21st Signal Brigade
The 21st U.S. Army Signal Brigade is a subordinate command of U.S. Army Network Enterprise Technology Command/9th Army Signal Command. It was originally activated as the U.S. Army Information Systems Test Command at Fort Ritchie, Md., on July 6, 1988. It was re-designated the 1108th U.S. Army Signal Brigade on April 1, 1989. On September 14, 1998, the 1108th U.S. Army Signal Brigade headquarters relocated from Fort Ritchie to Fort Detrick as a result of the 1995 Base Realignment and Closure Action (BRAC), and due to reorganization, was re-designated the 21st Signal Brigade on October 16, 2003.

The Brigade provides global information services to enable Battle Command from the President of the United States to the warfighter and other Federal Agencies.

The brigade’s subordinate units are the 302d and 114th Signal Battalions and the 55th Signal Company at Fort Meade, Md.

302nd Signal Battalion
The 302nd Signal Battalion, "Gateway to Freedom," a subordinate unit of the 21st Signal Brigade, operates and maintains strategic communications systems as part of the Global Information Grid (GIG). The battalion has six geographically dispersed companies located at Fort Detrick, Md., Fort Meade, Md., Fort Belvoir, Va., Fort Bragg, N.C., and Camp Roberts, Calif.

114th Signal Battalion
The 114th Signal Battalion "Signal Masters of the Rock," plans, installs, operates, maintains, and protects battle command systems in support of the National Military Command Center-Raven Rock Mountain Complex (NMCC-RRMC), Warfighting Combatant Commanders, Department of Defense, other federal agencies and the RRMC during war and peacetime. They also serve as the Director of Information Management for the RRMC.

6th Medical Logistics Management Center
The 6th Medical Logistics Management Center (6MLMC) is a multi-component unit that provides centralized information management and logistics intelligence for medical materiel (Class VIII), medical equipment maintenance to deployed forces. The 6MLMC is subordinate to 44th Medical Command (Airborne) located at Fort Bragg, N.C., but is under the Administrative Control of the US Army MRMC.

The 6MLMC was established October 16, 2000, replacing the deactivated 6th Theater Medical Materiel Management Center. The 6MLMC is composed of a base unit (Headquarters) and presently two teams capable of forward deployment in support of the COCOMS. The base unit links theater Class VIII commodity requirements with sourcing and distribution systems to get medical supplies and equipment into the theater. These forward teams provide total asset and in-transit visibility for the medical commodity, both in the operational theater and en route to the deployed theater. The 6MLMC Forward Teams are continually and fully engaged in supporting Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom since 2001.

In addition, the 6MLMC integrates and coordinates strategic medical logistics actions between the theater(s) and the service agencies responsible for medical logistics: U.S. Army Medical Materiel Agency, U.S. Army Medical Materiel Agency, Europe, Air Force Medical Logistics Office, Naval Medical Logistics Command, Defense Logistics Agency and Defense Supply Center, Philadelphia.

The 6MLMC’s responsibilities include reviewing and analyzing demands and computing theater medical commodity requirements; evaluating the workload, capabilities, and asset positions of supported medical logistics battalions; directing cross-leveling of workload or resources to achieve capability and maximum efficiency; implementing the use of standard Army maintenance information systems for field medical units, and assisting in the sourcing and procurement of Class VIII support items within the continental United States.

53rd Signal Battalion
The 53rd Signal Battalion, formerly 1st Satellite Control Battalion (SATCON), represents not only the growth in the importance of space and space-related products of the Army, but also the continuing growth of the U.S. Army Space Command as it normalizes space support to the warfighter.

The first Wideband Satellite Operations Center, now operated by 53rd Signal Battalion, was built in 1981-82 at Fort Detrick. Over the last 25 years, Soldiers have pioneered the control techniques that are implemented hundreds of times each day by the battalion’s Soldiers.

The 53rd provides continuous, reliable, robust, worldwide communications support to U.S. warfighting forces, strategic military users, the U.S. intelligence community and the National Command Authority via the Defense Satellite Communications System.

The company is responsible for the daily command and control of the Defense Satellite Communications System using large, fixed earth terminal ground stations, transportable ground stations, and highly mobile, tactical ground stations.

Air Force Medical Logistics Office
The mission of the Air Force Medical Logistics Office (AFMLO) is to provide support to the Air Force Medical Service by enabling the efficient and effective procurement, sustainment and delivery of medical supplies, services and equipment for peacetime and expeditionary operations. It is committed to providing Air Force medical logisticians leading edge training, tools and information systems to accomplish their mission. Through the proactive and responsive efforts of AFMLO's experienced and knowledgeable team, it strives to be the premier medical logistics activity in the Department of Defense. The organization is guided by the Air Force Core Values, "Integrity First," "Service Before Self," and "Excellence in All We Do."

AFMLO accomplishes its mission through organizational competencies that include medical logistics experience, a deep understanding of supply chain management, situational awareness, and project and life-cycle management. The organization develops policies and procedures, and provides support to base level medical logistics activities (at home station and deployed locations), major air commands and the Air Force Surgeon General's Ooffice in the areas of supply chain management, procurement, medical combat support, clinical engineering, financial management, and medical logistics automated information systems.

AFMLO integrates Joint Service and Air Force (Active and Air Reserve) medical logistics components to deploy and sustain warfighting capabilities through focused logistics, as defined by Joint Vision 2020. It effectively educates and supports stakeholders through the application of current and emerging business practices to all areas of medical logistics operations. AFMLO capitalizes on opportunity, champions and leads innovation, and prepares leaders for tomorrow.

AFMLO provides a global network of peacetime and wartime medical logistics capability and deployed medical units and major air commands worldwide. AFMLO maintains close liaison with the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Agency, the U.S. Naval Medical Logistics Command, the Defense Medical Standardization Board, and the Defense Logistics Agency.

Air Force Medical Operations Agency (AFMOA)- Expeditionary Medical Skills Division
Air Force Medical Operations Agency (AFMOA)- Expeditionary Medical Skills Division (ASMOA/SG3X) reports to the Assistant Surgeon General, Healthcare Operations, Office of the Air Force Surgeon General. Its mission is to establish policy and guidance for global medical support training, exercises and personnel deployment planning requirements; orchestrate resources necessary to accomplish medical readiness training; perform as the active component subject matter experts for development and management of medical readiness information systems; and to act as the Air Force/Surgeon General’s consultant to the modeling and simulation community to predict the resource demands of deployed personnel.

AFMSA/SGPX collaborates with numerous organizations and resources to meet their mission. These resources include the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity, Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, the acquisition community, major air commands, joint medical readiness planners, Air Force Surgeon General clinical consultants, and the Air Force modeling, simulation and analysis community.

AFMSA/SGPX also works closely with the DMSB to establish Joint Service policies governing casualty management and standardization of medical material assets.

Air Force Medical Evaluation Support Activity
The Air Force Medical Evaluation Support Activity (AFMESA), a division of the Air Force Medical Support Agency, is dedicated to advancing Air Force health care through independent operational testing of medical technologies and information systems. AFMESA operates from a 14-acre compound in Area B that includes a fully functional ten-bed Expeditionary Medical Support (EMEDS) hospital, a Small Shelter Patient Decontamination System (SSPDS), and an 87,000-square-foot gravel test pad. The AFMESA main desk can be reached at 301-619-8600.

Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center
The Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center is a field production activity of the Defense Intelligence Agency and the sole Department of Defense producer of medical intelligence. The center provides all-source intelligence on foreign infectious disease and environmental health risks, foreign military and civilian health care systems and infrastructures, and foreign biomedical development and life science technologies of military medical significance.

Assessments, forecasts, and databases are prepared on foreign military and civilian health care capabilities and trends, worldwide infectious disease occurrence, global environmental health risks, and militarily significant life science technologies.

These intelligence products provide direct support to U.S. military customers for operational planning, development of policy, doctrine and training priorities, and medical research and development. Medical intelligence is also critical to national-level customers, including the White House and Congress.

Chemical Biological Medical Systems-Joint Project Management Office
Chemical Biological Medical Systems (CBMS)-Joint Project Management Office, a subordinate command of the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense (JPEO-CBD), provides the overall development and production of Federal Drug Administration (FDA) licensed biological and chemical medical products to protect the warfighter in a biological/chemical environment. CBMS is responsible for two joint product management offices, the Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program (JVAP), and the Medical Identification and Treatment Systems (MITS). JVAP’s mission is the development and production of FDA licensed vaccines and antisera to protect the warfighter in a biological warfare environment. MITS is responsible for the overall management, development and production of FDA licensed medical chemical/biological defense products, chemical/biological warfare diagnostic components and products to protect and treat the warfighter in a chemical/biological warfare environment.

Company B, 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 4th Marine Division, Marine Forces Reserve
One of only four light armored reconnaissance companies in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, Company B, 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion was assigned to Fort Detrick in October 1987 and conducted its first annual training in Fort Benning, Ga., in July 1988.

Activated for Operation Desert Shield in November 1990, the company deployed to Southwest Asia in December 1990 and participated with United Nations Coalition forces in breaching Iraqi defenses to liberate Kuwait.

Bravo Company deployed to Iraq from February 2002 to September 2003 in support of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force and Operation Iraqi Freedom. During their deployment, the unit participated in various missions in the combat phase of the operation. With the termination of the combat phase, the unit was involved with various security missions and the reconstruction efforts of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force throughout Iraq.

Bravo's Marines were mobilized in May 2006 for OIF and will be transitioning into a small craft company to be deployed as Dam Support Unit-3 along areas of the Euphrates River. The unit returned in April. Tasked with conducting reconnaissance, security and, within capability, limited offensive and delaying operations that exploit mobility and firepower, the company supports the division in shaping the battlefield and developing the operational situation.

The Light Armored Vehicle (LAV) is an eight-wheeled, armored, amphibious vehicle mounting either a 25-millimeter cannon, anti-tank guided missile launcher or a mortar. There are also LAVs configured for logistics and communications recovery. The vehicles are road-safe and can travel at speeds of 62 miles per hour on roads and 6 mph in water, with a cruising range of approximately 400 miles. Possessing a Thermal Imaging Sight and fully stabilized turret for effective fire, day or night, stationary or moving, the LAV-25 carries a crew of seven, consisting of a driver, gunner, commander, and four scouts.

The active duty inspector-instructor staff is composed of one Marine officer, 13 enlisted Marines, and one Navy corpsman and is responsible for supervising, instructing, and assisting the Reserve company and providing technical support in administration, maintenance, and logistics.

The unit is located at the Pfc. Raymond Flair U.S. Army Reserve Center at 1120 Rocky Springs Road. For more information,. call 301-619-2704.

Consolidated Customer Service Center
The Consolidated Customer Service Center is responsible for all Tier 1 call center services for the Pentagon's Information Technology Agency (ITA )and other agencies in the National Capital Region. The CCSC provides support to over 250,000 customers twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. They are responsible for monitoring the Pentagon's Enterprise Management System and providing operator services to other ITA service centers. Additionally, the CCSC is responsible for the call center operations of the Defense Continuity Integrated Network/Pentagon Continuity Information System which ensures the availability of mission critical information support command and control and continuity of business essential operations. The office can be reached at 301-619-0400.

Defense Contract Management Agency/DCMA Baltimore
The Fort Detrick Defense Contract Management Agency is located in Building S-11 at 10 Porter Street, Suite 105. The mission of DCMA Baltimore is to provide acquisition and focused logistics support to America’s armed forces in peace and war around-the-clock, around-the-world. For more information call, 301-619-4754.

Joint Medical Logistics Functional Development Center
The mission of the Joint Medical Logistics Functional Development Center (JMLFDC) is to integrate the medical logistics requirements of the three Services into a single automated medical logistics system known as the Defense Medical Logistics Standard Support (DMLSS). The DMLSS Automated Information System (DMLSS AIS) provides state-of-the-art automated tools to enable the military health system to save money on the costs of pharmaceuticals, medical/surgical items, and equipment. The newly deployed DMLSS Electronic Commerce/Electronic Business tools have been combined with reengineering initiatives to streamline and optimize the business of medical logistics within the military health system. Employing a staff of over 160 military, civil service and contractor personnel, the JMLFDC has responsibilities for requirement integration, software design and development, testing, deployment, and sustainment support for the DMLSS AIS. JMLFDC develops functional process improvements with special focus on modeling and simulation, develops data and process models, maintains the medical logistics functional architecture, defines functional requirements for the DMLSS AIS, develops implementation plans, identifies potential opportunities for updates to the functional economic analysis for the medical logistics service program managers, validates the DMLSS AIS functional performance and ensures compliance with directives governing functional activity program management.

JMLFDC is located at Fort Detrick in Frederick, MD to ensure functional activity program management initiatives are evolved, coordinated and tightly integrated with the applicable activities of the Joint Readiness Clinical Advisory Board, U.S. Army Medical Materiel Agency, Naval Medical Logistics Command and Air Force Medical Logistics Office.

Defense Medical Standardization Board
The Defense Medical Standardization Board is a Jointly staffed activity under guidance of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs). The DMSB voting membership is composed of flag or general officers from each of the Military Services' Medical Departments, the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs), the Joint Chiefs of Staff (J-4), the Defense Logistics Agency, and U.S. Joint Forces Command. The DMSB's Staff Director and support staff are located at Fort Detrick. The DMSB's major mission elements include: the joint selection and standardization of medical materiel with a special focus on operational medicine; manager of selective, clinically relevant, databases for materiel selection; life-cycle manager of all medical National Stock Numbers (NSN); clinical oversight of DoD's medical materiel complaint program; collaborative resource for the medical materiel testing community; clinical consultant resource for the DoD; and administrative manager for the DoD/Food and Drug Administration Shelf-Life Extension Program (DoD/FDA SLEP). The DMSB holds summits and clinical panels to jointly develop medical materiel recommendations that are clinically driven, evidence based, and are actionable by the Services.

Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care (MC4)
Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care (MC4) develops, fields and supports a medical information management system for Army tactical medical forces, enabling a comprehensive, life-long electronic medical record for all service members, and enhancing medical situational awareness for operational commanders. By accomplishing this mission, the MC4 Product Management Office (PMO) will have provided the Army’s solution to Presidential and Congressional objectives, set-forth by Title 10 in 1997, which called for a medical tracking system for all deployed Service members.

MC4 is a ruggedized system of systems containing medical software packages sent into theater to support deployed medical forces. Comprised of joint software (Theater Medical Information Program), and commercial-off-the-shelf and government-off-the-shelf products, MC4 provides the tools needed to record and transfer data from the foxhole to brick-and-mortar facilities worldwide. As a result, MC4 creates a bridge between the tactical and sustaining base IM/IT healthcare systems, connecting the battlefield to the Continental United States.

Deployed medical forces use the MC4 system to gain quick, accurate access to patient histories and forward casualty resuscitation information. The system also provides units with automated tools facilitating patient tracking, medical reporting and medical logistical support. Meanwhile, combatant commanders worldwide use the MC4 system to access medical surveillance information, resulting in enhanced medical situational awareness.

Most importantly, MC4 is helping deployed Soldiers. By equipping deployed medical units with automated resources, MC4 helps ensure Soldiers have a secure, accessible, life-long electronic medical record – which results in peace of mind for the Soldier and better-informed healthcare providers. For the first time in history, relevant medical data flows vertically throughout levels of healthcare and to joint medical databases, while simultaneously providing data horizontally into the Army Battle Command, Combat Service Support and Communications architecture.

MC4 in Action
MC4 was first deployed for contingency operations in 2003 and has since fielded more than 16,000 systems to deployed medical units throughout Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar and Afghanistan in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. Additionally, MC4 has trained approximately 17,250 users and continues to provide 24-7 global support via its help desk, three regional support centers and technical support teams through Europe and Southwest Asia.

Since 2003, MC4 has facilitated the transfer of more than 1 million electronic health records from the battlefield to the U.S. In 2006, MC4 enabled the 14th Combat Support Hospital in Afghanistan the ability to electronically record patient information, marking the first time deployed medical forces in Operation Enduring Freedom had such capabilities. MC4 also released a new electronic post deployment health assessment (ePDHA) capability and opened a new European Support Site, providing European Command units access to using the MC4 system for the first time.

Exemplifying MC4's impact in 2006, the program garnered several awards, including; DoD CIO Team Award, Fed 100 Award, Top 20 Federal IM/IT Program by the American Council for Technology; Government Computer News IT Leadership Award; Arthur S. Flemming Award; Army Acquisition Excellence Award, Federal Computer Week Rising Star Award; Mobile Enterprise magazine's Mobilizer Award.

These accomplishments reinforce why MC4 is considered the most comprehensive information management medical system deployed to date.

Into the Future
The Army recognizes that the MC4 system is an evolving capability required to support current and emerging medical information technologies needed by deployed medical forces. That is why MC4 has become a complementary system to the Future Combat System and the Future Force Warrior System. By doing so, MC4 provides an interface to these systems that enables automated assessment and remote monitoring capabilities for deployed medical forces.

Headquartered at Fort Detrick, Md., MC4 is overseen by the Army Program Executive Office, Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS) at Fort Belvoir, Va. For more information on MC4, visit www.mc4.army.mil, or subscribe to www.mc4.army.mil/mc4newsletter.

National Cancer Institute at Frederick
The National Cancer Institute’s comprehensive program of basic, translational and clinical research is making unprecedented progress in understanding the molecular basis of cancer and developing novel strategies for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer and other diseases.

The National Cancer Institute at Frederick (NCI-Frederick), a government-owned, contractor-operated facility plays a vital role in NCI’s accomplishments by housing research programs of the NCI Center for Cancer Research and the Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis (Developmental Therapeutics Program). The four NCI-Frederick contractors conduct basic and applied research and provide research support programs in animal production, as well as computer and library services.

NCI–Frederick is an internationally recognized institution for interdisciplinary research into cancer causes, biology, diagnosis, and treatment. NCI-Frederick also provides support services and conducts studies to develop AIDS vaccines and drugs for treatment of HIV/AIDS.

NCI–Frederick owns approximately 70 acres on Fort Detrick. More than 100 structures for administration, laboratory, and research support house approximately 2,400 contract and government employees.

Research at NCI–Frederick includes:

• Basic research into the fundamental biologic nature of cancer, cancer genetics, how tumors form, progress, and metastasize, and how they can be prevented and treated;
• Investigation of the role that unique viral agents, their components or products may play in human cancer;
• Basic and translational research in retro virology, including the study of viral populations and dynamics, mechanisms of genetic variation, drug resistance and development of new strategies for combating HIV/AIDS;
• Studies on the biology of cancer relating to potential for immunotherapy, chemotherapy, and pharmacogenetic therapy;
• Development, evaluation and production of natural products as chemotherapies for human cancer and HIV/AIDS;
• Development and evaluation of rapid, sensitive tests to screen for, detect, and monitor cancer and AIDS;
• Mechanism-of-action studies of environmental chemicals that are known or suspected carcinogens;
• Programs in environmental protection to establish effective standards of chemical and biological safety;
• Applied research for anti-tumor and antiviral drug design, discovery, development, and production;
• Application of computational and modeling methods and supercomputing technology to understand the structure and function of biological molecules;
• Research on mammalian genome organization and structure;
• Basic research into signaling pathways that control cellular growth, differentiation, gene expression, and embryonic development;
• Analysis of patients’ samples in support of Phase I and II clinical studies;
• Expansion and maintenance of a repository of clinical samples for cancer epidemiology studies;
• Basic studies using macromolecular crystallography to gain insights into structure, assembly, and function of bio molecules.

Naval Medical Logistics Command
The Naval Medical Logistics Command (NMLC) is an echelon four command under the Navy Medicine Support Command (NMSC), Jacksonville, FL. NMLC assumed the naval medical logistics functions from the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) on April 15, 1997. Effective October 1, 1999, the Fleet Hospital Program Office (PML-500) located at Fort Detrick and the Fleet Hospital Support Office (FHSO) located at Naval Weapons Station Yorktown, Cheatham Annex, Williamsburg, VA, were realigned under NMLC from Naval Supply Systems Command. The FHSO in Williamsburg, Va., recently changed its name to Navy Expeditionary Medical Support Command to reflect its current mission. NMLC has two additional activities under its command which are the Naval Opthalmic Support and Training Activity located at Naval Weapons Station, Yorktown, VA and the NMLC Pirmasens Germany Detachment.

As the Medical Logistics Headquarters for the U.S. Navy, NMLC’s mission is to fulfill requirements and facilitate processes to meet the medical materiel and service needs of the shore establishments and Operational Forces. We provide our customers medical logistics support in the form of: product and service acquisition, health care contracting, equipment support, allowance configuration, business systems, legal assistance, logistics planning, policy, guidance and training.

The Fleet Hospital Program provides comprehensive medical support to the fleet and Fleet Marine Forces engaged in combat operations. Shore-based fleet hospitals complement and expand the afloat medical capabilities of the fleet and play a critical role in the Navy’s doctrinal concept of overseas theater support. They deliver definitive health care--surgical or other acute care as necessary--and stabilize, treat, and rehabilitate patients’ in-theater.

The history of the NMLC began in 1850 with the establishment of the Naval Medical Supply Depot, Brooklyn, NY. The depot at that time produced medical supplies for the Medical Department of the Navy under the direction of Surgeon Benjamin F. Bache, U.S. Navy. On July 1, 1952, the U.S. Naval Medical Supply Depot was transferred to the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts and the Field Branch, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery was established. The Field Branch remained in Brooklyn until July 1965 when it moved to Philadelphia, PA. Organizational changes within the Navy and BUMED led to the disestablishment of the Field Branch and the establishment of the Naval Medical Materiel Support Command as a Navy shore activity in Philadelphia on December 1, 1973. In August 1985, the Naval Medical Materiel Support Command Detachment was formed and moved to Fort Detrick. The remaining members of the command moved to Fort Detrick in 1986. On June 1, 1990, the name of the command changed to the Naval Medical Logistics Command to reflect its broader logistics mission.

In November 2003, NMLC held its 150th birthday celebration showcasing its years of achievement and support to the United States Navy.

Secret Service
The U.S. Secret Service office at Fort Detrick is located at 1500 Porter St.reet and can be contacted at 301-293-6434. This office operates as liaison with the law enforcement community in Western Maryland.

Technology Applications Office
The Technology Applications Office (TAO) is a functionally integrated, task force organization designed to provide centralized, life-cycle management, engineering, fielding, and operation of information management programs supporting Headquarters, Department of the Army-approved missions. TAO also provides operational support in identifying, developing, testing, and evaluating emerging technologies for interoperability and integration into information management equipment and systems.

Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center
The Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), an element of the Headquarters U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, is an organization composed of DOD military and civilian personnel, contractors, and staff from private industry and academia.

Telemedicine reflects a convergence of technological advances in a number of fields, including medicine, telecommunications, computer engineering, informatics, artificial intelligence, robotics, materials science, and perceptual psychology.

TATRC manages a variety of medical projects in many areas of telemedicine, such as tele-radiology, medical informatics, tele-surgical robotics and mentoring, and tele-dentistry. Responsibility for aggressive prototyping and demonstration of new technologies also rests with TATRC. Through partnerships with other government agencies and industry, TATRC carries out ongoing market surveillance with an eye toward leveraging investigative technologies in health care.

The goals of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command Telemedicine Program are to provide technologies needed to incorporate health awareness into the battlespace awareness, provide force protection, reduce time to critical intervention for injured personnel, improve the skills and efficiency of care providers, and improve the quality of emergency care throughout the battlespace.

Advances in information and telecommunication technologies can be exploited to achieve a military advantage through their application in medicine. TATRC always strives to bring this advantage to America’s fighting forces. For more information on TATRC and its initiatives visit the Web site: www.tatrc.org.