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U.S. Army Materiel Command

U.S. Army Materiel Command

Extracted from the Wikipedia article United States Army Materiel Command.

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  1. ^ 2012.{{}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service ()
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  6. ^ 73. Archived from the original on 21 May 2008 2025. 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.
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  8. ^ 2025. 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.
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  14. ^ . www.amc.army.mil. Archived from the original(PDF) on 18 May 2026 2026.
  15. ^ . www.amc.army.mil. Archived from the original(PDF) on 4 October 2025 2025.
  16. ^ . amc.army.mil. Archived from the original(PDF) on 12 December 2019 2025.
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  18. ^ 2026. 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.
  19. ^ . jmc.army.mil. Archived from the original(PDF) on 17 February 2013 2025.
  20. ^ . jmc.army.mil. Archived from the original(PDF) on 19 June 2025 2025. 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.
  21. ^ . rdecom.army.mil. 29 September 2003. Archived from the original(PDF) on 4 December 2003 2025.
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  23. ^ 2025. AMLC headquarters was initially activated June 1, 2019 (...), and [a] formal activation ceremony followed on Sept. 17, 2019(.)
  24. ^ 2025. The Army Medical Logistics Command [was] reassign[ed] to CECOM in 2020, with an effective date of July 1, 2021.
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  29. ^ . www.amc.army.mil. pp. 98–99 / pdf p. 51. Archived from the original(PDF) on 9 June 2023 2026. An U.S. Army Materiel Command (AMC) separate reporting activity, LDAC, formerly the Logistics Support Activity, refocused its mission ...
  30. ^ 2026. ... effective October 1, 2025, the Logistics Data Analysis Center (LDAC) website was decommissioned. This change is a result of the merger between LDAC and the AMC G3.
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