PREPARE, DEPLOY AND SUSTAIN


TODAY’S RESPONSIBILITIES As the Army’s Life Cycle Management Command for medi- cal materiel, AMLC oversees a medical materiel portfolio of nearly 90,000 pieces of medical equipment, executes $300 million in Class VIII medical materiel transactions annually and centrally manages medical contingency programs world- wide. Te command also distributes 2.7 million vaccine doses worldwide, valued at more than $50 million, and fabricates nearly 70,000 pairs of glasses at its two medical materiel centers in Europe and Korea.


AMLC synchronizes medical sustainment throughout the acqui- sition life cycle—a key part of how the DOD makes decisions on what types of medical materiel to develop, procure and field to the force.


In 2022, AMLC marked a major milestone in medical logis- tics (MEDLOG)’s capabilities with the creation of an AMLC Integrated Logistics Support Center (ILSC)—which is a critical centerpiece of AMLC’s ability to support the operational force. Te ILSC serves as the end-to-end integrator for medical mate- riel throughout its life cycle, starting with product development


all the way through divestiture as items reach the end of their useful life.


A key capability under the ILSC is the Logistics Assistance Program (LAP), which provides support to operational units across the Army. Army medical maintenance is a layered approach. A unit’s biomedical equipment specialist, or 68A, performs field-level medical maintenance. If the unit’s Soldiers need help to overcome a specific maintenance issue, they can get support from a LAP expert.


Since AMLC oversees and executes sustainment-level mainte- nance, the LAP experts can bridge the gap between field- and sustainment-level maintenance, helping units determine if a device needs to be evacuated back to a Medical Maintenance Operations Division for higher level repairs.


LAP experts are also educating the force about an important change directed by the Army in 2021 (HQDA EXORD 138-21) that requires units to place all medical devices into the Global Combat Support System – Army, the Army’s tactical logistics and financial management information enterprise resource planning solution to increase readiness reporting.


HOSPITAL HOW-TO


Fernando González-Rodriguez, center, AMLC biomedical equipment specialist, explains the annual service requirements on a medical imaging system at a DOD Role III hospital at the Baghdad Diplomatic Support Center, Iraq. (Photo by Maj. Andrew DeStefano, AMLC)


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