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U.S. Army Garrison (USAG)-Redstone

The U.S. Army Garrison-Redstone provides support to all the organizations on Redstone Arsenal. It provides high-quality, cost-effective base operations support to its customers, tenants and other Department of Defense and federal activities in the region similar in manner to a city government. The Garrison represents life support for Redstone Arsenal by providing for fire and emergency services, water, sewage, heating and cooling plant operations, grounds maintenance, and the maintenance and upkeep of facilities occupied by those who work, live and play within Redstone Arsenal.

With the Base Realignment and Closure, Redstone Arsenal looks to gain nearly 6,000 positions by Sept. 15, 2011. Construction and infrastructure changes are underway, some of which are already complete, for the incoming eight commands including: Army Materiel Command (AMC), U.S. Army Security Assistance Command (USASAC), 2nd Recruiting Brigade, 2nd Medical Recruiting Battalion, Missile Defense Agency (MDA), Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC), Redstone Test Center (RTC) and the Rotary Wing Air Platform.

The Garrison helps support mission readiness and execution by enabling the well-being of Soldiers, civilians, contractors, and family members; by improving the installation’s infrastructure (including roads, utilities, housing, offices and laboratories); and providing quality of life programs for the military and, as appropriate, the civilian communities. One major program now underway to provide much needed office and meeting space as well as quality of life amenities is the development of Redstone Gateway, a 468-acre, 4.6 million-square-foot office, retail and hotel complex that is now under construction on the western and eastern sides of Rideout Road near Gate 9. With 59 buildings built out over a 15-year-period, Redstone Gateway will be the largest enhanced use lease project in the Army.

Other Garrison missions include the installation’s Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation (FMWR) programs, Army Community Service, Army Education Center, lodging, and child and youth services, as well as the installation’s religious programs and services.

Major programs are managed to include the installation’s safety program, equal opportunity employment programs, personnel security program, public works, vehicle registration and badging, and physical security (including law enforcement and police operations). The Garrison serves as the installation equipment manager, maintaining its property books, dining facilities, and the transportation fleet. The installation’s Civilian Personnel Advisory Center (CPAC) is under the daily operational control of the Garrison. Major efforts are also being focused on developing and executing environmental compliance efforts, and tracking hazardous material and waste from cradle to grave.

U.S. Army Materiel Command (AMC)

The U.S. Army Materiel Command 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. If a Soldier shoots it, drives it, flies it, wears it or eats it, AMC provides it.

The command’s complex mission ranges from development of sophisticated weapon systems and cutting-edge research to maintenance and distribution of spare parts.

AMC operates the research, development and engineering centers, Army Research Laboratory, depots, arsenals, ammunition plants and other facilities, and maintains the Army’s prepositioned stocks, both on land and afloat. The command is also the Department of Defense Executive Agent for the chemical weapons stockpile and for conventional ammunition.

AMC works closely with Program Executive Officers, the Army Acquisition Executive, industry and academia, to develop, purchase and maintain material for the Army and other government agencies.

The Command’s main effort is to achieve the development, support and sustainment of the future force in this decade. At the same time, AMC is key to supporting, sustaining and resetting the current force. Its maintenance depots and arsenals restore weapon systems needed as the Army makes its way to full transformation. The Command’s overhaul and modernization efforts are enhancing and upgrading major weapon systems, not just making them like new, but inserting technology to make them better and more reliable.

AMC handles diverse missions that reach far beyond the Army. For example, AMC manages the multi-billion dollar business of selling Army equipment and services to friends and allies of the United States and negotiates and implements agreements for co-production of U.S. weapons systems by foreign nations. AMC also provides numerous acquisition and logistics services to the other components of the DoD and many other government agencies.

AMC is co-located in 149 locations worldwide, including more than 40 states and 50 countries. The 2005 Base Realignment and Closure desicion relocated AMC Headquarters from Fort Belvoir, Va., to Redstone Arsenal. Personnel began relocating to Redstone in 2006 and the command will be completely relocated by the summer of 2011. Manning these organizations is a worldwide workforce of more than 60,000 dedicated military and civilian employees, many with highly developed specialties in weapons development, manufacturing and logistics.

For more information, contact: Headquarters, U.S. Army Materiel Command, Office of Public and Congressional Affairs, Building 7612, Redstone Arsenal, AL, 35898, (256) 842-0273/(703) 806-8010 or e-mail l: hqamc.amcnewsservice@conus.army.mil, or visit the website at www.army.mil/amc/.

U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command (AMCOM)

Headquartered at Redstone Arsenal, the Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command is a major subordinate command of the U.S. Army Materiel Command. AMCOM is part of the Aviation and Missile Materiel Enterprise that unites all of the organizations that work to design, acquire, integrate, field and sustain Army aviation, missile and unmanned aircraft weapon systems. The enterprise also includes the Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center, the Army Contracting Command-Redstone, PEO Aviation and PEO Missiles and Space.

AMCOM was created in 1997 as the result of the merger of the aviation portion of the U.S. Army Aviation and Troop Command and the U.S. Army Missile Command.

AMCOM performs several steps in the life cycle of Army aviation and missile systems including procurement of spare parts, flight safety, maintenance and overhaul, foreign military sales and demilitarization. AMCOM ensures the Army’s aviation and missile systems are technologically superior, affordable, and always ready for the Soldier. AMCOM supports six of the Army’s 16 major warfighting weapon systems, and most of the Army’s foreign military sales cases.

AMCOM, along with the Program Executive Office-Aviation, Program Executive Office-Missiles and Space, Army Contracting Command-Redstone, and Aviation and Missile Research Development and Engineering Center (AMRDEC), comprise the Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Materiel Enterprise. AMCOM includes the United States Army Test, Measurement, and Diagnostic Equipment Activity (USATA), Integrated Material Management Center (IMMC), and the Security Assistance Management Directorate (SAMD).

USATA has the primary organizational responsibility of performing the test, measurement, and diagnostic equipment (TMDE) calibration and repair mission for the Army, other Department of Defense customers. USATA’s TMDE calibration support mission is the keystone of the Army diagnostic and maintenance program. USATA performs this mission with a team of more than 650 professionals stationed on three continents, 12 countries, and 61 different support activities around the globe.

The IMMC provides worldwide logistic support and sustainment to ensure the Army’s weapon system readiness in any type of operation whether it be a humanitarian effort, such as hurricane Katrina, or support to the U.S. Soldier wherever he or she may be. It provides materiel management for all U.S. Army aviation and missile systems and associated support equipment. The IMMC performs a variety of functions to include inventory management of spare parts, depot-level maintenance planning and direction, computation of worldwide requirements and procurement direction. In addition, the IMMC establishes policy and provides maintenance management guidance and direction for maintenance support planning and logistics engineering activities.

SAMD is responsible for managing the transfer and sustainment of 24 Army aviation and missiles systems to more than 70 countries. Foreign military sales averaged $1.5 billion between 2003 and 2006. In 2007, the average for foreign military sales doubled and, in 2009, foreign military sales for SAMD soared to $14 billion. SAMD managed the nation’s largest FMS case – a $6 billion purchase of Patriot and several other systems by the United Arab Emirates. Today, SAMD continues to grow, reaching for a possible goal of $50 billion annually in foreign military sales. To handle the ever increasing demand for foreign military sales, SAMD has grown to become an organization of more than 280 employees. SAMD’s role in managing the sale of AMCOM systems to foreign countries has a direct impact on the Soldier in the field. As SAMD works to provide the equipment needed to support the security needs of other countries, it makes it possible for U.S. Soldiers to return from foreign military security missions. SAMD also has a positive effect on the U.S. economy, bringing in foreign military sales that create job opportunities for U.S. workers.

AMCOM supports the life cycle management responsibility of project managers by providing engineering, logistics, and acquisition personnel and services covering more than 90 major systems - about half the systems in the Army today. AMCOM ensures that Soldiers have the very best diagnostic tools available through the calibration of 467,000 items at 47 sites worldwide. Additionally, AMCOM is the leader in the Army’s foreign military sales, averaging $1.2 billion in annual sales to allied forces.

AMCOM operates two key Army depots - Corpus Christi Army Depot in Texas and Letterkenny Army Depot in Pennsylvania. Corpus Christi is the center for technical excellence in repairing, overhauling, testing and modernizing the Army’s fleet of helicopters. Letterkenny has unique repair capabilities for missile ground support equipment and also has developed support capabilities for biological defense systems.

AMCOM also has operational control of all aviation logistics management functions at Fort Rucker, Ala., which is the home of the Aviation Center where all Army aviators receive their initial and advanced rotary wing flight training. AMCOM oversees the maintenance and supply management of Fort Rucker’s aviation fleet, as well as about 100 government personnel and more than 3,000 contractors working for the Command.

The Command maintains a worldwide presence - with logistics support, engineering and maintenance personnel.

Most of AMCOM’s 8,500 civilian workers and 100 Soldiers work on aviation and missiles systems and support equipment and are based at Redstone Arsenal. To provide and sustain its systems, AMCOM works with its partners to conduct research, development, engineering and testing, both in laboratories and on test ranges.

AMCOM’s predecessor organizations have achieved a number of firsts in the history of rockets and guided missiles and in the history of aviation, including the development and launch of the missile that placed the first American scientific satellite in earth’s orbit and advances which resulted in the air mobile Army we know today.

Locations:
• U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Life Cycle
Management Command, Redstone Arsenal, AL
• Corpus Christi Army Depot, Corpus Christi, TX
• Letterkenny Army Depot, Chambersburg, PA
• Aviation Center Logistics Command, Fort Rucker, AL
• Theater Aviation Maintenance Program, Iraq

For more information, contact the Public and Congressional Affairs Office at (256) 876-4161. Visit AMCOM at these websites: www.army.mil/amcom; www.facebook.com/usarmyamcom and twitter.com/usarmyamcom.

Aviation and Missile Research,
Development and Engineering Center (AMRDEC)

The Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center manages and conducts research and advanced development; and provides life cycle systems engineering for aviation, missile and unmanned systems. Department of Defense and other Federal agencies, as well as academia, corporate, and industrial researchers and developers seek the AMRDEC’s science and technology expertise, which is characterized by its vast resources of talented and technically proficient personnel and unique world-class facilities and capabilities. The AMRDEC is part of the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) headquartered at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., and is a strategically and operationally aligned partner of the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command.

AMRDEC’s vision is to be the world leader in aviation and missile technologies, life cycle systems engineering and integration for America’s war fighter and to rapidly provide the war fighter with deployable, flexible, lethal weapons systems and platforms that significantly improve force effectiveness and survivability.

AMRDEC employees develop technologies and also provide engineering services. Examples of AMRDEC’s science and technology programs and engineering services include:

Science & Technology Programs
• Missile Seekers
• Rocket and Turbine Propulsion
• Counter RAM (Future)
• Vehicle Active Protection
• Target Acquisition Systems
• Precision Guidance Systems
• Aerodynamics and Structures
• Rotorcraft Drives and Controls
• Platform and Weapons Systems Integration
• Aviation and Missile Condition
Based Maintenance
• Manufacturing Technology
• AMCOM Corrosion Program

Engineering Services/Technical Support
• Life Cycle Systems Engineering
• Software Engineering - Accredited Level 4 CMM
• High-Fidelity System Level Simulations
• Independent Product / Process Assessment
• Airworthiness Qualification and Release Authority
• Sustainment Engineering Support
• Rapid Prototype Engineering / Integration
• Production / Quality / Reliability Engineering

AMRDEC’s distinction is built on a reputation for providing synergistic expertise to our customers. AMRDEC’s Core Competencies include:
• Developing technologies which create overwhelming
lethality and decisive survivability on the battlefield
• Performing system engineering and integration and
rapidly transitioning technologies to the Soldier
• Providing high quality technical support to aviation
and weapons systems throughout the lifecycle.

More than 7,000 men and women (military, government civilian, and contractor personnel) are dedicated to meeting the current and future needs of America’s war fighters. AMRDEC’s annual budget is approximately $2 billion. The Center’s headquarters, as well as nine of 11 Directorates, are located on Redstone Arsenal. AMRDEC personnel are also located at Joint Base Langley Eustis, Va.; NASA Ames at Moffett Field near San Jose, Calif.; Corpus Christi, Texas; Colorado Springs, Colo.; and NASA Langley in Hampton, Va.

For more information, visit the AMRDEC website at (www.redstone.army.mil/amrdec/).

Logistics Support Activity (LOGSA)

The Logistics Support Activity is a separate reporting activity to the U.S. Army Materiel Command and is responsible for Army logistics information and analysis. LOGSA’s mission is to provide critical integrated logistics information, services and analysis products to customers around the globe within the DA and Joint community at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels. LOGSA’s key missions collectively and directly influence Army readiness as it supports all phases of weapon systems, from acquisition life cycle management to the sustainment of fielded systems.

The current focus of the Activity is support to the fielded force in Southwest Asia (SWA). We are delivering capabilities such as the Automated RESET Management Tool (ARMT), Task Force Builder and other derivatives from the billions of data records we house to allow better logistics planning and support. Also, we maintain a presence in SWA by having liaison officers and training teams assisting units as they prepare to redeploy to home station.

LOGSA is the Army and DoD champion for the integrity and integration of logistics data in exercising its mission in support of weapon systems maintenance, readiness, supply, transportation, equipment authorizations, and asset and in-transit visibility. Also, LOGSA is responsible for many key Army and DoD missions that reach across the logistics disciplines. These missions include serving as the Program Management Office for the Army Oil Analysis Program; the Army’s Electronic Technical Manuals; and Packaging, Storage and Containerization, including packaging and handling of hazardous materials. It’s also responsible for operating the Army’s only Automatic Identification Technology Equipment Acquisition Lab and assigning critical codes in support of peace and wartime operations. LOGSA is also responsible for the Army’s acquisition policy and procedures, as well as the development of lifecycle management tools for weapon systems “from cradle to grave.”

LOGSA is a valuable member of the Army during peace and wartime operations, playing a critical role in all phases of deployments and logistics power projection through its supply, maintenance, distribution, and transportation services. It is solely responsible for assigning DoD Activity Address Codes and Routing Identifier Codes to all deploying units; developing stockage requirements for spare/repair parts for all Army weapon systems; reporting on real-time readiness postures of ground and air fleets; providing visibility of requisitions in the pipeline via military or commercial carriers; expediting or diverting frustrated cargo via the Airlift Clearance Authority; deploying Army Oil Analysis Mobile labs to support high operational maintenance requirements and tracking all retrogrades.

LOGSA’s support to Army transformation initiatives through conversion of key tools and products to a web-based environment continues to enable and improve on-line access and availability to war fighters around the globe. At the center of LOGSA’s current and future logistics capabilities is the Army Logistics Information Warehouse (LIW). As the end product of a best-business-practices merger of the Logistics Integrated Database (LIDB) and the Integrated Logistics Analysis Program (ILAP), LIW will be the Army’s Single Authoritative Data Source for logistics decision support and analysis. The integrated tools LOGSA is preparing will leverage enhanced web-based technologies and the latest in Commercial-Off-the-Shelf business intelligence to provide near-real-time logistics information in an enterprise environment, smoothing the transition to the Single Army Logistics Enterprise (SALE). LOGSA’s LIW will empower our forces with focused solutions and allow proactive and predictive support capabilities both on and off the battlefield. The LIW Initial Operating Capability (IOC) provides single sign-on access to the existing capabilities of WebLIDB, ILAP, ARMT, the Parts Tracker, the Readiness Predictive Analyzer (RPA), and other LOGSA tools. The LIW empowers Warfighters with critical logistics information and enables him to make positive impacts to equipment availability and unit combat power. This continuous improvement will ensure the Warfighter’s success as we embark upon the digital battlefield of the future.

U.S. Army Space and Missile
Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command (SMDC/ARSTRAT)

The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command serves as the Army Service Component Command to the U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM). SMDC/ARSTRAT conducts space and missile defense operations and provides planning, integration, control and coordination of Army forces and capabilities in support of U.S. Strategic Command missions (Strategic Deterrence, Integrated Missile Defense, Space Operations, and Cyberspace Operations). SMDC/ARSTRAT serves as the Army specified proponent for space, high altitude, and ground-based midcourse defense; serves as the Army operational integrator for global missile defense; and conducts mission-related research and development in support of Army Title 10 responsibilities. SMDC/ARSTRAT partners with other government agencies to build a missile defense capability for our nation and takes pride in moving warfighting technologies from concept to combat.

From its headquarters on Redstone Arsenal, SMDC/ARSTRAT oversees a number of Army elements around the globe.

The 1st Space Brigade in Colorado Springs, Colo., conducts space operations to enable delivery of decisive combat power. The 53rd Signal Battalion is a major element of the brigade that provides combatant commanders assured communications for command and control, critical intelligence, video teleconferences and logistics. The 1st Space Battalion’s Theater Missile Warning Company operates Joint Tactical Ground Stations (JTAGS) that provide early warning of missile launches to deployed U.S. forces worldwide. The battalion’s Army Space Support Company provides forward deployed capabilities, expertise and products in support of the warfighter who plans and executes the full spectrum of military operations.

The 100th Missile Defense Brigade (Ground-Based Midcourse Defense), Colorado Army National Guard, will oversee the GMD system. The 49th Missile Defense Battalion, supported by the Alaska Army National Guard, operates the GMD fire control network, provides positive operational control over the ground-based interceptors at Fort Greely, Alaska, and ensures protective security to the systems deployed there.

SMDC/ARSTRAT manages the Army’s astronauts at the NASA Astronaut Detachment, Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas. SMDC/ARSTRAT is also the Army proponent for the space operations career field.

The Ballistic Missile Defense System Manager (BMDSM) is responsible for the integration of DOTMLPF (Doctrine, Organizations, Training, Materiel, Leadership Education, Personnel and Facilities activities across all BMDS elements and continues to serve as the Army’s TRADOC Capability Manager for the Ballistic Missile Defense System (TCM BMDS).

The Technical Center (TC) in Huntsville is part of the Research, Development, and Acquisition (RDA) element of the command. The TC performs directed energy, space, high altitude, and missile defense research and development. The TC works with the Missile Defense Agency to develop and test missile defense technologies for the nation. It also is the command’s lead organization and executing agent for developmental and operational test and evaluation, and manages the High Energy Laser Systems Test Facility (HELSTF) at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., and the U.S. Army Kwajalein Atoll/Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site in the Republic of the Marshall Islands.

The Future Warfare Center (FWC), with offices in Huntsville and Colorado Springs, Colo., develops the Army’s space and missile defense doctrine and concepts, validates requirements, and ensures Armywide solution integration. The FWC rapidly advances innovations for space, missile defense, C4ISR, and information operations to the war fighter through prototype development, experimentation and wargames, analytical assessments, and modeling and simulation development. Additional FWC roles performed for the Joint community include management of High Performance Computer centers, threat scenario design, command and control engineering, and Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTD) management.

The Test and Warfighter Solutions Center (TWSC) in Huntsville manages the SMDC/ARSTRAT test, evaluation, and monitoring programs and facilities, and is responsible for managing numerous war fighter support technology integration programs.

For more information, visit www.army.mil/smdc or U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/ Army Forces Strategic Command, Director, Public Affairs, Building 5220, Huntsville, AL 35898, Phone: (256) 955-3887/Fax: (256) 955-1214. E-mail: webmaster@smdc.army.mil.

U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA)

The Missile Defense Agency is developing a Ballistic Missile The Missile Defense Agency is developing a Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) to defend the United States, our deployed forces overseas and our allies against ballistic missile threats of all ranges—short, medium, intermediate and long-range. The BMDS will employ layered systems with integrated defensive architectures capable of intercepting and destroying hostile missiles through the use of interceptor missiles based on land and at sea.

The system’s architecture includes:
• networked sensors and ground- and sea-based radars for target detection and tracking; as well as space-based sensors for missile detection and tracking;
• ground- and sea-based interceptor missiles for destroying a ballistic missile using either the force of a direct collision, called “hit-to-kill” technology, or an explosive blast fragmentation warhead;
• and a command, control, battle management, and communications network providing the war fighter with the needed links between the sensors and interceptor missiles.
• Several of the BMDS elements are managed in Huntsville and supported by Redstone Arsenal:

The Ground-Based Midcourse Defense Program - has fielded a capability to defend the territory of the United States against intermediate and long-range ballistic missile attacks in the midcourse phase of flight. Thirty ground-based interceptors are currently deployed at Fort Greely, Alaska and Vandenberg AFB, Calif.

Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) - will provide the BMDS with rapidly deployable ground-based missile defense components that deepen, extend and complement the BMDS to enable any combatant commander to defeat short-to-intermediate range ballistic missiles. THAAD is a transportable land-based element that has the capability to shoot down a ballistic missile either inside or just outside the earth’s atmosphere. The first THAAD Battery was activated in May 2008 and second THAAD Battery in October 2009.

Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) - is the most mature element of the BMDS. Now operational with the U.S. Army, this element is a land-based system built on the proven Patriot air and missile defense infrastructure. Although the Army is now responsible for PAC-3 procurement the Army and MDA continue to work together to ensure the successful integration of this component’s capabilities into the BMDS architecture.

Supporting efforts to the elements of the BMDS located at Redstone Arsenal include:

Targets and Countermeasures - oversees the design, development, manufacture, integration, and delivery of threat representative, reliable, and cost-effective ballistic missile targets and countermeasures for testing the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS). These targets are utilized to test, verify and validate performance of the BMDS. The program also executes pre- and post-test data reduction and identifies target characterization activities necessary to support the Missile Defense Agency’s test objectives.

Sensors - An effective layered defense incorporates a wide-range of sensors to detect and track threat missiles through all phases of their trajectory. Satellites and a family of land- and sea-based radars provide worldwide sensor coverage.

Test Directorate - The Missile Defense Agency conducts regular flight tests, including tests in which actual target intercepts are completed. These tests provide data to anchor models and simulations that can then be used to verify performance and confirm the technological progress of the Ballistic Missile Defense System. The MDA also conducts regular, rigorous non-intercept tests, including sensor characterization flight tests, ground tests, and war game exercises. Testing to date has given us confidence in the basic design, effectiveness, and operational capability for short-, medium-, and long-range ballistic missile defense.

Other elements of MDA not located in Huntsville but supported by Redstone Arsenal workers here include the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD), which is the sea-based component of the BMDS; the Airborne Laser Test Bed, a technology demonstration effort for testing the capability of a laser mounted on an aircraft for shooting down ballistic missiles in the early stages of their trajectory, and the Command, Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) program, hub of the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS). C2BMC globally links, integrates and synchronizes individual missile defense elements, systems and operations.

Redstone Arsenal will house more than 4,000 MDA employees by the end of Fiscal Year 2011. MDA is moving many of its employees into the new Von Braun III building starting in the spring of 2011, with a grand opening set for the first quarter of FY 2012. The MDA Headquarters near the Pentagon will be moved to Fort Belvoir, Va., in 2011.

Army Contracting Command (ACC)

The U.S. Army Contracting Command’s Soldiers, civilians and contractors support our Warfighters worldwide by acquiring equipment, supplies and services vital to our Soldiers’ mission and daily needs. Purchases range from food, clothing, bullets and bombs, to tanks, trucks, helicopters and planes, to their weapons and the installations where they work and live with their families. ACC ensures our Soldiers have what they need to be successful at home and at work.

ACC, a major subordinate command of the Army Materiel Command, will complete its relocation from Fort Belvoir, Va. to Redstone Arsenal by Aug. 1, 2011. As the Army’s business conduit, ACC offers contracting expertise ready to support the Warfighter while ensuring responsible stewardship of taxpayers’ funds. ACC continually ensures contracting support to the Warfighter as mission requirements emerge and change within the continental United States and throughout the globe.

ACC is lead by a civilian Senior Executive Service member equivalent to a two-star level commander and has two subordinate one-star commands: the Expeditionary Contracting Command and the Mission and Installation Contracting Command; and seven major contracting centers that provide support to a wide variety of customers, including AMC’s life cycle management commands and major subordinate commands.

An international business enterprise, the command awards more than 260,000 contracts each year valued at more than $92 billion, which is equal to 66 percent of the Army’s contract dollars and 17 percent of the total dollars spent on contracts by the entire federal government. ACC accomplishes this with more than 5,500 military and civilian employees at more than 115 locations worldwide.

The Expeditionary Contracting Command, also in the process of moving from Fort Belvoir to Redstone Arsenal, provides effective and agile contracting services across the full spectrum of military operations for Army commanders and joint Warfighters as well as to other Defense organizations at locations outside the continental United States. ECC accomplishes this vital mission through seven contracting support brigades, eight contingency contracting battalions and 83 contingency contracting teams throughout the world.

The Mission and Installation Contracting Command, with headquarters at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, provides contracting capabilities and services within the continental United States. Its customers include the U.S. Army Installation Management Command, U.S. Army Forces Command, the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, the U.S. Army Reserve Command and the U.S. Army Medical Command. MICC operates seven contracting centers and 35 contracting offices throughout the United States, Alaska and Puerto Rico.

With a wealth of contracting expertise, ACC professionals are dedicated to providing the highest quality of contracting support to all of their customers, whenever and wherever needed. A combat multiplier, the Army Contracting Command is doing its part in to keep the Army strong.

For more information, contact the Public and Congressional Affairs Office at (256) 955-7632. Visit us at www.acc.army.mil.

U.S. Army Security Assistance Command (USASAC)

The U.S. Army Security Assistance Command traces its origins to the Army’s technical service and was designated a major subordinate command of the U.S. Army Materiel Command in 1975.

The mission of USASAC is to implement approved U.S. Army security assistance programs, including Foreign Military Sales (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 (LOR), development, execution and closure. The Command manages approximately 4,000 FMS cases valued at more than $60 billion. USASAC also manages the Army’s co-production program. In addition, USASAC is responsible for Army security assistance information management and financial policy, and provides policy, procedure and guidance to the Army security assistance community. Today, the Command is increasingly responding to the Overseas Contingency Operations, support of U.S. government emergency assistance, humanitarian relief, and United Nations peacekeeping operations.

In carrying out the Army security assistance mission, USASAC - “The Army’s Face to the World” - calls on all AMC LCMCs, as well as other Department of Defense agencies and U.S. industry for support. Each sale of equipment to overseas customers comprises the same “total package” of quality materiel, spare parts, training, publications, technical documentation, maintenance support and other services that AMC provides to U.S. Army units.

Security assistance is a national program supervised and directed by the State Department. In conjunction with the White House, Congress and the Treasury Department, military security assistance programs are executed by the Department of Defense. Security assistance promotes regional stability, deters aggression, maintains alliances, enhances coalition partnerships, and disseminates democratic values between the United States and its allies.

USASAC is located in Building 4403 on Martin Road. It has offices located at Fort Belvoir, Va., Fort Bragg, N.C., New Cumberland, Penn., St. Louis, Mo., Saudi Arabia - Office of the Program Manager, and Saudi Arabian National Guard. It has liaison officer locations at EUCOM, PACOM, and SOUTHCOM, and in Afghanistan and Iraq. For more information, contact the USASAC Public Affairs Office at (256) 450-5727.
Program Executive Office Missiles and Space (PEO MS)
PEO Missiles and Space provides centralized management for all Army tactical and air defense missile programs and selected Army Space programs. The PEO was established in January 2005 with the merger of the PEO Air, Space and Missile Defense and the PEO Tactical Missiles. The PEO is responsible for the full life cycle management of assigned programs.

The portfolio of programs assigned to the PEO Missiles and Space spans the full spectrum of the acquisition process from system development to production, fielding, sustainment and eventual retirement from the force. A number of programs are joint and are being developed with the other services. Two programs within the PEO are international programs, with other countries sharing in the development as full partners.

The Cruise Missile Defense Systems (CMDS) Project Office includes Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System (JLENS), Sentinel Radar, Surface Launched Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (SLAMRAAM) and STINGER-based systems.

CMDS protects the force and selected geopolitical assets from aerial attack, missile attack and enemy surveillance. CMDS also protects the maneuver force and other critical assets against cruise missiles (CMs), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and rotary wing (RW) and fixed wing (FW) aircraft in the near term.

JLENS provides elevated, persistent, Over-The-Horizon (OTH) surveillance and fire control quality data on Army and Joint networks enabling protection of the United States, Allied and Coalition forces, as well as critical geo-political assets from Cruise Missiles, Aircraft, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), Tactical Ballistic Missiles (TBMs), large Caliber Rockets (LCRs) and Surface Moving Targets (SMTs).

Sentinel is a three-dimensional, battlefield X-band air defense tracking radar that provides commanders an integrated battlefield picture and cueing/target identification information for Army Divisional and Corps Forward Area Air Defense weapons.

SLAMRAAM is a system of systems that consists of a launch platform, AIM-120 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM), Sentinel (improved) Radar, other external sensors and an Integrated Fire Control Station (IFCS). SLAMRAAM is an advanced Air and Missile Defense system providing protection against a variety of threats to include cruise missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles, fixed and rotary wing targets.

The Lower Tier Project Office (LTPO) manages Air and Missile Defense weapons and related warning systems. These include the PATRIOT Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3), the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS), and the Joint Tactical Ground Station (JTAGS) programs. LTPO develops, tests, fields and sustains air defense systems to defend the lower tier of the Theater Air and Missile Defense (TAMD) architecture. LTPO manages all acquisition life cycle activities for PATRIOT and JTAGS programs. The United States MEADS National Product Office, within LTPO, provides oversight for U.S. interests in the International MEADS program.

The PATRIOT air defense system counters manned aircraft, tactical ballistic missiles and unmanned air-breathing threats, (e.g., cruise missiles, Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs)). PATRIOT is an extremely effective long-range, medium-to-high altitude air defense guided missile system providing protection of ground combat forces and high-value assets. It can conduct multiple simultaneous engagements in all weather conditions, under hostile electronic countermeasures environments. The Fire Unit, the combat element of PATRIOT, consists of a phased array radar, a manned engagement control station, and launching stations and missiles. PATRIOT Fire Units are organized as Battalions which exercise command, control and communications through the Battalion’s Headquarters and Headquarters Battery. The PAC-3 missile is a high velocity hit-to-kill, surface-to-air missile with the range, accuracy and lethality required to defend against weapons of mass destruction. The PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) represents the next generation PAC-3 missile, significantly extending that capability in terms of propulsion, lethality, agility, guidance and insensitive munitions improvements. PATRIOT systems are deployed with U.S. Forces and Allies worldwide.

MEADS is a mobile air and missile defense system being developed under the Tri-National effort of the U.S., Germany, and Italy. The system will defend the maneuver forces and fixed assets from short-and-medium range ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and other air-breathing threats such as aircraft or UAS. MEADS is the next generation air and missile defense system. MEADS includes a lightweight launcher, 360-degree fire control and surveillance radars, plug-and-fight battle management command and control abilities, and the PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement missile. Its open architecture will provide 21st century air and missile defense system-of-systems integration capabilities that allow operational mission tailoring for homeland defense or defense of maneuver forces.

JTAGS information processing systems use satellites to disseminate ballistic missile warnings or special event messages to Warfighters in support of regional Combatant Commanders. JTAGS are forward deployed, echelon above corps, transportable systems that receive and process space based infrared satellite data directly from USAF geosynchronous sensors. Once processed, Soldiers release ballistic missile warning messages and other infrared events to theater Warfighters over multiple communications systems. Ongoing JTAGS upgrades include: adding data from the Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Sensors, use of commercial antennas, improved communication methods, and relocating operations out of JTAGS shelters to integrate with theater command and control centers. JTAGS systems are deployed world-wide filling a key role in the U.S. Strategic Command’s Tactical Event System. The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command Soldiers operate JTAGS providing continuous space based missile warning across the globe.

The Joint Attack Munition Systems (JAMS) Project Office provides an unprecedented level of service and support as the Life Cycle Manager for the Joint Warfighters’ Rocket and Missile Systems. These systems include the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM), the Laser and Longbow HELLFIRE missiles, the 70-mm Hydra Rockets, the Viper Strike aerial-launched munitions, and the Griffin missile.

The JAGM will be a fixed/rotary-wing/UAV, aviation-launched missile system that provides advanced Line-of-Sight (LOS) and beyond LOS capabilities. The JAGM provides precision point targeting, fire-and-forget technology, and increased lethality/range for fixed/rotary-wing aircraft and unmanned aerial systems. JAGM is scheduled to replace aviation-launched TOW, the HELLFIRE family of missiles, and the Navy Maverick family of missiles. The JAGM is a joint program with the Navy and USMC for the Super Hornet (F/A-18E/F), Seahawk (MH-60R), Super Cobra (AH-1Z), Army’s Apache (AH-64D) and the Extended Range/Multipurpose (ER/MP) Unmanned Aerial System (UAS).

The combat proven HELLFIRE II missile is the primary air-to-ground precision weapon for rotary wing and unmanned aerial systems for all U.S. services as well as many other nations. The HELLFIRE missile is the only missile for multi-mission, multi-target capability and precision-strike lethality on today’s joint rotary wing platforms. The AGM-114R multi-purpose HELLFIRE II missile consolidates the capabilities of all previous HELLFIRE II semi-active laser (SAL) variants into a single missile that defeats a broad range of targets from armor and air defense systems to patrol boats and enemy combatants in the open. The Longbow HELLFIRE is a millimeter wave radar aided inertial guidance missile that provides a fire-and-forget capability to engage targets both day and night, in adverse weather and with battlefield obscurants present.

The 70-mm Hydra Rocket is a free-flight rocket that has become the standard, ground-attack rocket and was used extensively in the Korean War, Vietnam and Desert Storm. It is currently in use in Iraq and Afghanistan. The 70-mm Hydra Rocket provides air-to-ground suppression, smoke screening, illumination as well as direct and indirect fires to defeat area materiel and personnel targets at close and extended ranges. There are multiple warheads that can be used on the rocket motor. It is a conventional ammunition item used by all U.S. Services and many foreign countries. Both 70-mm Rockets and HELLFIRE Missiles are the primary armament for the U.S. Army’s AH-64 Apache, OH-58D Kiowa Warrior, the U.S. Marine Corps’ AH-1W Super Cobra and the U.S. Navy’s UH-60 Blackhawk.

The Viper Strike is an aerial-launched munition providing a capability to attack moving and stationary targets ranging from armored to thin-skinned targets in a variety of obscured environments. The Viper Strike System has been effectively demonstrated off numerous platforms to include helicopters, an AC-130 Gunship, and UAS’s. The Viper Strike was first used in combat in September 2007.

The Griffin missile, with precision accuracy through the use of GPS and SAL, provides the Warfighter advanced real-time flexibility through selectable options such as fuze settings for Point Detonation, Height-of-Burst and Delay for penetration as well as selectable laser codes. Griffin’s ease of integration makes it ideal for ground, vehicle or aerial platforms where there is a need for a reliable, lightweight precision missile capable of delivering lethal effects with low collateral damage.

The Precision Fires Rocket and Missile Systems (PFRMS) Project Office manages the Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) family of launchers, including the M270, M270A1, and the wheeled M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), as well as the suite of rockets and missiles for the launchers. The MLRS Family of Munitions (MFOM) includes the basic, extended-range, and guided rockets and the Block I/IA and Unitary Tactical Missile Systems. The MLRS Program is a five nation – U.S., United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Italy – cooperative development program. The PFRMS Project Office continues to work with these nations in the development and evolution of the MLRS launchers and munitions. The PFRMS Project Office rocket and missile inventory provides the Warfighter with 24/7, all-weather, all-terrain, tactical to operational out to 300-km range options for precision-strike destruction of enemy targets with minimal collateral damage.

The MLRS M270A1 is a highly maneuverable rocket/missile launcher weapons platform. The M270A1 fires all rockets and missiles in the current and future MFOM. This highly automated self-loading and self-aiming system contains a fire control computer that integrates the vehicle and rocket launching operations, with the capability to fire up to twelve MLRS rockets in fewer than 60 seconds. The launcher carries two launch pods/containers, each consisting of six MLRS rockets or one (Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) missile.

The HIMARS is a lighter-weight, wheeled variant of the M270A1 launcher mounted on a 5-ton truck chassis. It has the same command, control, and communications as the M270A1 launcher, but has only one launch pod/container. Its lighter weight makes it deployable while fully combat loaded to remote locations via C130 aircraft. Current HIMARS production integrates the Launcher Module on a new Increased Crew Protection armored cab providing greater protection for the crew while in combat. The HIMARS fleet will be retrofitted with this armored cab. Both the MLRS M270A1 launcher and HIMARS are being used in current combat operations.

The MLRS M26 is an unguided ballistic rocket that provides all weather, indirect fire capability designed to compliment cannon weapons in the tactical fires arena. The M26A1 and M26A2 are improved, extended-range variants of the M26. The Guided MLRS (GMLRS) Unitary rocket Dual Purpose Improved Conventional Munitions (DPICM) and Unitary are guided versions of the MLRS rocket. DPICM delivers multiple M101 grenades over a wide area. Unitary delivers a single, 200-lb High-Explosive (HE) warhead to its target.

The ATACMS Block I (inertial-guided) and Block IA (GPS-aided inertial-guided) missiles are surface-to-surface semi-ballistic missiles fired from the M270A1 and HIMARS launchers. The ATACMS Block I and IA deliver M74 anti-personnel/anti-materiel bomblets. ATACMS Unitary delivers a single, 500-pound high explosive warhead to its target.

The Close Combat Weapon Systems (CCWS) Project Office manages a number of anti-armor missile and target acquisition systems. Current missile systems include TOW 2A, TOW 2B, TOW BB, and the Javelin Medium Anti-tank System. CCWS-managed target acquisition systems include the Improved Target Acquisition System (ITAS) and the Improved Bradley Acquisition Subsystem (IBAS). CCWS is also responsible for managing related ancillary Bradley TOW subsystems items.

The Javelin system provides the U.S. Army and the U.S. Marine Corps a man-portable, fire-and-forget, medium-range missile with enhanced situational awareness and precision direct-fire effects to defeat armored vehicles, fortifications and irregular targets in full spectrum operations. Javelin has a high kill rate against a variety of targets at extended ranges and under day/night, battlefield obscurants, adverse weather and multiple counter-measure conditions. The system’s soft launch feature permits firing from a fighting position or an enclosure. Javelin’s fire-and-forget technology allows the gunner to fire and immediately take cover, to move to another firing position or to reload. The Javelin provides enhanced lethality through the use of a tandem warhead which will defeat all known armor threats. A multi-purpose warhead is planned to increase effectiveness against soft and irregular targets.

The TOW Missile Family consists of the TOW 2A Missile, the TOW 2B Missile, the TOW 2B Aero Missile, and the TOW Bunker Blaster. TOW missiles are combat proven and provide heavy anti-armor/assault capability to the Army’s Brigade Combat Teams. TOW continues to be used consistently in Iraq and Afghanistan. Different TOW Missile variations are optimized for performance against tanks and for precision assault against buildings and field fortifications. TOW is integrated on a wide variety of combat systems including helicopters, fighting vehicle systems as well as both light tracked and wheeled vehicles.

The ITAS system provides long-range, lethal anti-armor and precision assault fires capability to the anti-armor sections in infantry battalions and to the anti-tank variant light armored vehicle. The ITAS fires all versions of TOW missiles. ITAS uses a second-generation forward-looking infrared system, digital components, and an eye safe laser range finder. The ITAS uses a far target location capability that enables the ITAS gunner to provide accurate 10 digit targeting information to the Platoon Leader for coordinating indirect fires and close air support.

The Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) Project Office defines, develops, acquires, fields and sustains the Army’s portion of the Joint Integrated Air and Missile Defense system of systems capability to be deployed as integrated components in Army, Joint, Interagency, Intergovernmental and Multi-national (JIIM) Net-centric architectures. Additionally, the IAMD Project Office will develop, acquire, field and sustain the IAMD Battle Command System (IBCS) component of the architecture and integrate externally developed sensors and shooters to provide an effective IAMD capability.

The U.S. Army AMD Concept and Operational and Organizational (O&O) Plan for the Future Force calls for a transformation to a network-centric IAMD capability that integrates all AMD sensors, weapons and BMC4I. This future architecture will enable the distributed support of engagements with available sensor assets not limited to system-centric organic sensors. The PEO MS is applying an IAMD system of systems acquisition approach to meet the requirements of the Warfighter and obtain the desired capabilities of the Army AMD Future Force. This approach calls for a restructuring of systems into components of sensors, weapons, and BMC4I with a standard set of interfaces among those components using a standardized set of networks to communicate. The Army’s IAMD acquisition approach significantly impacts the PEO MS strategy for materiel development and systems acquisition. Each of the PEO MS Project Offices are working together to implement the IAMD Acquisition Strategy that will guide our efforts in delivering the required capabilities.

The IAMD Program represents a paradigm shift from the traditional system-centric weapon systems acquisition approach to a component-based acquisition approach. This component-based acquisition approach will provide the most efficient way to acquire and integrate the components of the incremental IAMD architectures. Unlike traditional acquisition programs that focus primarily on the development of a single system or platform, the IAMD Program is uniquely structured to enable the development of an overarching system of systems capability with all participating Air and Missile Defense (AMD) components functioning interdependently to provide total operational capabilities not achievable by the individual element systems.

The Counter Rocket, Artillery, and Mortar (C-RAM) Program Directorate is responsible for the overall management of activities related to research, development, acquisition, fielding, and sustainment of automated air and missile defense command and control systems, integrating them into Standard Army tactical shelters, and maximizing the use of standard Army tactical hardware and power systems. This is accomplished through three major program efforts:

• The Forward Area Air Defense Command and Control (FAAD C2) System of Systems which integrates and provides the C2 for short range Air Defense sensors and shooters.

• The Air & Missile Defense Planning and Control System (AMDPCS) which integrates computers, communications, and sheltered systems to provide all Army echelons with Air & Missile Defense planning, situational awareness and understanding, command and control of attached Air Defense elements, and airspace management and de-confliction capability.

• The Program Office Is the Lead System Integrator (LSI) for the emerging C-RAM and Integrated Base Defense Systems of Systems (IBDSoS). The C-RAM capability is not a single system, it is primarily comprised of Department of Defense systems, most of which were already in existence and in use today along with selected Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) hardware. Though the C-RAM Program Directorate is an Army office, it works across the military branches and services to develop this capability from several component systems, creating a system of systems.

C-RAM Program Directorate products and services are already benefiting our forces. FAAD C2 systems and components have been the backbone for maneuver Air Defense units in the Active and Reserve Components since 1993 and they are currently critical to our on-going Homeland Defense missions. Our Air and Missile Defense Command and Control System (AMDCCS) component and shelter fielding to all echelons of the Army began in 1995. Chief among these are Air Defense and Airspace Management (ADAM) cells of which we have fielded more than 90 to maneuver brigades and above since 2003. C-RAM capability systems and components were developed and integrated in 2004 and have been fielded in Iraq since 2005. C-RAM Sense, Warn and Respond performance has also been extremely successful, providing timely warning for more than 1,500 rocket and mortar attacks against Forward Operating Bases (FOBs) with a minimum of false warnings, saving countless lives. In addition, intercept systems have achieved more than 100 successful intercepts of rockets and mortar rounds fired at high value Multi-National Corps - Iraq assets. One specific intercept prevented serious casualties by destroying a rocket that would have impacted a large number of U.S. and coalition personnel gathered for a United Service Organizations (USO) Show. Just as important are nearly an equal number of non-engagements purposely terminated to protect friendly aircraft.

SUMMARY: As part of the reorganization of the acquisition community, the PEO Missiles and Space became part of the Life Cycle Management Command at Redstone Arsenal. This command relationship enhances the PEO’s ability to provide the world’s finest support to our Warfighters while continuing the Army’s modernization.

Program Executive Office Aviation (PEO AVN)
Established in 1987, the Program Executive Office for Aviation streamlines aircraft acquisitions and is a single, direct reporting link to the Army Acquisition Executive. PEO Aviation’s projects include Apache Attack Helicopter, Armed Scout Helicopter, Aviation Systems, Cargo Helicopter, Utility Helicopter, Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Non-Standard Rotary Wing Aircraft.

The AH-64D Apache Longbow is the world’s premier attack helicopter. It is armed with missiles, rockets and chain gun, and is equipped with sophisticated sensors, communications, survivability equipment and navigation suites. There are currently three variants of the Apache. The AH-64A Apache is solely in our Reserve Component. The Block I and II Apache Longbows are fielded throughout the Total Army. Apache brings semi-active laser and fire and forget HELLFIRE missiles, a family of 70mm rockets and 30mm cannon fires in the close and extended battlefield. Through increased survivability, lethality and versatility, it continues to prove itself with distinction in combat operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as numerous deployments around the world. Combat proven, the Apache has evolved and stands today as one of the world’s most effective gunships. The Apache program has had several improvements in the Sensors Product Office. The performance of the Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight (M-TADS)/Pilot Night Vision Sensor (PNVS) continue to be proven in Operation New Dawn and Operation Enduring Freedom and the improved imaging capabilities of the system have significantly increased the Apache’s lethality and operational flexibility. The sensors that make the Apache lethal make it the most versatile rotary wing reconnaissance platform the world has ever seen. The Longbow Block III program is the next generation Apache which is fully compatible with the Future Combat System (FCS) and brings back the energy of the early model and adds capabilities for today’s fight. The Apache Block III represents the next step in the evolution in the Apache program. In September 2010, the program received authority for Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) and a contract award immediately followed. We are now in production of the AB3, and the first few aircraft have been inducted, and the Army will field the first unit in FY 2013. The AB3 provides significant increases in performance and capability in high/hot environments. Advances in technology will provide the Block III with improved manned - unmanned interoperability, weight reduction initiatives, open system architecture, and reduced pilot workload via cognitive decision aiding technologies. AB3 will also provide a net-ready capability that maintains Army interoperability for Joint operations and future Army requirements.

The Armed Scout Helicopter Project Office, established in October 2006, manages all scout and Initial Entry Rotary Wing (IERW) training aircraft. It includes the Kiowa Warrior and the Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter (ARH) Product Offices, along with the Assistant Project Manager for Training Helicopters. The cancellation of the ARH-70A program in October 2008 made it necessary to keep the OH-58D Kiowa Warrior (KW) on the front line for the foreseeable future. The OH-58D is a proven work horse for the Warfighter and today remains a reliable asset for theater ground commanders. The decision to maintain the OH-58D in front line service also meant major upgrades were required to meet the Warfighter’s current and future demands. In September 8, 2010, the U.S. Air Force approved the Army’s request for an OH-58F Mission, Design and Series designation. The F model KW will provide leap-ahead technology and increased capability through the implementation of a Cockpit and Sensor Upgrade Program (CASUP). PM Kiowa Warrior launched the program in accordance with the Defense Department guidance to spend near-term Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter funds to sustain the existing Kiowa Warrior fleet. The F model KW capitalizes on non-developmental items and systems fielded on other aviation platforms to rapidly install, modify or provide the following: advanced Nose Mounted Sensor, improved cockpit control hardware and software for enhanced situational awareness, three full color Multi-function Displays, dual-redundant digital engine controller for enhanced engine safety, digital inter-cockpit communications, digital HELLFIRE future upgrades, Aircraft Survivability Equipment (ASE) upgrades and a redesigned aircraft wiring harness. Additionally, the FOX model will integrate the following capabilities: Level 2 Manned Unmanned Teaming, Common Missile Warning System (CMWS), Health and Usage Monitoring (HUMS), and enhanced weapons functionality via 1760 digital interface. The emerging Armed Aerial Scout Helicopter mission is currently in the final stages of analysis with the final report expected during the second quarter of 2011. The Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) is ongoing and will likely result in a requirement for a new manned, armed reconnaissance helicopter, an additional upgrade to the Kiowa Warrior design, or requirements for more UAS. The Assistant Project Manager for Training Helicopters provides life cycle management for the TH-67 and OH-58A/C, while managing divestiture of the AH-1F and UH-1H in accordance with the Army’s Aviation Restructure Plan.

The Aviation Systems Project Management Office touches virtually every aspect of Army Aviation. With five product offices managing over 90 products, their mission is far reaching and critical to aviation operations. The PM AS team is working diligently to develop and integrate new and improved products and systems for Army aircraft and maintainers around the world. PM Aviation Ground Support Equipment develops, acquires, fields and sustains the Army’s aviation ground support equipment. PM Aviation Mission Equipment provides intensive, centralized management of assigned multi-application aviation electronic (avionics) systems/equipment and represents the Army in Tri-Service and multi-national matters pertaining to assigned avionics. PM Air Traffic Control Systems develops materiel for and oversees the life cycle management of tactical and fixed base ATC systems for today’s Army and the Army of the future. PM Fixed Wing manages the acquisition, fielding, sustainment, and retirement of all Army fixed wing platforms, encompassing over 250 Army turboprop and jet aircraft that perform a multitude of essential DoD missions. The Army senior leadership has recognized the magnitude of work required to acquire, field, sustain and modernize the Army’s FW fleet and also recently approved the creation of a new Project Office for Fixed Wing. Approximately 100 additional FW aircraft will be integrated into the PM and will remain at Redstone Arsenal as part of the PEO Aviation. PM AS continues to move forward, bringing together the power of interoperability and networking, and linking new and legacy systems for increased combat capability. The Product Director for Network Operations and Mission Planning is responsible for software development, interoperability and mission planning for all Army rotary wing aircraft.

The CH-47 Chinook is the Army’s only heavy-lift cargo helicopter. The Chinook is a twin turbine engine, tandem-rotor helicopter, designed to transport ground forces, supplies, ammunition, and other battle-critical cargo supporting worldwide combat and contingency missions. The CH-47 PMO provides the management authority for all CH-47 modification, recapitalization, and upgrade programs. The CH-47 PMO is focused on fielding the new CH-47F Improved Cargo Helicopter (ICH) and sustaining the current CH-47D fleet in support of the many ongoing combat, emergency and peacetime operations. The CH-47F is a fully modernized aircraft with significant upgrades that include a fully integrated Common Avionics Architecture System (CAAS) digital cockpit and the Digital Advanced Flight Control System (DAFCS). The first fully equipped production CH-47F was delivered to the US Army in November 2006 and a total of 452 CH-47F model aircraft are scheduled for delivery over the next 12 years. While the arrival of the CH-47F marks a major milestone, Soldier Focused Logistics, which consolidated and integrated key Chinook support organizations and personnel into one centralized location, has proven to be an effective army transformation program by improving communications and providing quicker response times to support the CH-47 fleet. Modernization efforts continue to be integrated into the Chinook fleet, including the development/incorporation/addition of: (1) the Garmin 696, (2) the improved gun mount, and (3) the Electronic Control Unit. To maximize dwell time and improve the Soldier’s quality of life, PM Cargo developed and executed the CH-47F Chinook Helicopter New Equipment Training Team (NETT) as a new model for Aviation. The program took over two years to develop and provides Soldiers comprehensive training at the unit’s duty location. Army senior leadership has recognized the value of the CH-47F NET program and is now the preferred method to train deploying units.

The PM for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) is responsible for the development, systems integration, acquisition and logistical support of all Army UAS. These systems provide field Commanders improved situational awareness by providing near real-time reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition and battle damage assessment. Current programs include the MQ-5B Hunter UAS, the MQ-1C Gray Eagle UAS which includes the Sky Warrior-Alpha/Block 0 variants, the RQ-7B Shadow UAS and the RQ-11B Raven Small UAS, which are deployed in support of both Operational Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). The MQ-1C Gray Eagle UAS will be a mainstay of the Division Commander’s battle-set for land warfare operations and is the most advanced and fully weaponized UAS fielded by the Army. The MQ-1C development is ongoing with the Army planning for 17 total systems (147 aircraft). Other projected milestones include Initial Operational Test and Evaluation (IOT&E) of the First Unit Equipped (FUE) in September 2011 followed by achievement of Initial Operational Capability (IOC) by March 2012. The Universal Ground Control Station (UGCS) will replace the current OSGCS beginning with the 3d unit equipped. Initial capability of the system will provide three simultaneous and continuous missions through small increases in equipment, improved technology, and changes to doctrine and operational concepts.

Demands for increased UAS support have created a groundswell of requests. The most recent are for additional small UAS in Afghanistan which the PM has answered by acquiring, fielding, and training operators as well as by employing the Puma UAS to OEF. They have also initiated doubling the number of Raven systems fielded to deployed Brigade Combat Teams. PM UAS is making initial preparations to deploy a QRC Vertical Take-Off and Landing UAS capability in support of increased Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance requirements in theater, resetting a DARPA-owned YMQ-18A (Hummingbird), and conducting fit checks of the DARPA ARGUS payload. Upon successful completion of integration test flights, the YMQ-18A and appropriate payloads will fly operational missions in Afghanistan by the end of FY11. Additionally, two SOCOM-owned Hummingbirds, the first of the Block II configuration, will be upgraded for possible deployment to OEF in 2QFY12 to join the QRC aircraft deployed there in FY11.

The Utility Helicopters Project Office manages a variety of Army aircraft and engine fleets. The versatile Black Hawk fleet provides the Army with combat, combat support and combat service aviation support. The US Army maintains the world’s most powerful Utility Helicopter fleet. This force provides the tactical commander with the mobility and agility to act decisively inside the enemy’s decision cycle. Many of the Army’s War on Terror logistical transport tasks are accomplished with the Black Hawk. PM Utility fielded 172 brand new Black Hawk/Lakota aircraft as well as 48 recapitalized Black Hawks last year. They are on track to field another 169 new Black Hawks/Lakota aircraft, and an additional 48 recapitalized Black Hawk’s this year. Black Hawk assembly lines now feature the “M” series aircraft, with both HH-60Ms and UH-60Ms in full production. The PM continues to support the production of Navy, Other Government Agencies, and Foreign Military Sales aircraft as well. New Mission Equipment Packages and sub-systems have been well received in the field. Since the award of the UH-72A contract in June 2006 148 of the UH-72A Lakota helicopters have entered service with the Army and Army National Guard (ARNG). The aircraft have flown over 30,000 hours conducting training and test support, MEDEVAC, natural disaster response and counter drug missions. The rapid production and fielding of these modern aircraft returned 24 UH-60 aircraft to the war fight and accelerated the retirement of aging UH-1 and OH-58A/C aircraft. In the next year the fielding of an additional 62 UH-72A will place over half of the planned 345 fleet in service by September 2011. The UH-72A Lakota program continues its rapid progress with 214 aircraft on contract, 148 delivered and 141 flying with the Active Army and Army National Guard. In the upcoming year, the aircraft will begin receiving the S&S Battalion MEP and will significantly improve the capability of the Lakota in Homeland Security, border patrol, and counter drug missions.

PEO Aviation’s newest project office for Non-Standard Rotary Wing Aircraft (NSRWA) continues to work closely with industry partners to improve support to the Warfighter. Safety, airworthiness, and responsive support to all the non-standard platforms will remain the core function of all non-standard PMO operations. The new NSRWA PM is responsible for executing all procurement, sustainment, and technical support to meet the requirements for aircraft and crews in support of DoD and partner nations. In December 2010, the Acquisition Decision Memorandum authorized transfer procurement authority for 21 Mi-17 aircraft for the Combined Security Transition Command - Afghanistan (CSTC-A) to the Department of the Army. Since its inception, the NSRWA PMO has grown to over 100 personnel, assumed responsibilities for other non-standard aircraft procurement and delivered new Mi-17s to Iraq and Afghanistan. The Project Office is applying lessons learned and will orchestrate a comprehensive assimilation plan that will allow the Project Office to remain responsive to the new non-standard customers without compromising support to the Mi-17 community. In addition to Mi-17 helicopters, the NSRWA PMO is chartered to manage all non-standard rotary wing aircraft for the US Army. A couple of examples of those efforts are the AH-6i and MD 530F aircraft being procured for the Saudi Arabia National Guard (SANG). The SANG is standing up three Aviation Brigades and a fourth Aviation Support Brigade over a 15 year period. The NSRWA PMO will manage the acquisition and sustainment of these systems to include the integration of SANG unique components and overall aircraft airworthiness. The MD-530F will serve as an FAA certified basic rotary wing trainer, while the AH-6i will serve as an armed scout/attack aircraft. Another example of aircraft managed by NSWRA PMO is the primary rotary wing training aircraft currently being acquired for use by the NATO Air Training Command - Afghanistan (NATC-A) to train basic rotary wing skills to the Afghanistan National Air Force. These aircraft will facilitate the transition of the Afghanistan National Air Force from basic rotary wing pilots into more complex aircraft required to execute their war on terror and counter-narcotics missions.

Redstone Test Center
The Redstone Test Center (RTC) is the Army’s premier tester of small rockets, missiles, aviation and sensor systems, subsystems and components. RTC provides life cycle support to programs from concept formulation through research and development, production, and post-production testing helping to ensure top quality systems are provided to the Soldier. Redstone Test Center is one of six test centers under the U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC) located in Aberdeen, Md.

As a part of the BRAC 2005, the Redstone Test Center was created as a merger between the Redstone Technical Test Center and the Aviation Technical Test Center. RTC has built new facilities that will help to effectively carry out the mission of protecting the war fighter. The new RTC Headquarters, located on Martin Road, will hold nearly 200 employees supporting the Command. The massive RTC hangar will have 10 unified facilities criteria-compliant aircraft modules and 60 different aircraft representing all design series in the Army fleet that will be managed from the hangar at Redstone Army Airfield.

RTC is integral in the system, subsystem and component testing for all categories of Army materiel. RTC provides state-of-the-art facilities, with highly specialized equipment, for comprehensive testing of weapon systems to a full spectrum of natural and induced environments encompassing the entire lifecycle from cradle to grave.

RTC’s capabilities include, but are not limited to, the areas of telemetry, infrared signature characterization, missile flight-testing, missile stockpile surveillance testing, operational scenario test data acquisition, and test conduct and control. The Center operates the DoD hazardous lightning test facility and provides full service support to our customers for weapons systems research, development, production and post-production. RTC operates two missile flight ranges on Redstone Arsenal. Sled tracks, air-gun facilities and instrumentation provide the capability for dynamically testing warheads. A 5,000-meter test range on the northern end of the arsenal is available for sensor and seeker testing and evaluation. RTC maintains a captive carry capability for evaluation of early prototype sensors as well as mature hardware. Two highly stabilized test assemblies capable of tracking targets can be mounted on various aviation platforms to simulate flight profiles of sensors. Target signature characterization is also provided.

RTC’s aviation arm plans and conducts developmental flight testing for manned and unmanned systems and airworthiness qualification for manned aircraft. Testing includes air vehicle performance, handling qualities, flight characteristics, systems performance, and reliability, maintainability and system safety. The aviation arm also assesses aviation life support equipment, armament, avionics, countermeasures, aviation support equipment, targeting devices and flight simulator systems.

More than 1100 highly skilled military, government civilian, and contractor personnel, provide dedicated support working directly with customers throughout every aspect of the test process. RTC manages over one million square feet of test facilities on 14,000 acres of test ranges. RTC is committed to satisfying the needs of its customers with quality test services. For more information about RTC, call (256) 876-3556, email rtc.contactUs@conus.army.mil or visit the RTC website at www.rtc.army.mil.

U.S. Army Ordnance Munitions and Electronics Maintenance School (OMEMS)
Fiscal year 2011 will be the last year for the U.S. Army Ordnance Munitions and Electronics Maintenance School to be in residence at Redstone Arsenal. As part of BRAC 2005, OMEMS is now undergoing a move to new facilities at Fort Lee, Va.

OMEMS is a U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command school, and has graduated more than 224,251 students since it began operations at Redstone Arsenal in 1952. Today’s OMEMS team includes more than 970 military and civilian personnel who conduct and support 87 courses of instruction and currently train more than 6,000 Soldiers annually.

In conjunction with the 59th Ordnance Brigade, OMEMS consists of two battalions: the 832nd Ordnance Battalion at Redstone Arsenal and the 73rd Ordnance Battalion at Fort Gordon, Ga. In addition, there are five training departments with three training detachments at other locations: Patriot Training Detachment, Fort Bliss, Texas; Explosive Ordnance Disposal Detachment (Provisional), Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.; and Fort Sill Ordnance Training Detachment, Fort Sill, Okla. The focal point for the school’s noncommissioned officer (NCO) training program is the NCO Academy at Redstone Arsenal. Basic and advanced NCO courses are conducted throughout the year to prepare Ordnance NCOs for positions that have increasing technical leadership responsibilities.

Courses range in length from one to 52 weeks and represent 15 enlisted occupational specialties and three warrant officer specialties. Among the OMEMS graduates are international students from over 25 allied nations.

OMEMS has the unique mission of training civilian public safety personnel to become bomb technicians and respond to weapons of mass destruction incidents. Under the joint direction of the Army and the Department of Justice, the Hazardous Devices Division has graduated more than 18,191 civilian bomb technicians since its inception in 1971.

Enlisted Soldiers, who come from basic training, start their missile and electronic maintenance studies with a foundation of basic electronics, computer logic, hydraulic technology and soldering. After successfully completing the basic electronics training, students move to complex electronics systems, radar and missile-related ground support equipment.

Soldiers who train at the Ordnance Electronic Maintenance Training Department, Fort Gordon, Ga., attend basic electronics training and then progress to repairing equipment in a specialized field. These fields include avionics, radios, radar, flight control and air traffic control. Other Soldiers receive training on repairing field radios, military and personal computers, telephone systems and specialized sets used in mine detection, chemical agent detectors, night vision devices and searchlights. Warrant Officers are trained to manage electronic maintenance shops.

Soldiers and Marines specializing in munitions receive training in identifying domestic and foreign munitions. They also learn to safely move, store issue and account for munitions, as well as perform approved procedures for safe demolition of unserviceable ordnance. Students come to OMEMS to learn leadership skills necessary for logistical support and materiel management in the ammunition field. Warrant officers receive training for related technical skills. Noncommissioned officers receive instruction in leadership skills and, in some courses, technical skills as well.

Students specializing in explosive ordnance disposal receive training in identification, disposal, and render safe procedures for conventional, chemical, nuclear and improvised explosive ordnance items. Additional training is provided in support of civil law enforcement agencies, State Department, and U.S. Secret Service for security and protection of VIPs.

Training, conferences, demonstrations and practical exercises are augmented with computer terminals, TV/DVD programs, individual study stations and discussions in small group instruction. Military hardware placed at outdoor training areas provides students a chance to apply their skills in realistic field environments.

The bottom line, OMEMS continues to do what it does best: produce the world’s finest Soldiers.

For questions or more information, call (256) 876-7381.

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives/National Center for Explosives Training and Research (ATF/NCETR)
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives/The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives/National Center for Explosives Training and Research is the first-of-its-kind explosives training and research center in the Department of Justice (DOJ). DOJ established the NCETR as a division within ATF’s Office of Training and Professional Development after Congress passed the Homeland Security Act of 2002.

ATF/NCETR is now headquartered on Redstone Arsenal. The groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of the NCETR was held Nov. 6, 2008, and the $30 million facility opened in the fall of 2010. ATF selected Redstone Arsenal as the permanent site to house ATF’s national explosives program for a number of reasons, to include the availability of suitable site for the administrative building, explosives storage availability, a domestic airport at Huntsville, a hazardous waste site on base and exclusive-use range availability. Equally important, it allows for the collaboration between ATF and major military and civilian research entities that are already located at Redstone Arsenal, as well as foster partnerships with private industry in training and research.

ATF/NCETR facility will provide explosives training for ATF special agents and investigators, military and other federal, state, local and international law enforcement first responders from the explosives community. It will be used to promote and conduct research and to improve the ability of ATF and its partners to investigate bombings, explosives thefts and diversion, and to ensure the safe and secure storage of explosives.

The ATF/NCETR goal is to provide a fully equipped facility where explosive experts can come together to conduct state-of-the-art scientific research, testing and evaluation. The NCETR facility is expected to encourage cooperation and information sharing on a global level, strengthening world-wide capabilities to fight explosives related crimes.

ATF’s technical expertise, knowledge, experience and forensic capabilities related to explosives properties, mixtures, devices, products and forensics are extensive. ATF relies on this expertise to provide technically accurate and reliable information to Congress, the public and law enforcement. The research conducted at NCETR will take three main forms, broadly categorized as:

• Applied Research - Conducted with the goal to produce data in furtherance of agency objectives to fill a specific need and dedicated to the solution of defined problems,

• Testing and Evaluation - A methodology of applied research that can be characterized as those projects that support classifications, rulings and other official ATF determinations concerning explosives products, tools or devices.

• Reconstruction and Modeling - Research that directly supports specific ongoing criminal or terror investigations and/or prosecutions.

For more information, contact: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives National Center for Explosives Training and Research. Phone: (256) 261-7500. Web site: www.atf.gov.

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Hazardous Devices School (HDS)
The Hazardous Devices School, a joint effort between the FBI and the U.S. Army, represents the government’s only civilian bomb school. During the last 40 years, it has trained over 25,000 bomb technicians on the techniques and procedures for disposing of hazardous devices, including weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Today, over 2,800 active technicians from local, state, federal, and U.S. territorial agencies represent 468 nationally accredited bomb squads.

On September 13, 2004, a ribbon cutting ceremony was held at HDS to formally unveil the completion of a $23 million construction project for the new HDS Training Facility. The U.S. Army and Redstone Arsenal furnished 295 acres for the construction, in addition to the approximately 160 acres where the existing ranges are located.
The HDS facility includes three main administrative buildings, with approximately 54,000 total square feet, plus 14 separate villages with 28 building for practical problem exercises. The villages include every conceivable type of building and amenity to allow for a very realistic practice exercise-training environment. The facility was designed specifically with modern technology in mind, including robot operations and advanced bomb response vehicle platforms.

The HDS courses include training on all of the equipment the FBI has provided to bomb squads for WMD response. In addition, state-of-the-art counterterrorism training is being provided to students to prepare them for the possibility of large vehicle bombs, suicide bombers, special threats and stand-off weapons, such as mortar attacks. This new training facility is one of only two in existence worldwide and was modeled after the British military’s Felix Center in the United Kingdom.

HDS selects students through FBI offices that have liaison with local agencies featuring newly approved or accredited bomb squads. The school only takes individuals sponsored by their organizations. There is no tuition for any HDS course. And, the FBI provides reimbursement for travel and per diem costs pertaining to select courses.

The HDS mission has changed significantly since 1971. HDS continues to prepare first responders with the necessary training needed to counter criminal and terrorist bombers. This facility offers realistic, superior training for students. Mistakes made and learned from in this lifelike environment will result in safer operations in the field when real situations arise.

Graduates will find themselves ready to face today’s uncertain world. HDS strives to ensure that personnel from various agencies successfully will address not only today’s challenges but tomorrow’s as well.

The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville
The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, is a major subordinate command to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Its original mission was support to ballistic missile defense, but over the years has expanded into additional programs that include installation support, medical, ordnance and explosives, and chemical demilitarization. The Huntsville Center operates under a charter that is based on programs rather than geography.

As the Corps’ Installation Support Center of Expertise (CX), the Huntsville Center supports military installations in a variety of public works programs including utilities procurement and energy savings contracting; physical and electronic security; utilities monitoring and fire protection systems; ranges and training land; facilities planning, operation, repair and renovation; mobilization facilities; facilities demolition/deconstruction; furniture and furnishings; and contingency support.

The Medical Facilities CX provides expertise and medical facility life cycle support by replacement of existing facilities, providing new facilities, daily operations and maintenance, repair, renovation or renewal of medical and medical research facilities for the Department of Defense, other federal agencies and foreign governments.

The Ordnance and Explosives Directorate performs investigations and clearances of ordnance, explosives and recovered chemical warfare materiel, to safely eliminate or reduce risks to the public across the nation and around the world.

The Environmental and Munitions CX has technical specialists who provide environmental cleanup, environmental compliance, and munitions response guidance and assistance to customers in the following ways: Project document review; project specific technical assistance; expert technical trouble-shooting assistance, technology transfer/lessons learned; environmental management systems development; participation on panels and advisory committees; and environmental and munitions related training. We have the following technical specialists available: Environmental compliance specialists, chemists, health physicists, risk assessors, munitions safety specialists, industrial hygienists, geophysicists, geologists, cost engineers, and geotechnical, chemical and environmental engineers.

The Huntsville Center’s Chemical Demilitarization Directorate is the Life Cycle Project Manager for facility design and construction; and equipment design, acquisition and installation of chemical demilitarization facilities to safely destroy the nation’s stockpile of aging chemical weapons. The directorate also provides management, technical and contracting support to the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, assisting Russia in the design and construction of facilities to destroy its chemical weapons stockpile.

The Huntsville Center also functions as the Corps of Engineers’ Deputy Program Manager and the Life Cycle Program Manager for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense Program designing test, tactical and tactical support facilities. Program responsibility encompasses overall program management including design management, construction management, construction acquisition development, special studies and site surveys, criteria development and engineering support during construction.

Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA)
From the roar of mighty rocket engines to extraordinary scientific discoveries about our universe, Marshall Space Flight Center has continued to enable the nation’s exploration of space since 1960.

Marshall is focused on advancing technologies to create new opportunities in space. The center uses its talented team members and advanced facilities to serve the interests of both science and exploration. The result is powerful space transportation vehicles, ground-breaking scientific discoveries, and an increased ability to live and work in space.

A Legacy of Space Launch Systems
Since its inception, Marshall has provided the agency with mission-critical design, development, and integration of the launch and space systems required for space operations, exploration, and scientific missions. Prior to their transfer to NASA, Dr. Wernher von Braun and the Army rocket team in Huntsville developed the Redstone and Jupiter missiles. The Jupiter became the launch vehicle for America’s first satellite, Explorer I. The Redstone missile evolved into the Redstone rocket that launched astronauts Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom on the nation’s first suborbital space missions in 1961.

After this initial milestone, Marshall engineers developed and tested the stages and engines that powered the Saturn V launch vehicle to the moon. Test firings of the giant Saturn stages and rocket engines sometimes could be heard from as far as 100 miles away. Marshall provided NASA with a total of 32 Saturn rockets, including the six vehicles that lifted astronauts to the lunar surface.

Space Shuttle
Marshall is responsible for the manufacture, assembly, and operation of the primary propulsion elements on one of the most complex machines ever built – the space shuttle. These propulsion elements include the main engines, the external tank, and the twin solid rocket boosters. During space shuttle launches at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., Marshall engineers monitor real-time data from the shuttle during pre-mission testing, countdown, and launch. From the Huntsville Operations Support Center, they evaluate and help solve technical issues associated with launch. These teams decide whether Marshall-managed propulsion systems are “go” for launch.

For three decades and more than 130 missions, the space shuttle has carried cargo and crew into orbit. Shuttle flights have been home to unique microgravity research and have launched scientific spacecraft such as giant telescopes that allow us to explore the universe. Shuttle flights transported all of the major components of the now completed International Space Station. In 2011, the space shuttle will be retired from service, making way for a new generation of space transportation systems.
Space Launch System
NASA is transitioning to commercial space transportation providers for sending cargo to the space station, with the possibility of commercial crew transport in the future. Marshall has been chosen to lead the design of the nation’s next heavy-lift launch vehicle. The new space launch system will support exploration beyond low Earth orbit and serve as a backup to service the ISS. This capability will enable humans to travel farther into space and to visit new destinations in our solar system.

Living and Working in Space
Scientists, engineers, and technicians at Marshall have managed the design of many space laboratories. Solutions for doing experiments in space were initially developed for Skylab, America’s first space laboratory. Those systems evolved into the Spacelab modules that flew onboard the shuttle. These first and second generation laboratories helped shape plans for the International Space Station.

International Space Station
Marshall is home to the Payload Operations Center (POC), the science command post for the International Space Station. The POC manages all U.S. science and research experiments onboard the station, and coordinates all payload-related mission-planning work; hardware deliveries; and retrieval, training, and safety programs for station crew and flight controllers. Unique capabilities in the POC allow researchers around the world to perform cutting-edge science in the near-weightless environment of space. Communication lines and computers connect the POC with the Mission Control Center at Johnson Space Center in Houston, the direct link to the space station. The POC is also certified as a backup control center for Johnson during hurricanes or other emergencies.

Marshall engineers developed key components of the space station’s life support system, called the regenerative Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS). This system provides water and oxygen for the crew, recycling waste water into usable water and reducing resupply costs. In addition, Marshall provides the necessary hardware for scientific experimentation onboard the space station, including the microgravity glovebox, which contains experiments in a controlled environment. The center also played a key role in development of the Harmony and Tranquility nodes, pressurized modules in which the crew live and work.

Understanding Our World and Beyond
Since the early days of the space program, Marshall has increased our understanding of the universe through its contributions to planetary, lunar, Earth, and high-energy sciences. Marshall accomplishes this through the use of specialized scientific spacecraft for exploration, complex instruments for seeing the universe, and innovative research and monitoring techniques.

Understanding the Earth
Earth scientists at Marshall use satellites and other tools to gather data and conduct research that can help forecasters predict weather. Advanced technologies enable scientists to observe and understand many other aspects of the global climate system, and they use this knowledge to improve agriculture, urban planning, and water resource management.

Understanding the Solar System
Marshall’s legacy in solar system research began with the Apollo program and lunar studies in preparation for human missions to the moon. The solar physics group at Marshall was formed in the early 1970s in conjunction with the Apollo Space Lab mission. The group seeks to understand how the sun works, why it changes, and how these changes affect people and systems in space and on Earth. They use a variety of instruments to study sun-influenced space weather and energetic particle emissions from solar flares and other solar eruptions.

Marshall manages the Discovery and New Frontiers programs, which include lower-cost, highly focused planetary science investigations designed to increase our knowledge of the solar system. Marshall provides mission oversight, technology planning, systems assessment, flight assurance and public outreach. Missions include sending sophisticated spacecraft to celestial bodies such as asteroids and comets, as well as planets such as Mercury and Mars.

Understanding the Universe
Discoveries in astronomy and physics have taken scientists on an amazing journey through time, from distant galaxies and an expanding universe to black holes, dark energy, and supernovae. Making significant contributions to programs and project management, scientists and engineers at Marshall are helping increase our understanding of the origin, evolution, and destiny of the universe.
NASA created space-borne observatories that conduct astronomical studies over different wavelengths visible light, gamma rays, X-rays, and infrared. Marshall scientists and the facilities available at the center are key elements in the building and operation of these sophisticated techniques. Marshall managed the design, development, and construction of the Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble has played a key role in revealing the age of the universe and in the discovery of dark energy - a mysterious force that causes the expansion of the universe to accelerate. Marshall provides scientific expertise and manages all aspects of the Chandra X-ray Observatory, including the design, development, construction, and current operation. As NASA’s most sophisticated X-ray observatory, Chandra has greatly increased our understanding of black holes and the nature of dark matter.

Marshall in the Community
Marshall is a vital element of the community and its economy. Marshall’s economic impact reaches across North Alabama and the nation. The center employs 6,000 to 7,000 civil service and contractor employees and is the sixth largest employer in the Huntsville area. As part of Marshall’s $2.88 billion annual impact (FY2009) to the state of Alabama, the center provided more than $35 million in procurements and grants to Alabama educational and nonprofit organizations and more than $118 million across the United States.

Visitors are welcomed at Marshall’s Visitor Information Center at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center (USSRC). Interactive exhibits and unique historical artifacts demonstrate the center’s critical role in supporting NASA’s missions. Visitors learn how Marshall performs a broad range of activities developing, integrating, and managing complex space systems and scientific research projects that result in exciting and innovative scientific discoveries.

Missile and Space Intelligence Center (MSIC)
The Missile and Space Intelligence Center, a field production activity of the Defense Intelligence Agency, produces the intelligence community’s most authoritative scientific and technical intelligence assessments of threat ground-based air and missile defense systems, ground-based anti-satellite systems, ground-based directed energy weapons, short range ballistic missiles, and their associated command, control, and communications systems.

Intelligence produced by MSIC is used in a broad range of applications, including the design and development of U.S. weapons and countermeasures to defend against adversary missile systems, protection of U.S. military forces in combat, and forecasting of trends in adversary systems and related technologies.

While MSIC’s analytic products routinely inform senior force developers, military commanders and policymakers at all levels, the Center remains focused intently on providing U.S. forces deployed worldwide, especially those in combat theaters, with round-the-clock intelligence support during ongoing operations and fast-breaking events. At the same time, in response to the terrorist threat to the homeland, MSIC routinely provides highly specialized technical support to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Homeland Security and other federal law enforcement agencies.

2nd Recruiting Brigade
The U.S. Army 2nd Recruiting Brigade manages active The U.S. Army 2nd Recruiting Brigade manages active Army and Army Reserve recruiting operations throughout the eight southeastern states (Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Tennessee), Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The brigade traces its organizational roots back to October 1964. In 1983, the brigade was designated the U.S. Army 2nd Recruiting Brigade. The Brigade Headquarters relocated from Fort Gillem, Georgia, to Redstone Arsenal in October 2008 as a part of Base Realignment and Closure.

The 2nd Recruiting Brigade consists of the brigade headquarters, located on Redstone Arsenal, eight recruiting battalions, 48 recruiting companies, one recruiting district, and more than 300 recruiting stations. The 2nd Recruiting Brigade is one of five brigades that fall under the U.S. Army Recruiting Command.

More than 2,400 Soldiers and civilians are assigned across the brigade, the majority of which are Soldiers on recruiting duty working in the field to recruit the best and brightest Future Soldiers for the active Army and Army Reserves.

The current commander, Col. Glenn Richie, is the 24th brigade commander since the inception of the command. He will relinquish command in July 2011 to Col. Michael Faruqui. For more information, contact (256) 450-9500.

2nd Medical Recruiting Battalion
The U.S. Army 2nd Medical Recruiting Battalion recruits quality healthcare professionals to preserve the Army’s fighting strength. With headquarters at Redstone Arsenal, the battalion provides command, control and staff support to its recruiting force and their families. That force includes three medical recruiting companies located in Atlanta, Nashville and Orlando. Those companies oversee a total of 17 Medical Recruiting Stations with a geographic reach spanning 10 states and Puerto Rico. The 2nd Medical Recruiting Battalion’s higher headquarters is the 9th Medical Recruiting Brigade located at Fort Knox, Ky., and part of the U.S. Army Recruiting Command.

For more information, contact:
U.S. Army 2nd Medical Recruiting Battalion,
3439 Honest John Road, Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898. Phone: (256) 450-9600. Fax: (256) 450-9610.
Email: 9bbn-ops_s3@usarec.army.mil.

Army Medical Department Activity
The U.S. Army Medical Department Activity at Redstone Arsenal is a subordinate activity of the U.S. Army Medical Command, Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Mission responsibilities for the organization include Fox Army Health Center ambulatory care clinics; Primary Care, Warrior Medicine, Immunization, Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, Physical Therapy, Optometry, Pharmacy, Radiology, Pathology, Preventive Medicine, Behavioral Medicine, Traumatic Brain Injury, Wellness Center and administrative services.

Fox Army Health Center (FAHC)
Fox Army Health Center is an ambulatory care facility providing the full spectrum of health service support. The health center is fully accredited by the Board of Commissioners of the Joint Commission; demonstrating the commitment of FAHC to inspire those who serve our nation and their families, past and present, to live a lifetime of wellness.

Occupational Health Services
Occupational Health Services supports one of the largest occupational health missions in the U.S. Army Medical Command. Over 15,000 government civilian employees receive care ranging from treatment of occupational injuries and illness to job-related medical surveillance.

Army Dental Clinic
The U.S. Army Dental Clinic at Redstone Arsenal is an element of the U.S. Army Dental Activity at Fort Campbell, Ky.

The clinic’s mission is to ensure that all members of the uniformed services assigned to Redstone Arsenal are in optimal oral health and are prepared to deploy without becoming a non-combat dental casualty. Active duty patients are treated at the Redstone Arsenal Dental Clinic, Building 4100 on Goss Road. Hours of operation are Monday through Thursday, 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.., and Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The clinic is closed for lunch from 11:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Veterinary Service
The Redstone Veterinary Clinic is located at 3583 Shillelagh Circle. The clinic provides limited sick-call services and routine vaccinations by appointment only. Various flea and tick prevention as well as heartworm prevention medications are sold as well. The clinic is also able to do bloodwork such as general health profiles and FAVN testing. The Home Again microchip is also available.

Evening clinics are offered on a monthly basis along with twice yearly equine clinics. At this time, no surgeries are offered for privately owned animals. Refills on most medications are offered as long as a client-patient relationship has been established within the last year.

Full medical support is given to the military working dogs at Redstone as well as dogs at Columbus AFB in Columbus, Miss. Routine inspections at the commissary are conducted by the food inspectors and sanitary audits by the attending veterinarian to ensure compliance from the food establishments that provide products to the installation.

The clinic is open daily from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and closed for lunch. It is also closed on federal holidays and closed on the last working day of every month for inventory. When PCSing with a pet, contact us as soon as possible to find out the requirements for traveling with a pet overseas. For appointments and more information regarding services, call the clinic at (256) 876-2441.

DLA Disposition Services
The Defense Reutilization and Marketing Office (DRMO), Huntsville, has had a name change. It Is now DLA Disposition Services at Huntsville. It is still an element of the Defense Logistics Agency and the name change is intended to show that integration. Its mission includes reutilization, in which we reutilize excess property, or reassign property from those to whom it is excess to those who are in need of it. The goal is to save taxpayers the expense of purchasing a new item when a useable like item is already available. Only after excess property is screened against the needs of the military service and other federal agencies, state and local government, and approved non-profit organizations, is it declared to be surplus to the needs of the government, and offered at public sale. DLA Disposition Services supports the Warfighter and protects the public by providing worldwide disposal management solutions. It is the last line of defense from those who would do harm to our government. Material that is turned in is scrutinized to ensure it’s military capabilities are rendered inoperable unless it is going to a Department of Defense activity.

DLA Disposition Services at Huntsville also manages the DoD Precious Metals Recovery Program. Gold, silver, and platinum family metals are recovered, refined through civilian contracts, and placed in storage for reissue to contractors on new military purchases. In addition to metals recovered from scrap, silver is also recovered from photographic and x-ray film and hypo solution. It is the single manager for disposal of hazardous and toxic materials, excluding nuclear wastes. While some materials, such as paint, can be reused within DoD or sold, some other hazardous materials must be disposed of in an environmentally acceptable manner and according to all federal, state, and local regulations. The ultimate disposal of hazardous wastes is accomplished by private businesses through contracts. DLA Disposition Services at Huntsville personnel ensure all federal and state regulatory laws are met.

DLA Disposition Services Is always onsite for hazardous waste turn-ins or property inspections, and the actual disposal is monitored through the manifest system established by the Environmental Protection Agency and onsite “spot checks.”

For more information, call (256) 842-2532 or (256) 842-2570.

Defense Military Pay Office (DMPO)
The Defense Military Pay Office operations are housed at Building 3207 on Hercules Road. The office provides pay services to over 7,300 Active and Reserve-component Soldiers assigned to duty at Redstone and to 14 outlying areas. These areas include STRICOM in Orlando, SOUTHCOM in Miami, MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa and Eglin Air Force Base, all located in Florida; the Anniston Army Depot, Ala.; the U.S. Army Engineering Division, Ohio; the 142nd Signal Brigade, Decatur, Ala.; Moffitt Field, Calif.; Letterkenny Army Depot, Pa., Corpus Christi Army Depot, Texas, and several recruiting battalions located in six states. In addition to assigned Soldiers, the DMPO also provides pay services to over 450 Soldiers on temporary duty at Redstone Arsenal, as well as those on leave in-route to their new duty assignment.

The main Customer Service telephone number is (256) 876-8510/7820. The director may be reached at (256) 876-1379 and the Military Pay supervisor may be reached at (256) 876-6147.

Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Processing Element Huntsville
The Defense Information Systems Agency Processing Element Huntsville provides state-of-the-art information processing and data communications in support of worldwide DoD components. Currently, DISA provides Mainframe Computer Customer Support Services for Army customers which include application scheduling, production monitoring, release management and database management. DISA’s current Army customers include: AMCOM, LOGSA, USAMMA, and SBCCOM. DISA maintains secure, conditioned, operationally ready raised computer room floor space for current and future defense and federal customers. DISA’s clients are its most important resource. Learning about their changing needs and exceeding their expectations are crucial. This philosophy reflects our commitment to quality service on a continual basis. DISA is among the best in the automation/communication support arena, and we take pride in providing continual quality service. DISA provided DISA NIPRNET Node and SIPRNET NET Node communications support for key organizations as well as incoming BRAC organizations.
The organization’s mission is to be the preferred provider of integrated information solutions to all customers and to exceed customer expectations. DISA has experienced and professional personnel on-site 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year to provide support, a state-of-the-art Systems Management Center and accredited Computer Room with cutting-edge HVAC and UPS. The DISA Systems Management Center stands ready to accept calls from users at any time, whether from a Soldier in the desert who needs to track a replacement part for a helicopter, or from the office of the commander inquiring about critical database system availability.

DISA Processing Element Huntsville at Redstone Arsenal takes pride in who we are and what we do. DISA strives to be the best in our role. Critical information is a force multiplier in the military’s arsenal, and the number one priority is to support the Warfighter. DISA ensures that information is available anytime, anywhere and at any level.

308th Military Intelligence Battalion/902nd Military Intelligence Group
Bravo Company/308th Military Intelligence Battalion of the 902nd Military Intelligence Group headquartered at Redstone Arsenal is located at Building 3646b Ajax Road while Redstone Arsenal’s Military Intelligence Detachment Is located at 3467 Vincent Drive. The company’s mission is to conduct counterintelligence operations throughout the southeastern U.S. to detect, identify, neutralize, and defeat the foreign intelligence and international terrorism threat to U.S. Army Forces, personnel, technologies and critical information.

The Redstone MI Detachment provides counterintelligence support to the commands and other units on Red-stone, as well as to other organizations in the surrounding area. Services provided include threat assessments, debriefings and security classes. Please contact the detachment office if you observe suspicious activity, such as unsolicited requests for sensitive/non-releasable information or surveillance by unauthorized personnel. Also, if you would like us to give a class to your personnel, or have any questions concerning how we can support you, please contact us during duty hours at (256) 876-0693 and during non-duty hours at (256) 755-1473.