{{Short description|U.S. Army's primary provider of materiel}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}}{{Use American English|date=April 2025}}
{{Infobox military unit | unit_name = U.S. Army Materiel Command | image = AMC shoulder insignia.svg | image_size = 200px | caption = AMC shoulder sleeve insignia | website = {{URL|https://www.amc.army.mil/|AMC website}}<br/>{{URL|https://www.army.mil/amc|army.mil Profile}} | dates = 1962–present | country = {{flag|United States}} | allegiance = | branch = {{army|United States}} | role = Develops, maintains, and supports materiel capabilities for the Army<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.amc.army.mil/amc/about.html |title=U.S. Army Materiel Command |access-date=22 May 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130221011050/http://www.amc.army.mil/amc/about.html |archive-date=21 February 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref> | size = More than 60,000 military and civilians | command_structure = 25px United States Department of the Army | garrison = Redstone Arsenal, Alabama | current_commander = LTG Christopher Mohan | commander2 = LTG Gavin A. Lawrence | commander2_label = Deputy Commanding General | commander4 = CSM Jacinto Garza | notable_commanders = Frank S. Besson, Jr.<br>Ferdinand J. Chesarek | identification_symbol = 125px | identification_symbol_label = Distinctive unit insignia | motto = If a Soldier shoots it, drives it, flies it, wears it, communicates with it, or eats it – AMC provides it. | march = Arsenal for the Brave<ref>{{cite web|title=U.S. Army Materiel Command Band|url=http://www.amc.army.mil/amc/band.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140716011607/http://www.amc.army.mil/amc/band.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 July 2014|publisher=U.S. Army Materiel Command|access-date=25 September 2013}}</ref> }} The '''United States Army Materiel Command''' ('''AMC''') is the primary provider of materiel to the United States Army via its contracting support brigades.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-07-13 |title=U.S. Army Materiel Command Partnership Resource Guide 2015-2016 |url=https://issuu.com/faircountmedia/docs/amc15/80 |access-date=2026-02-08 |website=Faircount Media Group |language=en}}</ref>
AMC operates depots; arsenals; ammunition plants; and other facilities, and maintains the Army's prepositioned stocks, both on land and afloat.{{sfn|Cotton|2019}} The command is also the Department of Defense Executive Agent for conventional ammunition and the U.S. chemical weapons stockpile.
AMC is responsible for the business of selling United States Army equipment and services to allies of the United States and negotiates and implements agreements for co-production of U.S. weapons systems by other states.
== History == AMC was established on 8 May 1962, and was activated on 1 August of that year as a major field command of the U.S. Army. Prior to its creation, Lt. Gen. Frank S. Besson, Jr. directed a Department of the Army study to be conducted, of which recommended the creation of a "materiel development and logistics command". He would serve as the AMC's first commander.
As part of the formation of AMC, various field activities and installations were transferred into it. Most of those field activities and installations came from six of the technical services, including: the Chief Chemical Officer, Chief of Engineers, Chief of Ordnance (the single largest source of AMC installations), the Quartermaster General, Chief Signal Officer, and the Chief of Transportation.<ref>{{Cite web |title=History 1962-1975 |url=https://www.amc.army.mil/Organization/History/Overview/1962-1975/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250304221015/https://www.amc.army.mil/Organization/History/Overview/1962-1975/ |archive-date=4 March 2025 |access-date=2025-03-19 |website=www.amc.army.mil |language=en-US |url-status=live }}</ref> The seventh technical service, the Surgeon General, provided one medical depot. Several other installations and activities came from Headquarters, Department of the Army (HQDA) Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, the Continental Army Command (CONARC), and the Chief of Research and Development.
Since its creation in 1962, AMC underwent constant reorganizations in its headquarters and field commands. These conditions reflected a more fundamental problem, chronic dissatisfaction with the Army’s entire system for developing and fielding new weapons and equipment. A special Army Materiel Acquisition Review Committee, on 1 April 1974 recommended sweeping organizational and management reforms.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last1=Cocke |first1=Karl E. |last2=Bell |first2=William G. |last3=Corr |first3=John B. |last4=Danysh |first4=Romana M. |last5=Hermes |first5=Walter G. |last6=Hewes, Jr. |first6=James E. |last7=Kelly III |first7=Thomas E. |last8=Mossman |first8=B. C. |display-authors=5 |date=1977 |title=FY 76 - Dept. of the Army Historical Summary (DAHSUM) |url=http://www.history.army.mil/books/DAHSUM/1976/ch07.htm#b1 |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080521212238/http://www.history.army.mil/books/DAHSUM/1976/ch07.htm#b1 |archive-date=21 May 2008 |access-date=22 April 2025 |website=history.army.mil |publisher=U.S. Army Center of Military History, Department of the Army |pages=71–73 |issn= |lccn= |id= |quote=Since its creation in 1962 the Army Materiel Command (AMC) underwent constant reorganizations and realignments in its headquarters and numerous field commands. These conditions reflected a more fundamental problem, chronic dissatisfaction with the Army’s entire system for developing and fielding new weapons and equipment. A special Army Materiel Acquisition Review Committee on 1 April 1974 recommended sweeping organizational and management reforms. The Army staff has been monitoring these problem areas ever since. Transferring responsibility for procurement and production from the Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics to a new Deputy Chief of Staff for Research, Development, and Acquisition was a helpful step. Another was a parallel reorganization of AMC field commands and AMC headquarters, which on 1 January 1976 became the Materiel Development and Readiness Command (DARCOM). Materiel development and materiel readiness are now the two major organizational elements within the command. The former is responsible for research and development, producer tests and evaluation, and initial procurement of weapons and supporting equipment. The latter is responsible for buying, fielding, and maintaining these systems. (___enter___); Nearly every proposed reorganization of the Army since World War II has stressed the necessity of decentralizing and shifting operations to the field, a proposal that headquarters staffs have generally resisted. The DARCOM reorganization is one more attempt to decentralize operations, partly by reducing the headquarters staff. As noted earlier, the command will also split the commodity commands into separate research and development and materiel readiness commands. The reorganization will involve the transfer of some functions among various installations. (___enter___); Accordingly, during fiscal year 1976 the Tank-Automotive Command became the Tank-Automotive Research and Development Command and the Tank-Automotive Materiel Readiness Command. The Missile and the Armaments Commands were similarly divided. Realignment of the Electronics, Aviation, and Troop Transport Commands may also take place. (___enter___); One of the Army Materiel Command’s major subcommands since its creation was the Test and Evaluation Command. Assigned to it were development test facilities of the former technical services and operational test boards of the combat arms. Placing the latter under a predominantly development command created controversy within the Army. The Materiel Acquisition Review Committee’s testing team recommended transferring these operational test boards from the Materiel Command to the Training and Doctrine Command. The Department of the Army approved the recommendation on 1 July 1975 and directed the transfer of five operational test boards: the Air Defense Board at Fort Bliss, Texas; the Airborne, Communications, and Electronics Board at Fort Bragg, North Carolina; the Armor and Engineer Board at Fort Knox, Kentucky; the Field Artillery Board at Fort Sill, Oklahoma; and the Infantry Board at Fort Benning, Georgia. Later the Aviation Board at Fort Rucker, Alabama, was transferred to the Training and Doctrine Command. At the same installation the Materiel Development and Readiness Command created an Aviation Development Test Activity. (___enter___); Since the Materiel Development and Readiness Command is principally responsible for producing arms sold abroad, the creation of the Coordinator for Army Security Assistance led to changes in the command’s organization. In November 1975 the International Logistics Center at New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, the field agency responsible for direction of these operations in the major commodity commands, was placed under an International Logistics Command. Brig. Gen. Tom H. Brain, the director of International Logistics, DARCOM headquarters, now wears a second hat and directs the activities of the International Logistics Center.}}</ref> thumb|231x231px|Materiel Development and Readiness Command emblem, 1976–84 On 23 January 1976, AMC was renamed to '''U.S. Army Materiel Development and Readiness Command''' ('''DARCOM'''). DARCOM commander Gen. John R. Deane Jr. best summed up the renaming's purpose, which was "to emphasize that readiness is a part of our business."<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":0" />
Both "materiel development" and "materiel readiness" represented two major organizational elements within the command. The former, materiel development, was responsible for research and development, producer tests and evaluation, and initial procurement of weapons and equipment. The latter, materiel readiness, was responsible for buying, fielding, and maintaining those systems.<ref name=":1" />
As part of this reorganization, commands managed by AMC were broken into individual commands for research and development, and for readiness.<ref name=":2">{{cite web|url=https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/544.html|title=Records of the United States Army Materiel Command|date=15 August 2016|website=archives.gov|access-date=7 April 2018}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=History Overview - A New Name, A New Era — 1976-1989 |url=https://www.amc.army.mil/Organization/History/Overview/1976-1989/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171211101328/https://www.amc.army.mil/Organization/History/Overview/1976-1989/ |archive-date=11 December 2017 |access-date=9 April 2025 |website=amc.army.mil |publisher=Army Materiel Command |quote=AMC was designated DARCOM on Jan. 23, 1976, to symbolize the change to a more corporate structure."; –– " The DARCOM Commander, Gen. John Deane best summed up this effort: "We wanted to change our philosophy of how we do business and also change the attitude of the people in the command. We wanted to emphasize that readiness is a part of our business." '; –– "As part of this reorganization, the commodity commands formerly managed by AMC were broken into separate commands for research and development and readiness."; ... –– "On Aug. 1, 1984, it was announced that DARCOM had shortened its name back to the Army Materiel Command or AMC to "remove a perceived boundary between development and logistics support implied in the DARCOM name" and because the brevity and clarity of the name AMC "will be better understood by allies and the general public." Interestingly, most of the commodity commands that had been broken apart when DARCOM was created had already been put back together.}}</ref> Accordingly, during fiscal year 1976 the Tank-Automotive Command (TACOM) became the Tank-Automotive Research and Development Command and the Tank-Automotive Materiel Readiness Command. The Missile and the Armaments Commands were similarly divided.<ref name=":1" />
Effective 1 August 1984, DARCOM was renamed back to AMC. The reason for the change was to "remove a perceived boundary between development and logistics support implied in the DARCOM name". Additionally, it was said that the conciseness and clarity of the name AMC "[would] be better understood by allies and the general public."<ref name=":0" />
In December 2024, Army secretary Christine Wormuth, "in a dramatic and rare move", dismissed General Charles R. Hamilton, the AMC commanding general, following an Army investigation that concluded he had improperly intervened to arrange a battalion command position for a female lieutenant colonel he favored.<ref> {{Cite web |last=Beynon |first=Steve |date=2024-12-17 |title=Army Secretary Fires 4-Star General Who Meddled in Promotion of Unfit Subordinate |url=https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/12/10/army-secretary-fires-4-star-general-who-meddled-promotion-of-unfit-0 |access-date=2025-03-19 |website=Military.com |language=en}}</ref>
== Locations ==
AMC is currently headquartered at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, and has operations in approximately 149 locations worldwide including more than 49 American states and 50 countries.
AMC employs upwards of 70,000 military and civilian employees.
From 1973 to 2003, AMC was headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, and prior to 1973, it was headquartered at what is now Reagan National Airport.<ref>{{cite web |title=AMC in the Seventies: a decade of celebration, change |url=https://www.army.mil/article/86017/amc_in_the_seventies_a_decade_of_celebration_change |access-date=7 April 2018 |website=army.mil |date=22 August 2012 }}</ref> AMC was located at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, between 2003 and 2005 before being relocated to Alabama by the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission.
== List of commanding generals== thumb|Gen. Charles R. Hamilton assumes command of AMC from Gen. Edward M. Daly on 16 March 2023. {| class="wikitable sortable" |- !rowspan=2|{{abbr|No.|Number}} !colspan=2|Commanding General<ref>[https://www.amc.army.mil/Organization/History/Former-Commanders/ Army.mil – AMC Former Commanders]</ref> !colspan=3|Term |- !Portrait !Name !Took office !Left office !Term length |- |colspan="6" align="center"| '''As U.S. Army Materiel Command''' {{Officeholder table | order = 1 | military_rank = General | image = GEN Frank S. Besson Jr. final command portrait (cropped).jpg | officeholder = Frank S. Besson Jr. | officeholder_sort = | born_year = | died_year = | term_start = 2 April 1962 | term_end = 10 March 1969 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|2 April 1962|10 March 1969}} }} {{Officeholder table | order = 2 | military_rank = General | image = Ferdinand J. Chesarek portrait.jpg | officeholder = Ferdinand J. Chesarek | officeholder_sort = | born_year = | died_year = | term_start = 10 March 1969 | term_end = 1 November 1970 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|10 March 1969|1 November 1970}} }} {{Officeholder table | order = 3 | military_rank = General | image = Henry A Miley.jpg | officeholder = Henry A. Miley Jr. | officeholder_sort = | born_year = | died_year = | term_start = 1 November 1970 | term_end = 12 February 1975 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|1 November 1970|12 February 1975}} }} |colspan="6" align="center"| '''As U.S. Army Materiel Development and Readiness Command''' {{Officeholder table | order = 4 | military_rank = General | image = John R Deane.jpg | officeholder = John R. Deane Jr. | officeholder_sort = | born_year = | died_year = | term_start = 12 February 1975 | term_end = 1 February 1977 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|12 February 1975|1 February 1977}} }} {{Officeholder table | order = 5 | military_rank = Lieutenant General | image = Lieutenant General George Sammet Jr.jpg | officeholder = George Sammet Jr.<ref>'''Note:''' Sammet was listed as commanding general of '''U.S. Army Materiel Development and Readiness Command''' despite his retirement 89 days later.</ref> | officeholder_sort = | born_year = | died_year = | term_start = 1 February 1977 | term_end = 1 May 1977 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|1 February 1977|1 May 1977}} }} {{Officeholder table | order = 6 | military_rank = General | image = John Reiley Guthrie.jpg | officeholder = John R. Guthrie | officeholder_sort = | born_year = | died_year = | term_start = 1 May 1977 | term_end = 1 August 1981 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|1 May 1977|1 August 1981}} }} {{Officeholder table | order = 7 | military_rank = General | image = Donald R Keith.jpg | officeholder = Donald R. Keith | officeholder_sort = | born_year = | died_year = | term_start = 1 August 1981 | term_end = 29 June 1984 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|1 August 1981|29 June 1984}} }} |colspan="6" align="center"| '''As U.S. Army Materiel Command''' {{Officeholder table | order = 8 | military_rank = General | image = Richard H Thompson.jpg | officeholder = Richard H. Thompson | officeholder_sort = | born_year = | died_year = | term_start = 29 June 1984 | term_end = 13 April 1987 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|29 June 1984|13 April 1987}} }} {{Officeholder table | order = 9 | military_rank = General | image = Louis Carson Wagner.jpg | officeholder = Louis C. Wagner Jr. | officeholder_sort = | born_year = | died_year = | term_start = 13 April 1987 | term_end = 27 September 1989 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|13 April 1987|27 September 1989}} }} {{Officeholder table | order = 10 | military_rank = General | image = William G T Tuttle.jpg | officeholder = William G.T. Tuttle Jr. | officeholder_sort = | born_year = | died_year = | term_start = 27 September 1989 | term_end = 31 January 1992 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|27 September 1989|31 January 1992}} }} {{Officeholder table | order = 11 | military_rank = General | image = JimmyRoss.jpeg | officeholder = Jimmy D. Ross | officeholder_sort = | born_year = | died_year = | term_start = 31 January 1992 | term_end = 11 February 1994 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|31 January 1992|11 February 1994}} }} {{Officeholder table | order = 12 | military_rank = General | image = Leon E Salomon.jpg | officeholder = Leon E. Salomon | officeholder_sort = | born_year = | died_year = | term_start = 11 February 1994 | term_end = 27 March 1996 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|11 February 1994|27 March 1996}} }} {{Officeholder table | order = 13 | military_rank = General | image = Johnnie E. Wilson.JPEG | officeholder = Johnnie E. Wilson | officeholder_sort = | born_year = | died_year = | term_start = 27 March 1996 | term_end = 14 May 1999 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|27 March 1996|14 May 1999}} }} {{Officeholder table | order = 14 | military_rank = General | image = John G Coburn.jpg | officeholder = John G. Coburn | officeholder_sort = | born_year = | died_year = | term_start = 14 May 1999 | term_end = 30 October 2001 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|14 May 1999|30 October 2001}} }} {{Officeholder table | order = 15 | military_rank = General | image = PaulKern.jpg | officeholder = Paul J. Kern | officeholder_sort = | born_year = | died_year = | term_start = 30 October 2001 | term_end = 5 November 2004 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|30 October 2001|5 November 2004}} }} {{Officeholder table | order = 16 | military_rank = General | image = Benjamin Griffin.jpg | officeholder = Benjamin S. Griffin | officeholder_sort = | born_year = | died_year = | term_start = 5 November 2004 | term_end = 14 November 2008 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|5 November 2004|14 November 2008}} }} {{Officeholder table | order = 17 | military_rank = General | image = Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody.jpg | officeholder = Ann E. Dunwoody | officeholder_sort = | born_year = | died_year = | term_start = 14 November 2008 | term_end = 28 June 2012 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|14 November 2008|28 June 2012}} }} {{Officeholder table | order = 18 | military_rank = General | image = General Dennis L. Via, USA.jpg | officeholder = Dennis L. Via | officeholder_sort = | born_year = | died_year = | term_start = 28 June 2012 | term_end = 30 September 2016 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|28 June 2012|30 September 2016}} }} {{Officeholder table | order = 19 | military_rank = General | image = Perna CG AMC 2016.jpg | officeholder = Gustave F. Perna | officeholder_sort = | born_year = | died_year = | term_start = 30 September 2016 | term_end = 2 July 2020 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|30 September 2016|2 July 2020}} }} {{Officeholder table | order = 20 | military_rank = General | image = GEN Daly2.jpg | officeholder = Edward M. Daly | officeholder_sort = | born_year = | died_year = | term_start = 2 July 2020 | term_end = 16 March 2023 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|2 July 2020|16 March 2023}} }} {{Officeholder table | order = 21 | military_rank = General | image = GEN Charles R. Hamilton (cropped).jpg | officeholder = Charles R. Hamilton | officeholder_sort = | born_year = | died_year = | term_start = 16 March 2023 | term_end = 22 March 2024 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|16 March 2023|22 March 2024}} }} {{Officeholder table | order = - | military_rank = Lieutenant General | image = LTG Christopher O. Mohan.jpg | officeholder = Christopher Mohan | officeholder_sort = | born_year = | died_year = | term_start = 22 March 2024 | term_end = 20 November 2025 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|22 March 2024|20 November 2025}} | acting = y }} {{Officeholder table | order = 22 | military_rank = Lieutenant General | image = LTG Christopher O. Mohan (3).jpg | officeholder = Christopher Mohan | officeholder_sort = | born_year = | died_year = | term_start = 20 November 2025 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|20 November 2025}} }} |}
== Organization == The U.S. Army Materiel Command oversees 10 major subordinate commands (MSC).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Major Subordinate Commands {{!}} Army Materiel Command |url=https://www.amc.army.mil/Organization/Major-Subordinate-Commands/|access-date=18 May 2026|website=www.amc.army.mil|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260518213931/https://www.amc.army.mil/Organization/Major-Subordinate-Commands/|archive-date=18 May 2026|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web |date= |title=AMC Organization Chart April 2026 |url=https://www.amc.army.mil/Portals/9/Documents/REVISED_AMC_MajorSubordinateCommands2019.pdf?ver=2019-04-12-111045-627 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260518213230/https://www.amc.army.mil/Portals/9/Documents/AMC_MajorSubordinateCommands_APR%202026%20V2.pdf |archive-date=18 May 2026 |access-date=18 May 2026 |website=www.amc.army.mil}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite web |date= |title=AMC Organization Chart 2024 |url=https://www.amc.army.mil/Portals/9/Documents/Fact%20Sheets/AMCOrganizationChart.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251004054418/https://www.amc.army.mil/Portals/9/Documents/Fact%20Sheets/AMCOrganizationChart.pdf |archive-date=4 October 2025 |access-date=12 October 2025 |website=www.amc.army.mil}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=AMC Organization Chart 12 April 2019 |url=https://www.amc.army.mil/Portals/9/Documents/REVISED_AMC_MajorSubordinateCommands2019.pdf?ver=2019-04-12-111045-627 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191212073025/https://www.amc.army.mil/Portals/9/Documents/REVISED_AMC_MajorSubordinateCommands2019.pdf?ver=2019-04-12-111045-627 |archive-date=12 December 2019 |access-date=12 October 2025 |website=amc.army.mil}}</ref>
=== Current ===
==== Major subordinate commands ==== *21x21px U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command *22x22px U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command *22x22px U.S. Army Contracting Command *21x21px U.S. Army Financial Management Command, a former direct reporting unit to the Department of the Army, was made subordinate to AMC, effective 1 October 2019.<ref>[https://www.usafmcom.army.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2003787/bennett-takes-command-of-realigned-usafmcom/ Mark R. W. Orders-Woempner, U.S. Army Financial Management Command (Oct. 31, 2019) Bennett takes command of realigned USAFMCOM] * [https://www.usafmcom.army.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1998352/bennett-to-command-usafmcom/ Mark R. W. Orders-Woempner, U.S. Army Financial Management Command (Oct. 23, 2019) Bennett to command USAFMCOM ]</ref> *20x20px U.S. Army Installation Management Command, a former direct reporting unit to the Department of the Army, was made subordinate to AMC, effective 1 March 2019.<ref>{{Cite web |title=History {{!}} IMCOM |url=https://home.army.mil/imcom/about/history |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260518222700/https://home.army.mil/imcom/about/history |archive-date=18 May 2026 |access-date=18 May 2026 |website=home.army.mil/imcom |quote=The Secretary of the Army made the decision to realign IMCOM to Army Materiel Command as a Major Subordinate Command with an effective date of 1 March 2019.}}</ref> *21x21px U.S. Army Joint Munitions Command *27x27px U.S. Army Security Assistance Command *27x27px U.S. Army Sustainment Command *21x21px U.S. Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command *20x20px U.S. Army Transportation Command
==== Separate reporting activities ====
* U.S. Army Logistics Data Analysis Center<ref>{{Cite web |title=U.S. Army Materiel Command Resource Guide 2023 |url=https://www.amc.army.mil/Portals/9/Documents/AMC%20Publications/Resource-Guide-2023.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230609190455/https://www.amc.army.mil/Portals/9/Documents/AMC%20Publications/Resource-Guide-2023.pdf |archive-date=9 June 2023 |access-date=18 May 2026 |website=www.amc.army.mil |pages=98–99 / pdf p. 52 |quote=An U.S. Army Materiel Command (AMC) separate reporting activity, LDAC, formerly the Logistics Support Activity, refocused its mission ...}}</ref>
=== Former units ===
==== Major subordinate commands ==== * 21x21px U.S. Army Industrial Operations Command, former structure of Joint Munitions Command, from 1995 to 2000.<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Brief History – U.S. Army Industrial Operations Command |url=https://www.jmc.army.mil/Docs/History/FY98.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130217140525/http://www.jmc.army.mil/Docs/History/FY98.pdf |archive-date=17 February 2013 |access-date=12 October 2025 |website=jmc.army.mil}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Joint Munitions Command – A Concise History |url=https://www.jmc.army.mil/Docs/History/JMC_History.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250619000339/https://www.jmc.army.mil/Docs/History/JMC_History.pdf |archive-date=19 June 2025 |access-date=12 October 2025 |website=jmc.army.mil |quote=In October 1995(,) the Army disestablished AMCCOM and DESCOM and established the U.S. Army Industrial Operations Command (IOC) headquartered at RIA [or Rock Island Arsenal]. The IOC consisted of the HQ, DESCOM mission, with the ammunition and industrial base management portions of HQ, AMCCOM. (...) The U.S. Army Industrial Operations Command (IOC) to the U.S. Army Operations Support Command (OSC) on 1 October 2000. IOC was disestablished on the same date.}}</ref> * 21x21px U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command, as designated from 2002 to 2019.<ref>{{Cite web |date=29 September 2003 |title=New organizations to be recognized during ceremony |url=http://www.rdecom.army.mil/pressrelease29Sep.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031204085429/http://www.rdecom.army.mil/pressrelease29Sep.pdf |archive-date=4 December 2003 |access-date=12 October 2025 |website=rdecom.army.mil}}</ref> ** 21x21px U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command – RDECOM redesignation upon transfer to Army Futures Command, effective 3 February 2019.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sarantinos-Perrin |first=Argie |date=31 January 2019 |title=RDECOM transitions to Army Futures Command |url=https://www.army.mil/article/216858/rdecom_transitions_to_army_futures_command |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190201185701/http://army.mil/article/216858/rdecom_transitions_to_army_futures_command |archive-date=1 February 2019 |access-date=12 October 2025 |website=www.army.mil |url-status=live }}</ref> * 21x21px U.S. Army Medical Logistics Command, activated in 2019 as an AMC major subordinate command, and in 2020, transferred under the Communications-Electronics Command.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lovelace |first=C.J. |date=17 September 2024 |title=Army Medical Logistics Command marks five years |url=https://www.army.mil/article/279758/army_medical_logistics_command_marks_five_years |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240927160158/https://www.army.mil/article/279758/army_medical_logistics_command_marks_five_years |archive-date=27 September 2024 |access-date=12 October 2025 |website=www.army.mil |quote=AMLC headquarters was initially activated June 1, 2019 (...), and [a] formal activation ceremony followed on Sept. 17, 2019(.)}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Thompson |first=Susan |date=23 April 2021 |title=CECOM to celebrate 40 Years |url=https://www.army.mil/article/245548/cecom_to_celebrate_40_years |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210519094101/https://www.army.mil/article/245548/cecom_to_celebrate_40_years |archive-date=19 May 2021 |access-date=12 October 2025 |website=www.army.mil |quote=The Army Medical Logistics Command [was] reassign[ed] to CECOM in 2020, with an effective date of July 1, 2021.}}</ref>
==== Separate reporting activities ====
* 21x21px U.S. Army Element, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives, an Army "element", assigned to AMC but reporting to the DoD, was reorganized into a program executive office (PEO) and assigned to USAASC in 2012.<ref>{{Cite web |date=11 September 2025 |title=Facts: Program Executive Office, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives Milestones |url=https://www.peoacwa.army.mil/2025/09/11/facts-program-executive-office-assembled-chemical-weapons-alternatives-milestones/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250925175234/https://www.peoacwa.army.mil/2025/09/11/facts-program-executive-office-assembled-chemical-weapons-alternatives-milestones/ |archive-date=25 September 2025 |access-date=12 October 2025 |website=peoacwa.army.mil}}</ref> * 21x21px U.S. Army Chemical Materials Activity, activated as the Chemical Materials Agency in 2002 (an AMC major subordinate command), was redesignated to "Activity" and became an AMC separate reporting activity in 2012.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Chemical Materials Activity Fact Sheet |url=https://www.jmc.army.mil/Images/JMC_Photos/Resources/CMA_FactSheet.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250619000641/http://jmc.army.mil/Images/JMC_Photos/Resources/CMA_FactSheet.pdf |archive-date=19 June 2025 |access-date=12 October 2025 |website=cma.army.mil |quote=In July 2012, the Agency was redesignated from a major subordinate command to an AMC Separate Reporting Activity and renamed the U.S. Army Chemical Materials Activity. |url-status=live }}</ref> Sometime between 2024 to 2026, the CMA transitioned to reporting to the Joint Munitions Command.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":3" />
==See also== '''Comparable organizations – Other''' '''U.S. Armed Forces systems commands''' * Marine Corps Systems Command * United States Navy systems commands ** Naval Sea Systems Command ** Naval Air Systems Command ** Naval Information Warfare Systems Command ** Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command ** Naval Supply Systems Command * Air Force Materiel Command * Space Systems Command
==References== {{reflist}} *{{cite web|last=Cotton |first=Megan |title=Ensuring Readiness for Strategic Support: Strategic Power Projection |url=https://www.army.mil/article/222299/ensuring_readiness_for_strategic_support_strategic_power_projection |publisher=United States Army |date=June 6, 2019}}
==References== *{{USGovernment|url=http://www.army.mil/amc|agency=United States Army}} *{{USGovernment|url=http://www.army.mil/article/56593/BRAC_2005_Recommended_Relocation_of_U_S__Army_Materiel_Command/|agency=United States Army}}
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