammunition; PEO Enterprise Information Systems; PEO Aviation (Project Manager Apache); PEO Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives; the Surface Deployment and Distribution Command; Installation Management Command; and the Office of the Program Manager, Saudi Arabian National Guard.

ACC-RI provides acquisition support to major customers including: U.S. Army Central; U.S. Forces Afghanistan; U.S. Central Command; State Department; Department of the Army Chief Information Officer/G6; Joint Service Provider; Department of the Army G-4; Joint Program Lead Elimination; Material Management Center; U.S. Marine Corps Forces Central Command; U.S. Air Forces Central Command; U.S. Naval Forces Central Command; Coalition Joint Task Force 101; Office of Security CooperationIraq; Combined Security Transition Command; U.S. Army Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Procurement; U.S. Army Security Assistance Command; 1st Army; Rock Island Garrison; U.S. Army Human Resources Command; U.S. Army Recruiting Command; Office of the Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Army; Institute of Heraldry; and Foreign Military Sales.

ACC-RI is organized into 10 divisions reflecting the support it provides to a diverse mission set: ammunition/chemical demilitarization, installations, information technology, technology and logistics, Logistics Civil Augmentation Program, global reachback, EAGLE and sus-

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ACC-RI provides the full spectrum of contracting support to a diverse customer base.

tainment, business operations, contracting support, and contract pricing.

Although ACC-Rock Island is headquartered on Rock Island Arsenal, there are ACC-RI contracting officers and staff members located offsite at chemical demilitarization facilities at Blue Grass, Kentucky, and Pueblo, Colorado.

ACC-RI also has contracting oversight responsibilities for installation mission support at locations including: Blue Grass Army Depot, Kentucky; Crane Army Ammunition Activity, Indiana; McAlester Army Ammunition Plant (AAP), Oklahoma; Pine Bluff Arsenal, Arkansas; and Tooele Army Depot, Utah.

ACC-RI also manages personnel at offsite locations supporting the ammunition mission: Hawthorne Army Depot, Nevada; Holston (AAP), Tennessee; Iowa AAP, Iowa; Milan AAP, Tennessee; Lake City AAP, Missouri; Radford AAP, Virginia; and Scranton AAP, Pennsylvania.

ACC-RI has trained a cadre of military personnel to deploy on a rotational basis to Kuwait in support of contract administration.

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WARREN

A major contracting center of the U.S. Army Contracting Command (ACC), Army Contracting Command-Warren (ACC-WRN) provides global contracting support to Soldiers through the full spectrum of military operations.

ACC-WRN is headquartered in Warren, Michigan, aligned and co-located with the TACOM Life Cycle Mangement Command on the Detroit Arsenal.

ACC-WRN Is One of Six Major ACC Contracting Centers and Is the Headquarters for Six Contracting Offices Located Throughout the United States: • Anniston Army Depot, Anniston, Alabama • Detroit Arsenal, Warren, Michigan • Red River Army Depot, Texarkana, Texas • Sierra Army Depot, Herlong, California • Watervliet Arsenal, Watervliet, New York • U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command, Fort Belvoir, Virginia The center employs 610 associates (including 30 923rd Contracting Battalion Soldiers) and manages more than $33 billion in active contracts. The contracting center executed more than 25,962 contract actions obligating $6.37 billion in fiscal year 2015.

Major Customers Include: • Program Executive Office Ground Combat Systems • PEO Combat Support and Combat Service Support • System of Systems Engineering and Integration Directorate • PEO Soldier • PEO Ammo • Joint PEO for Chemical Biological Defense • Program Manager Light Armored Vehicle • TACOM Integrated Logistics Support Center • Research, Development and Engineering Command • U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center LCMC • Installation Management Command • TACOM Security Assistance Management Directorate (Foreign Military Sales) • Army Headquarters services • Army Center of Military History • Center for Army Analysis • Other services: Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force ACC-WRN is customer focused and provides comprehensive acquisition, contracting, business advisory, production support, and depot-level maintenance services.

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The Program Manager Joint Light Tactical Vehicle is one of many ACC-WRN customers.

It supports Army readiness by ensuring the best products reach Soldiers when they need them, while providing fair opportunity for industry, including small businesses, and obtaining the best value for the Army and other services.

The Center Supports Warfighters by Procuring Systems, Research and Development, Repair Parts, and Services, Including but not Limited to: • Combat and tactical vehicles • Construction and material-handling equipment • Concept, research, and development efforts • Fuel and water distribution systems • Small arms and targetry • Fire control systems • Chemical defense equipment • Logistics and general support • Base operation support and depot maintenance • Public/private partnerships • Sets, kits, outfits, and tools • Army diving program • Sustainment of non-intrusive cargo inspection systems • Optics • Mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles • Bridging • Strategic intelligence services with performance around the world

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U.S. ARMY AVIATION AND MISSILE COMMAND

As a life cycle management command, AMCOM is dedicated to integrating engineering, logistics, and contracting into the acquisition process to support the product life cycle management efforts of 16 aviation and missile project managers (PMs). AMCOM accomplishes this mission by partnering with the Army Contracting CommandRedstone (ACC-R) and the Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center (AMRDEC) to deliver the contracting, engineering, and logistics expertise needed by the supported PMs. AMCOM was formed on Oct. 1, 1997, by merging the Aviation and Troop Support Command with the Missile Command and proudly continues the “Tradition of Excellence” that was the cornerstone of its predecessor organizations. Today, AMCOM’s 9,000 employees perform a wide variety of missions in support of the nation’s aviation and missile warfighters, at 77 different locations in the United States, and in 33 overseas locations in 11 different countries.

Some of the critical missions that AMCOM performs include aviation and missile systems reset; supply chain and item management; publications support; test measurement and diagnostic equipment calibration; backup maintenance support to units; depot-level maintenance repair and fabrication; crash and battle damage repair to helicopters; and logistics assistance, including providing highly trained logistics assistance representatives to units, while providing expert safety assessments of existing and new systems. AMCOM also performs the supply and maintenance missions for Army schools that train Soldiers to fly and use aviation and missile equipment.

AMCOM operates two key Army depots: Corpus Christi Army Depot (CCAD) in Texas, and Letterkenny Army Depot (LEAD) in Pennsylvania. CCAD supports the repair and overhaul of aircraft and aviation systems, and LEAD

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Aviation and Missile Command Logistics Assistance representative Russell Fukeda, left, assists Soldiers with the M41 Tubelaunched, Optically-tracked Wire-guided (TOW) Improved Target Acquisition System.

provides the same support to missile systems. The Secretary of the Army has designated both depots as a Center of Industrial and Technical Excellence (CITE).

In addition, the Aviation Center Logistics Command (ACLC) provides the supply and maintenance support to the U.S. Army Flight School at Fort Rucker, Alabama.

This is a huge mission and one that is critically important to the long-term readiness of the Army. Since every Army aviator learns to fly at Fort Rucker, every type of Army helicopter is there. Therefore, ACLC has a big job, keeping hundreds of aircraft operationally ready for flight training missions. ACLC accomplishes this mission with a small team of Soldiers and civilian employees who supervise the performance of more than 3,500 contractors: mechanics, supply specialists, and pilots.

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The U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM) provides optimized and responsive aviation, missile and test, measurement and diagnostic equipment sustainment support to the joint warfighter to enable sustainable readiness at the point of need. AMCOM is a values-based organization – people first, Soldiers always – enabling readiness to meet the emerging global requirements of the joint force.

U.S. Army photo by Visual Information Specialist Pierre-Etienne Courtejoie

LEFT: A U.S. Army AH-64D Apache Longbow helicopter. RIGHT: AMG quality control inspector Alex Ayala inspects a UH-60 Black Hawk undergoing recapitalization at the Corpus Christi Army Depot (CCAD).

Photo by Jose E. Rodriguez

AMCOM’s U.S. Army Test Measurement and Diagnostic Equipment Activity (USATA) manages the Army’s metrology and calibration program, which ensures that all Army test and measurement equipment supporting Soldiers worldwide is calibrated accurately.

The AMCOM Logistics Center manages multiple logistics programs in support of all AMCOM missions and strives to achieve “Cost-wise Readiness” to ensure Soldiers receive the support they need. The AMCOM staff provides critical expertise to all of these efforts in diverse fields such as acquisition law, safety, security, and environmental compliance.

The Security Assistance Management Directorate executes a multibillion-dollar security assistance mission that provides U.S. aviation and missile equipment to allies and friendly nations.

AMCOM Principal Locations: • Headquarters, AMCOM, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama • Corpus Christi Army Depot, Corpus Christi, Texas • Letterkenny Army Depot, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania

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• AMCOM also supports supply, maintenance, calibration, and security assistance missions at multiple locations in the United States and overseas.

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CORPUS CHRISTI ARMY DEPOT

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CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS MISSION The Corpus Christi Army Depot (CCAD) returns rotary-wing aircraft and components to the Department of Defense (DOD) and other government organizations with uncompromising quality, at the lowest possible cost, in the shortest amount of time possible. CCAD ensures aviation readiness through overhaul, repair, modification, recapitalization, retrofit, testing, and modernization of helicopters, engines, and components for UH-60 Black Hawk, AH-64 Apache, CH-47 Chinook, HH-60 Pave Hawk, and the OH-58 Kiowa Warrior. CCAD currently supports the U.S. Army; U.S. Air Force; U.S. Navy; U.S. Marine Corps; U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection; and the U.S. Department of State, through Foreign Military Sales.

While 30 percent of the total workload is aircraft, the majority of depot production (70 percent) is component repair, which includes transmissions and gearboxes, rotor blades, rotor head controls, engines, engine components, hydromechanical units, and avionics. The depot extends this capacity to the U.S. Army Aviation Center of Excellence at Fort Rucker, Alabama, where it provides CCAD on-site depot support. Mobile support is also available worldwide through on-site field evaluation, maintenance, and repair teams.

Global reach is similarly achieved through the Army’s accident investigation processes with the materials expertise and laboratory analysis available from CCAD’s chemists and analysts. As a premier helicopter repair facility in the Army’s organic industrial base, the Corpus Christi Army Depot serves as an ideal training base for active-duty Army, National Guard, and Reserve Soldiers specializing in helicopter maintenance and repair.

INSTALLATION OVERVIEW CCAD is the premier helicopter repair facility and the largest tenant organization on Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, with more than 158 acres and 2.2 million square feet of industrial space. With a workforce of more than 3,500 personnel and contract employees, CCAD is one of the largest industrial employers in the South Texas region.

Offering virtually year-round ideal weather for flight testing, the depot is DOD’s primary facility for joint service rotary-wing maintenance and repair.

The facilities include extensive test, maintenance,

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Nine-year CCAD artisan Leeandro Alderete, an aircraft mechanic/ crew chief, conducts a daily/preventative maintenance inspection on an AH-64E Apache prior to aircraft run up.

and hangars. The vast installation includes a wide range of engine, transmission, and gearbox test cells, multiple rotor blade whirl towers, flight controls and control surfaces, aviation engines, aviation transmissions and hydraulic systems (including subsystem accessory components), electronics, support equipment (less avionics), and a Level Two bearing reclamation facility.

CCAD has espoused a Lean Six Sigma culture and a drive for continuous improvement in its workforce.

During the past few years, the workforce has reduced the cost and improved production on the UH-60 Black Hawk recapitalization assembly line, as well as the HH60 Pave Hawk production line. Additionally, the T700 and T55 engine assembly lines have dramatically increased production.

CCAD has been ISO certified for more than a decade.

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LETTERKENNY ARMY DEPOT CHAMBERSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA

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MISSION Deliver superior maintenance, manufacturing, logistics life cycle support, and service worldwide to the joint warfighter and international partners.

HISTORY Letterkenny Army Depot (LEAD) was established in 1941. Letterkenny’s mission was to reduce the surplus of forthcoming war materiel while storing and shipping ammunition, trucks, parts, and other supplies. Since the 1950s, LEAD’s mission has been threefold: supply, maintenance, and ammunition. LEAD’s future was reshaped in the 1990s by the tactical missile consolidation and Department of Defense’s downsizing, reorganization, and realignments. In 2005, the depot was awarded the Shingo Prize for demonstrated achievement in implementing Lean systems in support of the maintenance, repair, and overhaul of the Patriot Missile Air Defense System. In 2006, LEAD was again awarded the Shingo Prize for demonstrated achievement in implementing Lean systems in support of the HMMWV program. LEAD has received this prestigious award a total of nine times. In October 2009, LEAD assumed command and control of Theater Readiness Monitoring Facilities (TRMF). LEAD is the Depot Source of Repair for Route Clearance Vehicles, Patriot Missile Systems, THAAD fire control and communications, Mobile Kitchen Trailer, AN/TPY2 Radar, Multiple Launch Rocket Systems, and Sentinel ground support.

INSTALLATION OVERVIEW Comprising more than 18,600 acres, a large land portion of the depot is used to conduct maintenance, modification, storage, and demilitarization operations on tactical missiles and ammunition. Letterkenny is the largest employer in Franklin County, fueling an economic engine that propels more than a quarter-billion dollars annually into the region through payroll, contracts, and retiree annuities. Letterkenny is ISO 9001, 14001, OHSAS 18001, and VPP certified.

LEAD currently has four Center of Industrial and Technical Excellence (CITE) designations: one as the CITE for Air Defense and Tactical Missile Ground Support Equipment, one as the CITE for Mobile Electric Power Generation Equipment, one as the CITE for Patriot Missile Recertification, and one for Route Clearance Vehicles. LEAD manages and directs the administrative and operational control of CONUS

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Letterkenny is the CITE for Air Defense and Tactical Missile Ground Support Equipment and has executed many successful partnerships for the Patriot missile system, to include the major end item Recap and Reset programs.

and OCONUS TRMF and Patriot missile facilities engaged in assessing the readiness and recertification of Hawk and Patriot missiles deployed by the U.S. Army, NATO, and selected Foreign Military Sales customers.

COMPETENCIES LEAD is a capabilities-based versus a commodity-based depot. The installation is home to Patriot maintenance as well as other missile systems such as Avenger, Tubelaunched Optically-tracked Wire-guided (TOW) missile, Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS), Advanced Fire Control System (AFCS), Hellfire, and Javelin. LEAD provides overhaul and repair of power-generation equipment and provides mobile repair teams for on-site maintenance assistance. LEAD provides rebuild, repair, and modifications for ground mobility vehicles, special operations vehicles, tactical wheeled vehicles, biological integrated detection systems, materiel handling equipment, force provider, mobile kitchens, containerized chapels, and various Soldier support systems. LEAD machines and fabricates armor for various protection kits. Letterkenny has expanded its capabilities through the use of partnerships.

Capabilities: • Machining/fabrication • Metal plating • Painting • Welding • Hydraulic repair • Engine overhaul • Electronic testing • Non-destructive testing • 28-acre radar test site • Armor capabilities • Wiring harness fabrication • Shelter repair • Fiber-optic cables • Sheet metal • Metal finishing • Electric motor rebuild • Altitude chamber • Generator overhaul • Circuit card (multilayer) repair • Phased-array antenna repair • Electronic systems integration • Total package fielding • FLIR and laser overhaul • Wiring harness repair • Automotive recap

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U.S. ARMY SUSTAINMENT COMMAND The U.S. Army Sustainment Command (ASC) sustains Army and joint forces around the world in support of combatant commanders.

ASC, headquartered at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, bridges the national sustainment base to the Soldiers in the field, bringing together the capabilities of the Army Materiel Command’s (AMC) subordinate units to provide the Soldier with the right equipment at the right place and time in the right condition. ASC is the command and control hub for global Army logistics.

ASC has visibility of Army equipment and can provide prompt delivery to combat units in the United States and abroad. It is the “face to the field” for maintenance and logistics solutions. The forward presence of ASC is organized around Army Field Support Brigades (AFSBs), Army Field Support Battalions (AFSBns), the Distribution Management Center (DMC), and more than 70 Logistics Readiness Centers (LRCs), with a presence in 32 states and 19 countries.

As the executing arm of AMC’s equipping mission, ASC brings together all of AMC’s capabilities to make sure Soldiers have what they need, when they need it, based on the Army Force Generation, or ARFORGEN, cycle of RESET, Train/Ready and Available. ASC provides materiel management of major end items such as tanks, mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles, and Strykers, and sustains, maintains, and modernizes them for combat brigades. In addition to supporting combat operations, ASC provides support for natural disasters and humanitarian crises.

COCOM SUPPORT ASC supports combatant command operations by sustaining and supporting joint forces, supporting rotational forces, and augmenting theater combat support service capabilities.

Through the Logistics Assistance Program, civilian employees from AMC’s life cycle management commands

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are embedded with combat brigades throughout the Army, working with and training Soldiers to repair and maintain major items at the field level. ASC is involved in the retrograde of excess equipment from combat areas to support Army requirements. The 401st AFSB receives equipment no longer required in the field, maintains accountability for it, reallocates it based on condition and Army requirements, and arranges for shipment to its destination. This mission is vital to Army readiness, since the equipment can be reset as needed and used to fill unit shortages as well as Foreign Military Sales and ongoing combat operations.

The Logistics Civil Augmentation Program, or LOGCAP, provides support services to deployed Soldiers, joint forces, non-military federal agencies, and coalition forces in locations throughout the world. LOGCAP provides basic life services to the troops, builds base camps, and takes them down as required. In addition to combat operations, LOGCAP maintains plans to support humanitarian contingencies when needed.

STRATEGIC DEPTH AND FLEXIBILITY ASC provides the Army strategic depth and flexibility by supporting Army forces at home station, ensuring Army materiel readiness, maintaining Army Prepositioned Stocks (APS) and operational stocks, and maintaining power projection capabilities. ASC has full operational control over LRCs, which provide the command with a daily, visible impact on every Soldier at his/her home station. The LRCs manage materiel and support services to Army units, performing tasks such as ammunition management, equipment maintenance, hazardous materials operations, laundry and dry cleaning, central issue facilities, bulk fuel, property book, personal

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Soldiers receive their lunch at the 82nd Airborne Division’s Sustainment Brigade dining facility supported by LRC-Bragg at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

property, transportation, food service, and demandsupported supply.

ASC’s APS program stores materiel on land and aboard ships at sea for emergency combat and humanitarian contingencies. APS warehouses store major items, repair parts, and life support materiel, giving the Army the flexibility to go anywhere, at any time, with the logistics support needed to get the job done.

To meet the demands of tomorrow, ASC will continue to adjust its focus to home station while maintaining global capabilities for the Army and joint forces and shape Army logistics in support of Army 2020 and beyond.

ASC Principal Locations: • U.S. Army Sustainment Command headquarters, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois • Distribution Management Center, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois • 401st Army Field Support Brigade, Camp Arifjan, Kuwait • 402nd Army Field Support Brigade, Fort Shafter, Hawaii • 403rd Army Field Support Brigade, Camp Henry, Korea

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• 404th Army Field Support Brigade, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington • 405th Army Field Support Brigade, Kaiserslautern, Germany • 406th Army Field Support Brigade, Fort Bragg, North Carolina • 407th Army Field Support Brigade, Fort Hood, Texas • LOGCAP Support Brigade, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois • Army Sustainment Command, Army Reserve Element, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois • 279th Army Field Support Brigade, Huntsville, Alabama • More than 70 Logistics Readiness Centers worldwide

Contact information: U.S. Army Sustainment Command 1 Rock Island Arsenal Bldg. 390 Rock Island, IL 61299-5000 (309) 782-5421

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The Distribution Management Center (DMC) is co-located with its higher headquarters, U.S. Army Sustainment Command (ASC), at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois.

The DMC executes integrated materiel management and materiel distribution in support of the Army.

The DMC Has Four Key Objectives: • Provide materiel management (MM) for the Army • Equip the Army (Lead Materiel Integrator executing agent) • Provide maintenance operations management supporting LRC (Logistics Readiness Center) performance and Army Prepositioned Stocks (APS) force readiness • Synchronize strategic mobility efforts in support of ASC’s global sustainment mission The DMC, and Its Divisions, Perform the Following Key Functions: • Coordinates the redistribution of Army equipment at COMPO/ACOM/ASCC/DRU levels in accordance with Army priorities and policies; • Integrates equipment status and availability into the build of units and projects predictive readiness; • Provides courses of action analysis for Headquarters of the Department of the Army (DA) and Army Materiel Command Headquarters for distribution and redistribution of equipment to accurately forecast equipment on hand readiness; • Evaluates LRC maintenance production and performance; • Analyzes and provides materiel and maintenance management supporting installation and APS fleet readiness; • Serves as the executive agent and program manager for field-level reset; • Global Combat Support System-Army Materiel Management Level I/II/III for Classes of Supply II/ IIIP/IV/IX; • Army Working Capital Fund Financial Improvement Program Audit of Supply Support Activity inventory; • Provides prioritization recommendations to life cycle management commands (LCMCs), the Defense Logistics Agency, and LRC in support of units globally; • Monitors theater retrograde operations and supports retrograde processing by synchronizing efforts

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DISTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT CENTER

DMC’s Lead Materiel Integrator supports operations for global Army requirements.

between the LCMCs, Logistics Support Activity, and the forward deployed Army Field Support Brigades (AFSBs); • Provides in-transit visibility of the transportation pipeline and helps resolve delays in movement; and • Supervises and manages Second Destination Transportation Transportation Account Codes for Army Sustainment Command (ASC) in support of worldwide transportation operations.

Responsible for communicating ASC requirements for the use of DA centrally managed TACs and ensure that all duties were performed in accordance with the Defense Transportation Regulation and DA/Headquarters guidance.

DISTRIBUTION INTEGRATION DIVISION Lead Materiel Integrator (LMI) executes centralized and integrated materiel management and distribution operations in support of global Army requirements.

Performs equipping (MTOE CLS II & VII) materiel management functions, in support of Army requirements and priorities. By using the Decision Support Tool, unit

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and materiel integrators provide strategic equipping analysis and sourcing solutions, distribution of new equipment, redistribution of Army excess inventory, and divestiture of obsolete equipment. These MM functions support strategic equipment on hand readiness for contingency forces/operations across the Army.

SUPPLY DIVISION Provides MM and customer assistance for demand supported supplies (CL II, III (P), IV and IX) in CONUS AFSBs (404th, 406th and 407th) and coordinate with OCONUS AFSBs (401st, 402nd, 403rd, and 405th), theater sustainment commands, and various agencies to synchronize efforts, standards, and gain efficiencies.

MATERIEL READINESS DIVISION Synchronizes maintenance operations by performing analysis that recommends materiel priorities, positions assets, evaluates cost analysis, and plans LRC workloads; monitors and analyzes APS fleet readiness data to focus on improving the responsiveness and efficiency of the maintenance infrastructure; and analyzes and reports on the performance of LRC and APS maintenance programs to ensure compliance with policy and procedure.

OPERATIONS AND MOBILITY DIVISION The Operations and Mobility Division is broken into three separate branches: Mobility, Current Operations, and Future Operations. The Mobility Branch provides strategic support by planning and coordinating movement of Army war reserves, including other Army contingency and sustainment materiel, through U.S. Transportation Command and the Army Surface Deployment and Distribution Command. The Current Operations branch enforces Army sustainment priorities established by DA, AMC, ASC, and supported Army commands; synchronizes DMC separate division operations; tracks requirements internally and externally through AMC; supervises S1, S2, and S4 functions within the DMC; tracks mandatory training requirements; and facilitates sustainment meetings, briefings, and working groups. The Future Operations branch manages planning and orders development; coordinates efforts with national-level partners, CONUS expeditionary sustainment commands, and theater sustainment commands; links the ASC sustainment visions with the Army commands, Corps G4s, and operations executors; develops plans and oversees the orders process; and conducts long-range calendar development.

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401ST ARMY FIELD SUPPORT BRIGADE

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The 401st Army Field Support Brigade (AFSB) Headquarters is now located at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, after moving from Afghanistan, where it leverages the full might of the Army Materiel Enterprise across Central Command’s (CENTCOM) area of responsibility (AOR) in Southwest Asia.

The 401st AFSB executes sustainment, property accountability, and responsible retrograde in support of Army, joint and multinational forces, and other U.S. government agencies across CENTCOM. It also provides the strategic logistics link from the national industrial base to the joint warfighter in the field.

The 401st AFSB now commands three Army Field Support Battalions (AFSBns), operating in Afghanistan, Qatar, and Kuwait, sustaining the warfighter throughout CENTCOM’s AOR. The 401st AFSB provides its headquarters, the Army Sustainment Command (ASC), and the Materiel Enterprise partners a forward presence and executes critical programs and missions in support of Operation Freedom’s Sentinel in Afghanistan. These include building and sustaining the CENTCOM joint warfighter; providing property accountability; enhancing CENTCOM readiness; and providing strategic depth.

The 401st AFSB also manages the Logistics Civilian Augmentation Program (LOGCAP) to provide essential combat support and combat service support tailored to requirements identified by battlespace commanders.

It is also involved in contracted field support maintenance; the Logistics Assistance Program; theater property equipment; Army Prepositioned Stocks-5; support to Foreign Military Sales; and Life Cycle Management Command reachback support.

HISTORY The 401st traces its history back to the 1997 activation of the Combat Equipment Group-Southwest Asia (CEG-SWA). The command was formed as a result of the chief of staff of the Army’s decision to expand the Army Materiel Command’s (AMC) responsibility for war reserve stocks to include the Persian Gulf region.

While the unit created Army Prepositioned Stock sets in Qatar and Kuwait, it underwent a series of name and organizational changes. CEG-SWA was renamed AMC Forward-SWA on Oct. 1, 2000, when the unit assumed

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Soldiers from the 401st Army Field Support Brigade look out over the water from an upper deck of the U.S. Army Landing Craft Utility 2008 Buena Vista during the 401st AFSB leadership development staff ride at Kuwait Naval Base, Kuwait, May 28.

responsibility for the LAP (Logistics Assistance Program) and LOGCAP in Southwest Asia.

AMC Forward began war support operations in Southwest Asia in October 2001, when it began to support U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Its headquarters moved from Qatar to Kuwait in fall 2002 as part of the ramp up to Operation Iraqi Freedom. The unit was redesignated the Army Field Support Brigade-SWA on Oct. 1, 2004. At the time, the AFSB-SWA consisted of the brigade headquarters in Qatar; AFSBn-Qatar; AFSBnKuwait; AFSBn-Afghanistan; prepositioned watercraft at Kuwait Naval Base; and the Logistics Support Element at Arifjan, Kuwait. The AFSB-SWA was deactivated on Oct. 16, 2006, when the 401st AFSB was activated. In 2008, brigade headquarters forward deployed to Bagram Airfield. The battalions in Kuwait and Qatar transferred to the 402nd AFSB in 2010 to allow the 401st to focus on Afghanistan.

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402ND ARMY FIELD SUPPORT BRIGADE The 402nd Army Field Support Brigade (AFSB) is a mission-focused, modular organization designed to bring logistics power forward to every element of the expeditionary Army.

It does this by providing responsive strategic logistics capability and materiel readiness, enabling combatant commanders to conduct the full range of military operations.

The 402nd AFSB has five direct reporting units: two Army field support battalions and three logistics readiness centers (LRCs) providing direct support to U.S. Army Pacific (USARPAC) forces throughout the U.S. Pacific Command (USPACOM) area of responsibility (AOR) with reachback capabilities covering five time zones.

AFSBn-Alaska (AFSBn-ALK) provides leadership to integrate and synchronize Army Materiel Command Materiel Enterprise support to U.S. Army Alaska (USARAK) and the Alaska National Guard.

AFSBn-ALK provides logistics assistance to commanders who are confronted with challenges beyond their resources or capabilities. AFSBn-ALK performs this function through the employment of brigade logistics support teams composed of technically proficient logistics and maintenance personnel and logistics assistance representatives (LARs) from all Army Materiel Command life cycle management commands. LARs’ primary mission is to analyze unit materiel readiness and assist in resolving equipment readiness issues.

AFSBn-Hawaii (AFSBn-HAW) provides logistics and sustainment support to all units within Hawaii and other areas within USPACOM not covered by a sister brigade, through prioritization, integration, and synchronization of the Army’s acquisition, logistics, and technology capabilities in order to maintain unit readiness. AFSBn-HAW is responsible for direct operational support to three combat brigades of the 25th Infantry Division and 15 Activeand Reserve-Component combat support brigades within USARPAC. LRC-Fort Greely, Alaska (LRC-FGAK) provides a range of logistics services in a remote locale under arctic conditions to the garrison and tenant activities supporting the Missile Defense Complex across the full spectrum of operations.

LRC-Fort Wainwright, Alaska (LRC-FWAK) and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER), Army Support Area, Alaska, provide full-spectrum logistics support under

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Command Sgt. Maj. Cheryl Greene (left), 402nd Army Field Support Brigade senior noncommissioned officer, and Col. Robert A. Dawson (right), 402nd Army Field Support Brigade commander, prepare to case the brigade colors during a ceremony at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, that closes out a 12-year history for the brigade in Southwest Asia. The brigade served as the U.S. Army Materiel Command (AMC) and U.S. Army Sustainment Command liaison to the field and single point of contact in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom and later as the single AMC contact for all of U.S. Army Central Command, excluding Afghanistan. The casing ceremony marks the end of mission in Southwest Asia and the beginning of mission for the brigade to support operations in U.S. Army Pacific Command’s area of responsibility.

harsh arctic conditions and across vast distances in Alaska to USARAK units, the garrison, and tenant activities at FWAK, JBER, Bolio Lake, and Black Rapids Training Site in order to ensure warfighters are properly sustained to fight and win the nation’s wars.

LRC-Schofield Barracks, Oahu, Hawaii (LRC-SBHI) integrates and synchronizes materiel enterprise operations that provide sustainable installation support and power projection capability to the Army and joint forces in USPACOM AOR. The logistics support and services provided are inclusive of logistics services contract, transportation, supply and services, and maintenance. Additionally, LRCSBHI provides sub-installation support to Pohakuloa Training Area, located on the big island of Hawaii.

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403RD ARMY FIELD SUPPORT BRIGADE The 403rd Army Field Support Brigade (AFSB), located in the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a mission-focused and modular unit, organized to place logistics power forward to every element of the expeditionary Army.

The 403rd AFSB has a network of logistics support elements that provide direct support to corps-level activities; Army field support battalions – AFSBn-Korea and ASFBn-Northeast Asia – which provide direct support to the 2nd Infantry Division (2ID (CMB)) and management of the regional Army Prepositioned Stocks-4 (APS-4); brigade logistics support teams that provide direct support to the 2ID/ROK U.S. Combined Division and non-divisional units brigade combat teams; and logistics support teams, providing direct support to nondivisional units in its assigned areas, including Okinawa and mainland Japan.

The 403rd AFSB provides Army Sustainment Command and its Materiel Enterprise partners a forward presence to assist in managing sustainment maintenance and supply, and to assist theater maintenance activities in accomplishing field maintenance when required. The 403rd mission is to sustain U.S. Forces Korea, 8th Army, U.S. Forces Japan, and supports the combatant commander’s theater strategy. These missions include but are not limited to: synchronizing the life cycle management commands’ forward and special repair activities support within theater; maintenance and distribution of APS; materiel fielding; wartime planning support for reception, staging, onward movement, and integration of Army Materiel Command augmentation forces; infrastructure development to support Army Materiel Command power-projection capabilities; Logistics Assistance Program; Logistics Civil Augmentation Program; and the integration of acquisition, logistics, and technology to support Soldier requirements.

An integral part of the 403rd AFSB team, logistics assistance representatives are embedded with the logistics support teams and elements to provide support to Soldiers at every echelon, thus ensuring equipment readiness. Effective Oct. 1, 2013, the 403rd assumed mission command of the directorates of logistics in Japan and Korea that were subsequently renamed logistics readiness centers (LRCs) to ensure effective and efficient transfer of responsibilities from the U.S. Army garrisons to the 403rd. Six LRCs were transferred smoothly and

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TOP: Joint Staff college students get a close-up look at the U.S. Army’s Landing Craft Utility Coamo during a visit to Yokohama North Dock Oct. 16. Giving them a tour through the ship are Chief Warrant Officer 4 Rick Deans and Austin Brown. ABOVE: Terry Johnston and Andrew Davis install a component on one of the 403rd Army Field Support Brigade’s new communications terminals. Called SNAP, for SIPR/NIPR Access Point, the terminal can be assembled by two people in less than 30 minutes.

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Linking Soldiers at the smallest outposts in Korea and Japan to the national sustainment base makes the 403rd AFSB a pivotal part of the Materiel Enterprise.

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404TH ARMY FIELD SUPPORT BRIGADE

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The 404th Army Field Support Brigade (AFSB) is located at Joint Base LewisMcChord (JBLM) in Washington state. Since its activation, the 404th AFSB has evolved to support contingency and response operations in the U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM), U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM), and I Corps areas of responsibility.

In September 2015, 404th AFSB received new orders that relinquished its PACOM alignment to 402nd AFSB and realigned it to NORTHCOM with a new mission as Army Materiel Command’s (AMC) lead to support Army North’s (ARNORTH) Defense Support to Civil Agencies. Under this alignment, the 404th is tasked to provide first response, scalable mission command capabilities and synchronization of AMC’s Materiel Enterprise operations to NORTHCOM and ARNORTH. To support these missions, the 404th AFSB has added a battalion at Joint Base Lewis McChord, two logistics support teams at Fort Irwin, California, and Fort Huachuca, Arizona, 10 logistics readiness centers (LRCs) in Arizona, California, Illinois, Michigan, Utah, Wisconsin, and Washington, and a Regional Logistics Readiness Center (RLRC) at JBLM. ARMY FIELD SUPPORT BATTALION-LEWIS Army Field Support Battalion-Lewis (AFSBn-Lewis) provides a single AMC “face to the field” for I Corps and National Guard/Reserve units in Washington, Idaho, and Oregon. Its primary mission is to provide continuity of support between the warfighter, AMC, and acquisition, technology, and logistics (AT&L) communities.

They accomplish this support through brigade logistics support teams (BLSTs) and the life cycle management commands logistics assistance representatives. This network of subject-matter experts leverages local, strategic, and industrial capabilities to improve training and equipment readiness.

LOGISTICS READINESS CENTERS The 404th AFSB’s LRCs provide tailored, full-service logistics support to the senior mission commander,

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Army Materiel Command’s Commander Gen. Dennis L. Via (center) and Brig. Gen. Jack Haley, commander of the 593rd Sustainment Command, discuss the Army’s transition to sustainment during a luncheon with senior logisticians and signal leaders from around Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, Feb. 8.

Army installation command garrisons, AMC, Training and Doctrine Command, and area support to National Guard and Reserve forces within their respective state. Support services may include supply and services, transportation, and maintenance capabilities.

REGIONAL LOGISTICS READINESS CENTER In response to shifting global missions, AMC teamed with Under Secretary of Defense for AT&L to develop three regional logistics readiness centers. The RLRC concept was designed as a power-projection platform focused on materiel readiness and acquisition integration. In 2016, the concept became reality when the first RLRC became fully operational at JBLM. Currently the 404th RLRC supports AT&L PM Stryker, AMC Communications Electronics Command, and I Corps with a location to equip, train, and sustain units on new equipment and technology.

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405TH ARMY FIELD SUPPORT BRIGADE The 405th Army Field Support Brigade (AFSB), headquartered at Daenner Kaserne, Kaiserslautern, Germany, provides Materiel Enterprise support to U.S. forces throughout Europe and Africa; provides theater sustainment logistics; synchronizes acquisition, logistics, and technology; and leverages the Army Materiel Command Materiel Enterprise to support joint forces.

The 405th AFSB is mission focused and designed to bring logistics power forward to every element of an expeditionary Army.

The 405th AFSB has two Army Field Support Battalions providing direct support in Europe and Africa; brigade logistics support teams (BLSTs) providing direct support to their assigned brigade combat teams; Logistics Support Teams East and West, providing direct support on an area basis to Army separate reportable units; and installation logistics operations. The 405th AFSB provides this support throughout the U.S. European Command and the U.S. Africa Command areas of operations.

The 405th AFSB War Reserve Branch is responsible for the European Activity Sets (EASs), consisting of Army Prepositioned Stocks (APS) equipment sets located at various European locations. EAS stocks are used by NATO response forces. The various EAS sites are fully modernized and independent combat-ready combined arms battalion combat teams for designated forces to utilize as directed, in support of NATO operations.

The 405th Army Field Support Battalion (AFSBn) Germany, headquartered at Rose Barracks in Vilseck, Germany, is responsible for providing BLST and LST support to all U.S. Army Europe forces north of the Alps.

The 405th AFSBn-Africa, headquartered at Leghorn Army Depot Livorno, Italy, primarily receives, stores, maintains, and issues APS equipment, principally mineresistant ambush-protected vehicles (MRAPs). It provides controlled humidity storage of assets for several COCOMs. AFSBn-Africa also supports the Defense Department’s Humanitarian Assistance Program-Excess Property program and USAID Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance with storage space and labor.

The 405th AFSBn-Africa was designated as the forward MRAP repair and storage site in Europe and Africa, and serves as a power-projection platform for global operations.

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Bradley Fighting Vehicles recently used by the 3rd Battalion, 69th Armor Regiment, 1st Armor Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, are stored in a facility at the European Activity Set equipment site in Mumaiciai, Lithuania, Dec. 11, 2015.

The EAS consists of 12,000 total pieces of equipment, of which approximately 250 are tanks, Bradley Fighting Vehicles, and self-propelled howitzers; approximately 1,750 other pieces are support vehicles.

The 405th AFSB provides the Army Sustainment Command, and its Materiel Enterprise partners, a forward presence to assist in managing sustainment and field-level maintenance. Other missions managed by the 405th include: Army Force Generation, reset, and Life Cycle Management Command maintenance activity synchronization; materiel management; field support; direct theater support; Logistics Assistance Program; and the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program.

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406TH ARMY FIELD SUPPORT BRIGADE As part of the U.S. Army’s modular force structure transformation, the 406th Army Field Support Brigade (AFSB) was provisionally activated in March 2005 as the AFSB-Continental United States-East (CONUS-EAST) under the U.S. Army Sustainment Command (ASC).

Charged with providing Army Force Generation (ARFORGEN) support to warfighting units committed to the war on terrorism, the AFSB encompassed 17 posts, camps, and stations in 26 states east of the Mississippi River. On Oct. 16, 2007, AFSB-CONUS-EAST was redesignated as the 406th AFSB. There was also an internal reorganization of its subordinate logistics support elements (LSEs) into four provisional Army field support battalions (AFSBns). Of national strategic importance, the 406th AFSB is also responsible for the Army’s Prepositioned Stocks (APS-3) Afloat program located at Army Strategic Logistics Activity Charleston (ASLAC), South Carolina, and support to Army Special Operations Forces. Continually evolving with transformation initiatives, the 406th AFSB expanded its area of responsibility to include Fort Polk/Joint Readiness Training Center, officially activated its four AFSBns in December 2009, and received operational control of 30 Installation Directorate of Logistics (now logistics readiness centers or LRCs) in June 2010. Continually evolving with implementation of the Army’s Materiel Enterprise, the 406th AFSB received mission command of 26 LRCs in October 2014.

The 406th AFSB serves as the single “face to the field” to execute Materiel Enterprise functions for the U.S. Army Materiel Command (AMC) by integrating and synchronizing ARFORGEN and acquisition, logistics, and technology at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels to enable combat readiness of all Army units in the eastern United States.

The real history of the 406th AFSB is the daily accomplishments of the command’s thousands of Soldiers, Department of Army civilians, and contractors. Actively engaged in the force generating mission, the integration and execution of installation logistics through LRCs, and pre-deployment training equipment partnership with forces command, the 406th AFSB workforce family is united in providing integrated and synchronized AMC support. Aligned with U.S. Northern Command and in direct support of the Army’s Contingency Corps (XVIII

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An armored Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck (HEMTT) is offloaded from the USNS Pomeroy (T-AKR 316), Jan. 10, 2014, at Joint Base Charleston-Weapons Station, South Carolina. The Pomeroy holds roughly 1,400 pieces of cargo as part of the nation’s prepositioning force. The 406th AFSB is responsible for the Army Prepositioned Stocks (APS-3) flotilla.

Airborne Corps), all 22 brigade logistics support teams (BLSTs) deployed multiple times in support of the war on terrorism. The AFSB has demonstrated its flexibility to conduct contingency operations supporting Operation Unified Response humanitarian assistance to Haiti in 2010; hurricane damage support to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, in 2011; assistance in support of Hurricane Sandy in 2012; Ebola pandemic mission support to Africa on Operation Unified Assistance in 2015; and relief to flood-stricken Fort Jackson, South Carolina, in 2015.

Additionally, the 406th AFSB initiated the expansion of the European Activity Set in U.S. Army Europe and is participating in a new APS-6 build.

Throughout its history and into the future, the 406th AFSB provides proactive sustainment logistics, continuous installation logistics operations, and contingency rapid deployment support – “steadfast support” to ASC, AMC, the Army, and the nation.

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These Soldiers enjoy their meal at a logistics readiness center field dining facility at Fort Polk, Louisiana.

HISTORY The 407th was provisionally stood up in March 2005 as AFSB-CONUS West (AFSB-CW) at Fort Hood. AFSB-CW was responsible for enhancing the readiness of active Army, Army Reserve, and National Guard units west of the Mississippi River except those in Washington. In late 2005, AFSBCW deployed in support of humanitarian relief operations following Hurricane Katrina. The first logistics support element was converted to the AFSB as AFSBn-Carson. On Oct. 16, 2007, the 407th AFSB activated at Fort Hood. In October 2012, the 407th AFSB gained mission command of its initial eight assigned Directorates of Logistics now known as LRCs. In Octo- ber 2015, Fort Buchanan and Redstone Arsenal realigned under the 407th. As of Oct. 1, 2015, Soto Cano is aligned under the 407th AFSB. Today, the 407th AFSB is a critical enabler of strategic logistics capabilities for III Corps units around the world. The 407th AFSB’s primary area of operation encompasses 13 states located in the continental United States and the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility. Since its provisional activation, the 407th continues to support Army units deploying in support of operations in Southwest Asia. In recent years, the 407th has played an active role in brigade deployments in support of regionally aligned forces in Korea, Kuwait and, most recently, in Eastern Europe. Each summer, the 407th directly supports the U.S. Army Cadet Command’s summer training program at Fort Knox, providing food, fuel, maintenance, and transportation support to thousands of cadets and cadre. At Fort Bliss and White Sands Missile Range, the 407th plays a key role in support of the Army Agile Process, which features the integration and maturation of the Army’s tactical network through semiannual Network Integration Evaluations in conjunction with the Brigade Modernization Command, Army Test and Evaluation Command, Programs Manager System of Systems Integration, and the 1st Armored Division. The Mighty 407th’s motto is “Support the Soldier!”

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The 407th Army Field Support Brigade (AFSB), located at Fort Hood, Texas, has the mission to provide and synchronize sustainment of U.S. Army active-duty, Reserve, and National Guard units and joint forces within its area of operations. It is regionally aligned with U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) and directly supports III Corps, headquartered at Fort Hood. The 407th also coordinates support to various joint exercises.

The mission of the “Mighty 407th” is accomplished through four Army Field Support Battalions (AFSBns); 13 logistics readiness centers; and multiple logistics support teams, to include the integration of senior command representatives from each of the life cycle management commands. Each AFSBn has multiple brigade logistic support teams (LSTs) that train and deploy with their supported Army brigade combat teams.

Army Field Support Battalion-Carson is headquartered at Fort Carson, Colorado, and provides direct support to the 4th Infantry Division. AFSBn-Carson has logistical support responsibility for Colorado, Oklahoma, Wyoming, North Dakota, and South Dakota.

Army Field Support Battalion-Bliss, headquartered at Fort Bliss, Texas, provides direct support to the 1st Armored Division. AFSBn-Bliss has logistical support responsibility for West Texas and New Mexico.

Army Field Support Battalion-Riley is headquartered at Fort Riley, Kansas, and provides direct support to the 1st Infantry Division. AFSBn-Riley has logistical support responsibility for Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, and Kansas. ASFBn-Riley has LSTs located at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, and Fort Knox, Kentucky.

Army Field Support Battalion-Hood is headquartered at Fort Hood, Texas, and provides direct support to the 1st Cavalry Division and 3rd Cavalry Regiment. AFSBnHood has logistical support responsibility for Arkansas and Texas. AFSBn-Hood has LSTs at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and Joint Base San Antonio in Texas. The 407th’s AFSB logistics readiness centers (LRCs) are located at Fort Bliss, Texas; Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico; Fort Carson, Colorado; Fort Hood, Texas; Fort Knox, Kentucky; Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri; Redstone Arsenal, Alabama; Miami, Florida; Fort Riley, Kansas; Fort Sill, Oklahoma; White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico; and Soto Cano, Honduras.

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CECOM sustains command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) readiness while enabling a network that connects and synchronizes the armed forces at all echelons to ensure a more capable, better trained, and dominant joint force for the United States and allies.

Comprising approximately 9,000 personnel, CECOM’s mission is to develop, provide, integrate, and sustain the logistics and readiness of C4ISR systems and mission command capabilities for the joint, interagency, and multinational forces worldwide.

CECOM applies four core competencies to its functions as it conducts its mission and strives to achieve the vision of being the life cycle provider of choice in the C4ISR community.

An Army Materiel Command (AMC) major subordinate command, CECOM was first established as the U.S. Army Electronics Command on Aug. 21, 1963, then designated the Communications-Electronics Command in 1981, and was re-designated as the CECOM Life Cycle Management Command (LCMC) in 2005.

As an LCMC, CECOM is the Army’s critical link for life cycle support of the communications-electronics systems and equipment used by the joint forces. CECOM executes a sustainment and logistics integration mission across a very broad and complex set of C4ISR systems and capabilities.

Collectively responsible for the life cycle of C4ISR systems, AMC and the assistant secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology work together to comprise the C4ISR Center of Excellence at Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG), Maryland.

CECOM Centers and Commands: • Central Technical Support Facility (CTSF), Fort Hood, Texas

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The U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) provides the critical link to enable the U.S. armed forces’ ability to achieve dominance on the battlefield by contributing to a globally networked, agile, and responsive force.

U.S. Army Sgt. Jimmie Wu of Able Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade, employs a satellite antenna in a counter-reconnaissance offensive operational scenario during exercise Saber Junction 16 at the U.S. Army’s Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany, April 14, 2016.

• Logistics and Readiness Center (LRC), APG, Maryland • Software Engineering Center (SEC), APG, Maryland • Tobyhanna Army Depot (TYAD), Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania • U.S. Army Information Systems Engineering Command (USAISEC), Fort Huachuca, Arizona • U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC), APG, Maryland

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ABOVE: Soldiers from the 25th Infantry Division out of Hawaii and from TRADOC Centers of Excellence participated in the U.S. Army’s Cyber Blitz April 2016 at Joint Base McGuire-DixLakehurst, New Jersey. Cyber Blitz provides the Army a venue to observe and assess cyber and electromagnetic activity-related interactions in a tactical command post. RIGHT: A paratrooper from 3-319 Airborne Field Artillery Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division Artillery, communicates with higher headquarters over radio after his team was attacked during Exercise Swift Response 16, June 19, 2016, in Hohenfels, Germany.

• U.S. Army Contracting Command (ACC)-Aberdeen, APG, Maryland CECOM Priorities: • Command climate/quality of life • Readiness • Accountability • Sustained relevance CECOM Core Functions: • Depot-level manufacturing, repair, and overhaul • Field support • Interoperability certification • Foreign military assistance • Logistics, sustainment planning, and execution • Software sustainment • Supply chain management • Information technology systems engineering and integration

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Contact information: U.S. Army CommunicationsElectronics Command 6001 Combat Drive Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005 (443) 861-4371

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TOBYHANNA ARMY DEPOT

TOBYHANNA, PENNSYLVANIA

HISTORY TYAD, a subordinate organization of U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command, has served the United States since Feb. 1, 1953. Today, TYAD is the premier full-service joint C4ISR maintenance facility in DOD and is the largest industrial employer in northeastern Pennsylvania, with an annual economic impact of $3.1 billion. In 2012, the depot earned its seventh Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence and its second consecutive Army Lean Six Sigma Excellence Award. Among its most notable accomplishments, Tobyhanna has earned two Chief of Staff of the Army Maintenance Excellence Awards for Depot Maintenance and two Army Superior Unit Awards.

INSTALLATION OVERVIEW The depot encompasses 1,336 acres. The mission area consists of 155 buildings, 21 clean rooms, and 13 test ranges, to include multiple radar ranges and a laser range. More than 2.4 million square feet are dedicated to the depot’s C4ISR and missile guidance and control missions with 61 percent of the mission area under one roof. TYAD is virtually self-sustaining, with a modern infrastructure to support its diverse mission requirements. More than 3,800 personnel work at the installation and operate its worldwide network of more than 62 forward repair activities, including seven in

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Tobyhanna Army Depot (TYAD) is a recognized leader in providing world-class logistics support for command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems across the Department of Defense (DOD).

Tobyhanna’s corporate philosophy, dedicated workforce, and electronics expertise ensure the depot is the joint C4ISR provider of choice for all branches of the armed forces and industry partners. Tobyhanna’s unparalleled capabilities include full-spectrum logistics support for sustainment, overhaul and repair, fabrication and manufacturing, engineering design and development, systems integration, post-production software support, technology insertion, modification, Foreign Military Sales, and global field support to joint warfighters.

Cpl. Allison Kruse and Master Sgt. Brian Yost, Marine Air Control Squadron-4, Japan, and electronics mechanics Thomas Strubert and Angela Hocking conduct final operational tests to ensure the overhauled AN/TPS-59(V)3 Tactical Missile Defense, Early Warning and Situational Awareness Radar System works properly. Tobyhanna Army Depot began its first Marine Corps radar workload in 2009 with the reset process of AN/TPQ-46 Firefinder radars.

Southwest Asia. TYAD is ISO 9001:2008 certified for the repair, overhaul, fabrication, power projection, and logistics support of C4ISR equipment and systems and the design and development supporting integration of

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communications-electronics systems. Tobyhanna is the first military installation and third organization of any type in the world to achieve certification to both Aerospace Standard (AS) 9100 Revision C and AS9100 Revision A. The depot also holds certification for the ISO 14001:2004 Environmental Management System and the Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series 18001:2007. In addition, TYAD is the first DOD facility to be certified as an Occupational Safety and Health Administration Voluntary Protection Program Star Site (1999, 2005, 2010).

systems. TYAD projects its capabilities forward to posts, camps, stations, and remote operating bases worldwide, ensuring operational readiness for the warfighter. TYAD personnel provide two-level maintenance on systems such as improvised explosive device countermeasures, logistics information systems, tactical operations centers, Army airborne command and control, Guardrail Common Sensor, Firefinder, Common Ground Station, tactical unmanned aerial vehicles, and communication security equipment at sites throughout Europe, Southwest Asia, Korea, Okinawa, and the continental United States.

COMPETENCIES The Army has designated Tobyhanna as its Center of Industrial and Technical Excellence for C4ISR, avionics, and missile guidance and control. The Air Force has designated Tobyhanna as its Technical Repair Center for command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence and tactical missiles. TYAD’s talented workforce, high level of electronics expertise, and the latest technologies and business management techniques ensure the depot is the provider of choice for fabrication, electronic repair, engineering design, systems integration, technology insertion, automated test equipment, and technical documentation development of DOD’s joint C4ISR systems as well as missile guidance and control

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U.S. ARMY JOINT MUNITIONS COMMAND The U.S. Army Joint Munitions Command (JMC) is the latest in a series of commands since World War II that have managed the nation’s ammunition plants. Since 1973, those commands have been headquartered at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois. The headquarters is responsible for munitions production and storage facilities in numerous states, as well as tactical control of the Chemical Materials Activity. The command employs 23 military personnel, more than 5,000 civilian personnel, and more than 5,000 contractors. JMC executes an annual budget of $3.8 billion.

MISSION To provide joint forces with ready, reliable, lethal munitions at the right place and time to sustain global operations.

FACILITIES JMC operates a nationwide network of installations and facilities where ammunition is produced, stored, distributed, and demilitarized: Production, Storage, and Demilitarization: • Crane Army Ammunition Activity, Crane, Indiana • McAlester Army Ammunition Plant, McAlester, Oklahoma • Pine Bluff Arsenal, Pine Bluff, Arkansas

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Production: • Holston Army Ammunition Plant, Kingsport, Tennessee • Iowa Army Ammunition Plant, Middletown, Iowa • Lake City Army Ammunition Plant, Independence, Missouri • Radford Army Ammunition Plant, Radford, Virginia • Scranton Army Ammunition Plant, Scranton, Pennsylvania • Quad City Cartridge Case Facility, Rock Island, Illinois

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OPPOSITE PAGE: Marine Corps Reservists with Combat Logistics Battalion 453 out of Topeka, Kansas, inspect ammunition at Crane Army Ammunition Activity’s surveillance facility. During their two-week annual training, Marines had exposure to all aspects of ammunition handling. This included inventory, surveillance, storage, shipping and receiving, blocking and bracing, and demolition.

ABOVE: A Letterkenny Munitions Center employee repairs a cable connector.

Storage and Demilitarization: • Anniston Munitions Center, Anniston, Alabama • Blue Grass Army Depot, Richmond, Kentucky • Hawthorne Army Depot, Hawthorne, Nevada • Letterkenny Munitions Center, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania • Milan Army Ammunition Plant, Milan, Tennessee • Tooele Army Depot, Tooele, Utah • Pueblo Chemical Depot, Pueblo, Colorado • Blue Grass Chemical Activity, Richmond, Kentucky

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ANNISTON MUNITIONS CENTER ANNISTON, ALABAMA

MISSION Anniston Munitions Center (ANMC) provides timely and accurate receipt, storage, issue, maintenance, inspection, demilitarization, and recycling of ammunition and missiles.

Capabilities: • Ammunition renovation • Ship, receive, and outload • Preservation, packaging, and maintenance • Quality assurance • Explosive demilitarization • Missile recycling

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parent command is the Joint Munitions Center. ANMC received its first on-site commander in June 2004.

STATISTICS There are 101 Department of the Army civilians and one Soldier.

FACILITIES ANMC is housed on 13,160 acres, with 33 buildings, 1,124 igloos, and a storage capacity of 2.5 million square feet.

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HISTORY Anniston Ordnance Depot was established in October 1941. In 1952, the depot was assigned a maintenance mission for the overhaul and repair of combat vehicles.

In 1962, the installation was renamed Anniston Army Depot (ANAD) and became part of the Army Materiel Command. In October 1998, operational control of ANAD was transferred to TACOM. At the same time, the ammunition mission and resources was renamed Anniston Munitions Center. ANMC became a tenant of ANAD and officially came under the full command and control of Blue Grass Army Depot in Richmond, Kentucky. Its

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MISSION Crane Army Ammunition Activity (CAAA) receives, stores, ships, produces, renovates, and demilitarizes conventional ammunition, missiles, and related components to meet contingency requirements in support of joint force readiness.

Capabilities: • Munitions and manufacturing • Demilitarization • Munitions and munitions-related maintenance and renovation • Remote operations and environmental testing • Logistics support • Machine shop • Chemical laboratory • Engineering HISTORY CAAA was established in 1977 as a tenant on Naval Support Activity Crane (established in 1941 as Crane Naval Ammunition Depot) to implement the “single manager for conventional ammunition” concept. In October 1999, command and control of Letterkenny Munitions Center transferred to CAAA. STATISTICS There are 688 Department of the Army civilians and one Soldier.

FACILITIES The facilities at CAAA include 209 production buildings, a 72,000-square-foot machine shop, 1,800 storage buildings – for both explosive and inert

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Marine Corps Reservists with Combat Logistics Battalion 453 complete annual training at Crane Army Ammunition Activity where they handled live ammunition and honed specific skills based on ammunition logistics.

ammunition, with a total capacity of 4.8 million square feet – an 80-acre demolition range, and 40 acres of ammunition burning grounds.

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HOLSTON ARMY AMMUNITION PLANT

KINGSPORT, TENNESSEE MISSION Holston Army Ammunition Plant (HSAAP) manufactures a wide range of explosives for the Department of Defense.

Capabilities: • Production and development of insensitive munitions explosives • Synthesis and manufacture of high explosive • Recrystallization and purification from organic solvents • Melt-cast, cast-cured, pressed and extruded explosives formulation • Explosives performance testing • Full-spectrum explosives research and development capability • Custom and fine chemical manufacture for the defense industry • Research and development programs for development of new explosives

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HISTORY HSAAP was established in July 1942 and stopped production in 1945. It was reactivated in 1950 in response to the Korean conflict, and production continues today.

STATISTICS Holston has a government staff of 21 Department of the Army civilians. Contractor statistics are considered proprietary and therefore are not available.

FACILITIES HSAAP is housed on 6,024 acres, with 300 buildings, 130 igloos, and an explosive storage capacity of 202,930 square feet.

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A Holston Army Ammunition Plant employee sorts explosives.

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IOWA ARMY AMMUNITION PLANT MIDDLETOWN, IOWA

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MISSION Iowa Army Ammunition Plant (IAAAP) loads, assembles, and packs medium- and large-caliber and close combat ammunition items for the Department of Defense in support of U.S. military training and operations worldwide.

Capabilities: • Large ammunition • High-explosive artillery (155 mm, 105 mm) • Medium- and large-caliber mortar ammunition • Insensitive munitions • Smart munitions mines/scatterable mines • Missile assembly/missile warheads • Rocket-assisted projectiles • Detonators • Test ranges • SPIDER grenades • M112 demo charges • MICLIC (mine-clearing line charge) • Development • Pressed and cast warheads • Salute rounds HISTORY The IAAAP was established in November 1940 as the Iowa Ordnance Plant, and started production in 1941. Production was stopped in 1945, when World War II ended. The plant resumed its ammunition manufacturing mission in 1949. In 1950, in response to the Korean conflict, production increased dramatically.

In 1975, the Army assumed responsibility for IAAAP. STATISTICS Iowa has a government staff of 25 Department of the Army civilians and one Soldier to provide contract oversight. Contractor statistics are considered proprietary and therefore are unavailable.

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An Iowa Army Ammunition Plant employee places 40 mm grenades into an ammunition can.

FACILITIES IAAAP is housed on 19,011 acres, with 767 buildings, 271 igloos, and a storage capacity of 1,100,775 square feet. It also has 143 miles of roads and 102 miles of railroads.

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LAKE CITY ARMY AMMUNITION PLANT

INDEPENDENCE, MISSOURI MISSION Lake City Army Ammunition Plant (LCAAP) conducts contract oversight, provides quality small-caliber munitions to the joint warfighter, and operates the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) test center.

Capabilities: • Small arms cartridges • Components such as percussion and electric primers • Pyrotechnics • Small-caliber ammunition • Demilitarization and disposal of plantproduced small-caliber ammunition and explosives • Performs reliability testing of small-caliber ammunition HISTORY LCAAP was established in December 1940, with production beginning in 1941. It was the first of 12 small arms plants run by the Army.

FACILITIES LCAAP is housed on 3,935 acres, with 408 buildings, 43 magazines, nine warehouses, 11 igloos, and a storage capacity of 707,000 square feet.

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STATISTICS Lake City has a government staff of 27 Department of the Army civilians and one Soldier to provide contract oversight. Contractor statistics are considered proprietary and therefore are unavailable.

A Lake City Army Ammunition Plant ammunition handler weighs and gauges 7.62-caliber rounds.

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LETTERKENNY MUNITIONS CENTER

CHAMBERSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA MISSION Letterkenny Munitions Center (LEMC), located on Letterkenny Army Depot, conducts regional and global contingency distribution of munitions, provides missile maintenance, and conducts demilitarization of munitions for joint forces, international forces, and the interagency.

Capabilities: • Logistics support • Storage • Non-destructive testing, very large X-ray • Missile maintenance • Munitions maintenance and renovation • Demilitarization HISTORY Letterkenny Army Depot was established in 1941 as an ammunition and general supply storage depot. In 1961, its Directorate of Ammunition Operations began supporting U.S. Army air defense missiles and U.S. Air Force intercept missiles. In 1999, the Directorate of Ammunition Operations was renamed Letterkenny Munitions Center with command and control transferred to Crane Army Ammunition Activity.

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STATISTICS There are 208 Department of the Army civilians and one Soldier.

FACILITIES LEMC occupies 16,000 of Letterkenny Army Depot’s 18,200 acres. Its facilities include 17 explosive operating buildings, 2.3 million square feet of explosive storage space, 902 igloos, 10 above-ground magazines, 26 rail docks, 28 miles of railroad, 126 miles of paved road, and two containerization facilities/docks.

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Reservists from the 826th Ordnance Company work on blocking and bracing and inspection operations in support of outloading during training.

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McALESTER ARMY AMMUNITION PLANT

McALESTER, OKLAHOMA MISSION McAlester Army Ammunition Plant (MCAAP) provides timely delivery of quality products and services to the joint force and partners in support of the nation’s security and defense interests.

Capabilities: • Manufacturing • Logistics support • Demilitarization/disposal • Mobile Ammunition Renovation, Inspection and Demil (MARID) team • Safety and environmental protection • Assists with research and development • Renovation • Mobile railroad maintenance team

STATISTICS There are 1,293 Department of the Army civilians and one Soldier.

FACILITIES MCAAP is housed on 44,964 acres, with 2,826 buildings, including 2,263 earth-covered storage magazines and 163 storage warehouses, and a storage capacity of 8,840,559 square feet.

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HISTORY MCAAP was established May 20, 1943, as the McAlester Naval Ammunition Depot. It became part of the Army’s Single Manager for Conventional Ammunition in 1977. Under Base Realignment and Closure 2005, MCAAP acquired additional workload from Red River Munitions Center. From Kansas Army Ammunition Plant, it acquired the Sensor Fuzed Weapon and missile warhead production. From Red River Munitions Center, Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant, and Sierra Army Depot, MCAAP acquired demilitarization, storage, and maintenance functions.

At McAlester Army Ammunition Plant, an explosives worker explains the preparation process before explosives are poured into a bomb body.

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MILAN ARMY AMMUNITION PLANT MILAN, TENNESSEE MISSION Milan Army Ammunition Plant (MLAAP) maintains a capability to load, assemble, and pack reliable medium-to-large caliber ammunition. MLAAP is no longer actively producing ammunition and continues with its transition to a commercial distribution site.

Capabilities: • Load, assemble, and pack • Demilitarization/disposal • Renovation/reclamation • Development and production test support • Logistical support

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HISTORY Milan Ordnance Depot and Wolf Creek Ordnance Plant were established in 1941.

In 1943 they merged, becoming Milan Ordnance Center and later Milan Arsenal in 1945. In the 1960s, it became Milan Army Ammunition Plant. In June 2013, Milan Army Ammunition Plant executed a relinquishment of command ceremony, placing the plant under the control of a commander’s representative.

STATISTICS Milan has a government staff of 12 Department of the Army civilians to provide contract oversight. Contractor statistics are considered proprietary and therefore are not available.

FACILITIES MLAAP is housed on 22,357 acres, with 1,450 buildings and 873 igloos, and a storage capacity of 2,270,000 square feet.

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A Milan Army Ammunition Plant employee disassembles excess 155 mm projectiles, preparing them for a salvage sale.

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RADFORD ARMY AMMUNITION PLANT RADFORD, VIRGINIA MISSION Radford Army Ammunition Plant (RFAAP) manufactures propellant and propellant ingredients.

Capabilities: • Manufacturing propellant • Manufacturing propellant ingredients • Chemical, metrology, and ballistics labs HISTORY RFAAP was established April 5, 1941, as Radford Ordnance Works and New River Plant with Hercules, Inc., as the contractor.

In 1995, Alliant Techsystems obtained a “facilities use” contract in a buyout of Hercules. In 2011, the facilities contract was awarded to BAE for a period of 10 years, with the ability for three five-year renewals.

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STATISTICS Radford has a government staff of 23 Department of the Army civilians and one Soldier to provide contract oversight.

Contractor statistics are considered proprietary and therefore are not available.

FACILITIES RFAAP is housed on 6,901 acres with 1,038 buildings, 214 igloos, and a storage capacity of 657,003 square feet. RFAAP is considered an Army Materiel Command special installation. RFAAP houses 15 Armament Retooling and Manufacturing Support (ARMS) tenants, and one government tenant (ALTESS – Acquisition, Logistics and Technology Enterprise Systems and Services Data Center).

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The Mark 90 production crew showcases its processes and skills for military and congressional leaders.

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SCRANTON ARMY AMMUNITION PLANT

SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA MISSION Scranton Army Ammunition Plant (SCAAP) manufactures large-caliber metal projectiles and mortar projectiles.

HISTORY The installation was originally constructed as a steam locomotive erecting and repair facility in 1908. SCAAP was established in 1953 and operated by U.S. Hoffman until 1963, when Chamberlain Manufacturing Corporation became the operating contractor. General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems assumed operation of the facility from Chamberlain in 2006 and is the current operating contractor. SCAAP is the recipient of the AMC Superior Unit Award (2007), and the Department of Defense Environmental Sustainability Award (2012).

STATISTICS Scranton has a government staff of eight Department of the Army civilians to provide installation management

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Capabilities: • Manufacturing source for 155 mm, M795 projectile • Multiple long-stroke vertical hydraulic forge press lines • Capability to produce large mortar projectiles • In-house metallurgical testing • More than 120 hydraulic tracer and CNC lathes • Machining capability exceeding current ammunition manufacturing requirements • In-house end-to-end production processes, no outsourcing requirements • Multiple automated paint lines • Multiple heat-treat furnaces that austenitize, quench, and temper

A Scranton Army Ammunition Plant employee inspects a metal projectile.

contract oversight. Contractor statistics are considered proprietary and therefore are unavailable.

FACILITIES SCAAP is housed on 15.3 acres, with seven buildings and a storage capacity of 509,000 square feet.

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BLUE GRASS ARMY DEPOT

RICHMOND, KENTUCKY

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MISSION Blue Grass Army Depot (BGAD) provides America’s joint warfighters reliable, timely and cost-effective munitions and chemical defense equipment in support of full spectrum military operations. BGAD is also responsible for safeguarding the remainder of the national chemical weapons stockpile until demilitarization.

Capabilities: • Industrial services support • Ammunition maintenance, renovation, disassembly, and demilitarization • Thermal arc coating for Air Force bombs • Water washout facility with flaker belt • Molten Salt Research and Development Facility • Ultrasonic testing for mortar ammunition • Chemical Material Surveillance program • Quality assurance and joint logistics support • Ammunition life cycle management • Chemical defense equipment HISTORY BGAD was established in 1941 and began operations in 1942 as an ammunition and general supply storage depot. In 1964, it merged with the Lexington Signal Depot and became Lexington-Blue Grass Army Depot. The Lexington facility was selected for closure under BRAC and in September 1999, the Richmond facility received its current designation.

ENVIRONMENTAL BGAD has the environmental permits as required by regulations and the stewardship initiatives for proper management of environmental programs in support of conventional mission, chemical demilitarization, and other tenant operations. The installation is in compliance with the relevant state and federal laws and regulations.

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Outloading operations at Blue Grass Army Depot support the installations’ role within the Centralized Ammunition Management process, which helps to supply joint installations and theaters outside the Continental United States with needed ammunition.

STATISTICS There are 670 Department of the Army civilians and one Soldier.

FACILITIES BGAD has 447 buildings, 706 other types of assets (such as culverts, roads, fences, utilities), and 902 igloos, and a storage capacity of 3,233,598 square feet.

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HAWTHORNE ARMY DEPOT

HAWTHORNE, NEVADA MISSION Hawthorne Army Depot (HWAD) stores conventional munitions, demilitarizes and disposes of unserviceable, obsolete and surplus munitions; and maintains serviceability through inspection and renovation to ensure munitions readiness.

HISTORY The Naval Ammunition Depot Hawthorne was established in September 1930. It was redesignated Hawthorne Army Ammunition Plant in 1977 when it transferred to Army control as part of the Single Manager for Conventional Ammunition. In 1980, it converted to being government owned and contractor operated. In 1994, it ended its production mission and became Hawthorne Army Depot.

STATISTICS Hawthorne has a government staff of 32 Department of the Army civilians and one Soldier to provide contract oversight and reliability of the munitions stockpile. Contractor statistics are considered proprietary and therefore are not available.

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Capabilities: • Storage of conventional ammunition • Demilitarization • Quality assurance • Storage of Department of Defense elemental mercury • Ammunition renovation • ISO container maintenance/repair • Range scrap processing • Desert training for military units

A munitions handler loads fuzes at Hawthorne Army Depot.

FACILITIES HWAD is housed on 147,236 acres. It has 414 administrative and storage buildings, and 2,094 magazines providing an explosive covered storage capacity of 7,685,000 square feet.

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PINE BLUFF ARSENAL

PINE BLUFF, ARKANSAS MISSION Pine Bluff Arsenal (PBA) provides America’s joint warfighter with specialized ammunition; smoke; and chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear defense capabilities through expert manufacturing, storage, and logistics.

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Capabilities: • Chemical defense and test equipment • Individual and collective chemical protection and decontamination systems • Chemical materiel surveillance program • Machining, fabrication, and assembly • Specialty ammunition production • Less-than-lethal ammunition production • Quality assurance and joint logistics services HISTORY PBA was established in November 1941 for the manufacture of incendiary grenades and bombs. The mission expanded to include production and storage of pyrotechnic, riot control, and chemical-filled munitions. In September 2006, the Secretary of the Army designated PBA as the Center of Industrial and Technical Excellence for Chemical and Biological Defense Equipment. In 2007, it became part of the Joint Munitions Command.

STATISTICS There are 679 Department of the Army civilians and one Soldier.

FACILITIES PBA is housed on 13,493 acres with 665 buildings, 271 igloos, and a storage capacity of 2,090,563 square feet. Additionally, PBA has more than 5,000 acres of developable land.

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Pine Bluff Arsenal ammunition operations production employees assemble 120 mm visible light illumination mortars.

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TOOELE ARMY DEPOT TOOELE, UTAH MISSION Tooele Army Depot (TEAD) remains the Department of Defense’s western region conventional ammunition hub and Ammunition Peculiar Equipment (APE) center.

Capabilities: • Engineering • Explosives performance testing • Logistical support • Machining, fabrication, assembly, repair • Nondestructive testing • Demilitarization • Slurry Emulsion Manufacturing Facility • Robotics

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HISTORY Built in 1945, TEAD was originally called the Tooele Ordnance Depot and was a storage depot for war supplies. In 1988, TEAD acquired the general supply storage mission from Pueblo Army Depot.

In BRAC 1993, it lost its troop support mission, maintenance, and storage missions. TEAD retained its ammunition logistics support function. In July 2013, TEAD officially gained additional storage capabilities from the now-closed Deseret Chemical Depot.

STATISTICS There are 435 Department of the Army civilians and one Soldier.

FACILITIES TEAD North and South combined house more than 43,000 acres, with 1,093 buildings, 1,110 igloos, and a storage capacity of 2,483,000 square feet.

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A Tooele Army Depot employee sorts 20 mm fuzes for further processing.

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U.S. ARMY JOINT MUNITIONS & LETHALITY LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT COMMAND The U.S. Army Joint Munitions & Lethality Life Cycle Management Command (JM&L LCMC) is a life cycle management command that manages research, development, production, storage, distribution, and demilitarization of all conventional ammunition and the personnel, organizations, infrastructure, and processes required for effective life cycle management of conventional ammunition within the Department of Defense.

The JM&L LCMC is headquartered at Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey, with major components located at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, and at Picatinny. While the objectives of the JM&L LCMC are to facilitate product responsiveness, minimize life cycle costs, and enhance the effectiveness and integration of munitions and lethality acquisition, logistics, and technology, its overarching objective is to deliver the best munitions to the right place, at the right time, and at the right cost.

The JM&L LCMC brings together the resources and expertise of its three component organizations: the Program Executive Office (PEO) Ammunition located at Picatinny Arsenal, the Joint Munitions Command (JMC) at Rock Island, and the Armament Research, Development, and Engineering Center (ARDEC), also at Picatinny. It also oversees a nationwide network of installations and facilities that produce and store conventional ammunition under the direction of JMC. PEO Ammunition develops and procures conventional and leap-ahead munitions to increase combat firepower to joint warfighters. Through its five project management and two project director officers, PEO Ammunition executes

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the total ammunition, networked, force protection, and close battle and munitions systems for the LCMC. The Joint Munitions Command (JMC) manages the Army’s ammunition plants and depots and serves as the logistics arm of the LCMC. JMC installations produce, store, issue, and demilitarize conventional ammunition for all U.S. military services, and for other U.S. agencies and allied nations as directed. JMC also serves as the logistics and readiness arm of the LCMC, ensuring that munitions are delivered at the right place and time to support unit training and deployments.

ARDEC is the Army’s principal researcher, technology developer, and sustainer of current and future armament organizational element of AMC’s Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM). ARDEC technology enhancements improve already-fielded items, transition technology to the PEO to develop new ones, maintain a strong armament technology base in government, industry, and academia, and provide technical support to the warfighter in the field. The center serves as the entry point for the LCMC interaction with RDECOM and its other research, development, and engineering centers.

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Workers from the Shipping and Storage Division, Depot Operations Directorate at McAlester Army Ammunition Plant, McAlester, Oklahoma, work to load 500-pound bombs into shipping containers for distribution to customers.

JM&L LCMC Core Competencies: • Design • Acquire • Integrate • Field and sustain conventional ammunition JM&L LCMC Core Functions: • Manages research, development, production, storage, distribution, and demilitarization of all conventional ammunition

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• Delivers the best munitions to the right place, at the right time, and at the right cost Contact information: U.S. Army Joint Munitions & Lethality Life Cycle Management Command Picatinny Arsenal, NJ 07806-5000 (973) 724-6364

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U.S. ARMY RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING COMMAND The U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) has almost 14,000 scientists, engineers, and other professionals working worldwide on a strategic portfolio that balances the development of technology-enabled solutions for the current fight with investments in future capabilities to give the future Army a decisive advantage.

The command is headquartered at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, and maintains thousands of active domestic and international partnerships within a global science and technology ecosystem, including agreements with academic institutions, small business, industry, and other government agencies. These relationships, combined with its workforce, give the command the reach, position, scale, and technical expertise to ensure decisive capabilities for today’s Soldiers and the future Army, as well as foundational capabilities for the joint warfighter. They also allow RDECOM to bridge the requirements community of the Training and Doctrine Command, which defines future Army needs, and the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics and Technology) Program Manager community, which brings those capabilities to the field.

RDECOM tackles high-priority technology challenges by performing research, development, and engineering too risky or too Army specific for industry or academia.

RDECOM’s civilian scientists and engineers execute these critical services more cost-effectively than external organizations.

RDECOM’s technological expertise, systems engineering discipline, analytical capabilities, and collaborative reach give the Army an organic research and development capability on the cutting edge of technology across the full spectrum of operations.

RDECOM Principal Locations: • Adelphi, Maryland • Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland

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• Natick, Massachusetts • Picatinny, New Jersey • Redstone Arsenal, Alabama • Warren, Michigan RDECOM Core Competencies: • Fundamental and applied research • Technology development and engineering • Technology-enabled capability demonstrations • Enterprise efficiencies • External engagement and support RDECOM Core Functions: • To deliver technological expertise, systems engineering discipline, analytical capabilities, and collaborative reach • To deliver organic concepts and requirements-driven research, development, and engineering capabilities Contact information: U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command 3073 Aberdeen Blvd., Room 105 Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD ​ 21010 (410) 278-1619

TECHNOLOGY DRIVEN. WARFIGHTER FOCUSED.

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An Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center researcher works on unique armament capabilities to give the Army decisive overmatch in any engagement.

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RESEARCH LABORATORY The U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL), the Army’s corporate laboratory, is focused on unifying researchers from across the globe to address enduring science and technology challenges identified by the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology and the priorities laid out by the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command for the Army of 2040 and beyond.

ARL’s mission is to discover, innovate, and transition technology to ensure dominant military land power.

The lab’s research continuum covers long-term and fundamental research that explores new technologies. ARL partners with academia and industry to find solutions for the nation’s toughest challenges to land forces. Scientists and engineers at ARL often take the first scientific look at an Army problem. In partnerships with other research and development organizations, the technology is then matured.

Laboratory research is typically directed toward longterm projects, with the transition of a proven concept to an Army organization that is focused on maturing and fielding technology. In rare cases, such as developing more effective armor for military vehicles, ARL’s sciences for lethality and protection was critical and immediate.

ARL drives innovation and discovery in power projection, information, lethality and protection, and Soldier performance for the Army of 2025 and beyond by using eight science and technology (S&T) campaigns: Extramural Basic Research; Computational Sciences; Materials Research; Sciences-for-Maneuver; Information Sciences; Sciences-for-Lethality and Protection; Human Sciences; and Assessment and Analysis. Each campaign is designed to unravel and exploit S&T developments leading to power projection superiority, information supremacy, lethality and protection superiority, and Soldier performance augmentation that are essential to the U.S. Army.

ARL has sites at Adelphi Laboratory Center, Adelphi, Maryland; Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland; Research Triangle Park, North Carolina; White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico; and Orlando, Florida; and field elements across the country. ARL’s unique facilities and workforce of 1,900 federal employees, coupled with its private-

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Pfc. Kenneth Blandon, from the 20th Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosives Command tries a test assault pack at ARL’s biomechanics lab at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. He is wearing special sensors that pick up body motion from near-infrared cameras.

sector partners, make it the largest source of world-class integrated research and analysis in the Army.

ARL seeks opportunities to bring government and business together in an open campus business model. In 2015, ARL established an Army presence in Playa Vista, California, the largest university outpost and the first one west of the Mississippi River. The initial focus of ARL West will be on virtual reality and immersive technology for Soldiers.

The Network Science Research Laboratory is another component of a growing S&T ecosystem that opened at Adelphi Laboratory Center in 2016. This was the first major laboratory space designed specifically to support the face-to-face interaction of ARL’s open campus.

Scientific collaborations in the past year have built research networks that explore complex and singular problems and ensure the nation’s military strength and competitiveness into the future.

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AVIATION AND MISSILE RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING CENTER

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The U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center’s System Simulation and Development Division paved the way for a new UH-60 flight training device. The Black Hawk Aircrew Trainer (BAT) is a highly immersive home-station flight training device, composed of a state-of-theart collimated visual system, a complete UH-60M cockpit, an instructor-operator station and a vertically expandable container. BAT is designed modularly to maximize flexibility for future growth.

The U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center (AMRDEC) conducts research as well as exploratory and advanced development.

It provides one-stop life cycle engineering support for aviation and missile weapons systems and unmanned aerial and ground-vehicle platforms.

Many Department of Defense (DOD) and other federal agencies, as well as academic, corporate, and industrial researchers and developers, seek AMRDEC’s science and technology expertise, which is characterized by its talented and technically proficient workforce and unique test bed capabilities.

AMRDEC delivers collaborative and innovative technical capabilities for responsive and cost-effective research,

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product development, and life cycle systems engineering solutions. AMRDEC’s stature has been built by providing synergistic expertise to its customers. The center has an annual budget of approximately $3 billion.

From its headquarters at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, AMRDEC supports the warfighter around the world. Other AMRDEC locations include Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia; NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, California; NASA Langley in Hampton, Virginia; Corpus Christi, Texas; and Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Nearly 10,000 military, government, civilian, and contractor personnel are dedicated to meeting the current and future aviation and missile needs of America’s joint warfighters and allies.

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The U.S. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) is an internationally recognized hub for the advancement of armaments technology and engineering innovation. ARDEC partners with industry, academia, and other government agencies to accelerate the development and transition of new technologies to ensure decisive overmatch capabilities for unified land operations to empower the Army, joint warfighters, and the nation. ARDEC’s mission is to empower, unburden, and protect the warfighter by providing superior armaments solutions that dominate the battlefield.

PARTNERING MECHANISMS Technology transfer partnering agreements match opportunities with partnering tools. Companies benefit from ARDEC technologies through technology transfer mechanisms such as contracts; cooperative research and development agreements (CRADAs); consortia; and more. For information about ARDEC technology transfer programs, initiatives, and points of contact, go to www. pica.army.mil/TechTran.

WORKFORCE ARDEC is composed of more than 3,400 civilian engineers, scientists, and support personnel. Nearly 20 percent of the technical staff has earned one or more doctorate or master’s degrees. Workforce members publish more than 100 technical papers a year and submit many patents in their areas of expertise. ARDEC’s workforce participates in several national and international conferences and symposia.

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Researchers at the Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center use unique research, development, and engineering facilities to develop distinct warfighting capabilities for the U.S. Army and the joint warfighter.

FACILITIES ARDEC is the largest entity at Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey, with more than 500 buildings and 64 laboratories.

ARDEC maintains some of the world’s most advanced experimental research, development, and engineering facilities to support the development of breakthrough armaments and munitions systems. ARDEC has a major presence at Watervliet Arsenal, New York – Benét Laboratories, which is the Army’s design authority for large-caliber armaments, mortars, and direct-fire systems. Benét’s laboratories and research capabilities are enhanced by its colocation with Watervliet’s large-caliber manufacturing facilities. The center also has a team at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, that executes life cycle engineering processes required for items in production.

Capabilities: • Non-lethal systems • Smart sights • Pyrotechnics • Battlefield digitization and software • Precision armaments • Environmental technologies • Networked lethality • Defense against unmanned systems • Counterterrorism/homeland defense technologies • Advanced materials/nanotechnologies • Novel power and energy systems for weapons

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U.S. ARMY COMMUNICATIONSELECTRONICS RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING CENTER The U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC) advances Soldier capabilities that enable situational awareness and understanding, establish and secure communications, and protect Soldiers from surprise attack.

CERDEC is the Army’s R&D center for advanced command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) capabilities.

CERDEC is positioned in three locations: Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland; Fort Belvoir, Virginia; and Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey. The center leverages its state-of-the-art facilities to develop and adapt cuttingedge C4ISR capabilities that will connect, inform, and protect the Soldier.

The Army relies on CERDEC’s diverse technical expertise and operational understanding to foresee, develop, adapt, and engineer integrated solutions – regardless of platform – that will ensure decisive overmatch capabilities for the joint warfighter.

VISION An Army that derives advantage from its superior knowledge of a complex world to achieve decisive effects.

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MISSION To discover, develop, and deliver innovative technology and integrated solutions that enable, shape, and transform the joint warfighter’s ability to collect, disseminate, and protect information, knowledge, and understanding.

Science and Technology Core Efforts: • Mission command (applications) • Tactical and deployed power • Tactical and strategic networks • Tactical cyberspace operations • Electronic warfare

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CERDEC engineers use state-of-the-art facilities such as this anechoic chamber to test and evaluate communications and electronics technologies for the Soldier.

• Intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and targeting • Intelligence analysis, exploitation, and dissemination • Counter-IED and minefield detection • Assured positioning, navigation, and timing • C4ISR enterprise support System Engineering Services: • Life cycle systems engineering • Software engineering • Security engineering, certification and accreditation, information assurance • Project leadership • Independent product/product assessment • Sustainment engineering support • Rapid prototype engineering/integration • Production/quality/reliability engineering • Configuration management, specifications, and standardization program management • Technical/acquisition management

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EDGEWOOD CHEMICAL BIOLOGICAL CENTER MISSION The U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC) integrates life cycle science, engineering, and operations capabilities to counter chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high-yield explosive (CBRNE) threats to joint warfighters and U.S. forces and the nation.

VISION ECBC is the premier resource for CBRNE solutions, uniting and informing the national defense community.

As part of the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command, ECBC is the primary Department of Defense technical organization for non-medical chemical and biological defense. ECBC’s headquarters is at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, with two additional sites located at Pine Bluff Arsenal, Arkansas, and Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois.

ECBC fosters research, development, testing, and application of technologies for protecting our military from CB warfare agents, while leveraging its assets to assist civilian enterprise. ECBC’s contributions include CB agent detectors and warning systems, decontamination technologies, protective masks, and services in support of the nation’s demilitarization and homeland defense initiatives.

The center is staffed by a highly trained, multidisciplinary team of scientists, engineers, and specialists.

With its talented workforce and unique infrastructure, ECBC is a national asset.

As a full life cycle support organization, ECBC couples basic science with engineering and field support to put new tools in theater faster. ECBC provides chemical surety and biological materiel management services and supports homeland security initiatives through

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training and technical assistance programs. ECBC is also dedicated to ensuring its breakthroughs and expertise are transitioned to other government agencies, private industry, and allies throughout the world.

CURRENT STATISTICS Human Resources: • 1,469 employees • 368 Chemical Personnel Reliability Program staff, providing hands-on chemical agent expertise • 97 Biological Personnel Reliability Program staff (or in process of qualifying) • Nearly 200 acquisition professionals matrixed to other organizations, primarily Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense and Chemical Materials Agency Physical Infrastructure: • $1.8 billion in facilities and equipment • More than 200 buildings and nearly 2 million square feet of laboratory, engineering, and chamber space • 434 chemical surety hoods • 68 BioSafety Level (BSL)-2 and BSL-3 hoods Unique Mission: • Life cycle responsibility for CB defense technology development, from the laboratory to sustainment of fielded items • ECBC is the Single Small Scale Facility for the United States, a designation given to one organization in each Chemical Weapons Convention treaty signatory country • ECBC is the only “all hazard” laboratory in the nation capable of handling items potentially contaminated with chemical, biological, and/or radiological materiel

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Researchers at the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center test and develop defensive equipment for the Army and the joint warfighter.

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U.S. ARMY NATICK SOLDIER RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING CENTER OVERVIEW The Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center (NSRDEC), located in Natick, Massachusetts, focuses on the Soldier domain by developing and using the latest innovations in science and technology (S&T) to maximize the American warfighter’s survivability, sustainability, mobility, combat effectiveness, and field quality of life.

NSRDEC focuses on Soldier systems engineering architecture and leads the Soldier domain through partnership and collaboration across Army, Department of Defense (DOD), and government organizations, industry, and academia to deliver advanced capabilities through S&T generation and application. This novel approach supports the current fight while transforming to the Future Force, with the Soldier as the decisive edge.

NSRDEC adds value and empowers, unburdens, and protects warfighters through basic science, technology generation, application, and transition, enabling rapid fielding of the right equipment, Soldier systems technology integration and transition, and the ability to solve field problems rapidly.

INTRODUCTION Since 1954, NSRDEC has followed a simple mandate: to ensure that American Soldiers are the best fed, the best protected, and the most highly mobile military in the world. As part of the Army’s Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM), NSRDEC leads the Soldier systems integration domain in coordinating Soldier-related efforts across the command and in highlighting Soldier technology capability gaps that need to be addressed. NSRDEC also works in close collaboration with other organizations as well as with Program Executive Office (PEO) Soldier and PEO Combat Support and Combat Service Support to bring the fastest delivery of the most capable equipment solutions to U.S. warfighters.

• NSRDEC’s 400-plus scientists, engineers, technologists, and equipment designers provide a wide range of capabilities of equipment, to include field feeding and life support systems, clothing, precision airdrop

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systems, and ballistic, chemical, and laser protection systems to warfighters.

• NSRDEC’s technical and scientific expertise in the research, development, and engineering of novel materials and fibers has led to the creation of new combat uniforms and Soldier equipment that is lighter weight, more durable, and more threat-resistant than anything Soldiers have ever worn.

• Innovative research into food science and packaging has led to a new understanding of how to maximize a Soldier’s performance by developing rations that contain just the right mix of nutrients, are easy to prepare in remote locations, and, most importantly, taste good.

• State-of-the-art systems now use advanced technology to power, heat, light, and support modern structures that protect Soldiers and enhance their quality of life.

• Research into airdrop and other aerial delivery technologies has matured to ensure that personnel and equipment reach their destination in the fastest, most precise, yet safest, way possible.

Basic and Early Applied Research: • Nanotechnology • Biotechnology • Polymer science and engineering • Modeling and analysis Human Systems Integration Sciences: • Anthropometry • Biomechanics • Behavioral and cognitive sciences • Human factors/MANPRINT • Sensory and consumer research • Modeling and analysis • Soldier and small combat unit performance Clothing and Protective Equipment: • Chemical/biological barrier materials • Ballistic protective materials • Directed energy (eye) protection

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• Structures • Thermal management • Energy management • Finite element analysis • Ballistics

Researchers at the Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center burn a potential new uniform item as part of ongoing development.

• Environmental protection • Camouflage • Multifunctional material S&T Thrust Areas: • Body armor • Combat clothing • Microclimate conditioning • Chemical protective gear • Load carriage • Handwear/footwear/eyewear Human Systems Integration Sciences: • Unmanned systems and warfighter technology • Soldier systems engineering architecture, integration, and experimentation • Modeling and analysis • Soldier mobility and mission effectiveness • Soldier C4 interfaces, power, and lethality • Soldier integrated protection S&T Thrust Areas: • Technology integration • Systems integration • Human systems integration • Environmental clothing ( Expeditionary) Contingency Basing/Collective Protection: • Soft-wall shelters • Rigid-wall shelters • Integrated expeditionary base camp systems S&T Thrust Areas: • Barrier materials

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Airdrop/Aerial Delivery: • Personnel parachuting systems • Cargo airdrop systems S&T Thrust Areas: • Precision airdrop (sensors, guidance, and control systems) • Integrated logistics aerial resupply • Modeling and simulation • Parachutist safety • Test instrumentation • Materials research Combat Feeding: • Combat rations • Field food service equipment • Combat feeding systems S&T Thrust Areas: • Energy and equipment • Food safety/biosensors • Novel preservation and stabilization • Novel nutrient delivery • Revolutionary packaging • M&S/logistics Unique Facilities • Center for Military Biomechanics Research: Allows for 3-D analysis of movement, measurement of external forces on the body, monitoring of muscle activity, assessment of O2 consumption, and real-time mapping of pressure patterns.

•H igh-Performance Fiber Facility: One-of-a-kind bi-/tri-component fiber extrusion capability that enables the exploration of lightweight and reactive/ responsive multifunctional fibers.

•D oriot Climatic Chambers: Tests the limits of human performance under extreme conditions. Primarily used for human research where a dedicated group of Soldiers perform as human research volunteers.

•O uellette Thermal Test Facility: Includes a propane fire cell, flame and thermal lab, laser lab, and CO2 laser.

• 3-D Laser Scanning Lab: Whole body and head/face laser scanning system that enables measurements for current and next-generation armor and helmet systems.

• Cognitive Performance Lab: Performs virtual reality and mobile cognitive assessment platform capabilities.

• Polymer Film Center of Excellence: Enables R&D of new plastics and nanocomposites formulations at labscale production level.

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U.S. ARMY TANK AUTOMOTIVE RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING CENTER

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MISSION The Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) develops, integrates, and sustains the right technology solutions for all manned and unmanned Department of Defense ground systems and combat support systems to improve current force effectiveness, provide superior capabilities for the future force, and ensure decisive overmatch capabilities for unified land operations to empower the Army, joint warfighter, and nation.

HISTORY Ground was broken in September 1940 for the Detroit Tank Plant. By the end of World War II, more than 22,000 tanks had been manufactured at what is now known as the Detroit Arsenal. In April 1946, the tank plant was transformed into a world-class research laboratory to study technologies for military ground vehicles. From then until the present day, TARDEC has continued the legacy of developing advanced technologies for military ground vehicles, weapon systems, and Soldier support equipment.

TARDEC’s laboratory, research, and engineering operations encompass 28 facilities at the Detroit Arsenal, Selfridge Air National Guard Base, and Southwest Research Institute. TARDEC engineers manage more than 1 million square feet of laboratory and engineering space, and more than $1 billion in facility and equipment value, providing enormous returns on investment to the U.S. Army ground vehicle community. In addition, TARDEC’s National Automotive Center works closely with industry and academia, leveraging commercial automotive technologies and current research advancements for military use to improve ground systems mobility, lethality, and Soldier survivability.

For nearly 70 years, TARDEC has provided warfighters with advanced technological solutions to ground vehicle systems challenges. To do that, our engineers, scientists and technicians must overcome the numerous design, development, manufacturing, and product technology gaps identified in the Army’s long-term strategy.

Specifically, TARDEC’s 30-Year Strategy emphasizes the need to balance investments among those that support current Programs of Record, and those that will provide leap-ahead technology advancements and transitional solutions to support the Future Force. Through a variety of

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A U.S. Army Pacific Soldier moves down a road while controlling an unmanned vehicle as part of the Pacific Manned UnmannedInitiative (PACMAN-I) July 22, 2016, at Marine Corps Training Area Bellows, Hawaii. PACMAN-I provided an opportunity for Soldiers, partnered with organizations and agencies such as the Maneuver Center of Excellence and the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research Development and Engineering Center, to test new technology in the field during practical exercises.

collaborative opportunities, TARDEC is accelerating delivery of new capabilities while avoiding unnecessary development costs along the way to develop game-changing ground systems capabilities to ensure battlefield dominance for our current and future warfighters.

COMPETENCIES/CAPABILITIES TARDEC’s technology focus areas are specific topics of interest on which TARDEC concentrates research initiatives. TARDEC provides advanced integrated system engineering, advanced modeling and simulation, technical expertise, and engineering leadership support across organizational boundaries to these areas with specific technologies to improve the Ground System Enterprise.

Technology Focus Areas: • Ground vehicle power and mobility (GVPM) • Ground system survivability (GSS) • Ground vehicle robotics (GVR) • Force projection technology (FPT) • Vehicle electronics and architecture (VEA) • Energy security

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U.S. ARMY MILITARY SURFACE DEPLOYMENT AND DISTRIBUTION COMMAND The U.S. Army Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC), headquartered at Scott Air Force Base (AFB), Illinois, provides global deployment and distribution capabilities to deliver national objectives.

SDDC is the Army Service Component Command to the U.S. Transportation Command and is a major supporting command to the U.S. Army Materiel Command. With 10 brigades geographically located throughout the world to support combatant commanders, SDDC is globally postured to provide agility for the joint warfighter.

SDDC’s primary focus is timely and accurate support to the warfighter, along with positioning the command for the future while improving processes and measuring performance. With a workforce of approximately 2,400 trusted professionals, SDDC delivers readiness to the warfighter.

SDDC books, ships, tracks, and conducts port operations for surface movements worldwide by leveraging services from the best of the U.S. transportation industry. SDDC also supports service members, federal employees, and their families with safe and secure delivery of their household goods and privately owned vehicles. The command manages an average of about 520,000 booked household moves a year with about 250,000 of those moves occurring during the peak move season between the months of May and August.

Additionally, SDDC’s Transportation Engineering Agency, also at Scott AFB, provides the Department of Defense with engineering, policy guidance, research, and analytical expertise, ensuring U.S. military forces can respond successfully to any requirement anywhere in the world.

Operationally controlled by SDDC, the U.S. Army Reserve Deployment Support Command (DSC), headquartered at Birmingham, Alabama, provides five transportation brigades to support SDDC operations. The DSC is a direct-reporting command of the 377th Theater Support Command.

SDDC has five subordinate active-duty brigades headquartered around the world: The 595th Transportation Brigade, Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, conducts surface deployment and distribution

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operations to meet national security objectives within the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) area of responsibility (AOR). Through a cohesive team of experts, the 595th Transportation Brigade links strategic warfighter surface-movement requirements with commercial capability. Combining organic, commercial, and host-nation capabilities, the brigade offers maximum options and solutions to supported forces while delivering equipment and sustainment on time. The brigade has two battalions: • 831st Transportation Battalion, Manama, Bahrain -D etachment in Bagram • 840th Transportation Battalion, Port of Ash Shuaiba, Kuwait - Detachments in Qatar, Dubai, and Oman The 596th Transportation Brigade, Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point (MOTSU), North Carolina, safely provides ammunition terminal services to meet the nation’s objectives. This responsibility includes the operation of both East and West Coast ammo terminals at MOTSU and at Military Ocean Terminal Concord (MOTCO), California, respectively, and the U.S. Southern Command AOR. The brigade has two battalions: • 832nd Transportation Battalion, Jacksonville, Florida - Detachments in Cape Canaveral, Florida, and Puerto Rico • 834th Transportation Battalion, Concord, California The 597th Transportation Brigade, Joint Base LangleyEustis, Virginia, is focused on the U.S. Northern Command AOR. The 597th and its subordinate units are responsible for meeting the surface deployment, redeployment, and distribution needs of the warfighter and Defense Transportation System customers in the United States. The brigade has three battalions and three rapid port-opening elements:

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A Soldier from SDDC’s 832nd Transportation Battalion provides ground guidance as a vehicle from the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) is loaded onto the USNS Benavidez April 21 during the equipment embarkation phase of a Sea Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercise (SEDRE) at the Port of Jacksonville, Florida.

• 833rd Transportation Battalion, Joint Base LangleyEustis, Virginia - Detachment in Seattle, Washington • 688th Rapid Port Opening Element, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia • 689th Rapid Port Opening Element, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia • 690th Rapid Port Opening Element, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia • 841st Transportation Battalion, Charleston, South Carolina • 842nd Transportation Battalion, Beaumont, Texas The 598th Transportation Brigade, Sembach, Germany, supports U.S. European Command (USEUCOM), U.S. Africa Command (USAFRICOM), and CENTCOM via the Northern Distribution Network (NDN). The 598th Transportation Brigade enables full-spectrum operations by performing movement of forces and materiel in support of the combatant commander. This unit has left its mark in dozens of countries, distinguishing itself in every mission, aptly fulfilling its motto, “Warrior Logistics – in Motion.” The brigade provides expeditionary and deliberate port (seaport of embarkation and seaport of debarkation) and surface distribution operations in the USEUCOM and USAFRICOM AORs, and sustains forces.

Additionally, the unit is prepared to deploy globally on short notice to conduct port and distribution operations.

The brigade has two battalions: • 838th Transportation Battalion, Sembach, Germany

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- Detachments in Azores, Rhine River, U.K., Greece, and Rotterdam • 839th Transportation Battalion, Livorno, Italy - Detachments in Italy and Turkey • 950th Transportation Company, Bremerhaven, Germany The 599th Transportation Brigade, Wheeler Army Airfield, Hawaii, is located with all U.S. Pacific Command service component commands on the island, making the location ideal for brigade members to effectively plan and coordinate with its leading supported units. The unit’s location also allows easy access to Honolulu’s commercial ports, Barbers Point Harbor, and to the Navy port at Pearl Harbor. The AOR for the 599th is geographically the largest in the world, covering 52 percent of the Earth’s surface, equal to about 105 million square miles. The brigade has three battalions: • 835th Transportation Battalion, Okinawa, Japan - Detachment in Singapore • 836th Transportation Battalion, Yokohama, Japan - Detachments in Guam and Alaska • 837th Transportation Battalion, Busan, South Korea • SDDC 320th Naval Reserve Unit, Alameda, California Contact information: U.S. Army Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command 1 Soldier Way Scott AFB, IL 62225-5006

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U.S. ARMY TACOM LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT COMMAND The U.S. Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command (LCMC), a major subordinate command of the Army Materiel Command (AMC), headquartered in Warren, Michigan, unites all of the organizations that focus on Soldier and ground systems throughout the entire life cycle.

What TACOM LCMC Does: • The TACOM LCMC mission is to develop, acquire, field, and sustain Soldier and ground systems for America’s warfighters.

• If a Soldier eats it, wears it, drives it, or shoots it, TACOM LCMC develops, provides, or sustains it.

• More than 19,000 teammates at approximately 109 locations around the world work together to get products and services to the Soldier faster, make good products even better, and minimize life cycle costs.

• TACOM LCMC plays a vital role in the Army’s efforts to sustain, prepare, reset, and transform its operations. The command manages its products, people,

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The TACOM LCMC consists of the Integrated Logistics Support Center, Program Executive Office Combat Support and Combat Service Support, Program Executive Office Ground Combat Systems, and Program Executive Office Soldier. The TACOM LCMC is also aligned with several business partners: the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center; Army Contracting Command-Warren; U.S. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center; the Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center; Edgewood Chemical Biological Center; Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense; and the System of Systems Integration and Engineering Directorate.

processes, and culture in order to deliver warfighting capabilities and to enhance Soldier readiness.

• Successful execution of its mission requires effective communication and coordination among the acqui-

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OPPOSITE PAGE: The 88th Regional Support Command’s New Equipment Fielding Facility was hosting Soldiers from the 200th MP Command and the 416th Engineer Command during a CROWS Materiel Fielding and Training familiarization exercise at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, April 21, 2016. The familiarization fire was part of TACOM’s Operator New Equipment Training for Soldiers on the operation of this weapon platform to improve operational readiness. ABOVE: A welder in Anniston Army Depot’s small arms repair facility performs repairs on an M2 machine gun.

sition, logistics, and technology (ALT) organizations that are part of the TACOM LCMC and the Army’s Materiel Enterprise.

TACOM LCMC Locations: • TACOM Life Cycle Management Command, Warren, Michigan • Watervliet Arsenal, Watervliet, New York • Anniston Army Depot, Anniston, Alabama • Red River Army Depot, Texarkana, Texas • Sierra Army Depot, Herlong, California

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• Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center, Rock Island, Illinois • Joint Systems Manufacturing Center, Lima, Ohio.

Contact information: U.S. Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command 6501 E. 11 Mile Road Warren, MI 48397-5000 (586) 282-8820

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ANNISTON ARMY DEPOT ANNISTON, ALABAMA

HISTORY Anniston Ordnance Depot (AOD) was constructed in 1941 with storage igloos, ammunition magazines, warehouses, and several administrative buildings. Nearly a decade later, AOD began an assignment to overhaul and repair combat vehicles. The maintenance and storage missions began in 1963 under the name Anniston Army Depot. ANAD began repair and overhaul of the M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank in the mid-1980s and was the recipient of towed and self-propelled artillery and light combat vehicle missions as a result of the Base Realignment and Closure Commission 1995. Production of Stryker vehicles began in 2001 with commercial partner General Dynamics.

ANAD is transforming with the Army and utilizing innovative initiatives including but not limited to workforce revitalization, Lean Six Sigma, and partnering with industry. In September 2006, the secretary of the Army designated ANAD as the CITE for combat vehicles (wheeled and track except Bradleys) including assault bridging, artillery, and small-caliber weapons. In July 2014, the depot became the CITE for locomotives, rail equipment, and non-tactical generators.

INSTALLATION OVERVIEW ANAD is located on 15,319 acres in Calhoun County.

ANAD has a building and plant replacement value of approximately $2.5 billion. To the north, the installation is bordered by Pelham Range, which is a 20,000acre training range operated by the Alabama Army National Guard. There are no encroachment issues for

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MISSION Provide industrial and technical support to joint services for repair and overhaul of combat vehicles, artillery systems, bridge systems, small arms, secondary components, locomotives, rail equipment, and non-tactical generators.

Anniston Army Depot (ANAD) is the premier Department of Defense Center for Industrial and Technical Excellence (CITE) and is capable of overhaul and refurbishment of all the aforementioned systems. Major tenants of the installation include Anniston Munitions Center and the Defense Logistics Agency Distribution Anniston, Alabama.

Jerry Bohannon has tested AGT1500 turbine engines (seen here) at Anniston Army Depot for approximately 26 years.

the installation. With a $990 million economic impact, ANAD is a major economic engine for the region.

COMPETENCIES The most valuable resource existing at ANAD is the multi-skilled workforce that would take decades to replace. The infrastructure is capable of repeated 75-ton combat vehicle traffic and has heavy-lift capability within key facilities. ANAD has a live firing range capable of firing weapons up to 155 mm.

Capabilities at a Glance: • Custom machining • Combat vehicles (except Bradley) • Overhaul/repair of all wheeled and tracked vehicles • Artillery overhaul/repair • Small arms overhaul/repair • Bridging systems overhaul/repair • Overhaul/repair of locomotives, rail equipment, and non-tactical generators • Worldwide support

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JOINT MANUFACTURING AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER

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ROCK ISLAND, ILLINOIS MISSION Rock Island Arsenal Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center (RIA-JMTC) will provide on time, costeffective products and services of the highest quality through the use of a highly skilled workforce and cutting-edge technology in order to ensure joint warfighter readiness any time and any place.

RIA-JMTC was the Army’s first Gold Medallion recipient in 2006 and is the only two-time Gold Medallion recipient in the Army. RIA-JMTC was designated a Center of Industrial and Technical Excellence (CITE) for Mobile Maintenance Systems by the secretary of the Army in 2009. The center was designated a CITE for add-onarmor and foundry operations in 2012.

HISTORY Congress established Rock Island Arsenal (RIA) in 1862. During the Civil War, the island served as a prison camp for Confederate Soldiers. The Rock Island Arsenal is the site of a national cemetery for those who served the nation. The construction of the first stone manufacturing shop began in 1866 and continued through 1893, when the last stone shop was finished. After World War I, RIA built the first American manufactured tank. The Rock Island Arsenal tradition continues today to strive to produce the best quality weapons and manufactured items for the Department of Defense while meeting the ever-changing needs of today’s warfighters. In addition to the ISO 9001:2008 registration, RIA-JMTC is recognized as a 2007 Shingo Public Sector Gold Medallion Recipient for the Forward Repair System (FRS) value stream and a 2007 Silver Medallion Recipient for its Shop Equipment Contact Maintenance (SECM) value stream. In addition,

INSTALLATION OVERVIEW RIA is located on a 946-acre island in the Mississippi River between Illinois and Iowa. RIA has more than 1.5 million square feet of manufacturing space and one of the largest warehouse facilities with more than 770,000 square feet under one roof with additional outside storage space.

A metallurgist at the RIA-JMTC pours liquid metal into a pattern that will be used for an M119 Howitzer that is produced at the Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois. RIA-JMTC is home to the only remaining foundry in the Department of the Army.

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COMPETENCIES RIA-JMTC is a full service, one-stop shop that saves customers’ time and money by eliminating the need to outsource services. The capabilities range from having a full-purpose foundry, fabrication, and welding of various metals to heat treating, machining, painting, and engineering. RIA-JMTC has unique capabilities in the industrial world with more than 1,000 machining centers.

Capabilities at a Glance: • Engineering and laboratory facilities • Tool/die manufacturing • Casting and investment casting • Gear/spring manufacturing • Water jet cutting • Laser cutting • Stereo lithography (3-D modeling) • Assembly and packaging • Live-fire testing and simulation • Titanium casting • Composite armor center • Robotic welding • Machining • Forging • Blasting • Welding • Forming • Plating • Painting

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RED RIVER ARMY DEPOT TEXARKANA, TEXAS MISSION Sustain the joint warfighter’s combat power by providing ground combat and tactical systems sustainment maintenance operations.

VISION To build and rebuild the highest-quality vehicles at the lowest cost in the least amount of time – on time or ahead of schedule every time. We are here to serve and protect the warfighter by our commitment to excellence in manufacturing and remanufacturing.

HISTORY Red River Army Depot (RRAD) was originally established in 1941 as an ammunition storage depot. Because of the demands of World War II, the mission was expanded to include general supply storage and tank repair. Throughout the years, the depot’s missions have evolved, and today Red River is engaged in activities ranging in scope from remanufacturing/recapitalization of tactical wheeled vehicles to the production of M1 road wheels. RRAD is aggressively pacing its performance to accomplish the goals of the Army’s transformation by engaging innovative initiatives, such as Lean Six Sigma, extensive partnering with industry, and enhanced business management techniques.

Red River Army Defense Complex is the largest single employer in the Greater Texarkana area.

INSTALLATION OVERVIEW Situated on approximately 15,800 acres of land, Red River has more than 1,400 buildings/structures with more than 8 million square feet of floor space that can accommodate repair/overhaul of heavy tanks, wheeled vehicles, electronic systems, and artillery.

The depot is home to a workforce of approximately 2,300 civilian employees and another 1,500 contract employees.

Red River was the first depot within the Army Materiel Command to achieve ISO 9001:2000 certification throughout all administrative and production processes.

Additionally, in 2008, RRAD achieved ISO 14001:2004 registration for Environmental Management Systems. Red River is the Army’s only two-time recipient of the Robert

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T. Mason Award for Depot Maintenance Excellence. The depot is also the winner of eight Shingo Medallions.

COMPETENCIES RRAD is a strategic national asset with more than 70 years of service to the United States and its Soldiers. The depot is home to the only Department of Defense remanufacture of road wheels and tracks for various vehicle systems.

In addition, Red River has been designated by the Secretary of the Army as the Center for Industrial and Technical Excellence (CITE) for Tactical Wheeled Vehicles such as the mineresistant ambush-protected vehicle (MRAP); the High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV); the Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck (HEMTT); the Armored Security Vehicle (ASV); the 5-ton truck family of vehicles; the Heavy Equipment Transporter (HET); and the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS). The depot is also the CITE for the Bradley Fighting Vehicle System, the Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS), the Small Emplacement Excavator (SEE), rough terrain forklifts, and a multitude of secondary items. The depot’s multi-skilled workforce possesses a wide range of technical resources including the capability to design, fabricate, and manufacture a wide range of items, from specialty parts to unique prototype weapon systems and vehicles. The dedicated workforce provides continuous on-site support throughout the world.

Capabilities at a Glance: • Electronics mechanical/hydraulics engines transmissions • Metal fabrication and machining • Rubber road wheels and track shoes • Combat and tactical vehicle test tracks • Destructive and non-destructive testing • Certified ballistic armor welding • Engineering • Live-fire test ranges • Explosive safety • Fire bottle refurbishment • Design and manufacture prototype vehicles for various military services • Worldwide support – deployable workforce • Technical training

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A Red River Army Depot team member welds the frame of a mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicle. The depot is recognized as the Center of Industrial and Technical Excellence for tactical wheeled vehicles.

SIERRA ARMY DEPOT

HERLONG, CALIFORNIA MISSION Provide rapid, expeditionary logistics support and long-term sustainment solutions to enhance readiness for the Total Army and Joint Force.

HISTORY Sierra Army Depot (SIAD) was established in 1942 as an ordnance and general supply storage depot. Over the years, Sierra has adapted to the changing world conditions by becoming the home of operational project systems such as Inland Petroleum Distribution System, water support systems, and force provider. Today, Sierra provides unique logistics capability such as inventory receipt, storage and asset visibility; sustainment and maintenance as well as shipping worldwide. These functions support the reverse pipeline of both Army and non-Army managed items as well as non-standard equipment programs. Sierra is also the Center of Technical Excellence (CITE) for all Petroleum and Water Systems (PAWS).

INSTALLATION OVERVIEW The depot sits on 36,322 acres in the high desert of northeastern California. This optimal climate with a sparse population creates a desirable location for mass storage of equipment and fast-paced logistics activity.

With 1,192 structures from igloos to warehouses and maintenance buildings, Sierra is set up for versatility.

Sierra boasts a robust transportation network with close proximity to major shipping routes and ports. Additionally, Sierra has an on-site airfield capable of landing all military and most civilian aircraft.

COMPETENCIES Sierra provides a unique readiness platform to the Total Army and Joint Force by providing a wide variety of long-term logistics and sustainment solutions ranging from equipment receipt and asset visibility to long-term care, storage, and sustainment to repair/ reset of all Army fuel and water systems. The depot

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offers an enterprise-wide competitive solution to logistics challenges and fills a critical void in materiel and equipment management nearing the end of its first life. These unique operations provide a readiness and operational value to the Defense Department through management and controlled redistribution of this equipment.

Sierra is well experienced with equipment reset, new assembly/kitting operations, training operations, maintaining operational project stocks, and a redistribution mission for Class II and IX items, and it has established an End-of-First Life Cycle Center for un-dispositioned combat and non-combat vehicles.

Sierra supports similar functions for Organizational Clothing and Individual Equipment (OCIE) to receive, identify, classify, receipt/record clothing for multiple agencies such as the program manager, Defense Logistics Agency and the U.S. Air Force. Furthermore, Sierra can process “excess” OCIE from these agencies and various clothing issue facilities (CIFs) as well as returned items from Southwest Asia (e.g., posts/ camps/stations). These unique capabilities have enabled Sierra to become a consolidation and distribution center for the Clothing Management Office (CMO), supporting brigade-level OCIE reset operations and the U.S. Army Reserve CIF. Sierra embraces continuous improvement, privatepublic partnerships, and provides critical life cycle management support for equipment and supplies.

Capabilities at a Glance: • Certified in both ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management and ISO 14001:2004 Environmental Standard.

SIAD is on track to become a VPP Star-certified installation.

• More than 36,000 buildable acres • 10,000-foot runway capable of supporting military and commercial aircraft • The secretary of the Army designated Sierra Army Depot as the CITE for all PAWS: Sierra is the CITE for

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U.S. Army photo by Jean-Erick Pasquier

Operational Project Stocks providing a complete range of logistics support, including receipt, storage, repair, shipping, maintenance, and fabrication of assets.

• Sierra supports its customers’ life cycle management requirements by being ISO 9001 certified and embracing the principles of lean manufacturing.

Continuous process improvements – Sierra’s Lean Six Sigma and Value Engineering programs are part of a workforce culture that provides exceptional value to customers – save money and execute work faster, with excellent quality.

• Experts in assembly and kit configuration management, packaging, and containerization of military unique systems • SIAD continuously invests in process improvement to refine and advance core competencies of logistics, rapid deployment, and industrial operations.

• Sierra executes the receipt, accountability, storage, care of supplies in storage, reset, upgrades, system configuration, kitting and assembly, and worldwide shipping on a number of programs to include Army Prepositioned Stocks, Force Provider, wholesale stocks, and various fleet commodities.

• Sierra serves as a central management location for item and program managed wholesale stocks and assets. Sierra receives, records, classifies, stores, maintains, sustains, and ships material on owners’ direction. Stock managers have total visibility of assets and materials to determine disposition and analyze future requirements.

• Modern organic transportation network, capable of supporting all military and commercial aircraft, rail, and trucks able to respond immediately to all requirements worldwide.

• Preservation and packaging prototyping.

• The Army’s largest dedicated retrograde facility for equipment and material returning from units and theater. Sierra performs logistics management on a majority of the agency’s non-Army managed items, Army managed items, and returned Class IX equipment for reutilization and redistribution with guidance from item and program managers.

Sierra utilizes Global Combat Support System-Army (GCSS-Army) as the accountable record. Material managers can fill requirements or cross level stocks across the enterprise with the information available in GCSS-Army.

• SIAD also manages a majority of the Army’s retrograded nonstandard equipment (NSE). Sierra receives, identifies, classifies, inventories, stores, secures, inspects, packages, and ships worldwide.

Stock is visible to the proponents in the Property Book Unit Supply Enhanced (PBUSE) accountable record. NS-E materials are managed by the U.S.

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Employees at Sierra Army Depot load a mine-resistant ambushprotected vehicle (MRAP) for movement to a storage location.

Army Materiel Command Headquarters and issued to requesting organizations worldwide.

• SIAD also manages by receiving, identifying, classifying, inventorying, storing, securing, inspecting, packaging, and shipping worldwide a large volume of the Army’s OCIE items. These are visible to the Central Management Office, who provides disposition instructions to inspect, package, and ship worldwide when needed.

• Sierra currently manages excess Class VII major end items in its combat vehicle and equipment End-of-First Life Cycle Center. SIAD has more than 26,000 combat vehicles and equipment stored for individual item managers. Sierra receives, identifies, classifies, inventories, stores, secures, and ships assets. With guidance from item managers, Sierra performs controlled parts harvesting for production lines, active Army units, and Foreign Military Sales.

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WATERVLIET ARSENAL WATERVLIET, NEW YORK MISSION To provide manufacturing, engineering, procurement, and quality assurance for cannons, mortars, and associated materiel throughout the acquisition life cycle.

HISTORY The Watervliet Arsenal (WVA) is an Army-owned and -operated manufacturing facility located in Watervliet, New York. WVA is the oldest continuously active arsenal in the United States, having begun operations during the War of 1812. After decades of producing ammunition cartridges, wooden gun carriages, and saddles, the arsenal was chosen in 1887 to be the nation’s cannon factory.

The arsenal celebrated its 200th anniversary on July 14, 2013. And so, for more than 200 years, WVA has produced the critical weapons, parts, and wartime material that have helped hundreds of thousands of the nation’s warfighters to come home safely.

Today’s arsenal is relied upon by U.S. and foreign militaries to produce the most advanced, high-tech, highpowered weaponry for cannon, howitzer, and mortar systems. This National Historic Registered Landmark has an annual economic benefit to the local community in excess of $90 million.

INSTALLATION OVERVIEW The U.S. Army Watervliet Arsenal, widely known as “America’s Cannon Factory,” is ISO 9001:2008 certified and was designated in 2013 by the Secretary of the Army as a Center for Industrial and Technical Excellence (CITE) for cannon and mortar systems.

The $1.6 billion arsenal-manufacturing complex is situated on a 143-acre site and spans 72 buildings with 2.1 million square feet of manufacturing and administration space. Approximately 540 Department of the Army per-

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VISION To be the Department of Defense’s manufacturer of choice specializing in cannons, mortars, associated materiel using complex machining for U.S. armed forces, allies and commercial industry.

Machinist Peter Dereski checks the tolerance of a machining cut he just made on a 120 mm tube.

sonnel are tied to on-site production. Arsenal machinists work in tens of thousandths of an inch tolerances on products as small as can fit into a pants pocket to as large as a 30-foot howitzer barrel.

WVA is also home to the Army’s Benét Laboratories, a Malcolm Baldrige Award recipient, whose mission includes the development of arsenal products and technology for future weapon systems. This arrangement of research, development, and manufacturing at a single site facilitates concurrent design and manufacturing.

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The arsenal readily offers a full complement of modern manufacturing and laboratory equipment, along with a highly trained staff of scientists, engineers, technicians, and machinists to any industry – military or civilian.

Watervliet, through its focus on value engineering programs, such as Lean Six Sigma, continues to find efficiencies in all aspects of production and safety ... savings that are often returned to the customer in the way of reduced pricing structures.

COMPETENCIES Watervliet Arsenal and its partner, the Army’s Benét Laboratories, are the Army’s capability and Center of Excellence for large-caliber weapon systems. Collocation of research, design, development, engineering, and manufacturing provides customers quick, seamless transition from concept design through prototyping to production. This is an integrated and inherently lean activity that focuses upon manufacturing and technology readiness.

Watervliet and Benét support the Army’s f ighting force with tank, artillery, mortars, and other components.

Watervliet partners with all of the acquisition community, private and government, in the design and pro-

totyping of large-caliber weapon systems. Customer expectations are exceeded by the arsenal’s expertise in ultra high-pressure components and advanced coatings that are stronger and lighter with longer service lives. A recent added dimension to WVA is public-private partnering. These small to large on-site technology companies broaden Watervliet’s portfolio with research and engineering in composites, nanomaterials, and electronics.

Capabilities at a Glance: • Custom machining • Prototype and production of high-pressure components • Rotary forging/heat treatment of large cylinders • Chromium plating for wear and erosion abatement • Reverse engineering of components • Stereolithography composites manufacturing and product engineering • Modeling and simulation of heat, stress, fatigue, and fracture • Welding/fabrication • Water-jet cutting • Analysis • In-laboratory fatigue simulation • Replacement and compatibility analysis

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U.S. ARMY SECURITY ASSISTANCE COMMAND

USASAC leads the Army Materiel Command’s Security Assistance Enterprise (ASAE). The command develops and manages security assistance programs and FMS cases to build partner capacity, support geographic combatant command engagement strategies, and strengthen U.S. global partnerships.

USASAC implements approved U.S. Army security assistance programs, including FMS of defense articles and services to eligible foreign governments. USASAC is responsible for life cycle management of FMS cases, from pre-letter of request to development, execution, and closure.

To carry out the Army security assistance mission, USASAC relies on all AMC life cycle management commands, as well as other Department of Defense agencies and U.S. industry to support its processes. Each sale of equipment to overseas customers comprises the same “total package” of quality materiel, facilities, spare parts, training, publications, technical documentation, sustainment, and other services that AMC provides to U.S. Army units.

USASAC manages more than 5,400 FMS cases with a total value exceeding $172 billion.

Geographic support includes: • Headquarters, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama • New Cumberland, Pennsylvania • Washington Field Office, Fort Belvoir, Virginia • U.S. Army Security Assistance Training Management Organization, Fort Bragg, North Carolina

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The U.S. Army Security Assistance Command (USASAC) is responsible for managing security assistance programs and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) for the Army. USASAC serves as the primary entry point for U.S. Army materiel- and service-related FMS requirements and is known as the “Army’s Face to the World.”

Brazilian Army Maj. Guilherme Araújo Bittencourt (left), Directorate of Materiel, signs for four M88s he selected after conducting a joint vehicle inspection at Anniston Army Depot Aug. 28, 2015.

• Office of the Program Manager for the Saudi Arabian National Guard, Saudi Arabia • Ministry of Interior-Military Assistance Group, Saudi Arabia • Liaison officers at Combatant Commands Contact information: U.S. Army Security Assistance Command 4402 Martin Road Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898

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U.S. ARMY SECURITY ASSISTANCE TRAINING MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION The U.S. Army Security Assistance Training Management Organization (USASATMO) facilitates deployment of training teams throughout the world to provide training tailored to a country for equipment purchased through Foreign Military Sales (FMS). USASATMO’s motto is “Training the World, One Soldier at a Time,” and the program consistently has teams deployed worldwide.

USASATMO is a subordinate command of the U.S. Army Security Assistance Command. It is capable of supporting worldwide deployments of security assistance teams (SATs) to support Army Security Assistance requirements and missions outside the continental United States.

USASATMO is capable of providing personnel, financial, and FMS case management services and oversight.

USASATMO is the U.S. Army’s only organization dedicated to meeting the challenges of overseas training management for the Army Security Assistance Enterprise (ASAE). USASATMO was established in 1974 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, as a U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command unit and was initially attached to the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School. USASATMO became part of the U.S. Army Materiel Command in 2010.

USASATMO can support security assistance requirements with military, Department of the Army civilians, and contractors. SATs receive their support through an appropriate FMS case and utilize equipment that is the property of the host nation. Letters of requests from the host nation begin the request process. The lead time for a SAT can be one to 18 months and can have a duration from a few days to several decades, dependent upon the specific requirement.

The Engagement Branch at USASATMO has a global capability of providing SATs to support overseas

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Ukrainian medics treat a simulated casualty while Staff Sgt. Derek Stutz (right foreground), an instructor from the U.S. Army Medical Department (AMEDD), 232nd Medical Battalion, and Sgt. 1st Class Shon Crowley (right background), an instructor with the U.S. Army Security Assistance Training Management Organization (USASATMO), evaluate them.

missions in support of the ASAE. Capabilities include, but are not limited to, leadership development, professional military education, military peacekeeping operations, small unit tactics, and military decisionmaking process and planning.

USASATMO is also composed of a combination of active U.S. Army and Department of the Army civilian aviators with specialized expertise in aviation training, safety, and operations. Its capabilities include aviation SAT management, aviation mission assessment, safety surveys, basic aviation academic instruction, aircrew qualification, flight training and advanced tactics, and environmental-specific instruction.

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The Ministry of Interior-Military Assistance Group (MOI-MAG) is a U.S. Army Security Assistance Command subordinate organization under the U.S. Army Materiel Command. It trains and provides technical assistance to the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) qualified sectors of the Saudi Ministry of Interior through: institutional military training programs, engineering and design support, explosive ordnance, Ranger and Special Operations Forces training, aviation advisory support, and participation in the International Military Education and Training (IMET) program.

In response to their growing mission, MOI-MAG (formerly called Facilities Security Forces-Training Advisor Group or FSF-TAG) was restructured, transitioning in 2015 from the administrative control of U.S. Army Central Command to the U.S. Army Security Assistance Command (USASAC). The change in designation and mission expansion was fueled by the heightened security environment and physical threats the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia must protect itself against – in, around, and within its borders.

U.S. ACTIVITY SUPPORT The Saudi Ministry of Interior contributes to regional and global stability, strengthens military support for strategic partners, and limits the spread of transnational threats, including terrorism and trafficking of narcotics, weapons, and people. MOI-MAG currently supports five FMS cases totaling $134 million to train and advise Saudi’s Facilities Security Forces, special security forces, border guard, and its General Security Aviation Command.

WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT TO THE ARMY? The protection of critical infrastructure facilities has a considerable impact on the global economy and stability throughout the Middle East. Our partnership advances the strategic relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia. The renewal and expansion of MOI-MAG in 2015 speaks to the continued commitment of U.S.-Saudi relations. MOI-MAG bolsters the Army

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A U.S. Soldier assigned to the Ministry of Interior-Military Assistance Group provides interpreted classroom instruction on critical infrastructure protection to Saudi’s Ministry of Interior Facilities Security Forces.

Operating Concept 2020-2040 by shaping the environments in support of U.S. Army Central Command to further develop partner capacity.

PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE MOI-MAG was created from a 2008 technical cooperation agreement (TCA) between the United States and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The TCA was renewed in 2013, extending the agreement through 2023. The FMS case for MOI-MAG was renewed in 2014 for another three years, extending the case through 2017.

The mission of MOI-MAG is to train, advise, and assist the Ministry of Interior as a valued security cooperation partner. The vision is to set a regional standard that delivers unique security assistance solutions in a lasting partnership.

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OFFICE OF THE PROGRAM MANAGERSAUDI ARABIAN NATIONAL GUARD MODERNIZATION PROGRAM The U.S. Army’s Office of the Program ManagerSaudi Arabian National Guard Modernization Program (OPM-SANG) is a U.S. Army Security Assistance Command (USASAC) subordinate organization that features U.S. Army and Department of Army (DA) civilian personnel based in Saudi Arabia to provide advice and assistance in modernizing the Kingdom’s Ministry of the National Guard (MNG). This modernization of the full-time SANG encompasses training, equipment, maintenance, supply, procurement, management, organization, health care, and facilities. It is fully funded by the government of Saudi Arabia through Foreign Military Sales (FMS) cases executed by USASAC.

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AN ENDURING PARTNERSHIP OPM-SANG’s mission remains to maintain and enhance the relationship between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and the United States. Its mission is to advise and assist to increase the capacity within the MNG to enhance its ability to defend KSA, while continuing to improve the enduring U.S.-KSA partnership.

Providing combatant commands with multiple options to prevent conflict, shape security environments, and win wars relies on the Army being part of joint, interorganizational, and multinational teams. OPM-SANG helps build international partner capacity, providing both interoperability and independent capability for the KSA. This mission is vital to achieving U.S. national security objectives and stability throughout the Middle East.

MILITARY EXPERTISE AND DIPLOMACY OPM-SANG has approximately 300 Army and DA civilian personnel, many of whom serve as advisers and come from a diverse background and with numerous military occupational skills. Using their military expertise and diplomatic skills, these advisers are fully embedded within their organizations and meet daily with commanders, staff officers, and Soldiers to provide their Saudi counterparts the best advice in the areas of personnel, training, logistics, and equipment. To date,

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U.S. and Saudi Arabian flags on display during a recent securityassistance review.

OPM-SANG has managed more than $39 billion in FMS cases that purchased weapons, vehicles, training, and rotary-wing aircraft.

SECURITY ASSISTANCE SUCCESS STORY Within the framework of the Army’s Prevent, Shape, and Win strategy, OPM-SANG is a dynamic shaping entity, which assists in building the capacity of a strategically important partner within the region. The modernization program will continue to develop the MNG’s capability to unilaterally initiate, sustain, and operate modern military organizations and any security contingency within the confines of the KSA. OPMSANG is a security assistance success story, in large part due to the close working relationship between itself and the MNG at all levels of leadership. With the continued support of the U.S. Army, Department of Defense, and the Department of State, the SANG modernization program will continue to build upon its past progress and success.

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U.S. ARMY MATERIEL SYSTEMS ANALYSIS ACTIVITY

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As a separate reporting activity to Army Materiel Command (AMC) Headquarters (HQAMC), the U.S. Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity (AMSAA) serves as AMC’s analytic arm by conducting analyses across the materiel life cycle to inform critical decisions for current and future warfighter needs, while valuing the unique knowledge, experiences, and backgrounds of its people.

Headquartered at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, AMSAA’s 300-plus employees, including engineers, mathematicians, scientists, and operations research analysts, provide systems analysis to support equipping and sustaining decisions. AMSAA ensures that the required data, modeling and simulation (M&S), validation, verification and accreditation, methodologies, and skill sets support Army readiness, modernization, future operating concepts, and force structures. AMSAA also has an AMC Analysis Group located at HQAMC in Huntsville, Alabama, to provide strategic decision analyses to senior AMC leaders.

AMSAA’s core competencies include: independent materiel performance and effectiveness analysis to inform Army acquisition and programmatic decisions; independent logistics analysis to support Army and AMC equipment and sustainment decisions; worldwide field data collection and analysis of Army systems to support the warfighter and senior leaders; joint service authenticated fielded weapons effects data/methodology to support warfighter targeting collateral damage estimation and analytic decisions; certified system-level performance data development to support Army M&S, studies, and analyses; and strategic/corporate-level decision analysis to inform HQAMC and Department of the Army senior leader decisions. Together, these six core competencies enable AMSAA to turn data into information.

AMSAA’s 47-year reputation for “excellence in analysis” is rooted in the character, competency, and commitment of our dedicated, professional workforce.

Eighty percent of the AMSAA team holds at least one master’s or doctorate degree, and all professionals are certified in at least one Acquisition Career Field.

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U.S. Soldiers with Hotel Company, 1st Battalion, 214th Aviation Regiment, 12th Combat Aviation Brigade, “Big Windy,” conduct aft wheel pinnacle landing training in a CH-47F helicopter, June 28, 2016, at the Oberdachstetten Local Training Area (LTA).

Among key AMSAA efforts is analysis support for major Army systems like the CH-47F Block II version of the venerable Chinook.

In addition, AMSAA has deployed 56 civilians to Iraq and Afghanistan since 2007 to provide direct support to the warfighter. Coupled with the 11 percent of our workforce with prior military experience, AMSAA has been able to provide timely, relevant, critical decision support at the point of need.

AMSAA’s responsive and comprehensive systems analysis promotes current and future Army readiness and the development of the Future Force. AMSAA’s analysis continues to significantly contribute to enable cost savings/ avoidances, more reliable and effective equipment, and risk reduction. Examples of key AMSAA efforts include: reliability analyses; risk assessments; Condition Based Maintenance; development of weaponeering support tools and data for the joint warfighter; strategic analyses for HQAMC leadership; and analysis support for major Army systems such as H-47 Block II, M113 Replacement, the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, Distributed Common Ground System Army, Mid-Tier Networking Vehicular Radio, and Dominating Mobility Through Terrain Shaping and Engagement.

Contact Information: U.S. Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity 392 Hopkins Road Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005 (410) 278-6614

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U.S. ARMY CHEMICAL MATERIALS ACTIVITY The U.S. Army Chemical Materials Activity (CMA) is the world leader in programs to store, treat, and dispose of chemical weapons safely and effectively. The activity developed and used technologies to safely store and eliminate chemical weapons at seven stockpile sites while protecting the public, its workers, and the environment. CMA also has the storage mission at the nation’s final two stockpile sites.

CMA Headquarters management team, as well as scientific, communications, and support staff, is based at the Edgewood Area of the Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, while other dedicated managers and staff fulfill the activity’s mission at the two remaining chemical weapons stockpile storage sites at Blue Grass Army Depot, Kentucky, and Pueblo Chemical Depot, Colorado, as well as recovered chemical agent materiel sites and locations across the country.

STORE AND PROTECT Munitions Remaining CMA retains the mission for safe and secure storage of chemical weapons at two locations, one in Blue Grass Army Depot, Kentucky, and one in Pueblo Chemical Depot, Colorado. The chemical agents and munitions at both sites are housed in designated storage areas and specially designed earth-covered magazines, commonly referred to as storage igloos or bunkers. Thorough job training and certification is designed to ensure safety is maintained at all times.

Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program The Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program (CSEPP) works closely with the communities around the nation’s remaining chemical weapons stockpiles in Kentucky and Colorado. Since the program began in 1988, state and local emergency management officials have teamed with the Army and the Federal Emergency Management Agency to improve their ability to protect communities. This partnership has helped these communities by enhancing emergency plans and providing chemical accident response equipment and warning systems.

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COMPLY Chemical Weapons Convention On April 29, 1997, the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling, and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction, known as the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), entered into force. At that time, the United States and 86 other nations became the first countries to sign and ratify the CWC, with 192 nations ratified as of 2015. In doing so, participating nations agreed to destroy all their chemical weapons and former chemical weapons production facilities and to abide by prohibitions from development, use, production, and acquisition of chemical weapons.

ASSESS AND DESTROY Recovered Chemical Warfare Materiel Recovered chemical warfare materiel (RCWM) includes items recovered from range-clearing operations, chemical weapons burial sites, and other locations.

Upon recovery, the U.S. Army Chemical Materials Activity Recovered Chemical Materiel Directorate (RCMD) deploys specially trained personnel and mobile assessment and treatment systems to identify and treat RCWM using the best action determined.

Storage and Protection The U.S. Army CMA is also responsible for safe storage of the nation’s chemical weapon materials pending their ultimate destruction. CSEPP was created in 1985 when the U.S. Congress passed a law directing the Army to dispose of its aging chemical weapons inventory with maximum protection of the public and environment as its primary consideration. Since its inception, the primary goal of CSEPP has been to educate and enhance emergency

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ABOVE: Toxic chemical workers at Blue Grass Army Depot perform a meticulous inspection of chemical weapons.

Monitoring the chemical weapons stockpile frequently ensures the safety of the workers, environment, and community. LEFT: An operator holds an identification placard above chemical munitions set to be destroyed in the Explosive Destruction System (EDS) in Pueblo, Colorado.

Chemical weapons destruction operations began with the EDS in March 2015. By the end of the year, 477 items were destroyed.

preparedness in communities surrounding the chemical stockpile stored at the Blue Grass Army Depot and Pueblo Chemical Depot.

Blue Grass Army Depot, Kentucky The Blue Grass Chemical Activity’s mission is to ensure the safe and secure storage of the chemical weapons stockpile until demilitarization is complete. The stockpile at Blue Grass is contained on 250 acres on the Blue Grass Army Depot, located in the rolling hills of central Kentucky. Blue Grass Chemical Activity is a tenant activity on the 15,000-acre depot.

Blue Grass Chemical Activity is a subordinate unit of CMA. The chemical weapons at Blue Grass were received as far back as 1944. The majority of the nerve agent weapons arrived in the mid-1960s. All weapons are stored securely in earth-covered bunkers, called igloos, designed specifically to protect their contents from external factors such as storms, lightning, and other weather-related events. Aside from a 24/7-guard force, there are a number of other physical and electronic safeguards that protect this stockpile.

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Pueblo Chemical Depot, Colorado The U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot (PCD) located near Pueblo, Colorado, is one of two Army installations in the United States that currently stores chemical weapons. PCD stores a stockpile of chemical weapons comprising 7 percent of the nation’s original chemical materiel stockpile.

In operation since 1942, the depot’s mission has expanded, and today is to ensure the safe, secure storage of the chemical weapons stockpile. Encompassing approximately 23,000 acres, PCD also reports to CMA. The Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant Explosive Destruction System (PCAPP EDS) successfully concluded its first campaign at the PCD on Feb. 11, 2016.

The U.S. Army system destroyed 560 previously overpacked munitions in advance of operations at the main plant. This initial campaign began on March 18, 2015.

Contact information: U.S. Army Chemical Materials Activity E4585 Hoadley Road Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21010 1-800-488-0648

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LOGSA is a source of readiness information and solutions.

U.S. ARMY LOGISTICS SUPPORT ACTIVITY The U.S. Army Materiel Command’s Logistics Support Activity (LOGSA) at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the Army’s trusted source of readiness information and solutions at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels of the Army.

LOGSA provides timely, accurate, and valuable integrated life cycle logistics solutions, information, knowledge, and expertise to enable Army readiness and support unified land operations. LOGSA delivers critical logistics information capabilities through analytical tools and business intelligence solutions to effectively acquire, manage, equip, and sustain the materiel requirements of the U.S. Army.

To accomplish its mission, LOGSA is composed of five centers: Enterprise Integration Center (EIC), Global Support Center (GSC), Logistics and Engineering Center (LEC), Soldier Support Center (SSC), and Packaging, Storage, and Containerization Center (PSCC).

• EIC: LOGSA’s technical and data experts • GSC: LOGSA’s face to the field

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• LEC: LOGSA’s strategic solutions for acquisition logistics • SSC: LOGSA’s logistics data and processes subject-matter experts (SMEs) • PSCC: worldwide packaging, storage, and distribution analysis SMEs LOGSA and its functionally diverse centers are deeply involved in the Army’s materiel development process. It develops and trains software applications, standards, and policy that ensure the establishment of a viable integrated product support strategy and programs that optimize system/equipment readiness and availability to meet operational performance capabilities.

LOGSA continues to grow capabilities, educate users, and move toward its vision to become the Army’s trusted source of readiness information and solutions. Across the full spectrum of life cycle logistics, LOGSA is exploiting leading-edge information technology to create timely, accurate, actionable, and decisive logistics solutions.

Contact information: U.S. Army Logistics Support Activity 3305 Redeye Road Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898-7466

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